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The Portland daily press., 1871-06-19
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6@ FOrelgn imports
, YARMOUTH, N. S.-Steamer Linda-14OO boxe,
nefrlng 10 do salmon, do eggs, quintals fish, t.
John PorteOus. g ~
CADlZ.-Brig Erncstne- 23, ,495 bush. salt to E
- Foreign Exports. .,r
| HALIFAX, N. S.-Steamer Chase-18f0 bbls
nour, ioo DO oatmeal, sewing machines lot of mer-
YARMOUTH. N. S.-Steamer Linda-13OO bbls
Hour' zoo bags meal, ton shorts. lot OF mdse.
-four, 100 bags meal. '''''
bbs. -four.
AMHERST, N. S.-Br. sch. Star of the Sea-141
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d 3l-il d g,if WASHINGTON.
The Case Of the New York Cent?

WASHINGTON. june H.-No instruction has
yet been received from the Treasury Depart
ment relative to the collection of the tax due
from the New York Central railroad. The
matter will be delayed few days in order to
receive the decision Of the company acknowi-
edging the debt in accordance with the decis-
ion of the law officers of the government In
case no such Acknowledgements is made the
collector will be instructed to proceed with the
co!lectiod of the tax by distraint and other le-
gal measures -a4o 1a
Awards Of Oontracis.
Commissioner Parker awarded beef contracts
for Indians at prices from $1.99 10 to So 81
per 100 lbs, and -four at $3.50 per 100 lbs. The
entire amount of the contracts for Indian sup.
plies will be about 81, ZOO, ,0OO Prices are very
much below those paid last year under private
contracts: The board of Commissioners has
adjourned.
Soldiers of 1912. -rp
Over $4,000 surviving soldiers and sailors Of
the war of 1872 have applied for pensions un-
der the act of the last Congress, and applica-
lions continue at an average Of 176 per day.
The disbursement, for this class of pensions
during the current fiscal year will amount to
probably SO, 2l3,546 the available appropria-
ton being "a, 100000.
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ODD FELLOWS EXCURSION. -Mauufacturers
and Mechanics Lodge /. o. o. F., ef Lewis
ton, will make picnic excursion to the is
lands in our harbor next Thursday. They will
leave Lewiston at o'clock in the morning and
return the same evening.
LARcENY.-Saturday evening lady took
her child from it's little carriage, on Centre
street, and carried it into the house, stopping
but minute or two. When she left the house
the child's carriage was missing. Some ras-
Gals had stolen it.
The present crowded condition of our col
umns make it exceedingly difficult to publish
essays written for the purpose of airing the au-
thor's accomplishments. Several articles Of
interest now in type are crowded out. -s
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MAsSAOHUs ETTs.
RSsIrSa Dn-:--e

Boston, June 49, Religious services was
York. Rev. Mr.. Flagg officiating. At the close
Col. Fisk made short speech, thanking Bos-
town and Charlestowu people for their fatter-
ing. reception and said that the neglect of the
regiment to pay the Mayor and City Govern
ment a salute was the entire ignorance of such
an order until it was too late to give it, The
regiment LETT for hsme at six o'clock this eve
ming ~ II
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WAR DEPARTMENT..
VISION OF TELEGRAMs AND REPORTS FOR THE
BENEFIT OF COMMERCE.,

Weather Report, june IS.
observations taken at midnight, exact local time at
------ each place.l p ------- l
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Buildings at Auction.
Re. * HUNT,
Commission Merchant and Auotionsa1

Mo. 316 Congress ST., will sell every evening
IN large assortment OF Staple and Fancy Goods.
Goods will be sold during the day in lots to sur
purchasers at wholesale prices. Cash advanced on
descriptions Of goods. ConsigDments not limited
February II, 1868. dit
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Receipt. b, x.ilroad. and s,enmso.,.

"oceip" ny RaIlroads and sfenmboat II.
GhaND TRUNK RAILwAY-1s9 cans milk, 400
dds nour, cars bark, do blinds, 10 do hay, do
spars, DO clapboards, do laths do starch, do
ataIca M q, leather, do tow do logs, do piles,
stoves do -four. ~
MAINE CENTRAL RAILwAY-136 cases mdse, "a
6ales Ss2 hubs, bbls potatoes, 81 bags do 21 bbs
nouT. 70 horse rakes, AZ veals 26 scythes, 40 pkgs
STEAMER MONTREAL FROM BOsrON-40 hoxas
cheese 10 Jars snuf. 100 bbls. pork 10 mats coffee
lSo cases shoes 5 kegs Soda Is bolts duck 4bales
flour, 2S casks nails bids shoves 80 bds Sheet
45 boxes tin, 10 pkgs Russia iron 20 boxes and 20
bales domestics 20 bags coffee, 25 boxes SOAP bdls
caif skins, IL bdls chair stock, sewing machine 80
bdls ieowes, do gas pipe 20 frkins butter, cali
skins II boxes plants. horse and suky. For Caa-
nda and up country 80 pcs speer 10 casks nails 100
bds leather, 1S bars iron, 1S balee bags 10 bbs oil
pes machinerp, Is bales WOOL sofss. 10 bds STEEL
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Performance afternoon and Night

Doors open at and o'clock, P. M.
Admission SO cents; Children 25 cents.
Remember Grand Balloon Ascension at O'Clock,
wind and weather permitting,
URemember Day and Date.
Also at SACO, Thursday, June 22d, and LEWIS
TON, Saturday, June Path.
Tickets now for sao at Hawes & Cragin Music
StOre II Middle street.
jun12 13 IA 10 10 81 23&w1t
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WI IESTWARD Bound, should read our Joliet
w City, Ill. Pamphlet, free at the Adams House
and Press Office. 1t tells You OF the Coming wo k
shop" of the West. For further infof nation al .
dress FL. ROWEI.L, Boston Hotel, Mass. je17s2w
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BUSINESS NOTICES.
BsreGs' Allavantor cures Ca,a rrh.

TRY Briggs Throat and Lung Healer. tt.
GET Briggs Corn and BuniOn Remedies
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\ hight or ten good Shook makers. Immediately
| II Apply to A. p. MORSE u co,
junl0d&w4w 80 India street, Boston.
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TRoTTING ON THE WESTERN PROMENADE
Although our citizens have not the facilities
for recreation and enjoyment which are pos
sessed by the citizens of larger cities, yet we
are not wholly without advantages in this re-
spect. Thus on the pleasant evenings with
which we are now favored, the Western Prom
enade is the scene of sport and pleasure.
Hither our merchants and lovers of the horse
repair to witness the magnificent sunsets, and
also to test the speed of their favor;te horses.
These trials of speed are often as close and in.
teresting as those which are witnessed upon
the track, and afford more real pleasure, from
the fact that there is none of the trickery of
the professional jockey displayed in these con-
tests. An hour or two is very pleasantly spent
in this way each evening, which affords an ex-
cellent opportunity not only to witness a
splendid scenic panorama, but also to indulge
in the exciting pleasures of the turf ~
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SCHOOL EXAMINATIoNs.-The sub-commit-
tee to whom was referred the matter of schoo
examinations have made up their report
which will be presented to the Board next
Monday evening. The arrangements are as
follows: @
Tuesday, June 9th, High School, all day.
Wednesday, a. NJ, Brackett street, Park
street, Centre and Fourth Grammar Schools
p. m.. High School Exhibition at Ci,y Hall.
Thursday, a. M, West School, intermediate
School and Primaries /, 3, 5 and z; p. M, Pri-
maries g. A, 6 and 8.
Friday, a. m., Primary department of the
North School, D. m., Grammar department.
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DoN'T forget the strawberry and ice cream
festival this evening at Allen Mission Chapel,
Locust street. Go and take your family with
you, and encourage the earnest workeIs of the
M;osiop .l.r...
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THE PRESS,
MONDAY JUNE 10, 1871.
CITY AND VICINITY
New Advertise m e uts .Ts-Day.

97free Religious Notices must be sent in as
early as Friday. noon.
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BRIGGS Pile Remedies are success. Il
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1871-04-15
pittsburg and connellsville Railroad.

A private disptch from W. o. Hugurt, Esq,
president of the Pittsburg and Connellsville
Railroad Comply, informs us that the last
rail of that imprtant railroad was laid at Min
cral Point, Pennsylvania, Tuesday, at $40 P.
NJ. Thus the ira track now extends nnbro-
keuly from Baltimore to Pittsburg by this
short and most irect route-an object which
was in the earlist contemplation by many Of
those who first projected the great road from
Baltimore to te Ohio river, but whose enter
prise was subsequently, turned towards lower
point on the rrer, the city of Wheeling, and
subsequently Parkersburg, leaving the rich
prize of Pittsblrg the last to be obtained The
rapid extension of railroads beyond the Ohio
simultaneously with our having reached it
changed entirely the circumstances slich had
induced the menof Baltimore to make for q
lower point than littsburg on that river The
original calculation was to intercept the great
river trade of atday, but now nearly all the
country beyond nat river is intersected by
railroads, and the traffic is secured from the far
distant and populus regions into which they
reach by the connections which we on this
side form with then. Baltimore now has three
lines striking and crossing the 0hio-South-
west, Central West and Northwest. -Bdlh-
more SIN.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1871-04-15
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

From the report of the President and Di-
rectors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad the
following appears to be the aggregate earnings,
working expenses, etc., of the road. For the
main STEM including the Winchester & Poto-
mac and the Washington county branches, and
tho Winchester and Strasburg branch from
July ], 1870, the earnings were So, 427, 72S lG;
expenses, s., 45S46O; net earnings, $2,947,-
268 16; for the Washington branch the earn
ings were 1881 ,sl4 &c; the expenses, $780,
12s 10; net earning, 1882, CSC 81; for the
ParkerSburg branch the earnings were S5Gl
SS4 90; the expenses S6G1, $50 Al; deficit,
$99,S45 A. For the Central Ohio division
the earnings were SS42. 4S5 90; expenses,
STA, ll2 co; net earnings, Sos. 825 80. For
the Lake Erie division the earnings were $685.
SOC IS; the expenses, S4l9,l52 40; net earn
ings, 2O7, 354 80. The net result is 1882,
7SG TO- On the main stem, branches and d.
visions there are 2lG passenger and baggage
cars, and cool eight-whcc house, stock and
other cars.
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the Legislature has left available to that end.
The chief objection to the adoption of the
Flick amendment is the fact that it strikes the
word white" from the list of qualifications
of voters 1t will be entirely competent for
she Convention, however, to restore that word,
and. rs far as the Constitution of West Vir-
ginia is concerned, limit the suffrage to white
men. In the meantime, the success of the
Convention should not be imperiled by ex-
Guiding from its support and from participa-
ton in its proceedings those who consider
themselves still disfranchised The FLICK
amendment is of far less importance that the
convention the latter can DO all that the
former can DO it can undo all that the amend
ment does wrong. The question is, can the
convention be called and made successful with
ont first agreeing to the amendment? This
question, which is not in any sense one of
purely party division, each friend Of the con-
yeution must answer for himself"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1871-04-15
claims of southern Loyalists.

10 reply % a letter Of inquiry from Sccrc-
ttry Of the Treasury Boutwell,. Attorney Gene
raj Akermau has delivered an opinion that Oh,
claims Of loyal citizens i'm the counties Of
Berkeley and jefferson, West Virginia, and iu
Tennessee, for property taken or furnished i1r
the use Of the Union armig, during the late
war, are now, under the acc Of March @, 1871,
upon the same footing with claims Of loyal
citizens in other jnslrgectunlry States. These
claims must therefore. come I'm common with
others before the board Of commissioners pro
yidcd by the act % consider such claims, and
all such claims not presented % the said board
shall he barred and not entertained by any Le-
partmcut of the government without further
authority Of Congress. Accounts founded
upon express contracts for the purchase of sup
plies for the army made by the proper aE"ut oi
the government, and not upon CLAIMS Tor prop
cEty taken or furnished as above indicated.
under circumstances implying an the part 90
the owners acts of submission essentially m-
voluntary In different degrees. are not affected.
Baltimore Sun.
This settles a question Which we have been
unable 10 answer. Poor Berkeley and Jcfer-
son. after being exposed 60 The cuffs and
kicks Of outrageous fortune for ten years
past, bleI aud b,is,ercl, contested territory and
transferable scris, are iujicially set down as
portions Of on "insUucctiouay State, and
such Of their citizens as have been pluudcrcl
and baGIcj are now tautalizcd with the hop,
that the Commissioners VIII examine tlcu
cases within two years. and then throw then
upon the tender mcrcies of Congress- body
that required thirty years 90 pay for Amy
Darlcs horse. and seventy years to try e.
pay for French spoEatious.
Claimants can see o copy Of The Regulation.
II the Board at this Office
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1871-04-15
APRIL 1871.
A PROCLAMATION.
Isy the Governor

EN conformity with Joint Rcsolmion No. 10
Of the Legislature, adopted February 18th
1871. notice is hereby given that an election
will be held ai every place Of voting within tho
State Of West Virginia, on the Fourth Thurs
day in April, 1871, being the 9th day there
Of to ascertain the sense Of the qualified voters
on the ratification or rejection OF the following
proposed amendment to the Constitution Of the
State, as a substitute for Section one Of Article
three thereof, namely:
"1hc male citizens Of the State shall lie en-
" titled to vote at all elections held within the
" election districts in which they respectively
" reside but no person who is a minor or Of
" unsound mind, or paupcT, or who IS under
" conviction of treason, felony or bribery in an
election, or who has not been n resident OF
" the State for one year, and Of the county in
(Which he offers to vote for thirty days next
" preceding such offer, shall be permitted 70
" vote while such disability continues"
For this purpose, Supervisors and Inspectors
of elections throughout the State, are directed
to open polls at their respective places Of vo-
ting on the day aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, ! have hercunto
set my hand, and caused the Great
Seal of the State to be affixed, at
[sEAL1 Charleston, this the 18th day Of March,
1871.
JOHN J. JACOB.
BY the Governor,
j. NJ PHELPS,
Secretary Of State.
April !, 1871.
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Ale Countl So Nee.sIon.

The questions involved in tic controversy
about the County-s,a; Of J,lcrs,u have been
disposed Of 10y Judge Hal in quite a lengthy
epirion which was announced, in chambers,
At Martiusbwg, on Wednesday last. Tie o.
Jiniou will, we learn, appear IN eyteRSo in the
Balclcy Union in its ucNt issue. It is under
stood that an the points presented are embraced
in the decision and that the ruling throughout
is against the Commissioners named in the Act
to restore the coUuty-soat to Charlcstown.
The principal points relied on to dissolve the
Injunction which had lecn obtained from
Judge Maxwell Of the Court Of Appeals were
First, That The parties plaintiffs who repre-
scented Ne Shcphcrdstown interests were not
competent to sue Second, That the Court
could not enquire into the mode and manner
Of the passage Of the act in controversy, the
certified COPY Of /. verified according TO the
forms prescribed by the Constitution and Code
of the State was conclusive both Of the pass
ace of the act and its contents; and Third,
That if such an investigation could be made
the passage Of the act was COus,i,utional-the
spirit and intcndmeut of tLat instrument hsv-
ing been fully complied with. Judge Hall
disscnts from and ovcuuleS all thopoints above
stated and goes step further and expresses
the opinion that even if there were 10 doubt
Of the enactment Of the law 10y an unquestion-
able constitutional majority, it would still be
void by reason Of the appointment Of commits
sioners to execute its provisions instead Of the
Board OF Supervisors who alone, in his judg-
ment, are under the Constitution, competent 10
discharge that duty. So that it seems that
thc act ia question although sustained ly the
vote Of DE entire Legislature would not have
been sufficient, according to the ruling of Judge
H., to have removed tie Comy-Scat from
Shcpherdstown.
The case viii go to the Court Of Appeals
Tor GuL adjudication. This Court meets at
Wheeling on the nth of July next, and as it
is q matter which concerns important interests
Of cur whole cmmuuity-it is believed that a
hearing will be had at an carly day in thc
session.
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LYnched in Virginia.

STAUNToN, April 1l.-Thomas Hodges, the
noted horse thief, murderer and desperate,
who shot and fatally wounded Wltelock, on
Friday night last, was taken from the Jail in
this place about one O'Clock this morning, and
hanged about one and a half miles from town.
The jailcr and ox-shcriff, Mr.. Cutchcn, were
both in the Jail and refused them the keys,
when they broke open the door and took
Hodges out. None Of the men who entered
the Jail were disguised, yet they were not re-
coguized by either the jailer or the ez-sherT,
being strangers to both. Hodges had shot and
killed four men previously in this locality
This first act Of lynching in this community
is universally condemned.
The last act of his life, and the one which
cNasperated the citizens of this locality beyond
endurance, was briefly reported a few days
since On the night Of the sth serious aud
probably fatal aIray occurred at Palmer's mill
about four miles from Staunton. Mr.. Palmer,
in going to his stable, found there Hodges, the
noted horse thief. Mr.. Palmer took him to the
mill and called John Whtlock, bis miller, to
assist in securing him until the matter could be
investigated. Thercupon Hodges drew pis-
tol and fired twice upon Palmer without effect
Palmer closed with him and got his weapon
from him. Upon Whitlcck approaching to
render assistance, Hodges drew a secondpistol,
while still in the clutches Of Mr.. Palmer, and
fired upon him, iuliictng wound from which
there is scarcely possibility Of his recovery
At last accounts the wounded man was still
alive, though no hopes were entertained Of his
recovery
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1871-04-15
The Masonic Reception of the Brit
iSh Commission.

The Grand Lodge Of Masons of the District
of Columbia gave a reception and banquet
Monday night, in Washington, at Masonic
Temple to Earl De Grey, as Grand Master of
Masons of England Tho occasion was Of
great interest among Nasons, it being the first
Of the kind ever known in this country.
The guests invited were Lord Tendorden,
secretary to the joint commission, Sir John
Mcdonald, Mr. Northcote, son of Sir Stafford
Northcote, aud II. Styleman lie Strange, one
ofthc secretaries Of the British legation All
II tho Grand masters OF the Grand Lodges Of
the different States were invited, many Of
whom were present. The large music Hall
was maguifccntiy decorated for the occasion.
The banner Of the Grand lodge was hung in
the cast, on the sides of which are hung the
portraits Of George Washington and Queen
Victoria, while the walls were drapcd with
American and British flags. As the reccp-
ton was purely Masonic, none but Masons
were permitted to be present.
There were about 10 Masons in all pres
cnt, including eight Senators and thirty-four
members Of Congress The Earl de Grey, by
invitation, occupied the Grand Masters chair.
Grand Master c. +. Stlusbury delivered a
glowing address of welcome, to which Earl dc
Grey fttjugly replied Grand Master STAINS
bury wore the apron and sash and used the
gaycl which formed part Of the insignic Of
WASHINGTON
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Senator Trumbull on the Ku-KluX
Blll.


Bill.
Contrary 90 previous 'utmatiouS which
could but seem improbable at The time, 60 tie
effect that Senator Trumbull had given iu ad-
hosiou TO the Ku-Kluz lin, that Senator, on
Tuesday, made speech IN very decided oppo-
sitou 20 tie pending amendments TO that Jjll
MI Tumbu,l IS a republican who docs not.
ou great legal and constitutional questions.
ignore the force Of treason and knowledge In be-
lalf Of merely partisan interests. lie denied
that the fourteenth amendment conferred any
rights Of citizenship not contained originally
IN lie constitution. While that amendment
enabled Congress 20 protect a citizen from O.
discrimination against his rights by State, It
dil not allow Congress to exercise police pow
eY l0 the destruction Of State authority. Con-
gross had no right to substitute the federal for
the State courts The latter Were nearer the
people, and the nearer the administration of
Justice between man and man was brought 60
Tie people themselves, the safer would be- their
rights 10 person and property. When The fed
cral government took TO itself the entire pro
lection Of tLo individual citizen Of the State In
bis person and property, there would be an
end 10 the State government, resulting in on
unwise cha 20 in cur governmental system
These yieas are very wholesome, and we are
glad to fud them In q republican senators
mouth - Eal'iHorr Nal.
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"YoU Know How IT Is YOURSELF. "-Sena-
tor Koonce is reported as saying in explanation
Of his motion in Committee to insert in the
appropriation bill, a clause giving 81, 600 to a
Confederate Cemetery at Hagcrstown-that lie
" wanted to see how far the id rascals would
60 Presumiug that the honorable Senator's
right hand has not lost its cunning, and that
he can still hold his own with the rest, we
would suggest that he might ascertain the
average progress Of " id rascaity" by OBJ
serving how far he himself Las travelled. He
ought to know now it is hmself-C Charles
ton Courier
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AZ Ex-CoNFEpERATE OGDAINED.-Colonol
Wm Munfor3. formerly Of the Seventeenth
Virginia Regiment, was, on Sunday last, or
daincd deacon in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, at Wilmington, y c. The Right
Rev Thomas Atkinson, Bishop Of North Caro-
lima, oliciated Col Muuford is a son Of Col.
George Wytho Munford, for many years Sec
rotary of State of Virginia and wcll-known
citizen Of Richmond.
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April Is, lS7l-3t.
FIRE INSURANCE.

VNfE undersigned was in January last appointed
one of the General Insurance Agents for the
PEABODY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
ut Wheeling, for the Counties of jefferson, Bcrke-
ley, Hampshire, Morgan, Hardy and Grant, and
having charge of tho Valley Fire Insurance risks
transferred to the Peabody Company, respectfully
asks those wanting repeWdls or ne,c insurance, to
call or comm nnfcase with him at Charlestown.-
The Peabody is well known in this and adjoining
counties as frsirase responsible and liberal
Company.
J. ED. DUKE,
no Office as McCurdy Dukes Hardware
Store.
ApriI Is, ISTl-Gt
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ArPoINTMENT.-Although the official an
nouncement has been made it is generally un-
derstood that Governor Walker, Of Virginia,
has, under the new militia bill, appointed
James W. Walker, Of Madison, member Of the
last house Of Delegates, adjutant general of the
Virginia militia, in the place Of Gen. Richard
son, who has occupied that position for mp
wards Of thirty years.