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The Surplus Revenue. —It is staled in the W ash
iagton Globe of Tuesday that a notice similar to tha
referred to in the annexed paragraph, has been sent t(
the deposite banks in every State in the Union, givin;
to each which will be called on next January, season
able notice of the probable amount it will then, anc
quarterly during 1S37, be required to pay over either t<
the State in which it is situated, or to some other Stati
near, where a sufficient share of the public money i
not deposited.
Division oj Deposites among the Stales.—The Pec
retary of the Treasury has notified the Hank of Virgin
ji, that he shall draw on that bank, a lew days aflei
ihe 1st of January, in favor of the Treasurer of Virgin
j i, for about $350,000 which will, of course, be previ
ouslv deposited in the bank. This ratio will give tr
the State about $2,600,000 by the 1st of October next
and make the whole distributable sum about or up
wards of 36 millions, including Michigan.
The following is a copy of one ol the circulars tr
the banks above referred to :
Treasury Department, )
November 1st, 1836. J
Sir,—It is deemed proper and useful thus early tc
apprise the handover which you preside, that in a few
days after the 1st of January next, [provided the State
of shall then have passed a law, accepting the
deposite, and if not, as scon afterwards as a law shall
be passed J a transfer draft will probably be drawn on il
by this Department, for about the sum of $
It will be made payable forthwith to the authorised
agent of said State—the money to be kept in deposite
on behalf of the United States. This transfer will be
followed on the 1st of April, July and October next, by
other drafis of similar amount, and payable to the same
agent, unless in the meantime a different notice is giv
en by this Department.
When the transfer drafts are forwarded to you, the
precise amount will be ascertained and specified there
in—and the form enclosed of such duplicate receipts
as are to be taken by you of the agent, and one of them
returned here as a voucher of your payment.
1 am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
LEVI WOODBURY,
Secretary of the Treasury.
President of the
' HIGHLY IMPORTANT—EXTRA SESSION
OF THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE CAL
I LED.—T lie Governor of Maryland has issued a proc
lamation, dated at Annapolis, Nov. Sth, calling an ex
tra session of the Legislature of the State, to he con
vened on the 21st inst. to consider the present condi
tion of our public affairs, and to adopt such measures
as may seem expedient in relation thereto.
The Governor considers this step necessary, in con
!j sequence of the measures pursued by the recusant
f Electors, which he considers calculated to destroy the
Constitution and Government of the State: and lie
forewarns all “whom it may concern” that he shall en
force the laws to the utmost upon all offenders against
the majesty of the Constitution, and calls upon the offi
cers civil and military to hold themselves in readiness
to civp their aid should it be necessary.
Baltimore Transcript.
Slave Case.—Friday morning application was
wade to Mr. Sheriff Huggeford, for a writ of habeas
corpus to take the body of a female slave, who was
supposed to have arrived in a vessel from the South,
and which was then lying in the stream. Mr. Hugge
ford, who was engaged at the time, referred the appli
cant to C. D. Cooledge, the newly appointed Sheriff.
The gentleman promptly complied with the request,
and proceeded, ns in duty bound, to serve the writ.—
The negroes, who had been made acquainted with the
affair, had assembled in a body on the wharf when the
Sheriff arrived. A boat was manned, and the officer
with some others proceeded to the vessel. The female,
who had retired to rest, was awakened and made ac
quainted with the nature of the writ—that it would pro
cure her immediate freedom. But. to their astonish
ment, she refused to leave the vessel, or to place her
self under their protection—stating in the true dialect,
and with all the rdoquence of the African, that she had
a husband at home, and would rather return to him in
slavery, than live in a strange land, free. The appli
cant for the writ finding that no persuasion would in
duce her to change her determination, left her to her
fate.—Host. Jour.
Here we see ine iniquity or the abolitionists in ur
ging abstract principles to extremes. This woman is of
competent age, both by nature and law, to act for her
self in the premises, and she prefers to live a slave ra
ther than become a free woman in the North and de
sert her husband at the South. She has done wisely
and done well. She is far happier in her present es
tate, than all the promised joys of freedom could possi
bly make her.
But look at another picture. Mho will answer for
the deep “deep damnation” of the sin which separated
—nay stole, a child, an infant in mind and in law, with
out the power of choosing between freedom and slave
ry under any circumstances, from its mother in the
South, that she might he called free in the North.—
" ho shall answer—not here only, but hereafter, for
keeping the little affectionate girl—the little slave —
brought here as a companion, rather than a servant, by
Mrs. Slater—separate—at remote distance—from her
doating and distracted mother at New Orleans. Sepa
rate mother and child in the name of Freedom ?—what
fanaticism is this !—Boston Transcript.
The Slave Chilt). An abolitionist writes us, ir
relation to our remarks yesterday on the recent slave
case: “Io obviate the painful consequence of separ
ntms: the child from its mother, Mr. Loring distinctly
stated to the court that if the owner of the child wouh.
lodge a certificate in some puldic office in New Orleans
authorized to receive the same, acknowledging anc
guarantying the freedom of the child, that she would b<
immediately returned to her mother. So that the ef
feet of the proceedings will be, if Mr. Slater will com
plv with this condiiion, not only the freedom of tin
child, but her restoration to her mother. And if h<
does not do this, the responsibility and the cruelty wil
rest upon his head.”
This makes the matter no better, but rather worse
The abolitionists make laws which.contravene the dis
pensations of the Almighty, and the argue against di
vine decrees—in the pride of human invention.
Boston Transcript.
imp ok tation~of BREAD-STUFFS.
A cargo of some eight or ten thousand bushels o
wheat has arrived ir. Georgetown, D. C., from Rotter
dam. It costs, we understand, delivered in George
town, one dollar and twenty six cents! At that rati
llour could be furnished at eight dollars or a little less
per barrel. ^ The profit on the importation must be im
niense. V, heat could be brought from the Mediterra
nean at a low rate. We see by the last London ac
counts that fifty thousand quarters are about bein
‘hipped to this country.—V. S. TeUzrayh.
We are gratified to learn that the specie Circular has
t undergone several modifications by the authorities at
i Washington. In the first place the disbursing officers
; in the west are required not to call for specie from the
. deposite banks if that measure can be avoided: and in
the second place, that the land officers ere to be allow
i ed to receive in pay for public lands cirtificates ofde
s posite of the deposite banks. It is true these modifi
; cations arc not ail that could be desired, or that the in
terests of the west demand, hut they show an abandon
| men! of the specie experiment, which has so severely
. ! affected the business and prospects of the West. The
■ ; certigcates of deposite banks, under the new arrange
. j men!, we presume, will soon be in market, and be sold
at large premiums—by which operation brokers and
i shavers will be able to realize a harvest of wealth from
the pockets of the farmers of our Stale. We hope the
present modifications of the circular will he following
by its entire abrogation—so that the business and cu£
rency ot the VVest may be permitted to take its usual
course. All we require of the genera! government in
this matter is to let us alone. L he constant tamper
ing with the currency has had, a most injurious effect
upon western interests; and in the present case there
cannot be a reasonable doubt* that it has prevented an
accession of thousands of emigrants to this state the
current season, and the transfer of a great amount of
capital from the East to Illinois.—Springfield Jour.
Specie.— fhe New Orleans Banks are doing a
heavy business in the specie line. The Standard of
the 14th nit., notes the following—
“4 or the Gaslight bank, $50,000 in specie was
lately forwarded from Natches, and 50,000 more are
daily expected. For the Union Bank, $100,000 ar
rived yesterday from Philadelphia. Giber Banks ex
pect similar relief separately; but combined, they have
made an arrangement to import $2,000,000 m specie,
from the ports of Mexico, ter which they pay by bills
drawn on England. This with the favorable state of
me jiiOuxCt- niai'Kei, imiSi soon remove the pressure in
the money market, by enabling the Banks to discount
freely—a communication devoutly to be wished.”
Worse than Barbarous. The Lowell Courier
tells us that a fellow calling himself a man, a foreigner,
having a demand against a fellow countryman, purchas
ed a writ a few days ago, when with a constable, who
is also a foreigner, lie stripped the house of every
thing it contained, furniture, wood, provisions—every
thing. The wife and two small children of the debtor,
(who had gone away for a few days) were in the house,
and were left there with no food, no fire, no fuel. The
creditor returning to survey lire desolation he had mode,
saw under the head of the infant in the cradle, a small
pillow ; this he a!so drew out, and added to the pelf
which be had taken leaving the child upon the bare
board. That night the n!i but houseless mother wrapp
ed herself in an old cloke which had escaped the eye
of the creditor, and slept upon the slightly warm hearth,
without. b >d or Billow.—Bast. Trans.
Bread.—Tn consequence of the extravagant price
which is now dcmandRj for wheat flour, attention has
been directed !o the use of superfine rice flour. One
part of this united with three of wheat flour makes the
most wholesome, and by far the cheapest family bread.
It is now extensively used by the family bakers in N.
York, and found to make superior bread to wheat flour
alone. A correspondent in the Connecticut Courant,
states that rice is pure fyrina nutriment—that it is per
fectly dry, and therefore makes more bread to the bar
rel than anv other flour. It is the most wholesome of
all Farinaceous substances, being the sole food of mil
lions in Asia, where protracted lives are ascribed to the
constant use of this simple food. There is no gluten
in rice, which makes it palpable wiili no condiment but
.common salt, and fit to eat without tne process of fer
mentation. The difference in the price of the two kinds
of flour is an object worthy the attention o?' families,—
a barrel of wheat flour ought to contain one hundred
and ninety-six pounds, and at the present prices, this
is upwards of five cents a pound,—and this, too, beiijg
more or less damp, leaves not more than one hundred
and ninety pounds of food. The rice flour is perfectly j
dry, is all food, far more wholesome, and sells at a price
somewhat below this rate.—Foulson.
The villain who contrived the explosion at the Liv
erpool Post Office has been discovered. lie lately
1 arrived from America in the Virginian, and is a Por
j tuguese. One of the letters that exploded was nddres- j
hcu iu vTuvtjiiur i auou, ill iiuvHnimn, aim iinoiner iu
■j Matpnzas. From his examination it appeared he had i
been crossed in love at Ilavannah, the father of the
young lady having attempted to take his life by poi
soning the soup he was eating, and another time hir
ing two negroes to way lay and stab him (he having
j been opposed to the match) both of which proved in
j effectual. He was in hopes that the letters would
j have come into his hands and by that means have de
i stroyed him. The examination lasted till a late hour,
| and the magistrate remanded him prior to his commit
tal to Newgate.—Balt. Trans.
Coinage.—Th<gwhole coinage of trie United Slates
from 1795 to the present time, amounts--to about £21,
000,000 in gold, $13,133,682 in silver, and 75,244
515 cents and half cents. Of the gold about $9,000,
000 has been coined since the alteration of the stand
ard value in 1834. The new coinage of the eagle dol
lar, as well as the gold eagle, will probably be i-.i circu
lation by the 3d of March next. Within the past se
ven and a half years, 8,092,112 quarter dollar pieces
have been coined ; 6,383,850 dimes, and 10,287,700
half dimes. “Government have it in contemplation,”
says the Globe, “to issue three new coins to take the
place of the cent, which is too bulky and unsightly for
such a use. These are to he made of a mixture of sil
ver and copper;—one, the half cent, will be of the size
- of a ten cent; and the two and a half cent piece will be
1 of the size of a quarter dollar.”
To Dramatic Writers and Poets.—A prize of
. one hundred dollars D offered for an address of not less
. than 60 or over 100 lines, to be spoken at the opening
, of the New Theatre, at St. Louis Missouri, Com
| petitors to send to the editor of the St. Louis Bulletin
before April 15th, ensuing.
N. B. This is the first theatre evc-r built was of the
. Mississippi—N. Y. Ev. Star.
The Philadelphia Herald ot yesterday says—“It is
ascertained that 72 whig delegates have been elected
to the Pennsylvanian State Convention—67 constitute
a majority.”
^ Strawberries in November.—The Editor of the
' Portsmouth (:\. H.) Journal was on Wednesday per
' mitted to looti upon a dish of delicious Strawberries,
; from the garden of Col. Hutchings of that town. The
> vine produces monthly.
An old lady living in Natick, Mass, upwards of 100
. years of age, whose hair has long since be^n perfectly
: white, now presents the singular spectacle of the hoary
j locks of age returning to their oiginal color—jet black.
_
Santa Jhia.—The moment we heard that lloustoi
had been e lected president of Texas, we predicted thul
Santa Ana would be liberated ; and the accounts re
ceived yesterday confirm us in our belief. The cab
inet members of the present government have already
made him a prisoner at large; and daily hold confer
ences with him, concerning the terms of his liberation
or ransom. lie promises largely, but whether com
j peterit to enforce any contract relative to the recno-ni
tiotl of Texas by Mexico, is a questionable matter.
There is, however, little doubt of Houston liberating
Santa Ana on the most favorable terms he can require,
and I nvever many fa 1 disposed to demand pnni h
ment on prisoners, policy may prevail —und that poli
cy recommends liberation rather than retributive jus
, lice. [.V O. Standard.
| Texas Lands.—The c. ostilotion of Texas prohibits
an alien or nonresident from holding lands there. The
j Congress has gone farther: for in order to I,now what
I lands have proper titles, and what may Ire considered
! os disposable public properly, a resolution was passed
j on the ISth ult. which will give no little annoyance to
! many—in the form following :
! Resolved, That the committee on public lands be
: and are hereby instructed to call upon the Km pres a rids,
i and others, or their legal representatives in this Repub
j lie for an expose of their original contracts with the
I federal government of Mexico, or the State of Coahuila
i ond Texas, and of the manner in which they have com
j plied with them, the number of families they have re
j reived as colonists, end the amount of land granted
within their respective limits. The reports of the
r.mpresarios, or their representatives shall he forward
| ed to Columbia, to S. 11. Everett, Esq. commissioner
i of the lands, on or before the 1st of December next.
[JV. O. Standard.
T11K MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
No river on the globe hns so erdoked a channel as
j the Mississippi. VVe wonder that some of the innutn
1 erable bends which obstruct the direct navigation are
j not shortened by an artificral channel across the nar
| row' necks. We recollect having heard the captain of
| a Steamer remark that the bends were highly fuvorn
; hie to steam navigation, as they diminished the cur
! rent and enabled the boats to stem. This was some
J years since and before the great improvements in steam
| engines were made.—The opinion was erroneous. It
lias been said that to cut off the bends would swell the
liver much higher and cause its inundations to spier,,
wider and become more destructive. Put it mut t 1 o
perfectly obvious that the reverse would take place.
The channel would sink deeper and become more lix
i ed, the current being more rapid, and the distance
• shortened, it would puss its water to the Gulf so much
* sinorir>y that hioh wntpr mnrlr \rmil/l hntro if. l\r> ivl .fr.il
i much lower than il now stands. Hence many bene*
j liciril results would follow. The swamps which are
! now annually filled by the overflow would dry up and
j be rendered arable. But most of all would it conduce
! to the health of the lower Helm cf the great valley ;
* and, therefore, it is the duty o! the government to take
j she subject into consideration. It will be seen that n
| strait line from New Orleans to Memphis is just half
| as long as the course of the river. By straightening
the river so as to save 250 miles, the boats that make
now five trips from Nashville to New Orleans would
shorten their running 2500 miles in a season, and this
would enable them to make the passage seven instead
of five times. We invite the discussion of these mat
ters by practical men, and should be glad to hear from
some of our intelligent navigators on the subject.—
Nashville Ilep.
1 A Veteran Printer.—The editor of the W eekly
! Messenger lately paid a visit to Haitford, Conn, where
he records tho following interesting incident: Since
my arrival in this city 1 have had an interesting inter
view with the very venerable George Goodwin, who is
now, I believe, the oldest practical printer in America
—being in his SOth year—hut ns hale, hearty and act
ive, apparently, as most men are at 55 and 60. I
found him in the same place, and at the same employ
ment that I did when I called on him twenty years ngo
—namely, setting types for the Connecticut Courant.
When J expressed some little surprise thereof, he ob
served that he had been setting types for this same pa
per more than seventy years, and bo could not feel
contented to abandon his favorite employment ut this
time of life.
In 1764, there were but two newspapers published
in Connecticut—one in New Haven, and one in New
London. During that year Air. Thomas Green remov
ed from New Haven to Hartford, and established (he
Connecticut Courant. It was the size of a small sheet
of writing paper, and about 400 copies were circulated
in this aud the neighboring towns. At that time there
was no printing office north of Hartford, and none be
tween Hartford and Boston. It is a remarkable fact.
that George Goodwin, who weut as an apprentice to
Mr. Green, soon after the establishment of the C'onr
ant, at about eight years of age, has assisted in the pub
lication of the paper, either as an apprentice, proprie
tor or editor, from that to this, a period of more than
70 years. Such is the truly Honorable George Good
win, who, by a steady course of industry, integrity and
economy, lias placed bis family in affluent ciictnstan
ces, and who, by hi'* conduct, has set a bright example
to the world, and especially to the rising generation.
Lake Navigation.—Yesterday, (says a Buffalo pa
per) a tall, lean, cadaverous-looking chap called at the
i custom-house in this city, and demanded of Mr. Dep
uty Kimberly, in a sonorous voice, “his clearance.”—
Astonished not only at the voice of the individual, but
also his manner arid tone, a demand was also made by
Mr. K. “from whence ho hailed, and where his regis
try was?” To this, the captain (for by this time he
had assumed the dignity and port of his office) rapped
1 out the words “from Point La Roque, on Lake Cham
! plain, in the May Flower.” “And pray how did you
j get here?” demanded the officer, in great surprise.—
! “Took her keel off, cut it in two parts, and put it in the
hold; and as for the mast, we unshipped that, and put
it on the larboard side of the deck. Came straight
: through the canal, without scraping the copper off the
j bottom.” “And what tonnage are you?” “Why, do
: you see, when we started we near about measured ten
: tons; but when we got the other side of the big cut in
vour ditch, we lay-to near about a month, cut her in
two, and spliced in, I guess, about five tons. She’s
now just fifteen tons.” “And where do you intend go
ing?” “To Chicago.” “And what are you loaded
with?’, “My family and traps for working my farm.”
“Are you a seaman ?” “For five and forty years have
I weathered the storms on Lakes George and Chain
plain.” Here the matter ended. The. vessel is oow
lying at one of our wharves, and is a perfect specimen
of a North River sloop.”
Isac Hill talks of “a striped petticoat manufactured
for Gen. Harrison, by a club of ladies.” He had bet
ter thmk of the striped jacket manufactured for himself
by the club of Gen. Uphara--*-Louisville Jour.
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WEEKLY PRICES C
[rORRKCTKB \
Beef, fresh, per lb..-.
Pork. do. do..
j Flour, per l.'bl.
j lla^on, per lb.-*.
Corn meal, per bushel -
iXard, per ib.—.
itorn, per bushel.
j Potatoes, do.
Chickens.
j Butter, per lb.-—.
Eggs, per do*...
\\ ood, per load.
F THE MARKET.
wski.y.J
- d a 5* ct«.
•C ft 10
Scarce.
* 16i scare#.
r 4! scare*,
lflj
$14 (A
12*
il 06
.15
$1 00
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25
-25
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NOTICE.
!N March, 1836, Messrs. .Mnpes, Ryan & Co. shipped
to us 0 pieces Bagging and 4 coila Rope, marked N,
damaged, having been sunk on board steam boat Illinois.
The .-aid Bugging and Rope do not belong to us, we
therefore wish the owner to come forward, prove proper
ty and pay the expense*, or else we shall dispose of the
same according to law.
F. NOTRF.BE A SON,
per EUGENE NOTREBE.
Arkansan Post, Nov. 2-, 1856.—50-4t
A I>it i 1S I ST R AT<> ICS NOT 1C E.
S l iTTERH of administration having been granted to
» J the undersigned by the clerk of the county court of
Chicot county, Arkansas, (in vacation,) on the estate of
| .fames Estill, deeasod, notice is hereby given to all per
rons having claims against paid estate, to exhibit the
mm properly probated and authenticated, within twelve
months from t lis date, or they may be precluded from
: having any benefit in said estate—and if such claims nre
not properly authenticated and exhibited, as aforesaid,
within live years from this date, (being the date of said
loti "rs of administration,) they w ill be forever barred and
precluded.
All persons indebted to said estate, either by bond,
> note, book account, or otherwise, are requested to inak*
i immediate payment to
C ’iia, (':iicol county, Ark.
No.ember 28th, 183(5.
A. W. WEBB,
J AS, M. ESTILL,
Jldminutrator
j 36-3t-pr’a fee $4.
i8 H 81E AS, ESI1 AT E BANK.
>T1CE in hereby given, that, ngrecableto the pro*
n visions of the Charter of the “Reap Estate Bank
the State op Arkansas,” Books of Subscription, for
the capital stork of said Bunk, to the amount of two mil
i lio'iis two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into
shares of one hundred dollars each, will he opened, on the
JlHt .Monday of .March newt. and kept open, from day to
day, for the term of forty days, at the following places
1 and under the direction of the Superintendents hereafter
. named, viz:
At the City of Little Rock, under the superintendence
i of James De Bunn, Edward Crocs, nml John McLain ;
i At Fayettsvile, in Washington county, under the bin
j perintendence of Lodowick Brodic, William T, I.arre
more, and Willis M. Wallace ;
At Batesville, in Independence county, under the su
perintendence of John R inggold, Lawson Henderson, and
.1. H. Fgner;
At Helena, in Phillips county, under the superinten
dence of James H. McKenzie, George W, Fa re bee, and
Henry L. Biscoe ;
ft Ccluiitlua, in Chicot County, under the superinten
dence of B. L. .Miles, A. Y. Booker, and Peter Hanger;
and
At Washington, Hemps lead county, under the super
intendence of Daniel T. Witter, Ephraim Myrick, and
Allen M. Oakley,
, Little llock, Dec. (3,18X0—
i The publishers of the Journal, at Helena, and Advo*
; cale and Times, at Little Bock, will insert the foregoing
advertisement until the 1st day of March next, and send
; their accounts for the same to the Gazette office, for col*
! lection.—Arkansas Gazette,
MO h ASS ES, RICE, Ac.
1 TIERCE new rice
- 3 bbls. sugar house molasses
1 “ loaf sugar
4 boxes bunch raisins
I 10 kegs cut nails
1 “ horse shoe do.
20 plough moulds
20 bars half inch flat iron
received per steamer Compromise, and for sale by
Dec. 2, 1K10. WM. B. WAIT.
J. DE 18A I N CO.
\RE constantly receiving new additions to their
stock of Goods on hand. They have received from
| New Orleans, per the Neosho,
1 doz. Thibet wool shawls
! I “ 6-4 plaid do.
j 1 piece fig’d Circassian
1 “ Salisbury flannel
1 “ red linsey
6 pairs super red blankets
1 doz. gAit’s furred gloves
II “ misses’ worsted hose
H “ wool socks
2 “ ladies’ sewed c. s. shoes
4 “ children’s pegged do.
Groceries.
| 1 box lemons
1 “ bitters
j 2 “ Havana^preserves
1 keg black pepper
0 boxes bunco raiuini
12 “ sperm candles
II “ soap
1 “ stanch
1 “ codfish
H kegs Goshen butter
(i barrels prime brown sugar
Saddlery.
Plain and Spanish saddles
Russet and black bridles
j Martingales and saddlebags
Circingles and girths
Hardware.
Best spring and plain percussion caps
1 bag horseshoe nails
6 corn mills, with wheels
100 lbs. American blistered steel
Dec. 5, 18o6.
A CHALLENGE.
rpiIE undersigned propose to mn the following match
J es, over the Balesville course, viz:
On the first Wednesday in May, b. g. Capt. Boone,
by Mormon, 4 years old, mile heats, $1000 a side, haJf
forfeit.
On the first Thursday in May, c. c. Independence, by
Tom Fletcher, 3 years old, 2 mile heats, $1000 a side,
half forfeit.
On the first Friday in May, b. f. Charline, by Pacific,
3 years old, 3 mile heats, $1000 a side, half forfeit.
The matches to bn closed on <>i before t..c first day of
. March, 1S37, and the forfeits deposited with Joseph II.
! Egner, Esq. of Batesville.
j This challenge is not confined to the State of Arkan
sas_and though the sums named are small, we promise
i “lotM” of by-betting.
C. F. M. NOLAND,
THOMAS T. Tl N8TALL.
j J.ittl* Rock, Nov. Zl, lp36.—3«>-tI»tFc-b