VOL. 46
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► A. 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,
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• 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.
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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.