The San Francisco call., 1896-09-27

exeePt daSt These S notes were made exchang-
able for 6-per-cent bonds ana recelvspIIe I ne
loans that might thereafter De ISSUE u fnv
Government. Two subsequent acGS each
| 1862, and March, 1S63-were p pasnseeoo' neo AL
| authorizing the issue OF $15O,O0O.OUV' 'eth7 ~ ~
| 1850, 600, 900. The amount issued was Pal 10
| 500. 200 1t was under these acts that 'I
| legal-tender notes, commonly known q"
"greenbacks," were issued
ALIENS AND REAL EsTATE-N. N, City. inc
constitution of the State of California ar1lclS
| l. section IL, says:
Foreigners of the white or Of African oe,
scent, eligible to become citizens OF the CiIiS
States under the naturalization laws thereof while
bona fide residents of this state, shall nave h nc
sion enjoyment Transmission and Inheritance OF
ali property other than real estate as natlVe Dull
estate a the time of the adoption OF TINS amehu,
ment may remain such owners; anu o pr Pro'lu9o o
further, that the Legisa may, by Statut pro-
vide Tor the disposition OF real estate wnlcn sna
hereafter be acquired by such aliens Dy uesceht oh
device
CoUs1Ns-W. H, Oakland, Cal. Your ques'
tions as to relationship of cousins are not clear
enough to warrant a positive answer In the
first place you do not state what degree OF
cousinship you bear to the party named anu
In the second place you ask, what is the re-
| lationship of two children whose grandpa
rents are cousins2' They might be brothers.
sisters or brother and sister for aught 1t ap-
pears by the question. Will give you the rule
| for determining the relationship of cousins
and when you have leisure you can solve tnS
problem: The children OF brothers and sisters
are called cousins, cousins german, first cou-
sins or full cousins; children of first cousins
are called second cousins, A first cousin once
removed is the child of ones first cous1ni g
second cousin once removed is the grandch1ld
of ones first cousin; second cousin once re-
Is 5ne c cnG 0I edg so csea second
cousin, followed by q third and in numerical
order indefinitely.
HARRISON AND CLEvELAND-M., Oakland, and
E. P, Napa, Cal. At the close of the fiscal year
prior to the retirement of Benjamin Harrison
from the office of President the amount of cash
in the treasury was $707, ,O16, ,210 3S. During
the ineumbency of Harrison as President, that
is, up to March 1, 1898, the public debt was
reduced $3.50, $50. Under the present
Cleveland administration the debt was in
creased, and on the 1st OF March, 1896, the
did not borrow any money during the Harri-
son adm inistration, but during that admins
6as@sa atO1 9onds 20 tbs ond TsFe TR
premium paid on these was $33, 1881, 526 81,
and by this purchase there was saved 10 the
Government in interest the sum OF 1887
493 81. The sale of bonds during the present
Cleveland administration, and per cent, to
run thirty years, is, principal, 1882, 315, 400.
are to run will be 1914, ,778, ,4SO.
TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERIcA-W. c., PasA-
dena, Cal. For the ten years ending 1860 the
lean countries amounted to $123, ,671. 1856; for
the ten years ending 1870 the amount was
S173 787 ,041; for the ten years ending 1880
the amount was $237, ,S15, $50; for the ten
years ending 1890 it was $294, ,279, ,5S5, and
for the five years ending 1895 it was $163 1884,
O75 The question "Was our foreign trade
greater before the war or after?" is one that is
difficult to answer with any degree of scien-
tihc accuracy. If you mean the total value of
foreign trade il was never greater before 1861
than 1T has been since. If on the other hand,
you mean the relation of our foreign trade to
our domestic production and comm cree very
elaborate computation would be required to
reach the conclusion. The belief of Worthing-
ton G. Ford, Chief of the Bureau of Sta tisticS
of the Treasury Department at Washington to
whom the question was submitted, is that the
United States was never commercially so strong
before 1861 as 1t has been since.
BoNDs-H. C. P, Lyons vile, Tehama County
and G. E, Courtland, Sacramento County,
Cal. The statement published in this depart-
ment some time ago that all bonds of the
United States are payable, principal and inter-
est in "coin" and sin lawful money of the
United States is correct. None of the acts au.
thorizing the issue OF bonds declare that they
tion relative TO the payment of bonds was
adopted by the House OF Representatives jan
noes, and in the Senate on the 18th Of Febr5i-
ary of the same year by vote of AZ ayes to 20
noes:
RESOLVED, That all bonds of the United States
issued under the said acts of Congress hereinbe-
fore recited payable, principal and fntere ST. at
the option Of the Government Of the United Gates,
in silver dollars of the coinage OF the United
States containing 41215 grains each of standard
silver and to restore 10 its coinage such silver
coins as legal tender in payment of such bonds
principal and interest, is not in violation of the
public faith nor in derogation OF the rights Of the
public creditors.
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The legal fee is 80 cents, and SO cents addi-
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PERPETUAL MonoN-E. G. s., Livermore. Cal
1t is asserted that perpetual motion is NOT
>. " 80 - VIC W AAHe vi posslDlilty, 1t Is said that
II snouId be machine which should do work
without exhausting any power of doing work
-that Is, It's work must not be ACCOMPANIED
Dy any displacement (such as the fall of a
weight or the uncoiling of spring. or trans
formation (such as the combustion of fnen
which could not be undone by g replacement
or counter transformation without the ex
pendlture OF as much work as the machina
mas DONE such machine is impossibIe and
contrary to all experience, for power of doing
I MoLk is never increased nor diminished New
SrtheiesS many pretend perpetual motions have
De Deen put forth Most of them are of two classes
FIRST, those which depend upon gravitv ~
magnetism, and, second, those which denend
upon centrifugal force or other pressure mis-
en taken LOT moving power. If man should pre-
seho 70 nave wheel which turned upon ifs
moving indefinitely, or to have s. fuId which
Ihough yiscous, was frictionless, or that it,
motion though continually decreasing nsver
came TO rest, it would be a claim to pernatnsi
motion. On the nther hand : s.PSsEaI Ls