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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1840
Page
1
The Tarborough Press sets weekly publication, annual rates at five dollars prepaid or six dollars due. For less than a year, twenty five cents monthly. Cancellations require notice and arrears payment, distant subscribers must provide a reference. Ads under a square cost one moultur, twenty five cents per continuation. Court orders ad positions higher. letters to editor must be post paid.
A testimonial style notice promoting Dr William Evans's Soothing Syrup to ease teething pain in infants. It claims relief from gums pain, convulsions, fevers, and unrest, urging timely use from four months, and warns to avoid counterfeits while listing agents in New York and various towns.
The act of the twenty sixth Congress approves a payment of one thousand seven dollars and thirty nine cents to Ebenezer Loddell from unappropriated treasury funds. The sum covers extra labor clearing obstructions in the Kennebec River not under the 1829 contract with agent Peter Grant. Signed by Speaker Hunter and President pro tempore King, and approved July 20, 1840 by President Van Buren.
Congress passes a relief act authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to issue a patent to John W. Faunce and Oliver Perrin for a machine described in a September 1, 1834 specification. They must pay thirty dollars and deposit a model and drawing, with the Commissioner to determine they were the original inventors, approved July 20, 1840.
An act authorizes the Passamaquoddy customs collector to pay John L Bow man and Enoch J Noyes owners of the George of Eastport a distribution of allowances to crew or legal representatives as if the vessel had completed its term. The schooner, a sixty eight and thirty eight ninety-fifths ton vessel, was totally lost in a gale after more than two and a half months of service. Approved July 20, 1840.
An act for the relief and confirmation of land claims by Pierre Molaison, widow Pierre Richoux, Alexander Comeau, Alice Foley, widow of John Foley, and Francois Martin in the state of Louisiana. It confirms specific tracts along the bayou Lafourche near Thibodauxville with defined fronts and depths.
The act confirms land claims in Assumption Parish on the canals to Lake Verrit. Alice Foley’s widow’s tract covers sections 140 and 180, townships 14, range 13 and 14 east, with specified front and depth. Francois Martin receives 140.63 acres on the canal’s right bank. The act notes confirmations are relinquishments by the United States. Approved July 20, 1840.
An act for the relief of certain settlers on the salt lick reservation in the western district of Tennessee is extended. Representatives state that the provisions of the act approved March 3, 1839 are extended to June 1, 1839.
An 1840 act authorizes Eliza Davidson widow and guardian of infant heirs of Lewis Grant Davidson to list his Washington county real estate, sell unimproved portions, report sales, and distribute proceeds with dower and guardian commissions. The judge may approve sales, and accounts are settled. heirs receive balances when of age, bond is at risk if unpaid. Approved July 20, 1840.
An act re enacted by the Senate and House provides Thomas Bennett of New York a pension of thirty dollars per annum for life, to commence March 4, 1831, approved July 20, 1840.
An act provides a section of public lands for school use in St Clair County Illinois to replace the sixteenth section appropriated for private claims. It empowers the county commissioners to locate the section for the stated purpose within the townships specified and meridian referenced.
An act passed by Congress directs the Secretary of the Treasury to allow Captain John Downes seven hundred twenty three dollars and sixty cents to correct a double charge in his account and pay this amount from available Treasury funds. Approved July 20, 1840.
Purvare No 60 an Act allows two more years from April 5 1840 for the Trustees of Centre College at Danville Kentucky to dispose of lands previously granted to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum in Kentucky. Approved July 20 1840.
Representatives in Congress authorize setting aside from public lands within Iowa Territory up to two entire townships for a university. Land to be reserved from sale only for that future state's university, allocated in sections matching surveyed divisions, approved July 20, 1840.
An act authorizes John Campbell James Campbell Hamilton Campbell and Mary Williams to relinquish the southwest quarter of section fifteen township ten north range four east from the United States land tract granted to the late army of the United States. The form is to be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
In July 1840 the Commissioner may permit John Campbell James Campbell Hamilton Campbell and Mary Williams to enter any other quarter section of land in Arkansas liable to private sale after renunciation and proof they are the deceased William Williams legal representatives.
An act grants a pension to the heirs of Captain Leonard Smith of Orange County New York. The Secretary of War is to pay the heirs a Revolutionary War lieutenant’s pay for six months service under a 1832 act, from March 4 1831 until Smith's death on July 20 1840.
An Act for the relief of Cornelius Tiers directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay him 1200 dollars from any unappropriated money in the Treasury. The sum covers loss he sustained by delaying to issue orders to make blocks for a ship of the line frigate and sloop of war, contrary to his contract with the United States.
An act authorizes Mary Perkins of Williams County Ohio to enter within twelve months the west fraction of the southeast quarter of section 21, township 1 north, range 5 east, Lima land district, at a price of 1.25 dollars per acre, as other purchasers.
The act authorizes William Marbury of Louisiana to enter six hundred forty acres at St Helena without payment as full equivalent for land tied to a private claim certified in 1827. He must relinquish all interest in the originally confirmed land to the United States before a patent issues.
An act provides relief to the children of Stephen Johnston, deceased, contingent on the President's satisfaction that their claim aligns with the treaty terms. The measure seeks to authorize payments or settlement per treaty provisions recognized by Congress.
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