tilizing; plants, roots, and seeds for the Department of Agriculture; platinum vases for chemical uses; muriate of potassa; quassia wood rags or waste for paper or bagging; rhubarb crude resins, not provided for; rose leaves; saffron; crude sarsaparilla; seaweed, not provided for; scammony and its resin; seeds, cardamom, caraway, coriander, fennel, cummin, and others not provided for; senna leaves; shrimps and other shell fish; skeletons and preparation in anatomy; silkworm eggs; specimens of natural history, botany, and mineralogy, not for sale; squills; sweepings of silver or gold; tapioca; cassava; tea plants; turtles; verdigris; wood ashes, and lye of; beet-root ashes; woods for making paper; worm seed; xylonite. After Dcc. 31, 1870, the following articles are free: acids, crude arsenious, nitric, not pure, muriatic, oxalic, picric and nitro-picric; arsenic; aconite, root, leaf and bark; agaric; alkanet root; alkekengi; albumen and lactarine; amber gum; aloes; analine oil, crude; ammonia, crude; For two years, machinery for steam-towing on anatto seed, argols, crude; asbestos, not manu- canals, not now manufactured in this country, is factured; articles for the use of the United free; also, steam-plowing machinery. Tonnage States; articles grown in the United States re- duty on vessels owned by citizens trading beturned from export; bamboo, unmanufactured; tween United States ports, or in fisheries, is modbarks, Quilla, Peruvian, Lima, Calisaya, cin- ified. Goods in bond when this act takes effect chona, canella alba, pomegranate, croton, cas- are subject to the modifications, as if imported carilla, and others not provided for; belladonna; on the day the act goes into effect; drawbacks bronnia; bitter apples; colocinth; caloquohisda; to be allowed when duties have been paid. Tax berries, nuts, and vegetables used for dyeing; on bequests or transfers for public uses are rebroken bells and bell metal; bones, crude or pealed. [The remainder of this act is for the ground, bone dust and ash, for phosphates and regulation of the management and care of imfertilizers; books printed over 20 years; brim- ports, providing for supervision, penalties, &c.] stone, crude; burr stone, unmanufactured; bu- CHAP. CCLVI.- Refunding the National chu leaves; citrate of lime; columbo root; can- Debt.--The Secretary of the Treasury is authortharides, castor; catechu; catgut, unmanufac-ized to issue $200,000,000 coupon or registered tured; anthracite coal; cocculus indicus; cicu- bonds, redeemable in coin at its current value ta or hemlock; cudbear; collections of antiqui- at the pleasure of the Government after ten ty, not for sale; chalk or cliff stone, unmanu- years from the date of issue; interest five per factured; cork, wood and bark, unmanufac- cent., payable semi-annually in coin; also, in tured; cornelian; cuttle-fish bone; diamond like manner, and on like terms, $800,000, 00 dust; dragon's blood; eggs; emery, not pul- at 4 per cent., running fifteen years; also verized; Spanish and other grasses for making $1,000,000,000 at 4 per cent., running 30 years; paper; fibrin; fish, fresh for consumption, or for all these bonds exempt from taxation by any bait; flint and flint stones; folial digitalis; authority. The Secretary may dispose of these fashion plates; fur skins, not dressed; glass, bonds at not less than their par value for coin, broken, for remanufacturing; guano and other and apply the proceeds to the redemption of animal manures; gums, Arabic, Jeddo, Senegal, the outstanding five-twenties at par, or exBarbary, East India, Cape, Australian, benzoin, change par for par, but the bonds hereby copal, sandarac, damar, gamboge, kowrie, mastic, issued shall be used for no other purpose. shellac, tragacanth, olebanum, guiac, myrrh, The Secretary is authorized, with money in ledellium, garbanum, and others unprovided for; the Treasury, or derived from the sale of the gutta percha, crude; goatskins, raw; horse and above bonds, to pay at par and cancel the fivecow hair, not cleaned; hoofs and horns; hide twenties when redeemable by the terms of their cuttings for glue stock; hemlock bark; henbane issue. The Secretary is authorized to receive leaf; iodine, crude; ipecac; india rubber, gold on deposit, issuing certificates therefor, and crude, and milk of; ivory, animal and vegeta- pay 24 per cent. interest; not less than 25 per ble; jalap; jet; juniper and laurel berries; cent. of deposited gold shall be held for the rekryolite; lac, crude, stick, shell or dye; lava, demption of the certificates; the surplus may be unmanufactured; leeches; life boats and appa- applied at the discretion of the Secretary to the ratus for saving life; licorice root; litmus; payment or redemption of such outstanding lichens, not prepared; logs, round timber, and bonds of the United States, known as the fiveship timber; madder root, ground; manna; Ice- twenty bonds, as he may designate; and any land moss and other mosses, crude; musk and certificates of deposit, issued as aforesaid, may civet, crude; nitrate of soda; oakbark; crude sul- be received at par with the interest accrued phuret and ore of antimony; orange and lemon thereon in payment for any bonds authorized peel, not prepared; orchill, weed or liquid; palm to be issued by this act. nuts and palm and cocoa oil; paintings, statuary and other works of American artists; the same of any artist, imported for presentation to a public institution; philosophical and scientific instruments, casts, drawings, &c., for educational purposes of recognized institutions, or encouragement of fine arts, and not for sale; household effects of $500 value; phosphates for fer CHAP. CCLVII. National Banks. Any bank going into liquidation must retire its circulating notes, depositing lawful money for their redemption. The provi CHAP. CCLXII-Bankruptcy. sions of the second clause of the thirty-third section of said act, as amended by the first section of an act in amendment thereof, approved July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, shall not apply to those debts from which the bankrupt seeks a discharge which were contracted prior to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. That the clause in the thirty-ninth section of said act which now reads "or who, being a banker, merchant, or trader, has fraudulently stopped or suspended and not resumed payment of his commercial paper within a period of fourteen days," shall be amended so as to read as follows: "or who, being a banker, broker, merchant, trader, manufacturer, miner, has fraudulently stopped payment, or who has stopped or suspended and not resumed payment of his commercial paper within a period of fourteen days." CHAP. CCXCVIII.-Pay of Jurors.-Grand and petit jurors in United States courts to have $3 per day, and five cents per mile for travel by the shortest practicable route. No person shall be summoned more than once in two years. CHAP. CCXCIX.-Admission of Georgia.The State of Georgia having complied with the reconstruction acts, and the fourteenth and fifteenth articles of amendments to the Constitution of the United States having been ratified in good faith by a legal legislature of said State, it is hereby declared that the State of Georgia is entitled to representation in the Congress of the United States. But nothing in this act contained shall be construed to deprive the people of Georgia of the right to an election for members of the general assembly of said State, as provided for in the Constitution thereof; and nothing in this or any other act of Congress shall be construed to affect the term to which any officer has been appointed or any member of the general assembly elected as prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Georgia. PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS No. 1.-For a commission to select a site for a building for the State Department. No. 12.-The Secretary of War is authorized and required to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent, and at other points in the States and Territories of the United States, and for giving notice on the northern lakes and on the seacoast, by magnetiq telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms. No. 67. That the Northern Pacific Railroad Company be, and hereby is, authorized to issue its bonds to aid in the construction and equipment of its road, and to secure the same by mortgage on its property and rights of property of all kinds and descriptions, real, personal, and mixed, including its franchise as a corporation; and, as proof and notice of its legal execution and effectual delivery, said mortgage shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of the Interior; and also to locate and construct, under the provisions and with the privileges, grants, and duties provided for in its act of incorporation, its main road to some point on Puget Sound, via the valley of the Columbia River, with the right to locate and construct its branch from some convenient point on its main trunk line across the Cascade Mountains to Puget Sound; and in the event of there not being in any State or Terri ory in which said main line or branch may be located, at the time of the final location thereof, the amount of lands per mile granted by Congress to said company, within the limits prescribed by its charter, then said company shall be entitled, under the directions of the Secretary of the Interior, to receive so many sections of land belonging to the United States, and designated by odd numbers, in such State or Territory, within ten miles on each side of said road beyond the limits prescribed in said charter, as will make up such deficiency, on said main line or branch, except mineral and other lands as excepted in the charter of said company of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to the amount of the lands that have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers, pre-empted, otherwise disposed of subsequent to the passage of the act of July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. And that twenty-five miles of said main line between its western terminus and the city of Portland, in the State of Oregon, shall be completed by the first day of January, anno domini eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and forty miles of the remaining portion thereof each year thereafter, until the whole shall be completed between said points. or No. 87.-That the Southern Pacific Railroad Company of California may construct its road and telegraph line, as near as may be, on the route indicated by the map filled by said company in the Department of the Interior on the third day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and upon the construction of each section of said road, in the manner and within the time provided by law, and notice thereof being given by the company to the Secretary of the Interior, he shall direct an examination of each such section by commissioners to be appointed by the President, as provided in the act making a grant of land to said company, approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and upon the report of the commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior that such section of said railroad and telegraph line has been constructed as required by law, it shall be the duty of the said Secretary of the Interior to cause patents to be issued to said company for the sections of land coterminous to each constructed section reported on as aforesaid, to the extent and amount granted to sald company by the said act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, expressly sav ing and reserving all the rights of actual settlers, together with the other conditions and restrictions provided for in the third section of said act. PROCLAMATIONS. ADOPTION OF THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, To all whom these presents may come, greeting: Know ye, that the Congress of the United States, on or about the twenty-seventh day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, passed a resolution in the words and figures following, to wit; "A Resolution proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep 'resentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of both Houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely: "ART. XV.-Sec. 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Sec. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." And further, that it appears from official documents on file in this Department that the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed as aforesaid, has been ratified by the legislatures of the States of North Carolina, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Ilinois, Indiana, New York, New Hampshire, Nevada, Vermont, Virginia, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Nebraska, and Texas, in all twenty-nine States. And further, that the States whose legislatures have so ratified the said proposed amendment constitute three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States. And further, that it appears from an official document on file in this Department that the legislature of the State of New York has since passea resolutions claiming to withdraw the said ratification of the said amendment which had been made by the legislature of that State, and of which official notice had been filed in this Department. And, further, that it appears from an official document on file in this department that the legislature of Georgia has by resolution ratified the said proposed amendment: In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord [L. S.] one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-fourth. HAMILTON FISH. NEUTRALITY WITH CANADA. By the President of the United States of America: Whereas, it has come to my knowledge that sundry illegal military enterprises and expedi tions are being set on foot within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, with a view to carry on the same from such territory and jurisdiction against the people and district of the Dominion of Canada, within the dominions of Her Majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with whom the United States are at peace: Now, therefore, I, ULYSSES S. GRANT, President of the United States, do hereby admonish all good citizens of the United States, and all persons within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, against aiding, countenancing, abetting, or taking part in such unlawful proceedings; and I do hereby warn all persons that by committing such illegal acts they will forfeit all right to the protection of the Government, or to its interference in their behalf to rescue them from the consequences of their own acts; and I do hereby enjoin all officers in the service of the United States to employ all their lawful authority and power to prevent and defeat the aforesaid unlawful proceedings, and to arrest and bring to justice all persons who may be engaged therein. In testimony whoreof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this twentyfourth day of May, in the year of our [L. S.] Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-fourth. Now, therefore, be it known that I, HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of the second section of the act of Congress, approved the twentieth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States and for other purposes," do hereby certify that the amendment aforesaid has become valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution of By the President: the United States. U. S. GRANT. HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State. Time of Admission of States, with Population on Admission. Av. Bu. Value AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE SEVERAL STATES. Statistics of Wheat, Rye, Domestic Animals, and Beans, in 1869. Bushels Acres Av.Bu. Price! Value of Bush.Peas of Rye. pr. acre Rye. Dom. Animals. and Beans Bushels Acres STATE. of Wheat. of Wheat. Alabama.. of Rye. California.. 21,500,000 1,038,647 20.7 93 21,200 Connecticut 673 31.5 1.22 50,585,017 20,720 17,311,099 28,864 Delaware. 830,000 61,480 5,144,706 8,438 Florida 1,388 5,553,356 363,217 Georgia.. 1.65 45,372,734 1,965,214 Illinois. 675,000 46,875 14.4 100,501,270 140,028 Indiana.... 37,096 15.5 .76 50,855,539 89,902 lowa.. 25,000,000 1,700,680 33,540 16.1 .52 20,476,293 49,081 Kansas. 2,800,000 151,351 18.5 .69 6,333,450 11,827 Kentucky... 69,868,237 388,346 Louisiana.. 29,456,940 531,148 Maine..... 248,000 16,103 15.4 1.83 158,000 8,926 19,437,538 346,915 Maryland.... 7,733,000 570,593 Massachus's 167,000 Michigan.... 16,800,000 1,105,263 1,000,000 291,000 1,646,000 531,914 14.1 16,628 17.5 11.8 1.30 182,000 39,186 15,657,853 39,407 9,277 462,000 25,108 18.4 1.30 9,737,744 49,246 630,000 39,375 16 965,128 16.3 9 56,000 2,978 18.8 .56 6,642,841 28,988 49,891,692 1,998,896 .69 58,693,673 207,969 56,179 17.8 51 1.85 12,924,629 89,454 14.8 1.12 19,134,693 29,674 New York.. 9,750,000 609,375 16 1.37 4,748,000 327,448 14.5 1.03 108,856,296 1,909,339 N. Carolina. 3,870,000 460,714 48,192 8.3 1.15 31,130,805 1,932,204 Ohio 20,400,000 1,316,129 90,384,819 502,511 Oregon. 85 7,946,255 39,407 Pennsylvan. 16,500,000 1,114,864 14.8 1.28 6,250,000 456,204 79,672,726 129,090 Rhode Isla'd 8,600 1.60 2,942,144 7,698 S. Carolina.. 6.6 10,185 Tennessee. 6,750,000 Texas... Vermont.... 766,000 II.I 1.70 Virginia.. 8,612,000 823,047 5.3 1.68 22,600 1.00 103,000 5,953 17.3 1.10 155,000 9,687 16 1.45 800,000 86,021 9.3 ΙΟ .91 19,241,989 79,614 59,803,049 915,168 West Virgin. 2,562,000 218,974 11.7 1.26 94,000 7,286 12.9 Wisconsin.. 24,000,000 1,568,627 15.3 68 1,150,000 76,666 15 .62 Nev. & Ter.. 2,500,000 100,000 25,807,375 198,844 Total...... 264,146,900 20,913,739 14.03 $1.29 22,227,900 1,657,586 14.- $1.05 81,273,567,761| 15,763,444 Oats, Buckwheat, and Hay. Acres Av.bu. Price Acres of Bush. Bushels in Price Tons Hay Av. Ts. of Oats. pr acre Oats. Buckw't. pr. acre each State Bkwt in ea. Sta. pr. acre 45,000 12.6 80.91 Florida... 23,000 1.37 13,000 1.25 260,000 95 87,000 6,692 13 3,200,000 104,918 30.5 Mary land 7,100,000 358,585 19.8 51 13,157 11.4 Massach's 1,525,000 49,193 31 150,000 1.10 191,000 1.16 3,428,450 20,757,000 Michigan. 8,700,000 245,762 35.4 49 48,022 17.7 19,840,000 Minnes'ta 12,500,000 333,333 37.5 42 1,861 18.8 35,000 Mississip.. 200,000 8,438 23.7 98 196,969 33 Missouri 6,500,000 30,256 41.3 N. Jersey. 6,440,000 188,856 34.1 Vermont. Virginia... 9,017,000 527,309 17.1 Total.... 298,284,000 9,101,440 273 56 278,109 20.1 47 396,341 16.4 71,213 20.6 .631,088,733 16.4 17,255,500 .89c. 26,420,000 1.40 $336,862,900 3,554 21.I 2,994 16.7 4,000 22.5 62,676 14.2 9,000 1.22 523,000 1.55 700,000 1.06 158,000 1.39 3,219,720 397,040 86 1,100,000 1.15 14,000,300 75,000 87 220,000 1.46 3,390,200 14.2 3,579 17.6 300,000 93 150,000 1.44 1,675,500 63,000 71 1,400,000 1.45 15,330,000 Statistics of Indian Corn, Barley, Improved Land, & Young Cattle. (Av.bu. Price) Pounds Bushels Bushels Acres STATE. of Corn. of Corn. pr.acre Bush. of Cheese. of Barley Acres of Av.bu. Price Acres Im- Young Barley. pr.acre Bush. prov. Land. Cattle. 769 11.7 $1.81 6,385,724 600,347 307 13 1.10 348,016 35.3 65 1,086 23 17,947 22.9 1.03 45,396 26.5 61 15,589 18.5 1.23 1,983,313 450,005 2,468.034 1,500,630 92 16,810 1,343,689 12,285,000 4.000 1.30 3,898,411 70 1.45 6,579 5,280 25,000 6,000 90 1,830,807 112,680 637,065 35,340 4,000 285 14 1.80 654,213 297,680 1.21 15,587 12,300 8,062,758 780,350 59,808 20.9 90 13,096,374 2,320,500 70 48.4 605,795 411,000 918,635 1,203,000 29,045 25,000 8,242,183 744,850 301,960 405,408 71,863 7,641,208 610,845 1.09 6,153 2,707,108 520,310 I.27 1,799,862 73 8,342 5,760 25 1.56 26,859 24.2 85 3,476,296 401,320 31,906 25.7 5,065,755 600,708 60 259,633 300,000 6,246,871 790,112 6,750,000 159.952 42.2 N.York 19,100,000| 704.797 Oregon 200,000 2,367,034 203.890 1,944,441 99,450 99 14,355,403 2,450,600 1.00 6,517,284 501,160 1.02 12,625,394 1,000,360 60 896,414 140,500 1.02 10,463,296 890,460 1.28 335,128 21,420 1.90 4,572.060 349,890 1.12 6,795,337 709,360 2,650,781 2,540,300 230,300 Tenn... 47,500,000 2,375,000 20 Texas.. 23,000,000 793,103 29 Verm.. 1,475,000 43,382 34 Virgin. 17,500,000 1,129,032 16.5 W. Va. 8,100,000 291,366 27.8 Wisc'n 9,500,000 359,848 26.4 N. & T. 2,000,000 71,428 28 Total 874,120,005 37,903,245 26.42 65 1,104,300 1,500,000 1.10 10,500,000 400,000 13,333 30 80 3.746,167 1.00 Not ret'd .92 114,154,211 28,652,200 1,015,721 22.00 $1.08 162,753,778 21,314,098 Potatoes, Butter, Horses, Mules, Milch Cows, Sheep, and Swine. |