Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-01

the members of the territorial legislature and none others, shall be allowed to vote; and this shall be the only qualification required to entite the the right of suffrage in said election. And if any person not so qualified shall vote offer to vote or if any person shall vote than once at said election or shall make or cause to be made any false fictitious or fraudulent returns or sh Ill alter change any returns of sad eecton, such person shall, upon conviction thereof before any of competent iu- riSdlction be kept at hard labor not less than six months and not more than three years.
 f. That the members of the aforesaid board of commissioners. and all persons appointed by them to carry into effect the provisions of this act shall before entering upon their duties. take an oath to perform faithfully the duties of their respective offices and on failure thereof, they shall be liable and sub Jcet to the same charges and penalties provd- ed in like eases under the Territorial laws $ ,. That the officers mentioned in the preceding section shall receive for their services the same com pensation as is given for like services under the Ter ritorial laws.
 APPROVED, May 4, 1858.
 AN ACT to provide for the Issuing Service and Re-
 turn of original and final Process in the Circuit
 and District Courts of the United States in certain
 Cases.
 Be 1t enacted, etc, That all suits not of local nature hereafter to be brought ill the circuit and dis trict courts of the United States in district in any State containing more than district against d sin gle defendant shall be brought in the district in which the defendant resdes but if there be two or
  same State the plaintiff may either district and issue duplicate writ uganst the defendants directed to the marshal of any other district within the State m which any of the defendants reside on which du- picate writ the clerk issuing the shall ndorse that II Is true copy of writ sued out of the court of the proper district, and such original and duplicate wrS. so issued, shall, when executed and returned into the office from which they issued constitute one sut and be proceeded on accordingly, and upon any Judgment rendered ill d suit brought process of execution may be issued, directed to the marshal or any district in the State. And in suits of To- cal nature, where the defendant resides in different district Tn the same State than the in which the suit Is brought, the plaintiff have original and final process against such defendant directed to the marshal Ot the district in which he resides
 2 hat Ill all cases of local nature at law or in equity where the land other subject matter of q fixed character lies partly in district and partly in another dstIipt. within the same State the plain lH may bring his action suit iu the circuit or dis trlct court of either district and the court in which any such action or suit shall have been commenced as aforesaid shall have jurisdiction to hear and de- eide the same, anl to final process to be issued and executed fully if the land other subject matter were wholly within the district for which such court is constituted APPROVED May f, 1853.
 AN ACT to alter the Times of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the District of Vermont.
 Be it enacted, etc., That the circuit court of he United States now directed to be holden at Windsor in and for the district of Vermont on the 2lst day of May, shall, after the s day of July next be hol- den on the fourth Tuesday of July annually at said place and the district count of the United States within and for sail district instead of the 27th day of May, shall, after the first day of July next be holden on the Monday next after the fourth Tuesday ill July annually.
 ,. That all indictments, informations suits or actions and proceedings of any kind, whether civil or criminal, now pending in said courts respectively Shl hg IuVI in ur,lb ba nlal tried ant determined the days herein appointed for the holding of said courts respectively in the same manner that might and ought to have been done had the suid courts respectively been holden on the sls and 27th days of May.
 APPROVED, May 4, 1858.
 AN ACT to create Land District in the Territory of New Mexico.
 Be it enacted etc., That the public lands in the tTerrtory of New Mexico to which the Indian title shall have been extingushed, shall constitute land district to be called the District of New Mexico' the office for which shall be established such place within said district the President of the United States may from time to time direct 2. That for the purpose of carrying this act into effect the President shall be- and he is hereby au- thorized to appoint, by and with the advice and sent of the Senate, or during the thereof, gter and receiver for the district hereby created who shall be required to reside at the site of the office and whose powers, duties obligations and responsibilities shall be the same are prescribed by law for other land officers, (so far they apply to these otficers.)
 3. That this act shall not take effect in less than six months after its passage.
 APPROVED, May A. 1858.
 AN ACT for the Relief of Isaac Drew and other Set
 tiers upon the Public Lands in the State of Wis
 consin.
 |" Be it enacted etc., That Isaac Drew. and such other persons may have settled in good faith in the State of Wisconsin, since the first of July 1850 upon any portion of the lands that enormously select ca ny sad State as part of the 500000 grant when selections were not confirmed. and who were at that date. or since that time have become an ac- tua settler and housekeeper and made mproyem on any tract embraced among said erroneous sclec-
 oiS, are hereby entitled to the same right of pre- emption, and upon the same terms and conditions as are prescribed by entitled ' An Act to an propriate the Proceeds of the Sales of the Pubiic Lands and grant Pre-emption Rights" approved September foWteenth. 4th,l 1851: Provided, such lands shall be paid for by such settlers at the mini- mum price.
 s2. That where persons have erroneously entered any of the lands named in the first section of this act, and shall satisfactorily show to the register and receiver that. prior to, within three months after the passage of this act they have made an actual set clement on the lands mentioned in the first section, the Commissioner of the General Land Office is here by authorized to issue patents therefor: Provided That it shall be satisfactorily made to appear to him that the entry of the tract tracts sought to be pa tented does not interfere with rights occupancy of any actual settler.
 APPROVED, May 24, 1858.
 AN ACT to prevent the inconvenient Accumulation in the Post Office Department of Postmasters
 Quarterly Returns. ,
 Be it enacted, etc., That the Postmaster General may from time to time in his discretion dispose of any quarterly of mails or received pre- serving the accounts current and all vouchers accom- panying such accounts and such portions of the proceeds thereof may be necessary to defray the cost af separating and disposing of the same: Pro vded, That the accounts shall be preserved entire at least two years.
 APPROVED, May "A, 1858.
 AN ACT for extending the Land Laws east of the
 Cascade Mountains, in Oregon and Washington Territories.
 Be it enacted etc. That the existing laws relating to the survey and disposal of the public lands in the Territories of Oregon and Washington, west of the Cascade Mountains, be and the same are hereby ex- tended and made applicable also to the lands lying east of said mountains within said Territories APPROVED, May 29, 1858. - AN ACT to amend the !" Act to incorporate the Co.,
 lumba Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind," approved February