The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-04


The Indians are by the Army Appro-
priation bill left under the charge Of the
Department of the Interior. The act of
May q appropriates for the bureau for
the next fiscal year about $4,000, 900.
The Sioux for their support and ciyiliza-
ton receive 81, 1000, of which not ex.
ceeding $4,000 will be used to remove
the bands of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
to convenient points within the Sioux
reservation and for their settlement there.
on. An act approved May 3 provides for
the consolidation of the Colorado Utes in
one agency on the White River and the
extinguishment of their right to the
southern portion of their reservation in
that State.
The bankrupt law is repealed by the
act of June 7, the repeal taking effect
September /, cases instituted and pend
ing in any court prior to which date not
being affected. In respect of all pains,
penalties and forfeitures incurred under
existing acts before September l, or
thereafter, under any provisions of acts
kept in force, &C., the acts repealed con-
tinue in full force and effect till the cases
are fully disposed of. q
Of acts affecting navigation, one ap-
proved April 20 provides that when a
vessel leaves an infected port for the
United States some representative officer
of the United States at that port shall
Immediately give notice to the Marine
Hospital service, which shall make quar-.
antine rules, not in conflict with State or
municipal regulations, to prevent the in
PRODUCTION of any contagion. Local Off
cials can be clothed with the powers of
United States officers on application of
State or municipal authorities.
In the diplomatic and consular service
few changes were made by the act of
June 4. The mission to Greece was ac-
cidentally omitted, and new one to Co.
lumbis provided for, with minister resi-
dent at s., 500. All consular officers are
required to furnish to the Secretary of
the Treasury as often as may be required
prices current of articles usually export
ed to tho United. States from the places
at which they are stationed.
Of acts concerning the District of Co.
lumbia, that of April 20 forbids the sale
here of policy or lottery tickets under
penalty of fine or imprisonment; an
other provides that deeds, mortgages and
other instruments which by law are en-
titled to be recorded in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds shall only take effect
from the time they are delivered to him
for record and another appropriates
$4,000 for the relief of the District
schools during the present fiscal year.
In the postal service the act of May II
regulates the advertising of mail lettings.
Before making contracts for inland mail
transportation other than by railroad or
steamer, the Postmaster General is to
advertise for proposals once week for
six weeks in not more than ten State or
Territorial newspapers. Contracts are
not to take place in less than sixty days
after the first publication; sub-letting or
transferring contracts is not permitted
without the Postmaster Generals con-
sent, and in lawful cases Of this sort the
department shall retain enough to pay
the sub-contractor, unless there is salts
factory evidence that he has been paid.
The Postmaster. General may, where it is
desirable, make contracts for not more
than four years transport by water of
mails between American ports, but no
contracts for new water-route mail SER
vice shall be for longer time than
year, or than two years, when they are to
foreign ports, unless otherwise ordered by
Congress. -.
AS to the public lands one act provides
that notices of contest under homestead,
tree culture or pre-emption laws shall be
published in newspaper in the county
where the land in contest is situated.
Another provides that where a person
has made settlement under the Pre-
emption law and subsequently changed
his filing to that for q homestead entry
upon the same tract, he shall be entitled
to have the time to perfect his title un-
der the Homestead law computed from
the date of his original settlement under
the pre-emntion laws, subject to all the
provisionfsf the law relating to home
steads. The act of June allows home
stead settlers on public lands whose crops
were injured by grasshoppers to return
within three months to the abandoned
lands without their original rights being
affected. The act of June 8 authorizes
citizens of Colorado, Nevada and the
Territories to fell and remove timber on
the public domain for mining and do
mestic purposes, the provisions of the act
not extending to railroad corporations,
and penalties being provided where tim
ber is cut on the public domain not in
accordance with the terms of the act.
Another actallows citizens in California,
Oregon, Nevada and Washington Terri
tory 30 buy unsurveyed public lands not
included within any reservations in guam
titles not exceeding 160 acres to any one
person at $3.50 per acre.
All works of art imported for perma-
nent exhibition or the improvement of
the arts or science will, under the act of
June 6, be admitted free, though indi-
viduals must give bonds to pay the duty
/ in case the articles should be sold. An
other act of June 8 provides that section
1889 of the Revised Statutes shall not
be construed as prohibiting territorial as
semblies from creating municipal cor
porations and comforting on them the
powers necessary to their local admins
trations by either general or special acts,
nothing inethe act having the effect of
creating an private rights. Another of
the same date provides for Circuit and
District courts of the United States at
Toledo, dividing the Northern District
of Ohio.i into two divisions. That of
March 1S makes persons on trial in Uni
ted States courts, courts.martial and
courts of inquiry competent witnesses at
their own request, but not otherwise,
failure to make such request not creating
any presumption against them.
For the armament of seacoast fortifca.