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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-12-30

Tall Talking-" May it please the
Court" said a gentleman addressing the
Judge ou the bench, speaking in reply to
sume rather repuguant remarks that fell
from another barriser-..May il please the
Cour. resting on the couch Of republican
equality, as | do-covered by the blanket
OF republican equality, as am--protected
by the eeis of American liberty. thai
great preservative; political mu,quilo har.
under which Tiger can shelter, as ] feel
myself to he-l despise The buzzins OF a
professional insect, who has just sat down.
aud defy his futile a,templ, to penetrate
with his puny sting. The interslices of my
inpervious covering"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-12-30
RelhanY Academy.

resumed on the e second eco Monday inJan: mj M
nary ls47, under the Rectorship of Mr.. George
NJ. Galphin. The scholastic year comprises 10
MONTHS.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-12-30

Atolitionism. -Gerritt Smith, in a lei
Ter published in the last Anti Slavery
Standard, expresses the following senli.
ment, which we cory as we find. it, cap
lals included
"Ths only hope Of the slave, The only
safety of the free, lies in THE ABROGA.
TlON OF THE PRESENT PRO
SLAVERY CONSTITUTION, AND
THE dissolution OF THE EX-
lSTlNG SLAVE HOLDING UNION
To hasten this revolution is the work of
The genuine Aboliionis, aud The true pa
lriol ~
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-12-30

Large and vaiuabie Cdrgoes.-The ship
Italy, Baker master, cleared yesterday al
this port fur Liverpool. by .'iessrs. Mich
ell q Mure, with 46 bales Sea Island aud
3lU3 bales Upland Cotton, ls0 tierces
Rice and 500 bustrls Paddy. valued al
SSGS,5S3. Also, The ship Nonantum,
Farley, master, for Liverpool, by Geo. Y.
Davis, Esq, with 2,456 bales Upland
otlon aud 643 tierces Rice, valued al
Sl0O,344.-Chas. Courier.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-12-30
JAMES GILLIAN, !
WILLIAM EDOfNS.

November A. IS
The !Abbeville Banner will copy times.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
PuBLio.-No. l01.
Approved August 6, 1876.

AN ACT to provide for the more cffectual
publication ofthe laws Of the United States.
lSEc. l.. Be IL enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives. of the United
States Of America in Congress assembled,
That the twenty-irst section of the act entitled
"An act legallzlng and making appropriations
for such necessary objects as have usually been
Included i'll the general appropriation bills, with
out authority of law, and to fix and provide for
certain incidental expenses of the Departments
and offices ofthe Government, and for other pur-
poses," approved August twenty-six eighteen
hundred and forty-two, be, and the same is
hei eby, repealed.
Sec 2. .4nd be IL further enacted, That SO
much of the act entitled San act to provide for
the publication of the laws of the United States,
and for other purposes" approved April twenti-
eth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, as is re :
pealed by the said twenty-frst section, be, and
The same is hereby, revived and continued in
force: Provided, 1 hat the Secretary for the De-
partment OF State shall cause the publication
of such laws, resolutions, treaties, and amend
ments, in two Of the newspapers in the District
Of Columbia, and in each of the several States
and Territories oil the United States, aud no more
Approved, August 6, l845.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
PuBLIo.-No. W.

AN ACT making appropriations for the sup
port of the Military Academy for the year
ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen humid.
red and forty-seven.
ISEc. IL Be ii enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives. of the United
States Of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums be, and the sane are
hereby, appropriated out Of any money in the
Treasury, not Otherwise appropriated, for the
support of the Military Academy for the year
ending on The thirtieih June, eighteen hundred
and forty seven.
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and
musicians, seventy-eight thousand nine hundred
dollars.
For Communication of subsistence, five thous,
and two hundred and fifty six dollars.
For Communication of forage for officers hor-
SEES, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For clothing for their servants, four hundred
and twenty dollars.
For repairs and improvements, fuel, and ap-
paratus, forage for public horses and oxen. sta.
tionery printing, and other incidental and con
tingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars.
For completing the barracks for cadets, fif>
teen thousand dollars.
SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the
President be authorized to appoint board OF
visiters, to attend the annual examination OF
the Military Academy, whose duty it shall be
to report to the Secretary of War, for the in
formation of Congress, at the commencement
of the next succeeding session, the actual state
of the discipline. instruction, police ADM MIS-
tration, fiscal affairs, and other concerns of The
institution: P,osided. That the whole number
of visitors each year shall not exceed the hall
of the number of Sta, es in the Union ; and that
they shall be selected alternately, from every
second State, each member being bona fde
resident citizen of the State from which he shall
be appointed; that not less than six members
shall be taken from among officers actually ser
wing in the militia and that a second member
shall not be taken from any Congressional dis
trict, until every other district in the State shall
have supplied member: Provided, further,
That no compensation shall be made to said
members beyond the payment Of their expenses
for board and lodging while at the Military
Academy, and an allowance moi TO exceed eight
cents per mile, for travelling by the shortest mail
route from their respective homes to the acade-
my, and back to their homes. And the sum Of
two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to
defray the expenses of said board OF visiters at
the next annual examination.
SEC. 3. And belt further enacted, That the
teacher Of drawing and The first teacher Of
French at the Military Academy shall hereafter
be, respectively, professor of drawing aud pro
fessor Of the French language.
Approved, August 6, 1876.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
PuBLIc.-No. 90.


AN ACT to surrender to the State of Tonnes
see all title the United States have to lands
in Tennessee south and west of the line COM
monty called the Congressional reservation
line, and to release to said State the proceeds
of such of said lands as may have been sold
BY the State of Tennessee 40 the agent Of
the United States.
ISec. IL Be II enacted by the Senate
and House Of Representatives. Of the United
States of America in Congress assembled.
Iha. the United States hereby release and sur
render to the State Of Tennessee the right and
title Of the United States 10 all lands in the
State of Tennessee lying south and west Of the
Congressional reservation line in said Stale
which may yet remain unappropriated, and
further release and transfer to said State of
Tennessee the proceeds Of such Of said lands as
may have been sold by said State, not hereto
fore paid over to the United States, nor deposit
ted subject to the order or use Of the United
States, under the authority Of the act Of Con-
gress of the eighteenth February. eighteen
hundred and forty-one, entitled IAN act 10
amend an act entitled Al act to authorize the
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13

| SEC. 2. .fnd be IL further enacted. That the
sub agent of Indian affairs at Green Bay, under
the direction of the Governor of Wisconsin, who
shall be a commissioner for this purpose. shall
be required 10 open book for the enrolment of
the names of such persons of the Stockoridge
tribe of Indians as shall desire to become and
remain citizens of the United States, immedi-
ately upon the passage of this law and three
months shall be allowed after the opening OF
said books for the enrolment, within which time
| it shall be the duty of all desiring citizenship
to come forward in person, and file their appli-
cation. After the expiration of the three months,
the said sub-agent shall divide the said town
| ship of land now held by the Stockbridges on
the WInnebago lake into two districts, to be
known and designated as the Indian district and
the citizen district, according TO the strength
and numbers Of their respective parties, and the
laws and usages in said tribe. The lands in
the Indian district are TO remain and to be held
in common those in the citizen district are 10
be divided and to each Indian who becomes a
citizen the said sub-agent shall assign, by dis
tinct metes and bounds, his ralable proportion
of land. And, after the division and allotment
are completed, it shall be the duty of the said
sub-agent to make out three copies of the divi
sons thus made, one of which he shall file with
the clerk of the district court of the county IN
which the citizen district of land may be stua
ted; one other copy he shall file in the land Of
fee at Green Bay, in Wisconsin Territory
and the other shall be returned TO the Secretary
Of War. And upon the receipt of the said
return by the Secretary of War, patents may be
issued to the individual reserves who become
citz ems, upon the receipt of which title in fee
simple to the lot of land shall vest in the paten~
tee; and all transfers and assignments of the
land made previous to the issuance of The patent
shall be null and void Propided. holoeper,
That those Indians who become citizens shall
forfeit all right to receive any portion of the an
nuity which may now be or may become due
the nation Of disadvantages, by virtue of any trea
ty heretofore entered into by this Government
with said Stockbridges.
SEC. 3. And be IL further enacted, That, in
consideration of the moneys paid by said Stock
bridge nation Of Indians to the Winnebagoes
and Menomones in the years eighteen hundred
and twen,y-one and eli. hteen hundred and
Twenty-Five, and all other claims, the sum of
five Thousand dollars be paid to said tribe of In
dams by the Secretary of War, and for this pur-
pose the said sum of five thousand dollars be
and the same is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the Treasury hot otherwise appropr-
ated : Provided That nothing in this act contain
ed shall be construedto impair any clam which
said nation may have upon the Delaware nation
to share of the lands assigned 10 Them west
of the Missouri river.
Approved, August 6, 1916.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
CITY OF TUSCALOOSA, ALA. FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 1916.

State OF Tennessee 10 issue grants and perfect
titles to certain lands therein described, and to
settle the claims to the vacant and unapproprias
ted lands within the same passed the eigf.
teenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and six" This surrender and transfer is upon
the express condition that the State of Tennes.
see shall, out of the proceeds of said lands, set
apart and apply forty thousand dollars
towards the establishment and support of a COLI
lege at Jackson, in the county Of Madison, in
the State of Tennessee, If the proceeds of the
sales of said lands shall amount to so much !;
and If the aggregate amount Of said sales (not
paid over nor deposited as aforesaid) shall not
amount to the said sum, then whatever sum
smaller than forty thousand dollars they may
amount to, in accordance with the provisions
contained in an act of the General Assembly
Of said State, passed in the year eighteen hum
dred and thirty-eght, being chapter one humid
red and seven, section eight, and IN accordance
with the desire expressed by said General AS
sembly, in their certain memorial to Congress.
passed December four, eighteen hundred and
forty five Provided, nevertheless, That the
release herein provided for 10 the said State OF
Tennessee of said lands shall be IN full sa,is>
faction for any and all services rendered and
expenses incurred by said State, or the author
tiles thereof, in the management, disposal, or
administration of said public lands, and as
agent or agents of the United States, in virtue
of the provisions of the act entitled IAN act to
amend an act entitled IAN act to authorize the
State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect
titles 10 certain lands therein described, and to
settle the claims to the vacant md unappropri-
ated lands within the same, passed the eigh-
teenth February, eighteen hundred and forty
one:" And, provided, also, That all the said
lands the release of which is herein provided
for, and the proceeds thereof, shall be and re-
main subject to all the same claims, incumbran-
ces, and liabilities in relation to "Norh Caroli>
ma land warrants" or other claims Of North
Carolina, as the same would or could be subject
to as regards the United States, if the same
were not so as aforesaid released.
Approved, August z, 1916.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
approved. August 6, 1e46.
PupLrc.-No. IS.

AN ACT to repeal an act entitled IAN act for
the relief Of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians
in the Territory of Wisconsin," approved
March third, eighteen hundred and forty
:hree, and for other purposes.
[SEc. IL BE it enacted by the Senate
and House Of Representatives. Of the United
States Of America in Congress assembled
That the act entitled Gan act for the relief of
the S,ockbridge tribe of Indians in the Territory
of Wisconsin," approved March third, eighteen
hun bred and forty-three, be and the same is
hereby repealed; and the SAID Stockbrdge tribe
OF nation of Indians is restored to their ancient
form ofgoyernmeni, with all powers, rights and
privileges held and exercised by them under
their customs and usages, as fully and com.
pletely as though the above recited act had
never passed.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
ruRLIc.-No. "a.

AN ACT making appropriations for certain
defensive works of the United States for the
fiscal year ending the thirlieh day OF June,
one thousand eight hundred and torty-seven.
SEC. IL Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives Of the United
States Of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums be, and they are here
by, appropriated, to be paid out Of ATTY unappro-
priated money in the Treasury, for the preser-
walton, repair, and construction Of certain forli-
fications for the fiscal year ending the thIrtieth
day of June, one thousand eight hundred and
forty>seven.
For the purchase from the State OF New
York Of the defensive works on Staten Island,
together with the land bought by the State for
the site of said works, with all tho materials on
and about them, and tor repairs Of said works
when the title Of the State Of New York shall
have been extinguished, one hundred thousand
dollars: Provided, That the Executive be, and
he is hereby, authorized to dispose OF the site
apply the proceeds of such sale to the repair of
the works on Staten Island.
For the commencement of batteries on Sol-
ler's Point flats, below Baltimore, thirty ,hous-
and dollars.'
For the commencement of fort at the en-
trance to Cumberland sound, Georgia, twenty
thousand dollars.
For the commencement of fort on the east
side of Dauphin Island, Mobile bay, Alabama,
twenty Thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
President of the United States be, and he is
hereby, authorized to take such steps as he may
deem advisable for adjusting the title to the Pea
Patch island and, should the same be found to
be adverse to the United States, that he cause
the value TO be ascertained by arbitration, &C.
cordIng to the agreement entered into between
the Secretary of War and the agent of the clai-
mants.
Approved, August 8, 1876.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
pproved. August 4, 1916.
PuBLIc-No. 81.

AN ACT 10 establish warehcusing system,
and to amend n act entitled IAN act to pro-
vide revenue from imports, and TO change
and modify existing laws imposing duties on
imports, and for other purposes"
[SEc. IL Be il enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives. Of the United
States of America in Congress assembled.
That tho twelfth section of the act entitled
"An act to provide revenue from imports. and
to change and modify existing laws imposing
proved the thirteth day of August, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-two, is hereby amend
ed so as hereafter to read as follows :-[SE
1921 And be II further enacted, That, on and
after the day this act goes into operation, the
duties on all imported goods, wares, or mer-
chandse shall be paid in cash Provided. That
in all cases of failure or neglect to pay the du-
ties within the period allowed by law to the
supporter to make entry thereof or whenever
the owner, importer, or consignee shall make
entry for warehousing the same. in writing, in
such form and supported by such proof as shall
be prescribed BY the Secretary Of the Treasury,
the said goods, wares, or merchandise shall be
taken possession of by the collector, and depos-
tied in the public stores, or in other stores to
be agreed on by the collector or chief revenue
consignee, the said stores to be secured in the
manner. provided for by the first section of the
act of the twentieth day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen, entitled AN act
providing for the deposite Of wines and distilled
spirits 10 public warehouses. and for other pur-
poses" there to be kept with due and reasoaa-
bic care, at the charge and risk of the owner.
importer, consignee, or agent, and subject at all
times to their order, upon payment of the prop.
er duties and expenses, to be ascertained on due
entry thereof for warehousing, and to be secur-
ed by bond Of the owner, importer, or con.
signee, with surety or sure,es, to the satisfac-
ton ofthe collector, in double the amount of the
said duties, and in such form as the Secretary
Of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That
no merchandise shall be Withdrawn from any
warehouse in which il may be deposited. in less
quantity than in an entire package, bale, cask,
or box, unless IN bulk !; nor shall merchandise
60 imported in bulk be delivered, except in the
whole quantity OF each parcel, or in quantity
not less than one ton weight, unless by special
authority of the Secretary of the Treasury. And
in case the owner, importer, consignee, or agent
Of any goods on which the duties have not beer
paid, shall give to the collector satisfactory se.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
JONES' EXECUTORS, VS.. LIGHT
FOOT.
Greene Chancery Court.

Greene Chancery Court.
A. GRAHAM, and J. B. CLARKE, for the
plaintiffs in error.
MURPHY, contra.
ORMOND, J.
/. Where no notice is given the warrantor
Of a pending suit for land, which resulted
in the eviction OF. the wnrrantee and
where n subsequent purchase is made
without application to the warrantor, 80
as to enable him by making the purch-
ase to comply with his warran;-the ven.
dee must be held to have made the pur-
chase for his own security and as such
complainant must resort to u court of
chancery for relief he must do equity.
All that in equity and justice he can ask
is to he reimbursed, and placed in the
same condition as if The warrantor had
procured the conveyance to be made.
.. Knowledge Of the existence Of a claim
on the part ofan executor or adminlslra.
tor, is not sufficient to excuse "a creditor
of the decedent, barred By the statute oil
non claim, from "a presentment Of his
claim, within the time specified by the
statute. Nothing short of an actual pre-
sentiment will satisfy its demands,
3. Semble, that the service of scire ia.
cias upon the personal representative to
reverse judgment, or suit in progress
within eighteen months after the grant OF
letters, is a sufficient presentment of the
claim.
4. A right of action against an estate can
not be considered contingency--if a
party is not Untitled to a judgment or de.
cree at the hands Of the court he has nc
claim against the estate; If he is, it can
not be considered as contingent whether
il will be gr,nted or refused. as the re-
dress is as certain, as if tho action were
upon an instrument an writing for The pay.
ment of money.
S, Semble, that claim against an estate
payable either presently or in future.
must be presented within eighteen months
after il has accrued, not after the right Of
action accrues.
9. Where one IS evicted Of lands by title
paramount, his claim against the estate
of the warrantor for reimbursement ac-
c,ues 60 Instant the eviction.
Decree reversed, and decree entered
diminishing the bill Of revivor.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
THOMAS B. FAVER,
THE BANK OF THE STATE OF AL,

He DAMN Or lHE STATE OF AL.
ALBANIA.
Error TO the Circuit Court of Tascaloosa.
s. D. J. MOORE, for the plaintiff in er,
ror.
P. Martin, for the defendant in error.
COLLIER. c. J.
TINS was the case of an attachment IL.
sued in favor of the Bank, on affidavit by an
intlorser.
l. The second section of the act of le4O,
Ciay's Dig. 81 AZ, IN authorizing at
tachmens 10 be sued out, according to the
first section, has reference to the causes
which the latter prescrlbes and does not
mean that the affidavit shall be made by
an officer or agent of the Bank.
2. The object of the second section was to
aid endorsers and sureties, and facilitate
the remedy by attachment, by permitting
the bank 10 issue il upon the oath of one
oil them, though an officer or agent, might
not be prepared to verify the existence Of
eliher,,of the grounds prescribed,
). In requiring satisfactory showing" to
be made ION oath or otherwise" we
are TO understand, that the ground is to be
laid in the manner prescribed by law,
viz: By oath or affirmation made before
some competent officer. The bank by
edopting and conserving to prosecute al
attachment, issued thereon, clearly indi.
Gates that ii is satisfactory.
4. statute mus, be SO interpreted as to be
operative in all it's parts, Ut res magis va.
Leaf, guam pereat.
Affirmed.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
BENJAMIN +. RANDOLPH, va WILL.
LIAM G. JONES,


Error to the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa.
Z. w. PECK and L. CLARK, for the plain.
tiff in error.
WILLIAM COCHRAN, for the deiendan mt in
error
COLLIER, c. J.
/. II is competent for the court, 10 which
suit is brought, against the maker OF
note, 10 permit the declaration to be q.
mended, either before or afler Judgment,
W as to make it conform to the truth If
the case. Oar statutes Of amendment
prescribe no limitation beyond which the
discretion of the court shall not go, and
the inquiry in every application to amend,
is whether the legal remedy Of the party
will be advanced ;--if his adversary is
prejudicsd, his interest may BIZ duly pro.
tected.
Q 10 satisfy an allegation in general terms,
the same striclness of proof is not requi.
red, as ifthe question were. whether a
note especially declared on was correctly
described. 10 case of a description lite
'atim ct verbatim, slight variance would
be fatal, hut If the desert puon, was ac-
cordng 10 The effect of the writing the
variance must ibs substantial in order 10
prejudice the plaintiff.
Judgment affirmed.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13

or The Governor OF Ohio has fixed ON
Thurday, the 2dth Of Move nher. ~ u day
Of public thanksgiving aud frsyar ,hroush-
out that State.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13

The London Times staies, az an evidence
that Indian corn is becoming regular arr
ticle Of exchange, that large quantities have
been shipped from England 10 France, and
they have been paid for by importations
OF gold.
State journal & flag. [volume] (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 1843-1846, 1846-11-13
BY AUTHORITY.

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, PASSED AT TIE FIRST
SESSION OF THE TWENTY NINTH CONGRESS.