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OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session of the Thirty Seventh
Congress.
TPUBLIC-No. 1921

PUBlC-No. 1872.
AN ACT concerning land claim in the state
of Iowa, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that the grant of
lands to the then territory of Iowa for the
improvement of the Des Moines river, made
by the act of August eight, eighteen hundred
and forty-siX, is hereby extendedsSo as to in
clude the alternate sections designated by
odd numbers) lying within five miles of said
river, between the Raccoon fork and the
northern boundary of said state; such land are
to be held and applied in accordance with the
provisions of the original grant, except that
the consent of congress is hereby given to the
application of portion thereof to aid in the
construction of the Keokuk, Fort Des Moines
and Minnesota railroad, in accordance with
the provisions of the act of the general as
sembly OF the state of Iowa, approved March
twenty-five, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
And If any of said lands shall have been sold
or otherwise disposed of by the United States
before the passage OF this act, excepting those
released by the United States to the gam
tees of the state of Iowa under the
Joint resolution of March second, eighteen
hundred and siXty-two, the secretary of the
interior is hereby directed to set apart an
equal amount of lands within said state to be
| certified in lieu thereof: Provided, that if the
said state shall have sold and conveyed any
portion of the lands lying within the limits OF
this grant, the title of which has proved inva-
| lid, any lauds which shall be certified to said
state in lieu thereof by virtue of the provis-
ions of this act shall inure to and be held as a
trust fund for the benefit of the person or per-
sons respectively whose titles shall have failed
as aforesaid.
Approved, July II, 1862
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pproved, July Is, 1862.
PuRLIC-NO. 146.


AN ACT to amend the act of the third of
March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven
entitled "An act to amend the judicial sys-
TEN of the United States"
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that hereafter the
districts of Maryland Delaware, Virginia, and
North Carolina shall constitute the fourth cir
cut; the districts of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida shall con-
sttute the fifth circuit; the districts of Louis.
lana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Ten
nessee shall constitute the sixth circuit: the
districts of Ohio and Indiana shall constitute
the seventh circuits the districts of Michigan,
Wisconsin. and Illinois shall constitute the
eighth circuit; and the districts of Missouri.
Iowa, Kansas, and Minnesota shall constitute
the ninth circuits. and the circuit courts the
districts heretofore included within anv Circuit
Of the United States which by this act are at
tached TO different circuit shall be held at
the same times and places as are now pre-
scribed by law, and the circuit courts in dis
tricts which by this act are for the first time
attached to circuits shall be held at the same
times and places as are now prescribed by
law for holding the district courts in said dis
trcts except in the district of Iowa, in which
the circuit court shall be holden at the capitol
of the state on the second Tuesday of May
and November of each year, at which times
and place terms of the district court shall be
holden: Provided this act shall not interfere
with the terms of said district court now pro-
vided for by law for said district. The ailot-
ment of their chief justice and the associate
justices of the said supreme court to the sew
eral circuits shall be made as heretofore.
Sect 2. And be it further enacted that SO
much OF any act or acts of congress as vests
in the districts courts of the United States for
districts Of Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Iowa, and Kansas, or either of them.
the power and jurisdiction of circuit courts
be and the same is hereby repealed; and
there shall heyeafter be circuit courts held for
said district by the chief or associate Justices
of the supreme court, assigned or allotted TO
the circuit to which said districts may re-
spectively belong, and the district Judges of
such districts severally and respectively. eth
or OF whom shall constitute a quorum; which
circuit courts and the judges thereof shall
have like powers and exercise like jurisdiction
as other circuit courts and the judges thereof;
and the said district courts and the judges
thereof shall have like powers and exercise
like Jurisdictions as the district courts, and
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Approved, July II, 1862.
PUBN1c REsoLur1oN-No. SIS


JOINT RESOLUTION to amend section
seventy-seven of can act to provide inter-
nal revenue to support the government and
pay interest on the public debt" and for
other purposes.
Resolved by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that section seventy-sev-
en- of an act entitled San act to provide in
ternal revenue to support the government and
pay interest on the public debt be and the
same is hereby amended by striking out the
word ''May' and inserting august"
Sect, 2. And be it further resolved, that all
the sections of an act entitled San act to pro-
vide internal revenue to support the govern
ment and pay interest on the public debt. -
which require any matter or thing to be done
on or before the first day of July or August,
eighteen hundred and siXty-two, shall be so
SO amended and changed that said matters or
things may be so done on or before any other
day IN the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
two, not later than the first day of October.
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, which NAV
be fixed and determined upod by the secreta-
ry Of the treasury, if in his judgment later
day should be fixed in order to put said act
into practical operation, and all parts of said
act having reference to the said dates of the
nrst days OF July and August, eighteen hun
dred and siXty-two, shall be taken and con-
strued as having reference to the said dav
winch may be so fixed and determined upon:
Provided, that the secretary of the treasury
shall give public uotice the day so 0xed and
determined upon, in such manner as he may
deem eXpedient
Approved, July II, 1862.
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PUBLIC REsoLUr1oN-No. so.

JOINT RESOLUTION requiring the super.
intendent of the Metropolitan police to pay
over certain moneys collected for fines and
penalties, to constitute contingent fund
for certain purposes.
Resolvee by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that the superintendent
Of Metropolitan police Of the District of Col
mbia shall pay over all such moneys as shall
be paid to him under the act of congress en-
titled can act to provide for the payment Of
fines and penalties collected by or paid the
justices of the peace in the District of Col
umbia under the acts of congress approved
the third and fifth of August, eighteen hun
dred and sixty one, and for other purposes, to
the treasurer of the board of said Metripolit-
ar police, in whose hands the same shall con-
stitute contingent fund.- to be disbursed
under the order, and for such purposes as the
said board of police may direct.
Approved, July IS, 1862.
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rPuB11c REsoLur1oS-No. 54.7


JOINT RESOLUTION explanatory of can
act to suppress instruction, to punish trea-
son and rebellion, to seize and confiscate
the property of rebels, and for other pur-
poses"
Resolved by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that the provisions of the
third clause of the fifth section of San act to
suppress instruction, to punish treason and
rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property
of rebels, and for other purposes" shall be so
construed as not to apply to any act or acts
done prior to the passage thereof, nor to in
clude any member Of IL state legislature or
judge of any state court who has not, in ac-
cepting or entering upon his office, taken an
oath to support the constitution of the so. call
ed Confederate States of America" nor shall
any punishment or proceedings under said act
be so construed as to work forfeiture of the
real estate of the offender beyond his natural
life.
Approved July IL 1862
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PUBIC REso1ur,oN-No 20

IUBLlC hESOLUTIoN-NO. 50.
JOINT RESOLUTION further to provide
for the compensation of members Of con-
gress.
Resolved by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that, until the further or
der of congress, the secretary of the senate
and the sergeant-at-arms of the house are di-
rected to receive, as valid excuse for absence
from duty in congress, active employment in
military service for the suppression of the
rebellion without pay.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that
when any senator or representative shall here
after withdraw from his seat in anticipation of
the adjournment of congress, and does not
return, he SHALL in addition to the sum now
deducted for each day, forfeit a further sum
equal to the mileage now allowed by law for
his return home, and it shall be deducted
from his compensation, unless where said
withdrawal is with the leave of the senate or
house of representatives respectively.
Approved, July II, 1862.
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[PunL1c REso1nr1oN-Nn- AZ I

PUBLIC REsoLUTIoN-No. AZ.
A RESOLUTION authorizing the state of
Minnesota to change the line of certain
branch railroads in said state, and for other
purposes.
WHEREAS by an act of congress approved
March third, eighteen hundred and fiftv-
seven, there was granted to the territory of
Minnesota lands to aid in the construction
OF railroad from Saltwater, via St. Paul
and st. Anthony, to a point between the
foot of Big Stone lake and the mouth of
Sioux Wood river, with a branch, via st.
Cloud and Crow Wing to the navigable
waters OF the Red river of the north, the
northern terminus of which was fixed bv
the Legislature of said territory at St. Vim
cent; and whereas it is now believed that
the public interests require a change of To-
cation of part of said branch road ::
Therefore
BE it resolved by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
erica IN congress assembled, that, in lieu of
that part of the railroad grant to Minnesota
territory, by act Of congress approved March
third, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, which
extends northwestery from the intersection
OF the tenth parallel with the fourth guide
meridian, there shall be granted to the state
OF Minnesota the alternate sections within six
mile limits of such new branch line of route
as the authorities of the state may designate,
having its southwestern terminus at any point
on the existing line between the falls of st.
Anthony and Crow Wing, and extending in
northeasterly direction to the waters of Lake
Superior, with a right of indemnity between
the fifteen miles limits thereof, provided this
resolution shall take effect from the filing in
the general land office of the acceptance by
the authorities aforesaid of such substitution;
whereupon the land north of the intersection
aforesaid in the grant as authorized by the
said act of third March, eighteen hundred
and titty-seven, being by said acceptance dis
encountered of the railroad grant, shall be
dealt with as other public lands Of the Uni
ted States. Approved, July II, 1862.
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PUBLIc-No. 1887
AN ACT to extend the territorial limits of the
territory of Nevada

lHUBLtC-NO. l4o.
AN ACT to extend the territorial limits of the
territory of Nevada.
BE it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives, of the United States of Ameri-
ca in congress assembled, that all that part of
the territory Of the United States included
within the following limits, namely: begin
ming at the point of interjection of the forty
second degree of north latitude with the thir-
ty-eighth degree oflongitude west from Wash
ington: thence running south on the said thir-
ty-eighth degree of west longitude until it in
tersectS the northern boundary line of New
Mexico; thence due west to the thirty ninth
degree of longitude west from Washington;
thence with said thirty ninth degree north to
the intersection of said forty-second degree
Of north latitude; thence east with said forty
second degree of north latitude to the place
of beginning, be and the same is hereby at
tached to and made part of the territory of
Nevada, subject to the limitations restrictions
and provisions of the act organizing the terri
tory of Nevada.
Approved, July II, 1862.
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A DrSn Ib 1I1Cr daiE3soLuTIoN-No. So.
t mnoO ~ to repeal and modify sec
act to settle the titles to certain iands sat
apart for the use of certain half-breed ' Kan
sas Indians in Kansas territory.'' annroved
May twenty-six, eighteen hundred and six-
ty, and to repeal part of section one of said
act.
Resolved by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that sections two
and three of an act entitled ''An act to settle
the titles to certain lands set apart for the
use OF certain half Kansas Indians in
Kansas territory" approved May twenty
six, one thousand eight hundred and sixty,
and so much of the first section as authorizes
the secretary of the interior to decide what
persons are heirs to deceased reserves, as
mentioned therein, be and the same are here
by repealed.
Approved, July II, 1862.
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TPUBIo-No. 1921

AN ACT concerning the courts of the United
States in and for the district of Michigan.H
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that in addition to
the courts now provided by law to be held in
the district of Michigan, general term of the
circuit court of the United States for said dis
trict of Michigan shall be held annually at the
court room in the city of Detroit on the sec
ond Monday of February, and that all writs,
bills, pleas, suits, appeals, recognizances, in
dictments, and all other proceedings, civil and
criminal, shall be proceeded with at said term
in like manner as now at the June and Octo-
Der terms of said court.
Approved. July n, 1862.
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every clerk of United States court now hav-
ing any such monies in hand shall immediate.
~ pay the same into the treasury of the United
States, less the costs and disbursements to be
sworn to and taxed as aforesaid, and upon a
final decree of condemnation or restitution if
shall be the duty of the secretary of the treas
ury and he is hereby authorized to pay over
the same upon the order of the proper court,
ana no more shall be retained by any clerk
from money received and paid over by him
uhuer tins resolution, as commissions or 9TH
t sLwlse, than one per centum upon the first one
thousand T dollars in each case, and one-fourth
ol one per centum on the excess above that
SUN, not however, to exceed two hundred
and fifty dollars in any case. '''''''' -
Approved, July II, 1862
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EPunL1c REsoLur1oN-No. IS. ]


A RESOLUTION of thanks to Captain Da-
yid G. Farragut Of the United States navy,
and to the officers and men under his COM
mand.
Resolved by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that the thanks of the
people and of the congress of the United
States are due and are hereby rendered to
captain David G. Farragut, of the United
States navy, and to the officers and men I'M
der his command, composing his squadron
in the Gulf of Mexico, for their successful
operations on the lower Mississippi river, and
for their gallantry displayed IN the capture of
forts jackson and St. Phillip, and the city of
New Orleans, and in the destruction of the en-
emy's gunboats and armed flotilla.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that
the secretary of the navy be directed to COM
municate this resolution to Captain Farragut,
and through him to the officers and men I'M
der his command.
Approved, July II, 1862
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Approved, July II, 1862.
TPUBLrc REsoLurIoS-No. 86. I

A RESOLUTION rendering the thanks of
congress to Captain Louis NJ. Goldsborough
and officers, petty officers, seamen, and ma
rines, under his command, for the victory
at Roanoke Island
Resolved by the senate and house of repre-
sentatives Of the United States of America in
congress assembled, that the thanks of con-
gress be and they are hereby rendered to Cap
tain Louis NJ. Goldsborough, and through him
to the officers, petty officers, seamen. and ma
rines attached to the squadron under his COM
mand, for the brilliant and decisive victory
achieved at Roanoke Island on the seventh,
eighth, and tenth days of February last.
Approved, July II, 1862.
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HIS FEMALE REGULATOR has /
DIR. HlIr. Retnn,c Isemedies

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\ FEW WORDS TO young MEN.-During the
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by dreadful habit of solitary self abuse He contin
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troubled with the habit its consequences they
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de disasters resulting in the non-atcndance OF them in
Time 1t Is no eXaggeration to that three ourhs of
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A CASE OF GENERAL DEBILITY.

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60ortester DaiIp SPY.



Mails Close rs follows
Northern Worcester County, Vermont and New Haup
hire, via Worcester Nashua Railroad at 800 a. m. and
fitchburg, Lancaster Leominster West Boylston Oak
dale, Clinton Lowell, and Nashua, n. H. at 500 a. m
and $3.50 p. m and are due at SIS m. and 1.G9p
Princeton and East Princeton at $50 and is due at
Sis a
City Of Boston, 80 and 800 a. m 1910, g. and 500
m. and due at $50 $50 M, $50 and SIS p. M
Maine, Eastern New Hampshire, and Eastern Massa,
chusetts-9O0 M, and S00p. and are due at DIV
a. m, $50 and Sis p. m.
Rhode Island-(Except towns on the worcester and
Providence Railroad $50 m, and $50 p M anu "e
cLe at s.40 a. M, and $50 p M ~ .- .,,rood al
way Msil on Providence and worcester hAiiroau q"
Western-CAY towns in Massachusetts West of WoT
cester,) M. and due at l245 P m. s..o. oa
Albany, (western New York and western Staies,l w
q. and 90 and are dae al 1852 anu ig49 p m a.,
Springfield 500 am and 90 p M; and are due at s4O
Hartford. ali Connecticut except windham and New
London counties $50 and 800 p and are due
Towns on line Of Norwich and Worcester Railroad and
New London and Wndham County, Conn.,, 1890 a. m
New York city and Southern States $50 a. M. and al
3G0 and 65p M; and are due at 800 m, and at 3,SO
and l0.45
Barre, Barre Plains Petersham Paxton, Dana North
Dana, ald West Rutland, s45 M; and are due at 4Oa
p. m.
Holden Rutland, North Rutland, Hubbardston Cold
Leicester 945 m, and 4S0 m and are due at 500
q. m, and 500 p.
Milbury, and West MiIbury, $50 M, and $50 p
and due at $40 m, and 6Se p. m,
Shrewsbury, ais p. M, and is due at 800 a. m.
Grafton, New England Village and Cordavlle, $50
birmingham, South birmingham, Hopkinton Ashland
Woodville, Westboro'. Northboro, Southboro' Cords
VILE and Grafton, 1910 p. M and are due at $50 A. M
Milford, Mendon. Holliston Bolton. Berlin SEQ a. m
and 500 p. m: and are due at $50 and SIS p.
mail for New York and Boston and beyond, is closed
Office hours from 6.45 a. M, to 500 D. m. Sundays
rom lOVO to lO.4O a. m j. NJ. EARLE P. M.