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ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.
of The Star.

ALEXANDRIA, April "a, 1857
The only arrival per river that has taken place
since yesterdays report was the Diamond State
yesterday evening, from Baltimore, with an as.
sorted cargo for Alexandria and the District She
nnioaded here this morning, and proceeded to
Washington about 10 o'clock.
The only arrival on the Canal was the Jas r.
Essex, Yesterday evening, empty, from Harper q
Ferry, for fish. Her captain expresses doubts
Of June.
The arrivals of fish still continue few and light
The prices, to-day. have ranged shad SIOaSII
Washington most of the fish that now arrives
here. This morning she took up about $50 tubs.
would again say to distant customers-don' t
come after fish until you see week or so of warm
cain i ~eatner unless yon are prepared to pay high
The largest haul Of the season is said to have
ben made dav before yesterday by Mr. James
Head, Thirty miles below here. This haul yielded
about q, coo.
1t is now reduced to a certainty that the Virgil
MIA Locomotive and Car Factory Of Messrs Smith
& Perkins is to be revived here. They expect to
commence /" fixing up' for operations next week.
IL Is said that the citizens are principally indebted
to the talents and energy of Mr.. Henry w Mar
bury, Cashier of the farmers Bank, for the con.
ceptiOn and contamination Of the financial ar
Tangement that has enabled the proprietors to re-
vive the operations Of this establishment. Moe
on this subject anon.
The Alexand ia Rihemen, commanded by Can't.
Arthur Herbet were on parade here YESTERDAY
sfternoon They made a fine appea ance, and
tial music. : -
Mr.. samuel Evans, an old and respected citi-
zen here, died suddenly last night Of pneumonia.
Iov. smith len here this morning per the Alex
cn, s,. "a ana orange Railroad. He made politi-
Ill, iHG I'm mere on Wednesday night at Liberty
hi. c ne stald lac e yesterday il is said to give
oh.noa g'esslonai opponent, Mr. Snowtlen, a,
meeting came Of. ' "'s"' wv
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Personal

49, T. F. Meagher is at Browns' Hotel.
80. Hon George Taylor, OF Brooklyn, ". V,
is at Kirkwoods'.
80. The Hon. w. r. w Cobb of Ala. is at
Mrs. Clare's, in this city.
go. Hon. John Cadwaader, and p. McCull
Esq, OF pennsylvania, are stopping at Willards'
.... Commodore Stringham, and RObt. Tyler
ESQ OF Philadelphia, are among the recent
rivals at Wizards
.... Hon. John Cochrane member elect from
New York, is at Willads' II otel; also, from the
same state Judge Sherman and Hon. A j. Parker
-. George Yellott and John Cox, Esqs., of Bel
air, Hartford county, have issued prospectus for
a new weekly paper to be called the Southern
-Egis, and 10 be issued on the LIST of July next
.... The Detroit Tribune states that Harry SEQ
vel, assistant editor Of the Free Press has received
the appointment Of Local Mail Agent in that city
Salary 81 200.
-. Bill Johnson, desperate, was lately lynch
ed by the citizens of Waco, Texas, and the coro-
ner's jury reported that he came to his death by
means of rope and gun in the hands of persons
unknown
80. Count de Morny, the French ambassador at
st. Petersburg, recently fell on the ice in the
streets of that city and injured himself His
young wife, the Princess Troubetzkoi will soon
make slip, say the rones of the court.
-. Signor A. Martinez born in Saragossa,
Spain, and one Of the most accomplished guitar
lists In the United States, was run and killed
on the Michigan 0eatral railroad at Detroit on
Wedne day evening.
-. Professor Clark, of Amherst College, while
performing the experiment Of making electrical
light, one day last week, was very nearly blinded
by the ntenseness Of the light since which he
has been obliged to confne himself to a very dark
room So painfully intense is the impression left
upon the Tetina of his eyes, that though the room
Is so dark that his friends and attendants cannot
see each other in it, to him il seems to lie filed
with the most dazzling light. Permanent and
serious results are feared fiom the affection, but
hopes are entertained, from his present seclusion
from DAYLIGHT. that his evcfpl inna
Sans will shortly recover from the shock and be
restored to their normal condition
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The adhesive envelopes must he rummed an inch
ca Oh sde OF the centre Of the lalpeIs--

The adhesive envelopes must he gummed an inch
each SIDE OF the centre Of the lappeIs.
By the act approved June ~ IS{s the Secretary NJ
the Senate is directed 60 conkne his pu rchsses
clusIvely 20 articles OF the grow and ~
the United states, provided the car he procu
Of such growth and manufacture Of suitable quairy
and nj reasonabe prlces, upon as good terms a. 10
quality and price "a he obtain ed Of foreign Froxtb
and manufacture" A preference will therefore be-
gwen TO the productions of American industry snd
All persons making proposals TO supply any article
Will state whether the same ~ Of the growth and
manufacture Of the United States.
The articles must he delivered nj the ofice of the
Secretary Of The Senate at Washington, &c of any
charge for carriage, before the 10th Of sept m
Ererg arficl. mmst Be Of a., -sry best qHaiiry
hrttss an tHferior article IS oali a for.
rs estimated that the quantities above mcni ION
VII oe required for the hrst session but the rIght
reasonable notice, any additional quantities durns
Thirty. ffth Congress '"'s'I"e'' sesS''" '' '"e
suihc,ent specimen Of each article proposed Tor
company the proposal, and to be marked with the
name OF the proposer aud he price of the article nj
oil paper the weight per rean. The whole of each
article speched IN the foregoing list will he deemed
class nj the lowest price quality considered will 70
ceive a contract Tor the same executing n hond
with two or more suretes satisfactory TO the Secre
tsry of the Senate, for the performance thereof nm
der forfeiture Of twice the contract price in case o
failure, which bond rs To be filed the Office of the
said Secretary within ten days after the proposals
have been accepted.
Ifany article contracted for shoud not ne deIIrer
ed within the time stipulated. should ne infer,ot
IN any respect To the sample, the bond of the
tractor Will be put IN SUIT.
Proposals should bc endorsed Proposals for STA
tonery for the Senate )" Ind he directed 10 tie Sec
Rotary of the Senate at Washington.
Proposals and specimens must be delivered ~ TIE
Office free Of charge. apH-lawtv
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Bureau, and matters are so progressing under
his auspices as to lead to the hope that very
shortly all the questions involved here will be
speedily disposed of, to the great relief of the
Department, as well as of the half breeds them
selves ~
ARMY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Orders No. 4,
dated War Department, Adjutant Generals
Office, Washington, April IL, 1857, says:
The following Regulations have been received
from the War Department, and are published to
the Army:
l. Paragraph os3 of the regulations for the Army
is so far amended as to allow to officers of the Pay
Department one room Office and fuel there
for from the LIST of October to the 3Oth Of April,
at the rate of one cord of wood per month.
cooks and nurses in hospitals by the Sd section of
I" An act providing for a necessary increase and
better org anization Of the Medical and Hospital
Department Dep Of the Army approved august Is,
extra services will be noted on the hospital mus
ter rolls, and for the sums thus expended the Pay
Department will be reimbursed by the Medical
BY order of the Secretary Of War:
s. CooPER, Adjutant General.
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT.-Pot Offices
Est0bitShea.- Davidson county, Ten
nessee, Thos. G. McWhirter, Postmaster; &C.
dar Springs, Early county, Ca, Robert W.
Sheffield, Postmaster; Reesville, Dodge county,
Wisconsin.
Post Offices Discontinued - Cockletown
York county, Va; Ballardville, Boone county,
Va; Antrim, Allegheny county, Pa; Brighton,
Beaver County, Pa; Ripleyville, Huron coun-
ty, Ohio; Boyer, Pottawotomie county, Iowa
Name of Post Office Changed. ALEXANDRIA
Pine county, Minnesota Territory, changed to
Chenawatawa.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. MIR. Rosser, late
Territorial Secretary for the Territory of Min
nesota, was not " removed" as alleged in
Washington letters to the distant press. His
appointed by the President to the position.
The CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.-We I'M
derstand that it will be six or eight days longer
at least, ere navigation can be resumed upon
the Chesapeake and Canal. The last accident
at Dam No. forms the cause of the delay.
APPoISrMESr.-The Secretary of the Treasu-
ry has appointed George Morton, Esq, Superin-
tendent Of Construction for the new Custom
House, at Sandusky, Ohio, vice Geo. S Patter-
son, resigned.
A CLERICAL APPOINTMENT.-Mr John p.
Quinn, of Mich, has been appointed to first
class Isl, 200 per annum) clerkship in the Office
of the First Auditor of the Treasury, vice R.
c. Griffin, resigned.
The CURRENT OPERATIONS OF THE TREA-
sURY DEPARrMEST.-On yesterday, April 23d,
there were Of Treasury warrants entered on
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Ora Nd EXHIBITION
MAY FESTIVAL BALL

Prof. III. w. MUNDER most respectfully an
nounnes TO his friends, patrons, and public "a
generally OF Washington, Georgetown, Alex -
andrIa, and Baltimore, that his EXHIBITIONE4
on FRIDAY EVENING, May LIST, Ia57. at the
WAsHINGToN ASSEMBLY Rooms, on Louisiana ave-
nue., between az and 9th streets.
He has spared neither time. labor. nor patience 10
render this Exhibition of the perb enter
tainments that has ever been offered TO a Washing
ton public. One Of the most bea utu features of the
programme for the evening, Is the dmnutIve size Of
the children that will upon this participate
IN some OF the most complicated dances, executed
IN such style as is seldom If ever witnessed on or
of of the stage.
Prof. NJ. having established the flattering reputa-
ton OF being the best teacher that has ever located
In this city he hopes to confirm that opinion IN the
minds Of the public BY offering the following
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INDIAN MAssAcREs.-Ad dispatch from Chicago,
H., the 23d instant, states that the pursuers Of
the Indians bands which have lately been com-
uniting so many outrages upon the white settlers
have returned, and confirm the rumored massacres
in Blue Earth county. Forty settlers have been
murdered at Big Bend, and several women taken
prisoners. Grea; alarm is everywhere felt, as all
the Indians beyond the Minnesota river are as
sumng hostile attitude. Runors are rife Of the
alliance between Sioux and Chippewas.
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE MARYLAND PRSI-
TENTIARY.-The cOnvicts of the Maryland Peni-
Tertiary (Baltimore) contIived, about O'Clock
last night, to set fire to the large building occu-
pied as mandatory, with the intention of
escaping from the prison whilst at supper This
building was entirely consumed with its contents,
but by the exertons Of the Gremen the fire was
stayed here, and none of the csnvcts were able
To
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LOST AND FOUND.

ZANE To MY PREMISES ON TIRE 18th 10
~ STINT, a red and white horned COW. ~ue-A
about " years old, in very had order, and 3ASfs
dry. The owner is requested TO come and j&--k~e
prove property, pay elIarses, and take her away
JNO. u. MCFARLAND.
ap Is 81 18th street cast, Navy Yard Hill.
I OST OR STOLEN From the back Of horse
IL which escaped from ITS owner on MONDAY even
ing last. a SPANISH SADDLE. with black patent
leather scat stitched with elbow SIDES ight cBusld
erahly soIled. gIrth blue. ON leaving the Saddle ri
the Cigar Store of Mr.. GEO. w. COCARAN on
eth street, Washington, suitable reward Wi lie
given. ms 81
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ADJUSTMENTS.

c'ONCERT.-The Pupils ofthe First and SeconI
~ District Public Schools will give CONCERT
on TUESDAY EVENING, the 18th instant. NJ 3
O'Clock, az the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONS. under the
direction of J. III. DANIEL.
Tickets of admission. IS Cents. ap g Gs
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Q. Id hahoa. tas lanceQ Dy the celebrated French
- danseuse SotoD. -. by Miss years old.
9: Syrian Waltz -. by Masters and Misses.
6years old.
III. Pas Styrian, by Masters and Misses from 10
years old.
IL. The American Flag Dance, by Is Masters and Is
Misses, composed by Prof. Munder expressly
Tor this occasion. which Is acknowledge to 10
one OF the most beautiful dances ever witness
- ed, Introducing our soul-s,IrrIng national airs.
H. Grand shawl Dance, by . Misses. IN which Is in
PRODUCED the Coronation Of the Queen Of Nav.
the grand march and ascension upon the throne.
Ia. fIremans Hornpipe, which introduces every
thns executed by q fireman while ATTENDING a
nfe anu rs one OF the most complicated dances
IN The profession This dance was introduced
by Prof NJ. four years ago M his first MAY Ball,
ana ne only repeats 1t upon this occasion ny
many urgent requests.
Alter the exhibition the floor will he cleared for the
accommodation Of the whole company.
Mr.; GEoRGE ARTHs Brass and String Band IS en-
gagged lor III" OCCASION, and will Introduce q very
choice collection of new music
To THE IADlEs.-As Prof. Munder has long since
abandoned The habit of sending written Invitations.
toWlnS To the want OF time 1T this season IF the
year, he cordially invites ali his former patrons sad
their fnends. assuring them that IL will ha kept
door.
P.S-Should it happen to min on the lst, the Bal
Will he postponed until Monday, the ath. sp23-td
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CARUSPS SALOON.

CARUSFS SALOON.
MADAME D'ANGRI respectfully announces 60
her friends and the public that she has msdc
ments to give one CONCERT on SATURDAY,
April 18Th She will be assisted by
Mile MATILDA DANGRI.
Mr.. THOMAS, Niolinist.
Mr.. SCHREIBER, Solo Trumpeter.
Sig. ABELLA, Pianist.
Programme. Violin Solo, Mr.. Thomas; 9. Ana,
"Grace Robert lie DIabe;" 5. Cavatins, BARTER of
Sevills," Nine. DAngri; 4. Solo, Mr.. SchrelIer; :.
Ara, Tancredi, Nine. DAngIi; 6. Duet, La Ronda.
Mime. and Mile DAngrI; Z. Violin Solo. Mr.. Them
as; q. The Cottage of NY Mother, Mile Mathide; O.
Aria, Betley, Nine DAngrl; 10. Solo, Mr.. SchIicber.
CONDUCTOR. Sig. ABELLa.
Doors open At ~; concert TO commence at o'cl'k.
Tickets FIFTY CENTS; Reserved seats INV
cents extra. Seats can he secured on and after
Thursday, sd April. at the Music Stores of Messrs.
Metzerott and Davis. apS-I
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The CURRENT OPERATIONS OF TIE TREA-
sURr DISCRIMINATION yesterday, April 23d,
there were of Treasury warrants entered on
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The NAVAL COURTS OF IyQUIRY.-In Court
No. /, to-day, Commodore Stringham and Com
mander s. S. Lee were examined, the first ON
behalf of Elk Master Mclaughlin, and the latter
on that of the Government The case of Mr..
Mel. was then closed, so far as the testimony
Is concerned His defence is to be presented to
the Court in writing on Monday, to which day
they adjourned.
In Court No. 2, the case of It. Chandler is
still on trial. Official documents from the De-
partment were being read in this case up to the
time the Star went to press.
In Court No. B. the case of It. Baldwin is
still before them. Capt. Ringgold and Com
mander Cunningham and It. Walker were ex-
amined in behalf of Lit. Baldwin, all of whom,
in their testimony, strongly sustained his claims
to fitness for his late position in the service ne
an officer and gentleman
An IMPORTANT CONTRACT CoSsUsuArpn
Yesterday, the Postmaster General entered into
a contract with David Hoadley, ESQ, President
OF the Panama Railroad Company, for the trans
portation Of the California mails over the 18th
mus until the termination Of the existing Cali
fornia mail steamers contracts-some two years
hence. The compensation the Department is to
pay is 100000 per annum. Up to March 3Oth
ut it paid for the service at the rate of % cents
per pound, the maximum the law allows At
that rate the compensation of the railroad CON-
pany for the last quarter was about S37, 900.
As paid for up to that time the cost of the mail,
a;ross the isthmus was near $3.50, 900 per annum
and was rapidly increasing The new contract
while IT involves handsome retrenchment Of
the Departments expenses, is a liberal and
satisfactory one 80 far as the interests of The
company are concerned, and, we trust. will mt
an end to all misunderstanding between those
parties.
The Sioux HALF BREED LAxps.-Webe.r
incidentally that the Secretary of the Interior
has now under consideration the plans prepared
in the Indian bureau for carrying out the law
Of 1854 for the division Of the common lands of
the Sioux half breeds among them, individually.
The encroachments Of the whites upon those
lands led to trouble and difficulties which have
up to this time necessarily postponed final
seton under the provisions of the law in ques-
ton. General James Shields is now engaged
in arranging those troubles on behalf Of the
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NJ PHILADELPHIA CAKE AT PHIIA-
,A3 delpha prices, at the PHILADELPHIA
ICE CREAM DEPOT, corner of 18th and F SITS.
ICE CREAM at Sl.5o per gallon. ap 6-lm'
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For All Parts of the West.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.

TTNHREE TRAINS DAILY from Baltimore, for Cum
l. berland, Wheeling, and all parts OF the West
lst The ACCOMMODATION TRAIN will
64b connecting with trains from Philadelphia
Washington t Juncton will stop at stations and
berland at O'Clock, p.
ID The MAIL TRAIN (excep Sunday
ut $780, and reaches Wheeling by m connecting
wood with Columbus Cincinnati
willie, Cleveland Toledo, Detroit Chicago St Louis Cairo
mediate points. ....'
Sd The EXPRESS TRAIN daily D. M connecting with
trains for Cincinnati St. Louis Cairo Chicago
places in the West nearly by other
The time to these places Is also unaqualled
Baggage checked through " Columbus Cincinnati
Louis.
Passengers and baggage transferred points free
THROUGH TICKETS will be sold TO all the large
at the lowest possible rates. ut the ticket Office Camden Station
Washington city.
A second class Is attached to the mail train.
Passengers from Baltimore Washington
by Daylight by taking accommodation mail
Cumberland Oakland They
tran which leaves Cumberland at 25O reaches Wheeling
At 2
Passengers from Washington layc ample
ingon Junction. 'a'"
This only through baggage checks
be obtained in Washington.
FOR WAY PASSENGERS
The accommodation train GAS, will stop
Cumberland the
Eastwardy the mail train leaves Wheeling
mediation leaves Cumberland $50 reaching Baltimore
The FREDERICK TRAIN starts except Sunday stopping
Mt way stations Leaves Frederick at o. arriving Baltimore
at $50, ". '. "
EICOTTs MILLS leaves Camden Station at g. a. m
and $50 Leaves Ellcos Mills at $780, m, and 100 p m
Sunday
W. y. wooneIpE,
Jan l7-du Master Of Transportation.
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No. 5s7.l
BY the President OF the United States.

TN pursuance of the provisions of the 3D. section
United TO to be the tract Of in the
Of Minnesota belonging the habrocds mixed bood
July IT, 1884, JAMES BUCHANAN President
of America do hereby declare and make known that public sales will
DO held the aforementioned Territory
sofa at the periods hereinafter designated, TO wit:
March next for the disposal public within
the following named townships and fractional townships the late
for the habrecd mixed boo OF the Dacoh Sioux
ton of Indians viz
North efme base line Of the h principal meridian
The Indicated township eleven
The Indicated tracts fractional township hundred and eleven
townships one hundred and eleven
and one hundred aud twelve, Of range twelve
The INDICATED tracts township hundred eleven and ac
iona townships hundred and twelve hundred
that part of township hundred and twelve fractional
ship hundred and thirteen within the
The Indicated part townships
eleven and one hundred and twelve within the
serve of range fifteen.
At the land Office at FARnAuIr the n day of
named townships and fractional townships in the e
for the mixed boods OF the Dco Sioux
ton Of Indians, viz s..
NORTH fMe Of fth principal meridian
part township
and ten within the of nine
eight hundred fractional township
ten, within the aforementioned Of range ten.
The INDICATED township
within the reserve and in townships one hundred
and nine and one hundred and ten Of range eleven.
The INDICATED that townships
eight and hundred within the
and In township hundred and ten of twelve
The Indicated that OF townships hundred
and hundred within the reserve
range thirteen.
The township en
within the above mentioned reserve of fourteen
The INDICATED that township hundred
within the above mentioned reserve, Of range fifteen
III accordance with the provisions the July IT, 1854
before referred TO- emton claims will not be allowed
lands they pub
lie sale and become subject to private entry.
The offering the above lands will be commenced the days
pointed and will proceed the order which they
the whole shall have the
private
be until die exaraun
the weeks
under hand the city Of Washington tins sixteenth
of September Domn thousand eight hundred and h
H.E
JAMES BUCHANAN.
By the President
THos. A. HENDRICKS
Commissioner Of Land Office.
Sep l9-1aw3m [Int&Star
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Proposals for Erecting Marine Barracks at
Pensacola, Florida.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,

Washington, September II, 1857
CEALED PROPOSALS, endorsed a. Proposals for
- building Marine Pensacola Florida will be
9th of November 1857
the Marine Barracks authorized
at Pensacola Florida according the plans and spech
prepared the Navy Department.
which the Offices Of the commandments Of the
Portsmouth, Hampshire, Boston, New York Phel
pha Norfolk, Pensacola, and ut the Navy Department
The proposals be for furnishing all the materials and
plotting work satisfactory the who he
appointed by the Navy Department to superntend the the
the right Of the proposals
hcre invited when it the interest the United
quires it.
Ninety the Of work and the materials
vered will be paid for from time time the work
estimates made and certified TO by the superintendent the
ton OF the Of the by the said
eent and department. be forfeited the flflmen
Of the contract provided that bill shall be made
than five thousand dollars.
Each proposal must be accompanied by written guarantee
responsible (Cerhed
MASTER district judge other officer Of the United s
the of five thousand dollars that the bidder WILL when required
and sufficient security for Its faithful performance.
Bidders invited the
Offices herein before mentioned "E
proposals scaled department
and plainly endorsed Proposals for building Marine Barracks
sacola, Florida"
The bidder only WHOSE may accepted
the contract will be forwarded thereafter
which he will be required execute within ten days after
at the post office named by him.
All above completed
the plans specifications within twelve
date of the contract ......,... .,.f..
.t.. ........ ... ISAAC TOUCEY,
Sept 24-2awtBth Nov Secretary the Navy.
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COMPLETION of Panama Railroad .-Reduction

NOMPLETlON of Panama Railroad Reduction
~ of fare to Caiorn-Unied steamships
York for Asnwal the 5h and Goth OF
with mail steamers from Panama to San Francisco
These steamships have been inspected and approved by the
Department, and guaranty speai and safely '
The Panama railroad al miles ong completed from
and crossed in baggage passengers
checked New York through San Francisco
embarked nj Panama by
money paid In New York covers all expenses of the trip
Reserve steamers kept In New York
Francisco detention
entirely reliable. l....... '...E. E..
Passengers leave Panama the they arrive
Conductors through by each
and children without other protectors +. ...
For through apply agency
West street, New York, to l. w. RAYMOND.
May 6-dG 4f