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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1840
Page
1
The Tarborough Press weekly publication announces subscription rates of two dollars per year with options for shorter terms. Advertising charges are 25 cents per line for first insertion, with longer ads scaled. Advance payment or credit references required. court notices priced at 25 percent extra. letters to the editor should be postpaid.
An 1810s sensational ad warns mothers and nurses of convulsions during teething and promotes Dr William Evans's Soothing Syrup as a universal remedy. It claims immediate gum application prevents fevers and fatal outcomes, cites an infant testimonial, and lists New York and agent sale locations with January 1210 as the date.
The act directs the Secretary of War to price the fall of Revolutionary prisoners and provide James Fronecher of Pennsylvania a pension of forty dollars per year for life, beginning March 4, 1831. Signed by Speaker P. Hunter and Senate President pro tempore William R. King, dated July 20, 1840.
The act directs the Secretary of War to list Seneca Rider of Jefferson County New York among United States pensioners and pay him six dollars monthly from May 1 1838, continuing during his natural life. Approved July 20 1840.
Private Act No 34 records Senate and House action to place William Bowman of Missouri on the invalid pension roll and grant eight dollars per month for life starting February 1, 1857, with date noted as July 20, 1840.
An act enacted to restore Jacob Becker of New York to the roll of Revolutionary pensioners and grant him thirty dollars per month for life from March 3 1836, after a suspension of the former allowance, approved July 20, 1840.
The act relieves Peter W Short of Woodstock Ulster County New York by restoring his name to the invalid pension roll and ordering a monthly payment of two dollars sixty six cents from the suspension date. The pension continues for his life, funded from available Treasury money. Approved July 20 1840.
An act for the relief of Daniel W. Going directs Congress to place him on the pension roll and pay four dollars per month for life, from January 1, 1837, using unappropriated funds. Approved July 20, 1840.
An item of legislation labeled Private No 38 describes an act intended to relieve Erastus Pear son. The text notes it is enacted by the Senate and House and appears as a private relief measure. The fragmentary OCR suggests a constitutional or legislative relief context without further details on scope or beneficiaries.
The Secretary of War directed that Erastus Pierson of Essex County New Jersey be placed on the Revolutionary pensioners roll and paid sixty dollars annually for life, commencing March 4 1831. Aphsoven July 20 1840.
An act directs the Secretary of War to place Gideon Sheldon of Rutland County Vermont on the invalid pension list. He shall receive eight dollars per month starting January 1, 1838, for life from any unappropriated treasury funds. Approved July 20, 1540.
An act directs placing Jared Winslow of China Genesee County New York on the invalid pension list and paying eight dollars monthly from January 1 1838 for his natural life Avruoven July 20 1840.
Private No 41 establishes Peter A Myers on the invalid pension roll and orders four dollars monthly starting January 1, 1839, to continue during his natural life. Approved July 20, 1840.
The act requires the Secretary of War to place Chauncey Rice of Northampton County Pennsylvania on the pension roll and pay him eighty dollars per year for life starting March 4 1831, to be funded from available money. Approved July 20 1810.
The Senate and Genesee County NY place Sylvester Tiffing on the invalid pension roll. He will receive eight dollars monthly from Jan 1 1837 for life, paid from unappropriated Treasury funds. Approved July 20, 1940.
The act directs William Andrews of New York to be placed on the pension roll with a life pension of sixty dollars per year, effective from the date his prior pension was reduced, approved July 20 1840.
Act authorizes Peter Warner of Indiana to enter with the register of the Winsamac land office the southeast quarter of a section in the state.
Fragmentary text notes land description in a public land district with a rate of one dollar and twenty five cents per acre and an approval date of July 20, 1840. Names and precise locations are incomplete.
An act to annex a land tract in township twenty two range two east of the northern Alabama survey east of the Coosa river to the Coosa land district. It confirms that surveys sales and other proceedings for the tract remain valid as if originally in the district and no further action is required.
A detailed 1840 act authorizes funds for the Indian Department including salaries for the superintendent at St Louis and agents, sub agents, interpreters, presents, provisions on annuity visits, agency buildings, and transportation. It also allocates specific sums to satisfy treaty stipulations and claims for Chippewas, Choctaws, Creeks, Cherokees, Delawares, Caddoes, and other tribes, with amounts for Chickasaws, Senecas, and the Alabama emigrating company.
A ledger of appropriations to various tribes including the Florida Indians Iowns Kickapoos Kaskaskias Peorias Kansas Miamies and many others. It lists amounts for claims examination agriculture assistance housing mills removal costs and other treaty obligations, totaling substantial sums as of the approval date. Arrived, July 20, 1840.
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