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El independiente. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nuevo MeÌxico) 1894-19??, 1894-05-19
NereSita CambiarSe.

El "Optic", de esta ciudad en- su
entrega del Mirtes pasado dice: "De-
bia de hacerse un cambio en- la juris-
prudencia criminal de este Tefritorio.
Como estd ahora, I'm criminal senten-
clado 4 Ia penitenciaria estd descalifi-
cado de testifcar encontra de sus aso.
ciados. En- tai case el individuo de-
be ser exento de castigo 8 perder su
testimonio, en- cualqulera de los dos
casos sufre la iusticia tporque no po-
dria un hombre que es sentenciado d
Ia penitenciaria dar su testimoniO le-
gal2 Tiene menos Inducimientos
para mentir enionces, que en- ningun
otro tempo. Esta mas apto para
decir Ia verdad tocante su conduc-
ia la de sus asociados. Por esta
causa su tcstimonio es invaluable.
Pero segun las leyes de Nueyo Mexico,
no debe de ser condenado 0 su testi-
monio no es Waldo. Esta es una ley
mala y dcbia cambiarse. Actualmen.
tie hay personas en- Ia carcel del con-
dado que debian dc estar en- la peni-
tenciaria, pcro no han sido mandados
ALI simplemente porque la corte los
necesita para que den su testimonio.
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revelado con esa palabras el tango in
mundo EN- que Sc revolcaba su cora
z6n, y los asquerosos proyectos de que
era capaz.
Sin embargo, nosotros creemos que
de la calun nia no qlela nada, por-
que 81 en- el com5lte que libran per-
pltuamente la virtud y ell Wcio, este
saliera triunfante, haria mucho uempo o
que el mIa1 10 hu5iera dejado de exis =
tir.
Lo que no cabe duda es que los
cardcteres que hacen frente d la calum-
MIA y Sc sobreponen a ella, son dignoS
de respeto y veneracion, porque reye-
Ian un valor y una magnanlmldad tan
grande como la de un Cesar 8 Ale
iandro Magno.
De donde resulta que asi como el
calumniador es una vii oruga 8 un as
queroso reptiI que debe aplastarse,
aquel que hace frente la calumnia y
Ia soporta con resignation y con ente-
reza es un heroe. ola Estrella de Pa
mama. +"
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NO. g..

ma que adular con baeza. 80.
Hasta hoy no he recibido contesta-
cidn de mi communication, pero dcs-
pues la publicare para que mis- conciu-
dadanos iuzguen los altos respectos que
20 tengo con mis- paisanos, como tam
bien es tratado el pobre del modo que
Neo-Mexcano, Dejaremos esto para
despuGs. J. NJ. H. ALARID.
Principal, Dist. No. 4.
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Case CenSurable.

"El Poyemr, perlodlco publlcado
en- Brownsville, Texas, con fecha dtez
del actual, nos trae 10 slguiente
"Atraidos por la curiosidad, ell juzgado
de paz en- tsta ciuiad, Sc VIC aver in
vadido por una multitud de curiosos
que fueron d presenciar una acusaci6n
presentada en- ese tribunal por Mr. G..
NJ, Raphael, en- nombre de su esposa,
contra el j6ven Miguel Mcnchaca, por
robo de un anillo de oro con brillante,
yaluado en- $I5o pesos, y 500 en- d.
nero del cuno Mexicano que le iueron
extraidos de su recamara el lines
siete del actual.
Entire Ia concuuencia estaba la
mama del j6yen que lloraba por su
hVo, y una hermana de este, ell que al
comparecer ante ell tribunallo hizo con
cierto aire de indiierencia, casi con CT.
nismo. La madre, al fin madre, pi-
dio permiso para saludar a su hio,
| y bahada en- igrimas 10 estrech} ca
rinosamente entire sus brazos, y des-
pues, faltdndole aire y ahoglda de
pena, sufri6 algo semejante 4 un alta
que.
FL j6ven pas6 a ocupar su asiepto
cerca de la mesa del iue { interroga-
do por el fiscal, conies6 llano y pareio
su culpabilidad con un aplomo que de-
| io pasmados 4 los circumstances, reye-
lando un fondo dc maldad tan repro
chable, como augusta, pena y door
Sc asomaba al sembIante de su pobre
madre.
En- vista de su propia confession, las
innuencias NADIA pudieron hacer en- su
favor y la justicia Sc abri6 paso, Sc
rena y expediente.
Fue recogido cl anllo que el miSmo
dia del robo empeh6 Menchaca en-
Matamoros en- 40 centavoS: tambien
Sc recogieron $40 que tcnia en- dep6-
sito en- una casa y $lI mas que traia
en- la bolsa al arrestarlo.
Su arresto 10 hizo el comandante de
la rolicia, Sr. Valentin Tamayo, 10
mismo que el del j6ven Sergio Here
ra, que ignorando 10 que Menchaca
habia hecho y obsequiando una invl-
taci6n que este lie hlzo, 10 acompaho
a Matamores, donde por su indication
entrego una suma de dinero, valor dc
unos perflados que Menchaca habia
traido csta ciudad, vender.
Aver las 1880 Sc suspendl6 Ia
investigation, y hoy continuari. rs
probable que Menchaca salga bajo dc
lianza mientras Sc ventlla su causa en-
la corte dc distrito. Con respecto q
Sergio Herrera, NADIA podemos decil
porque adn no rinde sus declaraciones
Nos informan pelsonas de creditC
que tan pronto como lue nctado el 70
bo sc pusieron incomunIcados a los
sirvientes dc la casa de Mr.. Raphae
para inyestigar quien era el autor de
semejanle robo. Despues SC manda
ron lamar con urgencia d todas la'
costureras de perflados a la Sra. Ra
phel y una vcz alli detenidas Sc mandd
hacer un cateo minucioSo d cada un;
dc las casas dc las costureras eSigien'
do i las familias quemostraran el di
nero que tenian, con expIicacion de 81
proeedencia.
! No sabemos hasta que punto un par
szsz
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La Calumnia.

He ahi el uarc6tico mas active que
Sc conoce la espada de dos flos mas
penetrante; ell crimen mas barbara "
el mis impune de los crimenes socia-
les.
Asesino misterioso que Sc oculta
entire las sombras y que acecha a sus
victimas para hundlrles su envenena-
do puhal hasta la empuhadura desco-
noce la tregua y el reposo con en-
tranas de tigre y con instlntos de HE
ma, Sc arroja con mas impetu y pre-
ferencia sobre los debies { inermei.
rs hija legitima de la envida; pero
tamblen hay grandes dosis de hlpocre-
sia en- su composition. Semejante a
la gotta de tlnta que resalta tanto mas,
cuanto mayor es la blancura del papel
endonde cae; el asqueroso reptil de la
calumnia Sc complace en- arrojar su
baba inmunda sobre 10 mas inmacula
do que d su paso encuentra.
Los pechos endonde Sc alberga la
calumnia desconocen la piedad, Y los
buenos sentimientoS en- absolute. Los
individuos que ia inventan y la pro-
pagan son capaces de todo, hasta de
tehiTse las manoS con sangre
FL salteador de caminos es mil We
ces mas preleribe y mas digno de
perdon que el calumniador El phi
nero expone su vida, al paso que cl
segundo es cobarde por natulaleza.
A primera vista no Sc descubren
muchas veces los tiros de esa arma
mortifera, pero hay datas fijos { inva-
rabies que nos llevan hasta su fuente.
La casa sc conoce por sus electos.
81 nos tuera dado amman el polvo
de los muertos al impero de palabra,
scrlan innumerables los que Sc ALA
rian diciendo que la vii y miserable
calumnia los precipito en- ell sepulcro.
Por ESQ, pues que Ia caumnia pro
duce tan desastrozos resultados, no
puCde en- manera alguna albergarse
en- los pechos mobiles bien nacidos
Hay que buscarla en- los corazones
entregldos al tango y la corruption.
La calumnia es tanto mas frecuen-
te cuanto mas corrompida es la socie-
dad.
Y como el corrompido y ell disoluto
ficilmente Sc dishngue entire Ia multi
titud, de ahi que es ficil tambien ha
liar el origen de la calumnia.
Esta regIa sin exception Sc funda
en- los slguientes principles.
FL hombre, por 10 general, iuzga a
sus semejantes conforme d los senti-
mientos de que Sc encuentra poseido.
Los habitos constituyen a nuestros ojos
algo asi como una Ienta que comuni-
ca a los objetos cl color de que Sc
compone.
Para el ladl6n existe ell robo por
todas parties para la ramera la pros.
tituci6n es comun; para Ia addltela la
fdelidad no existe y para el coraz6n
VII y dcgradado los buenos sentimien-
tos constituyen un mito.
He ahi la fuente de Ia calumnia; ar
ma digna de los que la manejan.
De aqui que Q debera castigarse
con todo el rgor del c6dlgo penal &
debe despreciarse en- absolute
Voltaire al aconsejar a sus amigos
que calumnlen, porque cgun su con-
iesi6n "de la calumnia algo qucia" ha
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I'll que Manda no Sc Turba.

Adn sin embargo que son tres los
directories del distrito No. a, del con-
dado de San Miguel, singularizo el
ndmelo plural en- ell solo cuerpo de di
rectores que me orden6 dc preparar
mi eNtmen para la semana entra1te
IIabiendo tres diyisiones Sc ha fiado
dos dias para dicho exdmen.
Por 10 anto,-El Microbes e y
Iueyes al, son los dias en- que los
alumnos SC presentarin 4 ser examina-
dos
Cuando la 6rden Official iue dirijida
4 mi pas6 una COMMUNICATION al homo
rlble cuerpo, suplicindole nos fuera
concedido un mes mis-, pues va qut
habian tenido Ia escuela nueve mese
no seria mucho deslaco nj riesgo, pro-
seguirla un mes mas, para dar mayo
satisfaction tanto al cucrpo de drec
torres, como al pdblco en- general; y no
habiendo hasta hoy tenido contesta-
ci6n y solamente la obediencia a di-
cho mandate, suplico 4 todos aque-
Hos que tengan inter6s en- la educa-
ci6n que vengan al eximen, 4 yer |;
situacion actual de nuestras escuca,
pdblicas bajo la direction de IN Neo-
Mexicano; yengan a sltlslacerse dc
la clase dc hombre que el cuerpo dc
directories tuvo d bien escoier, yengan
4 salyar 8 condenar Ia administration
en- csc ramo importante de la educa
cion, pero yengan ser testigos y pue-
dan despues condenar . salyar por 10
que olgan yean, y no hablen nj sen
suren sin motive. Venga eI republi-
cano, ell democratic, el del pueblo,
pucs 6sta no es politica este es mas
que poitica; este es union, esto es un
sagrado deber, vengan a yer d nues
tros iovencitos en- una escuela pdblca
hacienda los primeros pininos, tanto
en- el idioma lnges, como en- el ma
terno.
Por desgracia hasta hoy las escuelas
pdblicas han sido denigradas, y mas
cuando son diriidas por un Neo- Me
xicano pero es mcnester que eI iana-
tismo coneluya, va no Sc debe uno
Greer de 10 que lie dicen como dice un
adagio) eel padre 10 dijo'. Ahora Sc
cree al modo dc Santo Tomas.
Pues, hagan un sacrihcio en- esos
dos dias hagan de cuenta que es un
dia nacional, un dia de Washington, uH
cuatro de Julio, pues es mas que ESQ,
es el dia en- que el padre va d regoci-
jarse con la luiura iellcidad de su hijc
el buen ciudadano SC regocIja de Ia
felicidad de su pitria, pues endondC
hay educaci6n hay patriotismo, dice
un adagio tquien puede hacer toca'
para tapar bocas2 y 20 digo que Ii
precauci6n.
rs yerdad que hay personas gu,
quisieran yer d una persona que pro
cura hlcer su vida honestamente pi
diendo limosna . someterse d la adu
laci6n para poder mlntener 4 su lami
LA, por 10 que hace 4 mi en- csc res
pecto creo que primero pedire limos
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ticular tiene derecho de hacer esta cla-
Sc de pesquisas, 5 81 es un priyileqio
exclusive de los ricos, conyerur su
casa en- carcel y pedir que Sc haga
un cateo general en- las humildes cho-
SaS
The record-union., 1894-02-10

ANOTHER hope is blasted. The tele-
phone patent that expired with the last
days OF January covered only the receiv-
ing instrument-that part which the
patient man hold to his ear while he
roars at the hello girl for giving him the
wrong switch. The rest of the instru-
ment, we are told, is still protected by
patent. Still we may venture to family
hope that the report is untrue. For while
the telephone companies, by reason of
their extensive district system and long
wire connections, will maintain power
ful foothold for business, there are hun
dreds of cases where private lines are
needed, and in which cases the right to
buy an instrument and use it is very
valuable.
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TRIPLES THAT MAKE HISTORY.
Some Incidents Which Have Resulted
in Notable consequences.

The cackling of geese once saved Rome,
and, according to the Pittsburg Dispatch,
the lnopportune precipitation of sum-
mer cloud vanquished Napoleon at Wa
terloo. He could not open battle without
noise, and the ground was too wet for
moving artillery, causing delay that en-
abled Butcher to come and turn the tide.
Through little blunder OF his adverse
ries he won the battle of Borodino. Rome,
that once sat on her seven hills and from
her throne of beauty ruled the world"
was founded by Romulus and Remus,
who, III Infancy, would have perlshed
only that wolf that had lost her whelps
gave the babes lacteal nourishment.
The Spanish Armada, than which no
prouder ever rode the waves or went
forth to conquer under greater auspices,
having In view the conquest and humll-
iation of England, was utterly dispersed
and almost annihilated by storm.
The independence of the United States
OF America had its foundation in a disa-
greement about tea Benjamin +. Wade,
a powerful antislavery apostle and
stentorlan and courageous defender in
the halls OF Congress, OF northern instl-
tutlons, in the decade closing with 1860,
once operated a wheelbarrow on the
Hudson River and Lake Erie Canal.
Roger Sherman and Henry Wilson, two
notable characters in the Congress of the
United States, began life as shoelnakers.
Carter Harrison, the recently assassinated
Mayor of Chicago and one of the most
unique, popular and picturesque figures
III American municipal administration,
serving his fifth term as Chief Executive
OF his city when shot, was born in a log
house and was cradled in sugar trough.
The battle of Lexington was minor
skIrmlsh conducted mainly by American
farmers to express disapprobation OF
English arrogance, but the report OF the
rustic fiintlOcks tilted every crown and
Jared eve4y throne in Europe. When
Warren fen, American liberty was bap-
tized in his blood. Franklin, who threw
his lasso to the nimbus and lassoed the
flaming steed of the storm, thus laying
the foundation of all electrical science
and of every dynamo, was a poor, hard
working boy, and rose to be honored by
kings and queens.
Abraham Lincoln, when young man,
made tlatboat voyage as supercargO and
assistant rOustabout down the Mississippi
River and witnessed the auction sale OF a
sensitive slave girl of IA years. HIS soul
revolted at the outrage to his feelings,
and he declared with an emphatic ex
pletlve, IF ever | get chance to hit
slavery Pll hit her hard" He was study
ing law. and saw himself 'hit" as de-
fender of the weak. The incident laid
the foundation for the proclamation of
emancipation. Every tap of that auc-
tioneer's hammer drove nail into the
coffin of chattel slavery. The buyer
bought the soul of secession and paid the
price. Edmund Rut1in OF South Carolina
fired the first cannon at Fort Sumter in
the war of the rebellion, and that shot
awoke defiant echo from every north
ern hill and reverberated around the
world.
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DECLARATIONS OF INNOCENCE.

Painter, the convicted murderer, took
solemn oath just before he was swung
of the other day that he was innocent
indeed, his last words were those of ap-
peal to God to witness that he was inno-
cent.
This fact has given rise to the question
in the East, ''Is it reasonable to believe
that guilty man will take an oath of in
nocence in the very moment Of death 2"
The newspapers are now debating the
question. For its part the RECORD
UNION responds in the affirmative. In
stances almost without number are of
record of such final asseverations of in
nocence, where it had been established
beyond the shadow of doubt that the
convicted man was guilty.
We must take into account the charac-
ter of the man; his belief or non-belief in
responsibility on the other side; the cir
cumstances of the case that may inspire
hope of reprieve or suspension of the ex-
ecution; the mans moral sensitiveness or
insensibility, and especially take into ac-
count the desire of the man to cast
doubt about the justice of his fate for the
sake of the living he leaves who are dear
to him.
Some of the most brutal murderers Of
ybnF hox +l,o
death upon the scaffold protesting their
innocence and invoking heavens VEN
geance upon them if they spoke untruth
and this. when the men knew that the
world knew them to be guilty beyond
any doubt whatever.
There are murderers who die upon the
scaffold who care more for casting around
their fate halo of romance and mystery
than they fear death. TO such mon lie
counts for nothing, If they believe that
they will be punished hereafter, denial of
guilt does not necessarily suggest to them
augmented punishment. If they do not
believe in future punishment, then the
truth is not of any greater moment to
them in the death hour than in any other.
The deliberate, premeditated murderer.
he who kills calculatingly and in cold
blood, generally makes point of stick
ing to the assertion OF justification-it is
part Of his scheme and was in mind
from the first. There is large class of
criminals, also, who are insensible to
moral impressions and influences, and
whose confession of guilt might almost
as well be put aside as their denial.
There is class, too, which prides itself
on it's GOODNESS and ''gamy" quality, as it
is termed. These will not sickle about
investing their taking off with something
of the heroic and nothing more contrib
utes to that end than the pose of inno-
cence and fearlessness.
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London Bohemia.

In none of Thackeray's or Dickens
shorter tales and sketches can be found
quainter and mellower bit of reminis-
cence and character painting than that of
Edgar L. Wakeman's "The Other and
Tother Pipperchirp." printed elsewhere
in these pages. 1t is the richest sort of a
picture of that stately and fine, ancient
and still existing London Bohemia;
Bohemia peculiar to but one place in the
whole world. One can almost see the
shades of Addison, Steele, DIR. Johnson,
Goldsmith and Swift lowering in the
shadowy corners of The ancient Slavis-
tork and smiling benignly upon the
Pipperchirps from Madras and Ballarat,
elated at their odd reunion, solicitous
over their affectionate anxieties and find
ing common bereavement in the final
tender episode of their peaceful death.
The record-union., 1894-02-10

heroism and the nobility of great souls.
1t was not brutal disregard of DANGER
not mere physical insensibility to fear, or
Intellectual incapacity to realize peril;
these men were not fired by the excite
ment of battle or confagration; they were
out in the cold peril of the storm: they
knew full we'll the terrors of the sea be-
fore them; they knew all the risk they
assumed; they realized fully all that their
act involved. But they saw above all
else fourteen fellow-men, strange of
tongue, but pleading mutely for help that
they might not perish; fellow men battling
with the desperation of those who die
by violence in the prime of strength.
Putting by all the love of life and
ali their clinging to their own, these
Dutchmen cast themselves into the sea,
went to the rescue, and died vainly striv-
ing to save these human beings, strangers
but brethren.
Let it not be said that the heroic days
have passed, that the world has not to-
day. as ever. men of such metal as heroes
are made of.
Let every man touch his fellow rever-
emily, for who knows beneath what garb
the hero is hidden? Who knows when
the hour strikes out of which of our fell
lows the hero will arise? Who knows
from what quarter out of the turmoil and
hustle and contention and striving of
everyday and commonplace life, the next
band of glorious heroes will sweep on to
the grandest victories men can achieve?
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over $4,000 Heirs to One Estate.

One of the most peculiar wills ever filed
for probate in Belgium is that of Nine.
Mems, whose first husband bore the
name OF Verhaegen. Nine. Mems died
in Antwerp, where she lived in a hand
some palace in the Avenue des Artes
few months ago. She left her estate to all
the relatives up to the twelfth degree of
kinship, on both the fathers and moth
er's sides of her first husband. The only
condition was that they should make
good their claims within six months. The
news of the contents of the will created
great interest in Belgium, where the
name Verhaegen is a common one. AS
the widow was reported to be worth hum
dreds of millions the ambitious relatives
hastened to file their claims. AS a result,
the court is obliged to pass upon the al
legged rights of IA. 554 heirs. The poor
people are doomed to disappointment.
as the estate turned out to be worth only
about three millions. So many lawyers
have been engaged that their fees alone
will swallow up this amount.-New York
Tribune,
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4 MENACE TO LITERATURE. ,,

Margaret Deland has a paper in the
North american ReUieW deploring one
phase of the personal journalism of the
day-that is to say, the dealing so largely
by the press with the personal and
greatly the inconsequental private af-
fairs and views of people. Her COM
plaint is not so much against the little
ness of this personal mention as news
matter, as against the offense of the thing
to literature and the bad effect it must
have upon the person, and in case of the
author upon the artist; that it is, in short,
a menace to literature. journalism and
literature being brethren.
The indictment of the accomplished es-
sayist is, however, directed mostly
against the newspaper interview with
writers. histori ians, novelists, travellers,
biographers, essayists and poets, which
aims to report their personal tastes,
opinions, criticisms, habits, experiences
in the literary art, etc; as, what is your
fayorite flower; who is your favorite
author: who is your favorite poet; how
did 1t come that you took to writing;
what is your opinion of the future OF
American literature; what is your favor
;te color; do you think life worth living;
and 80 on to the degree impertinent and
nauseating.
The effect of all this kind of personality
in journalism, whether it relates to
writers or to any others, is to give the
nartv interviewed undue vanity. to exalt
hum or her in his own esteem; to stimu-
late self-consciousness abnormally, and
70 onltiyste in the writer belief in his
own importance (which would be pa
tbetic if it were not ridiculous"
That there is deal OF sound sense in
this Indictment by Mrs. Deland is not to
ho danied: but that the interview. So
oollad should be wholly refused, is un-
roosonable. In this matter, as in that OF
nnblisbing personal news, there must be
wise discrimination. 1t assuredly is in
conseouential that Mrs. John Smith yes
tordav entertained Mrs. William Brown
at dinner. but it may be of importance to
The record-union., 1894-02-10

WHEN the Pail MatG Gazette talks,
with a sneer in its tone, about the action
of Admiral Benham at Rio being an un
warranted stretching of the Monroe doc
trine, an act that by other than an Ameri-
can nation the United States would not
tolerate, it talks sheer nonsense. The ac-
ton of Benham was simply in the line of
common duty, and had no more to do
with the Monroe doctrine than has the
snarling of Mr.. Astor's Gazette with the
revolution of the planets in their orbits.
The record-union., 1894-02-10

A MASSACHUSETTS paper heads the
story of the suicide of man, "All for the
Love of a Woman" That is a common
caption; but it is singular, is it not. that
the head line writer never, or hardly
ever, puts it, "All for the Love of a
Man" when woman commits suicide?
Somehow there is something rythmic,
euphonious and pleasant to the ear in the
first caption, while as to the other, it is
harsh and without note of music in it,
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ORDINANCE NO. 40.

HyHE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF SAC
i ramento County do ordain as follows:
Section l. It shall be unlawful and a mis-
demeanor for any minor within the county of
Sacramento TO get on or off any railroad car
or train OF cars propelled or usually propelled
by steam while such ear or train is in motion
at any place other than a regular station, de-
pot or place where such car or train usually
stops TO take or land passengers, such person
not being an officer or employe OF the owner
or operator of such car or train.
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect
fifteen days from and after its passage.
Adopted February 8, 1894, by the follow
ing vote Ayes-Miller, Todd, Curtis, Jenkins
and Morrison-unan1mous vote.
J. NJ. MORRISON,
Chairman of said Board.
Attest: w. b. HAMILTON
[sEALl lfe10-6tl Clerk of said Board.