Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-05-23


An act to continue in force and amend an act
entitled An act to establish q bureau for the
relief of freedmen and refugees, and for other
purposes" approved July sixteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty six; and all bonds purchas-
ed with the proceeds of such sales, and all mons
lands by the direct-tax commissioners for the
district of South Carolina, under the instrucs
tons of President Lincoln, dates September
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty three,
shall be turned over to the Secretary of the
Treasury by the officers of the government, ip
and said moneys shall be by said Secretary in-
vested in bonds of the Unite ed States. and with
said aforenamed bonds shall be by him retain
ed as fund for the use and support of free pub
lie schools in the parishes of Saint Helena and
Saint Luke South Carolina, in equal parts the
interest of which shall annually be expended
to increase the efficiency of any free public
schools established and sustained in said par
shes by authority of said State, if such school
shall exist, otherwise at the discretion of the
commissioners hereinafter named; and such
expenditures shall be made under the direction
and control of special board of three eommis>
sioners, who shall be appointed by and act UNI
der the direction of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and removable at his discretion, and shall
be duly sworn that they will faithfully dis,
charge their duties as such commissioners and
shall give such good and sufficient bonds there
for as said Secretary shall require, and who
shall not receive more than one hundred dol
lars per year each for their services also, that
the dUect-tax commissioners for the district OF
South Carolina, heretofore performed in accord
ance with the instructions of Abraham Lin
coin, President of the United States of Ameri-1
ca to the direct-tax commissioners fO- the dis
trict of South Carolina, dated September six
teenth, eighteen hundred and sixty three and
the same are hereby confirmed, so far as they
relate to the renting of the school farms, so
called in the said parishes. and the disburse-
ment of the proceeds thereof" This act shall
be subject to amendment or repeal at the pleas
ure of Congress r,r
Approved, March 8, 1878.
GENERAL NATURE-No. s9]
An Act for the creation Of court for the adju>
dication and disposition Of certain moneys re-
neiven into the treasury under an award
made by the tribunal of arbitration cOnstitu-
ted by virture of the article of the treaty con-
cluded at Washington the eighth of May,
ammo Domini, eighteen hundred and seventy
one, between the United States of America
and the Queen of Great Britain
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hcuse of
Representatives of the United States of Ameri- |
ca in Congress assembled, That Immediately |
upon the payment of the sum of money award |
en- to the United States by the tribunal of arbi-
tratien at Geneva to be paid by the government |
of Great Britain the same shall be paid into the
treasury, and used to redeem, so far as it may, |
the public debt of the United States, and the |
amount equal to the debt so sedeemed shall be |
invested in the five per cent. registered bonds |
of the United States to be held subject to the |
future disposition of Congress.
Approved March 8, 1873.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 90.]
An Act to place colored persons who enlisted |
in the army on the same footing as other SOL |
diers as to bounty and pension.
Be it enacted by the Senate and house of |
Representatives of the United States of Ameri !
ca in Congress assembled, That all colored per- |
sons who enlisted in the army during the late |
war, ane who are now prohibited from receiving |
bounty and pension on account of being borne |
on the rolls of their regiments as Slaves" shall
be placed on the some footing as to bounty and |
pension, as though they had not been slaves at
the date of their enlstmrnt.
Approved, March g. 1878.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 92.l
An Act fixing the time of holding the fall term |
of the United States district court for the dis |
trict of Nebr aska.
Be it enacte by the Senate and House of
of the United States of Ameri- |
ca in Congress assembled, That the fall term of |
the United States district court for the district |
of Nebraska shall hereafter be held at Omaha |
upon the first Wednes after the second Tuesday |
in the month of October of each year
Approved, March 8, 1878 |