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held therein, TO consist of one Judge, who
shall reside in the said district, aud be
called district court annually on the
first Mondays in May and October; and
he shall, in all things, have and exercise
the same jurisdiction and powers which
were by law given TO the Judge of The
Kentucky district under an ac, entitled
An act to establish the judicial courts of
the United States" He shall appoint
clerk for the said district, who shall reside
and keep the records Of the said court at
the place of holding the same, and shall
receive, for the services. performed by him,
q tho same fees to wldcfstl,c clerk of the
/; keutnbky district ishyssaw entitled for
similar services.
SECTION 3. ARa be IL further enacted,
THAI there shall be allowed to the Judge
of the said district court, the annual COM
pensalion of two thousand dollars, to
commence FROM the date of his appoint
ment, to be paid quarterly at the Treas
ury of the United States.
SECTION 4. ind be IL further enacted.
That there shall be appointed in the said
district, person learned in the law, to
act as attorney for the Unite States, who
shall, in addition to his stated fees, be
paid annually by the United States, two
hundred dollars, as full compensation
for all compensation for oil extra servi-
ces; the said payment to be nude quar-
ter-ycarly at the Treasury of the United
States. is. r.
SEC. 8. Ind be IL further aaactcd, Tha,
marshal shall be appointed for the said
district, who shall perform the same du-
ties, be subject to the same regulations
and penalties, and be entitled to the same
fees as are prescribed and allowed to
marshals in other districts, and shah,
moreover, be Untitled to the sum of two
hundred dollars annually, rs a compen-
sa.ion for all extra services, Procided,
howerer, that this act shnl not take eff
feet until the State of Michigan shall bc
admitted into the Union, according to the
provisions of tho net to establish tho
northern boundary line of the State of
Ohio, and TO provide for the admission
of the State of Michigan into tho Union
on certain conditions"
APPROVED, LIST July, 1886.
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hereafter he confirmed or adjudged To
any individual or individuals, shall, by
this section, be granted to said State:
.ind provided, also, That The General
Assembly shall never sell or lease the
same, at any one time, for a longer per-
od than ten years, without the consent
ofCongrcss.
FUth. That five per cent, of the nett
proceeds of the sales of all public lands
lying within the said State, which have
been or shall be sold by Congress, from
aud after the first day of July eighteen
hundred and thirty-six, after deducting
all the expenses incident to the same,
shall be appropriated, for making public
roads and canals within the said State,
as the Legislature may direct: Procided
That the five foregoing propositions here
in offered, are on the condition that the
Legislature of the said State, by virtue
of the powers conferred upon 1t by the
convention on which framed the consti-
tuition of the said State, shall provide, by
an ordinance irrevocable without the con-
sent of the United States, that the said
State shall never interfere with the prl-
mary disposal of the soil within the same
by the United States, nor with any regu-
lations Congress may find necessary for
securing the title in such soil to the bona
file purchasers thereof; and that no tax
shall be imposed on lands the property of
the United States; and that in no case
shall nonresident proprietors be taxed
higher than residents; and that the
bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be
granted, for military services during the
late war, shall, whilst they continue to be
held by the paten,ees or their heirs, re-
main exempt from any tax laid by order
or under the authority of the State,
whether for State, county township, or
any other purpose, f,r the term of three
years from and after the date of the pa
tents respectively.
APPROVED, 22d of June, 1886.
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and any five of the said Justices made a
quorum.
The Supreme Court consisted of the
Gov. or Deputy Gov. and three assistants,
or in the absence of the Gov. and Deputy
Governor, five assistants.
The first Judges of the Courts of Com
mon Pleas'wer for the county of Ne'cport,
Henry Bull, VIM. Coddington, Samuel
Clarke and Gideon Freeborn. For the
county of Providence, Joseph Jencks, Phil
lip Tillinghast, Benjamin Greene and
Thomas Spencer. Kings County, Thomas
Willet, jeremiah Gould, William Robinson
and Joseph Stanton.
This Assembly petitioned the King for a
suitable number of guns for the fort in New
port harbor, TO be gratuitously furnished by
him.
The town ofNewport by vote required the
rryer to cry the sales of goods &c, as well
on the point as the other parts OF. the town.
This shows that the inhabitants were some
what numerous on the point at that time.
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TPuBLrc.-No. 43.1


An Act to disapprove and annul certain
acts of the Territorial Legislature of
Florida, and for other purposes.
BE II enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of THE United States Of
america in Congress assembled, That
no act of the Territorial Legislature of
~ny ar ,De Territorv nf sL- United Sintes
incorporating any bank or any institution
with banking powers or privileges, here
after to be be passed, shall have any force
or effect whatever, until approved and
confirmed by Congress.
SEC. 2. And be /. further enacted, That
the following acts of the Territorial Leg
stature of Florida, namely: an act enti-
tied " An act to incorporate the Bank of
ST. Joseph" passed February twelfth,
eighteen hundred and thirty-six; an act
entitled Z" An act to incorporate the Flor
ida Insurance and Banking Company"
passed February tenth, eighteen hundred
and thrty-six; an act passed February
fourteenth eighteen hundred and thirty
six, entitled An to incorporate the st.
Joseph Insurance Company" and all
other acts and parts of acts, passed by the
said Territorial Legislature of Florida in
the year eighteen hundred and thirty
six, creating banks or extending banking
powers, orconierring banking powers on
any corporation or institution whatever,
be and the same hereby are disapproved
and annulled.
APPROVED, 1st July, 1886.
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DsI;.oroJ ;p lScifuofs n, ths Iofe 1npi.rr.
say Of american independence, by
GEORGE TURNER, ESQ.

Concluded.
II is tr<sc there have been times when
distrust Of the constitution has manifested
itself in some portions Of the country, and
disaflcction and opposition have for shor
periods prevailed but they have only
served to prove the soundncss of the great
machine of Government itself, MS checks
and balances in other and mechanical ma
chimes regulate, retard and control their
force and without which, their motions
might acquire so dangerous a velocity, as
to consume and destroy that which they
were only intended to improve and beauliiy.
Connected with, and dependent on the
Constitution, another important result,
growing out of the Revolutionary war, was
the establishment of perfect Religious Free
dom throughout this entire country the
constitution having provided, that "no re-
hgious test shall erer be required as a gual-
ifeation 10 any office, or "pubhc trust un-
der The United ,States; and as an amend
ment to that provision, has also farther de-
cared that, " Congress shall male "no tdD
respecting an establishment Of religion, or
prohibiting "he free eIercisC hereot" -
Therefore it is, that throughout the vast
territorial extent of this country, from the
Atlantic 70 the Pacific Ocean from Cam
ada on the North and East, to our Z" Uhi-
ma 7Hulc" on the South and West, indiyid-
uals and societies Of every description and
tenet Of Religion, stand, A." in matters of re-
ligiofs concernment," on one common plat
form secured by the whole force Of the
American government, in the free exercise
and enjoyment Of their religious sentiments
and opinions -" sitting under their own
vines, aud Gig trees. with none TO modest
them, or mike them afraid" aud possess
ing in case of any infringement of such en-
lOyment, ample means Of compelling the
aggressors to speedy and complete redress
Such are the provisions Of our Y. s.
Constitution on This important subject -
but it is the pride Of Rhode-I.landers, that
the first sctllers of our own State, at least o
century in advance of all the rest Of the
world on that subject, made Religious Free
dom the very basis of,hs Goeernment of the
Colony and expressed themselves in Ian
guagc so full and comprehensive that suc'
ceeding generations have perpetuated Tho
very expression they used, as too just to b'
altered, and too sublime to be forgotten.
Hence il is tha, here, the jew anc
the Gentle, the Hindoo, aud the Chris
tan of whatever denomination, may
worship their God, according TO the un
,r,mmelled dictates of their own conscien.
ces and it may be added, that as yet thu
is the only land where they can do SO.
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TPuBLrC.-No. AL
lst July, 1896.

An Act to change the time Of holding the
district court Of the United States for
the western district of Virginia, holden
at Clarksburg.
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of Tie United States
Of America in Congress assembled, That
from and after the first day Of August,
next, the sessions of the district court of
the United States for the western district
of Virginia, required by law TO be holden
at Clarksbyrg, shall qe held on the first
Mondays of April and September an
nually.
APPROVED lsi July, 1886.
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Public. No. 16.l

An Act to provide for the due execution
Of the laws of the United States with
in the State of Michigan.
BE IL enac,cd bythe Senate and Honse
of Represe.totioes Of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the laws of the United States which are
not locally inapplicabIe, shall have the
same force and effect within the State OF
Michigan, as elsewhere within the United
States.
SECTION 2. And be IL further enacted,
That the said State shall be one district,
and be called eout shaii DC
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PIIBIIc.-No. 40

An Act explanatory of an act entitled
/" An act to release from duty ron pre-
pared for, and actually laid on, rail-
ways and inclined planes"
BE IL enotted By the Senate and House
Of Representatives. of The United States
~ America in Congress assembled, That
the act of the fourteenth Of July, eighteen
hundred and thirty-two, entitled " An act
TO release from duty, iron prepared for,
aud actually laid on, railways and inclined
planes" shall not be so construed as to
inclued spikes, pins, or chains, rs rail-
road iron.
APPROVED, Ist July, I-36.
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NEWPORT WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 90 1896.

petent American artists for the execution of
four historical pictures upon subjects serving
10 illustrate the discovery OF America the set
clement Dfthe United States T; the history of
the Revolution or of the adoption of the
Constitution to be placed in the vacant PAN
nols of the Rotundo; the subject to DO left to
the choice of the artists under the control OF
the committee.
Approved, 23d June, 1886.
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tRrsoLUTroS.-No. 81

A RESOLUTION TO furnish The Ro,unso with
Paintings.
Rssoired, by The SeRste and HoDs, Of Re.
presenfatires Of the United States Of America
in Congress assembled, That joint Committee
Be appointed to contract with one or more com.
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The General Assembly met at Newpor
on the 9Th day of May 1929. Present the
Gov, Deputy Gov. and Assistants and tht
following named Deputies from the towns
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GRAFTON.

APPROVED, LIST July, 1886.
Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1836-04-28
(From the Nat. Intelligencer.

1t is remarkable that while money is
so scarce az in New York to command -,
in some cases, premium often per cent
a month from the safest borrowers, the
prices Of labor and subsistence are un-
usually high. This is a very curious
fact, and is without precedent, we be-
lieve, in the history of this country. II
can only be accounted for by the circum-
stance, equally unprecedented, of the
Government having thirty odd millions
of dollars locked UP in the deposite
banks, and large proportion Of that
amount of the currency conse quently
withheld from circulation. In fact, the
Government is rapidly absorbing all the
money Of the country, aud if something
be not done, and done speedily, to res
tore to circulation and usefulness a part
at least Of the enormous sum which has
accumulated in the Treasury, the most
Distressing consequences to the COM
munity must ensue. Mr.. Webster pres
sed this consideration with great force,
in the Senate on Monday, to show the
urgency Of immediate and effectual leg
islation in regard 10 the disposition of the
surplus revenue.
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shew the whites any quarter, so fond arc they
of eating them. They are divided into little
groups, each having a cblet; and into two
grent divisions which are almost constantly
warning with ench other. The dividing line
is drawn between the Mountain and the Low
land Indians. The inhabitants Of the noun
fain- not ontrequcnily come down in hordes,
stack those Of the low land, murder them,
and take their substance up into The noun
fains. Their general character is 90 well
known 10 our whalemen that we should think
they would choose rather to get their refresh
ments at some Of the many friendly Islands
in that Ocean. II is not long since nearly all
of the crews Of the Salem ships were mvr-
dered there. The crew of the ship Oeno Of
Nantucket, nbont six years since. fell their
victims; and all the accounts we have from
the Fegees tell Of their inhuman treachery.
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from ,l,e sa,ne or'Tuesday.

|. THE HORRIBLE MASSACRE ON BOARD or
THE SNIP AwAsHOSKs. The particulars Of
this tragedy which we noticed yesterday, are
chiefly confirmed by the Nantucket inquirer.
since received. 1t appears. however, that the
massacre took place at Brinyards'- or Brain
ards Island one of the KingmilPs Group, and
not at the Fegee Islands. The Inquirer adds
"The individuals who have thus fallen VIC
tins to the ierocity and treachery Of ;hnsH-
South Sea demons were all natives OF this
town, and have numerous near and dear rein
tives to lament this melancholy event. Tho
commander, Prince Coffin, has left parents
and an orphan child-his wife and one child
having died since the commencement OF his
voyage. The first officer Mr.. Alexander
Gardner was young man of high promise.
son of Albert Gardner Esq, to whose family
this loss is irrepnrable; and the second officer
William Swain, was son OF Capt Swan. "f
ship Susan, of this port--now in the Pacific
ocean-he was married short time prevons
to his departure on the voyage and was u.
truly estimahle young mnn. The AwashonIs
belongs to Falmouth and had $50 bbls of "'l
Mt the time of the massacre. She will pr"ha-
bly not pursue the voyage, but return home
forthwith"
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Il Mr.. ArKINsoN--Aiter the loss Of a battle
there remains but little to be done on the
part Of the vanquished except to gather up
not the "sroiLs" but the scattered remains of
the broken forces--to look back on the scene
OF conflict, and to ascertain, if possible, the
cause of defeat whether we we're overcome
by superior numbers-outgeneralled-- -betray-
ed-or, what is still worse, whether we have
been deserted in the hour Of danger by our
prQfessed friends? To the latter cause pre-
sumo may be attributed the loss Of the Elec-
ton in this State.-Judging from the conduct
Of about one hundred chicken-hearted Wings
in Newport, that stood aloof and saw with in
difference the c0llared slaves of Van Buren
bear away the prize Of victory, and heard un-
moved the insulting shouts Of the whole corps
of Swiss troops that march and countermarch
at the word of command-that come and go
at the bidding of two or three individuals, as
readily as well-trained Spaniels-to this say
may be attributed the defeat of the wings
and, as whig, with shame do I confess it.
But there seems to be panic-a slavish fear
pervading the community, that is really a
farming Men that opposed this corrupt ad-
ministraton ever since it came into power
that were always firm and like Independent
freemen had stemmed the torrent fearlessly-
have been made to quail and shrink before
the worshippears Of Jackson and Van Buren,;
as though they could not exist out Of the pale
of the popular party. Some from the hope
Of a little pecuniary advantage have sudden
ly become neutral, as the most ready means
Of getting over the fence-others receiving
promise that they shall retain some petty Of
flee within the gift of the Legislature, reply
TO the interrogations of their friends that they
have their livings to get and don't know
which party will be in the ascendancy-while
some who possess not the soul of mouse,
doff their hats to their triumphant enemies,
ask pardon for their former opposition, and
exclaim that they are tired of being in the
minority. To such time-serving weather.
cocks we can say with candor and sincerity,
we wish you to join the enemy at once-the
whig party will be better off without you, and
the country would he better off without you--
go add another trophy 70 the motley swarm
that follow cringing at the heels Of Andrew
Jackson-be ready at all times to serve your
new masters, and you will soon be admitted
into full communion, and be held in esteem
according to your nfuence-and perchance
at some future day may get to be very impor-
tant personages. f..
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! SENTENCE OF DEATH.-At the recent ses-
sion Of the Supreme Court in Providence, R.
|. John Hazard a colored man, convicted at
the last March term. of burglary, lin entering
the house Of B. Clifford Esq. on the night of
the 18th Of February last) was brought into
Court to receive his sentence. His Honor
chiefJustice Durfee addressed the prisoner in
a brief and feeling manner before passing the
awful sentence of the law, which was that he
be taken hence to the prison whence he
came, and on Friday the 18th day of July
next, between the hours of nine of the clock
in the forenoon and three Of the clock in the
afternoon Of the same day. at the place ap-
pointed by law, be hanged by the neck until
dead.
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From the New Bedford Gaze,te Of Monday

H MASSACRE AT THE FEGEE IsLANDs.-The
ship Cyrus, Hussey, of Nantucket, just from
the Pacific, reports having heard on her pas
sage that three of the officers and three Of the
crew Of the whale ship Awashonks, Of Fal-
mouth, were murdered by the savages while
getting refreshments at the Fegee Islands,
From our gatherings ofinformation it appears
that the Awashonks had got her supplies from
the Islands, and when she waa about weigh
ing anchor, to pursue her cruise, a great num-
Der of the Islanders swan off to the ship in a
friendly manner, and some fifteen or twenty
of them were permitted to come on hoard,
among whom was the Chief Of the group
So perfectly friendly did they appear that the
master and officers guided them to all parts of
the ship. and described the whaling tackle,
&c. TO them. While the master was shew-
ing the Chief his spades, used for cutting up
whales after they are taken, the Chief took
one up, and while the master was off his
guard, severed his head from his body at a
blow.
| A general warfare ensued in which the first
and second mates, and three of the men were
killed; and Nantucket boy, by the name of
Wood, badly wounded.
! The first mate was killed soon after the
master fell: the second mate was chased on
to the end Of the jib-boom by savage when
he leaped overheard and was murdered by
those in the water.
The boy, on being wounded, ran into the
cabin, and knowing that the Chief was at the
helm endeavoring to run the ship ashore, took
down musket heavily loaded and aiming up
through the skylight shot him on the spot
AS soon as the savages saw that their leader
was killed, they all jumped overheard and
swan to the shore. The third mate then
took command Of the ship and carried her into
Oahu-where it seems she was last reported
in the list brought by the Cyrus.
This is the version Of this tragic affair ms It
comes through several channels between US
and the ship Cyrus-and we believe the par
ticuIars are chiefly correct. IL seems rather
strange that the remainder of the crew should
have beat their ship up against the trade
winds, struck off into the variables, and made
an 30 DAYS passage to Oahu, when they might
have run up to Otaheite in 25 days, or even
to the Bay Of Islands in about 10. But it is
to be supposed that their object was 70 go TO
the American Consul for advice. for shipping
a new crew, or other prudent purpose.
The Fegee Islanders are spoken Of by those
who have visited them as the most trescherous
Of any in the Pacific Ocean, They seldom