Huntingdon Journal

              untinffdon
ournal.
VOL. 47.
HUNTINGDON, PA., NOVEMBER 13, 1872.
NO. 45.
The Huntingdon Journal.
J. R. DURBORROW,       -       -       J. A. NASH,
PDBLISBERS AXD PROPRIETOItS. Office on the Cornel of Fiflh and Washington streets.
TnE UusTl.NGnON Jouk.val ia jiublii^hcd every Wednesday, by J. K. Duuborrow and J. A. Nash, under thu firm name of J. R. Ditrborrow k Co., at $2,00 per annum, in advance, or $2,50 if not paid for in six months from date of subsurijition, and $3 if uot paid within the year.
No paper discontinned, unless at tho option of tho publishers, until all arrearages are paid.
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All Resolutions of Assuoiations, Communications of limited or individual interest, and notices of Mar¬ riages and Deaths, cxeecding five lines, will be charged ten cents per line.
Legal and other notices will be charged to the party having them inserted.
Advertising Agents must find their commission outside of these figures.
All adeertising accounts are due and collectable tehen the ndrertisement is once inserted.
JOB PilNTIXG of every kind, in Plain and Fancy Colors, done with neatness and dispatch.— Hand-bills. Blanks, Card.s Pamuhlels, Ac, of every variety and style, printed at tbe shortest notice, and evcry thing in the Printing line will be ctecu- tcd in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates.
Professional Cai'ds.
BF. GEHRETT, M. D., ECLEC- • TIC PHYClCIJi.N AND SURGEON, hnv¬ ing returned from Clenrfielil connty and perma¬ nently located in Shirleysburg, ofi'ers his profes¬ sioual services to thc people of that place and sur¬ rounding country. apr.3-1872.
-p\ll. H. W. BUCHANAN, DENTIST,
Xo. 228 Uill Street,
HUNTINGDON, PA. July 3, '72.
DR. F. O. ALLEMAN  cau  be con¬ sulted at his ofiicc, at all hours,  Mapleton, Pa. [mareh6,72.
DCALD WELL, Attorney-at-Law, • No. Ul, Sd street. Ofiiee forraerly occupied by Messrs. Woods <t Williamson. [apl2,'71.
R. A. B. BRUMBAUGH, offers his professional services to the commnnity. Offico, No. 52.1 Washington street, ono door east of the Catholic Parsonage. [jan.4,'71.
J. GREENE, Dentist.    Office  re-
•    moved to Leister's new building, Uill street F—itingdon. [jan.4,'71.
GL. ROBB, Dentist, office in  S. T. •    Krvwn'snewb^ilding, No. 520,  //ill St., Uuntingdon, Pa. [apl2,'71.
HGL.VZIER, Notary Tublic,  corner •    of Washington and Smith  streets, Uun¬ tingdon, Pa. [jan.12'71.
HC.   MADDEN,   Attorncy-at-Law •    Office,  No. —, Hill  street, Huntingdon, Pa. [ap.l9,'71.
JFRANKLIN SCHOCK. Attomey- • nt-Law, HUNTIN(5D0N, PA.
june28,'72-6m.
J    SYLVANUS BLAIR, Attorney-at- •    Law, Huntingdon, Pa.    Offiee, Hill atreet, hree doors west of Smith. [jan.4'71.
R.   DURBORROW,   Attomey-at-
• Law, Uuntingdon, Pa., will practice in thc several Courts of Huntingdon county. Particular attention given to the settlement of estates of dece¬ dents.
Office in b« Journal Bnilding.        [feb.l,'71.
JAV. MATTERN, Attorney-at-Law • and General CUim Agent, Huntingdon, Pa., Soldiers'claims against the Government for back pay, bounty, widows' and invalid pensions attend¬ ed to with great care and promptness.
Office on Hill street. [jan.4,'71.
K. Allen Lotell.
J. Uall Musser.
LOVELL & MUSSER, Attorticgs-at. Latr, HuNTiNonox, Pa. Special attention given to COLLECTIONS of all kinds; to tbo settlement of ESTATES, Ao. ; ami all other legal business prosecuted with fidelity and dispateh. [nov6,72
MILES ZENTMYER, Attornoy-at- Law, Uuntingdon, Pa., will attend promptly to all legal business. Office in Cunningham's new buUding. [jan.4,'71.
PM. & M. S.   LYTLE,  Attorneys- •    at-Law, Uuntingdon, Pa., will attend  to all kinds of legal business entru^ted to their care.
Office on the soutk side of Uill street, fourth door west of Smith. [jan.4,'71.
B,
A.   ORBISON,   Attorney-at-Law,
Office, 321 Hill street, Huntingdon, Pa. [may31,'71.
JOHN  SCOTT.
».  BAILET
^COTT, BROWN &  BAILEY,   At-
1<^    tomey9-at-Law, Huntingdon, Pa.    Pensions, and all claims of soldiers and soldiers' heira against tho Government will be promptly prosecuted. Office on Uill street. [jan-V?!-
T.
W. MYTON, Attorney-at-Law,Hun¬ tingdon, Pa.   Office with J. Sewell Stewart, [jan.4,'71.
WILLIAM A. FLEMING, Attorney- at-Law, Uuntingdon, Pa. Special attention given ts ciillcctious, and all other l5gal business attended to with care and promptness. Office, No. 229, Hill stroet. [apl9,'71.
Hotels.
THE TRAVELKRS' REST HOTEL, I assville, Hnntingdnn co.. Pa: TUe nndersigned wuuld respectrully inform the travel- iDfE pnblic that be haa opened tbe above DamL>tt Hotel and la prepared to accommodate truTflers. He hopes that a liliemi share of patronage will be extended. y.24,'72.j OEOR'.B M. GREEN.
"A/TORRISON HOUSE,
OPPOSITE   PENNSYLVANIA   R.   R. DEPOT
HUNTINGDON,   PA.
J. U. CLOVER, Prop. April 5, 1871-ly.
WASHINGTON HOTEL, S. S. BownoN, Prop'r. Corner of Pitt k Juliana Sts.,Bedford, Pa.   mayl.
EXCHANGE  HOTEL,   HuntinKdon, Pa. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor.
Jaoiury 4,.1871.
Miscellaneous.
B. BABTOL.    ;    A. EENNEHT.     j    t. HARCB.   j    DAVID MINGLE
TOARTOL, KENNEDY & CO.
[Lntelg Franklin Manufacturing Cumpant/.] MHnufactures Flooring, Siding, I)uors, Sash, Shutters, Blinds, SUmlding, Surull Work, Counters, Shelving, Wood Turnings, Hubhs, Spoke?, Bent Work, Forks, Rakes^ Brooms, Pick, and Hammer Handles, all kindsol'Fumiturc, Ac. OurMachinery the very best quality and giving our entire being oi attontion to the businesa weareable to manufacture all of tho aboved named articles, as well as many others, in the best style aud always promptly. All orders addressed to
BARTOL, KENNEDY & CO.,
Huntingdon, Pa., will receiv« eur immediate attention.    Priee   list furoiahed/wbeQ desired.
Lumber taken in eltohango   for all kinds of work. Jan. 31. 1871.
"D A. BECK, Paaliionable Barber .Jjkl*. and Uairdresior, Hill street, opposite the Franklin House. All kinds of Tonics and Pomades kept unhand and for salo. "  [apl9,'71-6m
[OFFICIAL.] OF   THE
UXITED    STATES
I'ASSEB AT THE
FIRST SESSIOX OF  THE   FORTY-SECOND
CO.VGRESS.
[General natcre—No. 117.] Re it enacted bg thc Senate aud House of Repre sentntices of the United Statesof America in Coo gress asseinbled. That a circuit court ofthe Unite* .states in and for tho western district-of Missour fball hereafter be held at the city of Jefferson, n the Jilace of holding the distriot conrt of the Uni ted folates for the snid western district of Missouri on tho third Alondays of April and November ii cvsry year.
Skc. 2. Tbat the said circuit court ofthe Unite. States in nnd for the nestern districtof 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 tbe western district o Missouri shall be held at tho same time and plac- (at tho city of .'^aint Louis) as now provided b- law for holding tho circuit eourt of tbe Unite. .States in and for both tho districts of MisFOuri that thc snid circuit court of tbe United States ii and for the eastern distrit-t of Missouri shall in a! things have and retain jurisdiction of .ill matter: ai ising therein : nnd that the said circuit court, ofthe United States hereby established in am forthe eastern and western districtf of Missour shall, respectively, havo and exercise the sami origiualjurisdiction in the said districts, respec! ively. as is vested in thc seve-al circuit courts t, fhe United States as organized under existin; laws, and shall nlso respectively have and exer cise tbe i-arae appellate jurisdiction over tbi district courts of Ihe United States for said east ern and western districts, respectively, as b\ existing laws is vested in tbo said several circui couHs id' the United States over the district court, of t e United States in their respeative circuits Said circuit courts shall he called, respectively the circuit court of tbe United States in and fo the western district of ilissouri, nnd tbe circui court of the United Statea in nnd for thc easteri district of Missouri, and shall be eomposed, re sncctivcly, of the justice of the Sujireme Court o liie United Stntes aIlott,ed to thc cigh h judicia circnit, thejudge of the "eighth judical circuit, nnc tho judge of the district court lor tho western dii trict of Missonri, in the said western district, and of the said two first-named judges and the judg' of the district court for the eastern district o Missouri, in the said eastern districi, but may bi held by nny one of snid threo judges in theabsenc of tbo remainder. The clerk of tbe circuit cour' for tho present districts of Missouri shall remaii thc clerk of the circuit court of the United States in and for thc eastern district of Missouri: and thi dis rict attorney and marshal for said easteri district of Missouri sball act ns sueh distric attorney nnd marshal in snid circuit court in nnd for the eastern distriet of Missouri as now provide! liy law. The circuit court in nnd for tho westeri district of Missouri shall appoint a clerk of saii conrt. who shall keep his office in the city of Jell erson aforesaid, perform its duties, and receive it- fees and emoluments, subject nnd in conformity ti existing laws regulating the duties, fees, and em olumeiits of other clerks of circuit courts of tht United States. And thc distriet attorney ant. marshal for said western district of Missouri shal act as such district attorney and marshal in sail', circuit eourt in and for the western distriet o Missouri.
Sec. 3. That the United States circuit conrt foi said eastern and western districts of Missouri shal have power at any time to order adjourned terms ofsaid circuit courts, respectively, at which ad journed teruis any business may be trnnsaetei which could be transacted at any regular terms thereof. A copy ofsaid order, in the eastern dis trictof Missouri, shall ho poslnd on the door o the court-room, and advertised in some newspapei printed in thc city of Saint Louis, and a copy o said order, in tho western district of Missouri, shalt be posted on tbe court-room door and adver¬ tised in somc newspaper printed in tho city o: JelTerson twenty days at least before said adjonmed terms shall be holden. Approved, June ,S, 1S72.
POSTAL   CONVENTION
BETWEEN THB
UNITED STATES OF   AMERICA  AND THE KEl'UIJLIC OF   ECUADOR.
Tbe undersigned, John A.J. Creswell, Post¬ master General oftbe United States ot Amer¬ ica, in virtue ofthe powers I'ested in him bj law, aud -Antonio Flores, minister of tlit Republic of Ecuador at Washingtou, in the name of his government, and by virtue olthe powers which he has formally presented to this effect, have agreed upon the following articles, to wit:
Aet. 1. An exchange of mails shall hereafter take place between the Uaited States nnd the Republic of Ecuador, by tbe orcinary means of commuaicatioQ via the Isthmus of Panama, the Government ofthe United .States to be at the expense of the transportation thereof be¬ tweea New York aad Pani-rna, and San Fran¬ cisco aud Panama, so long as direct service by United Statea steamers, including the Isthmus transit, is maL^ained under existing cooditioas ; and the:;governmQnt qf Ecuador to be al tbe expense, of the transportatiou thereof between Panama and Ecuador so long as thc present or other similar arr.aiigemeQt for tho mail ser^'ice between Panama and Ecuador is continued. The correspondoace so exf haaged shall comprise :
1. Letters and manuscripts subject by the laws of either country to letter rate or postage.
2. Newspapers and prints of all kiads, in sheets, in pamphlets, and books, sheets of musie, engraving lithographs, pliotograpbs, drawings, maps and plans, and ruch corres pondence may be exchanged, whether origin¬ ating in either ofsaid countries and destined for the other, or origitating in or destined for foreign couutriei to which they may re¬ spectively serve as intermediaries.
Art. 2. New York and Sau Francisco sball be the offices of exchanged on the side of the United States, and Guayaquil and Mania shall be tlie offices of exchange on tbe side of Ecua¬ dor, for ail mails transmitted betweea thc two countries under this airaogement; and all mail matter transmitted in cither direction between the respective offices of exehange fhall be fortrarded in closed bags or ponches, under seal, addressed to the correspondin;; exchange office, and thc mails so dispatched from either country to the other shall be for¬ warded to the Uaited States coasul the resi¬ dent mail agent at Panama, who is hereby designated as the agent of the two govera- ments for receiving the bags or pouches at that port from either direction, and for dis¬ patching the same to their respective ultimate destinations,
Thc two Post Departments may, at any time, discoutinuc 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-balf (J) ounce, (avoirdnpois.^
2. For all otber correspondence mentioned in the second paragraph of the first article, tbat wbich each country shall adopt for tbe mails which it dispatches to the ofher, 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, aod of any subsequent change thereof- The weightstated by the dispatching exchange office shall always be accepted, except in cases of manifest error.
Aet. 4. No accounts shall be kept between the Post Office Departments ofthe two coun¬ tries on tho international correspondence, written or priated, e.tchanged between them ; but each couutry shall levy, collect, and re¬ tain to its own use thc following postal charges, viz;
1. The jioiitage to be charged and collected in the United .states on each letter, or manu¬ script subject fo letter postage, mailed in tho United States, and addressed to any place iu the Republic of Ecuador, shall be twenty (20) cents. United States currency, per cacli weight of half an ounce or fraction of half an ouace ; and the postage to be charged ani collected in Ecuador on each letter, or manu¬ script subject to tbe letter postage, mailed in Ecuador and addressed   to   any   placein the
United States of Arferica, shall bo two (2) eals, or the fifth part of a dollar, (hard,) Ecuador currency, the same to be in each case n full ofall charges whatever to tbe place of iestination in either country. Eitlier country, iowevor,is at liberty to reduce tbis charge, Hit not to increase it witbout the previous issent of the other.
2. On all otlier correspondence mentioned n lhe secontl paragraph ofthe first article the 'OSl Departments of the United Stntes and .Ecuador may respectively levy, collect, aad I'etain to fheir seperate and exclusive use such ates of postage adapted to their interior ad ninistration aud to tbe cost of seatransportft- .ion as they sliall deem advisable. But each iffice shall give notice to tho other ofthe .ates it adopts, and of any lubscquent change .hereof.
Newspapers and other correspondence of he class referred to in the precedirg para- ^rapii shall be Bent in narrow bands or covers, ipen at the sides cr ends, so that they may be ;asily examined; and packages of such corres- londence sliall be subject to the laws and egulations ofeach country in regard to their lability to pay customs duty, if containing Jutiable goods, or to be rated with lettar- lostagc when containing written matter, or br any other cause specified iu said laws and .•cguiatioaa.
Art. 5. Letters, aod other commuaieations n manuscript, which, from aay cause, cannot nc delivered to their address, after the expir- ¦'ilion ofa proper period to efl'ect theirdelivery, ^hall be reciprocally returned every month, inopened and with charge, to the Post Office )epartmcnt of the dispatchinj country ; but lew-.'jpapcrs, aad all other articles of priated .natter, shull not be returned, but remain at .he disposal ofthe receiving office.
Letters erroneously transmitted, or wrongly tddre6Si.d, shall be promptly returned to ths ;ispatching oiSee without cbarge.
Ar". 6. The Post Departmeut ofthe Uaited States shall establish, in coLformity with the irrangemenls in force at tha time, the coadi- ions upon which tho Post Department of lilcuador may exchange, iu opea mails, the :orrespondence originating iu Ecuador and 1. stined for countries to which thc Uuited States may servo as an intermediary ; but such correspondence shall only be charged with .he international postage cs ablished by this convention, augmented by the postage rates a force between the United States and the -¦ountry of destination, and any other tax for exterior service.
The Post Department of the United States -ihall furnish the Post Deparlment of Ecuador •vith a list stating tho foreign countries to .vhich the foreign postage and the amounts thereof must be absolutely prepaid, or can be left uupaid, aud shall uiodify such list from iimo to time, as fbe exigencies of its foreign postal service may require.
In conformity to tbe requirements of tbe preceding paragraph, a table marked A is .lereunto annexed, enumerating the countries with which, nnd specifying the terms and conditions on which, Ecuador may exchange correspondence by way of thc United States. Correspondence of this class must be ac¬ companied by a letter-bill from the dispatch ing exchange office of Ecuador, specifying the Amount due thereon to the United States, and '.be receiving exchauge office of the United States shall return by next post to sucb dis- ,jatchiag exchange office an aclinowlodgmeat jf receipt and verification thereof, which let- ler-bills and acknowledgments of receipt ;hall be in conformity to the models B and C, hereunto annexed, and shall serve as vouchers n the settlement of the accounts.
Tae accounts to be kept between the two Post Departments upon this class of corres- pondonce shall be stated quarterly, transmitted and verified as speedily as pacticable , and lhe amounts found due sball be paid promptly :o the United States office, uedcr the regula :ions as the re.'pcctive Post Department! may .-rom time to time prescribe. Such quarterly statemaat shall be prepared by the United States office, and shall follow tho form D, hereunto annexed.
Art. 7 Letters originating in foreign coun¬ tries and addressed to the Uuited btates or Ecuador, respectively, on which the foreign md international postal charges are fnlly prepaid, shall, when forwarded in thc mails of oither couutry to the other, be delivered in Ihc country of do*tinatiou freo of charge
Art. 8. The official correspoadeace between the two governments, th it ofeach government with its legation near thc other, and of each legation with its government, shall be con veyed to its dcstiration free of postage and with all the precautions which the two gov¬ ernments may find necessary for its inviola¬ bility and security.
Aet. 0. When in one of the two countries there is no legation of the other, the franking privilege of the vacant legation shall be trans- I'erred, iu the terms stipulated in the preceding article, to thc respective consulate or vice- consulate at New York or (juayaquil.
Art. 10. Neither Post Departmeut shall be required to deliver any article received in tho mails the circulation of which shall bo pro- uibifed by the laws in force in the country of destination ; and any articic subject by the laws of either country to customs duty or to confiscation shall, whcu received in the mails from the other, be treated in accordance with the laws ofthe receiving country.
Art. 11. The two Post Departments may, by mutual agreement, provide for the trans¬ mission of registered (.rtieles in the mails exchanged betweeu the two countries.
Tbo register fee for each article shall be ten (10) cents in the Unitod States and one (1) real in Ecuador.
Art. 12. The two Post Departments ahall settle, by agreement between tbom, ail meas ures of detail and agreement required to carry this convention into execution, aad may modify, the same in like manner, from time to time as the exigencies of the service raay require. Articles may also, by mutual consent, be amended,added, or 6uppre3S''d, aeeordingto the requirements of tbe service, without re¬ scinding or otherwise altering or impairing any other ofthe articles of this conveution.
Art. 13. This convention shall take effect from the date of tho exchange of ratifications, and shall continue in force until annulled by mutual consent, or until ons year from the date of notice given by one of the two depart- - ments to the other of its desiro to terminate the same.
Art. 14. This convention shall bo approved and ratified in the manner and form prescribed by tbe constitution and laws of each of the high contracting jiarties, and the exchange of ratifications, shall be made at Washington six mouths after tbe last ratificatioo, or sooner, if possible.
Done in duplicate, at the city of Wasbington, this ninth day of May, in the year of out LorJ oue thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. [L. S.] JNO. A  J. CRESWELL,
postmaster General of the United States. [L. S.] ANTONIO KLORES.
I hereby approve the aforegoing convention, and in testimony thereof  I bave   caused tbe seal of the United States to be affixed. [L. S.] U. S. GRANT.
By the President: Hamiltoh Flsh.
Secretary of State. M'AsnisaToN, .May 9, 1871.
[Translation.]
Having seen and examined the aforegoing postal convention, which has been approved by the legislative decree of the 1st of tbe pre¬ sent month, and in exercise of the sixth attribute of the sixtieth article of the con stiiution, I have ratified it, as by tbe present I do ratify and declare it accepted, confirmed, and obligatory in all and each of its clauses and stipulations contained in said convention, Bolemny engaging and pledging for its faith¬ ful and exact observance on the part of Ecua¬ dor the national faith and honor.
Iu faith of which I haave caused thepresent to be prepared, signed with my hand, sealed with the seal ofthe republic, and countersign¬ ed by the secretary of state forforoign relations, at Quito, the thirtieth of September, eigbteen hundred and seventy one.
[L. S.] G. GARCIA MORENO.
Francisco Javier Leon.
We John A. J. Creswell, Postmaster Gen eral ofthe United States, and Antonio Flores, minister of Ecuador to the United States, cerfiy that on tbis date we have proceeded to perform the exchange of ratifications of lh« postal convention which was concluded be tween tbe United SUtes and Ecuador at Wasbington, this 9th day of May, A. D   1871.
Done in duplicate and signed at Washington, this 6th day of Dceember, .\.  D. 1871.
[L. S.] JNO- A. J. CEE.SWELL,
Postmaster General ofthe Tnitcd Stotes.
[L. S.] ANTONIO FLORES.
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PriDtaof ull olher descriptions.
Austria, via Cologue.
Bahainas	
Belgimn „	
Berniudn	
Belize, (.British HoDdaras)	
Krazil  -	
llrittfth Colnmbia	
Canada ^ ,
China, via San Francisco..».„	
Coata Rica	
UeiiinArk, Tia Bremen or Hamburg	
i)enmnrk, ria Cologne ,
Eai!t Indtc Egypt, TM Egypt, vij
CoI<igne..
direct steamer	
ta Bremen or Hamburg...
Gibraltar	
(3re>it Britain and Ireland. 	
Greece, via Bronion or Ilambnrg	
Greece, via Cologne	
Guatemala.
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Japan, via San Francisco „	
New Brunswick.............««.«.- „ ,
Newfoundland	
New Zealaud ,
Niaini;;ua	
Norway, via Bremen or Hamburg ,
Nnrway. via Cologne ,
Nova Scotia „	
Porius«l. •. „	
Prince JBdward Islard « „	
Pruiisia, via Bremen or Haoibnrg	
Prussia, via Cologne „
Salrador.	
Sandwich l!<Iands	
Sweden,
Sweden.
Switzerland..
Turkey, via Bremen or Hamburg
Turkey, via Cologne	
Vaucuuver Island	
Coots.
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•7
•10
3
•10
10
12
l.'i
6
6
10
10
10
«10
•13
in
10
•IT
•20
10
•111
IB
•6
•l.'i
•IS
10
10
•10
•10
10
16
10
6
10
12
10
•12
Ceoi..
4
6
4
6
4
1
5
4
4
4
4
4
4
4
11
12
4
5
6
6
4
11
12
4
4
S
4
6
4
4
4
10
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nela. Meat Indies, (British
fore mmed.) West Indies, (not British
d Danish, nut herelnbc- Dauish)	
San Francisco. INi-w York. I San Francisco, f Tork.
San
Neu
Francisco.
York.
do
do
do
San Francisco.
New
York.
Note.—The asteriflk (*) indicates that pr payment ia notohlipatory in the United States, and conse(|uentIy n -t in Ecuador. The ahseuce of the astcrigk denotes Ihnt prepayment is compnieory in the U"ited States, and therefore iho rated not marke<l with an asterisk must always bo collected in Kcuador and paid to the United States.
Printed mattor sent from the United State;* to foreign countri^'s ninnt alway** bo prepaid; and the rates expressed in
the table includo the postage the;
I Panama and the United Siate^^.
POSTil AnMISISTEATlOiN")
Fnr fhe mail frt
LETTER BILL No.-
( Cour. ES POND ENCE -i WITH THE
( UwrrED States.
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1
3
Nature of the correspondence.
Prepaid letterB from Ecua¬ dor for foreign countries in  transit   through   the United States.
Unpaid letters from Ecua¬ dor for tnreifEU countries in tninsLt through   the Uuited States.
Prepaid   newspapers    and' prints from Kcuador for foreign conntries in tran¬ sit through tbe United. Statea.
Amountof thefor«ip:n^ postagetoaccount for V to tho United States.)
Amonnt   of  the   United
States and foreign post¬ age to account for to the United States.
Statement by the despatch- Verification by tho receiv¬ ing excliauge office.               ing exchange office.
No. of single ratea.
Amount of tho post¬ ages duo tho Uui¬ ted Statea.
Dollars.
Cents.
No. of single rates.
Amonnt oftlie post¬ ages due the Uni¬ ted States.
Dollars.
Cents.
FosT-OFncE Depaetment "1
OF UIB UsiTXD St.ites ob Amfeica. !
For the mail diapatchedfn
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OP RECEIPT.
(CORKUPl < WITH
( ECTJADOR,
Nature ofthe corrtspondence
Prepaid letters from Ecuii-l Amount of the foreign 1 dor for foreign countries ( postage to account 1 in transit through tbo ( for :o the United Unite*! Slates. j     i tales.
Unpaid Iptters from Ecua dor for foreign couatrief In transit   through   th(
Amount ofthe posta¬ ges dne the United States.
United States. Prepa d . newspapers and prints from Ecuador for foreign countries in taans- it through the United States.
Amount rf the United 1 Slates   aud    foreign | postage   to   account V for    to  the    Uuitod State!*. J
Amount of the post¬ ages duo the Uui¬ ted States.
POST-OmCE DEPAETMEST  ¦) ( COERESPOSDSSCl
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[GeneraliJATURh—No. 99.]
AN ACT milking appropriations for thc service of
the Post-Offi«e Department for the  year ending
June tl)irty. eigbteen hundred and sevontj three. lie it enactfd in the Senate and Ilotiae of liepre- acntativea of the United Statea of America in Con- ^rcM a9«em6/et/, Thatthe following sums be, and tho samo arc hereby, appropriated for the serviee of the post office dt'parlment for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy three, out of auy moneys io 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 thousaJ seven hundred and sixty-three dollars.
For pay of mail mcesengers, six hundred and three tnuusand six hundred and seventy four doK lars.
For pay of route agents, nine hundred and thir¬ ty eight thousand and Uve dollars.
For pay of mail route messengers, seventy thou¬ sand eight hundred and forty one dollars.
For pay of local agents, fifty eight thousand four hundred and eighty six dollars.
For pay of railway post office clerks, nino hun¬ dred and fifty thousand dollars.
For pay of baggage masters in charge of through mails, six thousand two hundred dollurs.
For foreign mail transportaion, three hundred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and wav letters, tcn thous¬ and seven hundred and fifty do'llars.
For compensation to postmasters, five million five hundred and twenty fire tbousand 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 dollurs.
For twine, thirty eight tbousand dollars.
For letter balances, threo thousand fivo bundred dollars.
For compensati(Mi to blank agents and assis- sistants, ten thousand dollars.
For office furniture, three thousand five hun¬ dred doIlaT-a.
For construction of coal vaults, six thousand four hundredand twenty two dollara and thirty five cents.
For altering windows to doors in court yard, eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For altering sky lights and rentilation, one thousand two hundred and seventy five dollars.
For doora on book cases, and otber repairs thereon, in library and dead lotter office, three thousand one hundred and eighty seven dcliars and eighty cents.
For advertising, seventy thousand dollars: Pro¬ vided, That no part of this sum shall be paid to any newspaper published in tho District of Col¬ umbia fur advertising any other mail routes than those in Virginia and Maryland.
For manufacturo of adhesive postage stamps, one hundred nnd sixty thousand dollars.
For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, four hundred and fifty three thousand dollara: Pro/ided, 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 agenev, seven thousand dollars.
For mail depredations and special agents, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For ten additional special agents, nt rates of compensation now provided by law, twenty six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Forchief of division for the offico of mail dep¬ redations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For mail bags and mail bag catchers, one hun¬ dred and eighty thousand dollars.
For muil looks and keys, forty thousand dol Iars.
For post marking and cancelling stomps for offices, twelve thouF-'und dollars.
For preparing and publishing post route maps, twenty two thousand dollara.
For balances duo foreign countries, two hun¬ dred and tifty thousand dollars.
For rent of post offices, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For fuel for post offices, one hundred and ten tbousand dollars.
For lights for post offices, ono hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For stationery anij miscellaneous items for post office, forty thousand dollars.
For registered package envelopes, forty two tbousand doll&rs.
For official envelopes for the use of postmasters, forty nine thousand dollars.
For envelopes for return of dead letters tothe writers, five thousand fivo bundred dollars.
For fees to United States attorneys, marshals, clerk? of courts, and counsel necessarily employed by special agents ofthe Post Office Department, subject to tbu approval of the Attorney Oeneral, ten thousand dollars.
For engraving, printing, and binding drafts ami warrants, throe thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, ono thousand five hun¬ dred dollars.
To pay Augustine Bacon, of Georgia, for ser¬ vices as post route agent, four hundred and thirly seven dollars and sixty nine cents.
Tho bond of any married woman who maybe appointed postmaster shall be binding upon her aud her sureties, and sbe sbatl be liable for mis¬ conduct in offico as if sbe were sole.
i>KC. 2. That the postmaster of every city where branch pogt offices or stations are establish¬ ed and in operation, siibject to tbe supervision, is hereby authorized, under tho direction of the Post¬ master General, to issue, or to cause to bo issued, by any of his assistants or clerks in charge of branch post officea ur etations, postal monoy orders
payable at any other money order office, as tb remitters thereof may direct; and tbat the posi master, and his surities, shall in every case b. held accountable upon his official bond for al moneys received by him or his designated assi.- ' tants or clerks in charge of stations trom the is-iu of money orders under the provisions of this aci and forall moneys which may como into his o. thtir hands, or be plaeed in bis or their custody I.; reason ofthe transaction by them of money orde business. And all tbe |)rovisions of law now ii force respecting the issue and the payment o money orders, and the disposal of money orde funds, in the cu.stody of postmasters, shull appl; to all money orders issued under Iho authority given by this act, and to all moneys received frou the issue thi-reof.
Skc. S. That the following sums, or so mue! thereof as may be necessary, be, and the sam. are hereby, appropriated for the year ending Juu' thirtieth, eighteen bundred and seventy (hree, ou ofany money in tbo treasury not otherwise ap propriated, namely :
For steamship SL-rvice between San Francisco. J:tl>an and China, fivu hundred t ousand dollars And the Postmaster General is hereby authorizci. to contract nith thc lowest bidder, wi^in thre< months after tho passage of this aet, after 6ixt\ days* publie notice, for a term of ten years froii. and af(cr tho first day ol October, eighteen hun dred anij seventy three, for tbe convoyunce of ar ad-iitionul monthly mail oo tno said route, at » eompcn-^ation not to exceed the rate per voyagi now paid under tho existing contracts, and upoii the snme conditions nnd limitations as prescribed by existing acts of Congress in reference 'hereto. and thc respective coptracts made in pursuanct thereof; and tbe contractors under the T.rovision^ of this section shall be required to carry thc United States mails during thu existenccoftbeircontrHCts. without additional charge, on all thc steamers thej» may run upon said line, or any part of it, or an\ branch or extension thereof: Provided, Tbat ali steamships hereafter accepted for said svrvici shall bo of not less than four thousand tons regis¬ ter each, nnd shall be built of iron, and with thcii engines and machinery shall be wholly of Ameri can eonstruction. and shall be so constructed as to be readily adapted to tbe armed raval service ol the United States in ease of war, and beforo au oeptance thc officers by whom tbey nro inspected shull report to the Secretary of the Navy and thi Postmaster General whether this condition has been complied with : Provided, That in all case? the officers of lhe ships cmpioyed in the serviu. herein provided for shall be citizens oftho United States, and that persons of foreign birth, who have accnrd-ng to law declared their intention to becomo citizens ofthe United States, may bo em¬ ployed as though they were citizens witbin thi meaning of this section, or of any act or acts spec ificd in tbe act of June twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty four. And the government ol the United States shall have the right in case ot war to take for the United States any ofthe steamers of said iine, and in such ea-'c pay area sonable eompensation therefor: Provided, Thc priee paid shall in no case exceed tho original cosr of the vessel so taken, and this jirovision shall ex¬ tend to nnd bo applicable to the steamers of tbe Brazilian lino hereinafter provided for.
For stcampphip service between tho United States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For steamship service between San Francisco and tho Sandwich Islands, seventy fivo thousand dollars.
Skc. 4. That if tbe revenues of the Postoffiee Deparlment shall be insufficient to meet the ap¬ propriations made by this act, then thc sum o! five million seven hundred thousand nine hundred thousand nine hundred ond seventy dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be. and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out ol nny money in the treasury not otherwise appro¬ priated, to supplv deficiencies in the revenue oi the Postoffiee 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 ecrtain post routes, and for other purposes;" and section eight of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifly one, entitled "An act to reduce and modify tho rates of postage in tho United States, and for other purposes," so far as said sections provide for specific permanont apppropriations for carrying frob matter in tbo mails for the several Depart¬ ments and for members of Congress, be, andthe same are hereby, repealed. And hereafter pay¬ ment for carrying such free matter shull be made out ofthe annual appropriations.
Sro. 5. That it sball not bo lawful for any per¬ son who shall hereafter bo appointed an officer, clerk, or emp'oyce in anyof the Executive Depart ments to act ns counsel, attorney, or agent for prosecuting any claim againat tbe United Stntes which waa pending in said departments while be wae mid officer, clerk,- or employee, nor in any manner, nor by any means, to aid in tbe prosecu¬ tion ofany suoh claim, within two years next af¬ ter he shall have ceased to be such officer, clerk, or employee.
Skc. 6. That if the contract for the increase of tbe mail service between San Francisco and China and Japan to semi monthly service shall be made with the Pacific iSIail Steamship Company, or shall be porforincd in tho said company's ships. or the ships of its successors in intereat, 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 tho transportation of freight and passengers at present run between New York and San Franoisco. via the Isthmus of Panama, by tho said Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and no longer: Pro¬ vided, Tbat said requirement shall in respects ap¬ plv to any party contracting for the mail service between San Francisco and China and Japan, as woll aa to the Pacitic Mail Steamship Company. Approved, June 1,1S?2.
[General nature—No. 98.] AN ACT to further tbe administration of jus¬ tice. Be it enaded hy the Senate and Ilouse of Ee- presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever, in any suit or proceeding iu a circuit court ofthe Uuited States, hc'wg beld by a justice ofthe Supreme Court and the circuit judge or a dis¬ trict judge, or by tho circuit judge and a dis¬ trict judge, there shall occur aay difference of opinion between tbe judges as to auy mat¬ ter or ihincr to be decided, ruled, or ordered by the court, the opinon ofthe presiding jus tice or lhe presiding judge shall prevail, and bo considered the opinion oftbe court for the timo beiu;r; but _ when a final judgment, de¬ cree, or order in sucli suit or proceeding shail be enterod, if said judges shall certify, as it sball be tbeir duty to do if such be thc fact, tbat they differed in opinion as to any ques- tioa which, under the act of Congresa of A;'ril twenty ninth, eighteen bundred aud two, might have been reviewed by tbe Supreme Court on cer¬ tificate of difference of opinion, then either party may remove eaid tinal judgement, decree, or order to the Supreme Court, ou writ of error or appeal. according to the nature of the case, and subject to tbe provisions of law applicable to other writs of error or appeals in regard to bail and ^u.lerscdcas. Sec. 2. That no judgment, decree, or order ot a circuit or district court of tbe United States, inany civil action at luw or in equity, rendered after this act shall tako eficct. shall be reviewed by the Su¬ preme Court of tho United States, «n writ of crr.»r or appeal, unless tbe writ of error bo sued out, or thc appeal be taken, within two years after the entry of auch 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 tbo United States upon liko pro¬ cess or appeal, unless the process bu sued out, or tbe ni.peal 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 tako an appeal is •;0 infant, or non compos mentis, or imprisoned, such writ of error may be proseouted, or such ap¬ peal may be taken, within tb© periods above des ignutcd afterthe entry of tho judgment, decree, or order, exclusive ofthe term of such disability. The appellate court may affirm, modify, or reverse thc judgment, decree, or order brought before it for review, or may direot such judgment, decree, or order to bo rendered, or sucb further proceedings to be had by tbe inferior court aa tho justice oftbe ease may require-
Sec. 'S. Tbut tbe Supremo Court may at any time in its discretion, and upon such terms ns it may deem just, and where the defect has not injured and the amendment will not perjudicc the defend¬ ant in error, allow an amendment ofa writoferror, when thero is a mistake in tho test of tbo writ, or a seal to the writ is wanting, or when tbe writ is made returnable on a day other tban tbo day of tho commencement of the term next ensuing theiis- sue of tho writ, or wicn tho statemeut of tho titlo of the action or parties thereto in tho wrilis defec¬ tive, if the defect can be remedied by reference to the accompanying record, and in allother particu¬ lars of form where tbe defect has uot prcjuJiued, and tbe amendment will not injure, the defendant in error ; aud the circuit and district courts of the United States shall possess the like powerof amend¬ ment of all process returnable to or before them.
Sec. 4. That a bill of exceptions hereafter al¬ lowed in any cause shall be deemed sufficiently authenticated if signed by tho judge of tbe court in which tho eause was tried, or hy tho presiding judge thereof, if more than ono judge sat on the triaVof tho cause, without any sealof court or judge being annexed thereto ; and all process is¬ sued from tho courtsof the United States shall bear test from tho day of such issue.
S[!C. 5. That tbe practico. pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in otber than equity and admiralty causes in the circuit and district courts oftbe United States shall conform, as near as may be, to tbe prartice, pleading, and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the timo in like cau ps in tho courts of record of the State within wbich such circuit or district courts are beld, any rule of court to tbe ocntrary notwithstanding: Provided,
ioive\cr, Tbat nothing herein contained shail al¬ er tbe rules of evidence uuder the laws of tht L'nited States, aud us practiced in the courts there-
Sec. 6. That iu common-law causes in the cir- ¦uit eourt und district courts of the United States heplaintitt shall be entitled tu similar remedies, •y attachmeut or other process against theprojter- y of tbe defendant, whieh are uow provided for ry the laws ot the State in which auch court is leld, applicable to the courts of sucb Statu ; ami uch eireuit or district courts maj-, from time tu liue, by general rules, adopt such State laws »s nay be in lorce in the Statu in relation to attach- uents aud other process; andthe party recovering irdgement in such cause shall be eutitled to simi- ar remedies upon the same, hy execution or other- vise, to reach the property of the judgment debt- .r, as are now provided l>y the laws of the State ivitbin wbich said circuit ur distriet courts shall be .letd in like causes, or which shall be adopted by ules as aloresaid : Provided, That thesiuiilar jire- ituiuary affidavits or proofs, and siinibir security ¦la required by such laws, sball be tiist furuit-heii ty thu party seeking suuh attachment or otber ."umedy.
Sec. 7. That whenever notice is given of a mu- "ion for an injunction out of a eireuit or district ;ourt Olthe UniledState?,thocourtorjudge thire- if muy, if there appear to be iu danger ol irrepar- ible, injury from delay, grant an order restraining he act sought to be enjoined until the deeision jpou the motion. Suuh order may be granted witti jr witbout security, in the discretion of the courl ..r judge: Provided, That no justice oftho Su preme Court shall hear ur allow auy application .or an injunction or restraining order, exceptwith .u tbe circuit tu which he is allotted, or in sucii .causes at such place outside uf tho circuit as thu parties may in writing stipulate, exeijit in cjuses *here such application cannot be hoard by thecir- 'Uit judge ot the circuit, or tbo district judg-: ot the distriet.
Sec. 8. That no indictment found and presented bv a grand jury in any dislrict or circuit or other court ofthe Uuited States shall be deemed insutli- jient, nor shall the trial, judgment, ortttherpio- ^eeding thereon be afiected by rua on of any de¬ tect or iiupcrt'ei:toin in matter of form only, which shall not tend to rbe prejudice of thu defendant.
Sec. 9. That in all criminal causes the defendant may be foundguilty ofany ofi'ense the commis^sion of whiuh is necessarily included in tbat witb whieb be is eharged in the indietmcnt, or may be tound guilty of an attempt to commit tbeoffense so charg¬ ed : Provided, That sueh attempt be ilself a sepa¬ rate offen.se.
Sbc. 10. That on an indictmei t against several, if the jury cannot agree upon a verdict as to ail they may render a verdict as lo those in regard to whom they do agree, on which ajudgmeut sball !)u entered accordingly ; nnd the cause as to the other delendnnts may be tried l>y another jury.
Sec. 11. That any party or jierson desiring to have auyjudgmcnt, decree, or order ofany district or ci cuit eourt reviewed on writ of error orappeat ;ind to stay jiroceeuings ihereon during tbe pen¬ dency of such writ of erroror appeal, may give the security required by law therefur within sixty days after thc rendition of sueh judgment, decree, or order, or afterward with tbe permission ofajuatice orjudge oftbe said appellate court.
Sec. 12. Thatin alll criminal or penal causes in which judgment or sentence haa been or ahall be rendered, imposing the payment ofa tiveor jienal ty, whether alone or with any other kind of pun¬ ishment, thc suid judgment, so far as tbe fiuc or penalty is concerned, may be enforced by execution against the property of the defendant in liko man¬ ner as judgments in civil cases are enforced: Pro vided. That where tho judgment directs that the defendant shall bo imprisoned until the fine or penalty imposed is paid, the issue of execution on judgment shall not opucate to discharge the de¬ fendant from imprisonment until tbe amount itf the judgment is collected orotberwise paid.
Skc. ih. That when in any suit in equity, c:m- menced in any court of the United States, to en¬ force any legal or equitable lien or claim against real or personal property witbin tbe distriet where such suit is brought, onc or moro ofthe defendants therein shall not bo an inhabitantofor found with¬ in tbe aaid district, or shall not voluntarily appear thereto, it sball be lawful for the court to make an order directing such absent defendant to appoar, plead, answer, or demur to the complainant's bill at acertain d.ay therein tobe designated, which or¬ der sball 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 auch mnaner as thecourt shalldireot; and io case such absent defendant shall not ap¬ pear, plead, answer, or demur within the time So limited, or within some further time, tobe allowed by tbe court iu its discretion, and up n proof oi the uervic* or publication ofsaid order, and ofthe performaneo of the directions contained in thc same, it shall be lawful for the court to entertain jurisdiction, and proceed to tbe hearing and adju¬ dication of such suit in the samo manner as if such absent defendant had been served with process witbin tbo aaid distriot, but said adjudication shall as regards such absent defendant without appear¬ ance, afi'eot his property within such district only. Sec. 14. That wben a poor convict, sentenced by any court of tbo United States^to bo imprison¬ ed and pay a fine, or tine and cost, baa been con¬ fined in prison thirty days, solely for the non pay¬ ment of such fine, or fine   and   cost, fiuch  convict
tbo   district
where he is imprisoned, setting forth his inability to pay sucb filie, or fine and cost, and after notice to the district attorney of tho United States wbo may appear, offer evidence, and be heard, the com¬ missioner shall proceed to hear and dotermine the matter; and if on examination it shall appear to him that such convict is unable to pay such fine, or fino and cost, and tbat he has not any property exccedingtwenty dollars in value, except suoh as is by law exempt from being taken on exocutioii for debt, the commissioner shall administer to him the following oath : "I do solemnly swear that I have not any property, real or personal, to the amount of tweuty dollars, except such as is by law exempt from being taken on civil precept for debt !)y the law of (state where oath is administered ;) and thati have no property in any way conveyed or concealed, or in anyway disposed of, (or my fut uro u=e or benefit. So help me Ood." Aud thereupon suuh convict shall be discharged, tbe commissioner giving to tbe jailor or keeper of thc ;ail a certifi¬ cate setting forth the facts.
Sec. 15. Tbat if at any time after such discharge of such convict it shall bo made to appear tbat in taking tbe aforesaid oath he swore falsely, he may be indicted, convicted, and punished for perjury, and bo liable to the penalties prescribed in seetion thirteen of an act entitled **An act more effectual¬ ly to provide for tho punishment of certain crimefi against tho trnited States, and forotberpurpoaes." approved March tbird, A. D. eighteen hundredand twenty five.
Sec. 10. Thatthe fees of tho commissioner for the examination and certificate provided for in this act ."hall bo five dollara per day for every day that ho shallbe engaged in such examination.
Approved, June I, IS72.
[Gesebal nature—No. 103.] AX ACT to establish a western judicial  dis¬ trict of Xorth Carolina.
Be it enact d by the Senate and House of Rep Tfscntatives ofthe United States of America in Congress Assembled, That that portion oftlie State of North Carolina comprising the couu¬ ties of Mecklenburjj, Gabarras, Stanly, iMcnt- 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, Mitcliell, Watauj^a, .Vshe, Alleghany, Caldwell, liurke, McDowell, Rutherford, Poik, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, Alex¬ ander, Wilkes, Surry, Iredell, Yadkin, and Rowan, and a 1 territory embraced therein which may hereafter bo erected into new counties, shall hereafter constitute a new ju¬ dicial district to be calied thc western district of North Carolina; andthe circuit and dis¬ trict courts ofthe Uuiied States for said wes¬ tern district of Nortli Carolina shall be held in the towns of StatesvlUo, Asheville, and Greensborro', within said district.
Sec. 2, That two terms of thc circuit and district courts of the United States for said western district of North Carolina siiall be held at the following times and places in each year, towit: At Greeusboro's beginning on the first Monday in April and in October; at Statesville, beginning on the third .Monday in April an'l in October; at Asheville, beginning on the first Monday in May  and in November.
Skc. 3. That the district of North Carolina shall hereafter consist of tlie counties not named in this act, aud shall be called the eastern district of North Carolina, and the terms ofthe circuit and distiiet courts thereiu shall be held at the timed and places hereto¬ fore appointed and enacted.
Sec. 4. Thatthe said circnit and district courts for cither of said districts may, in their discretion, order special terms thereof tor the trial of criminal and civil issues at snch times and places as the court may designate in snii districts, and order a grand and a petit jury, or both, to attend tho same, by an order to be entered of record thirty days befoie 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 tbey have at the regular terms appointed by l&w : Provided, however, That no apecial term ofsaid circuit court for cither district shall be appointed except   by   and   with the
ncurrence and consent ofthe   circuit judge.
Sec. 5. That all suits and other proceedings of whatever namo or nature, now penning in the circuit or   district   court  of tho   United
States for the district of North Carolina, ex cept as hereinafier 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 distriet courts ot the present district of Nortb Caroina shall return the records and file:^ ofthe said circuit and distr.ct courts at the places heretofore appointed, aud to do and perform a 1 the duties appenaining lo their their said offices, respectively, within the eastern district, except as is hereinafter pro¬ vided ; and all pro.-ess returnable to, or pro- ceedinyrs noticed for, any term of the present circuit or district court shall be deemed to be icturnable to the next term of said courts, respeelivcl;-, i'i the said eastern district, ns fixed by this act.,
r-EC, G. That upon application of any party to any suit or procrediiigs, civil or criminal, now pending in the present circuit or district court ofthe United .States for the prcocni dis¬ trict of North Carolina, which shrtuld hnve been commenced in the proper court for tho western district of Xorth Carolina if this act hacT been in force ai thc time of its commen(:e- ment, such suit or other proceei.ings shall be removed for further proceedings tothe proper court for said we:?tern district, and thereupon the clerk sball transmit thc original papers, and copies ofall orucrs made therein to the clerk ofthe court to which said suit ,or pro¬ ceedings i-hall be removed for trial or such other proceedings therein as if the said suit or proceedings had originally beea commen¬ ced therein; the district aitorncy of said western district to designate the court to whicii all suits aud proceedings, and indict¬ ments and criminal proceedings, w'ncrein the United States is plaintiff; sball be removed, and the plainliff, or bis attorney, in all other suits to designate thc court to which they shall be transferred ; but no suit, iudictmeut, or criminal proceeding, where bnil is required of a defendant, shall be transferred ; until proper bail is given for him to appear accor¬ dingly : Provided, that all suits and other proceediugs, both criminal nnd civil, pending at the late term ofthe United State:* district conrt for thc Cape Fear district, held at Ma¬ rion, beginning on the third Monday of xViig- ust, eighteen hundred and se\'enty one, aud not theu finally disposed of, shall, wilh 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, beginuing ou tbe third Monday lu Angnst, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, to be then and there tried, or snch other pro¬ ceedings bad therein as may be meet and proper, according to the practico ofthe court, and all such suits and proceedings as shall not then be finally disposed of shull be con¬ tinued on the docket ofsaid court, at Ashe¬ ville, to the next term tliereof, and in tlie meantime all necessary and proper procesa siiall issue from said last named court and be returnable thereto, and such proceedings bad begun in said court, and the clcik ofsaid court at Asheville shall acl as clerk ofsaid special C"urt at Asheville.
Sec. 7. That the passage of this act shall not have the effect to destroy or impair the lien ofany 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 ou any judgment or decree entered in the circuit or district court of the United States for thc distri.-t of North Carolina, or which shall bo entered therein prior to tbis act taking effect, and all other process for the enforcement of any order of said courts, reg. pectively, in any cause or proceedings now pending therein, except causes ur 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 b© d reeted tn and executed by the mar¬ shal of  thc United Statoa for tKe_s.iid- anstf.cn .
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 C'nited States for the said westeru district of North Carolina, who shall receive such fees and compensation, and exer¬ cise such powers nud perform such duties, as are fixed and enjoined by law.
Sec. 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 shal! 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 fixed by law.
Sec. 10. That either of the clerks of tho 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, lo make a trauscript from any of the records, files, or papers of the district and circuitcourts of the United States, remaining in the oflSce of the clerks of said eastern district, ofall matters and proceedings which relate to or concern liens upon or titles to real eslate situate in snid western district, and for that purpose shall have access to said records in tbe office of the said clerks in said easteru dislrict, and such transcripts, when go made by either of said clerks, shall be certi¬ fied to, to be true and correct, by the clerks making ihc same, aud the same, when so made and certified, shall be evidence in all courts and places equally with said originals. Approved, June 4, 18T2.
[General nature—Xo. 121.] AN ACT to amend an act relating to  soldiers'
and sailors' homesteads.
lie it enacted by the Senate and Ilouse of Rep- 1 eseniatives of the UnitedSiates of America in Coi gress assembled. That 'he act entitled "An act to euable honorably discharged soldiers andsailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the Uniied Slates," approved April fourih, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: That every private soldier and oflTicer who has served iu the array of the United States du-ing the recent rebellion for ninety days, or more, and who was honorably dis¬ charged, and has remained loyal to the gor- ernirent, including the troops mustered into_ the eervice of Uie United States by virtue of the third section of au act entitled "An act making appropriations for completing thc de¬ fenses of Washington, and for other purposes," approved February Ihiiteenlh, eigbteen hun¬ dred and sixty-two, aud every seamuu, marine, und officer who has served in the navy of the United Ctr.'es, or in the marine corps, during thc rebc'liion, lor ninety diys, and who was honorably (.ischarged, aud has remained loyal to the governmenl, shall, on coiupiiance with the provisions of an act entitled, ''An .-•ct to secure homesteads to actual settlers on tLs-- public doraadn," 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 hnndred 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 linc of any railroad or other public work, not otherwise reserved or ajipropriated, and other lands suhject to entry undor the home¬ stead laws of the United States: Provided, That said homestead settler shall be allowed six months alter locating his homestead, and filing his declaratory statement, within which to make his entry and commence his settle¬ ment and improvement: And provided also, Thot tlie time which the home tead settler shall have served iu the army, navy,or marine corps aforesaid shaU be deducted from the time hcrelotore required to perfect title, or if discharged oo account of wounds received, or disability incurred in the line of duly, then the term of enlistment Rhall be deducted from thc time heretofore required to perfect title, without reference to the length of time he may have served ; f*rovided, however. That no patent shall issue to any homcsteadjiettler who has not resided upon, improved, And cul¬ tivated ilis said homestead for a period of at least one year after he shall commence bis improvements as aforesaid.
Sec. 2. That any person entitled, under the provisions of the foregoing section, to enter a homestead wbo may hnve heretofore entered, under thc homcB^end laws, a quantity of land less tban one hundred and sixty acres, shall be (Concluded on fourth page.)