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Encourage your own Mechanics, Manufacturers,
and Seamstresses.

who have purchased them lie would respectfully sub
init that establishment like his which gives regular
employment, at fair hiring prices TO large number Of
respectable and industrious females deserving Of liberal
encouragement from the citizens Of Washington especial
ly, who bound by principles Of reciprocity and inter
est TO encourage their seamstcsses manufacturers
and mechanics
Shirts Collars, Bosoms, Cravats Handkercieh, sus-
penders, &c. constantly kept for sale Call and view the
assortment.
Good SHIRT-MAKERs can always obtain employment.
June 16-eof fTntelligencer COPY
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JAMES F. TUCKER,

Officer, Collector, and General Agent.
business entrusted to him will be attended to in a
ID proper manner, and may be left with any of tn
Magistrates Residence street, between AZ and 6ti
Streets Washington, ID. @. jy 29-tf
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GEORGETOWN.
R0ARnI RoARn, RnARnI

JNIVE OR SIX SINGLE GENTLEMEN can be accom-
I modated with comfortable board at Mrs PALMER's
Bridge street. between Green and Wash
ington streets, Georgetown, d. G. au 1-3wTu&S
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PRINTERS, JOINER

WIN. INGMAN, Cabinetmaker, Carpenter, and Prin-
w ters Furniture make-, can be found by inquring
at NOELL BOYD'S Venetian Blind Mandatory, Penn
sylvania avenue between 9th and 10th streets, south
side. jy 31--6m
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JAMES w. SHEAHA]

Attorney and Counsellor at La,o,
cutes claims of every description before the several
Executive Departments and before Congress.
SS Office and residence 21st street, two doors north
If n Tiff
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SPRUCE PINE LUMRFR ANn cEMENT.

JUST LANDED a superior lot Of Spruce Pine, Jost
scantng and silling, Of various lengths aud sizes.
xpec.eu nouIy' one hundred barrels OF the best New
necessary for house buildings together with Lime Cal.
cined Plaster, Falling and Fencing Posts &C.. 40 All OF
which will be sold reasonable terms by the under
signed at their Lumbcryard the canal at the inter.
section OF 7th street P. NJ. PEARSON a Co
~ sl-etTh&M GsatNevsl
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II. H. WOODRUFF, N. D.,

Chemist and Druggist.
Also-Agent for the Connecticut Health Insurance Co.
Corner of + and 18th streets, Washington, D. G.
~ 0q-d&y
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SILK GOODS.

DOWEN McNAMEE, liz and la Broadway, New
ID York, have in store, and will receive by early
packets and steamers, very extensive assortment Of
French, German, English, Italian, and India
SILK AND FANCY GOODS,
embracing every variety of the newest and richest styles
offered in this market. Sample cards now ready
Tor exhibition. Merchants from every section Of tho
country and particularly our old friends and custom
er are assured hat attention has been paid to
present stock goods unequaled, either in extent
variety nv any similar Establishment in the country
Many Of richest goods re manufactured nom De.
signs or samples furnished by u, anu Wll be found
adapted the best trade in the larger cites ana towns
The following the leading articles OF our stock
Extra rich Chen and Brocade silks
Rich Paris Bareges Muslins, and Organdes. Il.
Rich print | silk Tissues, article. -.
New style English Poplns.
Barge dc LANES, Paris patterns
New style French Prints.
English. Scotch, and American Printed Lawns,
Super Black Gros de Rhines
French and English Ginghams.
Plain and Embroidered Canton Grape Shayls
Rich Paris Ribbons large assortment.
Millinery silks, Grapes &c
Dress Trimmings newest style.
Bombazines Alpacas and Muslin de LANES.
Jaccs and Embroidery.
l. qens and White Goods Of every description.
Kia Gloves, best manufacture
Epgii, b and German silk and Cotton Hosiery,
Ionr an Square Cashmere Shawls.
Rich SILK Mantiilas great variety.
pongee and .Spitaleld Handkerchiefs.
Italian Crayats and Sewing Silks.
Also great riety Of rich goods for evening resse,
not enumerated ia the above.
Also Sinchews, Sarncts Fancy silk Crayas Ray State
PLAID Long Shawi' Linen Cambria Haudko Green
Barcges Satins, Silk Scar Suspenders Plain black and
high colorcd Mouseiine dc LANES, Turkey Prints,
Curtain Muslins, Oil silks Belt Ribbons, Scrges, Satin
NeStings, &c.
AZ Those who visit this market for SIX Goods, who
would consult their interest, aud who desire to
stock In department at the very low
est market prices respectfully invited to cal
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First Premium Grand and Square Pianos.

KNABE a. GlEHLE, Manufacturerf,
EvF7rf7Y Nos 4, q, s, o. and ii Eutaw street, Bal
STnHV tmOre. New tributes to the exeelence
u " v of Baltimore made Pinno Fortes. The
Maryland Institute their last exhibition, awarded To
us the Premium for the best Grand Piano. and also
the First Premium for the best Square Piano exhibited
II will be recoected that in S4s Piano also received
the First Premium by the same Institute.
Such testimonials not easily earned, and are not To
be lightly regarded We may therefore say that having
taken the First Premium, wherever Instruments met
with competition offer them TO the public with con-
hdence might not otherwise guaranteeing all
instruments made by to give satisfaction or they may
be exchanged within six months from day OF sale The
durability workmanship we further guarantee for
FIVE years.
Having just completed large additions TO Mnnuac
tory we hope 10 supply all who may honor us with
their patronage and invite all who desire superior
Instrument carefully adapted TO the climatea very inn
portant matter, and which have made our careful
study-to call examine various styles, which we
are constantly finishing and which will be sold at the
lowest market price Tor cash approved paper
In addition 10 the above public testimonials our Pianos
are recommended in of the highest praise by the
following eminent artists whose certificates can be seen
at our warerooms Charles Bochsa, the great composer
and musical director TO Mad A. Bishop; Mr. Geo. knoop
Miss Adele and Charles Hohnstock, and other dstin
guished performers To the accomplished Professor
and Amateurs, by whom Pianos constantly used
whilst making thankful acknowledgements TO them
we refer for further testimonials.
Y Old Pianos taken in exchange.
I Pianos hired and tuned. mar "a
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

TTAVING removed from Pennsylvania avenue, the
subscriber has taken and fitted up store on the
Of and Eleventh streets and is prepared
accommodate his old customers and the public with fresh
Drugs Medicines Chemicals &C. Prescriptions put up
with and and warranted purest
materials Fancy and toilet articles large assortment
constantly on hand
The articles at this store will BIO found to be what they
represented to be, and any returning article
clan chemist that the article is not as will
receive double the money paid for it in exchange.
IL. IL. WOODRUFF,
jy 29--eotr la corner of Y and 18th SITS.
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NOT BAD TO TAKE.

@ HERMAN'S A FALES' Cough, Worm, Cemphor, Cath
~ artic, and Dysentery Lozenges.
These Lozengos remedies the most pleasant to the
taste imaginable and truly safe and valuable for tho
poses intended Try them.
A. GRAY, Bookseller,
June l8--eod Tth street, opposite Odd-Feows Hall.
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]. McNEALE LATHAM,

Attorney at Law,
VIII practise in the several courts of the District
Columbia.
Office on AZ street, near First Presbyterian Church.
Nv LIFT
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REV. MASON MOBILES SEMINARY FOR
YOUNG LADIES'

rINHlS SEMINARY will be re-opened on Wednesday.
i the Sd of September. Terms made known on ap.
picaon to the Principal at his residence of 18th
and ii streets. l2-tlstSep
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\ w. BADEN q BROTHER,

Hardware Dealers Pe,,nsyudnid drenls, oh street.
"A scz, ,-vu, Offer for sale, at ufacturng prices,
EtJ&S&Y4 1plain and ornamental Wire Railing,
03JEi8k1S which for cheapness and durability can
be surpassed by any article of the kind now in use
Samples may be and prices made known by applying
ss above may 14--2aw M&W6m
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Y. NAYLoR

Copper, Tin, Sheet Iron and Stope Manufacturer
ROOFING, GUTTERING, SCOUTING, &c.
South side Pennsylvania avenue, near Third street.
jy 25-tf Washington city, ID. G.
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GEORGE T. KIRK.

House and Sign Painter, and Glazier, ..'
South side Louisiana avenue between 9th 18th Streets
Dwelling South street, between 9TH and 8th streets,
fsand prepared to execute to order all descriptions OF
work in his line ap 15-6m
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C,HEppARD & VAN HABLINGEN, No. ga Chestnut
street. above Tenth Phladelpha, have just received
per steamer splendid Table and Piano Covers, DamasK
Table Cloths, Napkins, Moreens and Worsted Damasks
mar d.
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1a Baygdias BaTgGlsi!
NHCLAIN q HARRY, SEVENTH sgREEr, would most re
y spectfuy inform their friends the public gene
rally that they positively selling on their stock Of
Spring and Summer Goods at prime cost, Tor CASH Pur
ehasers may rest that there Is no
All they ask Is a CALL and they promise that none shall
g. Remember that their store, for the present Is
SEVENTH STREET, between and |. June s-u
], A. KIRKPATRICK,
MARBLE AND FREElsT0NE CUTTER,
street. bcttoeen 1871 and IAN, Washington tay, d. O.
MARBLE MANTLEs, Monuments, TombS, o'd and
NI Foot Stones &e., constantly hand, Of the best
quality and workmanship All kinds Of Stone, for Build
ing, &C. All kinds Of work In his line faithfully executed
at the shortest notice. APP left
General Banking and Exchange Business.
COMPREHENSIVE.
vI,HE undersigned respectfully announce to the public
that they have entered into copartnership for the
transaction of general Exchange and Banking business
in the city OF Washington, under the firm Of
-tr 5 sELDEN, wITIERS & co.
All business entrusted to them will be attended to with
WILLIAM sELDEN,
Late Treasurer of the United States
JOHN WITHERS,
OfAlexandria, Virginia.
II. w. LATHAM,
OF the city ofwashington.
L. p. BAYNE,
mar 24-tf OF Baltimore Maryland.
TyLY PAPER.-0ne sheet of this Paper will de-
stroy 10000 Flies. 1t is for sale, with full drec
'0ns ju an ' as@ corner o. anu 0e'' I cALLAN
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A, ZAPPONE,

Teacher Of French Spanish and Hatan- Translator ana
General agent.
A FEW BEGINNERS may be taught on tho Guitar
N Glasses Of gentlemen meet at his room, Pennsyl
vsnia avenue north sido between Sd and AZ street
jy 23-f
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CENTRAL ACADEMY,

Second story, old Medical College, corner Of Il
and Tenth Streets.
rJNHE duties of Institution will be resumed on Mon
L day, September LIST, ensuing. Circulars may be OBJ
tanned at the bookstores of Austin Gray Taylor Maury
and X. Farnham; of ourselves, of and Tenth
streets. JAMES N0URSE,
au l4-d2m JOS. HARVEY N0URSE
yITOODBURY,s ACADEMY.-The duties OF
wv this Institution will be resumed Monday, August
25th. HENRY II. WOODBURY.,
an LIFT
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Puynents TO be made in all in ddrdncc.
Hs-Remittances and communications should be always
addressed post paid or franked, to the Publishers,
LEONARD SCOTT Co,
70 Fulton street, New York.
mar "a Entrance 81 Gold St
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UMBRELLAS AND PARAsOLs.

~ - WE would invite the Ladies' TO call and examine
~ our extensive Stock of Green, Blue and Black
~ atercd, Bordered and Lined Silk and Satin Tuer
PARAS0LSthe largest assortment in the District at
greatly reduced prices
Also choice selection Of UMBRELLAS all of the latest
fashion, and the work warranted.
JUST RECEIvED--a handsome variety of Silks and
Scotch Ginghams for recovering
s Repairing and Covering faithfully and punctually
executed A. C0RBIT 4 CO.,
NAV s-6m Penn avenue u street.
GUSHING Tackle just received.-Rods-
I Patent Slides Cane Hazel &c. Lnes-furnished
Lines, Grass Lines, &C. Hooks-Lmerck, Kirby, Front
Flies, &C. A. GRAY, Bookseller,
June 17eou 7th street, opposite odd-fellows' Hall.
SHOES Shoes! SHOEs!!!
NTcLAIN HARRY have in store good assortment
l of the abovenamed goods, suitable for Men, Boys,
Ladies' Misses and Chldrens wear which must be sold
for some price by the LIST of September. June eff
NEW IMPROVEMENT
For Fitting up Stores with Fancy Fronts.
T Il. GEIGER, Builder and Architect, would respect
fully inform his friends and the public in general,
prepared TO fit Stores and build Fancy Fronts
on entire plan, embracing all the latest improve
The work be done without stopping the bust
ness while the work is gongon
He is also prepared TO do all kinds Of work in the build
ing line the shortest notice and the most reasonable
terms All business entrusted TO his will be promptly
attended TO.
Place of business street, between 9th and 10th.
may 1--6m
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FAMILY GROCERIES.
az. M. p. KING,

~. M. p. KING,
Or 15 and LIST s nearly opposite he Fesidenfs House,
Dealer in FINE TEAS, Of every description all
and choice articles pertaining to a FirstClass
Family Grocery and Variety Store
as His EXPRESS WAGON will deliver goods free Of charge
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AS- For sale at the store-rOOms OF TN
Ladies' Union Benevolent and Employment Society, on
Seventh street. next 10 oddfeows Hail. and Capitol
HILL corner Of and First streets, and SOUTH va
rety OF clothing suitable to the comprising gar
ments for the laborng GLASSES and children AS these
articles the work OF the industrious poor the Society
invite all who in want of this description OF clothing
TO patronse these establishments and very small
profit on the work added the prices will necessarily be
moderate. ~ s't t ft
Families requiring such work 10 be done viii benent the
poor by sending 1t to the Socieys rooms to be made
up.
To accommodate families an Intelligence Office has been
opened at the store on Seventh street. those in
Of servants may be supplied by paying small fee.
By order Of the Board of Managers.
All the papers of the city requested to publish this
notice as often convenient June g.
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DRINK g. DURBIN, Iron a. steel Mer-
II chants, Importers and dealers in American,
Swede, Norwegian Refined, Cable, and common English
Iron manufacturers Of Boiler Rvets and Spikes, Hoop,
Band SCROLL Flue Boiler, Sheet Small Iron, Axle Iron,
l3 North Water street. and 81 North Delaware avenue
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CTATIONERS' WAREHOUSE, 26 South Fourth Street,
- Philadelphia Wholesale only.) a. -
HYMAN L. LIPMAN, Importer of French, and Eng
ish Stationery offers to the trade, at Statoners Ware
house, complete assortment of
STAPLE AND FANCY STATIONERY,
of the best quality, ct the lowest rates. mar "a
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The first number of this paper be expected 10
pear early in August and 1t is desired that those who
disposed 10 further its great Objects by their patronage
should indicate their wishes before that time Orders anc
communications addressed (post paid to Gurley Good
loe, will receive immediate attention. p
49,. r. r. GURLEY,
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General Banking and Exchange Business.
COMPREHENSIVE.

TyLY PAPER.-0ne sheet of this Paper will dc
stroy 10000 Flies. 1t is for SALE with full direc
tons, at the corner of Il and Seventh SITS, by
lime 2l-- j. H. CALLAN
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MIGHT'VE SLAVE


Mahala, the fugitive slave claimed to have escaped
from Maryland "a years since, has been released by
Judge Kane, at Philadelphia. Three witnesses were
called for the claimant and all testified to their belief
in the identity of the the slave of Mr.. Pur-
nell, who had ran away "a years previous. Several
coored witnesses, however, testified positively that
they had know her in Pennsylvania previous to the
time she alleged to have absconded. Their
knowledge of her had continued, with slighintervaIs
down to the present time. They testified to these
statements with great positveness. One of the wit
nesses said that she had played with the alleged
slave when a child, and that both had scar on the
forehead, which they used to laugh at each other
about. This was found to be the case upon an ex
animation Of the forehead of each.
The judge then went over the evidence at length.
He spoke of the great difficulty of identifying per-
after twenty years lapse of tme and noticed
the opinions of Psychologists the subject. He
said that the witnesses for the defence aided this
doubt, and made the fact overwhelmingly clear that
the prisoner not the person claimed. The wit
nesses, the Judge remarked, intelligent, and
their evidence concusivey proved that, at the time
the slave Mahaa was in Maryland, the prisoner was
in Pennsyvania. There could be question but ta.
the weight of the evidence preponderated in favor of
the prisoner. She therefore discharged. She
then taken possession of by crowd of negroes,
who paraded her through the city in open barouche,
with her five children, drawing it by rope, with
great cheering. There was attempt on the part
of the police to check the proceedings-not
when they stopped at the hotel of Mr.. Burnell to
groan him.
North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-15

TEETH SET ON EDGE. All acid foods, drinks,
medicines, and tooth washes, and powders are very
injurious to teeth. If tooth is put in cider, vinegar
lemon Juice tartaric acid in few hours the enamel
will be completely destroyed, that it can be re-
moved by the finger nail as if it were chalk. Most
have experienced what is commonly called teeth set
on edge. The explanation of it is the acid of the
fruit that has been has far sotened the enamel
of the TOOTH that the least pressure is felt by the
ceedngly small nerves which pervade the thin mem
brane which connects the enamel and the bony part
of the tooth. Such effect cannot be produced
without injuring the enamel. True, it will become
hard again when the acid has been removed by the
fluids of the mouth, just as an egg-shell that has
been softsned in this way, becomes hard again, by
being put in the water. When the effect of sour
fruit the teeth, subsidies, they feel well ever,
ed, the the disastrous consequences will be
manifested. Scientific an,erican
North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-15

FRENcH's RAILROAD. A large number of persons
attended trial of the experimental railroad of Mr..
recolected that the Legislature its last session made
an appropriation of &c. O0Oto enable Mr.. French to
test his invention which consists in so constructing
the locomotive and rails of railroad as to render
ascent OF very heavy grades comparatively easy If
successful, the new invention must work revolution
IN the railroad system. On the present occasion the
grade used was, we learn, upwards of two hundred
teet TO the mile and the locomotive assembled it with
ease, oeng stopped at pleasure. The experiment ap-
Peared to be emnently successful, and gave
sfacton to number of scientific gentlemen and 9TH
ers who were present. Further tests will be applied
In order fully to elucdate the merits of the pan The
subject is eminenty worthy of the attention Of all the
friends of internal improvements. eF al
IS f7 .4IeB. Gazette.
North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-15

Professor Agassiz, the great naturalist, arrived at
Key West the steamer of the 18th. He isattached
to the Coast Survey nominally, we understand. His
object is to make investigation of the Florida reefs
and keys subject of great interest to the scientific
continually increasing in number and size The
of their formation and their destiny the KEYS
having yet just emerged from the water, and the
reefs being placed along the edge of the Gulf Stream
the great commercial highway to the Gulf of Mexico,
matters awaken the attention both of the the
orectical and practical inquirer The Ugh
of the Professor leads to the expectation that his la
bors, will give light and knowledge upon this vet
comparatively untrod field of science.
North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-15

POWERFUL MIcRoscoPE. B. Hasert, Optical
and Astronomical instrument maker in Cincinnati,
Ohio' has Just completed compound microscope
when he designs exhiting, in person, at the Worlds
Fair. The manufacturer claims that its napnifying
power surpasses that of any other instrument ever
made in this or any other country. Its highest ca
Pacity being TO magnify any object to six thousand
diameters, which makes superficial surface of thir
ty-six millions. We examined some minute pari.
Giles of dust, secondary scales, from the wing of
butterfly These have been seen with mcroscopes the
lines running parallel with the sides of the dust par
tic!es, both ongitudinallv, downwardIy and trans
versely. This is all that has heretofore been obse-
we'd. This microscope, however, shows that on these
longitudinal lines of the dust of the butterfly and be.
tween them, there are arranged a number of little
scales, similar to the scales of fish. Between each
pair of lines are to be from five to six rows Of
these little scales. For instance, the dust particle
from the back OF sphinx, measuring the one-6fth of
an inch in length, and one two hundreths in breath,
discovers hundred and four lonoitndisaI lines
The number OF scales between each pair of linen in
width is six-making the number of scales six hun
dred and twenty-four over the whole width and the
number of scales loDgitudinally and downwards,
twenty-five hundred; which makes the entire
Der OF scales on the dust particle equal to fourteen
thousand millions to the square inch.
On another very minute particle from the wing ola
tenla, measuring only one-ve hndredths Of an inch
In LENGTH and one thousanth of an inch in breadth
the number of scales found 10 be eighty -four
thousand, which will reach the number of fory.twO
thousand million to the square inch.
A very interesting examination was also made ola
minute particle of the human blood, which exhibits
the fact that the blood is composed of minute glOb
ules which roll through the veins like shot or quick
silver. An examination of drop of stagnant water
disclosed numberess animalcules, which dart about
with wonderful rapidity. An examination of the
common flea shows a striking resemblance the
elephant in its conformation. Many other observe
lions OF an equally interesting character made
which we have not the space to record.
. Cincinnati Gazette,
North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-02-15

ANCIENT Prices LABOR. In the year 1852, Ed
ward Ill, wages paid to haymakers were Id a day. A
mower of meadows Sd. day, or Sd. an acre. Reap.
ers of corn in the Ist week in August 3D.; in the
2nd, 3D. day, and SO until the end of August,
without meat, drink, other allowance, finding their
own tools For threshing quarter of wheat or rye,
Std quarter of barley, beans, and oats, I'D.
I'd. master mason, I'D. day. and other masons,
3d., and their servants, l4d. Tiers Sd. and their
knaves, I'D. Thachers. Sd. day, and their knaves.
IL. Plasterers. and other workmen of mud wall,
and their knaves in like manner without meat or
drink, and this from Easter to Mickeelmas and from
that time less, according the directions Of the JUS
tees.