CALENDAR FOR Charleston; N. Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Sun Sun Moon H. W. rises. sets. rises. Ch'ton. H. MH. M. H. M. H. M. Sun H. M. H. M. H. M. 6 28 5 0 10 40 6 18 910 5111 56 II 43 40 6 354 5211 33 + 48 6 324 55 11 36 1 34 6 29 4 58 11 39 6 195 811 47 ev. 47 11 43 41 6 374 51 morn. 334 54 morn. 2 25 II 43 41 384 500 32 354 53 34 3 20 6 304 57 morn. 314 560 36 6 205 7 morn. 1 38 6 215 7 0 412 33 II 43 43 394 49 30 26 II 43 46 364 521 31 374 51 2 28 4 12 II 43 49 6 384 30 3 25 404 47 2 28 8 13 37,10 51 57 41 6 434 46 6444 4589848 79 27 010 454 44 7 6 464 43 7 6 484 42 9 211 436 494 4110 8 morn. 6 504 41 11 16 0 33 6 514 40 morn. 1 27 524 39 0 25 2 26 6 534 39 35 554 38 2 46 6 564 37 3 58 57 57 4 350 24 5 40 4 30 7 15 1 10 6 584 36 rises. 36 5 21 8 28 6 544 40 5 27 6 404 55 564 40 7 25 6 424 54 7 39 58 4 39 9 26 6 434 54 9 35 10 39 59 4 39 10 246 44'4 54'10 4 59 6 324 551 326 225 334 51 2 28 6 235 61 36 3 25 5 2 27 4 12 354 53 3 24 6 245 4 3 20 4 59 364 52 4 206 255 3 4 14 5 46 7 20 37 4 51 5 17 6 25 5 3 5 9 8 384 51 sets. 2 sets. 6 394 50 24 627 I 39 404 49 6 12 6 28 1 6 27 40 6 324 5810 2111 46 6 334 58 11 25 morn. 6 344 57 morn. 6 354 57 0 301 39 6 354 57 16 35 2 43 6 364 56 2 4 3 45 37 4 56 3 49 4 46 524 41 5 5 554 40 6 25 99666 384 55 4 57 394 55 rises. 6 46 544 55 7 11 9 544 558 14 9 42 5 7 134 40 morn. 6 574 56 morn. o 18 2 7 14 4 40 35 574 57 32 1 14 3 3 7 15 4 41 1 43 584 57 1 37 2 16 7 26 4 30 2 57 7 23 7 214 36 2 54 4 9 7 15 4 4 2 52 584 58 2 42 3 22 355 21 Th 11 58 28 7 274 31 4 6 8 26 356 22 11 58 58 357 23 Sa 11 59 28 358 24 S 11 59 57 1359 25 12 0 27 284 33 360 26 Tu 12 0 57 361 27 W 12 362 28 Th 12 I 56 363 29 Fr 12 2.25 364 30 Sa 12 365 31 13 22 8 18 ev. 10 7 27 4 32 5 13 9 28 7 274 32 6 14 10 29 7 224 37 6 7 28 4 32 rises. 11 247 22 4 38 rises. 7 234 39 8 14 7 294 34 8 55 O 49 7 23,4 39 8 52 9 35 7 294 34 9 27 1 28 7 24 4 40 9 25 10 7 294 35 9 56 2 10 7 24 4 41 9 55 10 56 7 294 36 10 23 2 48 7 244 41 10 2311 34 7 304 37 10 49 3 277 24 4 42 10 7 304 38 11 16 4 97 244 4311 PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION, FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. FOREIGN DECORATIONS. for fines or penalties under regulations to be established by the managers of the home; said payment to be made by the pension agent upon a certificate of the proper officer of the home that the pensioner is an inmate the pension which may remain at the date thereof, and is still living. Any balance of of the pensioner's discharge shall be paid Chap. XXXII.-That no decoration, or other thing, the acceptance of which is authorized by this act, and no decoration here. tofore accepted, or which may hereafter be accepted, by consent of Congress, by any officer of the United States, from any foreign Government, shall be publicly shown or exposed upon the person of the officer so re-over to him; and in case of his death at the ceiving the same. Home, the same shall be paid to his widow, or children, or, in default of either, to his legal That hereafter any present, decoration, or representatives.-[Approved February 26, other thing, which shall be conferred or presented by any foreign Government to any officer of the United States, civil, naval, or military, shall be tendered through the Department of State, and not to the individual in person, but such present, decoration, or other thing shall not be delivered by the Department of State unless so authorized by act of Congress.-[Approved January 31, 1881. MINING CLAIMS. Chap. CXL.-If, in any action brought pursuant to section 2,326 of the Revised Statutes, title to the ground in controversy jury shall so find, and judgment shall be enshall not be established by either party, the tered according to the verdict. In such case costs shall not be allowed to either party, and the claimant shall not proceed in the land office, or be entitled to a patent for the ground in controversy, until he shall have perfected his title.--Approved March 3, 1881. NATIONAL BANKS. Chap.LXXXII-That the oath or affirmation required by section 5,211 of the Revised Statutes, verifying the returns made by national banks to the Comptroller of the Currency, when taken before a notary public properly authorized and commissioned by the State in which such notary resides and the bank is located, or any other officer having an official seal, authorized in such State to administer oaths, shall be a sufficient verification as contemplated by said section 5,211: Provided, That the officer administering the oath is not an officer of the bank. -[Approved February 26, 1881. PENSIONS. 1881. Chap. CXXX.-The provisions of section 5,485 of the Revised Statutes shall be applicable to any person who shall violate the provisions of an act entitled "An act relating to claim agents or attorneys in pension cases," approved June 20, 1878.-[Approved March 3, 1881. PUBLIC LANDS. Chap. II.-That the sixth paragraph of section 2,238 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that in lieu thereof the followfinal certificate of 160 acres of land, $5 for ing paragraph be substituted: "A tee in donation cases of $2 50 for each 320 acres, and $7 50 for 640 acres.❞—[Ap proved December 17, 1880. Chap. XIX.-That all persons who shall have settled and made valuable and permasection of land within any railroad withnent improvements upon any odd numbered drawal in good faith, and with the permission or license of the railroad company for whose benefit the same shall have been made, and with the expectation of purchasing of such company the land so settled upon, which land so settled upon and improved may, for any cause, be restored to the public domain, and who, at the time of such restoration, may not be entitled to enter and ac. quire title to such land under the pre-emp tion, homestead or timber-culture acts of the United States, shall be permitted, at any time within three months after such restora tion, and under such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, to purchase not to exceed 160 acres in extent of the same by legal subdivisions, at the price of $2 50 per acre, and to receive patents therefor.-[Approved January 13, 1881. Chap. CLIII.-That section numbered 2,297, of title numbered 32, be amended by adding thereto the following proviso, name Chap. CXXXIII.-Section 1 of "An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fisca year ending June 30, 1882, and for deficiencies, and for other pur. poses," approved February 26, 1881, isly: hereby amended by striking out the words "including arrears to," where they occur in the second paragraph of the section, and the words including arrears" in the seventh paragraph of said section.-[Approved March 3, 1881. Chap. LXXX, SEC. 2.-All pensions payable, or to be paid, under this act to pensioners who are inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, shall be paid to the treasurer or treasurers of said home, upon security given to the satisfaction of the managers, to be disbursed for the benefit of the pensioners without deduction "Provided, That where there may be climatic reasons the Commissioner of the General Land Office may, in his discretion, allow the settler twelve months from the time of filing in which to commence his resi dence on said land under such rules and reg ulations as he may prescribe,-[Approved March 3, 1881. TERRITORIES. Chap. VII.-That section 1,852 be, and the same hereby 18, so amended as to read as follows: "Sec. 1,852. The sessions of the legisla tive assemblies of the several Territories of 356 22 Fr 58 7 27 32 5 13 9 28 7 194 34 morn. I 5 7 134 40 morn. 56 morn. o 18 7 14 4 40 35 574 57 32 1 14 3 7 15 4 41 1 43 584 57 1 37 2 16 9 7 15 4 41 252 584 58 2 42 3 22 594 58 3 47 4 25 4 04 59 4 51 27 7 224 37 6 7 28 4 32 rises. 11 24 7 22 4 38 rises. 7 284 33 8 18 ev. 10 7 23.4 39 8 14 7 234 39 8 52 9 35 7 294 34 8 550 49 I 28 7 294 34 9 27 7 24 4 40 9 25 10 14 7 294 35 9 56 2 10 7 24 4 419 55 10 56 7 294 36 10 23 2 48 7 24 4 4110 2311 34 7 24 4 42 10 50 cv. 13 7 304 37 10 49 3 27 16 7 304 38 1 7 244 43'11 17 4 9 ° 55 9 7 15 7 174 43 6 5 04 595 51 8 10 7 17 4 43 rises. 8 56 7 17 4 44 7 18 4 44 8 49 58 8 8 39 8 48 9 16 9 27 9 50 10 9 7 18 4 47 10 7 25 310 2110 47 7 19 4 47 10 51 7 215 410 5211 26 7 19 4 48 19 7 35 4'11 23 ev. 8 PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION, FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. FOREIGN DECORATIONS. Chap. XXXII.-That no decoration, or other thing, the acceptance of which is authorized by this act, and no decoration here. tofore accepted, or which may hereafter be accepted, by consent of Congress, by any officer of the United States, from any foreign Government, shall be publicly shown or exposed upon the person of the officer so receiving the same. That hereafter any present, decoration, or other thing, which shall be conferred or presented by any foreign Government to any officer of the United States, civil, naval, or military, shall be tendered through the Department of State, and not to the individual in person, but such present, decoration, or other thing shall not be delivered by the Department of State unless so authorized by act of Congress.-[Approved January 31, 1881. MINING CLAIMS. Chap. CXL.-If, in any action brought pursuant to section 2,326 of the Revised Statutes, title to the ground in controversy shall not be established by either party, the Jury shall so find, and judgment shall be entered according to the verdict. In such case costs shall not be allowed to either party, and the claimant shall not proceed in the land office, or be entitled to a patent for the ground in controversy, until he shall have perfected his title.-[Approved March 3, 1881. established by the managers of the home; 5,485 of the Revised Statutes shall be appli- PUBLIC LANDS. Chap. II. That the sixth paragraph of section 2,238 of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that in lieu thereof the following paragraph be substituted: "A fee in donation cases of $2 50 for each final certificate of 160 acres of land, $5 for 320 acres, and $7 50 for 640 acres."-[Approved December 17, 1880. Chap. XIX.-That all persons who shall have settled and made valuable and permanent improvements upon any odd numbered section of land within any railroad withdrawal in good faith, and with the permiswhose benefit the same shall have been sion or license of. the railroad company for made, and with the expectation of purchas ing of such company the land so settled upon, which land so settled upon and improved may, for any cause, be restored to the public domain, and who, at the time of such resto NATIONAL BANKS. Chap.LXXXII-That the oath or affirmation required by section 5,211 of the Revised Statutes, verifying the returns made by national banks to the Comptroller of the Currency, when taken before a notary public properly authorized and commissioned by the State in which such notary resides and the bank is located, or any other officer hayration, may not be entitled to enter and ac. ing an official seal, authorized in such State to administer oaths, shall be a sufficient verification as contemplated by said section 5,211: Provided, That the officer administering the oath is not an officer of the bank. -[Approved February 26, 1881. PENSIONS. tion, homestead or timber-culture acts of the Chap. CXXXIII.-Section 1 of act making appropriations for the payment "An of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fisca year ending June 30, 2,297, of title numbered 32, be amended by Chap. CLIII.-That section numbered 1882, and for deficiencies, and for other pur adding thereto the following proviso, name. poses," approved February 26, 1881, isly: "Provided, That where there may be hereby amended by striking out the words climatic reasons the Commissioner of the including arrears to," where they occur in General Land Office may, in his discretion, the second paragraph of the section, and the allow the settler twelve months from the words "including arrears" in the seventh time of filing in which to commence his resi paragraph of said section.-[Approved March dence on said land under such rules and reg 3, 1881. ulations as he may prescribe.-[Approved March 3, 1881. TERRITORIES. Chap. VII.-That section 1,852 be, and the same hereby 18, so amended as to read as follows: Chap. LXXX, SEC. 2.-All pensions payable, or to be paid, under this act to pensioners who are inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, shall be paid to the treasurer or treasurers of said home, upon security given to the satisfaction of the managers, to be disbursed for the benefit of the pensioners without deduction tive assemblies of the several Territories of "Sec. 1,852. The sessions of the legisla |