Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-10-04
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Second Session OF Inc FORTY
Second Congress.
rpr,ra.,tsuED By AUTHORITY
TGESERAI NATURE-No. 49.]

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trict in the State of Oregon.
20 if enacted, &C., That all that portion
Of Tho state or Oregon lying south of the
fourth standard parallel south of the base
line between townships eighteen and
nineteen south, and east of the meridian
line between ranges five and six in said
State, shall constitute an additional last
district, to be called the Linkton district;
and the office of said district shall be To-
Gated at Linkville, subject to be changed
by the President of the United States as
the public interest may require.
Sec. .. That the President be, and he
is hereby, authorized to appoint, in ac-
cordance with existing laws authorizing
appointments to office, register and re-
ceiver for the district hereby created, who
shall each be required to reside at the site
of the office for said district, have the same
powers, responsibilities, and emoluments,
and Be subject to the same acts and penal
ties which are or may be prescribed by law
in relation to other land offices of the
United States for the State of Oregon.
Sec. 8. That all sales and localities made
at the offices of the district in which the
lands embraced in this district have hith-
erto been included, situate within the linn
its of this district, which shall be valid
and right in other respects up to the day
on which the new office shall go into Ope-
ration, be, and the same are hereby, con-
firmed. ....
Approved, April q, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 81.
AN ACT TO amend section second, act of
August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and
fifty-two, in relation to the transportation
and expectation of imported goods, wares,
and merchandise in bond through GER
tain ports in the State of Texas. ...
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of the act of August thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and fifty-two, entitled can act
authorizing imported goods, wares and
merchandise, entered and bonded for ware
housing in pursuance of law, to be export
ed by certain routes to ports and places in
Mexico be SO amended that imported
merchandise, duly entered and bonded at
port of the United States, and withdrawn
from warehouse in accordance with exist
ing laws, for exportatation for SanFernan-
do, Paso del NOrte, and chihuahua, in
Mexico, shall pass through Indianola, the
port of entry for the Saluria, in the State
of Texas, under such regulations as the
Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe,
as well as through the port of Lavaca, in
said district as required by said section.
Approved, April 80, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 81
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to authorize the construction of bridge
across the Missouri river at or near st.
Joseph, Missouri, ~ approved March fifth,
eighteen hundred and seVenty-tWo.
Be it enacted, &C., That the first section
of the act entitled IAN act to authorize the
construction of bridge across the Missou-
ri river at or near st. Joseph, Missouri"
approved March fifth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-twO, be, and the same is here
by, amended so as to read as follows: Sec
ton l. That it shall be lawful for the st.
Joseph Bridge Building Company, a cor
poration organized for that purpose under
the general corporation laws of the State
of Missouri, or its assigns, to construct
bridge across the Missouri river at or near
st. Joseph, Missouri, and to lay on and
over said bridge railway tracks for the more
perfect connection of any and all railways
that are now, or which may hereafter be,
constructed to the Missouri at or near st.
Joseph, or to the river on the opposite side
of the same, near ST. Joseph and build,
erect, and lay on and over said bridge ways
for wagons, vehicles of all kinds, and for
the transit of animals, and to provide ways
for foot-passengers, and to keep up, main
tain, and operate said bridge for the pur-
poses aforesaid; and that when said bridge
is constructed, all trains of all railroads
terminating at said river, and on the oppo-
site side thereof, at or nearS st. Joseph, Mis-
souri,, shall be allowed to cross said bridge
for reasonable compensation, to be made to
the owners of the same, under the limita-
tons and conditions hereafter named. The
owners of said bridge may also charge and
receive reasonable compensation or tolls
for the transit over the said bridge of all
wagons, carriages, vehicles, animals, and
fOot-passengers. -.....
Sec. 2. That the fifth section of the act
nf WI iC nHofo lDn
same is hereby, amended so as to read as
follows: Section 5. That the st. Joseph
Bridge Building Company, after the pass
age of this act, shall not have the right to
assign the charter which said company
now holds by assignment from the st. Jos
eph and Denver City Railroad Company,
and which was granted to said last-named
company by virtue of an act of Congress,
approved July fourteenth, eighteen hun
dred and seventy, to any other company
person, or persons; nor shall said bridge
building company be permitted, under the
SAID charter so obtained as aforesaid, from
the st. Joseph and Denver City Railroad
Company, to construct any other bridge
than the one now being constructed there
under, in the manner and for the purposes
i'll and for which the said bridge building
company is or may be authorized by or UNI
der the laws of the State of Missouri to
n.Ortgage its property.
Approved, May l, 1872.
GENERAL NATURE-NO. 53.l
AN ACT repeating the duty on tea and
coffee.
Be it enacted &C., That on and after the
first day of July next tea aud coffee shall
be placed on the free list, and no further
import duties shall be collected upon the
same. And all tea and coffee which may
bs in the public stores or bonded ware.
houses on said first day of July, shall
be subject to no duty upon the entry there.
of for consumption, and all tea and coffee
remaining in bonded warehouses on said
first day of July, upon which the duties
shall have been paid, shall be entitled to a
refund of the duties paid. : =
Approved, May l, 1872.