VOL. 47. HUNTINGDON, PA., NOVEMBER 13, 1872. . . The Huntingdon Journal. [OFFICIAL.] United States of Anleri., shall be two (2) A.—Table showing the countries to which and the terms end conditions on which Ecuador may forward lettera news :ea's, dr the fifth part of a dollar, (hard,) papers, and prints of all kinds through the ordinary mats of the United States. Ecuador currency, the same to be in each case Letter.: Ne p :r Prints of all other descriptions. , J. R. DURBORROW, - - - J. A. NASH, L A. W S n full of all charges whatever to the place of •F, 3 PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. lestination in either country. Either country, i i: ti .1 1:-' 6 , 2 ti 1 : tb. : 1 ! towever,is at liberty to reduce this charge, Office on the Cornet of Filth and Waahington streets. out not to increase it without the previous V.- , . g _. e. .-, tilii Countries. 'O: :;.. . s g oso .. a 'f.' . s . OF THE assent of the other. • ti '4' s: . r ~.1 . 4, . , s ~.., THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL is published every 2. On all other correspondence mentioned .. - i,.' 1.. ' s' - bag Z. e, r. a 1 i ..,3; Wednesday, by J. R. Duttaortnow and J. A. NASH, n the second paragraph of the first article the .. 1 , es ° Et 4:4 4 .'-r. rit ...f2E under the firm name of J. R. Duattoettow & Co., at $2,00 per annum, IN anvasca, or $2,50 if not paid UNITED STATES ..ost, Departments of the United States and .:, '... 1 . rt-. 1- a ,F,.?.. 1,- . '4ST, .:condor may respectively levy, collect, mid ....g 212 Ili 424 ~ ; 3,..9 ktiCi Eft for in six months from date of subscription, and R. a .z‘-" W CA lg. F. retain to their seperate and exclusive use such $.3 if not paid within the year. Cents. Cents. Cents. Ceuta. (~tits. Cents. No paper discontinued, unless at the option of :ales of postage adapted to their interior ad Australia, via San Francisco lO 4 4 1 0 8 8 Son Francisco. the publishers, until all arrearages are paid. PASSED. AT THE ministration and to the cost of seatransporta- Austria, via Bremen or Hamburg-. Regular monthly and yearly advertisements will.ion as they shall demo advisable. But each Austria, via Cologne *JO 8 6 9 12 12 00 8 4 8 8 8 do be inserted at the following rates : lffice shall give notice to the other of the me., no e 10 11 13 12 do I I • 3m l B m! 9m. ly 3 mlem 9m 1 y FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY-SECOND :ates it adopts, and of any subsequent change Bermuda At erect Belize, (Brinell Honduras) lO 4 4 n 4 8 8 9 1 8 10 do do 5 I 7 1 10 do ..,1 I I .., 1 Inch 2 ee l 4.00 f. KC BW I col 90012009 97 $ 9 9 • CONGRESS. Brasil Newspapers and other correspondence of British Columbia _he class referred to in the precedirg pars- Canada . l6 ' 8 0 4 4 ' 7 t 1 San Francisco. 8 New York. 2 “ 401) 900'1000;1209 "24 00,24. ONI 85 10 4 6 8 San Francisco. 3 .. 60010 00 1400 ,18 001 4 “ 34 00150 00 65 So graph shall be sent in narrow bands or covers, zi,--- i .sanFr-ci-0..-- Tiica. lO 4 - 8 New York. 4 " 3001400 20 00.21 001 _ open at the sides cr ends, so that they may be co. lO 4 : 8 do 5 “ 9 60'18 00 25 00:3000 1 col 38 00100 00 80 100 :asily examined; and packages of such correa- Denmark, via Bremen or Hamburg OlOll 1 14 do Special notices will be inserted at TWELVE AND ...00ndence shall be subject to the laws and Penetark, via Cologne .13 0 0 9 13 1 18 do A HALL caters per line, and local and e diteriel no- [GENERAL NATURE—NO. 117.] Damming, :egulafions of each country in regard to their Ettatindies, via Sao Francisco lO 10 4, 4t 8 8 8 do 8 San Francisco tices at PIPTEEN CENTS per line. Be it enacted by tke Senate and House of Repre- iability to pay customs duty, if containing Egypt, via Bremen or Hamburg Bl7 11 10 13 1 16 New York. All Resolutions of Aesoolations, Communications ~,,,,,,,i„„ o f the United Staten o f America in Coo 020 12 1115 i 16 do dutiable goods, or to be rated with . letter- Egypt , .i. Cohtatt. 10 4 of limited or individual interest, and notices of Mar- gress assenakd, That a circuit court of the Unite , mstage when containing written matter or Fran ce , via direct steamer Germany, y N is Bremen or H bu g 8 do *7 7 1 10 do riages and Deaths, exceeding five lines, will be ;gates in and iiir the western district of Missour 'or any other cause specified in said laws a ' nd Germany , ' via Cologne 'l' r .lO 8 9 12 12 do charged Tax czars per line. vitall hereafter be held at the city of Jefferson, a Gibraltar lB 6 11 . 18 18 do regulations • Legal and other notices will be charged to the the place of holding the district court of the Uai Great Britain and Ireland ART.S. Letters, and other communications Greece, via Bremen or Hamburg .B 4 7 10 10 , do party having them inserted . ted States for the said western district of Missouri . els 11 1 13 18 16 do Advertising Agents must find their commission . the third Mondays of April and November it n manuscript, which, from any cause, cannot Greece, via Cologne. .lB. 12 1 15 7.8 18 do outside of these figures. scary year. tie delivered to their address, after the expir- 0 .... 1 . 1 . Hayti 10 4 10 4 5 6 : : do do All advertising accounts are due and collectable -- ---. •stion of a proper period to effect their delivery, Holland .lO . 8 1 11 12 12 do when the advertisement in once inserted. ' Limn be reciprocally returned every month, Italy .lO 5 1 11 12 12 do .TOl3 PAINTING of every kind, in Plain and inopened and with charge, to the Post Office f i alLa ta. n, via San Francisco lO . 4 • 6 0 8 San Francine. 16 8 1 1 16 16 New York. Fancy Colors, done with neatness and dispatch.— )epartment of the dispatching country ; but Me w do do Hand-bills. Blanks, Carols, Pamphlets, Ac., of every tewspapers, and all other articles of printed New Brunswick 6 4 7 variety and style, printed at the shortest notice, , flatter, shall not be returned, but• remain at 1,1 New foundland I and every thing in the Printing line will be caeca - 12 4 7 8 San Francisco. .he disposal of the receiving office. Nicatm;,ma.. 10 . 4 8 led in.the most artistic manner and at the lowest 8 New York. Letters erroneously transmitted, or wrongly Norway, via Bremen or Hamburg .12 10 12 15 1 do ratpa ddresscd shall be nromntiv returned to the Norway, via Cologne .15 11 I 1 14 17 1 do .. ..,....eu states it '. . ' • . Nova Scotia 6 4 7 8 do . . .:ISpiltching office without charge. • a __ . cement district of Missouri shall in al Por.ugel lB 10 II 18 ' 1 do . Professional Cards. 6 4 7 8 do things have and retain jurisdiction of all matter: Aim 6. The Post Department a the United Prince Edward Island. arising therein t and that the said circuit court. States shall establish, in coLfortmity With the Prussia, via Bremen or Hamburg .12 7 9 12 • 1 do • Priemi via Cologne .15 8 11 14 1 do ile F. GEHRETT; M. D., ECLEC- a the United States hereby established in an. trrangements in force at the time, the condi- salv.tdor lO 4 5 8 do - 8 --F • TIC PHYCICIAN AND SURGEON, hav- for the eastern and western distrietf of Miss" - ionS upon which the Post Department of Sandwich Islands 0 4 7 8 San Francisco. shall, respectively, have and exercis.- ileuador may exchange, in open mails, the SP.. 18 per% 8 11 18 1 New York. in returned from Clearfield county and perma originaljurisdietion in the B.' -....- nently located in Shirleysburg, offers his proles - :orrespondence on in Ecuador and Sweden, via Bremen or Hamburi wa 10 12 15 1 do ively, as is vested in t' I. stined for countries to which the United Sweden. via Cologne 41.4 n 1 14 17 17 do atonal services to the people of that place and au, the United a. .10 6 1 11 12 12 do rounding country. apr.3-1872. iaw . _ States may serve as an intermediary ; but such Switzerland. Turkey, via Bremen or Hamburg l2 9 11 14 It do zorrespondence shall only be charged with Turkey, via Cologne l5 10 13 18 18 do D R. H. W. BUCHANAN, .he international postage established by this Vancouver Istaud 6 4 7 8 8 San Francisco. 10 5 1 11 12 12 New York. convention, augmented by the postage rates z:,... n .....• . DENTIST, :II force between the United States and the , 99. 1.1-j ) British and Danish, not hereinbo- 10 ore min . 4 6 8 8 do No. 225 Hill Street, ,ountry of destination, and any other tax for Wen Indies, (not British or Danish) lB 6 do HUNTINGDON, PA. exterior service. the' " ...tee, and consequently n 4 in ' ...tea. and therefore the Sec. 2. That the said circuit court of the Unite. States in and for the western district of Missour shall in all things have and retain jurisdiction o• all matters arising therein; that a circuit court o the United States in and for the western district o Missouri shall be held at the same time and pla. (at the city of Saint Louis) as now provided by law for holding the circuit court of the Unit. States in and for both the districts of Missouri that the said circuit court of the United States it and for the eastern district of Missouri shall in al things have and retain jurisdiction of all matter: arising therein ; and that the said circuit court. of the United States hereby established in an: for the eastern and western distrietf of Missonr shall, respectively, have and exercise the sans, original jurisdiction in the said districts, respect ivety, as is vested in the seve-al circuit courts o the United States as organized under existin; laws, and shall also respectively have and exer cise the rams appellate jurisdiction over th , district courts of the United States for said east ern and western districts, respectively, as by existing laws is vested in the said several circui coons of the United States over the district court: oft e United States in their respective circuits„_ Nora-The asterisk (a) indicate. that pr 'payment is not obligatory in the United States, and cot, July 3, '72. Said circuit courts shall be called, respectively The Post Department of the United States Ecuador. The absence of the asterisk denotes that prepayment.it; compulsory in the I:b.ited States. Iv not marked with . asterisk must always be collected in Ecuador and paid to the United States. the circuit court of the United States in and fo shall furnish the Post Department of Ecuador s t izn e t p fro . m thlll er n oo it n ed b =t e es en t; a fore n ig a n a co n gt t il i ri e zi n t i =3:s be prepaid; and the rates expressed in DR. F. 0. ALLMAN can be con- the western district of Missouri, and the circus with a list stating the foreign countries to the r ttre d i r ri n c= court of the United States in and for the easten salted at his office, at all hours, Stapleton which the foreign postage and the amounts ii osTA , A ,, x ,„,..,.,, A ,„ ) ,,} district ofMissouri, and shall be composed, re Pa. [as 1,6 , 72. ' t h ereo f must be absolutely prepaid, or can be or { WITH PRE snectively, of t h e of the Supreme Court o. , Earthen. R. the United States allotted to the sigh h judicia left unpaid, and shall modify such list from • WITH &mu. D CALDWELL, Attorney -at -Law, •No. HI, 31 street. Office formerly occueled circuit, the judge of the eighth judical circuit, an, time to time, as the exigencies of its foreign F or s h e mai/from ,to , sent the of ---, 187— the judge of the district court for the western din postal service may require. LETTER BILL No. . --- -- by Messrs. Woods & Williamson. [apl2,'4l. trict of Missouri, in the said western district, and In conformity to the requirements of the of the said two fast-Warned judges and the judg. preceding paragraph, a table marked A is statement xchange o®ce. lag n ent by the dispatch- ds by the reeds - - TAR. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his of the district court for the eastern district 0 hereunto annexed, enumerating the countries professional services to the community. Missouri, in the said eastern district, but may hi with which, and specifying the terms and a Office, No. 523 Washington street, one door east held by any one of said three judges in the absene , .:l lf, ..ionditions on which, Ecuador may exchange E 2 of the Ca th olic Parsonage. [jan.4;7l. of the remainder. The clerk of the circuit coon Nature of the correspondence. i correspondence by way of the United States. - 1 g Amount of the post- s. Amount of the post for the present districts of Missouri shall remain E J. GREENE, Dentist. Office re- the clerk of the circuit court of the united Stater Correspondence a this class must be ac- .... .. ..”. ages due the Uni- ~9 ages due the Uni !" led States. PI ted States. gnntpanied by a letter-bill from the dispatch o 1 • moved to Leister's new building, liillstreet in and for the eastern district of Missouri; and th, •r, DanA,ll, dis riot attorney and marshal for said easter, ing exchange o ffi ce of Ecuador, specifying the 15 • .3 ''S 7 , -itingdon. district of Missouri shall act as such distrie amount due thereon to the United States, and 1 g Dollars. Cents. g Dollars. Cents. L. ROBB, Dentist, office in S. T. attorney and marshal in said circuit court in and the receiving exchange office of the United z _ for the eastern district of Missouri as now provide, States shall return by next post to such dis- i Prepaid teeters from Sena- Amount of the foreign) . .s.-. 4 • Brz son's new bpilding, No. 520, F/ill St., by law. The cireuitcourt in and for the Wester!. ~etching exchange office an acknowledgment dot for foreign countries to to count for Huntingdon, Pa. [apl2;7l• district of Missouri shall appoint a clerk of sal, o f receipt and verification thereof, which let- in transit through the to the United States. United Sta.. GLAZIER No Public, corner c er2 onrt,ll , lo shall keep hie . office in the city o!Jefi IWI , tary on al resat& perform its duties, and receive it: ter-bills and acknowledgments of receipt 2 Unpaid letters from Ecua dor for foreign countries - .7 . ..• of Washington and Smith streets, Han- fees and emoluments, subject and in conformity t, shall belt' conformity to the models B and C, in transit through the tingdon, Pa. Dan.l2'7l. existing laws regulating the duties, fees, and em- hermlnto annexed, and shall serve as vouchers United States. °laments of other clerks of circuit courts of tin .a the settlement of the accounts. 8 Prepaid newspapers and Amount of the United TT C. MADDEN, Attorney-at-Law United States. And the district attorney an., Toe accounts to be kept between the two prints from Ecuador for States and foreign post foreign countries In ;ran- age to account for to .. • Office, N. —, Hill street, Huntingdon, marshal for said westeradistriet of Missouri shat Pest Departments upon this class of corms- sit through the United. the United States. Pa. [ap.19;71. act as such district attorney and marshal In said pondence shall be.stated quarterly, transmitted States. circuit court in and for the western district o. •and verified as speedily as pacticable , and 1— " Total , -- Missouri. -- c....,n,1 dna shall be paictpromptly I I Toe accounts to be kept between the two Post Departments upon this class of corres pondence shall be:stated quarterly, transmitted and verified as speedily as pacticable , and :1 - FRANKLIN SCHOCK. Attorney- -- the amounts found due shall be paidpromptly SEC. 3. That the United States circuit court for C. , • at-Law, HUNTINGDON, PA. said eastern and western districts a Missouri steal to the United States office, ueder the regula —, jun.26;72-6m, :ions as the respective Post Departments-may --, have power at any time to order adjourned term, -- - o f u s r a n i :I d c i rcu i tt term s e n o n u y rt 81,,urseizesesti mayvey, a t w hi c h _r SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney at statement shall be prepared by the United rosT-Or} o -itArast'sitxr I ~ j vaassere.. be transaete, C. LP • . Lem Huntingdon, Pa. Office, Hill Street, J States office, and shall follow the form D, VT ... which could be transacted at an regular term, ....m...n Elrillil OR ATAFRICA. 1 1 Eamon. hree doors west of Smith. [jan.4'7l. thereof. A copy of said order, in the eastern dis hereunto annexed. ACKNOWLEDGMENT OP RDCEIPT. tries of Missouri, shall he posted on the door o ART. I Letters originating in foreign coon- . JR. DURBORROW, Attorney-at- the court-room, and advertised ill some newspapei tries and addressed to the United States or For the ma dispatched from -- to --- ; sent the —of 137 {received the -- of-- 187—. • Law,Huntingdon, Pa., will practice in the printed in the city of Saint Louis, and a copy 0 Ecuador, respectively, on which the foreign several Cou rts of Huntingdon county. Particular said order, in the western district of Missouri. And international postal charges are folly attention given to the settlement of estates of deco- shall be posted on the court-room door and adver. prepaid, shall, when forwarded in the mails of st i te g migly g li o ie na ratch-re i ri ng flca . ti c ilbz T o e ic zaely. dents. treed in some newspaper printed in the city ol dither country to the other, be delivered in Office in he JOURNAL Building . [feb.l,ll. Jefferson twenty days at least before said adjourned the country of destination free of charge ; terms shall be holden. J W. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law Approved, June 8, 1872. Any. 8. The official correspondence between § i 7; 4 the two governmints, th-tt of each government 4 - 1 Nature of the correspondence Ts V' • and General Claim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa., ,-. Amount orthe posts- t.. Amount of thepos with its legation near the other, and of each .: 2 ges dna the United -.7._ ages due the M- Soldiers' claim. against the Government for back if State.. r tad States. pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend- POSTAL CONVENTION legation with its government, shall be eon .s. T.' . ed to with great care and promptness. veyed to its destitution free of postage and t; 'a V Office on Hill street. Lian.4,'7l. with all the precautions which the two gov- 1 g Dolls. I Cents. g Dollars. Cents. - BETWEEN THE .ornments may Snd necessary for its inviola- g K. ALLEN LovEz.i.. J. BALL Mosses. bility and security. 1 'Prepaid letters from Ecuo-1 Amount of the foreign ART. O. When in one of the two countries UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE . . dor for foreign countries I, postage to account LOVELL & MUSSER, REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR. there is no it a the other, the franking to trandt through the I for lo the 'United United States. states. AMorsegs-at- Law, I privilege of the vacant legation shall be trans- 2 Unpaid HUNTINGDON, PA. - (erred, in the terms stipulated in the preceding dorfo ners froma reioccni cou ntries — Special attention Oven to COLLECTIONS of all article, to the respective consulate or vice- in transit through the kinds ; to tiro settlement of ESTATES, Ac. ; and United States. i consulate at New York or Guayaquil. 3 Preps d , newspapers and Amount rf the United) all other legal business prosecuted with fidelity and ART. 10. Neither Post Department shall be print. from Ecuador for States and foreign I dispatch. [nov6;72 required to deliver any article received in the foreign countriee in mans- postage to account — it through the United for to the United MILES ZENTMYER, Attorney-at- mails the circulation of which shall be pro- States. State, aibtted by the laws in force in the country of Law, Huntingdon, Pa„ will attend promptly Total destination ; and any article subject by the I—l to all legal business. Office in Cunningham's new building. Lian.4,ll. laws of either country to customs duty or to confiscation shall, when received in the mails , Postmaster of —. 1110 M. &M. S. LYTLE, Attorneys- from the other, be treated in accordance with poirr-ortoca Daraarxwer ISPOND/NCR -A- • at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa., will attend to the laws of the receiving country. OP TR! D. (Cocas 11 all kinds of legal business entruste- to their care. ART. 11. The two Post Departments may, UNIT. STAINS or ANIMUCA.I • ECUADOR. Office on the south side of Hill street, fourth door by mutual agreement, provide for the trans- Quarterly account of the correspondence forwarded from Ecuador to the United States for transmission in the United States mails to countries beyond, daring the quarter ended —, 187—. west of Smith. [jan.4,'7l. mission of registered talkies in the mails exchanged betweeu the two countries. SUMS WHICH ECUADOR MCAT ACCOUNT FOR TO THC UNITED STATES. Tba register fee for each article shall be ten - (10) cents in the United States and one (I) Date of the dispatch of the mails. Number of the lettor-bille. l A mn e taf tai t es hu p ostages due the real in Ecuador. I 1 1 - 4 A. ORBISON, Attorney-at-Law, -AA. Office, 321 11111 street, lluntingdon,•Pa. [may3l,'7l. JOHN SCOTT. S. T. BROWN. J. N. BAILET f,„,ICOTT, BROWN & BAILEY, At -I,—/ torneys-st-Law, Huntingdon, Pa. Pensions, and all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heirs against the Government will be promptly prosecuted. Office on Hill street. [jan.4,'7l. FP W. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law, Hun -A- • tingdon, Pa. Office with J. Sewell Stewart, Esq. Dan.4,'7l. "WILLIAM A. FLEMING-, Attorney at-Law, fluntingdon, Pa. Special attention given to collections, and all other hgal business attended to with care and promptness. Office, No. 229, Hill street. [apl9,'7l. Hotels. THE TRAVELERS' REST HOTEL, assville, Huntingdon co., Pa: The undersigned would respectfully inform the travel ing public that he has opened the above named Hotel and is prepared to accommodate travelers. He hopes that a liberal share of patronage will be extended. y.24,12.] GEOR..E M. GREEN. MORRISON HOUSE, OPPOSITE PENNSYLVANIA R. R. DEPOT HUNTINGDON, PA T. R. CLOVER, Prop. April 5, 1871-Iy. WASHINGTON HOTEL, S. S. llownov, Prop'r. Corner of Pitt & Juliana Ste., Bedford, Pa. mayl. EXCHANGE HOTEL, Huntingdon, Pa. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. January 4,.1871. Miscellaneous. B. Bear°, ; A. ICMIEDY. I J. MARCH. I DAVID /UNCLE BARTOL, KENNEDY & CO. [Lately Franklin Manufacturing Company.] Manufactures Flooring, Siding, Doors, Sash, Shutters, Blinds, Moulding, Scroll Work, Counters, Shelving, Wood Turnings, Hobbs, Spokes, Bent Work, Forks, Rakes, Brooms, Pick, and Hammer Handles, all kinds of Furniture, &e. Our Machinery the very best quality and giving our entire being of attention to the business we areable to manufacture all of the aboved named artioles, as well as many others, in the best style and always promptly. All orders addressed to BARTOL, KENNEDY R CO., Huntingdon, Pa., will receive uur immediate attention. Price list fuimisbed , rben desired. Lumber taken in exchange for all kinds of work. Jan. 31. 1871. A. BECK, Fashionable Barber .1=1,• and Elairdreseer, Hill street, opposite the Franklin house. All kinds of Tonics'and Pomades kept onhand and for sale. ' [aplB,7l-8m The Huntingdon Journal. The undersigned, John A. J. Creswell, Post master General of the United States of Amer ica, in virtue of the powers vested in him by law, and -Antonio Flores, minister of the Republic of Ecuador at Washington, in the name of his government, and by virtue of the powers which lie has formally presented to this effect, have agreed upon the following articles, to wit: ART. 1. An exchange of mails shall hereafter take place between the United States and the Republic of Ecuador, by the orcinary means of communication via the Isthmus of Panama, the Government of the United States to be at the expense of the transportation thereof be tween New York and. Panes, and San Fran cisco and Panama, so long as direct service by United States steamers, " including the Isthmus transit, is maintained ,-nder existing conditions ; and thetgovernment of Ecuador to be at the expense. of the transportation thereof between Panama and Ecuador so long as the present or other similar arrangement for the mail seryice between Panama and Ecuador is continued. The correspondence so exchanged shall comprise 1. Letters and manuscripts subject by the laws of either country to letter rate or postage. 2. Newspapers and prints of all kinds, in sheets, in pamphlets, and books, sheets of music, engraving lithographs, photographs, drawings, maps and plans, and ruch corres pondence may be exchanged, whether origin ating in either of said countries and destined for the other, or origicating in' or destined for foreign countries to which they may re spectively serve as intermediaries. . . - . . ART. 2. New York and San Francisco shall be the offices of exchanged on the side of the United States, and Guayaquil and Manta shall be the offices of exchange on the aide of Ecua dor, for all mails transmitted between the two countries under this arrangement ; and all mail matter transmitted in either direction between the respective offices of exchange flail be for yarded in closed bags or pouches, under seal, addressed to the corresponding exchange office, and the mails so dispatched from either country to the other shall be for warded to the United States consul the resi dent mail agent at Panama, who is hereby designated as the agent of the two govern ments for receiving the bags or pouches at that port from either direction, and for dis patching the same to their respective ultimate destinations, . • '' The two Post Departments may, at any time, discontinue either of said offices of exchange or establish others. ART. 3. The standard weight for the single rates postage and rule of progression shall be: 1. For letters. or manuscripts subject by law to letter rate of postage, one-half (i) ounce, (avoirdupois.) 2. For all other correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph of the first article, that which each country shall adopt for the mails which it dispatches to the other, adapted to the convenience and habits of its interior administration ; but each country shall give notice to the other of the standard weight it adopts, and of any subsequent change thereof. The weight stated by the dispatching exchange office shall always be accepted, except in cases of manifest error. Arm 4. No accounts shall be kept between the Post Office Departments of the two coun tries on tho international correspondence, written or printed, exchanged between them ; but each country shall levy, collect, and re tain to its own use the following postal charges, viz; 1. The postage to be charged and collected in the United States on each letter, or manu script subject to letter postage, mailed in the United States, and addressed to any place iu the Republic of Ecuador, alkali be twenty (20) cents, United States currency, per each weight of half an ounce or fraction of half an ounce ; and the postage to be charged and collected in Ecuador on each letter, or manu script subject to the letter postage, mailed in Ecuador and addressed to any placein the ART. 12. The two Post Departments shall settle, by agreement between them, all meas ures of detail and agreement required to carry this convention into execution, and may modify. the same in like manner, from time to time as the exigencies of the service may require. Articles may oleo, by mutual consent, be amended, added, or suppressod, according to the requirements of the service, without re scinding or otherwise altering or impairing any other of the articles of this convention. ART. 13. This convention shall take effect from the date of the exchange of ratifications, and shall continue in force until annulled by mutual consent, or until one year from the date of notice given by one of the two depart ments to the other of its desire to terminate the same. ART. 14. This convention shall be approved and ratified in the manner and form prescribed by the constitution and laws of each of the high contracting parties, and the exchange of ratifications, shall be made at Washington six months after the last ratification, or sooner, if possible. Done in duplicate, at the city of Washington, this ninth day of May, in the year of out Lord' one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. [L. S.] JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster General of the United States. EL. S.] ANTONIO FLORES. I hereby approve the aforegoing convention, and in testimony thereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.. [L. S.] U. S. GRANT. By the President : Iliairwrox Fon. Secretary of State. WASHINGTON, May 9, 1871 [Translation.] Having Been and examined the aforegoing postal convention, which has been approved by the legislative decree of the Ist of the pre sent month, and in exercise of the sixth attribute of the sixtieth article of the con atitution I have ratified it, as by the present I do ratify and declare it accepted, confirmed, and obligatory in all and each of its clauses and stipulations contained in said convention, solemny engaging and pledging for its faith ful and exact observance on the part of Ecua dor the national faith and honor. In faith of which I heave caused the present to be prepared, signed with my band, sealed with the seal of the republic, and countersign ed by the secretary of state for foroign relations, at Quito, the thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and seventy one. L. S.] G. GARCIA MORENO. FriANcisco JarrEn Leon. We John A. J. Creswell, Postmaster Gen eral of the United States, and Antonio Flores, minister of Ecuador to the United States, certiy that on this date we have proceeded to perform the exchange of ratifications of the postal convention which was concluded be tween the United States and Ecuador at Washington, this 9th day of May, A. D 1871. Done in duplicate and signed at Washington, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1871. [L. S.] JNO. A. J. CRESWELL, Postmaster General of the Tnited States. [L. S.] ANTONIO FLORES. 18:—. 187—. Dollars. Cents. Total. Office of the Auditor of the Trecteitlw for the Poet-Office _Department of the United States of America, , 187—. [0 rtERAL waTURE—No. 99.] AN ACT:making appropriations for the service of the VostlOffieeDeparttnen-t for the year ending JunuAtility, eighteen hundred and seventy three. Be it entletrd igs the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in eon green aeeembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the post office department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy three, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of said Department, in conform ity to the act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows: For inland transportation, thirteen million twen ty four thousad seven hundred and sixty-three •dollars. . . For pay of mail messengers, six hundred and three thousand six hundred and seventy four dol lars. - - - - • • For pay of route agents, nine hundred and thir ty eight thousand and five dollars. For pay of mail route messengers, seventy thou sand eight hundred and torty one dollars. For pay of local agents, fifty eight thousand four hundred and eighty six dollars. . For pay of railway post office clerks, nine hun dred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of baggage masters in charge of through mails, six thousand two hundred dollars. For foreign mail traneportaion, three hundred thousand dollars. ------ - For ship, steamboat, and way letters, ten thous and seven hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to postmasters, five million five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. For pay of clerks for post offices, two million eight hundred thousand dollars. For pay of letter carriers, one million four hun dred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For wrapping paper. thirty thousand dollars. For twine, thirty eight thousand dollars. For letter balances, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to blank agents and oasis eistanto, ten thousand dollars. For office furniture, three thousand five hun dred dollars. For construction of coal vaults, six thousand four hundred and twenty two dollars and thirty five cents. — Ft.: altering windows to doors in court yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars. For altering sky lights and ventilation, one thousand two hundred and seventy five dollars. For doors on book cases, end other repairs thereon, in library and dead letter • office, three thousand one hundred and eighty seven &Dare and eighty cents. For advertising, seventy thousand dollars: Pro vided, That no part of this sum shall be paid to any newspaper published in the District a Col umbia for advertising any other mail routes than those in Virginia and Maryland. For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, one hundred and siaty . thousand dollars. For manufaeture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, four hundred and fifty three thousand dollars : Pro tided, That no envelope, as furnished by the government, shall contain'any lithographing or engraving, and no printing except a printed request to return the latter to the writer. For pay of distributing agent and assistants, and incidental expenses of agency, seven thousand dollars. For mail depredations and spcoial agents, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For tan additional special agents, at rates of compensation now provided by law, twenty six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For chief of division for the office of mail dep redations, two thousand fire hundred dollars. For mail bags and mail bag catchers, one hun dred and eighty thousand dollars. Fur mail looks and keys, forty thousand dol lore. For post marking and cancelling stomps for offices, twelve thousand , dollars. For preparing and publishing post route maps, twenty two thousweddollars. ' ' For balances duo foreign countries, two hnn dred and fifty thousand dollars. For Tent of post offices, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For fuel for post offices, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For lights for post offices, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. . . For stationery and miscellaneous items for poet office, forty thousand dollars. . . „ For registered package envelopeq, forty two thousand dollars. For of f icial envelopes for the use of postusastere, forty nine thousand , dollars. For envelopes for return of dead lettere to the writers, five thousand five hundred dollars. For fees to United States attorneys, marshals, clerks of courts, and counsel necessarily employed by special agents of the Post Office Department, subject to the approval of the Attorney General, ten thousand dollars. _ . For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, three thousand dollars. For'miscellaneous items, one thousand five hun dred dollars. To pay Augustine Damn, of Georgia, for cer— vices as poet route agent, four hundred and thirty seven dollars and sixty nine cents. The bond of any 'married woman who may be appointed postmaster shall be binding upon her ind her sureties, and she shall be liable for mis eonduot in office as if chewers sole. Sec. i:That -- t1; - postmaster of every city where branch post offices or stations are establish ed_ and in operation, subject to the supervision, is hereby authorized, under the direction of the Post waiter Genera), to issue, or to cause to be issued, by any of his assistants or c lerks in charge of branoh post' offices or ettitione, postal money orders payable at any other money order office, as du remitters thereof may direct ; and that the post master, and his surities, shall in every case b. held accountable upon his official bond for al moneys received by him or his designated evils tants or clerks in charge of stations from the Ms. of money orders under the provisions of this act and for all moneys which may come into his oi their hands, or be placed in his or their custody I): reason of the transaction by them of money orde business. And all the provisions of law now it force respecting the issue and the payment o money orders, and the disposal of money ordm funds, in the custody of postmasters, shall appl to all money orders issued under tho authorit given by this act, and to all moneys received frou the issue thereof. SEC. 8. That the following sums, or so muel thereof as may be necessary, be, and the saw. are hereby, appropriated for the year ending Jun. thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy three, ou of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap propriated, namely Fur steamship service between San Francisco. Japan and China, five hundred ousand dollars. And the Postmaster General is hereby authorize:. to contract with the lowest bidder, wiahin thee: months after the passage of this act, after sixt) days' public notice, for a term of ten years frou. and alter the first day of October, eighteen bun dyed and seventy three, for the conveyance of at. additional monthly mail on toe said route, at a compensation not to exceed the rate per voyage now paid under the existing contracts, and upon the same conditions and limitations as prescribed by existing acts of Congress in reference 'hereto. and the respective coptracts made in pursuanti thereof ; and the contractors under the :Provision, of this section shall be required to carry the United States mails during the existence of their contracts. without additional charge, on all the steamers the) may run upon said line, or any part of it, or any branch or extension thereof Provided, That a❑ steamships hereafter accepted for said svrViet shall bo of not less than four thousand tons regis ter each, and shall be built of iron. and with their engines and machinery shall be wholly of Ameri can construction, and shall be so constructed as to be readily adapted to the armed :weal service of the United States in ease of war, and before ac oeptance the officers by whom they are inspected shall report to the Secretary of the Navy and thy Postmaster General whether this condition has been complied with: Provided, That in all cane, the officers of the ships employed in the service herein provided for shall he citizens of the United States, and that persons of foreign birth, who have accord'ng to law declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, may be em ployed as though they were citizens within the meaning of this section, or of any act or acts spec ified in the act of June twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty four. And the government of the United States shall have the right in case of war to take for the United States any of the steamers of said line, and in such ease pay a reit sonahle compensation therefor: Provided, The prise paid shall in no ease exceed the original cost of the vessel so taken, and this provision shall ex tend to and bo applicable to the steamers of the Brazilian lino hereinafter provided for. For ateamepbip service between the United States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For steamship service between San Francisco and the Sandwich Mends, seventy five thousand dollars. Sec. 4. That if the revenues of the Postoffice Department shall be insufficient to meet the ap propriations made by this act, then the sum of five million seven hundred thousand nine hundred thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be. and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro priated, to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Postoffice Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy three. And section twelve of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty seven, entitled "An act to establish certain post routes, and for other purposes ;" and section eight of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty one, entitled "An act to reduce and modify the rates of postage in the United States, and for other purposes," 80 far as said sections provide for specific permanent apppropriations for carrying free matter in the mails for the several Depart ments and for members of Congress, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. And hereafter pay ment for carrying such free matter shall be made one of the annual appropriation. See. 5. That it shall not be lawful for any per son who shall hereafter be .ppointed an officer, clerk, or emp'oyee in any of the Executive Depart meats to act as counsel, attorney, or agent .for prosecuting any claim against the United States which was pending in said departments while he was staid officer, clerk,- or employee, nor in any manner, nor by any means, to aid in the prosecu tion of any such claim, within two years next af ter he shall have ceased to be such officer, clerk, or employee. Sec 6. That if the contract for the increase of the mail service between San Francisco and China and Japan to semi monthly service shall be made with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, or shell be performed in the said company's ships. or the ships of its successors in interest, the mon eys payable under such contract shall be paid while th said company of its successors in interest ehall maintain and run the line of steamships for the transportation of freight and passengers at present run between New York and San Francisco, via the Isthmus of Panama, by the said Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and no longer: Pro vided, That said requirement shall in respects ap ply to any party contracting for the mail service between San Francisco and Chins and Japan, as well as to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Approved, June 1,1572. [GENERAL NATURE—No. 98.] AN ACT to further the administration of jne- Be it enacted by the Senate and Rouse of Re presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever, in any suit or proceeding in a circuit court of the United States, being held by ajustice of the Supreme Court and the circuit judge or a dis trict judge, or by the circuit judge and a dis trict judge, there shall occur any difference of opinion between the judges as to any mat ter or thing to be deciaed, ruled, or ordered by the court, the opinon of the presiding jus tice or the presiding judge shall prevail, and be considered the opinion of the court for the time being ; but , when a final judgment, de .cree, or order in such snit or proceeding shall be entered, if said judges shall certify, as it shall be their duty to do if such be the fact, that they differed in opinion as to any ques tion which, under the act of Congress of April I twenty ninth, eighteen hundred and two, might have been reviewed by the Supreme Court on cer tificate of difference of opinion, then either party may remove said final judgement, decree, or order to the Supreme Court, on writ of error or appeal, I according to the nature of the case, and subject to the provisions of law applicable to other writs of error or appeal. in regard to bail and supersede.. Sec. 2. That no judgment, decree, or order of a circuit or district court of the United States, in any civil action at law or in equity, rendered after this act shall take effect, shall be reviewed by the Su preme Court of the United States, en writ of error or appeal, unless the writ of error be sued out, or the appeal be taken, within two years after the entry of such judgment, decree, or order ; and no judg ment, decree, or order of a district court, rendered after this act shall take effect shall be reviewed by a circut court of the United States upon like pro cess or appeal, unless the process be sued out, or the appeal be taken, within ono year after the en try of the judgment, decree, or order sought to be reviewed . Provided, That where a party entitled to prosecute a writ of error or to take an appeal is ..n infant, or non compos mentis, or imprisoned, I such writ of error may be prosecuted, or such ap peal may bo taken, within the periods above des ignated after the entry of the judgment, decree,or order, exclusive of the term of such disability. The appellate court may affirm, modify, or reverse the judgment, decree, or order brought before it for review, or may direct such judgment, decree, or order to be rendered, or such further proceedings to be had by the inferior court as the justice of the ease may require. Sec. 3. That the Supremo Court may at any time in its discretion, and upon such terms as it may deem just, and where the defect bas not injured and the amendment will not perjudice the defend ant in error, allow an amendment of a writoferrer, when there is a mistake in the test of the writ, or a seal to the writ is wanting, or when the writ is made returnable on a day other than the day of the commencement of the term next ensuing thetis sue of tbo writ, or wben the statement of the title of the action or parties thereto in the writ is defec tive, if the defect can be remedied by reference to the accompanying record, and in all other particu lars of form where the defect has not prejudiced, and the amendment will not injure, the defendant in error; and the circuit and district courts of the United States shall possess the like power of amend ment of all process returnable to or before them. Sec. 4. That of exceptions hereafter al lowed in any cause shall be deemed sufficientty authenticated if signed by the judge of the court in which the cause was tried, or by the presiding judge thereof, if more than one judge eat on the trial of the cause, without any seal of court or judge being annexed thereto ; and all process is sued from the courtsof the United States shall bear test from the day of such issue. SEC. 5. That the practice, pleadings, and forma and modes of proceeding in other than equity and admiralty causes in the circuit and district courts of the United States shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleading, and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time in like cau es In the courts of record of the State within which such eirtriit or district courts are held, any role of court to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, Auditor. lowever, That nothing herein contained shall al er the rules of evidence under the laws of the United States, and as practiced in the courts there- SEC. 6. That in common-law causes in the sir. :tut court and district courts of the United States •he plaintiff shall be entitled to similar remedies, , y attachment or other process against theproper y of the defendant, which are now provided for .y the laws of the State in which ouch court is add, applicable to the courts of such State; and .uch circuit or district courts may, from tune to itne, by general rules, adopt such State laws 11F nay be in force in the State in relation to attach uents and other process; and the party recovering .ardgement in such cause shall be entitled to simi— ar remedies upon the same, by execution ur other vise, to reach the property of the judgment debt as are now provided by the laws of the State .vithin which said circuit or district courts shall be cold in like causes, or which shall be adopted by ales as aforesaid : Provided, That the similar pre iminary affidavits or proofs, and similar security JAI required by such laws, shall be first furnished y the party seeking such attachment or other ermedy. Sac. 7. That whenever notice is given of a mo :ion for an injunction out of a circuit or district court of the United States, the court orjudge there .,f may, if there appear to be in danger of irrepar able, injury from delay, grant an order restraining 'he act sought to be enjoined until the decision upon the motion. Such order may be granted with Jr without security, in the discretion of the court or judge : Provided, That nu justice of the Su preme Court shall hear or allow any application 1 .ur an injunction or restraining order, except with al the circuit to which be is allotted, or in such causes at such place outside of the circuit as the parties may in writing stipulate, except in causes where such application cannot be heard by the eir :Alit judge of the circuit, or the district judge of the district. Sec. 8. That no indictment found and presented by a grand jury in auy district or circuit or other court of the United States shall be deemed insulli- Jtent, nor shall the trial, judgment, or other pro ceeding thereon be affected by rea on of any de fect or imperfectoin in matter of form only, which shall not tend to the prejudice of the defendant. -. . . . SEC. 9. That in all criminalcauses the defendant may be found guilty of any offense the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment, or may be found guilty of an attempt to commit the offense so charg ed : Provided, That such attempt be itself a sepa rate offense. Sec. 10. That on an indietmet t against several, if the jury cannot agree upon a verdict as to all they may reader a verdict as to those in regard to whom they do agree, on which a judgment shall be entered accordingly ' • and the cause as to the other defendants may be tried by another jury. Sec. 11. That any party or person desiring to have any judgment, decree, or order ofany district or ei cult court reviewed un writ of error orappeal end to stay proceedings thereon during the pen dency of such writ of error or appear, may give the security required by law therefor within sixty days after the rendition of such judgment, decree, or order, or afterward with the permission of ajuistice or judge of the said appellate court. Sec. 12. That in alit criminal or penal causes in which judgment or sentence has been or shall be rendered, imposing the paytneut of a Live or penal ty, whether alone or with any other kind of pun ishment. the said judgment, so far as the fine or penalty is concerned, may be enforced by execution against the property of the defendant in like man ner as judgments in civil cases are enforced: Pro vided, That where the judgment directs that the defendant shall he imprisoned until the fine or penalty imposed is paid, the issue of execution on judgment shall not operate to discharge the de fendant from imprisonment until the amount of the judgment is collected or otherwise paid. Sec. 13. That when in any snit in equity, com menced in any court of the United States, to en force any legal or equitable lien or claim against real or personal property within the district where such suit is brought, one or more of the defendants therein shall not be an inhabitant ofor found with in the said district, or shall not voluntarily appear thereto, it shall be lawful for the court to make an order directing such absent defendant to appear, plead, answer, or demur to the complainant's bill at a certain day therein to be designated, which or der shall be served on such absent defendant, if practicable, wherever found, or where such person al service is not practicable, such order shall be published in sash mnaner as the court shalldsreet ; and in ease such absent defendant shall not ap pear, plead, answer, or demur within the time So limited, or within some further time, to be allowed by the court in its discretion, and up n proof of 'the service or publication of said order, and of the performance of the direction. contained in the same, it shall be lawful for the court to entertain jurisdiction, and proceed to the hearing and adju dication of such suit in the samemanner as if such absent defendant had been served with process within the said district, but said adjudication shall as regards such absent defendant without appear ance, affect his property within such district only. Sec. 14. That when a poor convict, sentenced by any court of the United States:to be imprison ed and pay a fine. or fine and cost, has been con fined in prison thirty days, solely for the non pig ment of such fine. or fine and cost, such convict may make application in writing to any commis sioner of the United States court in the district where he is imprisoned, setting forth his inability to pay such Bite, or fine and cost, and after notice to the district attorney of the United States who may appear, offer evidence, and be heard. the com missioner shall proceed to hear and determine the matter; and if on examination it shall appear to him that such convict is unable to pay such fine, or fine and cost, and that he has not any property exceedingtwenty dollars in value, except such ns is by law exempt from being taken on execution for debt, the commissioner Isbell administer to him the following oath: "I do solemnly swear that I have not any property, real or personal, to the amount of twenty dollars, except such as is by law exempt from being taken on civil precept for debt by the law of (state where oath is adminietered ;) and that! have no property in any way conveyed or concealed. or in tiny way disposed of, for my future use or benefit. So help me God." And thereupon such convict shall be discharged, the commissioner giving to the jailor or keeper of the jail a certifi cate setting forth the facts. Sec. 15. That if at any time after such discharge of such convict it shall be made to appear that in taking the aforesaid oath he swore falsely, he rimy be indicted, convicted, and punished for perjury, and be liable to the penalties prescribed in section thirteen of an not entitled "An act more effectual ly to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for otherpurposes." approved March third, A. D. eighteen hundred and twenty five. Sec. 16. That the fees of the commissioner for the examination and certificate provided for in this act ghat! he five dollars per day for every day that he shall be engaged in such examination. Approved, 3,Ge 1, 1372. [GENERAL NATURE—NO. 103.] AN ACT to establiihft western judicial dis- trict of North Carolina. Be it enact,' by the Senate and House of Rep rescntatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That that portion of the State of North Carolina comprising the coun ties of Mecklenburg, Cabarras, Stanly, Mont gomery, Richmond, Davis, Davidson, Ran dolph, Guilford, Rockingham, Stokes, Forsyth, Union, Anson, Caswell, Person, Alamanee, Orange, Chatham, Moore, Clay, Cherokee, Swain, Macon, Jackson, Graham, Haywood, Transylvania, Henderson, Buncombe, Madison, Yancey, Mitchell, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany, Caldwell, Burke, McDowell, Rutherford, Po,k, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, Alex ander, Wilkes, Surry, Iredell, Yadkin, and Rowan, and a I territory embraced therein which may hereafter be erected into new counties, shall hereafter constitute a new ju dicial district to be called the western district of Mirth Carolina; and the circuit and dis trict courts of the United States for said wes tern district of North Carolina shall be held in the towns of Statesville, Asheville, and Greensboro', within said district. Sec. 2. That two terms of the circuit and district courts of the United States for said western district of North Carolina shall be held at the following times and places in each year, to wit: At Greensboro's beginning on the first Monday in April and in October; at Statesville, beginning on the third Monday in April anq in October; at Asheville, beginning on the first Monday in May and in November. Sac. 3. That the district of North Carolina shall hereafter consist of the counties not named in this act, and shall be called the eastern district of North Carolina, and the terms of the circuit and district courts therein shall be held at the times and places hereto fore appointed and enacted. . . _ . Sac. 4. That the said circuit and district courts for either of said districts may, in their discretion, order special terms thereof for the trial of criminal and civil issues at such times and places as the court may designate in saii districts, and order a grand and a petit jury, or both, to attend the same, by an order to be entered of record thirty days before the day at which said special term shall be ordered to convene; and said courts, respectively, at such special terms shall have all the powers that they have at the regular terms appointed by It.w : Provided, however, That no special term of said circuit court for either district shall be appointed except by and with the concurrence and consent of the circuit judge. Sec. 6. That all snits and other procesdinga of whatever name or nature, now pestling in the circuit or district court of the United NO. 45. States for the district of North Carolina, ex cept as hereinafter provided, shall be tried and disposed of in the circuit and district courts, respectively, for said eastern district, as the same would have been if this act had not been passed ; and for that purpose juris diction is reserved to the said courts in said eastern district, and the clerks of the circuit and district courts of the present district of North Caro.ina shall return the records and files of the said circuit and distract courts at the places heretofore appointed, and to do and pertbrm a;1 the duties appertaining to their their said offices, respectively, within the eastern district, except as is hereinafter pro vided; and all process returnable to, or pro ceedings noticed for, any term of the present circuit or district court shall be deemed to be returnable to the next term of said courts, respectivelr, in the said eastern district, as fixed by this act.. :EC. 6. That upon application of any party to any suit or proceedings, civil or criminal, now pending in the present circuit or district court of the United States for the preseni dis trict of North Carolina, which should have been commenced in the proper court for the western district of North Carolina if this act had been in force at the time of its commence ment, such suit or other proceecings shall be removed for further proceedings to the proper court for said western distract, and thereupon the clerk shall transmit the original papers, and copies of all ori.ers made therein to the clerk of the court to which said suit ,or pro ceedings shall be removed for trial or such other proceedings therein as if the said suit or proceedings had originally been commen ced therein; the district attorney of said western district to designate the court to which all suits and proceedings, and indict ments and criminal proceedings, wherein the United States is plaintiff; shall be removed, and the plaintiff, or his attorney, in all other suits to designate the court to which they shall be transferred ; but no suit, indictment, or criminal proceeding, where boil is required of a defendant, shall be transferred ; until proper bait is given for him to appear accor dingly Provided, that all suits and other proceedings, both criminal and civil, pending at the late term of the United States district court for the Cape Fear district, held at Ma rien, beginning on the third Monday of Afig nut, eighteen hundred and seventy one, and not then finally disposed of, shall, with the original papers therein, be transferred to a special term of the district court for said western district, to be held at Ashsville, North Carolina, beginning on the third Monday in August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to be then and there tried, or such other pro ceedings had therein as way be meet and proper, according to the practice of the court, and all such suits and proceedings as shall not then be finally disposed of shall be con tinued on the docket of said court, at Ashe ville, to the next term thereof, and in the meantime all necessary and proper process slat! issue from said last named court and be returnable thereto, and such proceeding. had begun in said court, and the clerk of said court at Asheville shall act as clerk of said special court at Asheville. Sec. 7. That the passage of this art shall not have the effect to d_stroy or impair the lien of any judgment or decree rendered by the circuit or district court of the United States for the present district of North Caro lina prior to this act taking effect ; and final process on any judgment or decree entered in the circuit or district court of the United States for the district of North Carolina, or which shall be entered therein prior to this act taking effect, and all other process for the enforcement of any order of said courts, res pectively, in any cause or proceedings now pending therein, except causes or proceedings removed as herein provided, shall be issued from and be returnable to the proper court for the eastern district of North Carolina, and may be d reeted to and executed by the mar shal of the United State. fn* sh. ...;a auticzn_ district, in any part of the State of North Car olina. SEC. 8. That there sh.ll be appointed a dis trict judge for the said western district of North Carolina, who shall receive an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars; and there shall also be appointed a district attorney of the united Stites for the said western district of North Carolina, who shall receive such fees and compensation, and ezer• cise such powers and perform such duties, as are fixed and enjoined by law. Sao. 9. That the circuit and district judges shall appoint three clerks, each of whom shall be clerks both of the circuit and district courts for said western district of North Carolina, one of whom shall reside and keep his office at Statesville, and one shall reside and keep his office at Asheville, and the third of whom shall reside and keep his office at Greensboro', who shall receive the fees and compensation for services performed by them now rued by law. Sec. 10. That either of the clerks of the district and circuit courts for said western district of North Carolina is hereby authorized, under the direction of the district judge of said western district, to make a transcript from any of the records, files, or papers of the district and circuitcourts of the United states, remaining in the office of the clerks of said eastern district, of all matters and proceedings winch relate to or concern liens upon or titles to real estate situate in said western district, and for that purpose shall have access to said records in the office of the said clerks in said eastern district, and such transcripts, when so made by either of said clerks, shall be certi fied to, to be true and correct, by the clerks making the same, and the same, when so made and certified, shall be evidence in all courts and places equally with said originals. Approved, June 4, 1872. [GENERAL NATERET-NO. 121.] AN ACT to amend an act relating to soldiers' and sailors' homesteads. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep -7 esentatives of the United States of America in Co, grey) assembled. That 'he act entitled "An act to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the United States," approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: That every private soldier and officer who has served in the army of the United States during the recent rebellion for ninety days, or more, and who was honorably dis charged, and has remained loyal to the gov ernment, including the troops mustered into the service of the United States by virtue of the third section of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for completing the de fenses of Washington. and for other purposes," approved February thirteenth, eighteen hun dred and sixty-two, and every seaman, marine, and officer who has served in the navy of the United ."antes, or in the marine corps,during the rebellion, for ninety d'eys , and who was honorably cischarged, and has remained loyal to the government, shall, on coinrliance with the provisions of an act entitled, ' , An pet to secure homesteads to actual settlers on public domain," and the acts amendatory thereof, as hereinafter modified, be entitled to enter upon and receive patents for a quantity of public lauds (not mineral) not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, or one quarter section, to be taken in compact form, accord ing to legal subdivisions, including the alter , nate reserved sections of public lands along the line of any railroad or other public work, not otherwise reserved or appropriated, and other lands subject to entry under the home stead laws of the United States: Provided, That said homestead settler shall be allowed six months after locating his homestead, and filing his declaratory statement, within which to make his entry and commence his settle ment and improvement: And provided also, That the time which the home teed settler shall have served in the army, navy, or marine corps aforesaid shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title, or if discharged on account of wounds received, or disability incurred in the line of duty, then the term of enlistment shall be deducted from the time heretofore required to perfect title, without reference to the length of time lie may have served Provided, however, That no patent shall issue to any homesteed,eettler who has not resided upon, improved, and cul tivated his said.homestead for a period of at least one year after he shall commence his improvements as aforesaid. Sac. 2. That any person entitled, under the provisions of the foregoing section, to enter a homestead who may have heretofore entered, under the homes:end laws, a quantity of land less than one hundred and sixty acres, shall be (Conc.uded on fourth page.)
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