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ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law, b• Office, 321 1121 street, Hunting - don, Pa. [may3l,7l. IR. J. C. FLEMMING respectfully offers his professional serviels to the citizens tuntingdon and vicinity. Office second floor of mingham's building, on corner of 4th and Hill may 24. r C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law • Office, No. —, llill Ptrcet, Huntingdon, [ap.l9,'7 1- iTILLIA3I A. FLEMING, Attorney v at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Special attention en to collections, and all other I,gal business !nded to with care and promptness. Office, No. , Hill street. [npl9,'i I. /FILES ZENTMYER, Attorney-at- Law,-A, Huntingdon, Pe., will attend promptly business. Office in Cunningham's new [jun.4,7l. AR. G. D. ARNOLD, Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, offers his pro 'ional services to the people of lluntingdon and inity. tEFERENCE:-Dr. 11. P. llook,of Loysville, Pa., h whom he formerly practiced; Drs. Stine an: new of Philadelphia. Iffice on Washington street, West . lluntingdon, [ap.l9, ALLISON MILLET:. A. BUCIIANA N. &ILLER & BUCHANAN, DENTISTS, go. 228 Hill Street, lII 7 NTLNG DON, PA. .grit 5; '7l-Iy. PENGATE, Surveyor, Warriors- J• mark, Pa. [ap12,71. CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law, — , •No. 111, 3d street. Office formerly occupied Messrs. Woods & Williamson. [apl2,ll. L. 110138, Dentist, office in S. T. I• Bn.wn's new building, No. 520, Hill St., intingdon, Pa. [apl2.'7l. - IR. R. R. WIESTLING, respectfully offers his professional services tbe citizens of Huntingdon and vicinity. Office removed to No. 6181 Hill street, (Swim's *ILDING.) f lt. DURBORROW, Attorney-at • Law. Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the veral Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular tention given to the settlement of estates of deco- £l&e in he JOURNAL Building. [feb.l,7 3GLAZIER, Notary Public, corner • of Washington and Smith streets. linu ngdon, Pa. [ jan.l2'7l. ALLEN LOVELL 2 Attorney-at • Law,Huntingdon Pa. Special attention yen to COLLECTIONS of all kinds; to the settle ent of Estates, &c.; and all other Legal !liminess •osecuted with fidelity and dispatch. °Mee in room lately occupied by it. Milton Lian.. 4 /1 , • eW. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, IIun • Carlon, Pa. OMee with J. Sewell Stewart, r HALL MUSSER, Attorney-at-Law, N • Huntingdon, Pa. OiZee, second flour or eister's new building, Hill street. Dan.4,"7 I. p & M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys- L • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to ll kinds of legal business entrusted to their core. Office on the south side of Hill street, fourth door est of Smith. TSYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at , at • Lsw, Huntingdon, Pa. OMee, Hill street, arce doors west of Siiiith: r A. POLLOCK, Surveyor and Real • Estate Agent, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend , Surveying, in all its branches. Will a:so I.ny, ell, or rent Farms, Houses, and Real Est:r• of ,- ry kind, in any part of the United States. • Send or'a circular. [jan.l 71. DR. J. A. DEAYER, having located at Frani:Linville, offers his professional scr ims to the community. Dan. 4,71. W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law T. and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa., ;oilier!' claims against the Government for beck pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend d with great care and promptness. Office on Hill street. Dan.4,'7l. lOIIN SCOTT. S. T. BROWN. J. R. BAILEY. SCOTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At torneys-at-law, Huntingdon, Pa. Pensions, tnd all Maims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against le Government will be promptly prosecuted. on Hill street. [jan.l,'7l. DR. D. P. MILLER, Office on Hill street, in the room formerly occupied by Dr. John M'Culloch, Huntingdon, Pa., would res pectfully offer his professional services to the citi zens of Huntingdon and vicinity. Dan.4;7l. jr R. PATTON, Druggist and Apoth r, • miry, opposite the Exchange Hotel, Hun tingdon, Pa: Prescriptions accurately compounded. Pure Liquors fur Medicinal purposes. [n0r.23,70. DR. A. B. BRITMBAITGH, offers his professional services to the community. Office on Washington street, one door east of the Cakbolie Parsonage. [jan.i,'7l. - N7 J. GREENE, Dentist. Office re • moved to Leister's new building, Hill street Jrc3tingdon. Ljau.l,'7l. Miscellaneous ROBT. KING, Merchant Taylor, 412 Washington street, Huntingdon, Pa., a lib eral share of patronage'respectfully solicited. April 12, IS7I. N EAR THE RAILROAD DEPOT CO. VANE and JUNTATA STLEETT UNITED STATES HOTEL, 11OLL/DAYSBURt3, I'A M'CLAIN .4 CO., Paoanurroas EXCHANGE HOTEL, Huntingdon, . . pa. - .IOIIN E. MILLER. Proprietor. January 4, WI. 4 ,2. .• -z4re, .. ?.' e •• ~ 4 PA ;,, , ,,4 c,, . , -.., .O +F l " 1 111 1 0( - 6„." . ~.. .±: : 4 „ 5 ' '' ' '' '' ' Li rrial. , , - 1 (> , c ,t ~ ~,.. _ ii.. _ 1 . United States Laws, [Published by Authority.] LA IV S OF THE UNITED STATES J. A. NASH; PASSED AT TUE THIRD SESSION OF TILE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. [GENERAL NATURE-NO. 47.] AN ACT making appropriationsto supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal years endingjune thirty, eighteen hund red and seventy-one, and for former years, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and Ifo:tse of Rcpresmtatives of the . United States of America in congress assembled, That the following sums or so much thereof as may he necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects here inafter express3d, namely : SENATI To int) au additional assibtaut engineer authorized by the Senate, at the rate of one thousand flur ,toLl forty Croilas per annum, commencing on the first day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy one, eight hundred and forty dollars. For steam-pump for the heating and ventilating apparatus of the Senate, under the direction of the Sargeant-at-arms, one thousand dollars. For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus of the Senate, one thousand dol lars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. For cartage, three thousand dollars. For laborers, one thousand six hundred dollars. For furniture, and repairs thereof, two thousand dollars. For fuel, two thousand dollars. For paying toilet* , in the office of the Sergeant-at-arms, one thousand two hund red and twenty dollars.' For the miscellaneous item or the con tingent. fund of the House, ten thousand dollars. For the following sums due under reso lutions of the House passed during the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress, namely; To the late first assistant dour keeper, eight hundred and forty dollars; to the superintendent of the document room, eight 'hundred and forty dollars; and to E. Spicer, late superintendent of the folding-room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; to John J. McElhone, Wm. Hineks, W. Blair Lord, D. WTolfe Brown, Theodore F. Andrews, and William Henry Burr, reporters fur the Congres sional Globe during the first session of the Thirtyninth Congress, seven hundred each; in all, six thousand four hundred dollars, additional compensation for the Thirty-ninth Congress. For compensation of the tally-clerk of the 1101183 of Ileptesntatives, from flit first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy, to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy :one, six hundred and -twelve dollars, the same making his • com pensation equal to that of his predecessor, (It. U. Sherman,) and as fixed in the leg islative bill for himself. To pay Rives and Baily for the repor ting and publication of the debates and proceedings of the Forty-first Congress, under the joint resolution approved March three, eighteen hundred and sixty-pine, and co tract of April fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, so far as may have been provided for by law, one hundred and twenty thou - s - and dollars, or so much there of as may be necessary. PUBLIC BUILDINGS UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For continuing the work on the build ing for post office and court house in New York city, to be applied only to finishing the foundations up to including the sill course, and receiving and setting the gran ite of the first story above that course, and subjeceto no other limitations or restric tion. five hundred thousand dollars. For the building for post office and sub treasury in Boston, the unexpended bal ance of appropriation remaining on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred seventy, appropriated for purchase of site of the same, which was covered into the treasury by the provisions of section five of the act of July twelve, eighteen and seventy, is, with the sum appropriated by the act of July twelve, eighteen hundred and seven ty, hereby reappropriated and made avail able, together with the sum of sixty-lour thousand two -hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-five cents, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the award fir the necessaxy land condemned under authority of the State of Massachu setts for the purposes of said building ; for purchase of title in passage-way, eight thousand dollars; and for expenses of legal proceedings, ibur thousand dollars, or so much thereof as way he necessary, sub ject to no other restriction except that the the cost of said building shall not exceed, in the ultimate total under all appropria tions; one million five hundred thousand dollars. Dan.4,'7l Ljan.47l. Fog completing the court house building at Madison, Wisconsin, thirty-four thou sand and eighty-two dollars cud seventy four cents. Fur completing the court-housa building at Portland, Maine, fitly-six thousand eight hundred and sixthen dollars and sixty-four cents. For completing the work on the building for appraisers' stores in Philadelphia, fifty seven thousand five hundred dollars: Pro vided, That said building shad also be used for a bonded warehouse. " For repair of the custom-house building at Sandusky, Ohio, ten thousand dollars. For desks, tables, chairs, cases, shelving for file-rooms, boxes, and repairs of furni ture in Treasury Department, ten thou sand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, fifty thousand dollars. For inrniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fur carpets, Ai:Yeloth, matting, rugs, chair-covers, and cushions, repairs and putting down of carpets, and other neces sary miscellaneous items of the same kind for the Treasury Department, ten thousand dollars. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. MISCELLANEOUS. For compensation of twelve watchmen and ten laborers, fifteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. For salaries, travellitig. and other ex penses of supervising and local inspectors of steam vessels, twenty thousand dollars For stamps for use of the Internal Rev enue Office, two hundred and fifty thou sand dollars. It!eh 1 5-tf For wages of workmen and adjusters in the branch (:f the United States mint, at San Francisco, California, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For excuting contract to facilitate com munication between the Alautic and Paci fic States by electric telegraph, forty thou sand dollars. To reimburse to F. E. Spinner the suui by him paid into the United States treas ury to replace the deficit resulting from the embezzlement by Charles C. Edwins, discovered in September last, five thousand seven hundred and fiftyeight dollars and twenty-nine cents. For compensation of two assistants in the office of the Librarian of Congress, to date from February first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, whose employment is hereby authorized at twelve hundred and eighteen hundred dollars, respectively, three thousand dollars. For outfit and extraordinary clerical ex penses of the commission to revise the United States 'statutes at large, one thous and dollars. , For collation and publication of the re ports of the foreign claims commissions be tween the United States and other coun tries, be expended. nna, the rlir.cti on of the Secretary of State, three thousand dollars, but not to exceed three thousand dollars. For alterations and extension of the Treasury building, forty-nine thou and seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-one cents. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the present district attorney of Ne braska his salary for the four years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seven ty-one, eight hundred dollars. LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. For repairs and incidental expenses in refitting and improving light-houses and buildings connected therewith, fifty thous and dollars, Per supplying the light-houses and bea con lights on the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts with oil, wicks, glass him neys, and cleaning materials, and repairing and keeping in repair the illuminating apparatus and lamps, and all other neces sary expenses connected with the same, fifty thousand dollars. Nor expenses of raising, cleaning, paint ing, repairing, removing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day beacons, and for chains, sinkers, and other like ne cessaries, fifty thousand dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING. For the public printing, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars : Provi ded, That no printing shall be hereafter executed except on written order under the direction of heads of Departments or by the two houses of Congress, as authori zed by law. For paper for the public printing, fifty thousand dollars. For contingent fund of the office of the Congressional Printer, fifteen hundred dol lars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, For compensation of the - Secretary of State, assistant secretaries, clerks, messen gers, watchmen, and others, two hundred mid thirty-nine dollar:, and seventy-five cents. For- publishing the laws in pamphlet_ form and in newspapers of the States and Territories, and in the city of Washington, sixteen thousand dollars. For continent expenses, one thousand nino hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-one cents. . . For salaries of United States ministers abroad, seventy-five thousand dollars : Pro vided, That hereafter no salaries shall be paid to two ministers for the same place for a knger period than thirty days. For rent of prisons in China, two thou sand five hundred dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, eighty thous and dollars. - For contingent expenses of foreign in tereJurse, ten thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifteen cents. To pay the salary of the United States consul. at Iliogo and Osaca from the time of his appointment, February ten, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT, For deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal years ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy and i , eventy-one, namely : PENSION BUREAU For compensation of the Commissioner of Pensions, clerks, messengers, watchmen, and laborers in his office, ton thousand three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and three cents. For blank books, stationery, furniture, and miscellaneous itzns in the Pension Office, two thousand five hundred dollars. For twelve clerks of class cue, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars; for seven laborers, five thousand and forty dollars; for two assistant messengers, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. INDIAN OFFICE, To enable the Secretary of the Interior ti pay balance due on the indebtedness in curred for the Indian service in California by Austin Wiley, former superintendent of Indian affairs, ten thousand five hundred and . fifty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents, or s.) much thereof as may be necessary. For subsisting seven hundred and forty seven Ponca Indians from December first, eighteen hundred and seventy, toJ uly first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, inclu ding liabilities for the purpose already in curred, fifteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty-four cents. _ _ Fer blank books, stationery, furniture, and miscellaneous items in the Indian Of fice, fifty-one dollarA and ninety-five cents. PATENT OFFICE. For casual repairs of the Interior Dal— partment building, five thousand dollars. For salary of one examiner in charge of interferences, and one first and one second assistant examiner in the Patent Office, five thousand nine hundred dollars. For five clerks of class two, seven thou sand, dollars. For five clerks of class one, six thousand dollars. For the steam-heating apparatus in the Interior Department building, six thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. For expenses of packing and distribu ting congressional journals and documents, six hundred and thirty dollars and sixty cents. . For salaries of eight watchmen in the general service of the Interior Department building. five thousand seven hundred and sixtyliars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the freight on the law libraries au thorizA to be purchased for each of the Territories of Idaho ; Montma, Utah, Wy oming, and Arizona by the act of July fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy one, HUNTINGDON, PA., JUNE 28, 1871 thousand two hundred and fifty-five dol lars, or so much thereof as may be neces 1-ary. Mining statistics: F9r collecting statis tics of mines and mining, to be expended under the direction of the, Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand five hundred dollars. For salary and commissions of the regis ter and receiver of the land office at Su sanville, California, three thousand dollars. For incidental expenses •of said office, five hundred dollars. GOVERNMENT IIOSPITAG FOR TUE INSANE, To supply the deficiency in the appro priation to pay salaries and wages for the month of June, eighteen hundred and sev enty, and outstanding bills due. June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy, three thou- Fend five hundred dollars. To supply the deficiency in the appro priation for support of the hospital for the current year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, twenty-t mo thousand dollars. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. _ The-ft4lewing-s, uano—arG hereby appro priated for the service of the Post Office Department out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenue of said Department : For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, fifty five thousand dollars; for advertising, twenty thousand dollars : Provided, That hereafter the lettings of mail contracts in Maryland and Virginia shall be published in one newspaper only. For additional pay of nine temporary laborers, two fireman, and one watchman, at one hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dol lars; Provided, That their entire pay for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, is thereby not increased above seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum: For eight temporary clerks for two months, at one hundred dollars per month, one thousand six hundred dollars. For temporary clerks, to be employed as occasion may require, ten thousand dollars. For preparation of the Post Office Di rectory, fir eighteen hunched and seventy, twelve hundred dollars. And so cinch of the first section of the act approved July twelie, eighteen hun dred and seventy, as states the total sum of the appropriations, f..r compensation of the Postmaster General, assistant, superin tendents, chief of division,. chief clerks, messenger, assistants, folders, fireman, watchmen, and laborers, is hereby connect ed, and, in lieu of the sum there stated, declared to be three hundred and fifty-four thousand eight hundred dollars, which is the true total sum of the specific appropri ations for the above recited purposes, more fully set forth in said act, and shall be so construed. To supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, four million six hundred and eighty-five thousand and thirty two dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary : Pro vided, That no part of the money hereby --appropriAto4l-011.41 be ..pp';,2 ,l 1- , s the pay ment of what is known as the Chorpen ning WAR DEPARTMENT. For the purchase of horses for the cav alry and artillery and Indian scouts, two hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the army, and fur camp and garrison equipage, two hundred thousand dollars. For contingencies of tha army, to en able the Secretary of the Treasury to set tle the accounts of disbursing officers for expenditures already lawfully made, a transfer of other balances on the books of the treasury to this account is hereby au thorized to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. _ To pay fees of attorneys-at-law employed by the War Department ; expenses of suits incurred previous to act of June twenty two, eighteen hundred and seventy, crc sting Department of Justice; the costs and charges of State pcniteutaries ; the care .and maintenance of United States military convicts confined in them; the pay of detectives and scouts ; and for com pensation of provost marshals outplayed' by the Secretary of War in eighteen hun dred and sixty-two, the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and sixty nine and eighteen hundred and seventy' havkg been exhausted, twenty-five thou .saild dollars. For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, pay of private physicians em ployed in emergencies, hire of hospital attendants, expense of pureyiug depots, of medical ex:mining boards, and other inci, dental expenses of the Medical department one hundred thousand dollars. To pay the costs and charges of State penitentiaries for the care. clothing main tenance, and medical attendance, and like necessaries of United States military con victs confined therein, thirty thousand dol lars. For repairing and putting new roof on the cadet quarters at We-t Point, recently destroyed by fire, forty th.exsand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neeasiary. PAYMASTER C ENERAL'S DEPARTMENT. Pay- of the army : Fur pay to officars, nine hundred and eight thousand three hundred rnd thirty-three dollars and thir ty-three cents. Mileage : For allowance paid to officers of the army while traveling on duty with out troops, two hundred thousand dollars. Clothing to discharged soldiers : For payment to discharged soldiers fir clothing not drawn, nine hundred and- nine thou sand four hundred and eighty-threw dol lars and twenty cents. QUARTERMASTER. GENERAL'S DEPART• MENT. For extra pay to soldiers employed un der the direction of the Quartermaster's department in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; in the construction of roads and other con stant labor for periods of not less than ten days, including those employed as clerks at division and department headquarters; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field ; of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military es corts cannot be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action of who . die when on duty in the field or at Tests on the frontier or other places where ordered by the Secretary of War, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; authorized office furniture; hire of labor ers in the Quartermaster's- department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, and guides for the army; compensation to clerks to officers of the Quartermaster's department; compensation of forage and wagon masters; fbr the apprehension, securing, and delivery of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; and for the following expenditures required ft the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such com panies of infantry as may be mounted, namely, the purchase of travelling forges, blacksmith's and shoeing tools, horse and mule nails, and nails, iron, and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, medi cines for horses and mules, picket ropes, and for shoeing the horses of the corps above ,named; also, generally, the proper and authorized expenses for the move ment and operations of the army not ex pressly assigned to any other department, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For hire of quarters for officers on mili tary duty; hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safe-keeping of milita ry stores, and of grounds for summer con tlnments ; construction of temporary huts, hospitals, and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established post, three hundred thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the of fice of the Quartermaster General, two thousand five hundred dollars. Signal Office—Observation and report of storms : For expenses of the manufac ture, purchase, or repair of meteorological and other-necessary instruments; for tele grphiug reports; for expenses of storm signals announcing probable approach and force of storms; lir instrument shelters ; for hire and expense of offices maintained for public UFO in cities or prts_receiving reports ; for maps, bulletins, to be display ed in chambers of commerce and board of trade rooms; for books and stationery and for incidental expenses nut otherwise pro vided for, twenty-nine thousand two hun dred dollars : Provided, That no part of the appropriation shall be expended for telegrahing at greater rates than those which are or may be fixed by the Post master General, in pursuance of the sec ond section of chapter two hundred and thirty of the statutes of eighteen hundred and sixty-six. CHIEF ENGINEREt OF THE ARMY. For annual repairs of the President's house, three thousand nine hundred anti four dollars and eighty-four cents. For refurnishing the President's house, eleven thousand four hundred and sixty four dollars and eighty-nine cents. To make up deficiency in appropriation for Capitol police for the fiscal year cud lug June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, eleven thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars, as follows: For one captain, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars; for two lieutenants, at three hun dred dollars each, six hundred dollars ;-for twenty-five privates for twelve months, at three hundred and eighty-four dollars each per annum, nine thousand and six hundred dollars; for three privates for eleven months, at three hundred and eighty-four dollars each per annum, one thousand and fifty-six dollars. BUREAU OF FREEDMEN, REFUGEES, AND ABANDONED LANDS. For pay of medical officers and atten. dants in Freedmen's Hospital and Ass) , lulu, at Washington, District .or . Culiun• bia, five thousand dollars. _ medicine medical supplies, and rations, twenty-five thousand dollars. For clothing, two thousand five hun dred dollars. For collecting and payment of bounty and other claims to colored soldiers, sail ors, marines, or their heirs, forty thous and dollars. For rent of building, (outside of the District of Columbia,) four thousand five hundred dollars. For stationery and printing, five thous• and dollars. For mileage and transportation of offi cers and agents four thousand dollars. For telegraphing and post,ge, one thousand dollars. For unfulfilled contracts for the erec tion and repair of school building and asylums, forty thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMINT. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing : For provisions for the officers, seamen and marines of the navy, five thousand dol lars. Marine Corps Fur clothing for non c,imtnissioned officers, musicians, and pri vates of the marine corps, fifty thousand dollars ; for fuel, ten thousand dollars. TERRITORY OF WASHINGTON. That there be, and hereby is, appropri ated, for amount to pay expenses of legis lative assombly or Washington Territory, per diem aud mileago of members, pay of officers, and printing for the ses,ion com mencing October, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, nine thousand cue hundred and twenty-nine -dolltrs and ninaty-one cents, or so much therauf as may be ne cessary, _ - . . For - deficiency in appropriation to pay the salary of governor, secretary, and judges of the Territory or Dakota, for the year ending Juno thirty, eighteen hun dred and seventy, soveuteen hundred dol- ' lars, or so much of the same as shall be necessary for that purpose. For the payment during the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, of pensions under the act of February fourteen, eighteen hun dred and seventy-one, granting pensions to certain soldiers and sailors of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, and the widows of deceased soldiers and sailors, two hundred and forty thousand dollars : Provided, That the provisions of the act of Congress entitled -An act to define the duties of pension agents, to prescribe their manner of paying pensions, and for other purposes," approved July eight, eighteen hundred and seventy, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be applicable to all pensions granted by virtue of the said act approved February fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. SEC. 2. That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, fur the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, for each half-year from and after the tkirtieth day of June. eighteen hundred and seven ty, and in addition thereto, such sums as may be received during said half year from finds, penalties, and forfeitures con nected with the customs, and from fees paid into the treasury by custom officers, and from storage, cartage, drayage, labor, and services; and the resolution 'making appropriations fbr the expenses of collect ing the revenue from customs," approved May three, eighteen hundred and sixty six, is hereby repealed. Approved, March 3, 1871. [GENItRAL NATUEE—NO. 51.] AN ACT making appropriations for the construction, preservation, and repairs of curtain fortifications and other works of defense. Be it enacted by the S c eitate and House of .14resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are here by, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following fortifications and other works of defense: For Fort Gorges, Portland harbor, Maine, fifteen thousand dollars. For Fort Preble, Portland harbor, Maine, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For Fort Scammell, Portland harbor, Maine, fifty thousand dollars. For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, Mas sachusetts, fifty thousand dollars. For battery on Long Island head, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, thirty-seven thous and five hundred dollars. For Fort Winthrop, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, forty-five thousand five hun dred dollars. For Fort Independence, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, twenty seven thousand five hundred dollars. For Fort Schuyler, East river, New York, 'fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For-fart at Willett'a point, East river, New York, forty-five thousand dollars.. For Fort iiimilton and additional bat teries, New York harbor, twenty-five thou sand dollars. For fort on site of Fort Tompkins, New York harbor, fifty-two thousand dollars. For Battery Hudson, New York harbor, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars. For Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia, twenty-six thousand dollars. For battery on Finn's point, Delaware river, twenty thousand dollars. For new fort opposite Fort Delaware, Delaware shore, fifty thousand dollars. For Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor, twenty five thousand dollars. For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, twenty five thousand dollars. For Fort Pulaski, Savannah river, twen ty six thousand five hundred dollars. For Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Flori da, forty two thousand five hundred dol lars. For Fort Jackson, Mississippi river, Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars. For Fort Saint Philip, Mississippi river, Louisiana, thirty seven thousand five hun dred dollars. • For fort at Fort point, entrance to San Francisco harbor, California, fifty thousand dollars. For fort at Lime point, one hundred thousand dollars. For fort on Alcatraz island, in the har bor of San Francisco, •California, seventy five thousand dollars. For purchase of sites proposed to be oc cupied for permanent se.t coast defenses : Provided, That no such purchase shall be made except npon.the approval of its ex pediency by the Secretary of War, and of the validity of the title by the AttOrney General, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars : And provided further, That no contracts or obligation be incurred for fu ture expenditures therefor. For contingencies of fortifications, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For sea coast mortal' batteries, one hun dred thousand dollars. For survey for military defenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the unexpended balance of appropriations for "permanent defences at Narragansett bay, - Rhode Island," remaining on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, and the unexpended balauees of the appro priations made by the act approved July eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An act making appropriations for the construction, preservation, and re pairs of certain fortifications, and other works of defense, fur the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seven ty one," are hereby reappropriated for the same purpose. ApPro;ed, March 3, 1871. LGENERAL NATURE-NO. 60.] AN ACT to extend the time for the rever sion to the United States of the lands granted by Congress to the State of Michigan to aid in the construction of a railroad from Pere Marquette to Flint, in said State, and for other purposes. Resolved by the Senate and Rouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time specified in the fourth section of the act- of Congress, approved June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An act making a grant of alternate sec tions of the public lands to the State of Michigan to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State, and for other purposes," for the reversion to the United States of the lands granted by said act to aid in the construction of a railroad from Pere Marquette to Flint, and for the eompletion of said road, be, and the saute is hereby, further extended for the period of five years from and afterlhe passage of this act. SEC. 2. That the State of Michigan may authorize the sale of sixty sections of the land granted to aid the construction of said railroad from Pere Marquette to Flint, whenever and as often as the governor of .said State shall certify that ten additional miles of said railroad is completed and in running order as a first-class railroad : Pro vided, That said lands authorized to be sold as aforesaid shall include only lands situated opposite to and coterminous with the completed sections : And provided, That in case sail railroad shall not be fully completed from Flint to Lake Michigan within the time as extended by this act, all the lands included in said grant to which the right to sell shall not then have attached shall revert to the United States. Approved, March 3, 1871. [GENERAL NATURE.—NO. Gl.] AN ACT confirming the title to certain lands, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the title to the land certified to the State of loWa by the CommisSioner of the General Land Office of the United States, under an act of Congress eatitled "An act con firming a land claim in the State of lowa, and for other purposes," approved July twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, in accordance with the adjustment made by the authorized agent of the State of lowa and the Commissioner of the Gen eral Land Office, on the twenty-first day of May, auno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-six approved by the Secretary of the Interior on the twenty-second day of May, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and which adjustment was ratified and confirmed by act of the gen eral assembly of the State of lowa, approv ed March thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is here by ratified and confirmed to the State of lowa and its grantees in accordance with said adjustment and said act of general assembly of the State of lowa : Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so con strued as to affect adversely any existing legal rights or the rights of any party claiming title or the right to acquire title to any part of said lands under the provis ions of the so-called homestead or pre empted laws of the United States, or claiming any part thereof as swamp lands. Approved, March 3, 1871. tGENERAL NAV:JAE-NO. 62.] AN ACT to create ports of delivery at Eureka and Wilmington, in California, and provide for appointment of deputy collector of Vallejo, California, and to abolish the office of surveyorof said port. Be it enacted by the Senate and louse of Representatives of the United States of .fimerica in Congress assembled, That Eu reka, in the county of Humboldt, and Wil mington, in the county of Los Angeles, State of California, shall be, and are here by, respectively, constituted ports of deliv ery, within the collection district of San Francisco ; and there may be appointed a deputy collector of customafor each of said ports, who shall perform the duties of such office and receive the compensation of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum as salary. SEC. Z. That any vessel of one hundred tons, or over, coming from or going to sea, may proceed to or from Eureka or Wilmington, and report, through the de puty collector of said port, to the collector of customs at San Francisco. SEc. 3. That the office of surveyor of customs, created by act of Congress July one, eighteen hundred and seventy, for the port of Vallejo, in California, is abolished, and in lieu of such surveyor of customs a •deputy collector of customs is hereby au thorized to perform the same services and receive the same rate of compensation as is provided in this act. for the deputy collec tor at the port of Eureka or the port of Wilmington. Approved, March 3, 1871. [GENERAL NATURE—NO. 63.] AN ACT to extend the benefits of the donation law of September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty, to certain persons. Be it enacted 49 the &mate and house of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who, at the time of settlement, possessed the qualifications prescribed in the fourth and fifth sections of "An act to create the office of surveyor general of the public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey, and to make donations to set tlers of the said public lands," approved September twenty seven, eighteen hun dred and fifty, and who made bona fide settlement upon the lands claimed by the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, in Washington Territory, within the time limited for settlement by said act and the amendments thereto, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, entitled to all the privileges and benefits of said act and amendments. SEc. 2. That the rights and privileges of heirs and assigns under the said dona tion law, and the amendments thereto, shall be, and are hereby, extended to the heirs and assigns of the settlers named in the first section of this acct. Approved, March 3, 1811. [GENERAL NATURE—NO. 64.] AN ACT to amend an act to revise, con solidate, and amend the statutes relating to patents and copyrights. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, That that part of sec tion thirty three of an act entitled "An act to revise, consolidate, and amend the statutesrelating to patents and copyrights," approved July eight, eighteen hundred and seventy, which requires that; in case of application by assignee or assignees for re issue of letters patent, the application shall be made-and the specification sworn to by the inventor or discoverer, if living, shall not be construed to apply to patents issued and assigned prior to July eight, eighteen hundred and seventy. Approved, March 3, 1871. [GENERAL NATURE—No. 65.] AN ACT to authorize the restoration of James Belger to the rank of major and quartermaster in the army. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatines of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be. and he is hereby, authorized to restore James Belger to the rank of major and quartermaster in the army to date from the day of his restoration to his said rank under this act. Approved, March 3, 1871. [GENERAL NATURE.—No. 66.] AN ACT to restore Robert Boyd, junior, to theactive list of the navy of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the President of the United States be author ized to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to ap point Robert Boyd, junior ; now on the retired list, as a commander on the active list of the navy. Approved, March 3, 1871: [GENERAL NATURE-NO. 67.] AN ACT to amend an act far the relief of Jearum Atkins, approved July fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy. " Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of .ilmerica in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act for the relief of Jearum Atkins," approved July fifteen, eighteen hundred and seventy, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows : "That the Commissioner of Pat ents be, and he hereby is, authorized to entsrtain and exercise jurisdiction over a petition of Jearum Atkins for the extn sion of letters-pateut granted to him im the twenty-first day of December eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for a further term of seven years from the day on which such extension may be granted, and to hear and determine upon the said petition in the same manner and with the same effect as if the original term of said patent had not expired, and to grant or refuse such extension upon the same principles that govern his dicisions upon each applications when made in due course of law : Pro vided, That before granting any extension upon such petition, the Commissioner shall be satisfied that the same will inure to the sole benefit of said Atkins : And provided further, That no person shall be held lia ble for the infringement of said patent, if extended, for making use of said invention since the expiration of the original term of said patent, and prior to the date of its extension." Approved, March 3, 1371. The State of Maryland has just realized $1,200.000 for the redemption of its debt from the sale of its shares in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. An effort is also being made to buy the stock of the city of Baltimore in the same corporation. NO. 26. News Summary. An Illinoisan has projected n hen ferm of 18,000 pullet capacity. At Vienna a world's fair will be held in 1873, for which preparations are already making. Chinese encumbers are said to grow five to eight feet in length, and from six to nine inches in diameter. The new regulations for the revenue marine will be issued by the Treasury De partment this week. lowa has planted a corn crop to raise 100,000,000 bushels. All that remains M to raise and harvest it. All the Communists were not worthless. On Varlin's body were found 400,000 ir au ces he•had bagged. Those Indians out West were not con teLt with seeing the elephant. They want. ed to steal him. John Snigg, a Springfield painter, is sniggering over the news that he has drawn a $l,OOO lottery prize. A Syracuse firm paid $17,000 in one day last week to farmers living in the town of Van Buren, Onondago county, for tobacco. Denver, Colorado, is to have a $40,000 two-story passenger depot, the upper por tiun to be used for the general offices of the Denver and Kansas Pacific roads. A pure white deer haunts the groves of Pierce county, Wisconsin, and has been seen many times by different persons re cently. The death warrent of Laura Fair, sen tenced to be hanged at San Francisco, has been signed and placed in the sheriff's hands. The convicts in the lowa penitentiary 1a ment the absence of woman's refining in fluence. There are no females in the building. Edward Merrill, Of East Lynn, Mass., is reported to have found, in a pork stew he was eating, a diamond worth $2,500. flow the diamond got into the stew is a mystery. Vice President Colfax is thought to be out of danger, and is rapidly recovering from his sickness. He is likely to be able to reach his home this week. Mr- Pert, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Rail road, has tendered him a private car for the trip. Vice President Colfax has written to Mr. Whitelaw Reid reciting his recent illness and the cause thereof, which was not the excessive use of tobacco, but over work. The Vice President further states that he has been subject to attacks of ver tigo for several years. The parade of the colored Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of Philadelphia on Monday was a very brilliant and successful display. The Philadelphia lodges turned out in full force to receive their brethren of New York and Princeton, N. J. In the evening they gave an entertainment in commemoration of the twenty-sixth anni versary of the order in Philadelphia. The addresses by Messrs Emery Burr, J. C. Bowers, Robert Jones and Peterson, were eloquent and impressive. We are glad to know that the order is so numerous and so prosperous. The mystery of the murder of Mr. Tyn dale at Springfield, 111., remains unsolved, not even a clue to the terrible affair being yet obtained. The rewards offered ought to secure the co-operation of all officers of the law. The mayor of Sprinfield has of fered $1,000; the citizens have offereds2,- 550 ; Mrs. Tyndale offers $l,OOO. Gover nor Palmer has employed special agents in order th discover the perpetrator of the crime, and the best detectives of Chicago and St. Louis have taken the matter in hand, but, from present appearances, the murderer is likely to escape all detection. The Crops. The wheat in Scott County, hid., has been• so badly damaged by the fly and rust that it is said not more than half a crop will be realized. The Carthage (Ill.,) Republican of the Ist says f'"Abundant rains have visited every portion of this county since our last issue, and crops aro looking fine in every direction. The Sparta (Wis.,) Herald says tern promises well. Comparatively few hops are cultivated in that region this et 338011, but what few they are, are carefully cul tivated and in flourishing condition: There is no doubt of a good crop. The wheat crop of Mason county, West Virginia, and along the valley of the Big Kanawha, which but one short month ago bid fair to be the best ever known is now nearly ruined by rust and the "joint worm," scarcely a single field camping. Two fine orchards near Marengo, (III.,) have recently been destroyed by what is called the measuring worm. The trees look as if burned by fire. Other orchards in the vicinity have also suffered severely, and it is feared that the scourge will be wide-spread. A Sardis (Miss.) correspondent in •the Memphis Ledger regrets to state that the crop prospect is quite gloomy throughout the country, except on the high hndathat escaped the recent overflow and floodlit 'ex ceed anything of the kind in Unit' ieed lection. The Cincinnati Commercial says : The corn in the Miami Valley and Whitewater is all up, and looks very prosperous.. The wheat, oats and barley look as well as can be expected The potato bugs are about all b "one. The fruit is all killed in the 'val ley by rains and frost, while on the valley hill sides there is an abundance of fruit of all kinds. The Lake city (Minn) Sentinel says: "Crops are reported to be in a promising condition in the country around us. Late refreshing rains have advanced the late sowed grain, and mellowed the ground which was sowed earlier, and that, with the drought, bad hardened and baked upon the surface. Corn has,sgouted well, and the last week has brought it forward rapid ly.' The Janesville (Nis,) Cazeyt,sa4•ll the Feventcen-year locusts are appearing in lage numbers in the woods; north of Janes ville. Advicca from the country indicate that tbe potato crop is, that vicinity will be a total failure on account of the depreda tions of the potato Already many of the farmers have replanted their potato fields to corn, as the young potato crop has been almost totally destroyed by those pests.
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