established a claim to purchase them at the Government price before all others, this claim has been allowed, with some restriction, and the lands, thus pre-empted, withdrawn from public sale and reserved for private entry. HOMESTEAD LAW. receiver, such person shall be allowed to enter the land specified; but no certificate or patent is issued for the land until five years from the date of such entry, and the land must during that time be improved and not alienated (it cannot be taken for debt). At any time within two years after the expiration of said five years, the person making the entry, or, in case of his or her death, his widow or heirs, may, on proof by two witnesses that he or she has cultivated or improved said land, has not alienated any part of it, and has borne true allegiance to the United States, be entitled to a patent if at that time a citizen of the United States. In case of the abandonment of the lands by the person making the entry for a period of more than six months at one time, they revert to the United States. By act of Congress of May 20, 1862, any person | paying the sum of ten dollars to the register or who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, or has performed service in the army or navy, and is a citizen of the United States or shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such, and has never borne arms against the Government of the United States or given aid and comfort to its enemies, shall, from and after the 1st of January, 1863, be entitled to enter a quarter-section (160 acres) of unappropriated public land, upon which he or she may have already filed a pre-emption claim, or which is subject to pre-emption, at $1 25 per acre; or 80 acres of unappropriated lands at $2 50 per acre. In order to make his or her title good to such lands, however, such person must make affidavit that such application is made for his or her exclusive use and benefit, and that said entry is made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not, either directly or indirectly, for the use or benefit of any other person or persons whomsoever; and upon filing the affidavit, and The following table shows the quantity of public land sold for cash, and the amount received for it, in each year from 1833 to 1861 inclusive:— Is the legal adviser of the President and heads of Departments. He examines titles, applications for pardons, and judicial and legal appointments, conducts and argues suits in which Government is concerned, &c. EDWARD BATES, ATTORNEY-GENERAL.. Whence appointed. Compensation. $8,000 ...Pennsylvania.................. 3,000 JUDICIARY. OFFICERS OF THE JUDICIARY. Corrected at the Office of the Attorney General of the United States Dec. 20, 1862. 1,300 ...Clerk Washington.. Maryland....... J. S. Black..................Reporter. Washington.. Pennsylvania...... Pennsylvania........... The Supreme Court is held in the city of Washington, and has one session annually, commencing on the first Monday of December. CIRCUIT COURTS. The United States are divided into the following nine Judicial Circuits, in each of which a circuit court is held twice every year, for each State within the circuit, by a Justice of the Supreme Court, assigned to the circuit, and by the District Judge of the State or district in which the court sits. 1st 2d 3d 4th.. 5th. 6th 7th 8th 9th Circuit. Place. Presiding Judge. Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island Judge Clifford. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina.... South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Minnesota Judge Nelson. Chief Justice Taney. Judge Wayne. Judge Catron. Judge Swayne. John Cadwalader, Judge... | Philadelphia..... Pennsylvania... 3,000 Philadelphia, 3d Mond. in Feb., May, August, and November. Pittsburg, 1st Mon.in May and 3d Mon.in Oct.; Williamsport, 3d Mond. in June and 1st Mon.inOct. Trenton, 3d Tues. in Jan., April, June, and Sept. Wilmington, 2d Tues. of Jan., April, June, and September. Baltimore, 1st Tues. in March, June, Sept., and December. Eastern District. Samuel Treat, Judge..... Wm. W. Edwards, Att'y. David A. Rawlings, Marshal Western District. Robert W. Wells, Judge Robert J. Lackey, Attorney Thomas Wallace, Marshal.. TENNESSEE. Eastern District. Conally F. Trigg, Judge..... J. M. Fleming, Attorney.... B. McDannel, Marshal Middle District. Conally F. Trigg, Judge..... John Trimble, Attorney..... E. R. Glascock, Marshal..... Western District. Conally F. Trigg, Judge..... Attorney. Marshal............ Huntsville.... 2,750 200 & fees. 66 |