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- UH-NH1INI4 NAIUKE-NO. II.
AN ACI to cede to the State of Ohio the
unsold lands in the Virginia military dis
trict in said State.
BE 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That
the lands remaining unsurveyed and
unsoid in the Virginia military district
IN the State of Ohio be. and the
same are hereby coded to the State of
OHIO, upon the conditions following, to-wit:
any person who, at the time of the passage
OF this act, is bona fide settler on any por-
ton of said land may hold not exceeding
one hundred and sixty acres so by him oe
eupied by his pre-empting the same in such
manner as the Legislature of the State Of
Ohio may direct.
Approved February Is, 1871.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12
lREsoLUTloN OF GENERAL NATURE-NO. 81 i
A RESOLUTION for the relief of settlers
on the public lands.

UIl lIIO' PIIUIIU IdiItIS'
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That set
tiers on the public lands of the United
States who have been required to make
proof and payment for their lands under
the act to extend the provisions of the pre-
emption laws to the Territory of Colorado,
and for other purposes, approved July four
teen, eighteen hundred and seventy, and
by instructions from the General Land
Office, under date of July thirty, eighteen
hundred and seventy, shall have twelve
months additional time given them under
which to make such proof and payment.
Approved, March 5, 1871
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12

Lynchburg furnishes the latest snake
story. 1t is that a snake of enormous size
has a den in one of the graves of the Pres
byterian graveyard. Parties who have ex-
amined the alleged den assert that he is by
far the largest serpent ever seen in that
county. The den is declared to be in the
grave. and those who seem to know most
about it assert that he has taken his abode
in the coffin with the dust of its occupant:
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed mt the Third Session of the Forty
First Congress.

RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE-No. 81
and preservation of the food fishes of the
coast of the United States.
WHEREAS 1t is asserted that the most
valuable food fishes of the coast and the
lakes of the United States are rapidly di-
minishing in number, to the public injury
and so as materially to affect the interests
of trade and commences; therefore,
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
President be, and he hereby is, authorized
and required to appoint, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, from
among the civil officers or employees of the
government, one person of proved scientific
and practical acquaintance with the hshes.
of the coast, to be commissioner of fish and
fisheries, to serve without additional salary.
SEC. =. And be it further resolved, That
it shall be the duty OF said commissioner to
prosecute investigations and inquiries on
the subject, with the view of ascertaining
whether any and what diminution in the
number of the food fishes of the coast and
the lakes of the United States has taken
place; and, if so, to what causes the same is
due; and also whether any and what pro-
tective, pTohibit0ry, or precautionary meas
ures should be adopted in the premises; and
to report upon the same to Congress.
SEC. g. And be it further resolved, That
the heads of the executive departments be,
and they are hereby, directed to cause to be
rendered all necessary and practicable aid
to the said commissioner in the prosecution
of the Investigations and inquiries afore-
said.
SEC. 4. And he it further resolved, That
it shall be lawful for said commissioner TO
take, or cause to be taken, at all times, in
the waters of the United States, where the
tide Gibbs and flows, and also in the waters
of the lakes, such fish or specimens thereof
as may in his Judgment from time to time,
be needfuI or proper for the conduct of his
duties as aforesaid. any law, custom or
usage of any State to the contrary notwith-
standing.
Approved February 9. 1871.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12
Approved February Ii, 1871.
GENERAL NATuRE-No. u |


AN ACT prescribing an oath of office to be
taken by persons who participated in the
late rebellion, but who are not disqualified
from holding office by the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution Of the
United States.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That when
any person, who is not rendered ineligible
to office by the provisions of the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution, shall be elect
Ell or appointed to any office of honor or trust
under the government Of the United States,
and shall not be able on account of his par
ticipation in the late rebellion TO take the
oath prescribed in the act of Congress, APP
proved July two, eighteen hundred and
sixty-two, said person shall, IN lieu of said
oath, before entering upon the duties of said
office. take and subscribe the oath pre-
scribed in an act of Congress entitled IAN
act prescribing an oath of Office to be taken
by persons from whom legal disabilities
shall have been removed" approved July
eleven, eighteen hundred and sixty eight.
j. G.. BLAINE,
Speaker of the House or Representatives
SCHUYLER COLLAR.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate
Received by the President February 3.
1871.
NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
The foregoing act having been presented to
the President of the United States for his
approval, and not having been returned by
him to the house of Congress in which it
originated within the timeprescribed by the
constitution of the United States, has be-
come law without his APPROVAL
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12

A young fellow chopping wood near Sa-
lem, Oregon, accidentally unearthed a pile
sef gold coins, worth in all s4QQ,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12
Approved, March 3, 1871.

[REsoLUTIoN OF GENERAL NATURE-No. I9. I
A RESOLUTION to amend a "Joint reso-
luton relating to steamboats, and other
vessels owned in the loyal States" APP
proved December twenty-three, eighteen
hundred and sixty-nine.
Resolved by the Senate and House of KEEP
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12


JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the sale
of portion of the Fort Leavenworth mill
tary reservation to the Kansas Agricultu-
raj and Mechanical Association, of Leaven-
worth county, i'll the State of Kansas, for
fair grounds
Be it resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Kansas Agricultural and Mechanical Asso-
citation, corporate body organized under
and by virtue of the laws of the State of
Kansas, is hereby authorized to purchase
from the United States, for the sole purpose
and use of such association as a fair ground,
and for experimental agriculture and horti-
culture, that portion of he Fort Leaven-
worth military reservation bounded and de-
scribed as follows, viz:
Commencing at the southeast corner of
the premises herein described, at point one
hundred feet north and in continuation of
the west line of Sixteenth street, as laid
down and recorded in the map. of the city of
Leavenworth, and one hundred feet north
of the south line of said reservation; thence
running westerly and parallel To said south
boundary two thousand five hundred and
eighty feet to the east line of Nineteenth
street: thence northerly and in continual
ton of the east side of said Nineteenth street
two thousand one hundred and seventy-five
feet; thence easterly and parallel to the
south line of said reservation two Thousand
five hundred and eighty feet: thence south
erly and parallel to the west line of the prem
ises herein described two thousand one hun
bred and sevsnty-five feet, TO the place of
beginning, containing one hundred and
twenty-eight and eighty-two one hundredth
acres of land, more or less; reserving to the
government or assigns the right to the coal,
or royalty tor coal, underlying the same
SEC. 2 And be it further resolved. That
the Secretary of War is hereby directed to
appoint commission of competent army
officers, of such number as he may deem
best, Which said commission shall, without
unnecessary delay. examine and report the
true value of the land hereinbefOre de-
scribed to the Secretary of War On re-
cept of this report. the Secretary OF War
viii forward certified copies of the same to
the Secretary of the Interior and to the
Kansas Agricultural Association
SEC. 3. And be it further resolved, That
whenever the association thus notified shall
place to the credit of the United States
with the Treasurer of the United States, in
lawful money, the amount of said appraisal,
and notified the Secretary of the Interior of
such deposit, it shall be the duty of the Sec
rotary of the Interior to cause to be issued
to the said Kansas Agricultural and Mechan-
ical Association a patent for the said land
above described: Provided, That the assO-
clation shall make the said deposit within
one year from the date of the notice Of APP
praisal from the Secretary of War.
Approved, February 9, 1871.
CPrsor T-T,oN nr GENrpAf N.rrpr-No IN I
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12

RESOLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE-NO. 1S
JOINT RESOLUTION to enable owners
to obtain duplicates of lost and destroyed
registered bonds of the United States.
Resolved by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby
is, authorized and directed, whenever it is
proved by clear and satisfactory evidence
that any duly registered bond of the United
States, bearing interest, issued for valuable
consideration in pursuance of law, has been
lost or destroyed, so that the same is not
held by any person as his own prop
erty, to issue a. duplicate of said
registered bond, to be so marked, of like
amount, and bearing like interest as the
bond SO proved to be lost or destroyed:
PrOrided, That the owner of such missing
bond shall file in the treasury a bond in
penal sum equal to the amount of said miss
ing bond, and the interest which would ac-
crue thereon, until the principal thereof is
due and payable, with two good and suf-
hclent sureties, residents of the United
states, to the approval of the Secretary of
the treasury, with condition to indemnify
and save harmless the United States from
any claim because of the said lost or de-
stroyed bond.
Approved, March 3. 1871
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12
GENERAL NATURE-No. % I

AN ACI making appropriations for the
support of the Military Academy for the
fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen
hundred and seventy-twO.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States IN Con-
gress assembled, That the following sums be
and the same are hereby appropriated out
OF the money i'll the treasury not otherwise
appropriated for the support of the Military
Academy for the year ending the thirtieth
of June, eighteen hundred and seventy
two:
For additional pay of officers, and for paw
of instructors, cadets, and musicians, two
hundred and twenty-eight thousand seven
hundred and seventy-fve dollars and fifty
cents.
For repairs and improvements. twenty
two thousand five hundred dollars
For fuel and apparatus, fourteen thou
sand dollars.
For annual repairs of gas pipes. GAS
metres and retorts, six hundred dollars
For fuel for cadets mess hall, and shops,
and laundry, three thousand five hundred
dollars.
For postage and kilograms, two hundred
dollars.
For stationery, five hundred dollars,
For transportation, one thousand two
hundred dollars.
For type and materials for Office and
diplomas for graduates, four hundred
dollars.
., For cadet registers, class reports, and
blanks, three hundred dollars
For compensation to pressman and
photographer, one hundred dollars.
For clerk to disbursing officer and quar-
termaster, one thousand six hundred and
fifty dollars.
For clerk to adjutant, one thousand five
hundred dollars.
For clerk to treasurer, one thousand five
hundred dollars.
Department OF instruction in mathemat-
les: For surveyors compass, tifty-eight dol
lars; chain eight dollars; leveling rod, six
teen dollars; measuring tapes, twelve dol
lars; repairs to instruments, twenty dollars:
text books for instructors, twenty dollars:
in ALL one hundred and thirty-four dollars
Artillery, cavalry and infantry tactics:
Tan bark for riding hall and gymnasium
one hundred and fifty dollars; stationery
for assistant instructors of tactics, one hun
dred dollars furniture for offices of com
mandant and officer in charge. and the
reception room for visitors, three hundred
dollars; for repairs and new apparatus
for gymnasium, five hundred dollars: in
all. one thousand and fifty dollars.
Civil and military engineering: For
models, maps and textbooks for instruc-
tors, five hundred dollars,
Natural and experimental philo-
sophy: For pocket barometer. seventy
five dollars; for compasses, sixty dollars
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-12

[REsoLUTIoN OF GENERAL NATURE-No. Is. !
JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of
John E. Hagerty, of ST. Louis, Mis-
souri,.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Postmaster General be and is hereby d-
rected to readvertise for the transportation
OF all mails in the city ofSt. Louis, now under
contract with John f. Hagerty, and release
him from his bond provided, that new ser
vice under said advertisement can be Sc
cured at reasonable rate.
Approved, February -, 1871.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-17

tanning q variety of minerals varying in their
relative proportions in different springs. Most
all diseases are cured here except consump-
ton, even very bad and long standing cases
of paralysis have gone away entirely cured.
At the mouth of the canon, where it opens
into Monticello valley, is large grapevine,
said to be the largest grapevine in the world,
its trunk as large as a mans body, its branch
es covering an acre of ground. 1t produces
grapes of a very large but not very pal
atable variety, by the ton, q dare not say
how many.) Hundreds of people come here
to see this wonder. The old lady who plant
ed this remarkable vine, died some years
since. Before dying she made will distrib-
uting her little property, (then almost value
less, among her children, by giving one the
vine, another the land on which it grew, and
to others different rooms in the little house
in which she lived, The grapevine is much
the most valuable part of the property, the
owner receiving quite revenue from the sale
of its fruit, at twenty-five cents bunch, to
the many strangers who visit it.
feople OF the eastern states VINO nave new
er visited this coast, can have no more than
vague idea of the great future Of prosperity
that lies before it. If there were no other
resources, the fruit-tree and vine alone would
in no great length of time render it famous
The season is so long, the sky so cloudless,
and the air so dry, that it is peculiarly adapted
to the raising of fruit, and for grapes espe-
cially. l have heard those who have lived
years in foreign wine producing countries,
and who profess to be judges of good wine,
pronounce the wines of California, at the
same age, far superior to those of any other
country. G. II. II.
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We protest against the unfairness dis
played in making Simpson OF the Bel
fast Journal, the only candidate among the
democratic editors for Governor. Any
of them could stand till they are knocked
down as well as he. There's Adams OF
Portland, very chevalier of democracy,
Argus-eyed, bold as lion, the hero OF
many well fought battle; Noyes of Saco,
an honest, deserving, true and tried veteran
in the cause; Jordan of Augusta, young,
good looking, capable, and just from the
Forks where he has been studying the
wonderful resources of the State In black
flies and other natural productions; Eme
ry of Bangor, martyr for the resolves
of 179S the principle of which is--how
not TO do 1t Drisko of Machias, pro-
gressive democrat, usually ahead of his
party but always within the sound of the
bugle. There is a list not to be overlook
ed in the three or four score of candidates
The chief reason why Simp-
son S name has been mentioned is because
Of a recent very learned and curious arti-
Gle in his paper upon Pollywogs. There's
nothing like writing about Pollywogs to
give an editor standing in the democratic
party.
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CITY HALL, PORTLAND,
Thursday, June %. 1871.

-tf4st AT TEN O'CLOCK, A. NJ,
for the purpose Of nominating candidate for Gev
ernor and transactiDg any other business that may
properly come before the convention.
The basis of representation will be as follows =
Each city, town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate and an additional for every rs votes
for the Republican candidate for Governor in 1865
fraction of 40 votes, additional to the full number
for delegate is also entitled to a delegate.
Delegates are authorized to fill vacancies only
with actual residents of the county to which the
town belongs. .HH
The State Committee will be in session at the
Reception Room of the Hall, at O'Clock, the morn
ing of the convention for the reception of creden
Hals. Ets9g sft.Y bonn H5=f a.-rf'.-
JAMES G. BLAINE, Kennebec, Chairman.
WIN. p. FRYE, Androscoggn.
EBEN WOODBURY., Aroostook. ..
FREDERICK ROBIE, Cumberland
80 WILLIAM +. LOWELL, Franklin.
JOHN d. HOPKINS Hancock.
PAUL STEVENS, Knox.
EDWIN FIVE, Lincoln.
E. c. HARRINGTON, Oxford.
WILLIAM p. WINGATE, Penobscot.
z. A. THOMPSON, Piscataquis.
j. W. WAKEFIELD, Sagadahoc.
HIRAM kNOWLTON, Somerset
Sc. THURL0W, Waldo.
IGNATIUS SARGENT, Washington.
JOHN q. BUTLER, York.
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STATE OF MAINE.
General Order No. ..

So much of General Order No s, from these Head
Quarters dated January 8, 1871, as placed the
"Capital Guards" Of Augusta on probation, is, up
on the recommendation of the Inspector General,
hereby rescinded, and this company, now under
command of First Lieutenant William II. II. Ware
win assume its former position among the troops
of the State. M Il. l.. f.t.s: 4s-fs ....- ~.
By order of the, s5..........
= Governor and COMMANDMENTS Chief.
B. B. MURRAY, JR, Adjutant General. .
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Republican State Convention

The Republicans of Maine and all others who
support the present National and State Admnistra-
tons are invited to send delegates to State Con-
veution to BE holden in
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GENERAL NE VS..

Georgia is DESTROYS of establishing Swedish
colonies on her unoccupied lands.
The books in the library belonging to the
British Museum occupy twelve miles of shelly
ing.
London bird fanciers do thriving business
in painting sparrows and selling them as ca
nary birds.
One person is born every four minutes, and
another dies every seven minutes in London.
A man arrested in Halifax and sent back to
Demerara for murder, jumped overheard on
arriving, and was kindly taken in by a shark.
A physician asking a renewal of note,
gave as a reason: "We are in horrible cri-
sis there is. not sick man in the district"
The champion palm-leaf hat braider in New
Hampshire is girl who recently braided
twenty-five hats in one day. A dozen is con-
sidered very good days work.
A lady wants an ordinance passed to buy
eggs by the pound, as she say the farmers
who raise the eggs have sieve through which
they 8 lift all the small ones for market, keep
ing the large ones to eat at home.
As a Western District Attorney said, sum-
ming up against criminal charged with hem
stealing, sit is the greatest piece of moral
turpentine that was ever known since the Falls
of Niagara" au.t...nHu
The next Methodist Episcopal General
Conference will, it is supposed, have to elect
five or six new bishops, and consequently there
is great deal of talk among the Methodists
as to the man on whom the honor is likely to
fall.
The Salem Observer says that 'there is but
one perfectly sure and perfectly safe article
that we know of to kill currant worms. This
is, one pound of copperas, dissolved in seven
gallons of water. One sprinkling usually
does the work-and it does not harm the foil
age"
A census taker out West reports eight
thousand colonies in his district, "There
used to be more in that part of the county,"
he says, shut large number of them have
been raised to generals"
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Protection has ruined the commerce of
Maine. Bangor Democrat. ...
Protection has built the lighthouses, bea-
cons. buoys, and breakwaters, that line our
seacoast, lakes andrivers, andpreservedthe
coasting trade for American vessels. The
theory of the Democrat would level every
lighthouse. leaving our vessels to destruc-
ton, 80 that not even a line of steamers
could be maintained from Bangor to Bos
ton, and it would put the coasting trade
into the hands of foreigners. Protection
has given generous support to com
merce, and for reasons OF a similar char
acter it has aided in the promotion of man
ufactures, mining, and agriculture. With
out Protection the commerce of Maine
could not have existed. Ask our mariners
how they would like to navigate oul
shores in storm, fog and darkness, with
out the aid of the beacons that protect
them from shipwreck, and from then
learn what Protection has done for com
mercs. asf1RQ RS gsn9rfHE
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The refusal of the authorities of Boston
and Charlestown to allow Col. Jim Fisk,
Jr. to parade his regiment on the public
grounds in either city on Sunday, to hold
religious services, is rather severe on Fisk.
He can solace himself by rejecting how
the old Covenanters We're treated, and fan
cy himself second Oliver Cromwell
Jim has been prosecuted somewhat by bat
women, bad liquor and the pranks o
Gould, but we never anticipated hearing
of his persecution on account of his piety
If he should raise the ''sword of the Lore
and of Gideon" what would become o
his Opera-house, dancing nymphs, ant
the ''high jinksn with ErieP
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1--WE discussed the other day." says the
New York Times, the Subject of narrow.
gauge railways. There can be no doubt
that this question is rising into importance
among us, and reaching its solution in a
very practical way. 1t now looks as ii
Connecticut enterprise would be accredited
with the promptest acceptance of the new
system, for on last Wednesday the Legis-
lative Railroad Committee of that State
had before it petitioner for narrow
gauge railroad from Hartford to Unionville.
According to the engineers estimates, this
projected road is TO be fifteen miles long,
and to have gauge of two and a half
feet. The road-bed is estimated at ten
feet where there are excavations. and
eight feet where entertainments are neees-
sary. 1t is expected that the road will be
built for &146, 800, or less than ten thous-
and dollars per mile. The promoters Of
the enterprise press the project with re-
ference TO the great additional freighting
facilities it will afford the people of that
district. No opposition to the petition has
re- been made. and as it is an experiment
which can neither cost the State anything,
NOR invade the rights of existing railroad
monopolies. there is no good reason why
the narrow-gauge problem should not be
worked ont in Connecticut cradle
II invention and enterprise"