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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1840
Page
1
Weekly publication at two dollars and fifty cents if paid in advance or dollars at year end. Shorter periods pro rata monthly rate twenty-five cents. Discontinuation allowed with arrears paid. Long ads charged one dollar for first insertion plus twenty-five cents each continuation. Court notices 25 percent higher. Ads must state number of insertions. editor’s letters post paid.
An 1840 testimonial promotes Dr Evans Soothing Syrup for teething pain. It describes irritability, drooling, convulsions, and fever, claiming the syrup opens gums, prevents convulsions, and saves infants. The letter urges early use, warns against feeding with milk, and lists New York and agents in various cities.
An act directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the legal heirs and representatives of Matthew Lyon one thousand sixty dollars and ninety six cents with interest from February 9, 1799 to enactment. Payment to be made from unappropriated Treasury funds. Signed by Speaker Hunter and Vice President Johnson. approved July 4, 1840 by President Van Buren.
An act directs the President to issue patents to John Wesley Monette for lots 1 3 and 4 in township 16 range 12 east north of Red River Louisiana. The lands were entered and paid for by Monette. Approved July 4 1840.
An 1840 act proposes aligning juror qualifications and exemptions in federal courts with those of the highest state courts. It authorizes designating jurors by ballot or other methods and empowers courts to set rules for empaneling juries, adapting to state changes in state court usages. President pro tempore William R. King affixes approval July 20, 1840.
Panic No 23 details an act adding to laws regulating seamen discharges and consuls duties. It requires ships bound for foreign voyages to use a uniform hand written crew list without erasure, and owners must obtain from the customs collector a true certified copy of the shipping articles containing crew names.
The long excerpt outlines duties for consuls and commercial agents to protect mariners. It covers reporting, verification of wages, discharges, list and articles handling, and penalties for noncompliance. It sets procedures for inspections, adjustments in pay, and remedies for deserters and abusive practices, with enforcement and effective dates.
A resolution authorized by the President to dispose of presents received from the Imaam of Muscat and the Emperor of Morocco. Resumed by the Senate and House of American Congress assembled.
The official is empowered to dispose of gifts sent from the Imaam of Muscat or the Emperor of Morocco in any time and manner as deemed fit. Proceeds from such dispositions are to be placed in the Treasury of the United States rather than kept in the Department of State.
An act authorizes the Secretary of War to place Ichabod Beardsley on the Revolutionary pensioners roll under the June 7 1832 act and to grant him a private’s pension for eighteen months service from March 4 1831 for life.
An 1840 congressional act directs the Secretary of War to place Elizabeth Davidson on the Revolutionary pension roll at eighty dollars per year for life, starting September 10 1834, from the death of her husband John Davidson. Approved July 20 1840.
Beit enacted by the Senate and House that the Secretary of War place the name of Israel Parsons of Granville Hamden County Massachusetts on the pension roll under the act of 1832 and pay him thirty dollars per annum from September 4 1835 for life without deductions due to any prior pension.
An act directs the Secretary of War to place Philip Hartman of Rockingham County Virginia on the Revolutionary pension roll and pay him forty dollars per year starting when his name was struck from the pension list.
Representatives of the United States and Congress direct the Secretary of War to place Medad Cook of Jefferson County New York on the pension list. He shall be paid four dollars per month starting January 1 1839 from unappropriated Treasury funds.
The Secretary of War is directed to place Lyman Bristol of Columbia County New York on the pension list and to pay him a pension of eight dollars per month starting January 1 1839 from unappropriated Treasury funds. Approved July 20 1940.
On adjournment day the city office in Washington sent to various wine producing regions no fewer than 340 bales of documents and newspapers, signaling a wide distribution of official material across the country.
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