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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1840
Page
1
In Wo asith Whit, Daniels age and wages are noted with cents. The brief item records ages and small monetary figures, indicating minor financial amounts linked to the two individuals.
The Tarboroush Press offers weekly publication by George Howard. Subscriptions cost five cents per month or more for periods under a year with advance payment. Advertisements priced at one dollar for first insertion, twenty five cents for each continuation. Prices, terms, and delivery details are specified for subscribers and advertisers.
An 1940 notice describes William Evans Celebrated Soothing Syrup claimed to ease gum pain and prevent convulsions in teething infants. It cites a mother’s testimonial of rapid relief after gum application and urges mothers to keep the syrup in the nursery. The letter requests public acknowledgment and lists contact agents in New York and Tarboro.
The text records U S enactments from 1840 reviving a prior act for soldiers in the late war to surrender lands and locate new ones, extending to Illinois and Missouri. It extends relief acts for insolvent debtors for three years, detailing certification and proceedings for discharged debtors and property disclosures.
An act by Congress authorizes Sippiesn and Mattapoisett harbors within Rochester Massachusetts to be known thereafter as ports under those names within the district of New Bedford.
A fragment notes that the inhabitants must describe their resasels as belonging to their places as required by law, correcting a misattribution to Roeches ter Armovep dated May 27 1840.
A resolution from Congress directs the Secretary of the Navy to take measures for importing and erecting the statue of Washington by Greenough. Dated May 27, 1840 at Armoyep.
A private act confirms William F Kennedy’s title to about eight hundred a rpens in Mobile County Alabama. The land claim, rooted in a 1803 Spanish permit and listed by Commissioner William Crawford, is treated as if previously approved and will receive a patent after survey approval by the U S Surveyor General. Approved May 27 1840.
An act approved May 27 1840 authorizes the US district attorney for Maine to enter satisfaction of a judgment in the first circuit court for the United States in the district of Maine. The judgment was for Abraham Howe and Benjamin Howard against Abiel Wood of America, recovered in January 1821 in the Massachusetts Boston Court of Common Pleas and assigned to the United States on September 22 1830.
An act provides Joseph Cochran a preference to purchase under the private land claims framework in Missouri Palmyra district. It allows entry within one year, aligning with prior proof and a late conveyance by Albert Tison under similar terms and restrictions.
An April 1840 letter from Capt. Wm. Chambers and C. Van Buskirk to the Democratic Central Committee of Kentucky, with a Washington reply from President Harrison, relays that Harrison will not yield to abolition pressures. It outlines his stated positions on slavery in states, the District of Columbia, and the federal role, urging peace to avoid Union disruption. The exchange emphasizes preservation of constitutional balance and opposition to federal interference in slavery.
The act shall be considered only as relinquishment of the merits of the United States and not to prejudice the rights of third persons Arrriven May 27 1810
An act provides relief by releasing and not collecting 256 dollars 63 cents plus interest, part of a bond dated December 4, 1837, for 599 dollars 27 cents principal and 37 dollars 25 cents interest, against A GooS Wight as surety of Samuel Smoker, former Postmaster at Galena. Payment of balance, interest, costs, and suits is stipulated as of May 27, 1841.
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