1 Double-barrel rifle gun, to be made after my own plan, as follows: Barrels 27 inches; weight 12 pounds; astronomical telescope magnifying ten times, 1-3/8 to 1-3/4 inches in diameter, 12 to 14 inches in length. With this rifle carrying a 4 oz. ball, you may shoot a mile into a ten inch circle. By one vertical hair and several horizontal ones, the sights in the focus of the telescope may be regulated for optical distances. By this instrument we may compute the velocity of the ball and its general decrease; the fall of the ball by the power of gravitation; the comparative velocity with and against the wind; the lateral action of the wind, &c."--Natchez Democrat, Centennial Number (1876.) [61] See "Philip Nolan's Friends; or 'Show Your Passport's'" in Scribner's Monthly, Vols. XI, XII, and XIII. Dunbar recognizes the value of Nolan's assistance, particularly in the study of the language of signs of the Indians. [62] Wilson and Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithologist, Phila. Introduction pages C.-CI. [63] Ib. 70. [64] Ib. CI. HISTORY OF TAXATION IN MISSISSIPPI. CHARLES HILLMAN BROUGH, PH. D. (JOHNS HOPKINS) The history of fiscal legislation and development in Mississippi has five distinct phases and is therefore comprised within the compass of five distinct periods. These periods, with rough chronological indices for each, are: (1) Territorial (1798-1817); (2) Transitional (1817-1861); (3) Confederate and Post-Confederate Governments (1861-1867); (4) Reconstruction (1867-1876); (5) Modern (1876-1898).