September 26, 1874 (4 pages)

OFFIcraL. ©" LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. Passed at the First Session of the Forty‘third Congress. [General Nature—No. 90.] 7 An Act making app vice of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June. thirtieth, . “eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes. : at ; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re Iresentatyves of the United States. of 4 * America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the shme are hereby pe tag omer forthe service of the Post Office Department forthe year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, out of any in the 7 arising from the revenues of aid Department, in ity tothe act of July second, eighteen b and thirty.six, as % jus for the serfollows: ~ +" : For inland mail transportation, sixteen ers o pep pe ge go : or oT m4. : hundred and Toney hree thousand, five hundred and . thirty-three dollars. ~~ : _For pay-pf-route--agents, nine hundred AP 1 twenty-nine thousand and thirty-five For pay of mail route one hundred ond sixty thousand doHars. > ¥or pay of local agents, one hundred and ~ ten thousand three ~ > For.adyertising, eighty thousand dollars: hundied “and eightythree dollars. 5 4 For pay of railway-post.office clerks, one million three. hundred and tweuty thonsand dollars. ——* ‘e For pay of baggage-masters,one thousand dollars. ~ Sine For foreign«moil transportation, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, For ship, steamboat, and way letters,seyen thousand five hundred dollars. . \ 7 For pay of postmasters, six million five hundred thousand dollars. ; For pay.of clerks for post-offices, three eae two hundred and fifty thousand do k 2s _ For pay of lettér-carriers, one “million snd nine hundred thousand dollars: Pro’ -yided, That hereafter letter-carriers shall not be employed for the free delivery of mail matter in towns and cities whose population within their, corporate limits, as seown by the-last report of the national census or by subsequent census taken in pursualice of State statute or by order. of the mayor ond common council of suc! town or city, shall be less than thirty thousand; but this proviso shall not affect the free delivery in towns and ¢ ‘where it is now established. And for the more efficient management of the. free delivery system, the Postmaster-General may designate a fourth, class clerk to act as Superintendent of free delivery in the Post Office Department at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; and for this . purpose the sum of seven hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any ae f in the Treasury not otherwise appropriat For wrapping:paper, twenty-seven thou-. sand dollars, . For twine, forty-eight thousand ‘dollars. For letter-balatices, thrée thousand dol. VrA. _ 2 For éffice furliiture, six thousand five hundred dollars, Provided, That hereafter no payment shall: be.made to any. newspaper published in the District of Columbia for eayenneling any other routes than thosein Virginia Maryland. = ; For manufacture. of adhesive posta Stamps, oné hundred and eighteen thousand six hundred und sixty-seven dollars. For stamped envelopes and wra) five hundred and thirty-five thousan hundred anid. twenty-four dollars: Provided, That heraftter no envelope, as furnished by the Government, shall contain any li'hograph and engraving, nor sny printing except a printed request to return tne letter tu the writer. For pay of distributing agents and assistants, ten thousand two hundred dollars. For manufacture of ato cards, one hundred and sixty-eight thoysand two hunded and sev snty dollars. © For pay of agents and assistants to distribute potal cards, five thousand six hundred lure. : For nts on account of mail depre-. “paper or periudi ‘special agent of the Post Office,De . 80 to do, and shall thereafter, without hav8° . the said ‘‘Act to re mailing, they be postage paid thereon a special adhesive stamp, to be and furnished by the Postmaster-General, which shall be ed to such matter, or to the sack conma memorandum of pom . mat ag, on aha: master-Génera] erwise, as thé Post, from time to time, %. newspapers, one y to each actual subscriber residing within the county where the same are printed, whole or In part, and published, shall go free beg, oa ugh the mails; but the same shall not be deyivered pb nag hes ong offices = paid thereon os by law ded. i Sec. 8 That all mailable matter of the third class, referred to in section one. hundred and -three of the Act entitled *An act to 86, consolidate and amend the statutes relating to the Post Office De. eee approved June eighth, eighteen and seventy-two, m&y weigh not fi > each package ‘thereon at the rate of one cent for two ounces or fraction thereof; but futhing herein contained strali be held to change or amiend section one hundred and thirtyof said act. -. tie ec. 9. at optim: = when in his j it shall be necesgary, may prescribe, by regulation, ati affidavit fn form, to be taken by each publishex of any newspaper or periodical publicavisions of this act; or news agent who distributes any of such newspapers or periodical publications under. the provisions of this act, or employee of scch publisher or news agent, stating that he will not send, orknowingly permit to be sent, through the mails, any copy or copies of such newsublications exdept to regular subseribers thereto, or news agents, without prepayment 6f the postages there. on at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fractional part thereof; ang it such publisher or news agent, or emplovee . ef such publisher or news agent, when re. quired by the Postmaster-General or any ment to make such affidavit, shall refuse ing made such affidavit deposit any newspapers in the mail for aransmission, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanur, and, on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars for each ‘refusal} and if any such on shall knowingly and willfully mail any such matter without the payment of postage as provided by this act, or procure the same to be done with the intent to avoid the prepayment of postage due thereon; or if any er or post-office official ‘shall wingly permit: any. such matter to be maited without the prepayment of postage as provided in this act, and in violation of the sions of the same, he or they shalll be deemed gullty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not-more than one dollars, or imrisoned not exceeding: one year, one or th, in the discretion of the court. . Sec. ‘10,.That so much of this act as changer the rate of postage on newspapers, and jodical publications shall not take effect until the day of January next. ‘Bec. 11. That the sixty-third, elghtieth, eighty-first, cighty-second, ecighty-third, eighity-fourth, ane cighty-aixth sections of g se, consolidate, and —_ the oan poietina w the Post Ofice Department,” approved. June eighth, teen hundred and ulaipiee be amended to read as follows: : . *‘#ec. 63. That the postmasters, except the postmaster at New York. City, whose annual salary is hereby fixed at six thousand dollars, shall be divided into four classes, as_folluws: The first class shall embrace all those whose annual salaries are not more than four thousand dollars nor less than three thousand dollars; the second class shall embrace all thuse whose annual salaries are less than three thousand dollars but not Fess than two thoudollars; the third class shall embrace sand all those who.annual salaries are less than two thousand dollar bu hot less than one datious aud for special ayents, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, : . For mail-bags and mailcatchers, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. ’ For maiklocks and keys, fifty thousand dollars. : For postmarking and canceling stamps, nine thousand do fle For preparing and publishing post-route maps, thirty thousand dollars. For balazice due foreign countries, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For rent of post offices, three. hundred and fifty thousdud dollars. ; For fuel fur post offices, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. : For light for post offices, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Zz For stationery and misceHaneous items, sixty thousand dollars. For istered package envelopes and seals, forty-two thousand six hundred and bs og a ray ¥ el, f sactinnatiiee, For offie. envelopes for. sixty thousand dollars. — For envelopes for returning dead letters, four thousand five hundred and eighty.five dollarsi For fees to marshals, et ie and clerks of courts, seven thousand five hun€ dollars. x engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, three thousand dollara. . ‘ For miseeflaneous iféms, two thousand five by dolaxe, Sec. 2. ¢ the following sums, or 80 much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same ave y, appropriated for the year ending dune thirticth, eighteen hundred and sewenty-five,out of any money in the Treasury bob otherwise appropriated, namely: 2 For steamship gerviee between San Fran}cisco, Ja and China, five hundred thou. . ; sand dollars. i For steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hundred and tfty thousand dollars. ‘or steamship service between San Francisco and the ‘ , SeyH igety-five thousand dollare. For official postage: nine. hundred and and fitty thousad wee For the purchase-of law. “8 for use of the Post-Office Department, thousand dollars. : ; Sec, 3. That if the revenue of the PoatOffice Department shall be insufficient to meet the app: ns made by . this act. _thenthe sumof tive million four: ‘snd ninety-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars, or s@much thereof a may be necessary, be the ev hereby, # . sout of amy max n the Treasury n F , to su defick . Sieh ths ieee the year ending ¢ : x; ‘ hundred and seventy-five. . Bec. 4 That the Be ; of the United States shall mut be published by the two the Lnif:d States in newspaper, anythi laws to the notthing In oxating contraty 1 sae Sec. 5. Thut on and after the first day of Ps , eighteen sod ¥. . five, or ROWS cations, issued weekiy.aad ‘ ig than once o week, two ‘ 3 round or-froction thereat, avd on those fued less frega ply than quce s Ww — . mecessacy in each case: ia} thousand dollars; fourth class shall embrace all postmasters whose annual compensation, exclusive of their comunissions on the money order business of their offices, amounts to leas than one thousond dollars.” “Sec. 80. That the postmaster at Néw York City and postmasters of the first,.second, and third clases. shall be appointed and-may be removed by the President, -by and with the advice and consent of the 4n . the necessary cost of clerical services ariseral, . ve tion sent through the mails under the pro. . oi RRO UY roto poe ARN S until the first day of the next folof not less 1 centum increase or derrease in’ of any post office, the Postmaster-General may adjust the salary of the er at such office, to ‘take effect from the first day of the = or period the teturns for which orm.-the basis af % ” “See. 86. That the P -General —_ designate offices at the intersection of nail routes as distributing or separating offices; and where any such office is of the third or fourth class he may make a reasonable allowance to the postmaster for ing from such duties.” : = Sec. 12.That-seetion two hundred and sorty-five, section two hundred and fortysix, section two hundred and forty-seven, section two hundred and fifty-one, and section two hundred ond fifty-three of the act entitled ‘‘An act to revise, consolidate, an —_ Dedltemicn, relating to the ce De nt, 2) ved Jane eighth, eighteen Hundred int doventeewo, be ag per as follows: a : “ing the mail shall be accompanied by the ‘bond of the bidder, ‘sureties approved by a postmaster, “im cases where. the said bidder shall, within ‘et his bid is aceepted as th ! proposed in his ther, that he shall perform the service . according to his ¢ontract, then the sald ob. ligation to be void, otherwise to bein full force and obligation In law; and in case of fallure.of any bidder to enter into such contract to perform the service, or, having executed a contract, in case of failure to perform the service, or, having executed a contract, in case of failure to perform the service, accord 46, his contract, he and his suretiés shall, be liable for the amount of said bond as liquidated damages, to be recovered in an action of debt on the s:id bond. No proposal shall be considered unless it shall be accompanied by such bond, and there shall have been affixed to said proposal the oath of the bidder, taken before an officer qualified to administer oaths, that he has the ability, pecuniarily, to fulfill his obligations, and that the bid -is made in good faith, and With the intention to enter into contract andperform the service in case his bid is accepted.” “Sec. 246, That -before the bond of .a bidder provided for in the aforesaid section is approved, theze shall be ondorsed thereon the oaths of the sureties therein,. taken before an officer qualified to administer oaths, that they owners of real estate, worth, in the ag ate, u sumdouble the amount of the said bond, over and above all debjs due and owing by them, and judgments, mortgages, and executions. against them, after allowing all exemptions of evero character whatever.” . “Sec, 247. That any postmaster who shall affix his signature.to the approval of od bond of a ean orto the certificate -of sufficiency of sureties in any. contract ‘before the said bond of contract is signed by the bidder or contractor and his sureties, or shall knowingly, or without -the exercise of due diligence, approve any bond of a bidder with insufficient sureties, or shall knowingly make any false or fraudulent certificate, shall be forthwith dismissed from office, and be thereafter disqualified from holding the oftice of postmaster,and shall also be deemed guilty of & misdemeanor, and, on conviction there: ed by a mend not soucinn Vi lars, or ; en not exceding one year, or both, yaa “Sec, 251That after any regular bidder whose qid bas been shall fail to) enter into contract forthe transportation of the mails according to his pro 1, or, having entered into contract, chal fail to commence the ormance of the service stipulated in his or their contract as therein provided, the Postmuster-General shall to contract with the next.lowest dder for the same service, who will enter into a contract for the performance thereof, unless the Postmaster.-General shall consider such bid too high, in which case he shall ré-advertise such seryice. And if any bidder whose bid has been’ accepted, and who has entered into a contract'to perform the service according to. gs royrml -— in gag of his conract . entered upon the performance of the service, to the satisfaction of the PostSenate, and shall hold their offices for four years unless sooner. removed or suspended peebert ape ae — on ter's’ of the . 0 class a ted. and. may . be removed by the Postnastan General, { whom all appointments and removals shall Me notified to the Auditor forthe Post Ofce 4 . Seo, 81, That the compensation of the # New York City shall be six . housrnad dollars per annum, and the reares of poftmosters of ¢ first, second, and third classes shall be . annual salaries, assigned in every hundred . of aolAaer ama’ m quarter “payments, to be asce fixed, by the Postmagter-General, from their respective qoarteriy never to, the Auditor for the, Department, or copies or duplipetal thereof, for four quarters gee 4 y preceding. the adjustment or re-adjustment, by adding to the whole amount of box-rents, not exceeding. two. thousand —— at mee comiission also not to ex thousand dollars per annum on the other revénues of the office, at the f rates, namely: On the first one hundred dollors per quarter, fifty per centum; on all over one hundred do and not over four hundred dollars per quarter, forty pe cemtum; on all over four hundred do) ind not over two thousand four hundred “@ollars per qurrter, thirty, centum: and on all over two thousand ~ ‘our-hundred dollars —_ quurter, ten per centum;_ And in order to ascertain the amount of the postal rece: of each off e the Postm eral may require postduplicates quarterly returns ty ‘the Auditor uch Thee pin for such M.-H hex ay deem ” at whenever, by reason of the exteusion of Office are decreased, the Postra a sum + to maintain the salary togrent atthe amount at which it had been fixed before the decrease in Perk hat th compensa com on ef t-of the f be th dollurs or less per on the next-three a of. their. however, That the “allow, out of the reveipts— sufficien vurth class shall be the Y revenues of ° rate of sixty per ceixtum master-Géneral, shall subsequently fail or refuse to perform the service according to his contract, the Postmaster-General shall idder for such service, under tho adver. tisement thereof, (uniess the Poetueieen General shall der such bid too high,) who will enter into contret and give bond, with sureties, to be approved by the Post. Set ance thereof, in the same by and with the same terms and couniticee Thetets nexed as Were stated and contained in bond which accompanied his case each and every ef the next lowest bidders for such service whose respective bids are not ¢ dered too high by the Postmaster-General, forthe faithful performanin the ve bond ss herein req for the faithfal performance. of his contract, the Postmaster-General shall immediately advertise for proposals to perform accepted bidder shall fail to enter into contract, or a contractor on any mail route shall fail or refuse to perform the service on said route to his contract, or when a new route shall be established, or new sérvice required, or when, from any other cause there shall not be a contractor legally bond or required. to-perform such . ostinaster-General service, thé P : 1 a tem; ary contract for en nh route, witout advert suc! i as : any case exceeding. six months, udtil the service shal have commenced under a contract made te law; Provided, -General may make shall not employ tem porary rice.o. route at a er price then the poe Ear oy who shall wees gate ts of lar ¢ until a new contract . Contractors. thousand — ue accompomy. 3 dius wth a fied -heewor draft, payable! to tie oruggof the Postmaster-Gcneral, ap. . oR some .svivent national Bank, which per ventum omthe amouut of We snnwel made, and, imense.f new ur modified gex_Vice, b: t less than five: centum of the amount of the eend er Gaeaitter required roceed to contract with the next lowest . the service on said route. Whenever an} » Shiabb be made . . reifter wll bidders up. the tran ortatiin. * th: ir} % ee eat hamalamenssibanieenes all: be to bea, ree ve hor age a ing such de . No for e traiaguntdtied of the Bsc! ~ peyton ‘the amount of the bond ted.6.accom pany the sume shall exceed “thousand do}l.is shalt be considered, unless svoympanica with the check or draft haces = leg togethor with the bond required by ‘& preceding section: Provided, Thatmotbing in thie act shail be construed or intended to affect any pensities or forfeitures which have heretoforé, averued under the provisious of the sections hereby anrended ” Sec.18. That hereafter the postage on public doc.ments'mailed by any member of Congress, the President, or head of any Executive Departmen» lbe ten cents for each bound volume, aud 6m unbound documents the once rate »s that on, newspapers mailed from a kuown office of publication to rcgular subscribers; and the words “Public Document” print«d or written thereon, or on the wrapper thereof, and certified by the signature mem ber of © , or by that of the resident or head of any Executive Department shall be deemed @ sufficient certificate thst _the5 same isa public do ; and the térm . ‘public document” is herepy defined to be ati-publica.ions printed by order of Congress, or €ither Huuse thereof: Provided. That the postage op euch copy of the daily Congressional Record misilod from the city of Washington #6 tiansient matter sali be “Approved, June: 23, 1874. . ; No. 591, Application for a Patent to a _. Mining Craim.UDNITED STATIS LAND OFFICE. Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 14th, 1874. OTICE is hereby given, that Osmyn Harkness, in hisown bebalf and in ‘trust for Framk Sachs. J’ B. ‘Taylor; J. H, Abeel, J, Ry Moody, B. F.Moore, H. H. Brown, Wm. Kinder, Henry. Weisgurber, _Ajbert $. Benton, 8. ¥Y. Hals.y and Johu Anderson;-whose Post Office is Gold Run, Placor ecunty, Ca.ifornia, havemade application fcr Patent for the Church & G iden Guve 2.acemming, situate imGold Run Mining District, Placer Gounty, Ca orwie ana 5.22 chs to Station No 3, of the upper . pe described in the plst'and flela notes on file n this office as follows, viz; i Survey of Exterior Boundaries. Commenting at the 8S W corner of. the claim, at corner of Henry Weisgarber’s garden fence, at a stake marked C. G. G, C., (Church and Gelden Gate Claim) from which the corzer on to. Sections 4, 5, 8 and 9 beara south 42> 15’ West $1.30 chs distant and run variation 18> East, North Tyo 6.17 chs the line of H Weisgarber’s fénwe to a stake matked O @ G OC. N 154° E7,36chs to the NW corner of Weiggarber's fence. Seta sta e marked 0 G @C, 887%° £3.63 chs to the & W corner of the Gem. claim. SetStuke marked C aGaGC. BETO i 16,55 chs. To the svuth corner of the Gem claim. Set a stake markeaACGGC,.N. 13%9 E 08 chs to the «ast corner of the Gem claim, to a stake marked CG@G 0. N 70%° W1170 chains on line of Gem claim to tne south east corasr of the Bay State claim to stake, marke d “GG. in mining cut. 8 864° H 14.50 chs, along the line of the Bay State claim to a pine 3 inches in dia marked cCGac, N Pt W 13.70 chs to an oak stump marked CGGQO. N42%° E637 chs to a staxe marked @ G@ GC in Sach’s hydraulic cut. N 74> W191 cheto stake marked 6 G GC in mining cut, N 334° & 3.49 chs to stake marked CG G@ Cin ent. N 78> E 84 chs, to the south-east corner of the I'nsie Abe claim, Set stake marked OCG GC. § 21%° E 3.88 chs tothe soyth west cor ver of the Prindle claim, to a stake marked 53GC0. N172%° E6.69 ehs to the 3 E corner of the-Prindle claim, set stake mark2 UGGO, N17? W 15.76 cha to the N. caruer Of the FrO® Wess chs to. the uss CGGO. 817° W8: 3 , . W corner of the oats pee a = marked CG. 0.8 .62 chains tos ee. set stake marked © GG Cc. 8 es W 6.62 chs to NE cor of Wolcott's garden fence vence postiC GGC. N28%°E 5.09 chsto astake marked OG @O.N 494° 44.70 chs to a stake marked UG GO. Nél E. 17.49 chs to corner stuke on rail road bank marked CG GO NTIS £12.80 chs to a pine stamp marked CGG ©. 816° E 3.50 chs to a stake marked CG GC. 8 66> W 15.02 chs to the NW corner of the Union E9, to the 8 W corner nion Set Re sarved CGGSC. N° E 2.46 cha, set a atake marked OG G CG, 845° E 5,59 chs to # conrer of the Pacific claim, set a+take matked © G GC. §16%° E6.61 = Secti South 39.62 chs . take markbid; but im} mail} » not in 16 North, Range 10 Kart, Mt : snd Meridian. Morecord of said epg ag apn gy ie sy on the Seuth, the owners o m Bay State and Uncle Abe Placer Mines on the i . west. perrons holding any adverse claime to are hi : te presyut the within sixty days ng heveof. so ADL ebecs.or druft@hail not be less Uhau ave . Fsaid hewsand ; is bid.# tie aniount uf the accompo Fabia bid. e ne sucky comin r-G 28s Sh such vice to the Futisfa to lis liability om ue 4 the PostD , i euch ‘contract shali be ; cheek #0@ ted, api cuit upan the per _ Btock y + ‘. bears N 30° W 15 links dist. Y moark location . ee ee ee nt a aeneemmmienanioes Sacramentu, Cal., Aug Ries} : OTICE is hereby given, That H Meller, whose Post Office is Little Yor: Nevada county, Cal. has made application for Pate.t f. rthe Baltimore Placer Mine, situate in Little York Mining District, Nevada ‘county, Ushtornia, and described ‘Th the plat and field notes -s follows, viz :— Commencing at Post no 5, of the upper part of Lo = wer Christmas Hill claim on lower baa k of the Little York Cuenyeny * dicch at #n osk sttimp marked (BP M) for Baltimore placer , from which a black oak ) 6 in. dia bears N'745 15’ W 11 links dist and the wituess post to the corner of Syets 32 and 33 on Third Standard North, Township 16 North, Range 10 East Mt lo Meriaian bears $ 223442 W 21.11 chs distant and run variation Is? East, N 8.06 chs to ssugar ine stump 44 inches in diameter on lower stmas Hill claim of Upper Christ: mas Hill claims.to # post and rock pile on seuth-side of road from Little Yor to Lowel Hil. N 60° 20° E 10.87 chs on-ine of Upper Christmas Hill to Station No 2 of eaid claim; marked stake B P'M, from which a pine 3 in dia bears $ 56° W 46 links dist. 5 774° E3.44chs on line of Upper Christmas Hill claim to Station No3 of said claim On. East bank ef little ditch from which-a, cedar 30 in. dia bears S 67° E53 links‘dist. § 21° W 12 chs. set a stake marked B PM from which a black oak 4 in. dia bears north 30> 30’ £46 links distant. 8 45%° E 15.50 chs down on N E.side of small ravine to a stake marke? BP M 30 links NE from ravine, from which a cedar stump 20 in dia 8 76%2 E .93 chains to astake marked BPM from which a live oak 3 in. diatears S 538° E 9 links dist. 8 3.05 chs to the 14 See stake on south b undary of Sec 33, from which a cornerof Goedner & ‘Teaff’s Bear River claim bears due East on the Third Standara north 140 cts distatit. N 63%4°.W.5.23-chs running up the 8 W sideof ravine to a stake mated B PM. N 50> W 15.80 chs toa stake BP M from‘which a black oak 10in dia bears N 63° 30’ W3linksdist. N 52°. part of Lower Christmas Hill claims marke.B PM, from which & manzanita, marked B'T bears N 838° 30’ W 32 links dist, N 87° W 9.53 chs ou line of upper pirt.er Lower Christmas Hill claim to Station No 4 of said claim. N 75° W 4.91 cheto place of beinning and containing 19 52-100 acres and Sotew a portion of the 8 3g of Section 33, Township 16 North, Range 10 East Mt Dia blo Base and Meridian. Said location was made many years ago by different Compa ny’s, abd no record of said locations.can be tound, ‘This applicant. has had the elatm recorded in the mining records of Nevada Quunty, May. 18,1874, Adjoining claimants ore owners of the upprr part of lower Christmas Hill on the north and owners of the npper part of Lower Christmas. Hill claim ou the south,_No_other claims adjoin. All persons: holding any adverse claim thereto are hereby required to present the same before the: Regist.rand Receiver at Sacramento, California, within sixty days from the first.day of ublishing hereof, a22 T. B. McFARLAND, Register. Delinquent Sale. OLD RUN MINING COMPANV.—Location of principal place of businese, Sanu Francisco, Cab n of Works, Nevada Cuunty, Cal. Notice. There are delinquent upon the following described stock on account of assessment No, 7, levied on the 7th day of August, 1874,the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders as follows : Name. No. of No. of Shs. Am’t. Bad Jos 279 109 3=s $25 00 Badger Jos 281 100 ‘25 00 Badger Jos 282 100 25.00 Badger Joseph 283 100 25 00 Jos 293 100 26.00. Badger Jos 294 10 25 00 Badger Jos 295 100 26 00 Badger Jos 296 100 25 00 Badger Jos 327 60 1250 Badger Jos (835 100 Badger Jos 336° 15 345 Badger Stephen 377 1000 §8©6. 250 00 Bavger Stephen —° 379 50 ° 12.50 Badger Stephen 380 50 12 50 Badger Stephen 381 50 12.50 Badger Stephea 382 50 12 50 brown Geo A. 197 250 62 55 Brown Geo A 422. 50 12 50: Brown EP 423 50 12 50 Barron Richard 399 200 25 Ou Barron Richard 400 100 25 U6 Bargion M 472 76 18 70 Baryon M . 473 26 3 25 ; Cresniér A 352 100 25 00 Creawer-A 423 vi 17 50 rane Geo 487 50 12 50 Crane Geo 488 60 12 50 Geo 439200 25 00 Grane Gee 490 5 1 25 Craae Geo 491 50 12 50 Dennisou L M 448 10 25-00 Elsworth k 8 196 250 62 60 Hunteing R 603 200 BU Kelsey / M 427 100 25 00 Kelsey J M Pledgee 430 3867 — 966 75 Littlehale J M Tr 201 46 10 00 Littlehale J M ‘Tr 202 60 16 00 100 25:00 100. 2500 : #100 25-00 209 . wo 25:00 t 710 100 25°00 ttlehale J 11 100° 25-00 Littlehale J 212 100. 23°00 Littlehale 8 300° 100. 25 00 ire d M 240 2000. +=: 250 00 IM 241 500-125 00 JM 242 16 18 15 JM 248100 45 Ov IM #62 60 1510 IM 469: ee ea . 200 . a a a: . re J M 475 100, M Tr 465 100 23:00 BL: 258° 100 25°00. HL 259° 100 25 00 HL oat 100 25 00 aL. 26 100 “25-00 HL 263 tur ‘25 00 EL 264 100 25 00 HL 273 160 25 00 HL 274 160 25 eo HL 276 180 25 oo } 409 100 25 60 606 100 25 00 Tr 322 woo 25 00 Tr «325 wo 25 00 Tr 461 Teo 25 08 Tr 50l 1000. =: 250 bv 326 50 12 56 256 1000 pane 257 1008 = 2350 463 100 2500 479 340 35 00 499 900 «= 5 00 F 608 00 0+ «25:00 613 * 215 53°75 516 > 100 26.0 . #50 37 50 300 25.00 and o D oft: pg his bid, forteit the payment fshiede: . a Gs ut the ene Aurthwith: lane od cx Mt. of ere awigning, or ob Gthe Tresanee quent ampersine e J : a * , Rr posite the Neved < k of ditch, being the‘west corner of Sta-'y ‘. whese Post Otfice 18 Nevada. AME ATE UO A GTA ENE OTICE ts hefeby given, that in * suance of an, order. of the Pro Court, of the pom Pe non State of Califurnia, made on y of Septem. ber, A, D. 1894. in the néattcr of the of L. A. Walling, deceased, the undersi ed, the Executor of the .ast WHI of L. A. Walling, deceased, will selk at pubic auction, tothe highest ‘&dder, .at Wal: es Hotel, tm the village of Rough and Heady, Nevada county, Stute afor said, on the 3a day of October, 1874, At 12 o’elock, m. of said day, all the vight ; title, interest and estate of said deceased, at the time of Mis death, and’ all the right, title or interest that the said estate has by ee a operation of law.or otherwise acquired,oth, ‘er than that or in addition to that of said L. A. Walling at tie time ot his death, in aud to all of the following piéces or parcels of property, situated and being in the village of ‘tough and Ready, Nevada County, California, and described as follows, to-wit; st. That certsin town lot, sitnate on south Bi Main street, in the vy llage of Rough: ‘and dy, said county and State, and known as Walling’s Hotel and Garden. 2d, That certuih pacel of land situated on the north ‘side of said\Main street, and immediately opposite the bef. first herein above described, Leing Known as Walling’s Sta-ble’s and Corral. “3d. ‘Thaf>-ecrtuin parce) of land lying on the south s ot : said. Main stréet, and adjoining the hétel and garden on the west, known as Wallilig's Lower. Corral, board fence. Also, all builg@ings, stables, sheds, outhouses or other structures, upon any or either of the parcels Of land-above described. I will also sell at the same time and place and u on the samie conditins; the following personal property, be© longing to said estate: Supplies in. bar, liquors &c., fixtures in barroom, 19 beds aud bedding, dinivg room and kitchen furniture, supvlies on hand, 2 cows, 2 calves, 16. hogs, 50 chickens, and also all other personal property, upon and about said’ premises, belonging to said estate. ‘Title to the above real estate; United States Patent. . . ‘Terms ot sale.—Cash in gold coin, ten per.cent down, and balance on confimation of sale by Probate Court. Deeds at exmse of purchaser. : Sept 9th i874. : ‘J, ME. WALLING. Fxecutor of the last will of L. A. Walling deceased. Constable’s Sale. Y virtue of an Execution to me directed and delivered, issued out of the Court ot J. M, Walling, a Justice of the Peace in and for Nevaaa Township, Nevada Cou ty, State of California, on the 17th day of September, A. D. 1874, in favor of Ed. Goldsmith and against J. W. Jackson, for the sum of $7493, and $1095-costs of suit, and all accruing costs, 1 have levied upon and taken in exétdition, all the t; title, interest and claim of the defendant J. W. Jackson of, in and to that certain quartz ledge or jode with all its dips, angles, spars and variations, situated, lying and being near the westerly line of Nevada City, commencing at a point on the northerly bank of Big Deer Creek, nearly opposite the California. mine, abd. westerly from the Gold Tunnel » ipe and mill, 200 ‘. yards more or less, and in the township of Nevada, Nevada county, State of Qalifornia, and known as the Keystone quartz ledge or lode, the*same taken as the property of the above. defendant, . W. Jackson, to satisfy the above judgment, with-costs and accruing costs. -Notice ie hereby given tat I will expose .— all of the above described for sale at pubiic auction, to the hi bidder for cash, in tront of the ‘ouse door, . in the city of Nevada, on Sati , the 10th day of October, A. D. 1874, between the hours of 9 0” lock, a. mu. and 6 o'clock, P, M. Given under. my band this 19th day of September. A pb. 1874. J.B. GRAY, 819 Constable of Nevada Township. He. ew ea! Application for & Patent to.a United States Land Office, , Sacramento. Cal. Sept, 4th,-1874. . ) OTICE is hereby given, that Edward’ Carney and Pembroxe . city,. Nevada County, Cal. Lave made application for Patent forthe Carney & placer mine situate in Hunt’s Hil) Mi . District, Nevada County, Califo.nia, ¢ described in the plat and notice on ale in this office as follows. viz; The E 4 of 8W \% of N EX, 8 \ of 8 %of NE \ of NE \ andSBE of NE of Sect'on 24, Tp 16 NR9OE, and 8 % ofS % of N W & of N See 19, Ws of 8 W\ of N. W& sec. 19, 16 N10 E, Tp. 16,NB10E M D-M. and contai 100 acres. Said location is composed’of three sets of claims -the Goug: Eye claims. loca. . ted Feb. 16, 1856, in the names of R. Culaway et al. avd recorded in 18, Records Hunt’. Hill .Distriet, the. m claimnot recorded, and the Alphaslaim, no record of Which can ve found was locatéd in . 1856, Adjoining claimants: are Jacobs & Sargent on the North, A. G. Burner & Co. on the South, no adjoining claimauts on the Bast or West. ALE holiling be adverse claim thereto are bereby required to present the sume before this office, within sixty’ days trom the first day of publishing herent . B,. McFAKLAND, Register. Niles Searis, Atty. ; seps Assessment Notice. NALIFORNEA CUNSOLIDATED. MINING CO. be-thetiedind rows . Place of business, San F: lifornia, Locat on of works, Nevada Mining District. Nevada county, California. is herehelc on the 26th day of August, 1874. an as, No 1, of One Dollar per share was levied upon the capital stock of the Corporation, payable immediately im@/nited States gold ‘com, to the Secretary at the office of the Company, No. 438 California Street,San Frencisco, Cal. Any stock upon which this assessment shall rev-ain ee on the 29th day of September, 1874, will be delinquent, ard advertised for sale at public auction , and unies® payment poll before, will be sold on Tuesday the 19th day of October1874, to pay the delinquent assetement, together with costs of advertising and expen; ses of sale. = omen 2 Ge Secretary. Office, No 438 Califurnia St. San Francisco, Californias. 08 given, that at-a meeting of the te = + 3 Dr NTist, 3 ‘ MAIN ®TREET, SORTS & T= todo DENTAL = and being encleged with. Pn, Six Seplo. She Daily ‘ NEVADA ( ae Prop ; ‘wnaseript Block : _ TERMS OF THE ne Year—in advanc et the, . * “Bhree Months, ** © Rai r Advertisin ‘Ist r ; $1 per. v inserti ; NA SOAR : NATIONAL \. H01 BROAD STREET. R, B. GENTE : HIS WELL EN‘ L Ways open for t tthe Traveling Public. "een made to.it,and i: ‘elegantstyle. The she + airy and comfortabl compares favorably w _i inthe State. The Pr pains nor expense t « comfortable, hay, «id for all their ces at this £ ' ‘Phe House is ke the accommodation o Billiard with the ae ae A share of Publi fully Neuer ° Nevada, June ae ‘UNION market affords, " _. fhe Bar and nillia with the choicest of: The Hotel ‘in the State, The airy and well furnish 0 our old friends contivuance of their Inout powers ples an power'to pleas Novads July 6th, 1 (oP rFAL STO. OFF! R. W. TULL John Cashin, ha Jonathan Clark, M. I ane W. Hi. M@NEY TO LOAN

OFFIcraL. ©" LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. Passed at the First Session of the Forty‘third Congress. [General Nature—No. 90.] 7 An Act making app vice of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June. thirtieth, . “eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes. : at ; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re Iresentatyves of the United States. of 4 * America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the shme are hereby pe tag omer forthe service of the Post Office Department forthe year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventyfive, out of any in the 7 arising from the revenues of aid Department, in ity tothe act of July second, eighteen b and thirty.six, as % jus for the serfollows: ~ +" : For inland mail transportation, sixteen ers o pep pe ge go : or oT m4. : hundred and Toney hree thousand, five hundred and . thirty-three dollars. ~~ : _For pay-pf-route--agents, nine hundred AP 1 twenty-nine thousand and thirty-five For pay of mail route one hundred ond sixty thousand doHars. > ¥or pay of local agents, one hundred and ~ ten thousand three ~ > For.adyertising, eighty thousand dollars: hundied “and eightythree dollars. 5 4 For pay of railway-post.office clerks, one million three. hundred and tweuty thonsand dollars. ——* ‘e For pay of baggage-masters,one thousand dollars. ~ Sine For foreign«moil transportation, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, For ship, steamboat, and way letters,seyen thousand five hundred dollars. . \ 7 For pay of postmasters, six million five hundred thousand dollars. ; For pay.of clerks for post-offices, three eae two hundred and fifty thousand do k 2s _ For pay of lettér-carriers, one “million snd nine hundred thousand dollars: Pro’ -yided, That hereafter letter-carriers shall not be employed for the free delivery of mail matter in towns and cities whose population within their, corporate limits, as seown by the-last report of the national census or by subsequent census taken in pursualice of State statute or by order. of the mayor ond common council of suc! town or city, shall be less than thirty thousand; but this proviso shall not affect the free delivery in towns and ¢ ‘where it is now established. And for the more efficient management of the. free delivery system, the Postmaster-General may designate a fourth, class clerk to act as Superintendent of free delivery in the Post Office Department at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; and for this . purpose the sum of seven hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any ae f in the Treasury not otherwise appropriat For wrapping:paper, twenty-seven thou-. sand dollars, . For twine, forty-eight thousand ‘dollars. For letter-balatices, thrée thousand dol. VrA. _ 2 For éffice furliiture, six thousand five hundred dollars, Provided, That hereafter no payment shall: be.made to any. newspaper published in the District of Columbia for eayenneling any other routes than thosein Virginia Maryland. = ; For manufacture. of adhesive posta Stamps, oné hundred and eighteen thousand six hundred und sixty-seven dollars. For stamped envelopes and wra) five hundred and thirty-five thousan hundred anid. twenty-four dollars: Provided, That heraftter no envelope, as furnished by the Government, shall contain any li'hograph and engraving, nor sny printing except a printed request to return tne letter tu the writer. For pay of distributing agents and assistants, ten thousand two hundred dollars. For manufacture of ato cards, one hundred and sixty-eight thoysand two hunded and sev snty dollars. © For pay of agents and assistants to distribute potal cards, five thousand six hundred lure. : For nts on account of mail depre-. “paper or periudi ‘special agent of the Post Office,De . 80 to do, and shall thereafter, without hav8° . the said ‘‘Act to re mailing, they be postage paid thereon a special adhesive stamp, to be and furnished by the Postmaster-General, which shall be ed to such matter, or to the sack conma memorandum of pom . mat ag, on aha: master-Génera] erwise, as thé Post, from time to time, %. newspapers, one y to each actual subscriber residing within the county where the same are printed, whole or In part, and published, shall go free beg, oa ugh the mails; but the same shall not be deyivered pb nag hes ong offices = paid thereon os by law ded. i Sec. 8 That all mailable matter of the third class, referred to in section one. hundred and -three of the Act entitled *An act to 86, consolidate and amend the statutes relating to the Post Office De. eee approved June eighth, eighteen and seventy-two, m&y weigh not fi > each package ‘thereon at the rate of one cent for two ounces or fraction thereof; but futhing herein contained strali be held to change or amiend section one hundred and thirtyof said act. -. tie ec. 9. at optim: = when in his j it shall be necesgary, may prescribe, by regulation, ati affidavit fn form, to be taken by each publishex of any newspaper or periodical publicavisions of this act; or news agent who distributes any of such newspapers or periodical publications under. the provisions of this act, or employee of scch publisher or news agent, stating that he will not send, orknowingly permit to be sent, through the mails, any copy or copies of such newsublications exdept to regular subseribers thereto, or news agents, without prepayment 6f the postages there. on at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fractional part thereof; ang it such publisher or news agent, or emplovee . ef such publisher or news agent, when re. quired by the Postmaster-General or any ment to make such affidavit, shall refuse ing made such affidavit deposit any newspapers in the mail for aransmission, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanur, and, on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars for each ‘refusal} and if any such on shall knowingly and willfully mail any such matter without the payment of postage as provided by this act, or procure the same to be done with the intent to avoid the prepayment of postage due thereon; or if any er or post-office official ‘shall wingly permit: any. such matter to be maited without the prepayment of postage as provided in this act, and in violation of the sions of the same, he or they shalll be deemed gullty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not-more than one dollars, or imrisoned not exceeding: one year, one or th, in the discretion of the court. . Sec. ‘10,.That so much of this act as changer the rate of postage on newspapers, and jodical publications shall not take effect until the day of January next. ‘Bec. 11. That the sixty-third, elghtieth, eighty-first, cighty-second, ecighty-third, eighity-fourth, ane cighty-aixth sections of g se, consolidate, and —_ the oan poietina w the Post Ofice Department,” approved. June eighth, teen hundred and ulaipiee be amended to read as follows: : . *‘#ec. 63. That the postmasters, except the postmaster at New York. City, whose annual salary is hereby fixed at six thousand dollars, shall be divided into four classes, as_folluws: The first class shall embrace all those whose annual salaries are not more than four thousand dollars nor less than three thousand dollars; the second class shall embrace all thuse whose annual salaries are less than three thousand dollars but not Fess than two thoudollars; the third class shall embrace sand all those who.annual salaries are less than two thousand dollar bu hot less than one datious aud for special ayents, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, : . For mail-bags and mailcatchers, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. ’ For maiklocks and keys, fifty thousand dollars. : For postmarking and canceling stamps, nine thousand do fle For preparing and publishing post-route maps, thirty thousand dollars.. For balazice due foreign countries, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For rent of post offices, three. hundred and fifty thousdud dollars. ; For fuel fur post offices, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. : For light for post offices, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Zz For stationery and misceHaneous items, sixty thousand dollars. For istered package envelopes and seals, forty-two thousand six hundred and bs og a ray ¥ el, f sactinnatiiee, For offie. envelopes for. sixty thousand dollars. — For envelopes for returning dead letters, four thousand five hundred and eighty.five dollarsi For fees to marshals, et ie and clerks of courts, seven thousand five hun€ dollars. x engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, three thousand dollara. . ‘ For miseeflaneous iféms, two thousand five by dolaxe, Sec. 2. ¢ the following sums, or 80 much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same ave y, appropriated for the year ending dune thirticth, eighteen hundred and sewenty-five,out of any money in the Treasury bob otherwise appropriated, namely: 2 For steamship gerviee between San Fran}cisco, Ja and China, five hundred thou. . ; sand dollars. i For steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hundred and tfty thousand dollars. ‘or steamship service between San Francisco and the ‘ , SeyH igety-five thousand dollare. For official postage: nine. hundred and and fitty thousad wee For the purchase-of law. “8 for use of the Post-Office Department, thousand dollars. : ; Sec, 3. That if the revenue of the PoatOffice Department shall be insufficient to meet the app: ns made by . this act. _thenthe sumof tive million four: ‘snd ninety-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars, or s@much thereof a may be necessary, be the ev hereby, # . sout of amy max n the Treasury n F , to su defick . Sieh ths ieee the year ending ¢ : x; ‘ hundred and seventy-five.. . Bec. 4 That the Be ; of the United States shall mut be published by the two the Lnif:d States in newspaper, anythi laws to the notthing In oxating contraty 1 sae Sec. 5. Thut on and after the first day of Ps , eighteen sod ¥. . five, or ROWS cations, issued weekiy.aad ‘ ig than once o week, two ‘ 3 round or-froction thereat, avd on those fued less frega ply than quce s Ww — . mecessacy in each case: ia} thousand dollars; fourth class shall embrace all postmasters whose annual compensation, exclusive of their comunissions on the money order business of their offices, amounts to leas than one thousond dollars.” “Sec. 80. That the postmaster at Néw York City and postmasters of the first,.second, and third clases. shall be appointed and-may be removed by the President, -by and with the advice and consent of the 4n . the necessary cost of clerical services ariseral, . ve tion sent through the mails under the pro. . oi RRO UY roto poe ARN S until the first day of the next folof not less 1 centum increase or derrease in’ of any post office, the Postmaster-General may adjust the salary of the er at such office, to ‘take effect from the first day of the = or period the teturns for which orm.-the basis af % ” “See. 86. That the P -General —_ designate offices at the intersection of nail routes as distributing or separating offices; and where any such office is of the third or fourth class he may make a reasonable allowance to the postmaster for ing from such duties.” : = Sec. 12.That-seetion two hundred and sorty-five, section two hundred and fortysix, section two hundred and forty-seven, section two hundred and fifty-one, and section two hundred ond fifty-three of the act entitled ‘‘An act to revise, consolidate, an —_ Dedltemicn, relating to the ce De nt, 2) ved Jane eighth, eighteen Hundred int doventeewo, be ag per as follows: a : “ing the mail shall be accompanied by the ‘bond of the bidder, ‘sureties approved by a postmaster, “im cases where. the said bidder shall, within ‘et his bid is aceepted as th ! proposed in his ther, that he shall perform the service . according to his ¢ontract, then the sald ob. ligation to be void, otherwise to bein full force and obligation In law; and in case of fallure.of any bidder to enter into such contract to perform the service, or, having executed a contract, in case of failure to perform the service, or, having executed a contract, in case of failure to perform the service, accord 46, his contract, he and his suretiés shall, be liable for the amount of said bond as liquidated damages, to be recovered in an action of debt on the s:id bond. No proposal shall be considered unless it shall be accompanied by such bond, and there shall have been affixed to said proposal the oath of the bidder, taken before an officer qualified to administer oaths, that he has the ability, pecuniarily, to fulfill his obligations, and that the bid -is made in good faith, and With the intention to enter into contract andperform the service in case his bid is accepted.” “Sec. 246, That -before the bond of .a bidder provided for in the aforesaid section is approved, theze shall be ondorsed thereon the oaths of the sureties therein,. taken before an officer qualified to administer oaths, that they owners of real estate, worth, in the ag ate, u sumdouble the amount of the said bond, over and above all debjs due and owing by them, and judgments, mortgages, and executions. against them, after allowing all exemptions of evero character whatever.” . “Sec, 247. That any postmaster who shall affix his signature.to the approval of od bond of a ean orto the certificate -of sufficiency of sureties in any. contract ‘before the said bond of contract is signed by the bidder or contractor and his sureties, or shall knowingly, or without -the exercise of due diligence, approve any bond of a bidder with insufficient sureties, or shall knowingly make any false or fraudulent certificate, shall be forthwith dismissed from office, and be thereafter disqualified from holding the oftice of postmaster,and shall also be deemed guilty of & misdemeanor, and, on conviction there: ed by a mend not soucinn Vi lars, or ; en not exceding one year, or both, yaa “Sec, 251That after any regular bidder whose qid bas been shall fail to) enter into contract forthe transportation of the mails according to his pro 1, or, having entered into contract, chal fail to commence the ormance of the service stipulated in his or their contract as therein provided, the Postmuster-General shall to contract with the next.lowest dder for the same service, who will enter into a contract for the performance thereof, unless the Postmaster.-General shall consider such bid too high, in which case he shall ré-advertise such seryice. And if any bidder whose bid has been’ accepted, and who has entered into a contract'to perform the service according to. gs royrml -— in gag of his conract . entered upon the performance of the service, to the satisfaction of the PostSenate, and shall hold their offices for four years unless sooner. removed or suspended peebert ape ae — on ter's’ of the . 0 class a ted. and. may . be removed by the Postnastan General, { whom all appointments and removals shall Me notified to the Auditor forthe Post Ofce 4 . Seo, 81, That the compensation of the # New York City shall be six . housrnad dollars per annum, and the reares of poftmosters of ¢ first, second, and third classes shall be . annual salaries, assigned in every hundred . of aolAaer ama’ m quarter “payments, to be asce fixed, by the Postmagter-General, from their respective qoarteriy never to, the Auditor for the, Department, or copies or duplipetal thereof, for four quarters gee 4 y preceding. the adjustment or re-adjustment, by adding to the whole amount of box-rents, not exceeding. two. thousand —— at mee comiission also not to ex thousand dollars per annum on the other revénues of the office, at the f rates, namely: On the first one hundred dollors per quarter, fifty per centum; on all over one hundred do and not over four hundred dollars per quarter, forty pe cemtum; on all over four hundred do) ind not over two thousand four hundred “@ollars per qurrter, thirty, centum: and on all over two thousand ~ ‘our-hundred dollars —_ quurter, ten per centum;_ And in order to ascertain the amount of the postal rece: of each off e the Postm eral may require postduplicates quarterly returns ty ‘the Auditor uch Thee pin for such M.-H hex ay deem ” at whenever, by reason of the exteusion of Office are decreased, the Postra a sum + to maintain the salary togrent atthe amount at which it had been fixed before the decrease in Perk hat th compensa com on ef t-of the f be th dollurs or less per on the next-three a of. their. however, That the “allow, out of the reveipts— sufficien vurth class shall be the Y revenues of ° rate of sixty per ceixtum master-Géneral, shall subsequently fail or refuse to perform the service according to his contract, the Postmaster-General shall idder for such service, under tho adver. tisement thereof, (uniess the Poetueieen General shall der such bid too high,) who will enter into contret and give bond, with sureties, to be approved by the Post. Set ance thereof, in the same by and with the same terms and couniticee Thetets nexed as Were stated and contained in bond which accompanied his case each and every ef the next lowest bidders for such service whose respective bids are not ¢ dered too high by the Postmaster-General, forthe faithful performanin the ve bond ss herein req for the faithfal performance. of his contract, the Postmaster-General shall immediately advertise for proposals to perform accepted bidder shall fail to enter into contract, or a contractor on any mail route shall fail or refuse to perform the service on said route to his contract, or when a new route shall be established, or new sérvice required, or when, from any other cause there shall not be a contractor legally bond or required. to-perform such . ostinaster-General service, thé P : 1 a tem; ary contract for en nh route, witout advert suc! i as : any case exceeding. six months, udtil the service shal have commenced under a contract made te law; Provided, -General may make shall not employ tem porary rice.o. route at a er price then the poe Ear oy who shall wees gate ts of lar ¢ until a new contract . Contractors. thousand — ue accompomy. 3 dius wth a fied -heewor draft, payable! to tie oruggof the Postmaster-Gcneral, ap. . oR some .svivent national Bank, which per ventum omthe amouut of We snnwel made, and, imense.f new ur modified gex_Vice, b: t less than five: centum of the amount of the eend er Gaeaitter required roceed to contract with the next lowest . the service on said route. Whenever an} » Shiabb be made . . reifter wll bidders up. the tran ortatiin. * th: ir} % ee eat hamalamenssibanieenes all: be to bea, ree ve hor age a ing such de . No for e traiaguntdtied of the Bsc! ~ peyton ‘the amount of the bond ted.6.accom pany the sume shall exceed “thousand do}l.is shalt be considered, unless svoympanica with the check or draft haces = leg togethor with the bond required by ‘& preceding section: Provided, Thatmotbing in thie act shail be construed or intended to affect any pensities or forfeitures which have heretoforé, averued under the provisious of the sections hereby anrended ” Sec.18. That hereafter the postage on public doc.ments'mailed by any member of Congress, the President, or head of any Executive Departmen» lbe ten cents for each bound volume, aud 6m unbound documents the once rate »s that on, newspapers mailed from a kuown office of publication to rcgular subscribers; and the words “Public Document” print«d or written thereon, or on the wrapper thereof, and certified by the signature mem ber of © , or by that of the resident or head of any Executive Department shall be deemed @ sufficient certificate thst _the5

same isa public do ; and the térm . ‘public document” is herepy defined to be ati-publica.ions printed by order of Congress, or €ither Huuse thereof: Provided. That the postage op euch copy of the daily Congressional Record misilod from the city of Washington #6 tiansient matter sali be “Approved, June: 23, 1874. . ; No. 591, Application for a Patent to a _. Mining Craim.UDNITED STATIS LAND OFFICE. Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 14th, 1874. OTICE is hereby given, that Osmyn Harkness, in hisown bebalf and in ‘trust for Framk Sachs. J’ B. ‘Taylor; J. H, Abeel, J, Ry Moody, B. F.Moore, H. H. Brown, Wm. Kinder, Henry. Weisgurber, _Ajbert $. Benton, 8. ¥Y. Hals.y and Johu Anderson;-whose Post Office is Gold Run, Placor ecunty, Ca.ifornia, havemade application fcr Patent for the Church & G iden Guve 2.acemming, situate imGold Run Mining District, Placer Gounty, Ca orwie ana 5.22 chs to Station No 3, of the upper . pe described in the plst'and flela notes on file n this office as follows, viz; i Survey of Exterior Boundaries. Commenting at the 8S W corner of. the claim, at corner of Henry Weisgarber’s garden fence, at a stake marked C. G. G, C., (Church and Gelden Gate Claim) from which the corzer on to. Sections 4, 5, 8 and 9 beara south 42> 15’ West $1.30 chs distant and run variation 18> East, North Tyo 6.17 chs the line of H Weisgarber’s fénwe to a stake matked O @ G OC. N 154° E7,36chs to the NW corner of Weiggarber's fence. Seta sta e marked 0 G @C, 887%° £3.63 chs to the & W corner of the Gem. claim. SetStuke marked C aGaGC. BETO i 16,55 chs. To the svuth corner of the Gem claim. Set a stake markeaACGGC,.N. 13%9 E 08 chs to the «ast corner of the Gem claim, to a stake marked CG@G 0. N 70%° W1170 chains on line of Gem claim to tne south east corasr of the Bay State claim to stake, marke d “GG. in mining cut. 8 864° H 14.50 chs, along the line of the Bay State claim to a pine 3 inches in dia marked cCGac, N Pt W 13.70 chs to an oak stump marked CGGQO. N42%° E637 chs to a staxe marked @ G@ GC in Sach’s hydraulic cut. N 74> W191 cheto stake marked 6 G GC in mining cut, N 334° & 3.49 chs to stake marked CG G@ Cin ent. N 78> E 84 chs, to the south-east corner of the I'nsie Abe claim, Set stake marked OCG GC. § 21%° E 3.88 chs tothe soyth west cor ver of the Prindle claim, to a stake marked 53GC0. N172%° E6.69 ehs to the 3 E corner of the-Prindle claim, set stake mark2 UGGO, N17? W 15.76 cha to the N. caruer Of the FrO® Wess chs to. the uss CGGO. 817° W8: 3 , . W corner of the oats pee a = marked CG. 0.8 .62 chains tos ee. set stake marked © GG Cc. 8 es W 6.62 chs to NE cor of Wolcott's garden fence vence postiC GGC. N28%°E 5.09 chsto astake marked OG @O.N 494° 44.70 chs to a stake marked UG GO. Nél E. 17.49 chs to corner stuke on rail road bank marked CG GO NTIS £12.80 chs to a pine stamp marked CGG ©. 816° E 3.50 chs to a stake marked CG GC. 8 66> W 15.02 chs to the NW corner of the Union E9, to the 8 W corner nion Set Re sarved CGGSC. N° E 2.46 cha, set a atake marked OG G CG, 845° E 5,59 chs to # conrer of the Pacific claim, set a+take matked © G GC. §16%° E6.61 = Secti South 39.62 chs . take markbid; but im} mail} » not in 16 North, Range 10 Kart, Mt : snd Meridian. Morecord of said epg ag apn gy ie sy on the Seuth, the owners o m Bay State and Uncle Abe Placer Mines on the i . west. perrons holding any adverse claime to are hi : te presyut the within sixty days ng heveof. so ADL ebecs.or druft@hail not be less Uhau ave . Fsaid hewsand ; is bid.# tie aniount uf the accompo Fabia bid. e ne sucky comin r-G 28s Sh such vice to the Futisfa to lis liability om ue 4 the PostD , i euch ‘contract shali be ; cheek #0@ ted, api cuit upan the per _ Btock y + ‘. bears N 30° W 15 links dist. Y moark location . ee ee ee nt a aeneemmmienanioes Sacramentu, Cal., Aug Ries} : OTICE is hereby given, That H Meller, whose Post Office is Little Yor: Nevada county, Cal. has made application for Pate.t f. rthe Baltimore Placer Mine, situate in Little York Mining District, Nevada ‘county, Ushtornia, and described ‘Th the plat and field notes -s follows, viz :— Commencing at Post no 5, of the upper part of Lo = wer Christmas Hill claim on lower baa k of the Little York Cuenyeny * dicch at #n osk sttimp marked (BP M) for Baltimore placer , from which a black oak ) 6 in. dia bears N'745 15’ W 11 links dist and the wituess post to the corner of Syets 32 and 33 on Third Standard North, Township 16 North, Range 10 East Mt lo Meriaian bears $ 223442 W 21.11 chs distant and run variation Is? East, N 8.06 chs to ssugar ine stump 44 inches in diameter on lower stmas Hill claim of Upper Christ: mas Hill claims.to # post and rock pile on seuth-side of road from Little Yor to Lowel Hil. N 60° 20° E 10.87 chs on-ine of Upper Christmas Hill to Station No 2 of eaid claim; marked stake B P'M, from which a pine 3 in dia bears $ 56° W 46 links dist. 5 774° E3.44chs on line of Upper Christmas Hill claim to Station No3 of said claim On. East bank ef little ditch from which-a, cedar 30 in. dia bears S 67° E53 links‘dist. § 21° W 12 chs. set a stake marked B PM from which a black oak 4 in. dia bears north 30> 30’ £46 links distant. 8 45%° E 15.50 chs down on N E.side of small ravine to a stake marke? BP M 30 links NE from ravine, from which a cedar stump 20 in dia 8 76%2 E .93 chains to astake marked BPM from which a live oak 3 in. diatears S 538° E 9 links dist. 8 3.05 chs to the 14 See stake on south b undary of Sec 33, from which a cornerof Goedner & ‘Teaff’s Bear River claim bears due East on the Third Standara north 140 cts distatit. N 63%4°.W.5.23-chs running up the 8 W sideof ravine to a stake mated B PM. N 50> W 15.80 chs toa stake BP M from‘which a black oak 10in dia bears N 63° 30’ W3linksdist. N 52°. part of Lower Christmas Hill claims marke.B PM, from which & manzanita, marked B'T bears N 838° 30’ W 32 links dist, N 87° W 9.53 chs ou line of upper pirt.er Lower Christmas Hill claim to Station No 4 of said claim. N 75° W 4.91 cheto place of beinning and containing 19 52-100 acres and Sotew a portion of the 8 3g of Section 33, Township 16 North, Range 10 East Mt Dia blo Base and Meridian. Said location was made many years ago by different Compa ny’s, abd no record of said locations.can be tound, ‘This applicant. has had the elatm recorded in the mining records of Nevada Quunty, May. 18,1874, Adjoining claimants ore owners of the upprr part of lower Christmas Hill on the north and owners of the npper part of Lower Christmas. Hill claim ou the south,_No_other claims adjoin. All persons: holding any adverse claim thereto are hereby required to present the same before the: Regist.rand Receiver at Sacramento, California, within sixty days from the first.day of ublishing hereof, a22 T. B. McFARLAND, Register. Delinquent Sale. OLD RUN MINING COMPANV.—Location of principal place of businese, Sanu Francisco, Cab n of Works, Nevada Cuunty, Cal. Notice. There are delinquent upon the following described stock on account of assessment No, 7, levied on the 7th day of August, 1874,the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders as follows : Name. No. of No. of Shs. Am’t. Bad Jos 279 109 3=s $25 00 Badger Jos 281 100 ‘25 00 Badger Jos 282 100 25.00 Badger Joseph 283 100 25 00 Jos 293 100 26.00. Badger Jos 294 10 25 00 Badger Jos 295 100 26 00 Badger Jos 296 100 25 00 Badger Jos 327 60 1250 Badger Jos (835 100 Badger Jos 336° 15 345 Badger Stephen 377 1000 §8©6. 250 00 Bavger Stephen —° 379 50 ° 12.50 Badger Stephen 380 50 12 50 Badger Stephen 381 50 12.50 Badger Stephea 382 50 12 50 brown Geo A. 197 250 62 55 Brown Geo A 422.. 50 12 50: Brown EP 423 50 12 50 Barron Richard 399 200 25 Ou Barron Richard 400 100 25 U6 Bargion M 472 76 18 70 Baryon M . 473 26 3 25 ; Cresniér A 352 100 25 00 Creawer-A 423 vi 17 50 rane Geo 487 50 12 50 Crane Geo 488 60 12 50 Geo 439200 25 00 Grane Gee 490 5 1 25 Craae Geo 491 50 12 50 Dennisou L M 448 10 25-00 Elsworth k 8 196 250 62 60 Hunteing R 603 200 BU Kelsey / M 427 100 25 00 Kelsey J M Pledgee 430 3867 — 966 75 Littlehale J M Tr 201 46 10 00 Littlehale J M ‘Tr 202 60 16 00 100 25:00 100. 2500 : #100 25-00 209 . wo 25:00 t 710 100 25°00 ttlehale J 11 100° 25-00 Littlehale J 212 100. 23°00 Littlehale 8 300° 100.. 25 00 ire d M 240 2000. +=: 250 00 IM 241 500-125 00 JM 242 16 18 15 JM 248100 45 Ov IM #62 60 1510 IM 469: ee ea . 200 . a a a: . re J M 475 100, M Tr 465 100 23:00 BL: 258° 100 25°00. HL 259° 100 25 00 HL oat 100 25 00 aL. 26 100 “25-00 HL 263 tur ‘25 00 EL 264 100 25 00 HL 273 160 25 00 HL 274 160 25 eo HL 276 180 25 oo } 409 100 25 60 606 100 25 00 Tr 322 woo 25 00 Tr «325 wo 25 00 Tr 461 Teo 25 08 Tr 50l 1000. =: 250 bv 326 50 12 56 256 1000 pane 257 1008 = 2350 463 100 2500 479 340 35 00 499 900 «= 5 00 F 608 00 0+ «25:00 613 * 215 53°75 516 > 100 26.0 . #50 37 50 300 25.00 and o D oft: pg his bid, forteit the payment fshiede: . a Gs ut the ene Aurthwith: lane od cx Mt. of ere awigning, or ob Gthe Tresanee quent ampersine e J : a * , Rr posite the Neved < k of ditch, being the‘west corner of Sta-'y ‘. whese Post Otfice 18 Nevada. AME ATE UO A GTA ENE OTICE ts hefeby given, that in * suance of an, order. of the Pro Court, of the pom Pe non State of Califurnia, made on y of Septem. ber, A, D. 1894. in the néattcr of the of L. A. Walling, deceased, the undersi ed, the Executor of the .ast WHI of L. A. Walling, deceased, will selk at pubic auction, tothe highest ‘&dder, .at Wal: es Hotel, tm the village of Rough and Heady, Nevada county, Stute afor said, on the 3a day of October, 1874, At 12 o’elock, m. of said day, all the vight ; title, interest and estate of said deceased, at the time of Mis death, and’ all the right, title or interest that the said estate has by ee a operation of law.or otherwise acquired,oth, ‘er than that or in addition to that of said L. A. Walling at tie time ot his death, in aud to all of the following piéces or parcels of property, situated and being in the village of ‘tough and Ready, Nevada County, California, and described as follows, to-wit; st. That certsin town lot, sitnate on south Bi Main street, in the vy llage of Rough: ‘and dy, said county and State, and known as Walling’s Hotel and Garden. 2d, That certuih pacel of land situated on the north ‘side of said\Main street, and immediately opposite the bef. first herein above described, Leing Known as Walling’s Sta-ble’s and Corral. “3d. ‘Thaf>-ecrtuin parce) of land lying on the south s ot : said. Main stréet, and adjoining the hétel and garden on the west, known as Wallilig's Lower. Corral, board fence. Also, all builg@ings, stables, sheds, outhouses or other structures, upon any or either of the parcels Of land-above described. I will also sell at the same time and place and u on the samie conditins; the following personal property, be© longing to said estate: Supplies in. bar, liquors &c., fixtures in barroom, 19 beds aud bedding, dinivg room and kitchen furniture, supvlies on hand, 2 cows, 2 calves, 16. hogs, 50 chickens, and also all other personal property, upon and about said’ premises, belonging to said estate. ‘Title to the above real estate; United States Patent. . . ‘Terms ot sale.—Cash in gold coin, ten per.cent down, and balance on confimation of sale by Probate Court. Deeds at exmse of purchaser. : Sept 9th i874. : ‘J, ME. WALLING. Fxecutor of the last will of L. A. Walling deceased. Constable’s Sale.. Y virtue of an Execution to me directed and delivered, issued out of the Court ot J. M, Walling, a Justice of the Peace in and for Nevaaa Township, Nevada Cou ty, State of California, on the 17th day of September, A. D. 1874, in favor of Ed. Goldsmith and against J. W. Jackson, for the sum of $7493, and $1095-costs of suit, and all accruing costs, 1 have levied upon and taken in exétdition, all the t; title, interest and claim of the defendant J. W. Jackson of, in and to that certain quartz ledge or jode with all its dips, angles, spars and variations, situated, lying and being near the westerly line of Nevada City, commencing at a point on the northerly bank of Big Deer Creek, nearly opposite the California. mine, abd. westerly from the Gold Tunnel » ipe and mill, 200 ‘. yards more or less, and in the township of Nevada, Nevada county, State of Qalifornia, and known as the Keystone quartz ledge or lode, the*same taken as the property of the above. defendant, . W. Jackson, to satisfy the above judgment, with-costs and accruing costs.. -Notice ie hereby given tat I will expose .— all of the above described for sale at pubiic auction, to the hi bidder for cash, in tront of the ‘ouse door, . in the city of Nevada, on Sati , the 10th day of October, A. D. 1874, between the hours of 9 0” lock, a. mu. and 6 o'clock, P, M. Given under. my band this 19th day of September. A pb. 1874. J.B. GRAY, 819 Constable of Nevada Township. He. ew ea! Application for & Patent to.a United States Land Office, , Sacramento. Cal. Sept, 4th,-1874. . ) OTICE is hereby given, that Edward’ Carney and Pembroxe . city,. Nevada County, Cal. Lave made application for Patent forthe Carney & placer mine situate in Hunt’s Hil) Mi . District, Nevada County, Califo.nia, ¢ described in the plat and notice on ale in this office as follows. viz; The E 4 of 8W \% of N EX, 8 \ of 8 %of NE \ of NE \ andSBE of NE of Sect'on 24, Tp 16 NR9OE, and 8 % ofS % of N W & of N See 19, Ws of 8 W\ of N. W& sec. 19, 16 N10 E, Tp. 16,NB10E M D-M. and contai 100 acres. Said location is composed’of three sets of claims -the Goug: Eye claims. loca. . ted Feb. 16, 1856, in the names of R. Culaway et al. avd recorded in 18, Records Hunt’. Hill .Distriet, the. m claimnot recorded, and the Alphaslaim, no record of Which can ve found was locatéd in . 1856, Adjoining claimants: are Jacobs & Sargent on the North, A. G. Burner & Co. on the South, no adjoining claimauts on the Bast or West. ALE holiling be adverse claim thereto are bereby required to present the sume before this office, within sixty’ days trom the first day of publishing herent . B,. McFAKLAND, Register. Niles Searis, Atty. ; seps Assessment Notice. NALIFORNEA CUNSOLIDATED. MINING CO. be-thetiedind rows . Place of business, San F: lifornia, Locat on of works, Nevada Mining District. Nevada county, California. is herehelc on the 26th day of August, 1874. an as, No 1, of One Dollar per share was levied upon the capital stock of the Corporation, payable immediately im@/nited States gold ‘com, to the Secretary at the office of the Company, No. 438 California Street,San Frencisco, Cal. Any stock upon which this assessment shall rev-ain ee on the 29th day of September, 1874, will be delinquent, ard advertised for sale at public auction , and unies® payment poll before, will be sold on Tuesday the 19th day of October1874, to pay the delinquent assetement, together with costs of advertising and expen; ses of sale. = omen 2 Ge Secretary. Office, No 438 Califurnia St. San Francisco, Californias. 08 given, that at-a meeting of the te = + 3 Dr NTist, 3 ‘ MAIN ®TREET, SORTS & T= todo DENTAL = and being encleged with. Pn, Six Seplo. She Daily ‘ NEVADA ( ae Prop ; ‘wnaseript Block : _ TERMS OF THE ne Year—in advanc et the, . * “Bhree Months, ** © Rai r Advertisin ‘Ist r ; $1 per. v inserti ; NA SOAR : NATIONAL \. H01 BROAD STREET.. R, B. GENTE : HIS WELL EN‘ L Ways open for t tthe Traveling Public. "een made to.it,and i: ‘elegantstyle. The she + airy and comfortabl compares favorably w _i inthe State. The Pr pains nor expense t « comfortable, hay, «id for all their ces at this £ ' ‘Phe House is ke the accommodation o Billiard with the ae ae A share of Publi fully Neuer ° Nevada, June ae ‘UNION market affords, " _. fhe Bar and nillia with the choicest of: The Hotel ‘in the State, The airy and well furnish 0 our old friends contivuance of their Inout powers ples an power'to pleas Novads July 6th, 1 (oP rFAL STO. OFF! R. W. TULL John Cashin, ha Jonathan Clark, M. I ane W. Hi. M@NEY TO LOAN