Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-04-11

Ond year thereafter, is hereby fixed and es-
tablished as the day for the election, IN
each of said States and Territories, of Rep
resentatives and Delegates to the Congress
commencing on the fourth day OF March
next thereafter.
SEC. 4. That if, upon trial, there shall
be failure to elect Representative or
Delegate in Congress in any State, District,
or Territory, upon the day hereby fixed
and established for such election, or II, al
ter any such election, vacancy shall oc-
curr in any such State District, or Terri
tory, from death, resignation, or otherwise,
an election shall be held to fill any Vacan-
CIV caused by such failure, resignation,
death or otherwise, atSuch time as is or
NAV be provided by law for filling vacan-
cies in the State or Territory in which the
same may occur.
SEC <. That no State shall hereafter be
admitted to the Union without having the
necessary population to entitle it to at
| least one Representative according to the
| ratio of representation fixed by this bill.
SEC. 6. That should any State, after the
passage of this act, deny or abridge the
| right of any of the male inhabitants of
| such State, being twenty-One years of age,
and citizens of the United States, to vote
at any election named in the amendments
| to the Constitution, article fourteen Sec
ton two, except for participation in the
| rebellion or other crime, the number of
Representatives apportiOned in this act to
such State shall be reduced in the proper
| ton which the number of such male citi-
zens shall have to the whole number of
male citizens twenty-one years Of age In
| such State.
Approved, February 2, 1872.
AN ACT to authorize the pay ment of du-
plicate checks of disbursing officers.
Be it enacted blythe Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States of
ADlerica IN Congress assembled, That in
place of original checks, when lost, stolen,
| or destroyed, disbursing officers and agents
of the United States are hereby author
| lied, after the expiration of six months
from thedate of such checks, and within
three years from such date, to issue dupli-
cate checks, and the Treasurer, assistant
treasurers, and designated depositaries Of
the United States are directed to pay such
checks, drawn in pursuance of law by such
officers or agents, upon notice and proof
of the loss o. the original check or checks,
under such regulations in regard to their
issue and payment, and upon the eXecu-
ton of such bonds, with SuretieS, to in
demnify the United States, as the Secre-
tary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Pro-
Uided, That this act shall not apply to any
check exceeding in amount the sum of one
thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. That in case the disbursing of
ficer or agent by whom such lost, destroy
ed or stolen original check was issued, he
dead, Or no longer in the service of the
United States, it shall be the duty of the
proper accounting officer, under such reg
ulatiOns as the Secretary of the Treasury
shall prescribe, to state an account in IA
vOr of the owner of such original check
for the amount thereof, and to charge such
amount to the account of such officer or
agent.
Approved February ,, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. ~
AN ACT to admit certain machinery i'm
ported from foreign countries free of du-
ty.
Be 1t enacted 6y the Senate and House of
Representatives. Of the United States of
AnlericG in Congress assembled, That the
Calcasieu Sulphur and Mining Company
of New Orleans be, and is hereby, permit
ted to import, free of duty, under such
rules and regulations as the Secretary of
the Treasury shall prescribe, certain ma
chinery and accompanying implements
for the purpose of, and to be used only in,
making series of experiments in mining
for sulphur in the parish of Calcasieu, in
the State of Louisiana: Provided, That
the value of such importations shall not
exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand
dollars, and that said machinery and i'm
plements be imported within one year
from and after the passage of this act.
Approved, February ?, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. s.
AN ACT to establish certain post-routes
in the State of iowa.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
Anlertcd IN Congress assembled, That the
following be, and the same are hereby, es-
tablished as post-routes in the State of
Iowa:
From Franklin, in Winneshiek County,
State of Iowa, to Washington Prairie, in
in the same county also,
From Waukon, in Allamakee County,
in the State of Iowa, via Ruu's, Dorches-
ter, Wilmington, to Caledonia, in the State
of Minnesota.
Approved, February ,, 1872.
~. GENERAL NATURE-NO. 0.
AN ACT to exempt the iron steam ice
boats constructed by the city of Phila-
delphia from the inspection required by
the act of February twenty-eighth, eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-One, entitled
81" An act to provide for the better secH:i-
ty of life OH board of vessels propelled in
whole or in part by steam, and for other
purposeS.n
Be it enacted 6y the Senate and House Of
Representatives. of the United States of
An1erjcCL ilI Congress assembled, That the |
iron steam ice-bOats, constructed by the |
city of Philadelphia for the purpose of
keeping open the navigation of the rivers |
Delaware and Schuillull during the winter |
months, be, and they are hereby, exempt |
from the inspection required by |
the act approved twenty-eighth of Febru-
arv eighteen hundred and SeVenty-One