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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06
CHAP ln6-AN ACT

To equaiize the compensation Of the Survey
erF General Of the public lands of the Uni
ted States, and for other purposes.
TSEc. |. Be tt enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives If the y. s. Of America
in Congress assembled, That, from and after the
thirtieIh day Of June, eighteen hundred and
forty-six, the surveyor general Of Wlscon-
sin and Iowa and the surveyor general OF Ar
kansas shall each receive the same annual SAL
airy as the other surveyors general of the pub
lie lands of the United States; and each Of
said surveyors general shall be allowed It e
same amount for clerk hire in their respective
offices as is now allowed by law for the Office
of the surveyor general northwest of Ohio.
SEC. 2. find be it further enacted, That the
surveyors general of the public lands of the
United States, in addition to the oath now
authorized by law 10 be administered TO de-
puties on their appointment to office, shall
require each of their deputies on the return of
his surveys, to take and subscribe an oath OF
affirmation that those surveys have been faith
fully and correctly executed according to law
and the instructions of the surveyor general;
and, on satisfactory evidence being presented
TO any court of competent jurisdiction that
been thus executed, the deputy making such
false oath or affirmation shall be deemed gull.
,y Of perjury, and shall suffer all the pains
and penalties attached 10 that offence and
the district attorney of the United States fol
the time being, in whose district any such
false, erroneous, or fraudulent surveys shall
have been executed, shall, upon the applca
ton of the proper surveyor general, immedi'
ately institute suit upon the bond of such de
pity and the institution of such suit shall
act as lien uponany property owned or held
by such deputy, or his sureLies, at the time
such suit was instituted.
Approved. August 8. 1876.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06
THE VOLUNTEERS.

The recent actions in which our Army has
been engaged on the banks of the Rio Grande,
and at the storming of Monterey, has demon
strated to the world that the volunteers enga-
ged in those actions have fought with as much
bravery and steadiness as the soldiers of the
regular army. Many predictions, prejudicial
to this branch of the army, had been made in
certain quarters. But they have every one
been falsied. At the storming of Monterey
the volunteers fought with as much, indeed
with more, bravery than has ever been exhi.
bited on any field of battle, even by veteran
troops Indeed, in that brilliant achievement
which has reflected so much lustre upon the
American arms, the Texan and Tennessee vol
unteers bore the brunt of the battle. And il
is agreed upon all hands that, had they beer
in service for years, they could not have e1.
hibited more gallantry. So that now we have
proved the fact to the world that we can, in q
few months time, raise an army of any extern
capable of coping with the veterans of any ma
ton on the face of the earth.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06
TERRIBLE GALE.

The terrible gale which swept the coast of
North Carolina on the 18th and 18th of last
month, committed dreadful devastation in the
Gulf of Mexico, on the 10th and 18th of the
same month. 1t was experienced there about
forty Eight hours earlier than at this point
Key West was almost totally annihilated, and
and an immense amount, both of private and
public property, destroyed. The accounts
from the West Indies state that it ragged there
with awful violence. At the harbor of Ha-
vana, Judging from its effects, it must have
been more severe than any thing of the kind
which has occurred for many years. There
were, on the morning of the 10th, in the harbor
of Havana, 1O4 sail of vessels, of all classes, and
before that terrible day closed upon the ill-fa-
ted city, every one of these vessels, except
twelve, had been either sunk, wrecked, dis
masted, or otherwise injured. The number of
lives lost had not been ascertained, but it was
feared that it would be very large. The Su-
gar and Coffee crops in the Island of Cuba
have been very seriously damaged We have
not yet heard from our squadron off Vera Cruz,
but fear that it must have suffered in this gale.
Vera Cruz is only roadstead, and shipping
is very much exposed in its vicinity. The
gale was felt with less or more effect over the
whole Gulf
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06
SICKNESS IN THE ARMY

1t is with extreme pain that we read the va
rious accounts of the sickness which prevails
in our army on the banks of the Rio Grande
From the most authentic accounts which we
can obtain, there are not less than eleven or
twelve hundred of our brave fellows living
PROSTATE at the various stations along the banks
of that river The disease is climatic fever,
and many poor fellow has been hurried to
an untimely grave by the pestilent vapors of
that region of country. We really think that
the memory of these poor fellows deserves to
be embalmed even more sacredly in the hearts
of their countrymen than those who have fall
len in the field of battle. Theirs has been a
harder fate. We trust, however, that the cold
weather which must soon set in will do much
to abate the sickness which now prevails, and
that our next accounts may be more cheering.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06
CHAP. l72.-AN ACT


Authorizieg the inhabitants of township one, of
range thirteen cast, Seneca county, Ohio, to re-
linquish certain lands selected for schools, and
TO obtain others in lieu ofthem.
SEC. l.. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives. If the United States of An.eri-
ca in Congress assembled, That. on the relinquish.
ment TO the United States by the proper school
trustees Township one, of range thirteen east, In
Seneca county, Ohio, of all the right title, and in
terest of the inhabitants of said township to the
east half and northwest quarter of section eight,
in township ten south, of range nine east. con-
tanning four hundred and eighty acres, and Cedar
Point, on Cedar Island, in Lake Erie. containing
thrty-four acres and eighty-nine hundredths of an
acre, heretofore selected for them as school lands,
under the provisions of the act of twentieth May,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "AE act
to appropriate lands fof the support of schools in
certain townships and fractional townships not
heretofore provided for" the said school trustees
be, and they are hereby, authorized to select and
enter, free OF cost quantity not exceeding five
hundred and fourteen acres of lands belonging to
the United States within the limits of the late
Wyandott cession, or of any of the land districts
in the State of Ohio, in tracts conforming to the
subdivisions into which the lands shall he repre-
scented on the plats of survey: Prorided That
the selections hereby authorized to be made shall
not embrace lands upon which the assessed i'm
provements of Indians have been made.
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted, That, when
the lands here authorized to be selected or enter
cd shall have been approved by the Secretary OF
the Treasury, they shall be held by the inhabi-
tants of the township herein first designated, by
the same tenure, and upon the same terms for the
support of schools in said township, as if they had
been selected under the provisions of the before
rected act of twentieth May, eighteen bundled
and twenty-six.
AnnroYed. August s. 1876.
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n-We publish in another column, the pro-
ceedings of the meeting which was held at
the Masonic Hall on Friday last, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the subject
of borrowing 100000 on the credit of the
Town; also, the communication of &c 4 Calm
Observer" on the same subject. On the whole
matter, we have only to observe, that we
deeply regret that there should be any dissen-
sions on subject of such vital Importance
We trust that our citizens may yet hit upon
some plan in which they can all join with
cordiality and unanimity. Everything depends
upon the Town Of Wilmington. Let us have
no Earring amongst ourselves. The time in
which we have to act is short. Let us but try
| then, and be united.
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Approved, August s, 1876.
CHAP 173.-AN AC'

Authorizing the trustees of Tymochtee township,
Wyandott county, Ohio, to select lands for
schools, within the Wyandott cession.
SEC. IL Be 1t enacted bu the Senate and
House Of Representatives. ofhe United Of Amer
lea in Congress assembled, That the school trus-
tees of township souh, of range fourteen east.
in Wyandott county. Ohio, be, and hereby are,
authorized to select and enter, free of cost, two
hundred and twenty five acres of land. within the
Wyandott cession, of any other lands within
the State of Ohio, belonging to the United States
in tracts conforming to the subdivisions into
which the lands shall be represented on the plots
of survey ProUided The selections hereby au
tho rized to be made shall not embrace lands upon
which the assessed Improvements of Indians have
been made.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when
the lands hereby authorized to be selected and ell
tered shall have been approved 10y the Secretary
of the Treasury, they shall be held by the inhabi-
tants of the township herein designated by the
same tenure. and upon the same terms. for the
support of schools in said township as if they had
been selected under the provisions of the general
school law Of the twentieth of May. one thousand
eight hundred and tweuty-six.
Approved, August &, 1916
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06

of the several Claimants in the sums which may
have been received. and which may be hereafter
received by the United States from the Republic
of Peru under the stipulations Of the convention
aforesaid.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the
compensation of the Attorney General and his
clerk for their services in the adjudication OF the
said claims, and CARRYING the said convention and
this act into effect, shall be as follows, and no
more, to wit two thousand dollars for the Attor-
new General and one thousand dollars for his
clerk PAYABLE out of the first funds received under
the sald convention.
SEC. s, Andb it further enafed, That the
Attorney General shall report to the Secretary OF
State list of the several awards made by him, a
certified copy of which shall be transmitted by the
said Secretary of State TO the Secretary Of the
Treasury who shall, from time to time, as they
may be received distribute in ratabie proportions
among the persons in whose favor tie awards shall
have been made, such sums of money or securities
az may have been received into the Treasury in
virtue Of the said convention and this act, accor-
ding to the proportion which their respective a.
wards shall bear to the whole amount received,
first dcducting such sums of money may be due
to the United States from said persons in whose
favor said awards shall be made. And the said
Secretary of the Treasury shall cause certificates to
be issued in such form he shall prescribe showing
the proportion to which each claimant may be en-
titled Of the amount to be received; and on the
presentation of the said certificates at the Treasu.
ry as the nett proceeds of the several nstalments
NAV he received, such proportions thereof shall be
paid to the legal holders of said certificates.
SEC. g. And be 1t further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the severa
insalments, with the interest thereon, payable tc
the United States in virtue of the said convention
or the securities therefor, to be received from the
Republic of Peru, and transferred to the United
States, in such manner as he may deem best ant
the nett proceeds thereof be paid into the Treas
ury; and the same hereby appropriated to pay
the awards herein provided for.
SIC. Z. And be It further enacted, That Al
soon as the duties hereby prescribed are complete,
by the Attorney General, the records. documents
and all other papers relating to the said claims il
his possession shall be deposited in the office ofth
Secretary Of State.
Approved, August 8, 1876.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06
CHAP. IO7.-AN ACT

Making copies of papers certified by the Sec
rotary of the Senate and Clerk of the House
of Representatives legal evidence.
GSEc. l.. Be it enacted iy the Senate and
House IF Representatives. Of The United STATES Of
America tn Congress assembled, That extracts
from the Journals Of the Senate or of the
House of Representatives, and of the Execu-
tive Journal of the Senate, when the injnnc-
ton of secrecy is removed, duly CERTIFIED by
the Secretary Of the Senate or by the Clerk
of the House Of Representatives, shall be ad :
mitted as evidence in the several courts of
the United States, and shall have the same
force and effect as the originals thereof would
have if produced in court and proved.
SEC. S., And be 1t further enacted, That for
all such copies, CERTIFIED as aforesaid. the
Secretary OF the Senate and Clerk Of the
House Of Representatives shall be entitled
to the same fees as are now allowed by law,
for similar service, to the Secretary of State.
Approved, August 8, 1916.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06
CHAP. 1Na.-AN ACT

To carry into effect the convention between the
United States and the Republic of Peru, conclu-
dcd at Lima the seventeenth day of March,
eighteen hundred and forty-one..
SEC. /. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives. of the United States Of
America IN Congress assembled, That the At
tOEney General of the United States shall be, and
is hereby, authorized and empowered to adjudicate
the claims arising under the convention concluded
between the United States and the Republic of
Peru, at Lima, the seventeenth March, eighteen
hundred and forty-one and shall, within the space
of twelve months from and after the passage of this
act, receive, examine, and decide upon the amount
and validity of all such claims as may be presented
to him, and as are provided for by the said con-
ventiOn, according to the merits of the several
ses, and the principles of justice, equity, and the
law Of nations, and the stipulations of the said
convention. And tue Attorney General shall be,
and is hereby authorized and empowered to ap-
point the clerk of the Attorney Generals Office,
or any other person, to act as clerk under him in
the Performance of the duties prescribed by this
act and the Attorney General and the said clerk
SHALL before entering on such duties, seVerally
take an oath for their faithful performance.
SIC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
Attorney General shall be, and he is hereby, au
thOrized and empowered to make all needful rule.
and regulations not contravcning the laws of the
land, the provisions of this act, the provisions
said convention, for carrying the said convention
and this act into effect.
SEC. g. And be 1t further enacted, That all re
cords. documents, or ether papers which now ar
in or hereafter may come into, the possession o
the Department of State, in relation to the salt
claims, shall be delivered to the Attorney General
who shall forthwith. afrer the passage Of this act
proceed to execute the duties hereby confded t
him, and shall give notice in one or more news
papers published in the city of Washington, ant
in such other newspapers published elsewhere a
he may deem necessary, Of his appointment TO ad
judicate the said claims and requiring the claim
ants to present their claims and evidence and sha
thereafter proceed. with al convenient despatch
to arrange and docket the several claims, and i
consider the evidence which shall have been o
may be offered by the respective claimants, allow
ing such further time for the production of add
tonsl evidence as he shall consider reasonable an
lust and shall thereafter adjudcatc and determin
tie said claims, and award the ratable proportion
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-06
!. WHAT IS DEMOCRACY. /"

The leading article OF the Raleigh Register
of the 30th ult. has the above for its heading,
and we are sure that in the same space, we do
not remember the time when we have seen SO
much sheer demagogism spread OFT in black
and white. cat present" says the Register,
:" the first principle of Polk Democracy is
national debt" This sentence, we suppose,
has allusion to the expenses incurred in pros
ecuting the Mexican war; Well. in the name
of Heaven, what is the government to do ,
The war is one not of Mr. Folks seeking. 1t
has been forced upon him. He is compelled
the whole country is compelled from the
force of circumstances-to prosecute the war
with vigor. Whilst We are DESTROYS of retain
ing the proud stand which we occupy amongst
the nations of the earth, we must ever be pre-
pared and willing to defend and protect our
honor and our interest, whatever the cost may
be. We are not prepared now to say, nor do
we suppose there is any man in the Union
who is, not even the sagacious Editor of the
Raleigh Register, what the expenses of the
present war will be, or how far we will be
able, in the sequel, to compel our adversary to
indemnify us for these expenses. But we
would like to ask the Register if whig ad-
ministration could carry on any war without
cxpending money. This is not war waged
by the Democracy of the Union. 1t is just
war, in which every man in the country, be
his politics what they may, if one spark of
patriotism glows in his bosom, wishes to see
it carried on with vigor till it reaches sue
cessful termination, be the cost to the country
what it may. The people Of the United States
are provoked by a series of the most unwar-
rantable acts upon the part OF a neighboring
government-their citizens are defrauded-
their national honor is insulted time after time,
and at last their soil is invaded by the hostile
bands of Mexico, and they are driven, after
exercising forbearance TIL it ceases to be a
virtue, to take up arms in order to obtain re-
dress, and because Democratic President hap
pens, for the time being, to WELD the Execu-
tive powers of the United States-the war and
its consequent expenses are charged upon the
Democratic party, as done and perpetrated for
the purposes of party ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Shame
on the American Editor-double shame on the
North Carolina Editor-who would resort to
such demagogism for the purpose of making
capital for his party. But the Register is only
family re-echoing the jesuitical TRADES OF the
National Intellgercer The Register may
abuse its own government as much as it plea.
ses. In doing SO, it is only following up its
vocation. James K Polk and his administra.
ton will be judged in the premises by the in
teligent, honest citizens of the whole country
whose capability and patriotism are amply
sufficient to pronounce upon his acts accord.
ing to their merits. And by the judgment Of
this august tribunal, we are perfectly willing
as Democrat, to abide.
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CHAP. l7O,-AN ACT

To grant certain quantity of land to aid IN the
improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers,
and to connect the same by canal, in the Ter
ritory of Wisconsin.
[SEc. IL Be 1t enacted Jy the Senate and
House of Representatives of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That there be,
and hereby is, granted to the State of Wisconsin,
on the admission of such State into the Union, for
the purpose of improving the navigation of the
Fox and Wisconsin rivers in the Territory Of Wis
consin, and of constructing the canal to unite the
said rivers at or near the portage, quantity OF
land, equal to one half of three sections width,
on each side of the said Fox river, and the lake.
through which it passes, from its mouth to the
point where the portage canal shall enter the same
and on each side of the said canal from one stream
to the other reserving the alternate sections to the
United States. to be selected under the direction OF
the governor of said State, and such selection to
be approved by the President of the United States
The said rivers, when improved, and the said ca.
nal when finished shall be and forever remain a
public highway for the use of the Government OF
the United States, free from any toll or other
charge whatever for the transportation of the mails
or for any property of the United States, or per.
sons in their service passing upon or along the
same Provided, The said alternate sections, re-
served 10 the United States, shall not be sold at q
less rate than two dollars and fifty cents the acre
Provided, also, That no pre-emptive claim to the
lands so reserved shall give the occupant, or any
other person claiming through or under him, q
right to said lands at any price less than the price
fixed in this act, at the time of the settlement or
said lands.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a.
soon as the Territory of Wisconsin shall be adj
mitted as State into the Union, all the land:
granted by this act shall be and become the prom
erty of said State for the purpose contemplated n
this act, and no other: Provided, That the Iep;s
lature of said State shall agree to accept said qran
upon the terms specified in this act; and shall
have power to fix the price at which said land.
shall be sold, not less than one dollar and twenty
five cents the acre and to adopt such kind anf
plan Of improvement on said route as the said le
gisature shall from time to time determine for III,
best interest of said State. Provided, also, Tha
the lands hereby granted shall not be conveyed o
disposed of by said State, except as said improve
ments shall progress: that is. the said State ma,
sell SO much of said lands shall produce the sun
of twenty thousand dollars, and then the sale
shall! cease until the governor of said State shall
certify the fact to the President of the U. State
that one-haf of said sum has been expended upo,
said impFoy1ments, when the said State NAV sci
and dispoS of quantity Of said lsnds suffieien
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nEWK mean to keep the following paragraph STAN
ding for the benefit of all whom it may concern
ADVERTISEMENTS would commend the following
facts to the attention of the advertising community.
The Wilmington Journal" circua!es upwards OF ONE
THOUSAND weekly Its circulation IN the town oil
Wilmington is as large that Of any other paper pub
lsted the place We would further state that its
circulation in the counties which trade TO shls place
large that of any other per publish
ed in North Carolina, and ats list is daily increasing
We say therefore, without the fear OF contradiction
that it is the vehicle advertising which the
pie of Wilmington select One other observation
We Think that although large majority OF the readers
of tine Journal Democrats, still THEY occasionally
do little trading well the readers OF the wing pa
pers We have written the above erey for the lnior
nation of those who most deeply nferested-busi
ness of all professions and all political creeds
WHO WANT CUSTOMERS.
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COURT.

The Honorable the Superior Court for the
County of New Hanover, is now holding its
Fall Session in this place; Judge SETTLE pre-
siding. Both the civil and criminal calendars
are large; and we learn that an extra term
will be held on the first Monday of January
next. On Wednesday morning, Thomas
Broughton was arraigned for the murder OF
of DeSlva, about six months since. The
whole of the day was consumed in the exami-
nation of the witnesses. Whilst we are wri-
ting, (Thursday,) the arguments OF counsel are
in progress, and doubtless will consume the
whole day