The story is indeed a marvellous one, and I M. Renourd's last argument against a
many will pronounce it exaggerated. We' perpetuity in literary property is, that it
can only repeat, that the parties are of would be founding another noblesse.--
the highest respectability, and that hut one Neither jealous aristocracy nor envious
Sentiment of wonder was expressed by jacobinism need be under touch alarm.—
the intelligent company in attendance, When a human race has produced its
most of whom had until that night regar-' " bright consummate flower" in this kind,
ded all stories not only of Mesmerism but, it " seems commonly to be near its end."
of Phrenology, with utter incredulity. I Poor Goldsmith might have been mention
ed in the above list. The theory is illus
trated in our own day. The two greatest
names in science and literature of our
time were Davy and Sir Walter Scott.—
The first died childless. Sir Walter left
four children, of whom three are dead, on
ly one of them (Mrs. Lockhart) leaving is
sue, and the fourth, (his eldest son,) though
living, and long married, has no issue.--
These are curious facts.
MR. Enrron :—I often see you on horse
back, but never with a lady. I cannot,
therefore, ascertain your opinion as to the
side of the lady on which a gentleman
should ride, front any exhibition of it in
practice. Please then to state your theory
on the subject, for the practical benefit of
those who exhibit inure gallantry than
yourself. A LADY.
Our fair correspondent is informed in,
the premises that an exhibition of gallant
ry is often made, where very little is felt.
As on most other subjects, so on this, prat
tle and pretension often take the place of
sincerity and devotedness. There arc
forty met, who would take a pleasant ride
on horseback with a lady, to One who
would cheerfully relinquish a snug seat in
the corner of a stage coach to a good plain
woman. It is attention to the sex, and
not to a particular individual, that stamps
a man's gallantry. A man may talk soft
nonsense by the hour to some young flirt,
but if he would not pursue and bring back'
to the gray locks which it had left, that
old bonnet which the wind had taken
away, he is no gentleman.
As to the site of the lady on which the
gentleman should tide, that depends on
circumstances. If she is beautiful, or
sweet in her looks, he should tide at her
left hand, so that he may see her face, and
catch the sparkle of her eye ; but if she is
very homely, and cross looking withal, he
should ride to her right, where he may see
her back, and take care of her person.—
Let the gentlemen just ask the ladies on
which side they shall ride, they will all put
them on their left, save here and there one,
who, like the violet, seeks the shade ; and
she will be the most beautiful one among
the whole.—American.
EVENING BEFORE WEDDINO,- ,, I Will
tell you," continued the aunt to Louisa,
two things which 1 have fully proved.
'f he first will go far towards preventing
the possibility of any discoid after mar
riage; the second is the best and surest
preservative of female character."
" Tell me!" said Louisa anxiously.
"The first is this: demand of your
bridegroom, as soon as the marriage cere•
mony is over, a solemn vow never, even to
jest, to dispute, or express any disagree
ment. I tell you never: for what begins
in mere bantering, will lead to serious
earnest. Avoid expressing any irritation
at one another's words. Mutual forbear
ance is the great secret of domestic happi
ness; if you have erred confess it freely;
even if confession costs you some tears.—
Farther, promise faithfully and solemnly,
never, upon any pretext or excuse, to have
any secrets or concealments from each
other, but to keep your private affairs front
father, mother or brother, sister, relations
,{►nd the world. Let them be known only
fo each other and your God. Remember
that any third person admitted to your
confidence, heroines a party to stand be
tween you. They will naturally side with
one or the other. Promise to avoid this,
and renew the vow upon every temptation.
It will preset ye that perfect confidence,
that union, which will indeed make you as
one. Oh, if the newly married would but
practice this spring of connubial peace,
how many unions would be happy, which
are now miserable."
Pito°Exy OF MaN OF OEN!us.—A wri'
ler in the Quarterly Review presents a very
striking fact in relation to the family his
tory of men, eminently distinguished by
their intellectual attainments. Ile was
discussing an objection to the copyright
bill—that perpetuity in literary property
would establish an aristocracy, would
found another noblesse—and shows that
there is no danger of this result from the
bill in question.
We are not going to speculate," he
says " about the causes of the fact—but a
fact it is—that men distinguished for ex
traordinary intellectual power of any sort,
very rarely leave more than a very brief .
line of progeny behind them. Men of ,
genius have scarcely ever done so—men of
imaginative genius, we might say almost
never. With the one exception of the
noble Surrey, we cannot at this moment
point out a representative in the male line,
even so far down as in the third genera
tion of an English poet, and we belive the
case is the same in France. The blood of
beings of that order can seldom be traced
far down even in the female line.
With the exception of Surrey and Spen
cer, we are not aware of any great En•
glish author of at all remote date from
whose body any living person claims to
be descended. There is no other real
English poet prior to the middle of the
eighteenth century, and we believe no
great author of any sort, except Clarendon
end Shattsbury, of whose blood we have
Any inheritance among us. Chaucer's
only son died childless. Shakspeare's
line expired in his daughter's only (laugh.
ter. None of the other dramatists of that
age left any progeny—nor Raleigh, nor
Bacon, nor Cowley, nor Butler. The
granddaughter of M ilton was the last of
his blood. Newton, Locke, Pope, Swift,
Arbuthnot, flume, Gibbon, Cowper, Gray,
Walpole, Cavendish—and we might great
ly extend the list—never married, Nei
ther Bolingbroke, nor Addison, nor War
burton, nor Burke, transmitted their blood.
Message from the Governor;
to the Semite and House ofl
Represutatives.
I cannot reconcile it to my sense of
duty, to permit this occasion to pass,
without renewing in the most earnest
manner, the appeal already made to the
Legislature in behalf of the public credi
tors, and especially those who have labor
, ed on our improvements and furnished
' initerials for their repair and construction.
Prostrated as the public credit in a great
degree is, and overwhelmed as the busi
ness energies and enterprise of the com
munity are, it is undoubtedly an unpropit
ious time to impose additional burdens on
the people, and is an ungracious duty to
recommend or to sanction it. But the
alternative admits of no qualification.—
We must act in conformity to the dictates
of stern and unwelcome duty on the one
hand, or disregard and set them at naught
on the other We must seek and desire
the commendation of the honest and hon•
orable, or we must earn and bear their
contempt and derision. If we falter in
this dilemma, we cannot escape one or
the other of these judgments in the eyes
of the world.
I do hope and trust you will make arle-1
quate provision for all the public credi-;
tors, either by increased taxation, or some
other available means. The bu rthen may
be onerous, but it can only be temporary.
With the resources, vigor and enterprise
of Pennsylvania, the present pecuniary
embarrassment can only be of short dura
tion. Let us then struggle manfully
against it, in the hope of speedy relief.
The burthens borne in behalf of the state
are light in comparison to those imposed
for county, township, borough, and other
purposes. All the taxes paid by the peo
ple of Pennsylvania for all purposes, a.
mount per annum to the sum of four mil
lions of dollars as nearly as can be ascer
tained. Of this vast sum only seven
hundred thousand dollars is levied and
paid for the use of the State. It is there
fore manifest that whatever may be the
gross amount of taxes paid by the commu
nity, but a small portion is applied to the
purposes of the State Treasury, and on
this score there is but little just ground to
complain.
Three per cent on the assessed value of
the real and personal property in Pennsyl
vania, assessed as it is far below its %slue,
amounts to upwards of forty-two millions
of dollars ; a sum sufficient to pay off our
entire public debt, and leave a surplus of
five or six millions in the treasury. And
yet, such is the general apathy or aver
sion to enter into an examination of a
subject of this kind, that there are some to
be found who seem at times almost dis
posed to doubt the ability of Pennsylva
nia to pay her debts.
I can scarcely find language strong e
nough to convey to you in a suitable man.
nee my ideas of the importance of a faith
ful adherence, on the part of the State, to
its solemn engagements. I have dwelt
on this subject in my communications to
every legislature that has assembled since
the duties of the Executive were entrus
ted to my care. Allow me therefore
most respectfully to ask your attention to
my annual message on this subjoct.
So far as respects what are usually de
nominated the '' Domestic Creditors."--
I sought in my annual message at your
assembling, to place their claims on the ,
true g rounds. I have yet to hear the first ,
word against the justice of their demands, •
or the extreme hardship of their case.—
They are our own citizens, who on the
faith of the public have devoted their ino•
ney, their means, the sweat of their brows,
in the public service, and have thus far
beer, denied recompense. Nay, some of
them have expended the last dollar they
can command—have contracted large
debts to enable them to prosecute their
work—have just demands on the State
amply sufficient to meet all their liabili
ties, and to supply them with the means
of recommencing business for their sup
port, and yet are compelled to see the
whole of their property under execution,
and be themselves dragged to the very
door of the jail. Is not this crying injus•
tire? Is it not a disgrace to the State
that thus beggars its own citizens, and
then suffers them to be sacraificed for
debts contracted on behalf of the State it
self? llow can any honest man who has
the power to correct such evils stand by
and witness such a state of things without
the blush of shame on his face? For my
self, I should feel ill at ease, if I left un
tried a single expedient to afford relief.
I can add little to the details of my for
mer recommendations, or to the means of
discharging these debts. It is for the Le
gislature now to act upon them. I will
however suggest that the State posesses
a fund which might be applied to the pay
ment of these debts, if other resources
fail, and although it may not be at present
available, it may ultimately become so,
at least to a considerable extent. 1 refer
to the stock held by the Commonwealth
in the Bank of Pennsylvania, the' Phila
delphia Bank ; and the Farmer's and Me
chanics Bank.
For these stocks the State paid two
millions one hundred and eight thousand
and seven hundred dollars. What they
may ultimately be worth I know not.—
My opinion of this investment has been
communicated to the legislature time and
again, and it would be useless to recite
it now. But I must be allowed, before
closing the subject, to express my opin
ion formed on the most thorough convic—
tion, that unless the interest of individu
als be enlisted in this matter, the State
will never realize a dollar from it. It
' seems to me, therefore, that it would be
advisable to transfer these stocks to trus
tees, or make some other disposition of
them, to satisfy the claims of the domes
tic creditors.
If any thing better can be done, it will
afford me great pleasure to co-operate with
you ; but if not, the provision suggested,
might possibly save a remnant, which
might be
of
to the debts long due to
a class just arid meritorious, creditors,
who are most assuredly entitled, at the
hands of the legislature, to the speediest
relief which its wisdom can devise, and
the means of the commonwealth will pos-
Isibly afford.
DAVID R. PORTER,
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER, JIAR
EISBUItO, JUNE 10, 1842.
RUNAWAY MATen.—We were infor
med, yesterday, of a pretty tall elopement,
which came Witt Hamilton a few days ago.
The false one was the wife of a Colonel in
the British Army residing at Hamilton.—
It appears his wife has been on a visit to
England, and on her return made the ac
quaintance of a gay Lothario—a passenger
in the same ship, intimacy, ripened in•
to friendship, and friendship into its nest
door neighbour, into the passion of pas
sions— love. Whether they made known
the state of their hearts before reaching
the Colonel's residence in Canada, rumor
vouches not. At all events the gentleman
accompanied the lady to Hamilton— was
introduced to her husband and received a
soldier's welcome. After tarryin g about
a week, the lady and her chance friend
decamped, leaving the Colonel's residence
desolate, and seven children motherless!
The injured husband pursued the fugitives
to Toronto, arriving just in time to learn
that they had left, about half an hour be
fore, for Rochester, in the Steamer Amer
ica. They arrived safely in this city and
tarried over night. Whether they are
still here, or whether the unfortunate wo
man has fled still farther from home by
her being made wretched, is more than
we know. She is reputably connected in
England, and has most strangely left a
family of seven children—the eldest seven
teen years of age—showing that she had
reached that period in life when the pas
sions should be in subjection to the higher
attributes of reason and prudence.—No.
chesler (N. Y.) Telegraph.
Iree Travel on the Public
Works.
A bill was passed at the winter session
of our Legislature, the wise provisions of
which were extensively commented upon
and seemed to meet the unanimous con
currence of every tax payer in community.
It provided a check, upon the growing
and flagrant abuse of the privilege of gran
ting free passage 0 persons travelling on
our public works. This was looked upon
as a most salutary movement towards a
system of economy, witkut which our
works inual ever vontinne unproductive.
THIS BILL GO VAR NOR PORTER
HAS VETOED \' •-hall lay the ve
to before our reader., k, , elt it is publish
ed, for we should • a. dly g,in credence,
were we to place his fl in,y reasons be
fore the public in ally oay but an authen
tic form.
Free travelling is a political privilege
with the loco locos—and we have heard
from credible sources that the extent to
which it is practised between Lancaster
and Philadelphia, is alarmingly great.--
We have known repeated instances of the
favored big bugs, the loco foco aristocracy
descending to the meaness of asking a tree
ticket, when going on private business.—
This is one of the reasons why the cost of
motive power on the Columbia road, ex- .
ceeds the receipts so much, and yet the
people are asked to submit to further
taxation to support these works! We
hope to see intl-pendence enough in the
legislative hall- to pass this bill by the
constitutional io despite the arbi
trary veto of Ct. , . Porter, who seeks to
retain the most trifling ways of doing fa
vors to his political friends at the expense
of the tax payers.—Pa. Telegraph.
STRAWBERRIES.—The editor of the
Cincinnati Daily Republican says:
We have it from unquestionable au
thority, that one man has raised this sea
son, from two acres, four hundred bushels
of strawberries, which have averaged him
in our markets, two dollars per bushel,
his two acres of strawberry patch having
thus yielded him eight hundred dollars."
SENTENCE OF MANsLAIIGHTER.—Peter
Beck and Charles Gunder, convicted in
Schuylkill county of manslaughter, in the
death of Michael Walter, have been sen
tenced to undergo an imprisonment in the
Eastern Penitentiary for the term of six
years, in separate and solitary confine
ment, at labor.
REsuscrraTEn.—Mr. Charles Gullatt,
of London county, Va., was, not long
since, struck by lightning, while sitting in
his house, and prostrated to all human
appearance in death. When in this con
dition, several neighbours came to witness
the lamentable scene. Cold water was
thrown profusely on the body, and in the
course of twenty minutes he began to ex
hibit signs of returning animation. The
patient finally recovered, but stated that
his sensations and pain experienced dur
ing the moments of revivafication were
drrible beyond the power of language to
describe.
THE STATE STANDING ARMY.--A let
ter from the Secretary of the Common
wealth to the Legislature, states, that
there will be Nine Thousand One Hun•
Bred and Thirty-Seven Military Commis
sions issued this year! This would take
one Clerk seven and a half months, making
out 50 a day! What an army we have!—
, We have more commissioned officers in
our State, than the glorioas Washington
,had men to fight the 'oust brilliant battles
of the revolution.--Pa. Telegraph.
CHEAP Cow.—A few days ago, in
Hardin county, Ky., a cow, belonging to
a respectable citizen, was seized by a
constable for debt, and advertised for sale.
The people of that neighborhood had
pledged themselves not to bid off the pro
perty sold on execution. On that account,
when the day of sale arrived, none of
them attended. A minister of the gospel,
who belongs to another settlement, was
the only bidder. He bid just one bid,,
the cow, a very elegant one, was struck
ono him at that price, paying fur her
just twelve and a half cents.
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THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL,
" , One country, one constitution, one destiny."
Huntingdon, June 22, 1842.
V. B. PALMER, Esq. (No. 104 S. 3rd St.
Phlladelphia,) is authorized to act as Agent
for this paper,,to procure subscriptions and
advertisments.
o*-Our acknowledgements are due to
Gen. JAMES IRVIN, of Congress, and J.
MOORE, Esq. of the State Legislature, for
valuable public documents.
The Mother's Magazine.
The June number of this periodical has
been received. As usual, it is filled with
excellent matter.
The Message.
In another part of to-day's paper will
be found the special message of the Gov
ernor on the subject of the payment of the
State debt.
It will be seen that his Excellency rec
ommends to the Legislature the raising of
adequate means, either by increased tax
ation or otherwise, to pay off all the public
creditors. He talks of a tax of three per
cent. on the assessed value of all the real
and personal property, as more than suf
ficient to pay off the entire public debt.—
If such a law should be passed it would,
according to his own calculation, require
upwards offorty-two millions of dollars to
he raised in the shape of taxes. The cal
culation is no doubt correct in itself; but
where could forty-two millions of dollars
be raised? And suppose it were possible
to raise that amount of money in Pennsyl
vania by taxation, would it not be most
ruinous policy, under existing circumstan
ces, to pay the greater portion of that sum
to foreigners, and thus leave us with per
haps not a dollar of the constitutiomil
currency of the country ? There could
indeed not be a more unpropitious time
than the present to burthen the communi
ty with onerous taxation. Where is the
man who has barely one hundred dollars
worth of property that could raise three
dollars to pay his state tax alone ; or where
is the man who has a farm worth ten thou
sand dollars that could raise three hundred
dollars to pay his quota of the proposed
state tax.
And would not the people require some
security that the money thus raised should
lie placed into the Treasury, and applied
to the uses for which it is raised ? Would
they not resist such a tax as long as they
had good reasons to fear that the public
money is sunk on our Public Works—la
vished upon useless officers and favorites,
and squandered for electioneering purpo
ses? These are questions that will find
their answers among the people them.
selves. The proposition is alarming to
the yeomanry of the country ; and we fear
that they will ere long reap these bitter
fruits of the present extravagant Adminis
tration.
Umningdon Academy Exam.
ination.
The public examination of the pupils in
the Academy, on Thursday last, elicited
our attention. The exercises commenced
at 9 o'clock in the morning, when the
classical scholars, one or two classes in
Geography, History, and English Gram
mar were examined. Two other classes
in Geography, all the classes in Arithme
tic, Geometry and other branches were
examined in the afternoon.
We are always pleased to notice the
progress of intellectual improvement. It
should be encouraged by the aid and coon
tenance of all who feel an interest in the
welfare' of our civil institutions, and the
character and standing of the rising gene
ration, and all posterity. We would be
remiss in our duty to let the present op
portunity pass without saying that the
Trustees of the Academy were most for
tunate in obtaining the services of Mr.
THOMAS C. 11ASSEY, under whose tutor
age the institution has been fur the last six
months. It must have been perfectly
manifest to all present that the scholars
had been led by a pleasant path into the
illimitable fields of knowledge, and that
they had been assiduously engaged in
amassing the invaluable treasures which a
toaster hand hail opened out before their
expanding intellects.
Exhibition of the Philomath
enn Society.
One cannot attend a wedding and a'
public exhibition at the same time without
encountering considerable inconvenience.
The urgency of our official duties at the
former prevented our attendance at the'
latter.
We cannot, th erefore, speak of the per
formances at the Academy on Thursday
night as an eye witness, but we can givel
hearsay evidence that is strongly in favor
of the members of the society. We have
been told by competent and credible wit
nesses that all in attendance were delight.
ed with what they saw and heard then
and there ; and that the society acquitted
themselves even better than at their for
mer exhibition.
Stay Law.
A public meeting was held last week at
Hollidaysburg, at which a memorial was
adopted and signed by the members of
the meeting, urging upon the Legislature
the necessity of passing a law suspending
sales of property on executions, and to
prevent the issuing of executions for one
'year. We have not room to give the pros
ceedings in the Journal this week.
Another Removal.
We extract the following from the
Washington correspondence of the Uni
:ed States Gazette :
There is another outrageous case of
removal and appointment just brought be
fore the Senate. Mr. HARPER, late and
for a great number of years, editor and
proprietor of the Chan'bersburg Reposito•
ry, one of the most honest, upright, and
estimable men in the community, who was
appointed Postmaster at Chambersburg
by Mr. Tyler—who never sought the of
fice, and has, since he held it, strictly
forborne to meddle with politics, or even
to express preference for any man—has
been removed, without any cause assigned,
sod another person, recommended by no
body, has been nominated in his place.-
Mr. Harper's removal is against the wish
es of every inhabitant of the place of what
ever political cast, except, perhaps, one
or two Tyler men, including the nominee.
The cause probably is, that he is suspec
ted of entertaining feelings friendly to
Mr. Clay. " This is the head and front
of his offending." and yet Mr. Tyler has
the effrontery to ask the friends of Mr.
Clay to confirm the nomination of the per
son who, Mr. Tyler intends, shall succeed
him! More of this anon."
Pennsylvania Legislature.
EXTRA SESSION.
Correspondence of the Huntingdon Journal
HAnaisuunn, June 14, 1842.
MR. CREMER :
In my last 1 gave you an
account of the proceedings of the Legisla
ture the first day of the Extra Session, and
now I proceed to inform you of their sub
sequent action.
In the Senate, on the 10th, Mr. Stewart
presented the proceedings of a public
meeting held in Merzer. county on the
27th of May, recommending to Congress
the passage of a law imposing duties on
Foreign Merchandize ; and also recom
mending a sale of the Public Improve.
ments of Pennsylvania.
_ _
Mr. Farrelly presented a petition in fa.
vor of a stay law.
Several local bills were reported, and
original resolutions submitted.
A message from the Governor to both
Houses was received. You have no doubt
observed that the Kickapoo Chief goes his
death against repudiation—in theory I
mean--and recommends a direct tax suf
ficient to pay off the State debt.
The resolution from the House authori
zing the Commissioners of Philadelphia
county to borrow $50,000 passed third
reading; and the bill from the llouse
questing Congress to take speedy action
on the Apportionment Bill was then taken
up in Committee of the Whole, and pass
ed through the third reading.
In the House a resolution was adopted
ordering 300 copies of the census of 1840,
as far as necessary for the apportioning of
the State, to be printed.
The Governor's message having been
received and read, it was ordered that
2000 copies thereof be printed.
Another message was received from the
Governor, vetoing the resolution prevent
ing persons from travelling free of expense
over our canals and railroads. His Ex
cellency seems determined to have the
people taxed to keep up the Publics Works,
and let favorites travel over them with
free tickets. This is very convenient
when ten day men are to be sent to any
particular point to carry an election. But
it is an outrage upon the public, and the
'Legislature ought to pass the resolution by
a vote of two thirds.
The bill to repeal all acts of this State
in relation to fugitive slaves was passed
through Committee of the IVhole.
Saturday, June 11.
_
The Senate were occupied today chief
ly in the discussion of a bill relative to the
Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, which
'was finally passed.
' The bill from. the House, making false
swearing before the Legislature or any
Committee thereof, perjury, and subject.
ing it to all the pains and penalties of per_
jury, passed.
A message was received from the Gov
ernor vetoing the bill continuing the Dis
trict Court of Erie, Crawford, Warren and
Venango counties.
In the House the bill to erect a new
county to be called " Oil Creek," out of
parts of Erie, Venango, Crawford and
Warren, was taken up, when on motion of
Mr. Snowden, the parts relating to Venan.
go county were stricken out; and on the
final passage of the bill the votes stood
yeas 39 and nays 39, being a tie, so that
the new county is lost.
The following resolution was adopted :
Resolved, That the Inland Navigation
and Inland Improvement Committee be
instructed to inquire into the expediency
of reducing the tolls upon the Public Im•
provements of this Commonwealth, provi
ded the owners of boats, cars, &c. shall
reduce the prices of transportation accor
dingly, so as to enable goods and passen
gers to be taken cheaper thereon, than on
any other public works of the Union of
similar extent.
Monday, June 13.
In the Senate to-day petitions were
presented praying for the sale of the Pub
lic Improvements, and also for a stay law
unless properly brings two thirds of its
appraised value.
The Senate proceeded to act on the
message vetoing the bill to prevent the
further issue of relief notes, and spent the
greater portion of the session on it. A
debate ensued, in which Senators Speck
man, Ewing, Fleming, Farrelly, Stewart,
Cochran, Sullivan, Penniman, Gibons and
Darsie took part.
The bill requiring a majority of two
thirds to carry it agamst the veto, was
lost, the vote being 18 yeas and; 11 nays.
The following message from the Gover
nor was received:
EXECUrivE CHAMBER,
HARRISBURG, JUNE 13, 1842.
To the Senate of Pennsylvania:
GENTLEMEN :—ln compliance with your
resolution of the 9th inst. requesting me
to communicate to the Senate " whether
any additional subscriptions have been
made since the 6th day of January last, by
the Banks of this Commonwealth, to the
stock autism lied by the act to provide Re
venue 4-c., passed 4th of May, 1841, and
if any such subscriptions have been matte
to communicate the names of the Banks
that have subscribed for the same, and the
amounts of such respective subscriptions,"
1 now inform you that on the loth day of
March 1842, the Middletown Bank filed
with me a proposition to subscribe for an
additional sum of ten thousand dollars un
der said Act, which proposition was ac•
cepted by me—and on the 19th of Ma:
1842, the Lewistown bank filed with me
a proposition to subscribe the additional
suns of twenty five thousand dollars to the
stock erected by said act, which I
accepted. D AVm "