New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-30
GENERAL NArURE--No. III
AN ACT to pay two companies Of Oregol
vOlunteerN

GENERAL NATURE--NO. IL.
AN ACT to pay two companies Of Oregon
volunteers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That the
act Of Congress entitled IAN act to author
ixe the Secretary of War to settle and adj
just the expenses of the Rogue river In
dian war;" approved the seventeenth of
July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. be
companies of Oregon volunteers, COM
manded BY Captains Jesse Walker and
Nathan Olney, called into service to sup
press Indian hostilities in Oregon in eight
cen hundred and fifty flour.
j. G. BLAINE,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
SCHUYLER COLFAX.
Vice President of tho United States and
President of the Senate.
Received by the President January q.
1871. 4e8 II ls ss .s..as -
fNorE BIZ THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
The foregoing oct 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 time prescribed by the
Constitution of the United States, has BE-
come law without his approval.
s. fGENERAI, NA1uRE-N0. 10.1
AN ACT for tie relief Of Anton smith.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United Ststes OF
America in Congress assembled, That Arm
ton Smith have leave to make . new appli-
cation to the Commissioner of Patents for
the extension Of the letters-patent granted
to him for IN improvement in plOwe, ON the
sixteenth day Of January, eighteen hundred
and fifty-five, for fourteen years from said
date, in the same manner as he could have
done At least ninety days before the expire
tiOn of said patent, and that the Commits
si0ner of Patents be authorized to consider
and determine said application in the same
manner, and with the same effect, as # it
had been fled ninety DAYS before the expira-
ton Of the patent; Provided, That any such
extension of said patent shall not affect the
rights to continue to use such improvement
in plows of any person who, since the six
teenth day Of January, eighteen hundred
and sixty-nine, and prior to the approval Of
this act, may have procured, and at the time
pr0vement in pl0ws. H
Approved, January 81, 1871.
(REsoLUTION OF GENERAL NATURE-No. ~
A RESOLUTION directing the Secretary
Of War to sell Bergen Heights Arsenal.
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of War be, and he Il hereby. au-
thOrized and directed to sell ct public auc-
ton, to the highest bidder, the lands and
tenements belonging to the United States.
situate in the county Of Hudson and State
Of New Jersey, and known q the Berren
Heights arsenal. The sale shall be made ON
the ground after thirty days notice in the
Newark Daily Advertiser and Newark Eve
ming Courier, papers published in the city
OF Newark; in the Daily Times, and Eve
n mn journal, papers psblished in Jersey
Times and New York Tribune, papers pub
ished IN the city Of New York; and the pro
ceeds arising from said sale shall be paid
into the treasury Of the United States; and
the Secretary Of War is hereby authorized
upon the said sale to make good and sufi-
caent conveyance Of the said property to the
purchaser Or purchasers thereof.
Approved, February 8, 1871.
f0ENERAL NATURE-No. H. 81
AN ACT to divide the State of Virginia
into two judicial districts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled, That the
counties of Abemerle, Allegheny, Amherst.
Appomstox, Afu]gusta, Bath, Bedford.
Bland, Botetcu(rlt Buchanan, Buckine.
ham, Campbell, Carroll, Charlotte, Clarke,
Craig, Cumberland, Floyd, Tranklin. Fred.
erick, Fluvanna, Giles, ,Grayson. Green.
Halifax, Henry, Highland, Teo. Iadis6m''
Montgomery, Nelson, Patrick, Page, Pul.
Roekbridge, RoCkineSam. Rnasell. SSott'
Smyth, shenandoah, Tasewell. WasRinetnn,'
We Wisc, wytne, and Warren, Of the State Of
virginia, shall hereafter constitute 5 new
judicial dlseict Of the United Statee, and H.
celiea the western district Of 'Virrinia: end
s sse. ctcmt and district courts ef The United
shsn p held It Lynchbnfr, Dansiile,