Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-17
The Texas Constitution Ignored.
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WASHINGTON, April 16.-The Supreme
Court of the United States has rendered an
important decision in case No. S61, E. j.
Davis, Goyernorof Texas, vs.. John A. c..
Gray. Receiver, affirming the decree of the
& El Paso Railroad, Company are entitled
to the exclusive right to loo ate the land
certificates Of said State and obtain patents
therefor in the lanes within and forming a
part of the land reservation of said company
being the odd sections granted on the
twentieth of June, 1866, for distance of
eight miles on each side CT the extension
of the line OF said rosd from the eastern
boundary of Texas to El Paso, designated
and recognized according to the returns
and maps of the same now on file in the
general land Office, State of Texas. The
ordinance Of the State Convention granting
lands to actual settlers, and repudiating
the Memphis & ElPasso Railroad land
grant is declared unconstitutional. The
injunction Of the lower court against the
Governor and land commissioners re-
straining them, ETC., is made per
petual. The total amount e OF
the liant grand is eight million acres, OF
which the entire passes to the Texas Pa
ci6c railroad, conditioned upon seven hun
dred thousand acres being set apart for the
redemption of the Texas and FL Paso
bonds, this amount being sufficient for the
purpose. all the bonds known to have
been uttered were transferred to John Mon
roe q Co., of Paris, for receipts agreeing
upon their redemption in this amount.
They stand in escrat with Duncan, Sher-
man & Co., of New York, waiting the de-
cisioD. The lands provided are ample for
all the expenses of the receiver, besides re-
deeming the bonds The result will re-
lease Gen. Fremont from all obligations.
He has for some years devoted himself
almost exclusively to securing this result,
and has refused political and other en-
ployment until its consummation. In view
of his success, the absurd French edict
Gated as it was inconsiderately rendered.
Boiler Inspection.
The Board of Supervising inspectors of
steamboats, are now in session in Washing
ton. At their meeting to-day the commit
tee on boilers and machinery was instruct
ed to report to the board draft of a circu-
lar to be distributed among iron manufac-
turers, boiler makers and inspectors on the
inspection of boiler plates. 1t was resolved
that the department circular requiring one
copy of each certificate of inspection to be
returned TO the department is unnecessary,
and that the Secretary of the Treasury be.
requested to abolish the same. 1t was also
resolved that hereafter only two certifica es
of inspection shall be required on all tug,
tow and freight steamers. The following
resolution was referred to the committee
on rules and regulations:
Resolved, thst hereafter fire extinguish-
ers shall not be required on tug, tow or
freight steamers, neither shall the same be
required on passenger steamers Of less than
100 tons.
Postal Cards.
The Postoffice Department announces
that it will commence issuing postal cards
LIST May next.
Legal tenders outstanding 1858, ,241 ,450.
Of for the Farm.
The President, wife and daughter, ac-
companied by Gen. Babcock, leave for st.
Louis this evening.
Civil Service s.
NEW YORK, April 16.-A Washington
special states that the President appointed
Dorman Eaton, of New York, and Hon. G.
of Ohio, to fill the vacancies in
the Civil Service Board, caused by the res
ignation of Curtis and Medill.