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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
1862, ch. 102.
Vol. x. p. 428.
Grand and petit jurors in the District of Columbia, how summoned, when all names have been drawn from box.
Vacancies, how filled.
Grand and petit jurors for the December Term, 1865, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
See 1866, ch. xii.
Post, p. 3.
Importation of cattle prohibited.
Rules and regulations.
Appropriation for refurnishing and repairing the President’s house.
Assistant assessors of internal revenue appointed by Secretary of Treasury.
Appropriations for pensions.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven:
For invalid pensions under various acts, five millions five hundred thousand Invalid.
For revolutionary pensions, and pensions of widows, children, mothers, Revolutionary pensions, pension agents, &c. 1818, ch. 19. 1828, ch. 53. 1832, ch. 126. 1836, ch. 362. 1838, ch. 189. 1843, ch. 102. 1844, ch. 102. 1848, ch. 8, 120. 1853, ch. 41. 1858, ch. 85. 1862, ch. 166.
For navy pensions to widows, children, mothers, and sisters, as provided Navy pensions. 1848, ch. 155. 1862, ch. 166.
That the following [sum] be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to supply a deficiency in the appropriation Deficiency appropriations.
For revolutionary pensions and pensions of widows, children, mothers, Pensions.
Registered American vessels authorized to sail under a foreign flag during the rebellion, not to be deemed &c. American vessels, except &c.
Franking privileges granted to Mary Lincoln.
Clerical force in the Post Office Department may be increased, and how paid.
1866, ch. ii.
Ante, p. 1.
1866, ch. ii.
Ante, p. 1.
Importation of neat cattle and hides thereof, prohibited.
Act suspended whenever, &c.
Act may be made inoperative by proclamation of the President, &c.
Penalty for violation of this act.
Right of the United States in certain lands in San Francisco released to that city, and the claim of that city confirmed, subject, &c.
Valid adverse rights not affected.
1864, ch. 173.
Vol. xiii. p. 223.
1864, ch. 173.
Vol. xiii. p. 223.
In § 120, “Dividends in scrip,” to mean what.
Vol. xiii. p. 283.
In § 120, the words “stockholders,” and “all such interest, &c.,” to mean what.
Vol. xiii. p. 283.
Persons making returns of income, &c., to declare whether the rates, &c., in such returns are given in legal tender currency.
Penalty for refusal or neglect to do so.
Repealed.
See Post, p. 147.
Returns stated in coined money to be reduced to equivalent in legal tender currency.
Repealed.
See Post, p. 147.
This act to apply to all returns, lists, assessments, &c.
Repealed.
See Post, p. 147.
Rules and regulations.
Post roads established in
California.
From Rio Vida, via Maine Prairie and Binghampton, to Silveyville.
From Red Bluff, via the Upper Sacramento river, Soda Springs, and Shasta Valley, to Yreka.
From Red Bluff, via Payne’s Creek, Mill Creek, and Big Meadows, to Susanville.
From Chico, via Stony Creek and Coast Range, to Name Cult.
From Cloverdale, via the Lakeport and Cloverdale Wagon Road, to Lakeport.
Post routes.
Colorado.
From Central City, via Georgetown, to Argentine.
From Gold Dirt to South Boulder.
From Denver, via Mount Vernon and Idaho, to Empire City.
Dakota.
Indiana.
From Momence, Illinois, via Beaver Lake Ditch, Stringham’s Point, and Pilot Grove, all in Newton county, Indiana, to Adriance, Indiana.
From Fulton, via Millville, to Keenawha.
Iowa.
From Boonsboro’ to Panora.
From Winterset, via Quincy, Clarinda, and Marysville, to Savannah, in Missouri.
From Indianola, via Lawrenceburg and Liberty Centre, to Chariton.
From Chariton, Lucas county, via Garden Grove, to Leon.
From Marshalltown, via Vienna, Wolf Grove, Fifteen-Mile Grove, and Grundy Centre, to New Hartford.
From Decorah to Hesper, in Winnesheik county.
From West Mitchell, in Mitchell county, by Plymouth and Mason City, to Clear Lake, in Cerro Gordo county.
From Postville, via Lybrand and Ludlow, to Waukon in Alamakee county.
Kansas.
From Humboldt, Kansas, via Osage, Catholic Mission, and Chetopa, to Fort Gibson.
From Pleasant Hill, Missouri, via Blooming Grove, to Mound City, Kansas.
From Neosha Falls, Kansas, via Belmont, to Syracuse, in Wilson county.
From Fort Scott, via Mill Creek, Dayton, Mapleton, and Blue Mounds, to Garnett, tri-weekly.
From Verdigris Falls, via Virgil, to Pleasant Grove.
From Xenia to Walnut Hills.
From Council Grove to Albiline.
From Neosha Falls, via Mount Airy, to Liberty, in Woodson county.
From Emporia, via Madison, Shell Rock, Pleasant Grove, and Post Oak, to Fort Roe.
From Ottumwa, via Madison, Janesville, Eureka, and Darley’s Mills, to Salt Spring.
From Enterprise, via Ottumwa, Sac and Fox Agency, Greenwood, Ottawa, and Paola, to Harrisonville, Missouri.
From Council Grove to Marion Centre.
From Ottawa, via James Carroll’s, Jackson Mark’s, and Mineral Point, to Burlington.
From Medina, via Oskaloosa, Winchester, and Easton, to Leavenworth.
From Lawrence, via Oskaloosa, to Grasshopper Falls.
From Perryville, (located on the route of the Union Pacific railroad,) via Oskaloosa and Easton, to Leavenworth.
Maine.
From Porter, via North Parsonfield, Parsonfield, and North Newfield, to West Newfield, in York county.
From North Acton, Maine, via Wakefield, to Union, New Hampshire. Post routes.
From Woodman’s Station, via New Gloucester and West Gloucester, to North Raymond, in Cumberland county.
From Poland to West Poland, in Androscoggin county.
Massachusetts.
From North Falmouth, by Hatchville and East Falmouth, to Waquoit.
Michigan.
From Coopersville to Squire’s Ferry.
From Coopersville, via Mansfield Mills, Ravenna, Slocum’s Grove, Whitney’s Mill, and Moreland, to Squire’s Ferry.
Minnesota.
From Paynesville, by Norway Lake, to Six-mile Timber, on Chippeway river.
From Hastings, via Cannon Falls, to Kenyon.
From Saint Cloud to Fort Ripley, on the west bank of the Mississippi river.
From Watertown to Glencoe.
From Blue Earth city, Minnesota, to Yankton, Dakota Territory.
From Hutchinson, via Cedar, Greenleaf, Kandigoli, and Irving, to Torah.
From Henderson, by Arlington, New Auburn, Witadan Lake, and Fort Wadsworth, in Dakota Territory, to Fort Rice, on Missouri river.
Nebraska.
From West Point, Cumming county, to Rock Creek, in said county, ten miles.
From Pawnee City, via Frieces Mills, Nebraska, to Seneca, in Kansas.
From Dakota City, via West Point, to Columbus.
From Brownsville, Nebraska, to Rockport, Missouri.
From Big Sandy, Jones county, to Rose Creek, Nuckolls county.
From Plattsmouth, via Glendale, South Bend, Ashland, Salt Creek, Rock Creek, Lancaster, Saline City, Saltillo, Centreville, Olive Branch, Clatona, to Beatrice.
From Plattsmouth, via 8 Mile Grove, to Weeping Water.
From Decatur, via Logan Valley, West Point, St. Charles, and Jalapa, to Fremont.
From De Soto, via Arizonia, to Decatur.
Nevada.
From Carson, by way of Ophir, Washoe City, and Steamboat Springs, to Haffaker’s Ranch, all in Nevada.
From Ione, by way of Canon City, to Austin, all in Nevada.
From Austin to Cortez, in Nevada.
From Austin, by way of Kingston, Twin river, and San Antonio District, to Silver Peak, all in Nevada.
From Virginia, by way of Sacramento District, Unionville, Star, Dunglen, and Paradise Valley, in Nevada, to Boise City, in Idaho.
New York.
From Unadilla, in the county of Otsego, via Sidney, Tompkins, and Masonville, to Cannonsville, in the county of Delaware.
The road from South New Berlin, in the county of Chenango, to Morris, in the county of Otsego, in the State of New York, is hereby declared to be a post road.
Post routes.
Ohio.
Oregon.
From Auburn to Clarksville.
From Dalles City, on the Columbia river, to Umatilla, in Umatilla county.
From Umatilla, by Le Grand, in Union county to Baker City, in Baker county.
Pennsylvania.
Vermont.
From Rassumpsie, via South Danville, to Danville.
From South Danville to West Danville.
Washington Territory.
West Virginia.
Wisconsin.
Until May 1, 1866, goods, &c., under bond in any public, &c., warehouse, on which duties are unpaid, may be withdrawn for consumption upon payment of duties.
After May 1, 1866, such goods may be withdrawn within one year after importation, upon payment, &c.
How may be withdrawn after one year and within three years from date of importation.
The exportation of bonded goods and their transportation in bond not prevented.
Repeal of inconsistent acts.
Certain produce of the forests of Maine, sawed in New Brunswick, to be admitted free of duty.
When act takes effect.
Repeal of § 14 of the act of 1863, ch. 92.
Vol. xii. p. 768.
Appeals from court of claims to the supreme court of the United States.
Regular session of court of claims to commence when.
Clerk of court of claims, at end of every term, to send copy of its decisions to heads of departments, &c.
Repeal of certain sections of the act incorporating the Firemen’s Insurance Company of Washington, &c.
Stock to be issued, sold, &c.
1865, ch. 91.
Vol. xiii. p. 509.
“The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers” established.
Powers, &c.
Business of the asylum, how managed.
Officers, quorum.
Board of managers; their residence, mode of election, term of office.
1867, ch. 1.
Vol. xv. p. 1.
New elections and vacancies.
Members, as such, not to be paid, except for expenses.
may be paid for other duties.
Sites for asylums may be procured, and buildings erected.
Appropriations for support of asylum.
Donations may be received.
Officers of asylum: appointment, removal, &c.
Who entitled to benefits of the asylum, and how admitted.
Board to make annual report; to audit accounts of treasurer, and visit the asylum quarterly.
Inmates subject to rules and articles of war.
Managers may give out-door relief in certain cases.
Repeal of law establishing naval asylum in connection with this, &c.
Property of the United States at Point Lookout, Maryland, to belong to asylum, when, &c.
Post, p. 564.
Act may be altered, &c.
1815, ch. 45.
Vol. iii. p. 211.
Certain locations of land in Missouri made valid.
Vol. iii. p. 211.
Right of the United States in certain lands conveyed to James Y. O’Carroll, &c.
Provisos.
The forging, &c., of any bond, public record, &c., with intent to defraud the United States, or willingly aiding therein, or the knowingly uttering, with such intent, any such bond, &c., made a felony, and how punished.
Offences committed in places ceded to and within the jurisdiction of the United States, not prohibited, and for which a punishment is not specially provided by any law of the United States, how to be punished.
1846, ch. 178.
Vol. ix. p. 102
The library of the Smithsonian Institution to be transferred to the library of Congress.
1846, ch. 178.
Vol. ix. p. 102.
how to be used.
not to be removed except upon reimbursement, &c.
Smithsonian Institution may use library of Congress.
Additional assistants in library of Congress.
Appropriation for expenses of removal.
Term of the District Court of the United States in Minnesota established at Winona.
Term at Mankato abolished.
1864, ch. 248.
Vol. xiii. p. 389.
Allowance to officers in navy and marine corps for loss of personal effects by casualty or in action, &c.
Limit of allowance.
Provisos.
The law requiring bounty-money of mariners, &c., enlisting into the navy from the army, to be deducted from prize-money, repealed.
1863, ch. 75.
Vol. xii. p. 731.
1864, ch. 13, § 7.
Vol. xiii. p. 7.
That the following sums be, and Deficiency appropriations.
Survey of the Coast.—For the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts Coast Survey. Coast Survey.
For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the reefs, shoals and keys of South Florida, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of the officers of the army and navy and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, eleven thousand dollars.
For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, four thousand dollars.
For repairs of steamers and sailing schooners used in the coast survey, twenty thousand dollars.
For pay and rations of engineers for steamers used in the hydrography of the Coast Survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, six thousand dollars.
Light-House Establishment.—For the Atlantic, Gulf, and Lake coasts, Light-house Establishment.
For supplying the light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, and other necessary expenses of the same, and repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, one hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars.
To supply deficiency in estimate for supplies of oil, wicks, glass chimneys, and other necessary expenses of the same, and repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, seventeen thousand dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses and lighted beacons, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in estimate for repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, fifty thousand dollars.
For salaries of five hundred and eighty-nine keepers of light-houses and lighted beacons, and their assistants, two hundred and thirteen thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
For salaries of forty-three keepers of light-vessels, twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars.
For mates’ and seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of forty-three light-vessels, two hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-five cents.
To supply deficiency in estimates for seaman’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses for light-vessels, twenty-three thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.
For expenses of weighing, cleaning, repairing, painting, replacing, and supplying losses of buoys, chains, moorings, and incidental expenses of the same, and for repairing and keeping in repair all the day-marks, beacons, spindles, and monuments, and for expenses of coloring and numbering all the buoys and beacons, one hundred and twelve thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars.
For the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington.—For supplying Light-houses, &c., of the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington.
For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses and lighted beacons, fifteen thousand dollars.
For salaries of forty keepers and assistant keepers of light-houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-two thousand dollars.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and Light-houses, &c.
To supply deficiency in estimate for raising, cleaning, painting, remooring, and supplying losses of buoys, fifty thousand dollars.
For special works, viz: Special works.
For rebuilding sea-wall at Sand’s Point light-station, New York, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
For rebuilding sea-wall, and repairs to tower at Nayat Point light-house, Rhode Island, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For replacing the present stakes at Whitehall Narrows, New York, by approved structures, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Little Gull Island light-station, New York, three thousand dollars.
For a new light-house on Hart Island, New York, or vicinity, six thousand six hundred dollars.
For a new light-house on North Brother Island, or vicinity, East River, New York, eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Split Rock light-station, Lake Champlain, nine thousand six hundred dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Galloo Island light-station, fifteen thousand dollars.
For beacons in Providence river, Rhode Island, on Conanicut and Bullock’s Points, in addition to previous appropriations, seventeen thousand dollars.
For banking in light-house site at Cohansey, Delaware Bay, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For a new iron stairway at Cape Henlopen light-house, twelve thousand dollars.
For a new light-house at Sharp’s Island, Maryland, fifteen thousand dollars.
For new lanterns at Clay island, Fog Point, Watt’s Island, Turkey Point, Havre de Grace, and Fishing Battery light-houses, six thousand dollars.
For a new iron stairway at Cape Henry light-house, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars.
For new iron stairways at Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras light-houses, North Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Turtle Island light-station, Ohio, twelve thousand dollars.
For rebuilding Green Island light-house, Ohio, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For protecting the foundation on which Waugoshance light-house is constructed, ninety thousand dollars.
For renovations and repairs at Windmill Point light-house, Lake Saint Clair, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For rebuilding outer-range light at Cedar Point, Sandusky bay, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For range lights at Portage entry, Michigan, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For new keeper’s dwelling at Beaver Island light-station, Michigan, five thousand eight hundred dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Marquette light-station, Michigan, thirteen thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Cooper Harbor light-station, Michigan, thirteen thousand seven hundred dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Ontonagon light-station, Michigan, fourteen thousand dollars.
For beacon lights at the mouth of Fox river, Wisconsin, six thousand Light-houses.
For a beacon light on the landing at Santa Barbara, California, six thousand seven hundred dollars.
To enable the Light-House Board to re-establish lights and other aids to navigation discontinued by the enemy on the southern coast, one hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the Light-House Board to experiment with new illuminating apparatus and fog signals, three thousand four hundred dollars.
For a new light-house at the mouth of North river, Albemarle sound, North Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Tybee light-house, Georgia, twenty thousand dollars.
For rebuilding light-house at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania, (Lake Erie,) upon the most eligible site under the control of the Light-House Board, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Mamaguda light-station, Detroit river, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Kenosha light-station, Wisconsin, four thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, especially southern Repairs and preservation of public buildings.
For furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous items for the same, fifteen thousand dollars.
For continuation of the north wing of the Treasury extension, two hundred Treasury extension.
For completion of the Dubuque, Iowa, custom-house, post-office, and Custom-house, &c., at Dubuque, Iowa.
For completion of alterations of the Cincinnati custom-house, twenty-two Cincinnati.
For completion of alterations of the Philadelphia custom-house, thirty Philadelphia.
For payment of claims due for the constructing and furnishing the Baltimore court house, one hundred and nine thousand dollars.
For payment of claims due for the repair of Government warehouses and construction of wharves, Staten Island, New York, twenty-nine thousand dollars.
For burglar proof safes, or vaults, twenty thousand dollars.
For heating of old Treasury building, ten thousand dollars.
For office furniture and repairs of furniture and miscellaneous expenses for Treasury bureaus, Washington, twenty thousand dollars.
Public Buildings and Grounds.—For error in compensation of employees Public buildings and grounds.
For compensation of two night watchmen at the President’s House, at six hundred dollars, each, per annum, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For additional compensation of twenty per centum to two night watchmen, at six hundred dollars each, two hundred and forty dollars.
For deficiency due the Navy Department, for use of pile-driver, men, Bridges and streets.
For deficiency in consequence of relaying and repaving all the crossings of the streets intersecting Pennsylvania avenue, on the north side, from the Capitol to the Treasury Department, ten thousand dollars.
For deficiency in repairing the conservatory at the President’s House, President’s house and conservatory.
To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to properly refurnish and repair the President’s House, in conformity with his estimate, forty-
For purchase of coal and pay of firemen to warm the library of Congress Library of Congress.
For care, support, medical and surgical treatment for forty transient Transient paupers in Washington.
For hire of carts on the public grounds, two thousand dollars. Public grounds.
For purchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds, four hundred dollars.
For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to replace, when necessary, such as have been planted by the United States, to whitewash tree-boxes and fences, and to repair pavements in front of the public grounds, three thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the Capitol, water-closets, public stables, water-pipes, Repairs of capitol.
For fitting up rooms in the basement, under the court-room of the Supreme Room for supreme court.
To enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to pay for sewers and Sewers and paving. 1864, ch. 81, § 3. Vol. xiii. p. 69.
For improvement of grounds, purchase of plants for garden, and contingent Public grounds.
For fuel, in part, for the President’s House, five thousand dollars. Fuel.
For lighting the Capitol and President’s House, the public grounds Lighting capitol, &c.
For repairs of the Potomac and upper bridges, six thousand dollars. Bridges and streets.
For repairs of Pennsylvania avenue, and keeping it clean, and for sprinkling the same, ten thousand dollars.
For public reservation number two and Lafayette square, in addition to Reservations.
For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s House, and continuing Public grounds.
For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred dollars. Water-pipes, sewers, &c.
For cleaning and repairing sewer traps on Pennsylvania avenue, three hundred dollars.
For casual repairs of all the furnaces under the Capitol, five hundred dollars.
For an additional watchman in reservation number two, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For casing with stone and erecting a wall in front of the north basement of the old part of the Capitol, so as to correspond with the south basement already completed, four thousand three hundred dollars.
For completing the sewer through the botanic garden, twenty thousand five hundred and five dollars.
For taking up and relaying with stone flagging the brick pavement in Paving, &c.
For stone crossings at the streets intersecting Pennsylvania avenue, five thousand dollars.
For repairing, re-glazing, re-painting, and putting in thorough order the Public grounds, squares, and buildings.
For repairing roof of the old portion of the Capitol, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
To meet the expenditure made by the Commissioner of Public Buildings in illuminating the Capitol and the government portion of the City Hall, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For hauling manure for the public grounds, five hundred dollars.
For the protection and improvement of Franklin square, two thousand dollars.
For painting the President’s House inside and out, eight thousand dollars; to be expended by the Commissioner of Public Buildings.
For rebuilding fence (destroyed by fire) around the Smithsonian Institution, two hundred dollars.
For fuel for centre building of Capitol, fifteen hundred dollars.
For completing the dome of the Capitol, fifty thousand dollars. Dome of capitol.
For supplying deficiency in appropriation for lighting the Capitol and President’s House and public grounds around them, and around the executive offices and Pennsylvania avenue; Bridge and High streets, Georgetown; Four-and-a-half street, Seventh street, and Twelfth street across the Hall, and Maryland avenue west, and Sixth street south, thirteen thousand dollars.
For sweeping and cleaning Pennsylvania avenue prior to the inauguration on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one thousand dollars.
For carrying the Potomac water into that portion of the President’s House occupied for offices, and all the necessary fixtures, three thousand dollars.
For supplying deficiency in appropriation for fuel for the President’s House and Capitol, six thousand dollars.
For continuing the work on the Capitol extension, one hundred and Capitol extension.
For casual repairs of Patent Office Building, ten thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses incident to the death and burial of Abraham Burial of Abraham Lincoln.
For salary of warden of the jail in the District of Columbia, sixteen Jail in District of Columbia.
For the support and maintenance of the convicts transferred from the Support and transportation of convicts.
For the preservation of the collections of the exploring and surveying Collections of exploring and surveying expeditions.
Office of the Secretary of State.—For publication of the laws, eight thousand Office of Secretary of State Laws.
For extra clerk hire, eight thousand dollars.
For the pay of the United States Commissioner, and for the pay of the Commission under reciprocity treaty. Vol. x. p. 1089.
Office of the Attorney General.—For deficiency in appropriations for Office of the Attorney General. 1865, ch. 98. Vol. xiii. p. 516.
For deficiency in appropriation for contingent expenses, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For pay of two temporary clerks from January first to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, twelve hundred dollars.
For stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, and for books and maps for the Library for the Interior Department, three thousand dollars.
For compensation for temporary clerks in the Pension Bureau for the current fiscal year, twenty thousand dollars.
Government Hospital for the Insane.—For the support, clothing, and Government hospital for the insane.
For finishing, furnishing, and lighting additional accommodations in the east wing; for new bedding for the west wing, and for the extension and replanking of the coal wharf, ten thousand dollars.
For continuation of the wall enclosing the grounds of the hospital, ten thousand dollars.
For removing and repairing three old frame houses and building two new cottages for the occupation of the employees of the hospital having families, six thousand dollars.
Patent Office.—For expenses of receiving, arranging, and taking care Patent office.
For preparing illustrations and descriptions for report, six thousand dollars.
For finishing the saloon in the north wing of the Patent Office building, and for furnishing the same with suitable accommodations for the reception and convenient exhibition of the models, thirty thousand dollars: Carpets to be of domestic manufacture.
Census Office.—For making good the aggregate difference between the Census office.
For paying the salaries at the original census rate, of principal clerk and other clerks and one employee from January one to June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, six thousand four hundred and sixty dollars.
For incidental expenses of the Census Office, fifteen hundred dollars.
In the office of the engineer, Department of the Interior, viz: Department of the interior.
For one clerk, six months, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per Office of engineer.
For one clerk, six months, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For one clerk, six months, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, six hundred dollars.
For mileage of Government engineer from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Omaha, Mileage of engineer, examining route of Union Pacific Railroad.
For mileage of the same, from Washington to New York and back, in
For cost of completing bridge over Big Sioux river, near Sioux City, Bridge and wagon road.
For commutation of quarters and fuel to officer of corps of engineers, Quarters and fuel.
For contingencies, two thousand dollars.
Library of Congress.—For purchasing files of leading American newspapers Library of Congress.
To enable the Joint Committee on the Library to pay the first installment due on a contract made with William H. Powell for a naval picture William H. Powell, for naval picture. Vol. xiii. p. 570.
Botanic Garden.—For grading, draining, procuring manure, tools, Botanic Garden.
For pay of superintendent of botanic garden, and assistants in the botanic garden and green-houses, to be expended under the direction of the Library Committee of Congress, six thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty cents.
For the purchase and removal of materials, and for erecting four greenhouses in the botanic garden, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, twenty-five hundred dollars.
Columbian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.—For salaries and incidental Columbian Institution for the deaf and dumb.
For the erection, furnishing, and fitting up of the two extensions to the buildings, to provide enlarged accommodations for the male department, and to furnish rooms for the instruction of the pupils in useful labor, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For the proper enclosure, grading, and improvement of the grounds of the institution, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Surveying the Public Lands.—For surveying the public lands in Wisconsin, Surveying public lands.
For surveying the public lands in Minnesota, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Dakota Territory, five thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Nebraska Territory, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Kansas, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Colorado Territory, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Nevada, fifteen thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in New Mexico, five thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in California, thirty thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Oregon, twenty thousand dollars.
For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, twenty thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous.—For the fencing in, repair and completion of the United Miscellaneous. Court-house, &c.
For the alteration and repair of the court-house in the city of Boston, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of United States marine hospital at Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, eight thousand dollars.
For facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States Atlantic and Pacific telegraph.
For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons Detection of counterfeiting treasury notes, &c.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to adjust and settle the accounts D. S. Payne. Census of Idaho. 1863, ch. 117. Vol. xii. p. 808.
For building a custom-house at Portland, Maine, in addition to the sum Custom-house at Portland, Me.
For building a custom-house at Saint Albans, in the State of Vermont, Saint Albans.
For expenses of the census of Arizona Territory, taken in the year Census of Arizona.
For securing the right of way and building a bridge across the canal to Portland.
For making alterations and repairs in the custom-house, court-house, Providence.
For compensation of the revenue agent stationed at New York, in addition Revenue agent of New York. 1864, ch. 173, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 224.
For one thousand copies of a compilation of the laws of the United Compilation of laws relating to revenue, &c.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to William Handy, of William Handy.
For compensation to John Hopley, for services in indexing the national John Hopley.
For additional compensation to the publishers of the Statutes at Large, Statutes at Large.
For refitting the rear basement rooms of the old Treasury building for office purposes, eleven thousand dollars.
For the purchase of the property in Washington city, known as Ford’s Ford’s theatre.
Indemnity to Butler and Carpenter.
1863, ch. 79, § 9.
Vol. xii. p. 752.
See 1867, ch. 168, § 5.
Post, p. 470.
Custom-house at Island Pond.
Proviso.
Library of Congress.
1864, ch. 147.
Vol. xiii. p. 148.
Additional compensation to district attorneys and marshals for services in suppression of the slave-trade.
1861, ch. 84.
Vol. xii. p. 219.
Judges, arbitrators, and mixed courts.
1862, ch. 140.
Vol. xii. p. 581.
Pennsylvania Bank building may be sold.
1860, ch. 100, § 2.
Vol. xii. p. 89.
1862, ch. 11, § 5.
Vol. xii. p. 369.
Clerks of assistant treasurer in Philadelphia.
That, in addition to the appropriations Branch mint at California.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, sixty-nine thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, repairs, and wastage, one hundred and six thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents.
That in addition to the appropriations Arizona Territory.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses, five thousand dollars.
For preparation and printing laws of the Territory, five thousand dollars.
That the following sums be, and Deficiency appropriations for
For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers and others, receiving officers, &c., of House of Representatives,
For clerks of committees, and temporary clerks in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz:
For fuel and lights, pay of engineers, firemen, and laborers, repairs and materials, ten thousand dollars.
For furniture, repairs, and packing boxes, for members, twenty thousand dollars.
For pages and temporary mail boys, two thousand three hundred dollars.
For stationery, thirteen thousand four hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For folding documents, including materials, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses of the Senate, namely: contingent expenses of Senate.
For stationery, fifteen thousand dollars.
For clerks, pages, horses, carryalls, and so forth, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars.
For fuel and repairs of heating and ventilating apparatus, to be provided under the charge of the sergeant-at-arms, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For furniture purchased, and repairs done by the Sergeant-at-arms, under the direction of the Committee to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional labor in the folding room and around Senate chamber, five thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the Capitol police under Capitol police.
For salary of the Stenographer appointed under resolution of January Stenographer.
For additional compensation to laborers in the Clerk’s office of the House of Representatives, the same as allowed by act of June twenty-fifth, eighteen 1864, ch. 147. Vol. xiii. p. 147.
Employees of deputy provost marshal of the District of Columbia for special service.
That the following sums be, and Deficiency appropriation for
For the compensation of the superintendent of the building occupied Quarter-master General’s office.
For the Indian service in Utah, being for money advanced by Brigham Indian service in Utah.
For plates, engraving, printing, and paper for national currency notes, Plates, &c., for national currency notes. No portrait of living person to be engraved thereon.
For making certain alterations in the custom-house building at Philadelphia, Custom-house at Philadelphia.
For deficiency in the appropriation for fuel for the President’s House President’s house and capitol.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the naval academy for Naval academy.
To pay H. A. Klopfer for ten months’service, as a laborer in the office H. A. Klopfer.
For certain alterations to the post-office portion of the building in Portland, Post-office, &c., building at Portland.
Additional pay of females, &c.
1864, ch. 147, §3.
Vol. xiii. p. 160.
Salaries of officers of the mint at Philadelphia, and assistant treasurers.
Arms and ammunition for defence of inhabitants of Dakota Territory.
Who are citizens of the United States,
their rights and obligations.
Penalty for depriving any person of any right protected by this act, by reason of color or race, &c.
Courts of the United States to have jurisdiction of offences under this act.
Suits commenced in State courts may be removed on defendant’s motion.
1865, ch. 90.
Vol. xiii. p. 507.
1863, ch. 87.
Vol. xii. p. 755.
Jurisdiction to be enforced according to the laws of the United States, or the common law, &c.
District attorneys, &c., to institute proceedings against all violating this act.
Number of commissioners appointed by circuit and territorial courts to be increased; their authority.
Marshals, &c., to obey all precepts under this act.
Penalty for refusal, &c.
Commissioners may appoint persons to execute warrants.
Authority of such persons.
Warrants to run where.
Penalty for obstructing process under this act;
for rescue, &c.;
for aiding to escape;
for harboring, &c.
Fees of district attorneys, marshals, clerks, commissioner, &c.;
to be paid from the treasury of the United States, and to be recoverable from defendant when convicted.
President may direct the judge, &c., to attend, &c., for the more speedy trial of persons charged with violating this act;
may enforce the act with the military and naval power.
Appeal to the supreme court of the United States.
The President of the United States having returned to the Senate, in Bill passed over the veto of the President.
The House of Representatives having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “An act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication,” returned to the Senate by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the Senate to the House of Representatives, with the message of the President returning the bill:
Grant of land to Wisconsin for breakwater, harbor, and ship canal.
Proviso.
Selections, how made.
Lands subject to disposal of legislature, &c.
Canal to be public highway, &c.
Plans, &c., to be filed in departments.
Unless work is completed in three years, unsold lands revert to the United States.
Account to be kept; and when work is paid for, only such tolls, &c.
Width and depth of canal.
Preamble.
Right of way granted to the “Cascade Railroad Company” through the public lands and military reserve.
Charter of the company declared valid.
Proviso.
1865, ch. 77.
Vol. xiii. p. 468.
The Secretary of the Treasury may receive treasury notes, &c., in exchange for bonds, &c.;
may dispose of the bonds in the United States or elsewhere;
in what amount and at what rates.
Public debt not to be increased.
Limit to amount of notes to be retired.
Former act to be in force, except, &c.
Secretary to report to Congress, &c.
Pennsylvania to be reimbursed for money paid to militia, &c.
1864, ch. 30.
Vol. xiii. p. 22.
Proviso.
Charter of Mutual Fire Insurance Company amended.
1855, ch. 26, § 3.
Vol. x. p. 836.
Collection District of Port Huron in Michigan.
Pay of collector.
1864, ch. 130, § 2.
Vol. xiii. p. 134.
District of Michigan.
Pay of collector.
District of Montana and Idaho.
Collector, pay, &c.
District of Castine, Maine.
Navy appropriations.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven;
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including Pay of officers, seamen, and engineer corps.
For the payment of bounties to discharged seamen, eight hundred thousand Bounties.
For the purchase of various articles of equipment, viz: canvas, leather, Equipment.
For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances for the sick and wounded of Surgeons’ necessaries, &c.
For navigation apparatus and supplies, and for purposes incidental to Navigation apparatus, &c.
For contingent expenses of the navy, two hundred and fifty thousand Contingent expenses.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.—For contingent expenses that may accrue Bureau of yards and docks.
Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.—For expenses that may accrue Bureau of equipment and recruiting;
Bureau of Navigation.—For contingent expenses of the Bureau of of navigation;
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.—For contingent expenses of the of medicine and surgery.
Marine Corps.—For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, Marine Corps.
For provisions, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents.
For clothing, three hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars and five cents.
For fuel, thirty thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars.
For military stores, viz: Pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, sixteen thousand dollars.
For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and expenses of recruiting, ten thousand dollars.
For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, ten thousand dollars.
For contingencies, viz.: freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; wharfage; purchase and repair of boats; compensation to judge advocates per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor; house-rent in lieu of quarters; burial of deceased marines; printing, stationery, postage, telegraphing; apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fixtures; water rent, forage, straw, barrack furniture, furniture for officers’ quarters; bed sacks, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters’ tools; keep of a horse for the messenger; pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital headquarters; repairs to fire-engine; purchase and repair of engine hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess tables, and bunks; repairs to public carryall; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrows; scavengering; purchase and repair of galleys, cooking stoves, ranges; stoves where there are no grates; gravel for parade grounds; repair of pumps; furniture for staff and commanding officers’ offices; brushes, brooms, buckets, paving, and for other purposes, eighty thousand dollars:
Navy Yards.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire.—For iron foundery, five thousand nine Portsmouth.
For shop for iron-cladding, sixteen thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars.
For condensers, seven thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
For road and timber slips, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and Navy Yards.
For enlarging office building, nine thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars.
For filling and furnishing plumber’s, coppersmith’s and tin shop, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For machinery and tools, forty-eight thousand one hundred dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, seventy thousand dollars.
For completing plumber’s, coppersmiths, and tin shop, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase of Seavey’s Island, one hundred and five thousand Purchase of Seavey’s Island. Provisos.
Boston.—For purchase of the right of drainage through the yard, now Boston.
For one steam fire-engine, five thousand dollars.
For widening main entrance, twelve thousand dollars.
For tools for machine and forge shops, seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars.
For machinery for ropewalk, thirty-one thousand dollars.
For filling in a portion of timber-dock, forty thousand dollars.
For addition to stable, eight thousand dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, eighty-five thousand dollars.
New York.—For iron-plating shop, ninety-eight thousand nine hundred New York.
For receiving store, forty-seven thousand six hundred and three dollars.
For quay with extension at sewer, one hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing the work on the new machine and boiler shop, one hundred thousand dollars.
For dredging channels, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For special repairs, twenty thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars.
For the purchase of the Ruggles property, ninety thousand dollars.
For protecting from destruction and decay the unfinished buildings and other structures already commenced, for which no appropriation is made in this bill, twenty thousand dollars.
Philadelphia.—For dredging channels, four thousand and twenty-eight Philadelphia.
For repairs of dry dock, forty-six thousand dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, fifty-eight thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
For completing saw-mill, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For extending south pier one hundred feet, fifteen thousand dollars.
Washington.—For new paint-shop, eight thousand five hundred and Washington.
For smithery, twelve thousand and sixty-two dollars.
For extension of iron foundery, eight thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars.
For machinery and tools, ninety thousand six hundred dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, sixty-one thousand six hundred dollars.
Norfolk.—For railway track and care, eight thousand dollars. Norfolk.
For repair of wharves, two thousand five hundred dollars. Navy Yards.
For one Ames’s wharf crane, three thousand dollars.
For machinery and tools, fifty thousand dollars.
For ship joiners’shop and timber shed number twelve, forty-five thousand dollars.
For storehouse number fourteen, forty-six thousand dollars.
For the protection of the property at Norfolk navy-yard, twenty thousand dollars or so much thereof as shall be necessary.
Pensacola, Florida.—For muster office, ei[g]ht thousand one hundred Pensacola.
For new gate to dock basin, thirty thousand dollars.
For pile engine, seven hundred dollars.
For the preservation and necessary repairs of the property of the United States at the Pensacola navy yard, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Mare Island, California.—For foundery and boiler establishment, Mare Island.
For cisterns, buildings sixty-eight and forty-five, seven thousand three hundred dollars.
For quay-wall, fifty thousand dollars.
For grading, twenty thousand dollars.
For cistern and holder for gas works, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand dollars.
Hospitals.
Boston.—For repairs of buildings, roads, fences, cemetery, walls, stable, Boston.
New York.—For repairs of hospital buildings and appendages, roads, New York.
Laboratory, New York.—For repairs of buildings and appendages, purchase Laboratory at New York.
Washington.—For completing building authorized by act of Congress Washington. 1864, ch. 30. Vol. xiii. p. 26.
Annapolis.—For repairing hospital building, appendages, painting, glazing, Annapolis.
Norfolk.—For repairs of buildings, appendages, roads, fences, rebuilding Norfolk.
Pensacola.—For repairs of building, appendages, painting, glazing, Pensacola.
Mare Island.—For repairs of building, appendages, painting, glazing, Mare Island.
Miscellaneous.
For pay of superintendent, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments Civil establishments at navy yards. Pay of clerks at Portsmouth and Philadelphia.
For testing the use of petroleum as a fuel under marine boilers, five Petroleum as fuel.
For the construction of a levee on the river-front of the government Levee at Mound City.
To pay mileage of visitors to the Naval Academy, one thousand dollars. Naval Academy.
For expenses of Naval Academy, viz: for pay of civil officers, professors, watchmen and others, contingent expenses, improvements and repairs, one hundred and ninety-eight thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars.
For the purchase of the land adjacent to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, belonging to the State of Maryland, and known as the government house and grounds, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the purchase of other grounds at Annapolis for the use of the Naval Academy, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the erection of a building suitable for the accommodation of the third and fourth classes at the Naval Academy, one hundred thousand dollars.
For the erection of a machine-shop at the Naval Academy, twenty thousand dollars.
For the increase of the library at the Naval Academy, two thousand dollars.
For the enlargement of the chapel at the Naval Academy, and for the erection of mural tablets therein to commemorate the memory of naval officers who have sacrificed their lives in the service of the country, seven thousand dollars.
Naval Observatory.
For the pay of assistant astronomer, three aids, and clerk, eight thousand dollars.
For wages of instrument maker, two watchmen, porter, and messenger; for keeping grounds in order, and repairs to buildings and enclosures; for fuel, light, office-furniture, and stationery, and for freight, transportation, postage, and incidental expenses, twelve thousand dollars.
For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, fifteen American Nautical Almanac.
Naval Asylum.
For furniture and repairs to same, one thousand dollars.
For house-cleaning and whitewashing, eight hundred dollars.
For furnaces, grates, and ranges, seven hundred dollars.
For gas and water rent, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For improvement of grounds, three hundred dollars.
For wharves and lots, eight hundred dollars.
For painting houses and walls, two thousand dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, one thousand dollars.
For support of beneficiaries, forty-eight thousand dollars.
Amendment of act 1864, ch. 93, § 1.
Vol. xiii. p. 85.
Bounties for destruction of enemies’ vessels.
No payments to those who do not take the oath.
1862, ch. 128.
Vol. xii. p. 502.
Allowance to officers for rent of quarters, &c.
1835, ch. 27, § 2.
Vol. iv. p. 757.
Navy agents abolished.
Examinations for Naval Academy.
Assistant in Bureau of Ordnance abolished.
Vacancies in grade of professor of mathematics not to be filled.
Survey of Behring’s Straits, North Pacific, and China Seas.
1852, ch. 109, § 2.
Vol. x. p. 104.
Transfer of appropriation to settle accounts of disbursing officers.
Commissioners to ascertain amount of moneys expended by Missouri for State forces in suppressing the Rebellion.
Authority of commissioners.
Clerk.
Items of expenditure to be examined.
What to be allowed.
What not to be allowed.
Certain amounts to be stated separately.
Amount of direct tax to be deducted.
1861, ch. 45.
Vol. xii. pp. 222, 295.
Rate for service, &c.
Commissioners to make report and transmit testimony to Secretary of Treasury.
Account to be paid if correct.
Commissioners to be sworn.
Their pay.
Appropriation.
Gunboat to be transferred to republic of Liberia at a valuation,
How to be paid for.
The “Soldier’s individual memorial” to pass through the mails as printed matter.
Marine hospital buildings and land may be leased or sold.
See ch. 142.
Post, p. 76.
Appropriation of proceeds.
Proviso.
Certain revenue cutters may be sold.
Proceeds of sales.
American registers to the steamers
Michigan,
Dispatch,
William K. Muir,
and to other vessels.
Deficiency appropriation for public printing,
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the public printing for the fiscal year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the public printing, one paper for public printing,
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for paper for the public printing, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the public binding, ninety-five public binding.
And the Superintendent of the Public Printing is hereby authorized to Additional clerk.
Drafts or checks standing to the credit of any disbursing officer and dated prior to July 1, 1863, and outstanding July 1, 1866, to be deposited &c. and called “outstanding liabilities.”
Certificate of register stating amount of draft &c. attached to any warrant to be sufficient voucher &c.
Appropriation for the redemption of outstanding certificates &c.
Payee of drafts &c. to have payment upon presentation.
This act to apply to all such certificates &c. outstanding for three years. and to accounts of disbursing officers.
Accounts of disbursing officers unchanged for three years to be covered into the treasury, and credited.
The treasurer assistant treasurers &c. to report to the Secretary annually the condition of such accounts.
Report to state what.
Disbursing officers to report annually all checks issued, &c.
Duties remitted or refunded on produce in transit when reciprocity treaty expired.
See ch. 131.
Post, p. 70.
Pay corps of the navy.
Appointment of paymasters passed assistant paymasters &c.
Examinations.
Bonds and pay of passed assistant paymasters.
Boundaries of Nevada.
State to give its assent.
Possessory rights to mining claims to remain valid.
Title in fee not granted.
Preamble.
International Ocean Telegraph Company to have sole privilege for fourteen years to lay and operate telegraph lines between Florida and Cuba &c.
The United States to have free use of such lines.
Lines to be kept open and messages sent in order of their reception.
Charges.
Lines to be laid in three years and in operation in five years.
This act may be altered or repealed.
Court of Claims to hear and determine certain claims.
Appeal.
Decree and its effect.
Levy Court may locate certain roads as public highways.
Damages.
1812, ch. 117, § 3.
Vol. ii. p. 771.
National Theological Institute incorporated.
Act amended.
See 1867, ch. 164.
Post, p. 440.
Its powers.
Seal.
Purposes of corporation.
Officers.
By-laws.
Property and how used.
Amount of real estate.
Theological belief not to exclude.
Charter may be altered.
1863, ch. 81.
Vol. xii. p. 755.
See 1887, ch. 27.
Post, p. 385.
Orders from proper officer to perform certain acts to be a defence to suits on account of such acts;
1863, ch. 81, §§4–6.
Vol. xii. pp. 756, 757.
but not for acts done after the passage of this act.
Order, how proved.
Right of removal from State to United States Court when it may be exercised.
Proceedings in State court to cease on filing petition, &c.
Subsequent acts in State court, void.
Damages.
Double costs.
Clerk of State court to furnish copies of papers &c.
If clerk does not furnish copies, case may be docketed in U.S. Court, and plaintiff ordered to file declaration, &c. therein.
Nonsuit, &c.
Five-cent pieces to be coined of copper and nickel.
Weight shape, devices, &c.
Laws relating to coinage of cents, &c., to apply to this coinage.
Laws relating to coins extended to this act so far as applicable.
Regulations as to alloy.
To be legal tender to amount of a dollar.
To be paid in exchange for currency.
1857, ch. 56, § 2.
Vol. xi. p. 163.
No fractional currency of less than ten cents to be issued, and old issues to be cancelled.
Unauthorized making &c., of such coins punished.
May be redeemed in sums of not less than one hundred dollars.
Duty on live animals imported.
Proviso.
Court in northern district of Mississippi to be held at Oxford.
1864, ch. 6, § 2.
Vol. xiii. p. 420.
Vice-Admiral to have a secretary.
Rank and pay of.
Appropriation for Post Office Department.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six:
For transportation of the mails, (inland,) nine million five hundred and Transportation.
For transportation of the mails, (foreign,) six hundred thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars. Ship steamboat, &c., letters.
For compensation to postmasters, four million two hundred and fifty Compensation to postmasters.
For clerks for post offices, one million nine hundred and twenty thousand Clerks for post offices.
For payment to letter-carriers, six hundred and forty thousand dollars. Letter-carriers.
For wrapping paper, one hundred thousand dollars. Wrapping paper and twine.
For twine, thirty thousand dollars.
For letter balances, six thousand dollars. Letter balances.
For compensation to blank agents and assistants, eight thousand dollars. Blank agents.
For office furniture, six thousand dollars. Furniture and advertising.
For advertising, eighty thousand dollars.
For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, two hundred and fifty thousand Postage stamps and stamped envelopes.
For mail depredations and special agents, one hundred thousand dollars. Depredations and special agents.
For mail bags, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Mail bags, locks, keys, &c.
For mail locks, keys, and stamps, thirty thousand dollars.
For payment of balances due to foreign countries, three hundred and Foreign balances.
For miscellaneous payments, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous payments.
To enable the superintendent of the Naval Observatory to carry out Isthmus routes to the Pacific.
That the following sums, or so much Additional appropriation.
For the mail steamship service between the United States and Brazil, Mail steamship service with Brazil; Proviso. 1865, ch. 98. Vol. xiii. p. 93.
For the mail steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and between San Francisco, Japan, and China.
For the overland mail transportation between Atchison and Folsom, Overland mail and marine mail to California.
Sailing vessels may transport mails where, &c.
Compensation.
Postmaster-General to report estimate for service of the department to Secretary of Treasury annually.
Vol. ix. p. 108.
Money order system.
1864, ch. 87, § 13.
Vol. xiii. p. 79.
Advertisements, proposals, &c., to be published in the two daily papers at Washington of largest circulation.
Charges.
Circulation how and when determined.
Charges.
Carrying away, &c., any person to sell him as a slave, &c., or persuading thereto or aiding therein, how punished.
Knowingly receiving on board &c., of a vessel, any person for the purpose of carrying him away to be sold or held as a slave, how punished.
Vessel to be forfeited.
Railroad bridge at Rouse’s Point declared a lawful structure, &c.
by whom to be maintained.
Draws.
Act may be altered or repealed.
Decisions of Supreme Court of the United States to be published in eight months, &c.
1842, ch. 264.
Vol. v. p. 545.
Circuit Court in Virginia to be held in Richmond, on, &c.
may adjourn from Norfolk to Richmond.
Process.
Special, &c. terms.
The academy of music of Washington, D.C. incorporated.
Subscription books.
Seal and powers, &c. of corporation.
Directors.
Meetings of stockholders, &c.
First election.
President.
Quorum.
If election is not held at regular time.
Vacancies.
Power of president and directors.
Capital stock.
Refusal or neglect to pay instalments.
Stockholders in arrears not to vote.
By-laws.
Corporation may hold or lease real estate;
may borrow money and issue bonds.
Dividends.
Transfers of stock.
Act may be altered, &c.
1848, ch. 96.
Vol. ix. p. 722.
Charter of Washington Gas-light Company amended.
Capital stock increased.
Additional Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Duties and salary.
Office to last for six months.
1863, ch. 79, § 23.
Vol. xii. p. 754.
Repeal.
Passports to issue only to citizens.
Writs of attachment, &c., to be issued by clerk of Supreme Court of District upon affidavit of plaintiff, &c., and giving surety for costs and damages;
aay be quashed upon defendant’s filing counter affidavit and after hearing by the Court.
Issue when to be tried.
Attached property not to be discharged unless defendant gives surety, &c.
Judgment, if for plaintiff.
Property attached may be sold.
Salaries of justices.
Columbia hospital for women and lying-in asylum incorporated.
Members.
Vacancies.
By-laws.
Directors.
First board.
Officers.
Quorum.
Objects of the association.
Corporation may hold real and personal estate.
Property exempt from taxation.
Act may be altered, &c.
Certain produce of the forests may be admitted free of duty.
When act takes effect.
Repeal of and substitute for.
1862, ch. 166.
Vol. xii. p. 566.
1864, ch. 247, § 5.
Vol. xiii. p. 387.
1865, ch. 84, § 3.
Vol. xiii. p. 499.
Persons losing both eyes or both hands, &c. to have pension of $25 a month;
losing both feet or hand and foot, &c. to have $20 a month.
Certain others to have $15 a month.
Any pledge or transfer of any pension, or interest therein, void.
Oath of attorney to receive money for pension.
False swearing to be perjury.
Presenting any power of attorney at any pension agency, or any voucher bearing a date subsequent to actual date, how punished.
Money due or to become due any pensioner not liable to attachment.
Fees of claim and pension agents.
Penalty.
Repeal of law forbidding invalid pensioners to draw pensions while receiving full salary.
1865, ch. 84, § 1.
Vol. xiii. p. 499.
When heirs of persons entitled to invalid pensions may receive them.
Pensions of officers dying after date of commission, but before being mustered.
Proviso.
Absentees on sick leave or sick furlough.
Period of service to extend to what time.
Enlisted men however employed, to be treated as non-commissioned officers or privates.
1864, ch. 247, § 1.
Vol. xiii. p. 387.
Pensions when not allowed to widows abandoning their children or when unsuitable to have custody of them.
Children to receive the pensions.
When orphan brother or sister may receive pension.
1862, ch. 166, § 4.
Vol. xii. p. 567.
1864, ch. 247, § 6.
Vol. xiii. p. 388, not modified.
No person to receive more than one pension at a time.
If claim for pension is not filed in three years, pension to commence from what date.
Repeal of 1864, ch. 247, § 14.
Vol. xiii. p. 389.
Widows of colored soldiers, &c., may receive pensions, &c., upon what proof of marriage.
That the following sums be, Appropriations for Military Academy.
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, one hundred and Pay &c.
For commutation of subsistence, four thousand five hundred and sixty-one dollars.
For pay in lieu of clothing to officers’servants, one hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For current and ordinary expenses, fifty-eight thousand dollars. Ordinary expenses.
For increase and expense of library, two thousand dollars. Library.
For expenses of board of visitors, three thousand dollars. Board of visitors.
For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, fifteen thousand dollars. Forage for horses.
For horses for artillery and cavalry practice, one thousand dollars. Horses.
For repairs of officers’ quarters, five thousand dollars. Repairs.
For targets and batteries for artillery practice, five hundred dollars. Targets, &c.
For furniture for cadets’ hospital, one hundred dollars.
For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, three hundred dollars.
For replastering academic buildings and barracks, six thousand dollars.
For the purchase of fuel for warming mess hall, shoemakers’ and tailors’shops, two thousand dollars.
For materials for quarters for subaltern officers, three thousand dollars.
For continuing the erection of memorial tablets and mural monuments Memorial tablets, &.c
For enlarging and improving the cemetery, and for repairing the enclosure Cemetery.
For the removal to a safe place, and reconstruction of the magazine, Magazine.
For ventilating and heating the barracks and other academic buildings; Ventilation, heating, &c.
For the removal and enlargement of the gas works, six thousand dollars. Gas works.
Who not to be appointed to Military or Naval Academy.
That the following sums be, Deficiency appropriation for contingent expenses of the House of Representatives.
For miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
For folding documents, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
For furniture and repairs, and packing boxes for members, ten thousand dollars.
For stationery, fifteen thousand dollars, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Prepaid and free letters to be forwarded upon request, &c.
Dead letters.
Letters to be returned to writers without charge.
1863, ch. 71, § 28.
Vol. xii. p. 706.
1864, ch. 197, § 10.
Vol. xiii. p. 337.
Money orders for not over $50.
1864, ch. 87, § 3.
Vol. xiii. p. 76.
Charges.
Money order good for one year.
Duplicate in case of loss.
Oath.
Railroads carrying the mails to convey printed matter, &c., without extra charge.
Wilful, &c., injury to mail matter deposited in letter box, &c., or aiding to injure, how punished.
Postmaster-General may modify contract for postage stamps, if, &c.
Readjustment of salaries of postmasters.
1864, ch. 197, § 2.
Vol. xiii. p. 336.
Special collecting or disbursing agents to give bond.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not Appropriations for fortifications.
For Fort Wayne, near Detroit, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Wayne.
For Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Ontario.
For Fort Montgomery, at outlet of Lake Champlain, New York, fifty thousand Fort Montgomery.
For Fort Scammel, Portland, Maine, thirty-five thousand dollars. Fort Scammel.
For Fort George, on Hog Island ledge, Portland, Maine, fifty thousand Fort George.
For Fort Popham, Kennebec river, Maine, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Popham.
For Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, seventy-five Fort Constitution.
For Fort Winthrop, Boston, Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars. Fort Winthrop.
For Fort Warren, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fort Warren.
For sea-wall at Great Brewster’s island, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, Sea-wall at Great Brewster’s;
For sea-walls on Deer and Lovell’s islands, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, on Deer and Lovell’s islands.
For fort at entrance of New Bedford harbor, Massachusetts, thirty Fort at entrance of New Bedford Harbor.
For Fort Schuyler, East river, New York, thirty thousand dollars. Fort Schuyler.
For fort at Willett’s Point, opposite Fort Schuyler, New York, fifty Fort at Willett’s Point.
For repairs of Fort Hamilton, New York, thirty thousand dollars. Fort Hamilton.
For fort on site of Fort Tompkins, Staten Island, New York, fifty Fort Tompkins.
For fort at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, fifty thousand dollars. Fort at Sandy Hook.
For repairs of Fort Mifflin, near Philadelphia, twenty-five thousand Fort Mifflin.
For construction of permanent platforms for modern cannon of large Plat forms for modern cannon of large calibre.
For repairs of Fort Washington, on the Potomac river, twenty thousand Fort Washington.
For Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars. Fort Monroe.
For Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, one hundred thousand dollars. Fort Taylor.
For Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Tortugas, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Jefferson.
For fort on Ship island, coast of Mississippi, ten thousand dollars. Fort on Ship Island.
For Fort Clinch, Amelia island, Florida, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Clinch.
For fort at Fort Point, San Francisco bay, California, one hundred and Fort at Fort Point;
For fort at Lime Point, California, seventy-five thousand dollars. at Lime Point;
For fort at Alcatraz island, San Francisco bay, California, ninety at Alcatraz Island.
For survey of northern and northwestern Lakes, including Lake Superior, Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.
For purchase of sites now occupied Sites for permanent sea-coast defences. Purchase not to be made until, &c.
Preamble.
1812, ch. 99.
Vol. ii. p. 748.
Vol. ii. p. 812, note.
Vol. xi. pp. 294, 442.
Vol. xii. p. 85.
District court may decree the title of the United States in certain lots in St. Louis to the person having the best claim.
Certain property not to be released.
Not where full documentary evidence exists.
Proceedings to obtain a decree.
Who to be made defendants.
Minors.
Authority of district court.
United States made a party by delivery of copy of petition and process thereon to, &c.
Defence, answer, pleadings.
Surveys, &c., to be made of lands sought to be released, at expense of petitioner.
Costs of suits.
Effect of decree.
Transcript of final decree, &c., to be sent to commissioner of general land office.
Appeal to circuit court within one year.
Transcript of petition, &c.
Jurisdiction of circuit court.
Amendments.
New parties.
Decree.
Question may be certified to supreme court of the United States when, &c.
Title of the United States in wharves, streets, &c., in St. Louis, conveyed to the city.
Proviso.
Right of way through public lands granted to Humboldt Canal Company.
Proviso.
Certain public lands may be flowed to create a reservoir.
Sites for waste gates, mill-sites, depots, &c.
Proviso.
Plan of location, &c., to be sent to general land office.
This grant to cease, &c., unless, &c.
This grant not to interfere with former grants to any railroad company.
Disbursing officers to deposit public moneys with the treasurer or some assistant treasurer,
to draw only as required.
Transfers to be by draft.
Deposits where to be made, if there is no treasurer or assistant.
Depositing public money, or converting, or loaning, or drawing, or transferring the same except as authorized, to be embezzlement.
Penalty.
Knowingly receiving from any disbursing officer or collector, any public money on deposit, or on a loan, or using such money for any unauthorized purpose, or aiding in so doing, to be deemed embezzlement.
Punishment of officers of banks for violating this act.
Moneys received by any United States officer for the refugees or freedmen to be charged to him and accounted for.
Officers having a balance in their hands and neglecting or refusing to pay it over, &c., how treated.
Accounts for expenditures for refugees, &c., to be paid from what fund, and how.
Preamble.
Steam railroads may carry over their road passengers and freight from one State to another and connect with roads of other States to form continuous lines.
Existing contracts and conditions not affected.
New roads not authorized without authority from State.
This act may be amended, &c.
Pay of those employed as examiners and assistant examiners in the patent office.
To be taken from patent office fund, &c.
All public lands in certain States to be disposed of only according to the provisions of the homestead law.
1862, ch. 75.
Vol. xii. p. 392.
1864, ch. 38.
Vol. xiii. p. 35.
No entry to be for more than 80 acres.
$5 to be paid on issue of patent.
No distinction for race or color.
Mineral lands excepted.
Mode of procedure in applying for the benefit of this act.
1862, ch. 75, § 2.
Vol. xii. p. 392.
Affidavit.
Payment of $5.
No certificate to be given nor patent to issue, until after five years from entry.
Proof of residence or cultivation, &c.
Affidavit.
When rights enure to the benefit of infant children.
Executor, &c., may sell.
Title of purchaser.
Additional oath prior to January 1, 1867.
Provisions of homestead law, &c., made applicable hereto.
Commissioners to ascertain the amount expended by West Virginia for State forces.
Duty of commissioners.
No allowance except for actual service.
Certain amounts to be stated separately.
Amount of direct tax to be deducted.
1861, ch. 45.
Vol. xii. p. 292.
Rate of allowance for expenditures or services.
Commissioners to make report to Secretary of Treasury.
Accounts to be audited, and what is found due, if anything, to be paid.
Commissioners to be sworn.
Compensation.
Appropriation.
For mode of disbursement, see 1867, ch. 10.
Vol. xv. p. 6.
A hydrographic office to be attached to bureau of navigation in Navy Department.
Purposes thereof.
Maps, charts, &c., to be published and furnished to navigators at cost of printing and paper.
Copyrights to be purchased.
Money received from sales of maps, charts, &c., to be returned to treasury, and how used.
The “Howard Institute and Home” of the District of Columbia incorporated.
Powers.
Objects.
Board of managers for one year.
Board to be afterwards elected.
Power of board.
Corporation to be established and maintained by gifts, &c.
Record thereof to be kept.
Annual report to Secretary of Interior.
Act may be altered, &c.
1866, ch. 72.
Ante, p. 43.
Paymasters under the act of May 3, 1866, may be appointed from, &c.
Examination of such officers as are on duty abroad may be waived;
to be made after their return home.
Commander Charles Hunter to be restored to his rank in the navy.
That the following sums of Appropriation for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works.
For examination and survey of works of improvement for which appropriations Examinations and surveys. Re-examinations and changes in plans. Examination of harbors, to determine improvements, &c., necessary to make them safe for navigation. Report to Congress. Application of certain unexpended balances.
For extending the breakwater at Portland harbor, Maine, one hundred Breakwater at Portland harbor, Me.
For improvement of navigation of Hudson river, New York, fifty Hudson river.
For preservation of Provincetown harbor, Massachusetts, forty-three Provincetown harbor.
For improvement of Thames river, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars. Thames river.
For extension and repair of breakwater at Burlington, Vermont, twenty-seven Breakwater at Burlington, Vt.
For completion and repair of Delaware breakwater, Delaware bay, one Delaware breakwater.
For improving channel of Susquehanna river below Havre de Grace, Channel of Susquehanna river.
For continuing improvement of Patapsco river, Maryland, five thousand Patapsco river.
For construction of snag-boats and other apparatus for clearing western Snag-boats and other apparatus.
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed, upon Secretary of Navy to transfer, &c., to Secretary of War steamers, &c., suitable for use in raising snags, &c., from western rivers. Appropriation for purchase.
For improving the mouth of the Mississippi river, seventy-five thousand Mouth of the Mississippi.
For improvement of the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Ohio Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Ohio rivers.
For improvement of the Des Moines rapids, Mississippi river, two Des Moines rapids.
For improvement of the Rock Island rapids, Mississippi river, one Rock Island rapids.
For improvement of the Saint Clair flats, Michigan, eighty thousand Saint Clair flats.
For improvement of the Saint Mary’s river, between Lake Superior Saint Mary’s river.
For improvement of Oswego harbor, New York, and preservation of Oswego harbor.
For improvement at Little Sodus Bay harbor, Fairhaven, in Cayuga county, New York, Little Sodus Bay harbor.
For improvement at Big Sodus Bay harbor, Wayne county, New York, Big Sodus Bay harbor.
For improvement at the harbor of Genesee river, New York, seventy-five Harbor of Genesee river.
For improvement of harbor at Buffalo, New York, one hundred thousand Harbor and sea-wall at Buffalo.
For completing the sea wall at Buffalo harbor, New York, thirty-one thousand dollars.
For improvement of harbor and repair of public works at Erie, Pennsylvania, Improvement of harbor, &c., at Erie;
For improvement of Conneaut harbor, Ohio, twenty thousand five hundred Conneaut;
For improvement of Ashtabula harbor, Ohio, twenty-four thousand Ashtabula;
For improvement of harbor at Grand river, Ohio, twenty-four thousand Grand river;
For improvement of harbor at Cleveland, Ohio, fifty-nine thousand Cleveland;
For improvement of harbor at Black river, Ohio, ten thousand dollars. Black river;
For improvement of harbor at Vermillion, Ohio, fifteen thousand three Vermillion;
For improvement of harbor at Huron, Ohio, thirty-nine thousand dollars. Huron;
For improvement of harbor at Sandusky City, Ohio, thirty-eight thousand Sandusky;
For improvement of the harbor at Toledo, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars. Toledo;
For improvement of the harbor at Monroe, Michigan, thirty-one thousand Monroe;
For improvement of harbor at Aux Becs Scies, Frankfort, Michigan, Aux Becs Scies, Frankfort;
For improvement of harbor at Grand Haven, Michigan, sixty-five Grand Haven;
For improvement of harbor at Black Lake, Michigan, fifty-five thousand Grand Haven; Black Lake;
For improvement of harbor at Saint Joseph, Michigan, six thousand Saint Joseph;
For improvement at the mouth of Saginaw river, Michigan, sixty-seven Saginaw river;
For improvement of harbor at Chicago, Illinois, eighty-eight thousand Chicago;
For improvement of harbor at Kenosha, Wisconsin, seventy-five thousand Kenosha;
For improvement of harbor at Racine, Wisconsin, twenty-three thousand Improvement of harbor at Racine;
For improvement of harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, forty-eight thousand Milwaukee;
For improvement of harbor at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, forty-seven Sheboygan;
For improvement of harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, fifty-two thousand Manitowoc;
For repairs of government wharves and landings, and improving harbor Marcus Hook; Title to be examined;
For improvement of the harbor at Green Bay, at the mouth of Fox Green Bay;
For constructing works and improving the entrance into the harbor of Michigan City. Post, p. 421. Amount to be expended by Michigan City Harbor Company. Vessels not subject to toll.
For improvement of the Kennebec river, in the State of Maine, between Kennebec river.
For removal of obstructions to navigation in the Willamette river, between Willamette river.
For continuing the repair of the piers in Saco river, in the State of Piers in Saco river.
Appropriation to be so applied as to complete the works;
for other purposes than for examinations, &c., by contract.
Contract not to be made until, &c.
Secretary of War to report results of surveys to Congress with plans, &c.
Report to state what;
to be continued until works are completed.
Separate proposals and contracts for each work and each class of works, &c.
Disbursing officers except, &c., to give bonds.
United States officers not to receive commissions.
Appropriations to be at the disposal of Secretary of War.
Examinations or surveys, or both to be made at various points, and purposes of the examination.
Estimates of cost.
Commissioners to revise and consolidate the general statutes of the United States.
Duties of the commissioners.
Copy of their completed work to be submitted to Congress in print.
Suggestions.
Work may be printed in parts.
Report to Congress.
Revision when to be completed.
Compensation of commissioners.
Clerical service and incidental expenses.
See Pub. Res. No. 54.
Post, p. 573.
Position of railroad across Rock Island and the bridge across the river to be established.
Permanent location and right of way.
Terms and conditions.
Pecuniary and other aid to be given.
Wagon road.
184, ch. 60.
Vol xiii. p. 50.
Small islands adjacent to Rock Island.
That the following sums be, and Appropriations.
To liquidate claims for property in Benham’s, Wilson’s, and Winnebago For claims for property taken for military purposes.
To secure water-power at the head of Rock Island, one hundred thousand Water power.
To erect storehouses for the preservation of arms and other munitions Storehouses, &c.
1866, ch. 63.
Ante, p. 40.
Certain marine hospitals not to be leased or sold.
Fee for appeal for first time from decision of examiner in patent office, &c.
Idaho land district established.
Location.
Register and receiver.
Duties, pay, &c.
Sessions of legislature in Washington Territory to be biennial.
Term of office and pay of members of the council and house.
Enrolling clerk for each house.
Pay of chief clerks and other officers.
Time of first biennial election.
The act of the legislature relating to Skamania county is disapproved.
Surveyor-general for Idaho.
Salary.
Duties.
Allowances.
Office at Boise City.
Act of 1856, ch. 44, § 4.
Vol. xi p. 22, revived and extended for seven years.
Grants to be in full force, provided, &c.
The Amboy, &c., Railroad to forfeit the grant, unless, &c.
Twenty miles of road-bed to be completed by Feb. 1, 1867. See Post, p. 425.
Road to be finished for trains to, &c., by Nov. 1, 1867.
Twenty other miles to be completed each year.
If conditions are not performed, the State of Michigan may confer the grant upon some other railroad corporation.
Such grant not to affect any previous grant.
Limit to amount of land to be received.
Control of legislature over the lands.
If legislature does not confer the grant, lands to revert to the United States.
Flint, &c., railroad company may change its western terminus.
Railroads with land grants may construct a single line of road for any part of their routes.
Locations may be changed for purpose of consolidation.
Maps of change to be filed in land office.
Route, &c., of Amboy, &c., railroad.
Principal depot.
Lands granted in aid of the Amboy, &c., road, how to be disposed of.
When ten miles are completed, &c.
Proviso.
Road to be a public highway, and free to the United States.
Repealing clause.
1862, ch. 120.
Vol. xii. p. 489.
1864, ch. 216.
Vol. xiii. p. 356.
Union Pacific Railway Company to designate general route of road, &c., before Dec. 1, 1866.
Lands on line of road to be then reserved from sale.
Amount of bonds to be the same as if, &c.
Point of connection with Union Pacific Railroad.
Location of Union Pacific Railroad Company from Omaha westward;
of Central Pacific Railroad Company eastward.
Work may be done on not over 300 miles in advance of continuous completed lines.
Lands granted to Michigan to aid in the construction of ship canal between Lake Superior and Lac La Belle.
Amount, and where to be selected.
Size of canal, and depth of water.
Canal to be a public highway, and be free to the United States.
Lands, how to be disposed of by Michigan;
when to be withdrawn from market.
Patents when to issue.
If canal is not completed in two years, land to revert.
Lands granted to Michigan for a harbor and ship canal at Portage Lake.
Amount.
How to be selected.
To whose use to inure.
Time for completing work extended.
1865, ch. 102, § 5.
Vol. xiii. p. 520.
Mineral lands not granted.
The transportation, &c., of nitro-glycerine, &c., forbidden.
Penalty.
One half of fine to the informer.
If the death of any person is caused by the explosion of nitro-glycerine, &c., while transported, &c., persons knowingly concerned therein to be guilty of manslaughter.
Punishment.
Those substances not to be carried, unless enclosed, &c.
Package, how to be marked.
Penalty.
One half of fine to the informer.
District court to have jurisdiction of offences under this act.
Rights of States, &c., to regulate or prohibit traffic or transportation thereof not affected.
Bounty to members of thirty-seventh regiment Iowa volunteer infantry.
In case of death, &c.
Additional land district in Oregon established.
Boundaries and location of districts and offices may be changed.
Register and receiver.
Residence.
Pay and fees.
Lands granted to Missouri for extension of Iron Mountain railroad.
Alternate sections.
If any of the lands have been before granted or pre-empted, other lands to be selected in lieu thereof.
Lands to be in Ironton land district, and within twenty miles of the road.
Mineral lands, except coal and iron, reserved.
Reserved lands not granted.
Right of way granted.
Lands granted to Arkansas for extension of railroad to Helena.
Alternate sections.
Lands may be selected in lieu of those before granted, &c.;
to be within twenty miles of railroad.
Mineral lands, except coal and iron, reserved.
Right of way.
Sections of land remaining to the United States not to be sold for less than double minimum price;
to be first offered at public auction.
Bona fide settlers under pre-emption laws.
Settlers under homestead law.
These railroads to be public highways, and free for the United States;
to be built in five years.
Lands hereby granted, how to be disposed of.
When the governor shall certify that a section of ten consecutive miles is completed, &c.;
that another section of ten consecutive miles, &c.
Where the governor shall certify that other sections are completed;
that whole road is completed.
Lands not to be granted on account of the construction of certain railroads.
Vested rights not affected.
Lands when to revert to the United States.
When maps are filed, lands to be withdrawn from market.
Arkansas to have no title to or power over the granted lands until restored to former relations.
Appropriation by Nevada of land for educational purposes confirmed.
Lands granted for a university;
for an agricultural college.
1862, ch. 130.
Vol. xii. p. 508.
Theory and practice of mining may be taught.
Surveyor-general for Nevada.
Location of office.
Pay.
Duties, &c.
Allowances.
Lines of subdivisions may be changed from rectangular.
Mineral lands reserved.
Public lands in the State not to be subject to entry, until the State has her full quota.
1862, ch. 75.
Vol. xii. p. 392.
Mode of selecting and disposal of lands by State.
City and town property.
Vested rights not affected.
Lands granted to Oregon for a military road;
how to be applied and disposed of.
Lands heretofore reserved not granted hereby.
Right of way.
Lands, how to be disposed of.
Roads to be public highway, and free to the United States.
Construction of road.
Lands, how to be disposed of.
Road to be completed in five years; if not, unsold lands to revert.
Additional grants of lands to Minnesota for railroads.
Description of railroads.
If lands have been disposed of, &c., other lands to be selected in lieu thereof;
but within twenty miles of lines of road, and the jurisdiction of Minnesota.
Right of way.
Price of lands remaining to the United States.
Lands to be first offered at public sale.
Pre-emption settlers.
Homestead settlers.
Lands granted, how to be disposed of.
Railroads to be public highways, and free to the United States.
Lands, how to be disposed of.
When governor shall certify that a section of ten consecutive miles is completed;
proviso;
that another section of ten consecutive miles is completed;
that additional sections are completed;
that roads are completed.
Roads to be completed in ten years; if not, unsold lands to revert to the United States.
When maps are filed, lands granted hereby to be withdrawn from market.
Mail to be carried over road, and at what price.
Unsold lots of Fort Howard Military reserve to be offered at public auction.
Notice of sale.
Mode of sale.
Patents to issue.
Lands granted to Oregon for military wagon road.
Route of road.
Lands granted, how to be applied.
Lands heretofore reserved, not granted hereby.
Right of way.
Lands, how to be disposed of.
Road to be public highway, and free to the United States.
Construction of road.
Lands, how to be disposed of.
If road not completed in five years, unsold lands to revert to the United States.
Officers and men of certain regiments, &c., of Ohio Volunteer Militia to be paid.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not Army appropriation.
For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, and compensation Recruiting and pay of citizen surgeons.
For pay of the army, ten millions seven hundred and twelve thousand Pay.
For commutation of officers’subsistence, one million six hundred and Commutation of subsistence and forage.
For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and five thousand two hundred dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’servants, one hundred and Payments in lieu of clothing.
For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For subsistence in kind for regulars and volunteers, five million three Subsistence in kind.
For the regular supplies of the quartermaster’s department, consisting Quartermasters’ department.
For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster’s department, consisting Incidental expenses quartermasters’ department. 1802, ch. 9, §§ 21, 22. Vol. ii. p. 136. 1819, ch. 45. Vol. iii. p. 488. 1854, ch. 247, § 6. Vol. x. p. 576. 1838, ch. 162, § 10. Vol. v. p. 257.
For the purchase of cavalry and artillery horses, seven hundred and Cavalry and artillery horses.
For transportation of officers’ baggage, fifty thousand dollars. Officers’ baggage.
For transportation of the army, including the baggage of the troops Transportation. Public transports. Water. Obstructions in roads, rivers, and harbors.
For hire of commutation quarters for officers on military duty; hire Hire of quarters.
For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars. Contingencies of the army.
For the medical and hospital department, five hundred thousand dollars. Medical and hospital department.
For repairs, improvements, and new machinery at the national armory, National armory.
For repairs and improvements at arsenals, including new, and additions Arsenals.
For purchase of site and erection of magazine for storing gunpowder, Magazine for storing gunpowder.
For the purchase of land for enlarging the Watervliet arsenal, thirty Enlarging Watervliet arsenal.
Fire-proof buildings at Schuylkill arsenal, Pa.
That the following sums be and Appropriation for bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands.
The salaries of assistant and sub-assistant commissioners, one hundred Salaries of commissioners and assistants.
For salaries of clerks, eighty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. Clerks.
For stationery and printing, sixty-three thousand dollars. Stationery and printing.
For quarters and fuel, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars. Quarters and fuel.
For clothing for distribution, one million one hundred and seventy Clothing for distribution.
For commissary stores, three million one hundred and six thousand Commissary stores.
For medical department, five hundred thousand dollars. Medical department.
For transportation, one million three hundred and twenty thousand Transportation.
For school superintendents, twenty-one thousand dollars. School superintendents.
For repairs and rent of school-houses and asylums, five hundred School-houses.
For telegraphing, eighteen thousand dollars. Telegraphing.
Advertisements for bids for contracts in quartermaster’s department, to state, &c.
Preference to articles of American production.
Pacific Coast.
Advertisements in San Francisco and Portland.
Repeal of 1862, ch. 200, § 17.
Vol. xii. p. 596.
and of Pub. Res. of April 4, 1862.
Vol. xii. p. 617.
Officers in military or naval service, in time of peace, not to be dismissed, except, &c.
Superintendent and officers of military academy may be selected and detailed from any arm of the service.
Soldiers employed as artificers or laborers in constant labor of not less than ten days in any case to have extra pay.
Troops of engineer and ordnance department not to have extra pay.
Allowance to officers for travel increased.
No State shall make discrimination in rates of pilotage of certain vessels.
Existing discriminations abrogated.
1864, ch. 79.
Vol. xiii. p. 64.
If land intended to be granted is deficient by reason of nearness of boundary line of the State, how deficiency may be made up.
Odd sections.
Civilians in quartermaster’s and subsistence departments may be admitted to Insane Asylum, if, &c.
What classes of persons and under what circumstances may be admitted to the asylum.
Men formerly admitted, &c.
Indigent insane, &c.
Whitehall, N. Y., made a port of delivery in collection district of Champlain.
1865, ch. 81, § 4.
Vol. xiii. p. 497.
Three months’ pay to officers of volunteers below the rank of brigadier-general.
Right of way granted to the Placerville and Sacramento Railroad Company, for railroad and telegraph.
Material for construction.
Stations, workshops, &c.
Lands granted to said railroad company to aid in the construction of the road, &c.
Certain lands exempted from the grant.
“Mineral” not to include iron or coal lands.
Lands, when and how to be vested in the company.
Ten consecutive miles, &c.
Commissioners.
Pay of commissioners.
Railroad and telegraph, how to be constructed.
Rates for telegraphic service.
Road to be a public highway, and free to the United States.
Lands on both sides of the line of the road to be surveyed, and the odd numbered sections reserved.
1841, ch. 16.
Vol. v. p. 453.
1862, ch. 75.
Vol. xii. p. 392.
Minimum price of lands remaining to the United States.
Conditions of grant.
Work to be begun in one year and finished by July 4, 1869.
If any condition remains broken for one year, title to lands reverts to the United States.
Who may subscribe to the stock of the company.
Company to accept the conditions of this act in writing and within a year.
Company may accept, and hold grants, donations, &c.
This act to be void unless $400,000 of bona fide subscriptions to stock are obtained, and five per cent paid in one year.
Act may be altered or repealed.
Lots in villages, towns, and cities exempted from this act.
Lands may be selected by Minnesota in lieu of lands sold or disposed of within limits of grants.
Amount granted not limited hereby.
1864, ch. 79.
Vol. xiii. p. 64.
Time for completing railroad from St. Paul, &c. extended.
1857, ch. 99, § 4.
Vol. xi. p. 196.
Lands granted, how to be certified and disposed of.
If original grant has been increased.
State may sell, &c.
Lands granted to the State, on any ten miles of road, not to be disposed of until, &c.
Repeal of inconsistent law.
1864, ch. 173.
Vol. xiii. p. 223.
1866, ch. 78
Vol. xiii. p. 469.
1867, ch. 169, § 10.
Post, p. 475.
Unmanufactured cotton to pay a tax of three cents a pound.
By whom to be paid.
Weight, how ascertained.
Tax a lien.
No drawback when, &c.
No tax upon cotton imported.
Tax, how levied and paid.
Collector to mark bales on which tax is paid, and give permit for removal.
Permit to state what.
Collector to keep records of inspections and permits, and to make returns monthly.
Place to be designated where cotton may be brought to be weighed and marked.
Revenue officers may go to mark cotton, if expenses are paid.
Cotton weighed and marked, &c. may be removed to another district upon execution of transportation bonds, &c.
Cotton to be delivered to collector on arrival and kept until tax is paid, which must be in ninety days.
Assessor to notify collector of permits granted when tax is not paid, &c.
Transportation of cotton from place of production, unless marked, &c., forbidden;
from any State in which cotton is produced to any other place without certificate, &c.
Penalty.
Fine.
Imprisonment.
Vessels and vehicles and cotton forfeited.
Drawback upon manufactures exclusively of cotton.
Amount of drawback;
how to be ascertained.
Repeal of part of 1864, ch. 173, § 171.
Vol. xiii. p. 302.
Manufacturers of cotton in district of production to make monthly statement to assessor under oath.
First statement when to be made and what to state.
Subsequent statements.
Books to be kept and entries made therein;
to be open to the inspection of revenue officers.
Tax to be paid monthly.
Penalty for neglecting to make returns or keep books, or making false returns, &c.;
cotton, &c. to be forfeited;
fine, or imprisonment.
False oath &c., in this matter to be perjury.
Tax on manufactured goods not affected.
Provisions of law concerning the collection, &c. of taxes, &c., applicable to the tax on cotton, &c.
Rules and regulations.
Appointment of inspectors, weighers, and markers, &c.
That the act entitled “An act to Amendments to act of 1864, ch. 173.
That section five be amended by adding thereto the following: And Section 5. Penalty upon inspectors, &c. for extortion or oppression. Fine; Imprisonment; dismissal from office; disqualification, &c. One half of fine to the United States and one half to informer.
That section eight be amended by striking out of said section all after Section 8.
That section fourteen be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 14. Assistant assessors when to notify persons to render lists. If persons neglect to render lists, or render false lists, assessor may summon them to appear, produce books, &c. Assessor may summon witnesses. If persons do not reside, &c., in State, assessor may enter any district where, &c., and make examination. Summons how served. Certificate of service to be evidence. Description of books. Penalty for neglecting, &c. to obey summons, &c. Attachment for contempt, &c. Assessors to enter premises, take views, and make up lists. 100 per cent to be added to tax for false lists, and 50 per cent for neglect, &c. Further time. Amount added, how to be collected.
That section nineteen be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 19. Assessors to advertise when taxes may be paid; To post notices. Appeals. Returns may be inspected. Appeals may be determined in a summary way; Not to be allowed after, &c.; To be in writing and state what. Reassessments. No increase, except after notice. Witnesses and books. Costs and how paid.
That section twenty be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 20. Assessors when to make lists. Lists to contain what. Property of non-residents. Lists to be sent to collector in ten days after, &c. Special lists may be made within, &c., of property omitted, or understated, &c. Other provisions of law to apply. “Duty” to mean “tax.”
That section twenty-one be amended by striking out the words “ Section 21.
That section twenty-two be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 22. Pay of assessors. Commissions. Limit of salary. Office rent, and account thereof. Clerk-hire, and account thereof. Affidavit of clerk. Chief clerk may administer certain oaths. Assistant assessors. Pay, &c. See Post, p. 473. Office rent, &c. See Post, p. 473. When employed outside of place of residence. Stationery, blank books, postage, &c. Accounts, how made and verified. Bids and contracts for supplying stationery, &c. Additional compensation to assessors and assistants, &c., in certain districts; Not to exceed $5000 a year. Collectors acting as disbursing officers to be allowed bills heretofore paid.
That section twenty-four be amended by striking out the proviso there- Section 24. Commissions of assessors and collectors in districts whence and to which cotton and distilled spirits are shipped, &c. See Post, p. 473.
That section twenty-six be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 26. Accounts after June 30, 1864, to be adjusted to the fiscal year. Apportionment of commissions. No salaries, &c. to be paid, unless commissioner certifies that all reports, &c. have been received.
That section twenty-eight be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 28. Collectors to give notice that taxes are payable, and of the time and place of payment; to notify persons not paying. If taxes are not paid in ten days, &c., ten per cent additional, &c. to be paid. Notice for taxes not in annual lists. When collectors may distrain for taxes. Proceedings in case of distraint. Notice. Sale. Tax to be a lien. Levy for taxes. Effect of certificate of sale. Books containing evidence of property, the subject of distraint, to be exhibited to collector on demand. Property distrained may be restored to owner, if, &c. Proceeds of sales, how disposed of. Exemptions from distraint. Appraisement thereof.
That section twenty-nine be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 29. Where property liable to distraint is not divisible, whole may be sold. Proceeds how disposed of. If amount bid is not equal to tax, collector may buy for the United States. If no assessment has been made. Property purchased may be sold. Account of charges and expenses in sales or seizures, to be rendered.
That section thirty be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 30. When real estate may be sold for taxes. Proceedings in case of sales of real estate. Notice. Place of sale. Sale. If real estate is of several tracts. When may be bought for the United States. Adjournment of sale. Certificate of purchase. Deed to be given upon surrender of certificate; o be prima facie evidence of facts stated therein; to convey what. Owner may stop proceedings before sale by, &c.; may redeem within one year after sale, by, &c. Collector may seize and sell lands in another district. Records of sales to be kept; to state what; to be delivered to successor. Copies to be evidence. Entry to be made when land is redeemed. If property seized and sold is not sufficient to pay tax, other property may be from time to time seized and sold. The word “county,” how construed in this act.
That section thirty-four be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 34. Collectors to be charged with whole amount of taxes in lists, &c.; to be credited with what. If collector dies, &c., lists, &c. to be transferred to his successor.
That section forty-one be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 41. Collectors, &c. to collect all taxes and prosecute for forfeitures and penalties. Taxes, forfeitures, and penalties how sued for and recovered. Suit not to be commenced without authority of commissioner. United States not to be subject to costs or attorney’s fees, unless, &c.
That section forty-four be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 44. Taxes, &c., wrongly assessed, &c. may be refunded. Collectors to be repaid amounts of judgments paid by them and damages and costs recovered against them. Judgments, &c. for taxes, &c. to be paid to collectors. In cases of second assessment, taxes not to be refunded, unless, &c.
That section forty-eight be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 48. Property taxable held to be sold, &c. in fraud of revenue how, may be seized by collector, and is forfeited. Raw materials, tools, &c. for manufacture, in fraud of the law, may be seized, &c. Proceedings to enforce forfeiture. Penalty for possessing taxable property with intent to sell in fraud of the law, &c. Goods to be seized, &c. Perishable property to be appraised; may be restored to owner, on giving bond. Bond to be filed. Notice of proceedings in court when and how to be given to obligors of bond. If owner does not give bond, property may be sold, &c. Proceeds of sale.
That sections fifty-three, fifty-four, fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-nine, Sections 53–57, 59, and 62–70 repealed on Sept. 1, 1866.
That section seventy-one be amended by striking out all after the Section 71. No person, &c. to do business until special tax is paid.
That section seventy-two be amended by striking out all after the Section 72. Persons, &c. doing a business, specially taxed, to register names, &c. with assistant assessors. Register to state what. Returns to be made to assessors and collectors. Special tax to be paid to collector, &c., and receipt given therefor.
That section seventy-three be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 73. Penalty for exercising any trade, &c. without payment of tax. Post, p. 473. Fine how distributed.
That section seventy-four be amended by striking out all after the Section 74. Receipt for payment of special tax to state what. Payment of special tax not to exempt from additional tax for doing business in another place, except for, &c. No special tax for storage of goods, &c., if no goods, &c. are there kept except as samples. Persons carrying on business, &c. taxable, to exhibit receipt therefor to revenue officer on demand. If pedler refuses to exhibit receipt, property may be seized. Proceedings thereon. Special taxes when due. Proportional part of tax.
That section seventy-five be amended by striking out all after the Section 75. If person who has paid special tax dies, his executors, &c. may carry on the business. In case of removal. Cases of death, removal, &c. to be registered.
That section seventy-six be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 76. If a person carries on more than one pursuit in same place at same time tax to be paid for each. In towns of less than 6000 persons one tax may cover what.
That section seventy-seven be amended by striking out all after the Section 77. Auctioneers not to sell goods at private sale, nor employ other persons, except, &c. Penalty. Auctioneers may sell goods of persons paying special tax, on their premises.
That section seventy-eight be amended by striking out all after the Section 78. Who may, and who may not do business in partnership, and pay but one special tax.
That section seventy-nine be amended by striking out all after the Section 79. Special tax on
Banks and bankers.
Definition of.
Savings banks.
Wholesale dealers.
Definition of.
Proviso.
Retail dealers.
Definition of retail dealer.
Wholesale dealers in liquors.
Definition of.
Post, p. 474.
Retail dealers in liquors.
Definition of.
Post, p. 474.
Lottery-ticket dealers.
Definition of.
Bond to be given.
Horse dealers;
may keep livery stable, &c.
Livery stable keepers.
Brokers.
Proviso.
Pawnbrokers.
Definition of.
Land-warrant brokers.
Cattle brokers.
Cattle brokers.
Produce brokers.
Commercial brokers.
Custom-house broker.
Distillers;
of apples, grapes, or peaches.
No tax on certain stills, &c.
Brewers.
Proviso.
Rectifiers.
Coal-oil distillers and distillers of burning fluid and camphenes.
See Post, p. 565.
Keepers of hotels, inns, or taverns.
Keepers of hotels, inns, or taverns;
may furnish food for animals of guests without additional tax;
selling liquors at retail to pay an additional tax.
Yearly rental how established.
Steamers, &c. furnishing food, &c. to passengers, to pay tax.
Penalty for false returns as to rent.
Keepers of eating-houses;
not to pay tax as confectioners;
nor for selling tobacco, &c. on the premises.
Confectioners.
Wholesale and retail dealers not to pay as.
Claim and patent agents.
Patent right dealers.
Real estate agents.
Conveyancers.
Intelligence office keepers.
Insurance agents.
If annual receipts are not over $100.
No special tax for selling tickets insuring travellers, &c.
Foreign insurance agents.
Auctioneers.
Certain persons making certain auction sales not to pay tax.
Manufacturers.
Post, p. 474.
Pedlers.
Certain venders not to be deemed pedlers.
Post, p. 474.
Pedlers of distilled spirits, or jewelry, to pay what.
Certain venders of certain articles not to pay tax.
Venders of shell and other fish, and not from handcarts, &c.
Apothecaries.
Certain persons when not to pay.
Apothecaries.
Photographers.
Tobacconists.
Butchers;
not to pay tax as a retail dealer;
selling from place to place, &c.
Proprietors of theatres, museums, and concert halls.
When tax to be paid by lessee.
Circuses.
Tax to cover only one State.
Jugglers.
Tax to cover only one State.
Bowling alleys and billiard rooms.
Gift enterprises.
Definition of.
Tax to be in addition to other taxes.
Stallions and jacks.
Proviso.
Lawyers.
Physicians, surgeons, dentists.
Architects and civil engineers.
Practical carpenters not included.
Builders and contractors.
Plumbers and gas-fitters.
Assayers.
Definition of.
Miners, whose annual receipts as such amount to over $1000.
Express carriers and agents.
Only one tax from a firm;
and from the principal only;
Proviso.
Grinders of coffee and spices.
Proviso.
That section eighty be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 80. Special tax not to be imposed upon certain classes, unless their annual gross receipts exceed $1000. Amount, how determined. Proviso.
That section eighty-one be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 81. No special tax upon certain vintners; apothecaries; physicians; farmers. Payment of tax not to exempt from penalty under State laws for carrying on such trade, &c., nor authorize a trade, &c. prohibited by State laws; nor prevent a State from imposing an additional tax.
That section eighty-six be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 86. Manufacturers to render an account of full amount of actual sales; to state quantity consumed and what used for another manufacture; market value; shipped or consigned. Return at what value. Value, &c. to be estimated by actual sales. How, when goods are not in custody of manufacturers, &c.
That section eighty-seven be amended by striking out all after the Section 87. Manufacturers of tobacco, snuff, or cigars to make additional statement. Statement to be under oath, and to contain what. To give bond and in what sums for different machines or presses, &c. Conditions of bond. Bond may be renewed or changed. Certificate for what bond has been given to be exhibited to revenue officer on demand. Penalty for manufacturing without giving bond. Fine and imprisonment.
That section eighty-eight be amended by striking out all after the Section 88. Assistant assessor to keep a record of persons manufacturing tobacco, snuff, or cigars, &c. open for inspection. Abstract of monthly returns to be entered therein. Assessors’ record.
That section eighty-nine be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 89. Where tobacco, cigars, &c. are made on shares, or material is furnished by one party and manufactured by another, &c. Penalty for fraud or collusion.
That section ninety be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 90. Manufacturer to make an inventory of the tobacco, &c. owned by him on the first of January in each year. Inventory to state what and how verified. Accounts to be kept in book form. Verified abstract of purchases and sales to be furnished the assessor monthly. Penalty for neglect, &c. to keep books, &c. Venders, &c. of tinfoil, &c. to state amount of sales thereof to certain persons. Proceedings if such statement is not made, or is believed to be fraudulent. General provisions of law to apply hereto. Post, p. 474. When tax on tobacco, &c. accrues. Transfer of tobacco, &c. may be made to bonded warehouse without payment of tax, upon giving bonds, &c.; and from one bonded warehouse to another, or for export. Regulations for removal of distilled spirits to apply to tobacco, &c. so far as applicable. No drawback.
That section ninety-one be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 91. Tobacco, snuff, and cigars to be inspected. Package to be marked or stamped, and how. Fees of inspector. Penalty for fraudulently making or changing marks. Cigars to be how packed. Tobacco, snuff, or cigars, passing out of hands of manufacturers, &c. without inspection marks, except, &c., to be forfeited, &c. Account to be kept of stamps delivered to or used by inspectors. Inspectors to give bonds.
That section ninety-two be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 92. Penalty for any person, except the manufacturer, to part with the possession of tobacco, &c. on which taxes have not been paid; for receiving tobacco, snuff, or cigars under certain circumstances; for receiving tobacco from a manufacturer who has not paid the tax. Persons before making cigars to procure a permit. Charge therefor. Before making cigars in a district where they do not reside, to have their permit indorsed. Authority to be indorsed on permit. Record of permits to be kept, and to state what. Makers of cigars to keep account and give a copy thereof to assistant assessor each month. Penalty for making cigars without permit, &c.; for failing to make returns, or making false ones. Person having permit, upon request, may have cigars counted, &c. and may deliver them in bulk to purchaser without payment of tax. Purchaser to do what; to pay taxes. Penalty for neglect; for employing a person without a permit to make cigars; for making cigars without a permit. Cigars, &c. to be forfeited. Proceeds, how distributed.
That section ninety-three be amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following: That all Manufactures except, &c., where the product does not exceed the rate of $1000 per annum, to be exempt. Tax, when the product exceeds such rate, but is not over $3000; in all other cases; to be on salable value of articles, &c. when removed for consumption or use. Naphtha exempt, when, &c.
That section ninety-four be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 94. Taxes on certain manufactures, unless otherwise provided for. Post, pp. 474, 475.
On candles, of whatever material made, a tax of five per centum ad Candles.
On gas, illuminating, made of coal wholly or in part, or any other material, Illuminating gas. Rate of tax determined by the average of the monthly product for the year. Where gas works have not been in operation the preceding year. Product returned to be what. Certain gas companies may charge tax to consumers until, &c. Post, p. 474. Gas for lighting streets, &c., and that made for and used by hotels, to be subject to tax. Returns understated may be increased. Rate of tax when companies compete with each other. Coal tar, &c. exempt.
On illuminating, lubricating, or other mineral oils, marking not less Illuminating, lubricating, or other mineral oils, the product of crude petroleum. What to be deemed refined illuminating oil. Who to be deemed and taxed as manufacturer of illuminating oil. Tax.
On illuminating, lubricating, or other mineral oils, marking not less Illuminating, &c. oils, the product of the refining of crude oil.
On oil, naphtha, benzine, benzole, or gasoline, marking more than fifty-nine Oil, naphtha, benzine, benzole, or gasoline. Distillers, &c. of mineral oil, &c. to be subject to all laws applicable to distillers of spirits, so far as deemed necessary by the commissioner. Certain distillers not to make returns oftener than once in thirty days.
On spirits of turpentine, ten cents per gallon. Spirits of turpentine.
On coffee, roasted or ground, on all ground spices and dry mustard, and Coffee, ground spices, and dry mustard, and all substitutes therefor. Proviso.
On molasses produced from the sugar-cane, and not from sorghum or Molasses.
On sirup of molasses or sugar-cane juice, when removed from the plantation, Sugar-cane juice.
On sugars not above number twelve Dutch standard in color, produced Sugars not above number 12; Post, p. 474.
On sugars above number twelve and not above number eighteen Dutch above number 12, and not above number 18;
On sugar above number eighteen Dutch standard in color, produced above number 18.
On the gross amount of the sales of sugar refiners, including all the Gross amount of sales of sugar refiners. Who are sugar refiners. Post, p. 474.
On sugar candy and all confectionery made wholly or in part of sugar, Sugar candy and confectionery.
On chocolate and cocoa prepared, a tax of one and a half cent per pound. Chocolate and cocoa.
On gun cotton, a tax of five per centum ad valorem. Gun cotton.
On gunpowder, and all explosive substances used for mining, blasting, Gunpowder and all explosive substances, &c. Post, p. 474.
On varnish or japan, made wholly or in part of gum copal, or other Varnish or japan.
On glue and gelatine of all descriptions, in the solid state, a tax of one Glue and gelatine.
On glue and cement, made wholly or in part of glue, sold in the liquid Glue and cement.
On pins, solid head or other, a tax of five per centum ad valorem. Pins.
On photographs, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, or other pictures taken Photographs, ambrotypes, &c.
On screws, commonly called wood screws, a tax of ten per centum ad Wood screws. Post, p. 474.
On clocks and timepieces, and on clock movements, when sold without Clocks and timepieces.
On all soaps valued at above three cents per pound, not perfumed, and Soaps valued at above three cents a pound.
On all perfumed soaps, a tax of three cents per pound. Perfumed soaps.
On all uncompounded chemical productions not otherwise provided for, Uncompounded chemical productions.
On essential oils of all descriptions, a tax of five per centum ad valorem. Essential oils.
On all furniture, or other articles made of wood, sold in the rough or Furniture and other articles of wood. When tax to be only on increased value.
On salt, a tax of three cents per one hundred pounds. Salt.
On scales, pumps, garden engines, and hydraulic rams, a tax of three Scales, pumps, &c.
On tin ware of all descriptions, not otherwise provided for, a tax of Tin-ware.
On all iron not otherwise provided for, advanced beyond muck-bar, Iron, advanced beyond muck-bar, &c. Ton to be 2000 pounds.
On band, hoop, and sheet iron, thinner than number eighteen wire-gauge, Band, hoop, and sheet iron. When from iron on which tax has been paid.
On steel made directly from muck-bar, blooms, slabs, or loops, a tax of Steel.
On stoves, and hollow ware in all conditions, whether rough, tinned, or Stoves and hollow ware.
On tubes made of wrought iron, a tax of five dollars per ton. Wrought iron tubes.
On steam, locomotive, and marine engines, including the boilers, and Steam, locomotive, and marine engines, and railroad cars. Tax paid on materials to be deducted.
On boilers of all kinds, water tanks, sugar tanks, oil stills, sewing machines, Boilers, tanks, stills, tools, machines, &c.
On railings, gates, fences, furniture, and statuary made of iron, a tax of Iron railings, gates, &c.
On copper and brass tubes, nails, or rivets, sheet lead, and lead pipes Copper, &c. tubes, sheet lead, &c.
On goat, calf, kid, sheep, horse, hog, and dog skins, tanned or dressed Goat, &c. skins. Post, p. 474.
On goat, calf, kid, sheep, horse, hog, and dog skins, curried or finished, a tax of five per centum ad valorem: Tax when to be only on increased value.
On patent enamelled, and japanned leather and skins of every description, Patent, enamelled, and japanned leather. Proviso.
On oil-dressed leather, a tax of five per centum ad valorem. Oil-dressed leather.
On leather of all descriptions, tanned or partially tanned, in the rough, Leather. Post, p. 474.
On leather of all descriptions, curried or finished, a tax of five per Tax when only on increased value.
On all liquors known or denominated as wine, not made from grapes, Wine not made from grapes, &c. Returns, collections, &c. Penalty for knowingly selling, &c. such wine, when tax has not been paid.
On cloth and all textile or knitted or felted articles or fabrics of cotton, Cloth and textile, knitted or felted fabrics. Post, p. 475.
On thread and twine, a tax of five per centum ad valorem. Thread and twine.
On articles of clothing manufactured or produced for sale by weaving, Clothing, hats, bonnets, hoop-skirts. Parts of clothing. India rubber, fur, &c. Post, p. 474. Proviso.
On boots, shoes, and shoe-strings, a tax of two per centum ad valorem; Boots, shoes, and shoe-strings. Post, p. 474. What boot, &c. makers to be exempt.
On clothing, gloves, mittens, moccasins, caps, felt hats, and other articles Clothing, gloves, caps, felt hats, &c. Post, p. 474. Certain custom work not to be taxed. Certain work not to be deemed a manufacture.
On paper not otherwise herein provided for, a tax of three per centum Paper.
On all manufactures not otherwise provided for, of cotton, wool, silk, Manufactures of cotton, wool, silk, &c., not otherwise provided for. When tax to be only on increased value. Brown earthen and common stone ware.
On all diamonds, emeralds, precious stones and imitations thereof, and Diamonds, jewelry, &c. When imported, and reset, tax to be only on value of settings.
On bullion in lump, ingot, bar, or otherwise, a tax of one half of one Bullion. Product of assay to be stamped. Sales, transfers, &c. of gold or silver assayed, unlawful, unless stamped. Penalty for such sale, &c. Gold and silver, unless stamped, not to be used or exported. Penalty. Proviso.
On snuff, manufactured of tobacco or any substitute for tobacco, Snuff.
On cavendish, plug, twist, and all other kinds of manufactured tobacco, Manufactured tobacco.
On tobacco twisted by hand, or reduced from leaf into a condition to Tobacco twisted by hand, &c.
On fine-cut chewing tobacco, whether manufactured with the stems in Fine-cut chewing tobacco, &c.
On smoking tobacco, sweetened, stemmed, or butted, a tax of forty cents Smoking tobacco.
On smoking tobacco of all kinds, not sweetened, nor stemmed, nor butted, including that made of stems, or in part of stems, and imitations thereof, a tax of fifteen cents per pound.
On cigarettes, or small cigars, made of tobacco enclosed in a wrapper, Cigarettes. Post, p. 474. Cheroots, &c., the market value of which is not over $8 per 1000;
On all cheroots, cigarettes, and cigars, the market value of which is over eight dollars and not over twelve dollars per thousand, a tax of ver $8, and not over $12;
On all cheroots, cigarettes, and cigars, the market value of which is over $12. Commissioner to make rules for the inspection, &c. of cigars, cheroots, &c. Manufacturer, &c. to be examined upon oath, and with what view.
That section ninety-eight be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 98. Auction sales. No tax on certain auction sales.
That section ninety-nine be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 99. Sales and contracts for sale by brokers, banks, or bankers. Rate of tax. Rate for sales by those not paying a special tax. Memorandum of sales, &c. to be given, and proper stamps placed thereon. Fractional part of $100 to be accounted $100. Memorandum to show what. Penalty for selling, &c. or delivering, or receiving stocks, &c. without a memorandum; for delivering or receiving memorandum without stamps; how to be recovered. Suit to be brought within one year. Penalty recovered, how distributed. Penalty not to be incurred where there was no intent to evade the law. Law in relation to stamp duties to apply hereto. Monthly tax on sales by commercial brokers. Monthly returns to be made to assessor. In estimating sales, those made by or through another broker not to be included.
That section one hundred be amended by striking out all after the enacting Section 100. Annual tax on carriages, gold watches, billiard tables, gold or silver plate.
| Carriage, phæton, carryall, rockaway, or other like carriage, and any coach, hackney coach, omnibus, or four-wheeled carriage, the body of which rests upon springs of any description, which may be kept for use, for hire, or for passengers, and which shall not be used exclusively in husbandry or for the transportation of merchandise, valued at exceeding three hundred dollars and not above five hundred dollars each, including harness used therewith, six dollars. | $ 6 00 Carriages. |
| Carriages of like description, valued above five hundred dollars, each, ten dollars. | 10 00 |
| On Gold Watches, composed wholly or in part of gold or gilt, kept for use, valued at one hundred dollars or less, each, one dollar. | 1 00 Gold watches. |
| On gold watches, composed wholly or in part of gold or gilt, kept for use, valued at above one hundred dollars, each, two dollars. | 2 00 |
| Billiard Tables, kept for use, each, ten dollars. | 10 00 Billiard tables. |
| On plate, of gold, kept for use, per ounce troy, fifty cents. | 50 Gold plate. |
| On plate, of silver, kept for use, per ounce troy, five cents. | 05 Silver plate. |
Provided, That silver spoons or plate of silver used by one family to an amount Proviso. Exemption of certain silver plate, &c.
That sections one hundred and one and one hundred and two be, and Repeal of sections 101, 102.
That section one hundred and three be amended by striking out all after Section 103. Tax on gross receipts from passengers and mails, by railroads, steamboats, coaches, &c. Rate of tax. Tax not to be assessed upon certain receipts for transportation; to be assessed upon other transportation; how assessed and collected. Repeal of part of section 109. Tax upon gross receipts of toll-roads, ferries, and bridges. Post, p. 485. Rate of tax. Post, p. 475. Tax not to be assessed, &c. where gross receipts for twelve months do not exceed needful repairs. Tax may be added to rate of fare until April 30, 1867. Post, p. 475. Where the addition is only the fraction of a cent. Tickets to be sold in packages of 20, &c. No tax where gross receipts do not exceed $1000 per annum. Boats, &c. not used for passengers, and not propelled by steam, &c., and used exclusively for carrying coal, &c., to pay an annual special tax. Rate of tax. How assessed and collected.
That section one hundred and seven be amended by striking out all Section 107. Tax on gross receipts of telegraphic lines. Rate of tax.
That section one hundred and ten be amended by striking out all after Section 110. Tax of one twenty-fourth of one per cent on average amount of deposits subject to draft; upon capital employed in banking; upon circulation. Circulation to include what. Additional tax on average circulation above 90 per cent of capital. Return of circulation, deposits, and capital to be made monthly; to be under oath or affirmation. Penalty for refusal or neglect to make returns or payment. In default of returns amount to be estimated. Penalties, how recovered. Tax, how assessed upon banks with branches. Repeal of law imposing any different tax on banks, &c. 1863, ch. 73. Vol. xii. p. 709. This section not to apply to national banks. 1864, ch. 106. Vol. xiii. p. 99. Savings banks to be exempt from tax on deposits invested in United States securities. Deposits of less than $500 in the name of any one person exempt. Returns, when to be made.
That section one hundred and eleven be amended by inserting after the Section 111. Lottery ticket dealers.
That section one hundred and fourteen be amended by inserting after Section 114.
That section one hundred and sixteen be amended by inserting after Section 116. Persons out of the United States and not citizens, to pay on income from business in the United States.
That section one hundred and nineteen be amended by striking out all Post, p. 478. Section 119. Income tax when due; to last until 1870, and no longer. Post, p. 480. Ten per cent additional to be paid, if, &c.
That section one hundred and twenty be amended by striking out all Section 120. Tax on dividends of banks, trust companies, savings institutions, and insurance companies. Rate of tax. Same tax on addition to surplus or contingent funds. Tax to be withheld from all payments on account of such dividends. Return to be made to assessor and tax to be paid within what time; to contain what; how to be verified; Penalty for default in making return. In default of return or payment, assessment and collection how to be made. Tax on dividends of life insurance companies, when due. What not to be considered dividends in life insurance companies and savings banks.
That section one hundred and twenty-two be amended by striking out Section 122. Tax on dividends, and interest on bonds of railroad, canal, turnpike, canal navigation, and slack-water companies. Rate of tax. Companies to withhold tax from all payments. Payment to discharge companies of all indebtedness. Return, when to be made to assessor, and tax paid; to state what, and how verified. Penalty for default in making return or payment; in such case assessment and collection to be according to general provisions.
That section one hundred and twenty-two be further amended by adding thereto the following proviso: When such companies are unable to pay, and fail to pay interest on the debt, tax not to be paid until, &c.
That section one hundred and twenty-three be amended by striking out Section 123. Post, p. 480. Tax on the incomes of those in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States. Rate of tax. Amount to be deducted. Certificate to be made and sent to office of commissioner. Post, p. 480. Pay-roll to show such payment. Auditors, in auditing accounts of paymasters, &c. to require proof that taxes have been deducted and paid over. Payments of prize money to be deemed income from salaries; but not payments to laborers, &c.
That section one hundred and twenty-four be amended by adding thereto the following additional proviso: Section 124. Legacy, &c. to minor child, unless over $1000, to be exempt from tax; if over $1000, excess only to be taxed.
That section one hundred and twenty-five be amended by inserting Section 125. When tax on legacies, &c. is due. Executors, &c. to give notice to assessors, &c. Penalty for wilful neglect, &c. Tax to be deducted from particular legacy.
That section one hundred and thirty-seven be amended by inserting Section 137.
That section one hundred and thirty-eight be amended by adding Section 138. Persons having in trust, &c. any disposition of real estate subject to tax, to notify assessor. Penalty for wilful neglect, &c.
That section one hundred and forty-five be amended by inserting after Section 145.
That section one hundred and forty-seven be amended by striking out Section 147. Persons liable to pay tax for succession to give notice to assessor, and render a true account in thirty days. Assessor, &c. may assess tax on such account, &c. If no account is given, or assessor is dissatisfied, tax how assessed. Appeal. Expenses.
That section one hundred and forty-eight be amended by striking out Section 148. Penalty for wilful neglect to give notice and deliver account; and to pay tax.
That section one hundred and fifty be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Repeal of section 150.
That section one hundred and fifty-two be amended by striking out all Section 152. No instrument, &c., required to be stamped, to be recorded unless stamped. Record void.
That section one hundred and fifty-four be amended by striking out all Section 154. Official instruments, &c. issued by officers of the United States, or of any State, county, town, &c. to be exempt from tax.
That section one hundred and fifty-five be amended by striking out all Section 155. Penalty for forging or counterfeiting any stamp, die, &c. Penalty for forging any stamp upon any paper, &c. or stamping, &c. with intent to defraud; for knowingly uttering or selling paper, &c. with forged stamp; for knowingly using or permitting the use of forged stamp; for fraudulently removing stamp, or impression of stamp, from paper, &c.; for fraudulently using, &c. stamp, cut, &c. from any other paper required to be stamped; for wilfully removing or altering the cancelling of a stamp, &c.; for knowingly buying or selling, or having in possession washed, &c. stamps. Forfeiture. Fine or imprisonment, or both.
That section one hundred and fifty-eight be amended by striking out all Section 158. Persons making, issuing, receiving, or paying, &c. any instrument, note, &c. required to be stamped, without having thereon a stamp cancelled, with intent to evade the law, to forfeit $50, and instrument, &c. to be void. Title to land not affected, if, &c. If stamp is not put on instrument when made, how it may be placed thereon afterward, or upon a copy, if original is lost. Proceedings where instrument was not duly stamped by accident, &c. May be recorded. If instrument not having stamp was made when and where there was no collection district, stamp may be affixed before January 1, 1867. Intervening bona fide rights not affected.
That section one hundred and sixty-three be amended by striking out Section 163. No deed, &c. required to be stamped, to be hereafter admitted in evidence, unless proper stamps are affixed. Documents made in a foreign country for use here, to pay same tax as though made here. Who to affix stamp.
That section one hundred and sixty-five be amended by striking out all Section 165. Penalty for making, selling, or removing for sale, drugs, preparations, matches, &c. without affixing proper stamp.
That section one hundred and sixty-nine be amended by striking out Section 169. Persons offering for sale any article named in schedule C, to be deemed the manufacturers. Such articles, if imported, to pay stamp tax. Proviso.
That schedule B, preceding section one hundred and seventy-one, be Schedule B, amended. Post, p. 475. Receipts, stamp upon. Where there are several signatures to the same paper. “Money” to include drafts.
That schedule B, preceding section one hundred and seventy-one, be Assignments and transfers of mortgages. Domestic and inland bills of lading.
That schedule B be amended, under the head of contract, by striking out the words following: “ Bill or memorandum of sale or contract for sale of stocks, &c.
That schedule C be amended by striking out the paragraph in relation Schedule C amended. Photographs.
That schedule C be further amended by striking out the paragraph relating to cigar lights and wax tapers, and inserting in lieu thereof Cigar lights, wax tapers.
For and upon every pack, not exceeding fifty-two cards in number, irrespective Playing cards.
For and upon every can, bottle, or other single package, containing Preserved meats, fish, vegetables, &c.
When such can, bottle, or other single package, with its contents, shall exceed two pounds in weight, for every additional pound or fractional part thereof, one cent ($0.01).
That section one hundred and seventy-one be amended by adding Section 171. No claim for drawback, unless presented, &c.
That section one hundred and seventy-nine be amended by striking out Section 179. Collectors to prosecute for fines, penalties, and forfeitures. Where suit may be brought. What amount to be paid to informer, when there has been a judgment; when payment made without suit or before judgment. No right accrues to an informer until, &c. Power to remit fines, &c. not affected. Commissioner may compromise cases whether pending or otherwise. What courts to have jurisdiction. In civil actions for penalties, if informer is witness the other party may be. Penalty for receiving money under threat of informing or for not informing.
That sections two, five, eight, Repeal of §§ 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 12 of act of 1865, ch. 78.
That section six of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, Section 6. Persons, &c. using notes of State banks as circulation after August 1, 1866, to pay a tax of ten per cent thereon.
That section fourteen of the same act shall be amended by striking out Section 14. Vol. xiii. p. 486. Capital of State bank ceasing to exist, to be the capital as it was when bank ceased to exist. Circulation of not over five per cent of capital exempt from tax. Banks ceasing to issue circulating notes, &c. to be exempt. National banks made from State banks, and assuming their liabilities, to make return, and pay tax on circulation of over five per cent of capital.
That an act entitled “An act to declare the meaning of certain parts Substitute for sections 3, 4, and 5 of act of 1866, ch. 15. Ante, p. 5 Persons making lists for taxation, to declare whether values are stated in legal tender or coined money. Failing to do so, assistant assessor to make lists and add penalties. If values are stated in coined money, assessor to reduce it to legal tender. Values in lists sent by assessors to collectors, to be in legal tender.
That from and after the passage Articles and products exempt from taxation. [For other exempted articles, see post, p. 476.]
Alum; aluminum; aluminous cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and cobalt;
Aniline and aniline colors;
Animal charcoal, or carbon;
Anvils;
Articles manufactured in institutions for the blind, and in institutions Post, p. 475.
Barrels and casks, other than those used for the reception of fluids; packing boxes made of wood; and boxes of wood or paper for friction matches, cigar lights, and wax tapers;
Beeswax, crude or unrefined;
Bi-chromate and prussiate of potash;
Bleaching powders;
Blue vitriol;
Borax, and boraeic acid;
Brass not more advanced than rods or sheets;
Brick, fire-brick, draining tiles, cement, drain and sewer pipes, earthen and stone water-pipes, retorts and tiles made of clay;
Bristles;
Brooms made from corn, brush, or palm-leaf;
Building stone of all kinds, including slate, marble, freestone, and soapstone, Articles and products exempt from taxation.
Bunting and flags of the United States, and banners made of bunting of domestic manufacture;
Burrstones, millstones, and grindstones, rough or wrought;
Candle wicking;
Chronometers;
Coffins and burial cases;
Copperas;
Copper, lead, and tin, in ingots, pigs, or bars;
Copper and yellow sheathing metal, not more advanced than rods or sheets;
Crates, and grain or farm baskets made of splints;
Crucibles of all kinds;
Crutches and artificial limbs, eyes, and teeth;
Deer-skins, smoked, or not oil-dressed;
Feather beds, mattresses, palliasses, bolsters, and pillows;
Fertilizers of all kinds;
Flasks and patterns used by founders;
Flax and the manufactures thereof;
Flavoring extracts solely for cooking purposes;
German silver in bars or sheets;
Gold leaf and gold foil;
Hemp and jute prepared for textile or felting purposes;
Hulls of ships and other vessels;
Illuminating gas manufactured by educational institutions for their own use exclusively;
India-rubber springs used exclusively for railroad cars;
Iron bridges, and castings for iron bridges;
Iron drain and sewer pipes;
Keys, actions, and strings for musical instruments;
Litharge and orange mineral;
Machines driven by horse power and used exclusively for cutting firewood, staves, and shingle bolts; and hand-saws;
Magnesium, calcined magnesia, and carbonate of magnesia;
Malleable iron castings, unfinished;
Manganese;
Masts, spare, ship and vessel blocks, and tree-nail wedges and deck plugs, cordage, ropes, and cables made of vegetable fibre;
Medicinal and mineral waters, of all kinds, sold in bottles or from fountains, and mead;
Mounting and machinery of telescopes for astronomical purposes;
Mills and machinery for the manufacture of sugar, sirup, and molasses from sorghum, imphee, beets and corn;
Mineral coal of all kinds, and pent;
Monuments of stone of all kinds, not exceeding in value the sum of Monuments. Post, p. 475.
Mouldings for looking-glasses and picture-frames;
Muriatic, nitric, and acetic acids;
Nickel, quicksilver, and sodium;
Nitrate of lead;
Oakum;
Original paintings, statues, and groups of statuary and casts made thereof by the artist from the original designs;
Oxide of zinc;
Paints, painters’ and paper Stainers’ colors;
Printing paper of all descriptions; and tarred paper for roofing and Articles and products exempt from taxation.
Photographs or any other sun picture, being copies of engravings or works of art, when the same are sold by the producer at wholesale at a price not exceeding fifteen cents each, or are used for the illustration of books;
Pickles, when sold by the gallon and not contained in glass packages;
Pig-iron; muck bar; blooms, slabs, and loops;
Ploughs, cultivators, harrows, straw and hay cutters, planters, seed-drills, horse-rakes, hand-rakes, cotton gins, grain cradles, and winnowing-mills;
Pot and pearl ashes;
Productions of stereotypes, lithographers, engravers, and electrotypers;
Putty;
Quinine, morphine, and other vegetable alkaloids, and phosphorus;
Railroad iron, and railroad iron re-rolled;
Railroad chairs and fish plates; railroad, boat, and ship spikes; axe polls; iron axles; shoes for horses, mules, and oxen; rivets, horseshoe nails, nuts, washers, and bolts; vises, iron chains, and anchors; when such articles are made of wrought iron which has previously paid the tax or duty assessed thereon;
Reapers, mowers, threshing machines, and separators; corn-shellers and wooden ware; cotton and hay presses;
Repairs of articles of all kinds;
Residuums, the product of mineral, vegetable, or animal substances drawn from stills after distillation;
Roman and water cements, and lime;
Roofing slate, slabs, and tiles;
Saleratus, sal soda, caustic soda, crude soda, alumino-silicate of soda; aluminate of soda: bi-carbonate of soda; and silicate of soda;
Sails, tents, awnings, and bags made by sewing from fabrics or other articles upon which a duty or tax has been paid; and bags made of paper;
Saltpetre;
Salts of tin;
Silex used in the manufacture of glass;
Soap, valued at not above three cents per pound;
Spelter;
Spindles and castings of all descriptions made specially for locks, safes, looms, spinning machines, steam engines, hot air and hot water furnaces, and sewing machines, and not sold or used for any other purposes, and upon which a tax is assessed and paid on the article of which the casting is a part;
Spokes, hubs, bows, and felloes; poles, shafts, arms, and wheels not ironed or finished for carriages or wagons; wooden handles for ploughs, and for other agricultural, household, and mechanical tools and implements; and pail and tub ears and handles; and wooden tanks, and cisterns for crude mineral oil;
Starch;
Steel, made from iron advanced beyond muck bar, blooms, slabs, or loops in ingots, bars, rails made and fitted for railroads, sheet, plate, coil, or wire, hoop-skirt wire covered or uncovered; car wheels, thimble skeins Articles and products exempt from taxation.
Stoves, composed in part of cast iron and in part of sheet iron, or of soapstone, fire-brick, or freestone, with or without cast iron or sheet iron:
Sugar, molasses, or sirup made from beets, corn, sugar maple, or from sorghum, or imphee;
Sulphate of barytes;
Sulphur, flowers of Sulphur, and Sulphur flour;
Tar and crude turpentine;
Tin cans used for preserved meats, fish, shell-fish, fruits, vegetables, jams, jellies, paints, oils, and spices;
Umbrellas and parasols, and sticks and frames for the same;
Value of bullion used in the manufacture of wares, watches, and watch-cases, and bullion prepared for the use of platers and watchmakers;
Vegetable, animal, and fish oils of all descriptions, not otherwise provided for, including red oil, oleic acid, and admixtures of the same with paraffine oil, not exceeding in specific gravity thirty-six degrees Baumés hydrometer;
Verdigris;
Vinegar;
White and red lead;
Whiting; Paris white;
Window glass of all kinds;
Wine made of grapes, currants or other fruits, and rhubarb;
Wire made from wire less than number twenty wire gauge, upon which a tax has been assessed and paid as wire, and no manufactured wire shall pay a greater tax than that imposed on number twenty wire gauge;
Yarn and warp for weaving, braiding or manufacturing purposes exclusively;
Yeast and baking powders;
Zinc, in ingots or sheets:
Exemptions confined to articles as specified.
Monthly lists to be made before the tenth day of each month, and the tax paid before the last day.
Quarterly and other lists, when to be returned and paid.
Ten per cent to be added if tax is not paid when due.
Notice that tax is due, how to be given.
Demand and ten per cent additional.
Distraint.
Part of former law, relating to time of payment, &c. of tax, repealed.
Laws as to neglect in making returns, &c. applicable hereto.
Certain apothecaries not to be regarded as manufacturers under this act.
Other apothecaries and persons to be deemed manufacturers.
Stamp tax not to be imposed upon certain drugs, medicines, or chemicals.
No patent or proprietary medicine exempted from tax.
Removing or concealing, &c. any goods liable to tax, or any materials or utensils for making such goods, with intent to defraud as to such tax, to work forfeiture thereof, &c.
In all cases of forfeiture of goods, &c. the casks, packages, vessels, carriages and horses, &c. used in removal, &c. to be forfeited.
Penalty for removal, &c.
Fine.
Search warrant, how and by whom may be issued, to search premises to detect frauds upon the revenue.
Penalty for selling, &c. or receiving, &c. any box, cover, &c. marked to show that its contents have been inspected, such boxes being empty or having other contents than when marked;
for making, or marking, &c. any such box, cover, &c.;
for doing the same with intent to defraud.
Fine and imprisonment.
Forfeiture of articles, &c.
Articles requiring marks or stamps, &c. sold upon distraint, without marks, &c. to be stamped and marked by the officer selling, upon sale thereof.
Expenses.
Manual labor schools, &c. not to pay a manufacturer’s tax, while, &c.
Post, p. 475.
No suit to be brought to recover tax wrongfully collected until after appeal to commissioner, and his decision thereon.
Suit to be brought within what time.
Post, p. 475.
In ports where there is more than one collector of internal revenue, one may be designated to attend to exportation. Vol. xiii. p. 486.
Superintendent of exportation and drawback.
Compensation.
Books, papers, &c. in bureau of drawback to be delivered to collector of internal revenue, who may administer oaths and certify papers.
Who to be deemed a distiller, and what presumptive evidence thereof.
Post, p. 481.
Who to be regarded as a rectifier.
Penalty for doing business as a distiller or rectifier without having paid the special tax.
Liquors, materials, vessels, stills, &c. to be forfeited.
Distillers and rectifiers to give notice in writing to assessor.
Notice to state what.
Notice to be given of certain changes, and within what time.
Bond.
Conditions.
Penal sum.
When collector may refuse to approve bond.
Appeal.
New bond.
Penalty for failing to give notice or bond, &c.
Stills, boilers, &c. not to be used for purposes of distilling in certain buildings.
Penalty for such use.
Stills, &c. to be forfeited.
Fine or imprisonment.
Manufacturers of stills, &c. before their removal to notify collector.
Stills, &c. not to be set up without written permit of collector.
Penalty for so doing or for failing to give notice.
Saleratus.
Boilers used in making steam or heating water.
Rectifiers and dealers in distilled spirits to make daily certain entries in books.
Penalty for neglecting or refusing so to do.
Rectifiers to mark name and place of business on certain packages.
Warehouse for storage of bonded spirits of their own manufacture to be provided by owners of distilleries;
when they may be declared a bonded warehouse;
how to be used and kept.
Tax on spirits stored therein to be paid before removal.
Owners to execute a general bond;
penal sum; form and conditions;
shall be changed or renewed.
General bonded warehouses for storage, &c. may be established.
Storekeepers and their pay.
Removal of articles manufactured in a bonded warehouse in the Atlantic States to a customs bonded warehouse on Pacific coast.
Vol. xiii. p. 296.
An inspector to be appointed for every distillery.
[Repealed. See 1867, ch. 169, § 17. Post, p. 481.]
Duties of inspectors of distilleries.
Entry for spirits placed in such warehouse to be made, &c. by owners.
Certificate of inspector to be indorsed thereon.
Inspector not to engage in other business.
Pay to be assessed on distiller.
Fees for inspection.
When assistant inspector may be appointed.
Duties, pay, &c. of assistant inspector.
In absence of inspector and assistant, collector may designate a person to take temporary charge, &c.
Penalty for using, &c. materials for making spirits, for distilling or removing spirits in absence of acting, &c. inspector, without, &c.;
for removing spirituous, &c. liquors, &c. under wrong brand.
General inspectors of spirits to be appointed.
Fees.
Penalty upon owner, &c. of distillery, &c. for refusing to admit inspector on premises, &c.
Persons making or distilling spirits, or owning stills, &c. to make certain entries daily in a book;
to render under oath duplicate accounts to assessors tri-monthly.
Entries, how to be verified.
If entries in books are not made by owner, what certificate is to be made by owner.
Books and premises to be open to revenue officer for inspection.
Penalty for violation of the provisions of this section.
Tax upon certain distilled spirits;
to be paid by whom;
to be a lien;
Post, p. 480.
to be collected at no lower rate than the basis of first proof.
Proof spirit to be what.
Post, p. 480.
Instruments for weighing and gauging spirits.
Gallon to mean a gallon of first proof.
Receiving cisterns to be provided by owner of distillery, and how located;
how to be constructed;
to be under the lock and seal of the inspector.
Spirits conveyed to such cisterns, when to be drawn off, inspected, &c.
Locks and seals, how to be provided.
Penalty for knowingly, &c. using false weights, &c. or making false records;
for tampering with locks or seals;
for using any substances for producing spirits before an account of them is registered.
Tax on wines, made in imitation of champagne and put up in bottles, &c.;
Tax to be paid by whom.
Returns, assessments, &c.
Penalty for knowingly, &c. selling such wine on which tax has not been paid.
Owners, &c. of distilleries to give all assistance for inspecting their premises.
Distilled spirits to be inspected, &c. before removal to a bonded warehouse;
to be drawn into casks, &c.;
casks, &c. how to be branded.
Post, p. 481.
No cask to be taken from warehouse, unless so branded.
Inspectors to make prompt returns.
Penalty for evading or attempting to evade payment of tax;
for putting into casks spirits of greater strength;
upon inspector, &c. for conspiring to defraud the United States of the tax;
for making false entries or returns;
for placing false marks upon casks, &c.;
for using casks, &c. to sell spirits of a quantity or quality different from that inspected;
Penalty for knowingly purchasing or selling cask with inspection marks thereon, after, &c.;
for fraudulently using any inspector’s brands, &c.;
or making or using counterfeit brands;
upon inspector, for negligent or improper use of his brands or plates;
or employing any servant of distiller, &c. to do his duty.
Penalty for adding ingredients to spirits to create a fictitious proof before tax is paid.
Distilled spirits, when inspected, &c. may be removed before tax is paid from bonded warehouse of distiller to any general bonded warehouse.
Bonds.
How branded.
Such spirits to be again inspected, &c.
Tax to be paid on what amount.
What allowance for loss.
Spirits to be subject to rules, &c.;
to be in charge of storekeeper.
Fees for execution of papers, &c.
Expenses, &c. to be paid by owner.
Distilled spirits, how may be withdrawn from bonded warehouse, &c.;
for exportation, rectification, &c.
Removal for rectification to be allowed but once for the same spirits.
Spirits removed to be returned.
Tax to be paid on what deficiency.
No drawback on distilled spirits on which tax has been paid.
Spirits may be removed from bonded warehouse for exportation.
Proceedings in such cases.
Bond.
When bond may be cancelled.
Where there is no superintendent of exports, collector to act as such.
Penalty for making any false document, &c. to evade the payment of tax, or in fraud of the internal revenue laws.
Forfeiture.
Imprisonment.
Owners of spirits intended for sale, manufactured before this act takes effect, to notify collector to gauge and prove them.
Casks, &c. how to be marked.
| Manufactured prior to |
| ——————, 186–. |
| ——————, Inspector, |
| ———— District. |
| Inspected ———, 186–. |
Such spirits to be gauged only in barrels, &c.
Collector to send commissioner copy of return.
Penalty for refusal to notify collector.
Spirits on which tax is paid not to remain upon distiller’s premises.
Absence of inspector’s brand to be cause for forfeiture.
Changing the character of spirits after, &c. and placing them in other packages without, &c. to work forfeiture of spirits.
See Post, p. 475.
Branding packages, knowing the taxes not to be paid, how punished.
See Post, p. 476.
Forfeited stills, implements, &c. and condemned material, to be sold at public auction.
Forfeited liquors, how disposed of.
Distillers of brandy from apples, grapes, &c. may be exempted, &c.
The word “person” to include what.
See Post, p. 483.
Penalty for removing spirits from places where distilled, except to a bonded warehouse.
Spirits so removed when tax is not paid, to be forfeited;
and may be seized and sold.
Proceedings in case of seizure.
Burden of proof upon claimants.
Aiding in the unlawful removal of distilled spirits, how punished.
Brewer, before commencing business, to give notice to assessor.
Notice to state what.
Brewers to give bond;
in what amount;
to be renewed annually;
Conditions.
Proviso.
Tax on beer, lager beer, ale, porter, &c.;
By whom to be paid.
Fractional parts of a barrel, and how accounted.
Post, pp. 475, 476.
Brewers, &c. manufacturing beer, lager beer, ale, &c. to make, from day to day, entries in a book of kind and quantity of liquors made, &c.;
to enter, in a separate book, an account of material purchased;
to render monthly statement to assessor under oath, &c.;
Brewers, &c. to send duplicate of statement to collector.
Books to be open to inspection of revenue officers.
Entries in books to be verified monthly upon oath.
Form of oath.
Oath taken by owner, if original entries are not made by him.
Penalty for evading or attempting to evade payment of tax;
for fraudulently neglecting, &c. to make entry and report;
for intentionally making a false entry.
Forfeiture.
Fine.
Imprisonment.
Penalty for neglecting to keep books, or furnish accounts, or for not permitting books to be examined.
Stamps to be prepared denoting amount of tax to be paid on barrels, &c.
to be furnished to collectors, who shall keep two months’ supply on hand;
to be sold only to brewers.
Account to be kept of stamps sold.
Deduction on sales to brewers.
Commissions of collector and assessor on account of sales of stamps.
Brewers to obtain from collectors the proper stamps, and to affix upon the tap of each barrel, &c. a stamp denoting the tax thereon.
Mode of affixing the stamp.
Stamps to be cancelled, and how.
Penalty for not affixing or not cancelling stamp, or affixing fraudulent ones.
Fine and imprisonment.
Penalty for selling, purchasing, receiving, &c. fermented liquor in any vessel from a brewery, &c. without a stamp, or with a false stamp, &c.;
for withdrawing such liquor from the vessel, without defacing the stamp, or from a vessel not stamped;
for making, selling, or using false stamps or dies, &c.
Brewers selling at retail from brewery to affix and cancel proper stamps;
to keep account of quantity sold;
to report under oath to assessor monthly, and to send duplicate to collector;
may remove certain malt liquors in certain quantities from brewery to warehouse without stamps.
Stamps to be affixed when liquor is sold or removed.
When and how ale or porter may be removed from district where manufactured to warehouse in another district, without having stamps affixed.
Fermented liquors, sour and unfit for use, may be sold for manufacturing purposes, &c. without stamps affixed.
Every barrel, &c. of fermented liquor to be marked before it is sold or removed from brewery.
Penalty for purposely removing or defacing such marks.
Penalty, if any person other than owner or purchaser intentionally removes or defaces stamp on any barrel, &c.
Possession of fermented liquor after removal from warehouse, on which tax is not paid, to be cause of forfeiture.
Absence of stamps on barrel, &c. to be notice that tax is not paid.
Withdrawing fermented liquor for bottling, from any vessel not stamped, or bottling fermented liquor in the place where it is made, &c. how punished.
Penalty upon revenue officers for becoming or being interested in the manufacture of tobacco, &c. or in production of spirits or fermented liquors.
Being interested when act takes effect, and failing to divest of interest, &c.
Internal revenue officers paid by fees, &c. to make statement under oath of entire amount of fees, &c.
Penalty for knowingly making false statement;
for neglecting to render statement when required.
When law relating to distilled spirits and fermented liquors takes effect.
Penalty for giving or offering, &c. any bribe, or present, &c. to any United States officer or official, with intent to influence his action on anything before him, or to induce him to commit any fraud upon the revenue;
or for accepting or receiving the same.
Fine.
Imprisonment.
Incapacitated from holding office.
Proceedings in cases of seizure of goods as subject to forfeiture.
List in duplicate.
Appraisement.
Pay of appraisers.
If goods seized are found to be of the value of $300 or less, collector to publish notice.
Notice to state what.
Claimants of the goods seized may file claim and execute bond.
Conditions of bond.
Collector to send bond and duplicate list to the United States district attorney, who shall proceed thereon.
If there is no claim and no bond, collector to give ten days’ notice of sale of goods.
Sale at public auction.
Proceeds of sale.
Within year of sale, application may be made for remission of forfeiture, and restoration of proceeds of sale.
Applicant to prove what.
If no application is made within one year, proceeds of sale to be distributed.
That the office of the commissioner Reorganization of office of commissioner of internal revenue.
One commissioner of internal revenue, with a salary of six thousand Commissioner.
One deputy commissioner, with a salary of three thousand five hundred Deputy commissioner.
Which offices are already created, and the duties thereof defined by Additional officers and clerks.
Two deputy commissioners, each with a salary of three thousand dollars; Two deputy commissioners.
One solicitor, with a salary of four thousand dollars; Solicitor.
Seven heads of divisions, each with a salary of two thousand five hundred Heads of divisions.
Thirty-four clerks of class four; forty-five clerks of class three; fifty Clerks.
Fifty-five female clerks; five messengers; Messengers.
Three assistant messengers, and fifteen laborers; and a sum sufficient Assistant messengers and laborers. Appropriation.
Official communications between certain revenue officers to be free of postage.
Special commissioner of the revenue.
Term of office.
Duties.
To report from time to time modifications of rates of taxation, &c.
Special commissioner may examine books, &c. of any officer of revenue, &c.
False swearing before him to be perjury.
Government officers to extend facilities.
Salary.
Franking privilege.
Repeal of § 19 of act of 1865, ch. 78.
Vol. xiii. p. 487.
In all suits against revenue officers, or persons acting under them, &c. and affecting the validity of this act, &c., defendant may remove the suit to the United States circuit court at any time before trial.
Proceedings for removal.
Petition, &c.
Duty of clerk of circuit court.
Certiorari.
Habeas corpus cum causa.
How served.
State court to stay proceedings, and further acts therein void.
If defendant in custody, marshal to take the body.
Attachments, bail, &c. to continue.
If copy of proceedings in State court cannot be had, circuit court may compel plaintiff to proceed anew, or become non-suit with costs for defendant.
Act of 1833, ch. 57, not to apply to cases arising under internal revenue laws.
Vol. iv. p. 632.
Revenue officers, or persons acting under them, suffering injuries for acts done under the law, may sue for damages in the United States circuit court.
Property in custody of revenue officer to be irrepleviable.
Rescue thereof, how punished.
1790, ch. 9, § 22.
Vol. i. p. 117.
Repeal of § 50 of act of 1864, ch. 173.
Vol. xiii. p. 241.
Cases removed from State courts to courts of the United States to be remanded, unless, &c.
In all cases that have been removed, attachments, bail, &c. to remain in force.
In writs of error in criminal cases to Supreme Court of the United States, defendant is not to be released until, &c.
1789, ch. 20, § 25.
Vol. i. p. 85.
If offence is not bailable.
Writs of error in criminal cases to have certain precedence on docket of supreme court.
When this act shall take effect.
Repeal of inconsistent laws.
Provisions of former laws to be in force for certain purposes.
Certain duties under existing laws to continue.
Certain duties not to cease, though law is repealed.
Manufactures, &c. in possession of manufacturers, when this act takes effect, on which duty has not been paid, or was not imposed, to be deemed to have been manufactured after such date.
Commissioner may make regulations, and prescribe forms and proceedings.
Tax law to be published in certain German newspapers.
1865, ch. 90
Vol. xii. p. 507.
Act establishing bureau for relief of freedmen, &c. continued in force for two years.
Supervision and care of bureau to extend to all loyal refugees and freedmen.
Two assistant commissioners to be appointed.
Bonds and salaries.
Duties.
Agents, clerks, and assistants.
Military officers and men may be detailed for service.
All officers and agents of bureau may be detailed from army, but without increase of pay, &c.
Salaries of agents and clerks.
Soldiers to be appointed when it can be done.
All persons appointed under this act to be under military jurisdiction.
Officers of veteran reserve corps now in bureau may be retained.
Medical stores, supplies, and aid.
Who not to be deemed “destitute,” “suffering,” or “dependent,” &c.
Sales made to “heads of families of the African race” by the tax commissioners for South Carolina confirmed.
1863, ch. 21. Vol. xii. p. 610.
Leases, when may be changed into certificates of sale.
Lands now unsold, how to be disposed of.
Other lands in parishes of Saint Helena and Saint Luke bid in at tax sales, except “school farms,” &c. to be disposed of in parcels;
to whom, in what quantity, and for what price may be sold.
Lands so sold not to be alienated within six years.
“School farms” in the parish of Saint Helena to be sold;
how, when, and for what price.
Lots in Port Royal and lots and houses in Beaufort.
Proceeds of sales how invested and applied.
Assistant commissioners to examine claims under General Sherman’s special field order.
Valid claims to have warrants for twenty acres.
Lease.
Person holding lease to have certificate of sale.
No warrant to be valid for over two years.
Lands designated in section seven to be surveyed into lots of twenty acres each, &c.
Restoration of lands occupied by freedmen under General Sherman’s field order not to be made until, &c.
Commissioner may hold and sell all lands and buildings held by the so-called confederate states and not disposed of, &c.
Proceeds how applied.
When bureau ceases to exist, unexpended sums to go where.
Commissioner to cooperate with private benevolent associations in aid of freedmen, &c.;
to provide buildings and furnish teachers and protection.
Immunities and rights of all citizens declared in certain States and districts.
Certain states or districts to be under military protection and jurisdiction.
No discrimination on account of race or color or previous condition of slavery.
Jurisdiction of bureau not to exist in certain States, and to cease in every State when, &c.
All officers, &c. of bureau to take oath.
Repealing clause.
The President of the United States having returned to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act to continue in force and to amend ‘An act to establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees,’ and for other purposes,” with his objections thereto, the House of Representatives proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and
The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “An act to continue in force and to amend ‘An act to establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees,’ and for other purposes,” returned to the House of Representatives by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the House of Representatives to the Senate with the message of the President returning the bill;
See 1867, ch. 42.
Post, p. 394.
The terms “vessel” and “vehicle” to include what.
Officers of the customs and other authorized persons may board and search any vessel, &c.
Vessels under way may be compelled to stop;
may be seized, and persons on board arrested for breach of law.
Original appointments, &c. to be filed in custom-house.
Officers of the customs may stop and search any vehicle, &c.
When vehicles, and teams, and contents may be seized and forfeited.
Penalty on driver, &c. of vehicle refusing to stop and allow search.
Regulations for search of persons and luggage. Female inspectors.
Cars, engines, &c. of common carriers not subject to forfeiture, unless, &c.
Penalty for fraudulently or knowingly bringing into the United States any goods, &c. contrary to law;
for knowingly receiving, &c. the same.
Possession of goods, &c. sufficient to authorize conviction, unless defendant explains it.
Persons authorized to make seizures, &c. may enter lands, buildings, &c. other than dwelling-houses.
Penalty for forcibly resisting officers of customs, &c. in discharge of their duty;
for rescuing or attempting to rescue seized property;
for destroying, &c. property to prevent its being seized.
Fine or imprisonment or both.
Penalty for discharging or using any deadly weapon against such officers, &c. in discharge of their duty.
Fine and imprisonment.
Collectors of customs to report within ten days to district attorneys cases of fines and personal penalties not paid.
Suit to be commenced therefor without delay, unless, &c.
Allowance to district attorneys for services.
Collectors not making report, to forfeit their share of fines, &c.
Vessels held for payment of penalties;
may be proceeded against.
In former act “merchandise” to read “goods, wares, and merchandise.”
1821, ch. 14.
Vol. iii. p. 618.
Officers and persons making searches and seizures to disclose authority on request;
may demand assistance of persons within three miles.
Penalty for refusing assistance.
In all cases of seizure of property for forfeiture, if value is not over $500, duplicate list to be prepared, and appraisement made.
Who to appraise.
Appraisement to be attested.
Fees of appraisers.
If amount of appraisal does not exceed $500, collector to give notice.
Notices to state what.
Claimants of property seized to file claim within twenty days, &c.
Claim to state what.
Bond.
Bond, list, &c. to be sent to district attorney, who shall proceed to obtain condemnation.
If claim is not filed, nor bond given, collector, &c. to notify of sale and sell at auction.
Proceeds of sale.
Sale may be adjourned.
Persons interested may within three months apply for remission of forfeiture, &c. which may be granted upon proofs, &c.
If not made within three months, proceeds of sale to be distributed.
If perishable property is seized, what proceedings to be had.
Proceedings in case of perishable property.
Remission of fines and forfeitures where amount is not over $1000.
Parties claiming a lien on imported goods, &c. to be notified before delivery of goods to owner, &c.
Possession by officers not to discharge lien.
United States, &c. not liable for failure to notify.
[This section repealed. 1867, ch. 148, § 4. Post, p. 547.
Existing penalties not affected hereby, except as specially provided.
Where value of imports is not over $100, they may be entered without triplicate invoice, if, &c.
1863, ch. 76.
Vol. xii. p. 737.
Goods, &c. at ports on northern, &c. frontiers, shipped thence on a foreign vessel to a foreign port, to be reshipped to a port in the United States on those frontiers, with intent, &c. may be forfeited.
1817, ch. 31, § 4.
Vol. iii. p. 351.
Vessel to pay a tonnage duty.
Steam tug-boats, not of the United States, employed in towing, &c. to forfeit fifty cents a ton for, &c.
Post, p. 410.
Master of any enrolled or licensed vessel on northern, &c. frontiers, purchasing “sea stores” at any port in adjacent British provinces, to report same at first port of arrival in the United States;
to make oath.
If such articles are found to be in excess, duty to be paid on excess.
Penalty.
Dutiable articles on board and not in report to be forfeited with vessel, &c.
“Saloon stores or supplies” to pay duty.
Penalty.
Equipments of such vessels, including boats, and expenses of repairs, to be entered and pay duty.
Rate of duty.
Penalty for not reporting, &c.
If equipments are purchased or repairs made from necessity, duties may be refunded.
License or enrolment, &c. not to issue to any vessel until equipments and repairs have been accounted for.
Oath and penalty for false oath, &c.
Certificate of registry, &c. fraudulently obtained, to cause forfeiture of vessel.
Provisions of law relating to manifests to apply to vessels owned by foreigners.
1799, ch. 22.
Vol. i. p. 627.
Post, p. 394.
Goods, &c. taken in any vessel from one port to another, on northern, &c. frontiers, to be unladen only in open day, unless, &c.
Post, p. 394.
Penalty.
Regulations for unlading at night.
Regulations as to inspectors on vessels destined for one or more ports of the United States.
Vessels paying tonnage duty only once a year to pay the same at first entry or clearance in each calendar year.
1862, ch. 163, § 15.
Vol. xii. p. 558.
1863, ch. 77, § 4.
Vol. xii. p. 742.
1865, ch. 80, § 4.
Vol. xiii. p. 493.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Offices of naval officer and of any subordinate office may be suspended, except, &c. and duties thereof assigned to deputy collector or inspector.
1822, ch. 107, § 9.
Vol. iii. p. 695.
1864, ch. 64.
Vol. xiii. p. 46.
Fines, &c. inuring to such naval officers, after discontinuance.
Deputy collectors may be authorized to exercise powers of their principals.
Salary or wages of persons employed in the customs or internal revenue.
Service not to be paid until oath is made, &c.
Falsely taking the oath to be perjury.
Goods, &c. seized for violation of laws relating to customs to remain in custody of collector, &c.
Proceedings.
Fines, &c. how disposed of.
1799, ch. 22, § 91.
Vol. i. p. 697.
Certain duties or fees to be remitted or refunded to collectors or surveyors.
1861, ch. 45.
Vol. xii. p. 292.
1864, ch. 171.
Vol. xiii. p. 202.
1864, ch. 113.
Vol. xiii. p. 120.
1865, ch. 80.
Vol. xiii. p. 491.
Where fees or emoluments of any collector, &c. are insufficient compensation, part of his incidental expenses may be paid.
Incidental expenses before incurred and not paid.
Fees to be placed to credit of what fund.
All officers, &c., not to be allowed more than pro rata pay for the time they serve, at and none to receive more than their maximum rate.
1864, ch. 7, § 1.
Vol. ix. p. 3.
Penalty for offering to officers of revenue, &c. any gift or bribe, to induce a violation of official duty; on officer, &c. for asking or receiving any gift or bribe.
Fine and imprisonment.
Suits for recovery of duties illegally exacted not hereafter to be maintained, unless plaintiff within thirty days after notice of appearance of defendant gives bill of particulars of his demand.
Bill to state what.
If such bill is not served, judgment to be entered against the plaintiff.
Parts of building may be bonded for storage of grain.
Repeal of part of
1854, ch. 30.
Vol. x. p. 270.
Number of bushels of grain to be ascertained by weight.
Number of pounds to a bushel.
Warrants for seizure of invoices, books, and papers; who may issue and have seized.
1863, ch. 76, § 7.
Vol. xii. p. 740.
Neglect, &c. of any officer, &c. to pay over money received, to be cause of removal and forfeiture of dues.
1849, ch. 110, § 1.
Vol. ix. p. 398.
Moneys received for custody to be accounted for as storage.
1841, ch. 35, § 5.
Vol. v. p. 482.
Masters of foreign vessels arriving in waters of the United States from foreign places adjacent to northern, &c. frontiers, to report at office of nearest collector.
Forfeiture.
Penalty upon collectors or inspectors of steamboats for not making returns, &c. required by law.
Repeal of certain acts, or parts of acts.
1795, ch. 48.
Vol. i. p. 441.
1840, ch. 26.
Vol. v. p. 381.
1793, ch. 8, § 10, last clause.
Vol. i. p. 309.
1844, ch. 105, § 7.
Vol. v. p. 656.
1799, ch. 22, § 103.
Vol. i. p. 701.
1865, ch. 80, § 10.
Vol. xiii. p. 494.
Pending proceedings not affected.
Certain post-roads established.
New York.
Maryland.
Rhode Island.
Iowa.
From Des Moines, via Indianola and Chariton, to Luneville (State line).
From Des Moines, via McClain, Henry, Payton, Maseville, and Benson, to Grove City.
Wisconsin.
From Arcadia, via Burnside and Hale, to Sumner.
From Dodgeville, via James’s Mills, Win. S. Bean’s, and Booth Hollow, to Avoca.
From Green Bush, via Armstrong’s Corners, Dundee, New Prospect, and Eble’s Mills, to Barton.
From Wrightstown, via East Wrightstown, Morristown, and Maple Grove, to Banquette.
From Spring Green, via Plain and White Mound, to Reedsburg.
Minnesota.
From Wilton, via Swan Lake, to Blue Earth City.
From Redwood Falls, on the Minnesota River, via Big Stone Lake, Fort Wadsworth, and Fort Berthold, to Fort Union, Montana Territory.
From De Luth to the Falls of Vermillion River.
From Little Falls, via Long Prairie, to Alexandria.
From Sauk Centre, via Westport, Lake Amelia, Reno City, Lake Tokan, Big Stone Lake, and Lake Traverse, to Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territory.
From Saint Peter, via Lake Prairie, Kelso, and Dryden, to New Auburn.
From Shakopee, via Maple Glenn, New Dublin, New Market, and Cedar Lake, to Oral, returning thence by Helena, Lydia, and Marystown, to Shakopee.
From Winona, via Eau Claire, Chippewa, Mondovi, to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
From Red Wing, via Thomas Carney’s Mill, Wisconsin, to Ellsworth.
From Crow Wing, via Otter Tail City and Monta, to Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory.
From Elk River, via Pleasant Valley, to Spencer Brook.
From Monticello, via Buffalo, to Watertown.
From Buffalo, via Maple Lake to Fremont.
Kansas.
From Junction City, via south side of Republican River, Quimby’s Cain’s Settlement, and Elk Creek, to Washington.
From Junction City to Batchelder.
From Pleasant Hill, Missouri, via High Blue, Aubrey, Squires Ville, Kansas, and Spring Hill, to Baldwin City.
From Media to Oskaloosa.
From American City, via Savannah, to Vienna.
From Ottawa, via Berea, Mount Getiad, and Oakwood, to Mound City.
Missouri.
Arkansas.
Mississippi.
Alabama.
Montana.
Nevada.
From Wellington Station, via Mammoth and Ione, to Austin.
From Virginia City to American City.
From Aurora, via Columbus, to Silver Peak.
From Austin, via Kingston, Ophir Canon, and San Antonia, to Silver Peak.
From Ione, via Ophir Canon, Boiling Springs, and San Antonia, to Crystal Springs.
Oregon.
From Oregon City, via Cutting Mill, Glad Tidings, Silverton, Sublimity, and Scio, to Lebanon.
From Portland, via Union School House, Philip Foster’s on Clackemas, and Cuttingsville, to Silverton.
From Dallas, via Antelope Valley, Camp Watson, John Day City, Canyon City, Marysville, Union, Strawberry Valley, Camp Logan, and Willow Creek, to Boise City, Idaho Territory.
From Canyon City, via Susanville, Elk District, Trues Station, Olin Creek, Independence, and Auburn, to Baker City.
California.
From Los Angelos to Havilah City, in Tulare County.
From Dry town to El Dorado.
From Quincy, via Jamison City, Eureka Mills, Seventy-Six, Red Clover Valley, Mohawk, Little Humbug, and Beckworth’s, to Sierra Valley.
From Auburn, via Greenwood, to Georgetown.
From San Rafael, via Oiema and Bolirnas, to Petaluma.
From Woodland, via Cache Creek, to Buckeye.
West Virginia.
From Sistersville, in Tyler County, via Twiggs, to Hebron, in Pleasants County.
From Sago, in Upshur County, to Huttonsville, in Randolph County.
Illinois.
From Winchester to Manchester.
From Elkhart, in Logan County, direct to Sweet Water, in Menard County.
Indiana.
That the following sums be, and Legislative, executive, and judicial expenses appropriation.
Legislative.—For compensation and mileage of senators, two hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Legislative.
For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving Pay and mileage of senators, officers, clerks, &c.
For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz:— Contingent expenses.
For stationery, seventeen thousand dollars. Stationery.
For newspapers, five thousand dollars. Newspapers.
For Congressional Globe, twenty thousand dollars. Congressional Globe.
For reporting proceedings in the Daily Globe for the second session of the thirty-ninth Congress, twelve thousand dollars.
For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate Additional compensation to reporters.
For one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for Globe and Appendix; sets to new senators. Proviso.
For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, Globe and Appendix.
For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, twenty thousand Clerks to committees, &c.
For capitol police, twenty-one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars: Capitol police. Proviso.
For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus, twenty thousand Heating and ventilating.
For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.
For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives Pay and mileage of representatives, &c.;
For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving of officers, clerks, &c.
For contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, viz:— Contingent expenses of House.
For cartage, two thousand dollars. Cartage.
For clerks to committees and temporary clerks of the House of Representatives, Clerks to committees and temporary clerks.
For twenty-four copies of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for Globe and Appendix.
For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding three thousand, including the indexes and the laws of the United States, eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For folding documents, including materials, thirty thousand dollars. Folding.
For fuel and lights, pay of engineers, firemen, and laborers, repairs, Fuel, lights, &c.
For furniture, repairs, and packing-boxes for members, ten thousand Furniture.
For horses, carriages, and saddle horses, nine thousand dollars. Horses, carriages, &c.
For laborers, eight thousand four hundred dollars. Laborers.
For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.
For newspapers, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Newspapers.
For pages and temporary mail boys, ten thousand dollars. Pages, &c.
For reporting and publishing proceedings in the Daily Globe, ten thousand Reporting, &c. in Daily Globe.
For stationery, eighteen thousand dollars. Stationery.
For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House Additional pay to reporters.
Public Printing.—For compensation of the superintendent of public Public printing. Pay of superintendent, clerks, &c.
For contingent expenses of his office, viz: for stationery, postage, advertising, furniture, travelling expenses, horses and wagons, and miscellaneous Contingencies.
For the public printing, three hundred and sixty-nine thousand four Public printing.
For paper for the public printing, four hundred and fifty-six thousand Paper for public printing.
For the public binding, three hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred Binding.
For mapping in cases pending in the Supreme Court of the United Mapping.
For lithographing and engraving for the Senate and House of Representatives, Lithographing and engraving.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase of Messrs. Little, Statutes at Large, vol. xiii.
Library of Congress.—For compensation of librarian, five assistant Library of Congress. Pay of librarian, &c.
For contingent expenses of said library, two thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For purchase of books for said library, eight thousand dollars. Books.
For purchase of law books for said library, two thousand dollars.
For botanic garden, grading, draining, procuring manure, tools, fuel, Botanic garden and greenhouses.
For pay of superintendent and assistants, and assistants in botanic garden Superintendent and assistants.
For purchasing files of the leading American newspapers for said library, Files of newspapers.
Court of Claims.—For salaries of five judges of the court of claims, Court of claims. Judges, solicitor, &c.
For stationery, books, fuel, labor, and other contingent and miscellaneous expenses, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of attorneys to attend to taking testimony, witnesses, Attorneys to take testimony.
For payment of judgments rendered by the court in favor of claimants, Payment of judgments in favor of claimants. Proviso.
Executive.—For compensation of the President of the United States, President.
For compensation of secretary to sign patents for public lands, one Secretary, steward, &c.
For compensation to the private secretary, steward, and messenger of the President of the United States, four thousand six hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Executive office, including stationery Contingencies.
Department of State.—For compensation of the Secretary of State Department of State. Pay of Secretary, &c.
For increase to one messenger, one hundred dollars.
For increase to assistant, one hundred and forty dollars.
For the Incidental and Contingent Expenses of the Department of State.— Contingent expenses. Pamphlet laws, &c.
For publishing the laws of the thirty-seventh and thirty eighth congresses Publishing laws in lately insurgent States.
For proof-reading, and packing the laws and documents for the various Proof-reading, &c.
For stationery, blank books, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, five thousand Stationery, &c.
For miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars. Miscellaneous.
For copper-plate printing, books, and maps, five thousand dollars. Copper-plate printing, &c.
For extra clerk hire and copying, ten thousand dollars. Extra clerk hire, &c.
For the General Purposes of the Northeast Executive Building.—For Northeast executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous expenses, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Treasury Department.—For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury Department. Pay of Secretary, assistants, &c.
For compensation of the first comptroller, chief clerk, and the clerks, 1st comptroller.
For compensation of the second comptroller, chief clerk, and the 2d comptroller.
For compensation of the first auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, 1st auditor.
For compensation of the second auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, 2d auditor.
For compensation of the third auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, messengers, 3d auditor.
For compensation of the fourth auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, 4th auditor.
For compensation of the fifth auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, messenger, 5th auditor.
For compensation of the auditor of the treasury for the Post Office Auditor for Post Office Department.
For compensation of the treasurer of the United States, assistant Treasurer, assistant treasurer, &c.
For compensation of the register of the treasury, assistant register, Register, assistant register, &c.
For compensation of the solicitor of the treasury, chief clerk, and the Solicitor.
For compensation of the commissioner of customs, chief clerk, and the Commissioner of customs.
For compensation of the chief clerk, clerks, messenger, and laborer of Light-house board.
For compensation of the comptroller of the currency, deputy comptroller, Comptroller of the currency.
For paper, special dies, and printing of circulating notes, and expenses Paper, special dies, and printing of circulating notes.
For salaries of commissioner, deputy commissioner, and clerks of internal Commissioner, &c. of internal revenue.
For office furniture, maps, labor, miscellaneous items, and other contingent Office furniture, &c.
Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department.—In the office of the Contingent expenses of Treasury Department;
For copying, labor, binding, sealing ships’ registers, translating foreign in office of the Secretary.
For compensation of temporary clerks in the Treasury Department, and Pay of temporary clerks. Clerks may be classified. Part of former unexpended appropriation to be how divided. 1855, ch. 73. Vol. xiii. p. 450. See Post, p. 669.
In the office of the first comptroller: Contingent expenses in the office of 1st comptroller;
For furniture, public documents, State and Territorial statutes, postage, and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
In the office of the second comptroller: of 2d comptroller;
For blank books, binding, furniture, and miscellaneous items, including subscription to one city newspaper, to be bound and preserved for the use of the office, four thousand dollars.
In the office of the first auditor: of 1st auditor;
For stationery, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars.
In the office of the second auditor: of 2d auditor;
For office furniture and miscellaneous items, including two of the city newspapers, to be filed and preserved for the use of the office, twenty-five thousand dollars.
In the office of the third auditor: of 3d auditor;
For office furniture, carpeting, two newspapers, preserving files and papers, bounty land service, and miscellaneous items, fifteen thousand dollars.
In the office of the fourth auditor: of 4th auditor;
For contingent expenses of the office, including two daily newspapers, three thousand dollars.
In the office of the fifth auditor: of 5th auditor;
For postage, furniture, and miscellaneous expenses, in which are included two daily newspapers, two thousand dollars.
In the office of the auditor for the Post Office Department: of auditor for Post Office Department;
For contingent expenses of the office, six thousand dollars.
In the office of the treasurer: of treasurer;
For contingent expenses of the office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
In the office of the register: of register;
For arranging and binding cancelled marine papers, and for official papers and records, and miscellaneous items, including office furniture, eight thousand dollars.
Office of the solicitor of the treasury: of solicitor;
For books, binding, stationery, labor, and miscellaneous items, and for statutes and reports, and for care of library, two thousand two hundred dollars.
Office of the commissioner of customs: of commissioner of customs.
For stationery, miscellaneous items, and office furniture, three thousand dollars.
Light-house board, viz: Contingent expenses of light-house board;
For miscellaneous expenses and postage, six hundred dollars.
Office of the comptroller of the currency: of comptroller of currency:
For furniture and miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars.
For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus, Stationery.
For the General Purposes of the Southeast Executive Building, including Southeast executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for fuel, light, labor, and miscellaneous items, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For rent of buildings for the accommodation of clerks who cannot be accommodated in the treasury building, two thousand dollars.
Department of the Interior.—For compensation of the Secretary of Department of the Interior. Pay of Secretary, &c.;
For compensation of the commissioner of the general land office, of commissioner of general land office;
For compensation of additional clerks in the general land office, of additional clerks. 1855, ch. 207. Vol. x. p. 701. Proviso.
For compensation of the commissioner of Indian affairs, chief clerk, Of commissioner of Indian affairs;
For compensation of the commissioner of pensions, chief clerk, and the of commissioner of pensions;
For additional clerks in the pension office, twenty-one thousand dollars: additional clerks; Proviso.
Contingent Expenses—Department of the Interior.—Office of the Contingent expenses.
For stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, and for books and Office of Secretary.
For casual repairs of the patent office building, twelve thousand five Patent Office.
For expenses of packing and distributing congressional journals and Distributing journals and documents. Vol. xi. p. 253. 1859, ch. 22. Vol. xi. p. 379.
For fuel and lights for the patent office building, including the salaries Fuel and lights.
Office of the commissioner of Indian affairs: Office of commissioner of Indian affairs.
For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, four thousand dollars.
Office of the commissioner of pensions: Contingent expenses of commissioner of pensions;
For stationery, engraving, and retouching plates for bounty land warrants, and binding the same, office furniture, and repairing the same, and miscellaneous items, including two city daily newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, fifteen thousand dollars.
Office of the commissioner of public buildings: of commissioner of public buildings;
For compensation of the commissioner of public buildings, and the clerk and messenger in his office, four thousand two hundred dollars.
For stationery, blank books, plans, drawings, and other contingent expenses of his office, five hundred dollars.
Surveyors General and their Clerks.—For compensation of the surveyor-general Surveyors general and their clerks. Office in Wisconsin and Iowa, when to be abolished.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of Minnesota, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of the Territories of Dakota and Montana, and the clerks in his office, six thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska, and the clerks in his office, eight thousand three hundred dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of the Territories of Colorado, Utah, and Idaho, and the clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of New Mexico and Arizona, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of California and Nevada, and the clerks in his office, fourteen thousand dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of Oregon, and the clerks in his office, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation of the surveyor-general of Washington Territory, and the clerks in his office, six thousand five hundred dollars. Recorder of land titles in Missouri.
For compensation of recorder of land titles in Missouri, five hundred dollars.
For rent of surveyor-general’s office in Oregon, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, including pay of messenger, fifteen hundred dollars.
For rent of surveyor-general’s office of California and Nevada, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, including pay of messenger, five thousand dollars.
For office rent for the surveyor-general of Washington Territory, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For office rent of the surveyor-general of Kansas and Nebraska, fuel, and incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For rent of surveyor-general’s office in the Territories of Dakota and Montana, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general of Colorado, Utah, and Idaho Territories, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Expenses of Courts of the United States.—For defraying the expenses Expenses of courts of the United States, safe-keeping of prisoners, and prosecution of crime. Law requiring unexpended balances of appropriations for the judiciary fund, to return to treasury, repealed. 1805, ch. 73. Vol. xiii. p. 452.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the balance due for Building for Federal courts in New Orleans.
War Department.—For compensation of the Secretary of War, assistant War Department. Pay of Secretary, &c.
For compensation of the clerks and messengers in the office of the Office of adjutant-general;
For compensation of the clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and of quartermaster-general;
For compensation of the clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and of paymaster-general; number and pay of certain clerks;
For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborers in the office of commissary-general;
For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborer in the office of of surgeon-general;
For compensation of the clerks, messengers, and laborer in the office of chief engineer;
For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the of colonel of ordnance;
For compensation of the clerks in the office of military justice, seven of military justice.
Contingent Expenses of the War Department.—Office of the Secretary Contingent expenses.
For blank books, stationery, labor, books, maps, extra clerk hire, and Office of Secretary of War;
Office of the adjutant-general: of adjutant-general;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, twenty-five hundred dollars.
Office of the quartermaster-general: of quartermaster-general;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars.
Office of the paymaster-general: of paymaster-general;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
Office of the commissary-general: of commissary-general.
For blank books, stationery, and binding, including rent of office and hire of watchmen, twenty thousand dollars.
Office of the chief engineer: Contingent expenses in office of chief engineer;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the surgeon-general: of surgeon-general;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, including rent of office, fifteen thousand dollars.
Office of the chief of ordnance: of chief of ordnance;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
Office of military justice: of military justice.
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the General Purposes of the Northwest Executive Building.—For Northwest executive building.
For labor, fuel, light, and miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars.
For the General Purposes of the Building corner of F and Seventeenth Building corner F and 17th streets.
For fuel, compensation of firemen, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
For the General Purposes of the Building corner of F and Fifteenth Building corner F and 15th streets.
Navy Department.—For compensation of the Secretary of the Navy, Navy Department. Pay of Secretary, &c.
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of navy yards and Bureau of yards and docks;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of equipment and recruiting, of equipment and recruiting;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of navigation, chief clerk, of navigation;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of ordnance, and the of ordnance;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of construction and repair, of construction and repair;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of steam engineering, of steam engineering;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of provisions and clothing, of provisions and clothing;
For compensation of the chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery, of medicine and surgery.
Incidental and Contingent Expenses of the Navy Department.—Office Contingent expenses. Office of Secretary of Navy.
For stationery, labor, newspapers, periodicals, and miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars.
Bureau of yards and docks: Bureau of yards and docks.
For stationery, books, plans, drawings, and incidental labor, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Bureau of equipment and recruiting: Bureau of equipment and recruiting;
For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars.
Bureau of navigation: of navigation;
For stationery, blank books, and miscellaneous items, two thousand four hundred dollars.
Bureau of ordnance: of ordnance;
For stationery and miscellaneous items, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Bureau of construction and repair: of construction and repair;
For stationery and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
Bureau of steam engineering: of steam engineering;
For stationery and miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Bureau of provisions and clothing: of provisions and clothing;
For stationery and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Bureau of medicine and surgery: of medicine and surgery.
For blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.
To defray the expense of introducing water into the naval academy Water at naval academy.
For the General Purposes of the Southwest Executive Building.—For Southwest executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz:
For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Post Office Department.—For compensation of the Postmaster-General, Post Office Department. Pay of Postmaster-General, &c.
For compensation of authorized additional and for temporary clerks, thirty-seven thousand dollars.
Contingent Expenses of the Post Office Department.—For blank Contingent expenses of Post Office Department.
Money Order Bureau.—For compensation of superintendent and the Money order bureau.
Topographer.—For preparing and publishing post-route maps of the Topographer.
Department of Agriculture.—For compensation of commissioner of Department of agriculture.
For contingencies, viz: For stationery, purchase of library, laboratory, Contingencies.
For collecting agricultural statistics, ten thousand dollars. Agricultural statistics.
For purchase and distribution of new and valuable seeds, viz: Purchase and distribution of seeds.
For purchase of cereal, vegetable, and flower seeds, and for labor in putting up seeds, seed bags, and miscellaneous items, sixty thousand dollars: Proviso.
For employés in seed-room, five thousand two hundred dollars.
For propagation and distribution of plants, cuttings, and shrubs, fourteen Propagation, &c. of plants, cuttings, and shrubs. Proviso.
For experimental garden in reservation number two, eight thousand Experimental garden.
Mint at Philadelphia.—For salaries of the director, treasurer, assayer, Mint at Philadelphia.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For specimens of ores and coins to be preserved in the cabinet of the mint, six hundred dollars.
For freight on bullion and coin, five thousand dollars.
Branch Mint at San Francisco, California.—For salaries of superintendent, Branch at San Francisco.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, two hundred thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, repairs and wastage, one hundred thousand dollars.
Assay Office, New York.—For salaries of superintendent, assayer and Assay office, New York.
For wages of workmen, forty thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Branch Mint at Denver.—For superintendent, assayer, melter, refiner, Branch mint at Denver.
For wages of workmen, twenty thousand three hundred and one dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, twelve thousand dollars.
Independent Treasury.—For salaries of the assistant treasurers of the Independent treasury.
For additional salary of the treasurer of the mint at Philadelphia, one Additional salary of treasurer at Philadelphia;
For additional salary of the treasurer of the branch mint at New Orleans, at New Orleans;
For additional salary of the treasurer of the branch mint at Denver, at Denver.
For salaries of the clerks and messengers in the office of assistant Clerks at office of assistant treasurer at Boston; Appointment of clerks in lieu of those now authorized, and their salaries.
For salaries of clerks, messengers, and watchmen, in office of the as- Salaries of clerks, &c. at Philadelphia;
For salary of additional clerks in the office of the assistant treasury at additional clerks;
For salaries of clerks, messengers, and watchmen in the office of the at New York;
For salaries of clerks, messenger, and watchmen in the office of the at Saint Louis;
For additional salaries to the messenger at four hundred dollars per annum, and to four watchmen at one hundred dollars per annum each, in the office of the assistant treasurer at Saint Louis, eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks, porter, and watchmen in the office of the assistant at New Orleans;
For compensation to stamp clerk in the office of the assistant treasurer at San Francisco;
For compensation of the depositary at Santa Fe, and the clerk, watchman, at Santa Fe;
For salary of the clerk to the acting assistant treasurer at Denver, one at Denver.
For salaries of additional clerks, and additional compensation of officers Additional clerks, &c. 1846, ch. 90. Vol. ix. p. 59.
For compensation to designated depositaries, under fourth section of Designated depositaries.
For compensation to special agents, under act of the sixth of August, Special agents.
For salaries of ten supervising and fifty-six local inspectors, appointed Inspectors of steamboats. 1852, ch. 106. Vol. x. p. 61.
For contingent expenses under the act of the sixth of August, eighteen Contingent expenses.
For checks and certificates of deposit, for office of assistant treasurer Checks and certificates of deposit. Machinery, fixtures, &c. of branch mints at New Orleans, Charlotte, and Dahlonega may be removed or sold. These branch mints may be discontinued.
Government in the territories.
Territory of New Mexico.—For salaries of governor, chief justice, Territory of New Mexico.
For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars.
For interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Territory of Utah.—For salaries of governor, chief justice, two associate Territory of Utah;
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, eighteen thousand dollars.
Territory of Washington.—For salaries of governor, chief justice, Washington;
For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerk, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Territory of Nebraska.—For salaries of governor, chief justice, and Nebraska;
For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, fifteen thousand dollars.
Territory of Colorado.—For salaries of governor and superintendent Colorado;
For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, ten thousand dollars.
Territory of Dakota.—For salaries of governor and superintendent Dakota;
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, fifteen thousand dollars.
Territory of Arizona.—For salaries of governor, chief justice, and two Arizona;
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand dollars.
For interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Territory of Idaho.—For salaries of governor and superintendent of Idaho;
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Territory of Montana.—For compensation of governor and superintendent Montana.
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars.
Judiciary.
Office of the Attorney-General.—For salaries of the attorney-general, Office of attorney-general.
For two additional temporary clerks of class one, twenty-four hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses of the office of the attorney-general, namely:
For fuel, labor, furniture, stationery, and miscellaneous items, four thousand dollars.
For purchase of law and necessary books for the office of the attorney-general, five hundred dollars.
For legal assistance and other necessary special and extraordinary expenditures Private land claims in California.
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.—For salaries of Justices of supreme court.
For travelling expenses of the judge assigned to the tenth circuit for attending session of the supreme court of the United States, one thousand dollars.
For salaries of the district judges of the United States, one hundred District judges.
For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Courts in the District of Columbia.
For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of the Reporter of decisions. Salary fixed. Three hundred copies of reports to be delivered.
For additional compensation to three clerks in the department of the Additional pay to certain clerks for services under amnesty proclamation. Vol. xiii. p. 758.
For compensation of the district attorneys, nineteen thousand two hundred District attorneys.
For compensation of the district marshals, twelve thousand dollars. Marshals.
For necessary expenses in carrying into effect the several acts of Congress Expenses of loans and treasury notes.
For salaries and expenses of collectors, assessors, assistant assessors, revenue Salaries of collectors, assessors, &c. of internal revenue. 1864, ch. 173, § 44. Vol. xiii. p. 239.
For compensation to the laborer in charge of the water-closets in the Laborers in capitol.
For compensation of four laborers in capitol, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation to the public gardener, one thousand four hundred Public gardener and laborers.
For compensation of a foreman and twenty-one laborers employed in the public grounds, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For compensation of the keeper of the western gate, Capitol Square, Gate keeper and watchmen.
For compensation of two day watchmen employed in the Capitol Square, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation of two night watchmen at the President’s house, one thousand two hundred dollars.
To enable the commissioner of public buildings to pay two policemen Policemen, &c. at President’s house.
To enable the commissioner of public buildings to pay two policemen at the President’s house, (one from August twenty-fourth, the other from November twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,) two thousand and twenty-three dollars and thirty-four cents.
For compensation of the door-keeper at the President’s house, one thousand dollars.
For compensation of one night watchman at the public stables and carpenter’s Night watchman.
For compensation of two watchmen in reservation number two, twelve hundred dollars.
For compensation of eight draw-keepers at the Potomac bridge, and for Draw-keepers at Potomac bridge.
For compensation of two draw-keepers at the two bridges across the eastern branch of the Potomac, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, one thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars.
For compensation of furnace-keeper under the old hall of the House of Furnace-keepers.
For compensation of furnace-keeper at the President’s house, six hundred dollars.
Metropolitan Police.—For salaries and other necessary expenses of Metropolitan police; increase of pay; how borne. Special tax.
For the construction of a police telegraph in the city of Washington, Police telegraph.
Salary of treasurer of the United States established.
Appropriation.
Salary of commissioner of public buildings established.
Household of the President.
Private secretary.
Assistant secretary.
Short-hand writer.
Clerk of pardons.
Clerks.
Steward.
Duties and bond of steward.
Appropriation.
Office of assistant solicitor of treasury established.
Salary.
Law-clerk authorized in office of attorney-general.
Appropriation.
Pay of female clerks and counters established.
Appropriation.
Addition of twenty per cent to pay of certain clerks, messengers, watchmen, and laborers continued.
1864, ch. 147, § 3.
Vol. xiii. p. 160.
Appropriation.
Post, p. 449.
Additional and other clerks in Navy Department.
In bureau of yards and docks;
of navigation;
of equipment and repair;
of ordnance;
of construction and repair;
Clerks in bureau of steam navigation;
of provisions and clothing;
of medicine and surgery.
Appropriation.
Increase of pay of certain inspectors of customs continued.
1864, ch. 71.
Vol. xiii. p. 61.
Adjustment of accounts of Stewart Gwynn.
1865, ch. 73, § 1.
Vol. xiii. p. 458.
Appropriation for purchase of Indian annuity goods in lieu of certain destroyed by fire.
Vol. xi. pp. 659, 749.
Appropriation to pay certain informers their part of fines, penalties, and forfeitures.
1862, ch. 130, § 5.
Vol. xii. p. 504.
See Post, p. 569.
Time for complying with provisions of act granting public lands to States, &c. for agricultural, &c. colleges, &c. extended.
Where territory becomes a State, the new State entitled to benefits of act, and how.
States already accepting to have five years more within which to provide one college.
No vacancy in the office of associate justice of supreme court to be filled until, &c.
Supreme court thereafter to consist of, &c.
Quorum; terms.
Circuits established.
Title of the United States to land in the city of Benicia granted to that city and its successors in trust.
Limit to grant.
Title of the United States to land in the town of Santa Cruz granted to that town in trust.
Limit to grant.
Lands granted to Kansas for the benefit of the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad Company.
Location of road and branches.
If any of granted lands have been sold or reserved, &c. other lands may be selected in lieu thereof.
Selected lands to be within twenty miles of road.
Lands granted to be applied exclusively in the construction of railroad;
but not for any road for which previous grant has been made.
Lands heretofore reserved exempted from the operation of this act.
Right of way.
Remaining lands not to be sold for less than double the minimum price;
to be exposed to public sale.
settlers under homestead and pre-emption laws.
Settlers under homestead laws when entitled to patents for eighty acres each.
Conditions of grant.
Lands how to inure to the benefit of the company.
If road does not complete one section of road each year, the right to the lands for said section is forfeited.
If road is not completed in ten years, lands unpatented to revert to the United States.
When maps of route of road are filed, lands to be withdrawn from market.
Mail to be carried over road, and at what price.
Right of way granted to the railroad company.
Materials for construction of road.
Extent of grant.
Grounds for shops, &c.
Acceptance of this act to be in writing, and within six months.
Act 1866, ch. 8.
Ante, p. 3, not to limit act 1852, ch. 4.
Vol. x. p. 149.
Leavenworth City Railroad Company may construct horse railway through military reservation;
may take land for road.
Location of road.
Company to erect own bridges and crossings.
Land granted, to revert if not used for railroad purposes.
Privilege to cease at will of Secretary of War.
1861, ch. 62.
Vol. xii. p. 320.
1862, ch. 181.
Vol. xii. p. 578.
Post, p. 374.
Titles of officers of metropolitan police.
Additional officers and men authorized.
Authority and jurisdiction of certain justices of the peace.
Vol. xii. p. 580.
Fines, to whom paid, and mode of payment.
Licenses for sale of intoxicating drinks.
Uniform of the police.
Property clerk of police to have powers of notary public.
Powers and duties.
Property or money, the proceeds of crime, not called for as evidence within one year, to be treated as abandoned.
Animals, or property other than money, when and how may be placed in custody of the owners.
Perishable property.
Large quantities of goods held for sale.
No person to assume or practise the occupation of detective in the District of Columbia without specific appointment therefor, unless, &c.
Bond.
Sureties on bond, when to be prosecuted.
Detectives arresting persons for crime to carry them at once to office of superintendent of police, &c.
Case to be examined.
Laws relating to police to apply to detectives.
When a private detective’s bond is executed, he shall report to secretary of police.
Bond to be filed and record made.
Felonies, &c. not to be compounded.
Persons suspected of crime not to be aided to escape by withholding information, &c.
Money, &c. not to be received from those charged with crime.
Penalty for violation hereof.
Certain real property in the county of Washington may be sold for taxes.
Notice of time and place of sale;
to state what.
Purchase-money how paid.
When and how purchaser to receive title.
Owners may redeem within two years.
Mode of redemption.
If purchaser fails to pay residue of purchase-money.
No sale to be made of improved property, if there is thereon sufficient personal property.
Minors, mortgagees, and those having equitable interests to have what time within which to redeem.
Sale may be adjourned.
Collector of levy court may collect any tax by distress and sale.
Sale not to be made, unless, &c.
Levy court may demand of Washington or Georgetown the proportion of expenses, although, &c.
1812, ch. 117. Vol. ii. p. 771.
Cities of Washington and Georgetown to pay to trustees of colored schools the proportionate part of certain school moneys.
1864, ch. 156, § 18. Vol. xiii. p. 191.
Money when to be payable.
Interest.
An action of debt may be maintained for those moneys.
Metropolitan Mining and Manufacturing Company incorporated.
Subscriptions to stock.
Who may subscribe.
Powers of corporation.
Directors, number, how and when chosen.
Votes.
General meetings of stock-holders, how notified.
First election.
President
Quorum.
If election is not made at proper time, company not to be dissolved, &c.
Vacancies in office of director, how filled.
Appointment and pay of secretary and other officers, agents, and clerks.
Capital stock, how called in.
If stock holders, &c. do not pay instalments, &c.
Fresh subscriptions may be opened.
No stockholder in arrears to vote
Authority of president and directors.
By-laws.
Business of mining may be carried on.
Lands may be sold or leased.
Real estate.
Bonds.
Proviso.
Lands may be sold or leased.
Stock how transferred.
This act may be altered, &c.
Certain lands selected by California confirmed to that State.
Certain selections not confirmed.
State not to receive more land for school, &c. purposes
than she Is entitled to.
Where selections are upon lands surveyed by authority of the United States register to be notified
Notice to be the date of State selection.
Commissioner of general land office to do what.
Where selections are upon lands surveyed only by State authority, and lands are sold, selections to have same effect as certain preemption rights.
If on survey by the United States the lines of the two surveys do not agree, selection to be changed.
Upon filing township plat, holder of State title allowed what time to present, &c. his claim.
Where township surveys have been made and plats approved, swamp and overflowed lands to be certified to State within one year.
Segregation maps, &c. of swamp and overflowed lands made by State, to be examined, &c.
If found to conform to United States surveys.
If found not to conform.
If State claims as swamp, &c. lands any not so represented in
map, character of land how to be determined.
Lists of lands selected and of swamp, &c. lands claimed by State, to be sent to general land office.
State may select for school purposes lands in lieu of certain sixteen and thirty-sixth sections.
1853, ch. 145.
Vol. x. p. 244.
Surveyor-general to furnish State authorities with lists.
Purchasers of lands of Mexican grantees, the grants being subsequently rejected, &c. may buy same at minimum price, &c.
Limit of such right to purchase.
Lines of public surveys when not to run through permanent improvements.
Where claims to land by title from Spanish, &c. authorities, have been confirmed, and a survey and plat not requested within ten months, &c. lines of surveys to be extended
over said land, and quantity set off.
1864, ch. 194, §§ 6. 7.
Vol. xiii. p. 334.
Land not set off, subject to general land laws of the United States.
Rights of bona fide preemption claimants not interfered with.
Appeals from decrees of district courts respecting surveys of certain private land claims after July 1, 1865, to circuit court
Decision of circuit court to be final.
Appeal from certain decrees of district courts.
Telegraph companies may maintain and operate lines of telegraph over public domain, along post, &c. roads, and across navigable waters of the United States.
Lines to be so constructed as nut to obstruct, &c.
Materials for cos is tract ion, &c. may be taken from public lands.
Lands may be preempted for stations, not exceeding, &c. and not within, &c.
Telegrams for the govern mont to have priority of transmission.
Rates to be annually fixed.
Rights and privileges not to be transferred.
The United States may purchase for postal, &c. purposes, telegraph lines.
Value, how ascertained.
Telegraph companies to file written acceptance of this act, before exercising any powers grated hereby.
Number allowed in each grade of line officers on the active list of the navy.
Increase in grades, how made.
Who may be promoted to grade of rear-admiral on retired list.
Appointments of certain line officers on active list from volunteer naval service.
If by these appointments number in any grade exceeds that allowed by law.
Authority exhausted when the number of volunteer officers is once appointed.
Board for examination of candidates from the naval volunteer service.
Report and selections.
What volunteer naval offi-
cers may appear before board.
Volunteer officers at sea or on foreign stations.
Secretary of Navy may retain or appoint volunteer officers in the navy.
Lieutenant commanders;
may be assigned to what duty.
Pay of the admiral of the navy.
His secretary.
Naval constructors and first and second assistant engineers.
Repeal of inconsistent laws.
Grade of general of the army of the United States revived.
Appointment. &c.
Pay and allowances of the general.
1864, ch. 14, § 2.
Vol. xiii. p. 12.
Chief of staff.
Repeal of 1805, ch, 85.
Vol. xiii. p. 500.
Aides, their number, rank, and pay.
Staff of lieutenant general.
Consular and diplomatic expenses appropriation.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, namely:
Envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners.
Secretaries and assistant secretaries of legation.
Interpreters.
For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand dollars.
For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars.
For salary of the interpreter to the legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Barbary powers.
Consulates in the Turkish dominions.
American seamen.
Rescuing seamen.
Blank books, stationery, &c.
Office rent.
Consuls general, consuls, &c.
Consulates general.
Consulates.
Schedule B.
Commercial agencies.
Schedule B.
Consulates.
Schedule C.
Commercial agencies.
Schedule C.
Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Pay of certain consuls established. No money to be paid to the present minister resident at Portugal, &c.
For interpreters to the Interpreters to consulates and consular courts.
For expenses incurred under Persons charged with crime.
For salaries of the marshals Marshals in consular courts.
For rent of prisons for Prisons.
For salaries of commissioners Hayti, Liberia, and Dominica. Title.
Suppression of slave-trade. 1862, ch. 140. Vol. xii. p. 531. Immigration. 1864, ch. 246. Vol. xiii. p. 385. Commissioners claims of Hudson's Bay, &c. Agricultural Company. Vol. xiii. p. 651.
For expenses under the act to encourage immigration, twenty thousand dollars.
For further compensation of the commissioner under the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the final settlement of the claims of the Hudson’s Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Company, three thousand dollars in full for his services and personal expenses.
Neutrality act.
Boundary line commissions.
Capitalization of Scheldt dues. Vol. xiii. p. 649.
Cemetery fences and sexton’s house in Mexico.
Appointment of second assistant secretary of state, and examiner of claims.
Salaries.
Appropriation.
Fees collected by certain consuls and commercial agents to be accounted for to Secretary of Treasury.
1856, ch. 127, § 18.
Vol. xi. p. 58.
Excess over $ 2500 a year above, &c. to be paid to Secretary of Treasury.
Salaries of envoys extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary.
Licensed engineers or pilots wrongfully refusing to serve as such, &c. or pilots refusing to admit certain persons into pilot house, to forfeit $ 390.
How to be recovered.
License to be revoked.
Where there is a water connecting-pipe between boilers, similar steam connection to be also provided.
Maximum working pressure of boiler.
Safety valves on boilers of steamers;
how loaded and secured.
Alloyed metals on flues of boilers to be fusible, and at what temperature.
Watergauge and gauge-cocks.
Construction of steam boilers hereafter built;
employed on certain rivers.
Steamers hereafter built, how to have boilers divided.
Cotton, hemp, hay, straw, &c. not to be carried on deck or guards of passenger steamers, except, &c.
Penalty.
Coal oil or crude petroleum not to be so carried, unless, &c.
Barges carrying passengers in low of a steamer.
Steamers used as freight boats to be subject to inspection, &c.
1884, ch. 113. Vol. xiii. p. 120.
Penalty for certain persons attempting to net as steamboat inspectors.
All vessels, except, &c. to be subject to the navigation laws of the United States.
Steam vessels, &c. to be subject to act of 1852, ch. 106. § 29.
Vol. x. p. 72.
Seagoing steam vessels, when under way, except on high seas, to be under control of licensed pilots, except, &c. See 1867, ch. 83.
Post, p. 411.
Passenger vessels to have the life-boats required by law provided with suitable boat disengaging apparatus.
Foremasthead light only on ocean-going steamers and those carrying sail.
1864, ch. 69.
Vol. xiii. p. 58.
Lights of river steamers navigating waters flowing into Gulf of Mexico;
of coasting steamers, &c. other than ferry, boats, &c.
That Annual pay of local inspectors of steamboats. District of Portland; Boston and Charlestown; New London; New York; Philadelphia; Baltimore. Norfolk; Charleston; Savannah; Mobile; New Orleans; Galveston; St. Louis; Nashville; Louisville; Cincinnati; Wheeling; Pittsburg; Chicago; Detroit; Cleveland; Buffalo; Oswego; Vermont; San Francisco; Memphis; Galena; Portland. Supervising inspectors.
For the district of Portland, in Maine, three hundred dollars; for the district of Boston and Charlestown, in Massachusetts, one thousand dollars; for the district of New London, in Connecticut, live hundred dollars; for the district of New York, two at two thousand dollars each, two at fifteen hundred dollars each, and one additional inspector of boilers at fifteen hundred dollars; for the district of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, thirteen hundred dollars; for the district of Baltimore, in Maryland, twelve hundred dollars; for the district of Norfolk, in Virginia, three hundred dollars; for the district of Charleston, in South Carolina, five hundred dollars; for the district of Savannah, in Georgia, four hundred dollars; for the district of Mobile, in Alabama, one thousand dollars; for the district of New Orleans, or in which New Orleans is the port of entry, Louisiana, two thousand dollars; for the district of Galveston, in Texas, for hundred dollars; for the district of St. Lottis, in Missouri, sixteen hundred dollars; for the district of Nashville, in Tennessee, four hundred dollars; for the district of Louisville, in Kentucky, twelve hundred dollars; for the district of Cincinnati, in Ohio, sixteen hundred dollars; for the district of Wheeling, West Virginia, five hundred dollars; for the district of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, sixteen hundred dollars; for the district of Chicago, Illinois, eight hundred dollars; for the district of Detroit, Michigan, one thousand dollars; for the district of Cleveland, Ohio, six hundred dollars; for the district of Buffalo, New York, twelve hundred dollars; for the district of Oswego, or of which Oswego is the port of entry, New York, three hundred dollars; for the district of Vermont, of which Burlington is the port of entry, three hundred dollars; for the district of San Francisco, California, fifteen hundred dollars; for the district of Memphis, Tennessee, nine hundred dollars; for the district of Galena, Illinois, one thousand dollars; for the district of Portland, Oregon, seven hundred dollars; to the supervising inspector of the Pacific coast, two thousand five hundred dollars; to other supervising inspectors, two thousand dollars each.
Clerk in local offices at New York and New Orleans.
Pay.
Stationery, printing, instruments, &c. for supervising and local inspectors.
Rules and regulations.
Special examinations, &c.
Bonds of supervising local, and assistant inspectors of steamboats.
Form and conditions.
Repeal of inconsistent laws.
Provisions of pension laws extended to provost marshals and their deputies and to enrolling officers.
How to take rank.
Pensions to widows of soldiers and sailors increased $2 a month for each child under sixteen years.
If there is more than one child, and no widow, &c.
No person to have more than one pension.
Provisions of former acts extended to pensioners under previous laws, except, &c.
1862, ch. 166.
Vol. xii. p. 566.
1864, ch. 247.
Vol. xiii, p. 387.
1865, ch. 84.
Vol. xiii. p. 499.
If during pendency of an application for invalid pension and after completion of proof, applicant dies, who may receive accrued pension, &c.
That if any person during the pendency of his application for an invalid pension, and after the completion of the proof showing his right thereto, has died, or shall hereafter die, but not in either case by reason of a wound received, or disease contract ed in the service of the United Slates and in the line of duly, his widow, or if he left no widow, or in the event of her death or marriage, his rela tives in the same order in which th[e]y would have received a pension, if they had been thereunto entitled under existing laws on account of tho services and death in the line of duty of such person, shall have the right to demand and receive the accrued pension to which he would have been entitled had the certificate issued before his death; and in all eases where such person so entitled to an invalid pension has died, or shall hereafter die, under circumstances hereinbefore mentioned, whether by reason of a wound received or disease contracted in the service of the United States, and in Accrued pension to be paid to executor, &c.
Repealing clause of act 1866, ch. 166,
Ante, p. 56,
not to work forfeiture of accrued rights, &c.
Widows having claim for pension pending at date of re-marriage not affected by provisions of act 1865, ch. 84, § 4.
Vol. xiii. p. 490.
See Joint Resolution No. 60.
Post, p. 575.
Secretary of the Interior to select suitable place and construct a jail thereon.
Capacity.
Cost.
Architecture employed;
to prepare designs and specifications, and publish notice of letting contract for building.
Contract to be let to lowest responsible bidder.
Contractor to give bond.
Contractor to be paid by instalments, twenty per cent being retained.
Appropriation.
Materials of old jail to be sold at auction.
City of Washington to pay $70,000 in part for jail.
[Amended. See 1867, ch. 152. Post, p. 428.]
Georgetown to pay $20,000.
County of Washington ts pay $10,000.
A tax to be assessed and levied sufficient to raise said amounts.
Proceedings if either city or the county is in default of payment of tax;
if tax is not assessed.
The 34th section of die Declaration of Rights of State of Maryland, prohibiting certain sales, gifts, and devices, annulled.
Such gifts and devices to be made at least one month before death of donor.
House of correction for boys established in Washington.
Building already erected to be transferred to trustees under this act.
Government of the institution to be vested in seven trustees.
Trustees, how appointed;
to be paid ex-
penses, but no compensation.
Term of office.
Board of trustees to be a corporation.
Name and powers.
Duties of trustees.
They may appoint superintendent mid other officers.
Salaries.
By-laws.
Superintendent to give bond.
Conditions.
Treasurer.
Bond.
Conditions.
Duties of treasurer.
Grounds and buildings to be prepared.
Notice when ready.
Boys of what age and for what offences may be sentenced to house of correction.
Superintendent to reside at the institution, and to have the
charge, custody, instruction, &c. of the boys.
Superintendent to have charge of property of institution;
to keep accounts of receipts and expenditures;
to account for money received;
to keep register of boys admitted.
Books, &c. to be open to inspection of trustees.
Accounts to be examined quarterly.
Contracts on account of the institution how made.
Suits.
Trustees to visit institution at least once in two weeks.
Record of visits to be kept.
Quarterly examination of institution.
Annual report to Secretary of Interior.
Expenses of boys while in the institution, how paid.
How to be recovered.
Appropriation.
Sum to be assessed upon and paid by Washington and Georgetown.
Proportion of city of Washington;
of city of Georgetown;
of county of Washington.
Proceedings in case of default in payment.
When act to take effect.
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Union incorporated.
Powers, &c.
May hold, &c. real and personal estate
How held and transmitted
Constitution and by-laws may be amended.
Corporation not to exercise banking privileges or issue notes, &c.
Act may be altered, &c.
Certain colored persona in the District of Columbia, living together as man and wife, &c. to be deemed husband and wife.
Their children legitimate.
Children of those who have ceased to co-habit.
Public lands granted to Kansas, to aid the construction of the Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad Company.
Extent of grant, and selection of lands.
If any of the land granted has been before sold, or reserved, &c., what may be taken in lieu thereof.
Lands before reserved excepted from operation of this act.
Right of way through such lands.
No land to be selected beyond twenty miles.
Sections remaining to the United States, &c. not to be sold for less than double minimum price;
to be offered at public auction.
Settlers under pre-emption laws may purchase, &c.
Settlers under the homestead net may have not over eighty acres each.
Provided, That actual bona fide settlers under the preemption laws of the United States may, after due proof of settlement, improvement, and occupation, ns now provided by law, purchase the same at the price fixed for said lands at the date of such settlement, improvement, and occupation:
This grant is made upon condition, &c.
Transportation of troops, &c. to be free to the government.
When and how the lands inure to the benefit of the company.
If road is not completed within ten years, the lands unpatented to revert to the United States.
The lands not to be disposed of or incumbered by the company, except as patented.
Lands to be withdrawn from market as soon as maps are filed
Mails to be transported at price fixed by Congress.
Proviso.
Eight of way granted through public lands.
Material for construction from adjacent land.
Extent of grant.
Ground for station buildings, &c.
Acceptance of this grant by the railroad company to be in writing;
to be made within a year.
Said railroad company may extend its road to Red River.
Right of way granted through the Indian Territory where such right is reserved to the United States;
where such right is not reserved.
Grant of lands through the Indian Territory made to the road, when the Indian title is extinguished.
The company may negotiate with Indians and others for lands.
Certain other railroads may unite with this road, after it is located to the valley of the Neosho River.
Tariff for freight and passengers.
If the Union Pacific Railroad Company, &c. completes its road to certain point before the Kansas, &c. Co. completes its road to that point, it may construct the road thence to
Preston, Texas, with grants of land, &c.
Work to be prosecuted with energy.
Right of way through private property.
1862, ch. 120, §3.
Vol. xii. p. 492.
The California and Oregon R. R. Co., and an Oregon company, may locate and construct a railroad mid telegraph line between Portland, Oregon, and the Cent ml Pacific Railroad in California.
What part the C. & O. Company to build.
The company first completing its part, may continue its road, with consent of State.
Grant of public lands, not mineral, to said companies, to aid in the construction of road &c.
If any sections of land have been sold, or are occupied, other lands may be selected in lieu thereof.
When maps of survey are filed, lands to be withdrawn from sale.
Lands granted to be applied to building road in the States where they lie.
Remaining lands to be sold for what price.
Settlers under preemption laws may purchase at what price;
under homestead act may have not over eighty acres.
Right of way through public lands granted to said companies.
Materials for construction from adjacent lands.
Extent of grant of right of way.
Land for stations, &c.
When and how patents for these granted lands shall issue to said companies.
Conditions of grants.
Railroad to be a public highway and free to the United States.
Companies when to file assent to this act.
Rate of progress to be mode.
Gauge.
To be connected with Central Pacific Railroad.
Companies to use and operate road as one continuous line, and to secure to each other equal advantages, &c.
If companies fail to comply with certain conditions, this act to be void, and the lands not conveyed to revert to the United States.
If road and telegraph line are not kept in repair, Congress may, &c.
The companies to be governed by the laws of their respective States.
The word “company” to include “associates, successors, and assigns.”
Mineral lands excepted from this grant.
Timber for construction.
“Mineral” not coal and iron.
Companies to obtain consent of States, where road and telegraph line do not pass through public lands.
Act may be amended, &c.
District court for northern district of Georgia to be held at Atlanta.
Process.
Right of way granted to A. Sutro, &c. to construct a mining, &c. tunnel, &c.
Dimensions of tunnel, where to commence, &c.
Right of way to extend northerly and southerly &c.
A. Sutro may purchase not over two sections of public land at month of tunnel, for use thereof.
Not to be mineral lands, &c.
Upon filing plat, land to be withdrawn from sale.
Patent to issue.
Certain mineral veins and lodes may be purchased.
Comstock lode, &c. and certain other lodes excepted from this act.
Lodes to be withheld from sale.
Owners of claims or mines on Comstock or other lode, benefited by the tunnel, to hold claims subject, &c.
What legislatures of States, and when to elect senators in Congress.
Mode of election.
Proceedings to elect a senator to fill a vacancy.
Certificate of election of senator to be certified to the president of the senate.
Bridge may be built across the Mississippi River at Quincy, Illinois, and railroad tracks laid thereon.
Trains may cross for compensation. Question of obstruction to navigation may be tried where.
Bridge maybe built with draw or unbroken spans.
Height, if made with unbroken spans.
Length of spans.
Pivot draw-bridge, with draw over main channel, and spans, &c.
Draw to be opened promptly, except, &c.
Bridges constructed according to this act to
be lawful strictures and post routes.
Rates of toll.
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad Company may build a railroad bridge across the Mississippi, if, &c.
Bridge may be built across the river at Hannibal, Missouri;
between Prairie du Chien and North McGregor;
between Keo-kuk and Hamilton;
between Winona and opposite bank of river, if, &c,;
this bridge made a post road;
between Dun leith and Dubuque, if, &c.;
at the city of Kansas;
between the city of Saint Louis and East Saint Louis.
Question of obstruction, where may be tried.
Bridge to be built with unbroken spans.
Conditions.
Height and length of spans.
Act may be altered, &c.
Preamble.
Trustees may sell lot number nine, square seventy-six.
Proceeds of sale, how applied.
Claims of the State of Iowa for expenses of certain volunteers, for moneys paid for troops to defend the State, and for forage and barracks, to be examined, &c.
See 1867, ch. 62.
Post, p. 401.
“The National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home ” incorporated.
Trustees.
Vacancies, how filled.
Powers, &c. of corporation.
Corporation may hold real and personal estate.
Board of directors.
By-laws.
Minor children of certain soldiers and sailors may be received, &c.;
shall never be bound out;
may be withdrawn by parent or guardian.
Minors over sixteen.
Minor child so withdrawn, to what extent still to be under the charge of the corporation.
Property of corporation to be exempt from tax.
Legal settlement not gained or lost by residence in the Home, &c.
This act may be amended, &c.
1863, ch. 110.
Vol. xii. p. 805.
Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown R. R. Co. may extend its road to connect with Washington branch of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Route of extension.
Provisions of certain sections of former act applicable to this extension.
Draw or other bridge across canal.
Steam power may be used.
Steam power may be used for eighteen months to draw cars on the structure across the Potomac River and in certain streets in Washington.
Limit to rate of speed.
Company to pay damages to private property from extension.
If owners and company cannot agree, amount of damages how to be determined.
Use. &c. of lands how acquired.
Preamble.
Baltimore and Ohio R. R. Co. may extend railroad into the District of Columbia.
Termini to be agreed upon with the cities of Washington and Georgetown.
Powers and privileges of the corporation.
Provisions of acts of Congress relating to lateral road, made applicable to this corporation.
1831, ch. 85.
Vol. iv. p. 476.
Extension to be commenced in one year, and completed in three years.
Port Townsend made the port of entry and delivery in district of Puget’s Sound.
Port Angelos abolished as a port of entry.
East Capitol Street to be graded and Lincoln Square enclosed.
Appropriation.
Unlawful tapping of government water pipes punishable by line or imprisonment.
Commissions of public buildings to prosecute.
Deputy collector of customs at Calais, Me., may enter and clear vessels, &c.
Mineral lands declared open to occupation to all citizens, &c. subject to regulations, &c.
Persons, &c. claiming, without opposition, any vein of quartz-bearing gold, &c. having occupied and made expenditures on the
same, and filing diagram, may enter the tract mid receive a patent therefor.
Patent to grant what.
After filing diagram of tract claimed, what proceedings to be had before patent issues.
Notice to be published.
Survey of plat of premises.
Payment of five dollars per acre, and costs of survey, &c.
Survey, plat, &c. to cover only one vein, to be named in patent.
Proceedings when the location and entry of mine are upon unsurveyed lands.
Location not to exceed 200 feet along vein, with additional claim for discoverer, and right to follow vein to any depth, &c.
Limit to number and extent of locations.
Further condition of sale, and to be expressed in patent.
Where adverse claimants appear, proceedings stayed until right is settled.
Patent then to issue.
President may establish additional land districts, &c for purposes of this act.
See Post, p. 470.
Right of way for highways.
Owners of vested rights to use of water for mining, &c. to be protected, and right of way for canals and ditches granted.
Damages.
Owners of homesteads made upon lands designated as mineral, in which no valuable mines of gold, &c. have been found, &c. may preempt the same, &c.;
or may take them as homesteads.
1862, ch. 75. Vol xii. p. 892.
Upon survey, lands clearly agricultural may be set apart and made subject to preemption and sale.
The Chesapeake Bay, &c. Canal Company may extend its canal to Anascostia River;
may take and hold property necessary for proper construction of extension, &c.
Proceedings where land can-
not be purchased, or the owner is under disability.
Commission of inquest of damages.
Report to be made.
Notice.
Report to be confirmed.
Inquest may be set aside.
New commission and inquisition from time to time.
Property taken to be described, and valuation paid.
Company to pay expenses of inquisition.
Tolls and rents.
Canal extension to be a public highway.
Public property of the United States to go through free of tolls.
Company when required to give Congress an account of receipts and expenditure:, &c.
Provisions of charter to apply to extension, subject, &c.
Act to be a public act, and when to take effect.
Certificate of registry, or enrolment and license, may issue to the Diana;
M. C. Rowe;
Mary;
Jessee Conger;
N. C. Eord;
Sweet Home;
Alma;
Marco Polo;
Throe Beils;
J. S. Austin;
Dolphin.
Bonds issued in favor of certain railroad companies may be of larger denominations than $ 1000.
Proviso.
1862, eh. 120. Vol. xii. p. 489.
1864, ch. 216. Vol. xiii. p. 856.
1865, ch. 88. Vol. xiii. p. 504
Appropriations for expenses of the Indian department and treaty stipulations.
For the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, namely:
Superintendents, agents, subagents, clerks, &c.
For pay of sub-agents, six thousand dollars.
For pay of clerk to superintendent at Saint Louis, Missouri, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For pay of temporary clerks by superintendents of Indian affairs, five thousand dollars.
For pay of clerk to superintendent of Indian affairs in California, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Interpreters, presents, provisions.
For presents to Indians, five thousand dollars.
For provisions for Indians, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Buildings and repairs.
Contingencies.
Treaty stipulations.
Chasta, Scoton, and Umpqua Indians. Vol. x. p. 1122.
For twelfth of fifteen instalments for the pay of a farmer, per fifth article treaty eighteenth November, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand dollars.
For twelfth of fifteen instalments for pay of physician, medicines, and expense of care of the sick, per fifth article treaty eighteenth November, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For twelfth of fifteen instalments for pay of teachers and purchase of books and stationery, per fifth article treaty eighteenth November, eighteen hundred and filly-four, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Chippewas of Lake Superior. Vol. vii. p. 592. Vol. x. p. 1109.
For two thirds of last of twenty-five instalments for the pay of two carpenters, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, eight hundred dollars.
For two thirds of last of twenty-five instalments in goods, per fourth acticle treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, seven thousand dollars.
For two thirds of last of twenty-five instalments for the support of schools, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
For two-thirds of last of twenty-five instalments for the pay of two fanners, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For two thirds of last of twenty-five instalments for the purchase of provisions and tobacco, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty four, one thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
For twelfth of twenty instalments in coin, per fourth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, five thousand dollars.
For twelfth of twenty instalments in goods, household furniture, and cooking utensils, per fourth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, eight thousand dollars.
For twelfth of twenty instalments for agricultural implements, and cattle, carpenters’ and other tools, and building materials, per fourth article Chippews of Lake Superior.
For twelfth of twenty instalments for moral and educational purposes, three hundred dollars of which to be paid to the Grand Portage band yearly, to enable them to maintain a school at their village, per fourth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, three thousand dollars.
For twelfth of twenty instalments for six smiths and assistants, per second and fifth articles treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, five thousand and forty dollars.
For twelfth of twenty instalments for the support of six smiths’ shops, per second and fifth articles treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For tenth of twenty instalments for the seventh smith and assistant, and support of shops, per second and filth articles treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand and sixty dollars.
Fur support of a smith, assistant, and shop for the Bois Forte band, during the pleasure of the President, per twelfth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand and sixty dollars.
For support of two farmers for the Bois Forte band, during the idea-sure of the President, per twelfth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For gratuities fur the purpose of quieting the claim of the Lac de Flambeau band of Chippewas, For an interest in the lands ceded to the United States by the Bois Forte band of Chippewa Indians, three thousand dollars.
Chippewas of the Mississippi. Vol. vii. p. 592. Vol. x. p. 1109.
For one third of last of twenty-five instalments for the pay of two carpenters, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, four hundred dollars.
For one third of last of twenty-five instalments in goods, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For one third of last of twenty-five instalments for the support of schools, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For one third of last of twenty-five instalments for the purchase of provisions and tobacco, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For one third of last of twenty-five instalments for the support of two smiths’ shops, including the pay of two smiths and assistants, and furnishing iron and steel, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For one third of last of twenty-five instalments for pay of two farmers, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
For twelfth of twenty instalments of annuity in money, per third article treaty twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, twenty thousand dollars.
Chippewas, Pillager, and Lake Winnebagoshish bands. Vol. x. p. 1165.
For twelfth of thirty instalments of annuity in goods, per third article treaty twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, eight thousand dollars.
For twelfth of thirty instalments for purposes of utility, per third article treaty twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand dollars.
For twelfth of twenty instalments for purposes of education, per third article treaty twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.
For twelfth of fifteen instalments for support of two smiths and smiths’ shop, per third article treaty twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For pay of an engineer to grist and saw mill at Leech Lake, per third article of treaty' of twenty-second February eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars.
Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River. Vol. xi. p. 634.
Chippewas, Menomones, Winnebagos, and New York Indians. Vol. vii. p. 304.
Chickasaws. 1799, ch. 11. Vol. i, p 618.
Choctaws. Vol. vii. p. 99. Vol. xi. p. 614. Vol. vii. p. 213.
For permanent annuity for support of light-horsemen, per thirteenth article treaty eighteenth October, eighteen hundred and twenty, and thirteenth article treaty twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars.
Vol. vii. p. 235.
For permanent provision for blacksmith, per sixth article treaty eighteenth October, eighteen hundred and twenty, and thirteenth article treaty twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars.
For permanent provision for iron and steel, per ninth article treaty twentieth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred and twenty dollars.
For interest on five hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum per annum, tor education, support of the government, and other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the general council of the Choctaws, in conformity with the provisions contained in the tenth and thirteenth articles of the treaty of twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Choctaws and Chickasaws. Post, pp. 768–779.
Post, p. 771.
For this amount to be advanced the Choctaws for the cession of the lea-ed district, and the admission of the Kansas Indians, as per forty-sixth article treaty of April twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For this amount to be advanced the Chickasaws for the cession of the leased district, and the admission of the Kansas Indians, as per forty-sixth article treaty of April twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, fifty thousand dollars.
Post, p. 779.
Camanches, Kiowas, and Apaches of Arkansas River. Vol. x. p. 1011.
For expenses of transportation of the second of five instalments of goods, provisions, and agricultural implements, per sixth article treaty twenty-seventh July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, seven thousand dollars.
Creeks. Vol. vii. p. 86 Vol. xi. p. 700.
Vol. vii. p. 69.
Vol. vii. p. 257.
For permanent annuity for blacksmith and assistant, and for shop and tools, per eighth article treaty twenty-fourth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eight hundred and forty dollars.
For permanent annuity for iron and steel for shop, per eighth article treaty twenty-fourth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six. and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and seventy' dollars.
For permanent annuity for the pay of a wheelwright, per eighth article treaty twenty-fourth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and filth article, treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, six hundred dollars.
Vol. vii. p. 419.
For iron and steel for shop during the pleasure of the President, per filth article treaty fourteenth February’, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and seventy dollars.
Creeks.
For assistance in agricultural operations during the pleasure of the President, per eighth article treaty twenty-fourth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two thousand dollars.
For education during the pleasure of the President, per fifth article treaty fourteenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand dollars.
For five per centum interest on two hundred thousand dollars, for purposes of education, per sixth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, ten thousand dollars.
Delawares. Vol. vii. pp. 188, 327.
For interest on forty-six thousand and eighty dollars, at five per centum, being the value of thirty-six sections of land set apart by treaty of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, for education, per senate resolution of January nineteenth, eighteen Vol. x. p. 1048.
Iowas. Vol. vii. p. 568. Vol. x. p. 1071.
Kansas. Vol. ix. p. 842.
Kickapoos. Vol. x. p. 1078.
For thirteenth instalment on two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, per second article treaty eighteenth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, seven thousand dollars.
Menomonees. Vol. ix. p. 952. Vol. x. p. 1065.
For first of fifteen instalments of annuity upon two hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars for cession of lands per third article treaty May twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and senate amendment thereto, sixteen thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and six cents.
For eleventh of fifteen instalments for pay of miller, per, third article treaty twelfth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, six hundred dollars.
Miamies of Kansas. Vol. vii. p. 191. Vol. x p. 1095.
Vol. vii. p. 191. Vol. vii. p. 459. Vol. x. p. 1995.
For interest on fifty thousand dollars, at five per centum, for educational purposes, per third article treaty fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments upon two hundred thousand dollars, per third article treaty fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Miamies of Indiana. Vol. x. p. 1095.
Miamies, Eel River. Vol. vii. p. 61.
Vol. vii. p. 91.
Vol. vii. p. 114.
Nisqually, Puyallup, and other bands of Indians. Vol. x. p. 1134.
For twelfth of twenty instalments for pay of instructor, smith, physician, carpenter, farmer, and assistant, if necessary, per tenth article treaty twenty-sixth December, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, six thousand seven hundred dollars.
Omahas. Vol. x. p. 1044.
Osages.
For interest on three hundred thousand dollars at five per centum per annum, to be paid semi-annually in money or such articles as Post, p. 686
For transportation of goods, provisions, and so forth, purchased by the Great and Little Osage Indians, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or so much thereof as may be necessary, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Ottoes and Missourias. Vol. x. p. 1089.
Ottawas and Chippewas of Michigan. Vol. xi. p. 828.
Pawnees. Vol. xi. p. 729.
For support of two manual-labor schools annually, during the pleasura of the President, per third article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, ten thousand dollars.
For pay of two teachers, under the direction of the President, per third article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For purchase of iron and steel, and other necessaries for the shop, during the pleasure of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars
For pay of two blacksmiths, one of whom to be a gunsmith and tinsmith, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation of two strikers or apprentices in shop, per fourth article of treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, four hundred and eighty dollars.
For ninth of ten instalments for farming utensils and stock, during the pleasure of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For pay of farmer, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, six hundred dollars.
For eighth of ten instalments for pay of miller, at the discretion of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, six hundred dollars.
For eighth of ten instalments for pay of an engineer, at the discretion of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to apprentices, to assist in working the mill, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars.
For grist and saw mill, and keeping the same in repair, per fourth article treaty September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, three hundred dollars.
Pottawatomies of Huron. Vol. vii. p. 105.
Pottawatomies. Vol. vii. p. 61.
Vol. vii. p. 114.
Vol. vii. p. 185.
Vol. vii. p. 317.
Vol. vii. p. 320.
Vol. vii. p. 379.
Vol. vii. p. 432.
Vol. vii. p. 296. Vol vii. p. 317. Vol. vii. p. 379.
Pottawatomies. Vol. ix. p. 855
For permanent provisions for three blacksmiths and assistants, and permanent provision for iron and steel for shops, per third article treaty sixteenth October, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, second article treaty twentieth September, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and second article treaty twenty-ninth July, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For iron and steel, six hundred and sixty dollars.
For permanent provision for fifty barrels of salt, per second article of treaty twenty-ninth July, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and filly cents.
For interest on six hundred and forty-three thousand dollars, at five per centum, per seventh article of the treaty of the fifth and seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, thirty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Quapaws. Vol. vit. p. 425.
For blacksmith and assistant, shop and tools, and iron and steel for shop, during the pleasure of the President, per third article treaty thirteenth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one thousand and sixty dollars.
For farmer during the pleasure of the President, per third article treaty thirteenth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, six bundled dollars.
Rogue Rivers. Vol. x. p. 1018.
Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi. Vol. vii. p. 85.
Vol. vii. p. 540.
Vol. vii. p. 596.
Sacs and Foxes of Missouri. Vol. vii. p. 540.
Seminoles. Vol. xi. p. 702.
For the hist of ten instalments for agricultural assistance, per eighth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two thousand dollars.
For the last of ten instalments for the support of smiths and smiths’ shops, per eighth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two thousand two hundred dollars.
For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid as annuity, per eighth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at five per centum, to be paid as annuity, they having joined their brethren west, per
Senecas. Vol. vii. p. 101.
For permanent annuity in specie, per fourth article treaty seventeenth September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, five hundred dollars.
For blacksmith and assistant, shop and tools, and iron and steel, during the pleasure of the President, per fourth article Vol. vii. p. 352.
For miller during the pleasure of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six hundred dollars.
Senecas of New York. 1831, ch. 26. Vol. iv. p. 442.
1846, ch. 34. Vol. ix. p. 35.
For interest, at five per centum, on forty-three thousand and fifty dollars transferred from Ontario Bank to the United States treasury, per act of twenty-seventh June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents.
Senecas and Shawnees. Vol. vii. p. 179.
For blacksmith and assistant, shop and tools, and iron and steel Vol. vii. p. 352.
Shawnees. Vol. vii. p. 51.
Vol. x. p. 1066.
For thirteenth instalment of interest, at five per centum, on forty thousand dollars for education, per third article treaty tenth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand dollars.
Vol. vii. p. 161.
Six Nations of New York. Vol. vii. p. 46.
Umpquas (Cow Creek Band). — For thirteenth of Umpquas (Cow Creek Band). Vol. x. p. 1027.
Umpquas and Calapooias, of Umpqua Valley, Oregon. Vol. x. p. 1126.
For twelfth of fifteen instalments for the pay of a physician and Vol. x. p. 1127.
For twelfth of twenty instalments for the pay of a teacher and purchase of books and stationery, per sixth article treaty twenty-ninth No-
Winnebagos. Vol. vii. p. 545.
For twentieth of thirty instalments of interest on eighty-five Vol. ix. p. 878.
For the erection of a saw-mill, with grist-mill attached, on Post, p. 671.
For expense of breaking and fencing one hundred acres of land fur each band of said Indians, as per third article treaty of March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, nine thousand and eighty-seven dollars and sixty cents.
For expense of sowing and planting one hundred acres of land for each band of said Indians, and furnishing seed for the same, as per third article treaty of March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, live thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purchase of guns for said Indians, as per third article Post, p. 672.
For the purchase of lour hundred horses, one hundred cows, twenty yoke of oxen, twenty wagons, and forty chains, as per third article treaty of March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and Senate amendment thereto of February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, sixty thousand three hundred dollars.
For the purchase of agricultural implements, as per third article treaty of March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, five hundred dollars.
For the erection of an agency building, schoolhouse, warehouse, and suitable buildings for the physician, carpenter, interpreter, miller, engineer, and blacksmith, on the new reservation of said Indians, as per fourth article treaty of March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, twenty-one thousand dollars.
For erection of a house for each chief of the said tribes, as per fourth article treaty of March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses of the removal of the property of said Indians to their new homes, as per fifth article treaty of March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, three hundred dollars.
For subsistence of the Winnebagos for one year after their arrival at their new homes, as per fifth article treaty of March eighth, eighteen hundred mid sixty-five, ninety-six thousand dollars,
Winnebago and Pottawatomie Indians of Wisconsin.
Yancton Sioux. Vol. xi. p. 744.
Calapooias, Molallans, &c. of Willamette Valley. Vol. x. p. 1144.
Poncas. Poncas.
Vol. xii. p. 997.
For eighth of ten instalments, or during the pleasure of the President, to be expended in furnishing said Indians with such aid and assistance in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, including the working of the mill provided for in the first part of this article, as the Secretary of the Interior may consider advantageous and necessary for them, per second article treaty twelfth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
D’ Wamish, &c. in Washington Territory. Vol. xii. p. 927.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the establishment and support of an agricultural and industrial school, and to provide said school with a suitable instructor or instructors, per fourteenth article treaty twenty-second January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the establishment and support of a smith and carpenter shop, and to furnish them with the necessary tools, per fourteenth article treaty twenty-second January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the employment of a blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and physician who shall furnish medicines for the sick, per fourteenth article treaty twenty-second January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand six hundred dollars.
Makah tribe. Vol. xii. p. 940.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, and for pay of teachers, per eleventh article treaty thirty-first January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand five hundred dollars.
F or seventh of twenty instalments for support of a smith and carpenter’s shop, and to provide the necessary tools therefor, per eleventh article treaty thirty-first January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the employment of a blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and physician who shall furnish medicines for the sick, per eleventh article treaty thirty-first January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand six hundred dollars.
Walla-Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes. Vol. xii. p. 947.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the purchase of all necessary mill fixtures and mechanical tools, medicines and hospital stores, books and stationery For schools, and furniture for the employes, per fourth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the pay and subsistence of one superintendent of farming operations, one farmer, two millers, one blacksmith, one wagon and plough maker, one carpenter and joiner, one physician, and two teachers, per fourth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, eleven thousand two hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the pay of each of the head chiefs of the WallaWalla, Cayuse, and Umatilla bands, the sum of five hundred dollars per annum, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for salary for the son of Piopio-moxmox, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one hundred dollars.
Yakama nation. Vol. xii. p. 953
For seventh of twenty instalments for the support of two schools, one of which is to he an agricultural and industrial school, keeping in repair school buildings, and for providing suitable furniture, books, and stationery, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the employment of one superintendent of teaching and two teachers, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the employment of one superintendent of farming and two farmers, two millers, two blacksmiths, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter, and one wagon and plough maker, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair saw and flouring mills, and for furnishing the necessary tools and fixtures, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the hospital, and providing the necessary medicines and fixtures therefor, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the pay of a physician, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the buildings required for the various employes, and For providing the necessary furniture therefor, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the salary of such person as the said confederated tribes and band of Indians may select to be their head chieft per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
Nez Perce Indians. Vol. xii. p. 958.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the support of two schools, one of which to be an agricultural and industrial school, keeping in repair school building, and for providing suitable furniture, books, and stationery, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the employment of one superintendent of teaching and two teachers, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair blacksmiths’, tinsmiths’, gunsmiths’, carpenters’, and wagon and plough makers’ shops, and for providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the employment of one superin- Net Perce Indians. Vol. xii. p. 958.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair saw and flouring mill, and for furnishing the necessary tools and fixtures therefor, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the hospital, and providing the necessary medicines and furniture therefor, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for pay of a physician, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the buildings for the venous employes, and for providing the necessary furniture therefor, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty five, three hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the salary of such person as the tribe may select to be their head chief, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For first of four instalments to enable the Indians to remove and Post, p. 649.
For the purchase of agricultural implements, including wagons and carts, harness, cattle, and sheep, or other stock, as may be deemed most beneficial, as per second clause fourth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, fifty thousand dollars.
For the erection of a saw and flouring mill, to be located at Kamia, as per third clause fourth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, ten thousand dollars.
For first of the sixteen instalments for boarding and clothing the children who shall attend the schools, providing the schools and boarding-houses with necessary furniture, the purchase of necessary wagons, teams, agricultural implements, tools, and so forth, and for fencing of such lands as may be needed for gardening and farming purposes for the schools, as per fourth clause fourth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, six thousand dollars.
For building two churches, as per fifth clause fourth article treaty of June nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, two thousand live hundred dollars.
For salary of two subordinate chiefs, as per fifth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand dollars.
For the erection of buildings for the subordinate chiefs, mid to plough and fence the land for said chiefs, as well as to procure the necessary furniture, and to complete and furnish the house, and so forth, of the head chief, as per fifth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the erection of two school-houses, including boarding-houses, and the necessary out-buildings, as per first clause fifth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, ten thousand dollars.
For the erection of a hospital and providing the necessary furniture, as per second clause fifth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, twelve hundred dollars.
Nez Perce Indians.
For the erection of houses for employes, repairs of mills, shops, and so forth, and providing necessary furniture, tools, and materials, as per fourth clause fifth article treaty June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, three thou sand dollars.
For salary of two matrons to take charge of the boarding-schools, two assistant teachers, one farmer, one carpenter, and two millers, as per fifth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, seven thousand six hundred dollars.
For the erection of a house for Indian chief Timothy, as per sixth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, six hundred dollars.
To pay the claims of certain member's of the Nez Perce tribe for services rendered and for horses furnished by them to the Oregon mounted volunteers on the sixth of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, at Camp Cornelius, as per seventh article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three (to be paid in gold), four thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Flatheads and other confederated tribes. Vol. xii. p. 976.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, keeping in repair the buildings, and providing suitable furniture, books, and stationery, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for providing suitable instructors therefor, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair blacksmiths’, tin and gunsmiths’, carpenters’, and wagon and plough makers’ shops, and providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the employment of two farmers, two millers, one blacksmith, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter, and one wagon and plough maker, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, seven thousand four hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair saw and flouring mills, and for furnishing the necessary tools and fixtures therefor, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the hospital, and providing the necessary medicines and furniture therefor, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for pay of a physician, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the buildings required for the various employés, and furnishing necessary furniture therefor, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the pay of each of the head
Middle Oregons. Vol. xii. p. 964.
For seventh of fifteen instalments for pay and subsistence of one farmer, one blacksmith, and one wagon and plough maker, per fourth article treaty twenty-fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for pay and subsistence of one physician, one sawyer, one miller, one superintendent of farming operations, and one school-teacher, per fourth article treaty twenty-fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five thousand six hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for payment of salary to the head chief of said confederated bands, per fourth article treaty twenty-fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
Molels. Vol. xii. p. 981.
For seventh of ten instalments for the pay of a carpenter and joiner to aid in erecting buildings and making furniture for said Indians, and to furnish tools in said service, per second article treaty twenty-first December, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand dollars.
For pay of teachers to manual-labor school, for all necessary materials therefor, and for the subsistence of the pupils, per second article treaty twenty-first December, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.
Qui-nai-elts and Qui-leh-utes. Vol. xii. p. 972.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, and for pay of suitable instructors, per tenth article treaty first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for support of smith and carpenter shop, and to provide the necessary tools therefor, per tenth article treaty first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the employment of a blacksmith, carpenter, and farmer, and a physician who shall furnish medicine for the sick, per tenth article treaty first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand six hundred dollars.
S’Klallams. Vol. xii. p. 934.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, and for pay for suitable teachers, per eleventh article treaty twenty-sixth January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For seventh of twenty instalments for the employment of a blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and a physician who shall furnish medicines for the sick, per eleventh article treaty twenty-sixth January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand six hundred dollars.
Ottawa Indians of Blanchard's Fork and Roche de Bœuf. — For the Ottawas of Blanchard’s Fork and Hoche de Bœuf. Vol. xii. p. 1238.
For interest on eight thousand five hundred dollars, at five per centum, being the unpaid principal of thirty-four thousand dollars, per fourth article treaty June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For the last of four instalments of the principal sum held in stocks by the government, to be paid as annuity in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, per fourth article treaty June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, two thousand eight bundled and forty-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents.
Arapahoes and Cheyennes of the Upper Arkansas. Vol. xii. p. 1165.
For fourth of five instalments to provide the said Indians with a mill suitable for sawing timber and grinding grain, one or more mechanic shops, with necessary tools for the same, and dwelling-houses for an interpreter, miller, engineer For mill (if one be necessary), farmers, and the mechanics that may be employed for their benefit, per fifth article treaty February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, five thousand dollars.
For transportation and necessary expenses of delivery of annuities, goods, and provisions, per fifth article treaty February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, five thousand dollars.
Delivery of annuities, &c. to Chippewas of Lake Superior; Vol. x. p. 1111.
to Chippewas of the Mississippi. Vol. x. p. 1169.
Chippewas of Red Lake and Pembina tribe. Vol. xiii. p. 668. Vol. xiii. p. 689.
For this amount to the Pembina band of Chippewas, during the pleasure of the President, per third article treaty October second, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and second article supplementary treaty April twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, five thousand dollars.
For the third of fifteen instalments to be expended annually for the purpose of supplying them with gilling twine, cotton matter, calico, linsey, blankets, sheeting, flannels, provisions, farming tools, and for such other useful articles, and for such other useful purposes as may be deemed for their best interests, per third article supplementary treaty of twelfth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, eight thousand dollars.
For the third of fifteen instalments for same objects for the Pembina band of Chippewas, per third article supplementary treaty twelfth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, four thousand dollars.
For third of fifteen instalments For pay of one blacksmith, one physician, who shall furnish medicine tor the sick, one miller, and one farmer, per fourth article supplementary treaty April twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
Chippewas of Red Lake and Pembina tribe. Vol. xiii. p. 689.
For third of fifteen instalments, to be expended for carpentering and. other purposes, per fourth article supplementary treaty April twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, one thousand dollars.
For third of fifteen instalments, to defray the expenses of a board of visitors, to consist of not more than three persons, to attend upon the annuity payments of the said Chippewa Indians, whose salary shall not exceed five dollars per day, nor more than twenty days, and ten cents per mile for travelling expenses, and not to exceed three hundred miles, per sixth article treaty October second, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, three hundred and ninety dollars.
For insurance and transportation of annuity goods and provisions, and material for building mill, including machinery, iron and steel for blacksmiths, for the Chippewas of lied Lake and Pembina tribe, ten thousand dollars.
Western Shoshonees.
Eastern Shoshonees.
Northwestern Shoshonees. Vol. xiii. p. 663.
Goship bands of Shoshonees. Vol. xiii. p. 682
sixty-three, one thousand dollars.
Creek Nation.— For interest on two hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum per annum, as permanent annuity to be paid them in money, or for such mechanical tabor or useful articles as the Secretary of the Interior may from time to time direct, per third article treaty September third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, as amended by Senate, ten thousand dollars.
For payment of third of five instalments, to be expended for their benefit in the purchase of stock, horses, sheep, clothing, and such other articles as the Secretary of the Interior, with the council of said nation, may direct, per fourth article treaty September third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, ns amended by Senate, forty thousand dollars.
Tabegauche band of Utahs.
Vol. xiii. p. 675.
For the third of five instalments, to be applied for the purposes of agriculture, and for the purchase of farming utensils and stock animals, per tenth article treaty October second, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and Senate amendment thereto, ten thousand dollars.
For the third of ten instalments for the purchase of provisions, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, per eighth article treaty October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and Senate amend ment thereto, ten thousand dollars.
For insurance, transportation, and general incidental expenses of the delivery of goods, provisions, and stock, five thousand dollars.
Chippewas of the Mississippi, and Pillagers, and Lake Winnebagoshish Chippewas of Minnesota. Vol. xiii. p. 694.
F or the employment of two carpenters, one thousand eight hundred dollars, and two blacksmiths, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four farm laborers, two thousand four hundred dollars; one physician, one thousand two hundred dollars, and medicine for the sick, five hundred dollars, per fifth article treaty May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
For this amount to be applied towards the support of a saw-mill to be built for the common use of the Chippewas of Mississippi and the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Chippewas, so long as the President may deem it necessary, per sixth article treaty May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand dollars.
For pay of services and travelling expenses of a board of visitors, to consist of not more than five persons, to attend the annuity payments to the Indians, and so forth, and to inspect the fields, buildings, mills, and Other improvements, as stipulated in the seventh article treaty May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, not exceeding any one year more than twenty days’ service, at five dollars per pay, or more than three hundred miles’ travel, at ten cents per mile, for the fiscal year ending Jum: thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, six hundred and fifty dollars.
For the payment of female teachers employed on the reservations to instruct Indian girls in domestic economy, per thirteenth article treaty May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, one thousand dollars.
Minneconjon Dakota or Sioux. Post, p. 695.
Lower Brule Dakota or Sioux. Post, p. 699.
Black feet Dakota or Sioux. Post, p. 727.
Two Kettles’ Dakota or Sioux.
Post, p. 723.
For this sum, being for indemnity, to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, as per sixth article of the treaty of October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, five hundred dollars.
Oak-pah-pah Dakota or Sioux. Post, p. 738.
Sans Arcs Dakota or Sioux. Post, p. 731.
Yanktonai Dakota or Sioux. Post, p. 734.
Upper Yanktonais Dakota or Sioux. Post, p. 743.
O'Gallata Dakota or Sioux. Post, p. 747.
Dakota or Sioux. Post, pp. 604–748.
Bois Fort Chippewas. Post, p. 764.
For the erection of one blacksmith shop, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, five hundred dollars.
For the erection of a schoolhouse, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, five hundred dollars.
For the erection of eight houses for chiefs, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For the erection of an agency building and storehouse, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand dollars.
For first of twenty instalments, for the support of one blacksmith and assistant, and for tools, iron, and steel, and other articles necessary for the blacksmith shop, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For first of twenty instalments, for the support of one school teacher, Bois Fort Chippewas. Post p. 764.
For first of twenty instalments for the instruction of the Indians in farming, and purchase of seeds, tools, and so forth, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, eight hundred dollars.
For first of twenty instalments of annuity in money, to be paid per capita, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For first of twenty instalments of annuity in provisions, ammunition, and tobacco, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand dollars.
For first of twenty instalments of annuity in goods and other articles, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, six thousand five hundred dollars.
To enable the chiefs, headmen, and warriors to establish their people upon the new reservation, and to purchase useful articles and presents, as per fourth article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and Senate amendment thereto, thirty thousand dollars.
To pay necessary transportation and subsistence of the delegates who visited Washington fur the purpose of negotiating treaty, as per eighth article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ten thousand dollars.
For transportation and necessary cost of delivery of annuity goods and provisions to the Bois Fort band of Chippewa Indians, as per sixth article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Tabeguache Utahs. Vol. xiii. p, 675.
For the purchase of iron and steel and necessary tools for said shop, as per tenth article treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron, steel, and necessary tools for said shop, as per tenth article treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. two hundred and twenty dollars.
For the purchase of iron, steel, and necessary tools for said shop, as per tenth article treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, two hundred and twenty dollars.
For pay of blacksmith and assistant for the Tabcyuache band of Utah Indians, as per tenth article treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For pay of blacksmith and assistant for the Tabeyuache band of Utah Indians, as per tenth article of treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For pay of blacksmith and assistant for the Tabejuache band of Utah Indians, as per tenth article treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand one hundred dollars.
Arapaho and Cheyennes of the Upper Arkansas River. Post, p. 704.
For first of forty instalments, to be expended in such manner and for such purposes as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, being an amount equal to twenty dollars per capita for two thousand eight hundred persons, the number agreed upon for the present year, as per seventh article treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, fifty-six thousand dollars.
For transportation of goods, provisions, and so forth, purchased for the Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas River, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, twenty thousand dollars.
Camanches and Kioways. Post, p. 718.
For transportation of goods, provisions, and so forth, purchased for the Camanche and Kioway Indians, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or so much thereof as may be necessary, eight thousand dollars.
Apaches. Post, p. 712.
For transportation of goods, provisions, and so forth, purchased for the Apache Indians for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or so much thereof as may be necessary, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Omahas. Post, p. 667.
For this sum to be paid as damages, in consequence of the occupancy of a portion of the Omaha reservation and use and destruction of timber by the Winnebago tribe of Indians, as per third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, seven thousand dollars.
Vol. x. p. 1045.
For pay of one engineer and assistant, as per eighth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For pay of one miller and assistant, as per eighth article of treaty of Omahas. Post, p. 668.
For pay of farmer, as per eighth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, nine hundred dollars.
For pay of blacksmith and assistants, as per eighth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For support of blacksmith shop and supplying tools for the same, as per eighth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three hundred dollars.
Yakama nation. Vol. xii. p. 953
For third instalment for keeping in repair blacksmiths’, tinsmiths’, gunsmiths’, carpenters’, and wagon and plough makers’ shops, and for providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article treaty June ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For fourth instalment for keeping in repair blacksmiths’, tinsmiths’, gunsmiths’, carpenters’, and wagon and plough makers’ shops, and for providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article treaty June ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For fifth instalment for keeping in repair blacksmiths’, tinsmiths’, gunsmiths’, carpenters’, and wagon and plough makers’ shops, and for providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article treaty June ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For sixth instalment for keeping in repair blacksmiths’, tinsmiths’, gunsmiths’, carpenters’, and wagon and plough makers’ shops, and for providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article of treaty June ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For seventh instalment for keeping in repair blacksmiths’, tinsmiths’, gunsmiths’, carpenters’, and wagon and plough makers’ shops, and for providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article treaty June ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
Klamath and Modoc Indians.
For this amount to pay for such articles as may be advanced the Indians at the time of signing the treaty, and to subsist them during the first year after their removal to the reservation, the purchase of teams, farming implements, seeds, tools, clothing, and provisions, and salary of the necessary employés, as per third article treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For the erection of one saw-mill, one flouring-mill, buildings for the blacksmith, carpenter, and wagon and plough maker, the necessary buildings for one manual-labor school, and for hospital buildings, as per fourth article treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.
For the purchase of tools and material for saw and flour mills, carpenter, Klamath and Modoc Indians.
For first of fifteen instalments to pay salary and subsistence of one superintendent of farming, one farmer, one blacksmith, one sawyer, one carpenter, and one wagon and plough maker, as per fifth article treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, six thousand dollars.
For first of twenty instalments to pay salary and subsistence of one physician, one miller, and two school teachers, as per fifth article treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For the erection of agency buildings, four thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous. Flatheads. Vol. xii. p. 976.
Indian service in New Mexico;
in country leased from Choctaws.
Wichitas, &c.
Miscellaneous Indian service in California.
For the purchase of cattle for beef and milk, together with clothing and food, teams and farming tools for Indians in California, fifty-five thousand dollars.
Delivery of annuities to Indians in Minnesota and Michigan;
Pawnees, Poncas, and Yancton Sioux.
Vaccination.
Indian service in Oregon and Washington.
Removal and subsistence of Indians in Oregon and Washington.
Indian service in Nevada;
in Utah Territory;
in Colorado Territory.
Interest on abstracted bonds, Cherokee school, and national funds.
For payment of interest on sixty-eight thousand dollars, abstracted bonds, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, of the Cherokee national fund, four thousand and eighty dollars.
Navajo Indians in New Mexico.
Interest on non-payingstock held in trust for Indian tribes.
Expenses of Sisseton, Wahpaton, Medawokanton, and Wahpakoota Sioux or Dakota Indians. Indian service in Idaho Territory;
Indian Service in Idaho Territory. — For the general incidental expenses of the Indian service in Idaho Territory, presents of goods, agricultural implements, and other useful articles, and to assist them to locate in permanent abodes, and sustain themselves by the pursuits of civilized life, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars.
in Arizona Territory;
in Montana Territory;
in California.
Indian service in Dakota Territory.
Delivery of provisions to Indians in Utah superintendency.
Special agent for Winnebago, &c. Indians.
Funds and moneys to be appropriated according to stipulations of treaty or provisions of law.
Appropriation for payment of supplies to destitute Indians of Southern superintendency, for removal and relief of destitute.
Full examination to be made before money is expended, &c.
Certain citizens may trade with Indians on giving bond.
Conditions.
Proviso.
Certain post routes established in
Maine.
Ante, p, 6.
Post routes in Maine.
Vermont.
Ante, p. 8.
New York.
Ante, pp. 7, 189.
Pennsylvania.
Ante, p. 8.
Post routes in Pennsylvania.
Maryland.
Ante, p. 189.
Delaware.
West Virginia.
Ante, pp. 8, 190.
Ohio.
Ante, p. 8.
Indiana
Ante, pp. 6, 191.
Illinois.
Ante, p. 191.
Post routes in Illinois.
Michigan.
Ante, p. 7.
Missouri.
Ante, p. 190.
Post routes in Missouri.
Minnesota.
Ante, pp. 7, 169.
Iowa.
Ante, pp. 8, 189.
Post routes in Iowa.
Wisconsin.
Ante, pp. 8, 189.
California.
Ante, pp. 5, 190.
Post routes in Kentucky.
Montana Territory.
Ante, p. 190.
Washington Territory.
Ante, p. 8.
Dakota Territory.
Ante, p. 6.
Oregon.
Ante, p. 190.
Utah Territory.
Kansas.
Ante, pp. 8, 189.
Nevada.
Ante, pp. 7, 190.
New Jersey.
Nebraska Territory.
Ante, p. 7.
Post routes in Nebraska Territory.
Idaho Territory.
Montana Territory.
Ante, p. 190.
Dakota Territory.
Ante, pp. 6, 287.
Indian Territory.
Clerks of district courts in Washington Territory, their appointment, duties, and powers.
Upon certain weighable articles exported, three cents per hundred pounds to be collected.
Office of mensurerer at New York abolished.
Duties to be performed by weighers.
Salary of weighers at New York.
Proviso.
Public lands granted to Kansas to aid in construction of a railroad and telegraph from Fort Riley to Fort Smith.
If any of granted lands have been sold or reserved, &c. other lands may be selected in lieu thereof.
Lands heretofore reserved excepted from this act.
Right of way granted.
Lands not, to be selected beyond twenty miles from line of road.
Remaining lands, &c. not to be sold for less than double the minimum price.
Sellers under pre-emption laws;
under the homestead act.
Conditions of this grant.
Granted lands to inare to benefit of company as follows.
If road is not completed in ten years, unpatented lands to revert.
When maps of route of road are filed, lands to be withdrawn from market.
United States mail to be carried.
Right of way through public lands granted for the railroad.
Materials for construction.
Extent of grant of right of way.
Grounds for stations, &c.
Acceptance of terms, &c. of this act to be in writing and within one year.
Pacific Railroad Company, southern branch, may extend its road, through Indian Territory, by consent, to Fort Smith.
Right of way through Indian Territory, and ground for stations, &c.
When Indian title is extinguished in Indian Territory, mid lands become public hinds, grant thereof to company.
Company may acquire title from certain Indians.
Any railroad company may unite with this company, after, &c.
Washington Temperance Society incorporated.
Name.
Corporate powers.
Limit to amount of property.
Corporate powers.
Meetings, by-laws, &c.
Corporation not to issue notes, &c. as currency.
Act may be altered, &c.
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company incorporated.
Corporators.
Corporators.
Name of corporation, &c.
Seal.
Corporation may locate and construct rail-road and telegraph line.
Termini and route.
Branch eastwardly to near Van Buren, Arkansas.
Powers and privileges.
Capital stock.
Persons before named appointed board of commissioners.
Quorum.
First meeting of commissioners.
Notice.
Organization of board and officers.
Treasurer to give bonds.
Secretary to be sworn.
Other meatings, how called.
Commissioners to open books for subscriptions to stock.
When and how first meeting of subscribers to stock to be called.
Directors.
Each share to have a vote.
Inspectors of election.
Commissioners to deliver to directors all moneys, books, &c. and their duties to cease.
Annual meetings of corporation.
Right of way granted through public lands for construction of railroad and telegraph.
Materials for construction.
Extent of grant of right of way.
Right of way exempt from taxation.
lndian title to be extinguished.
Public lands granted to the corporation to aid in the construction of railroad and telegraph.
If any of granted lands have been sold, or reserved, &c. other lands may be selected in lieu thereof.
If route is found to be upon the line of any other road to which lands have been granted, amount of former grant to be deducted.
Road having previous grant may assign to, or unite with, this company.
Mineral lands excluded from operation of this act.
The word “mineral” not to include “iron or coal.”
No money to be drawn from treasury to aid in construction of this road.
Upon report of commissioners under oath that twenty-five consecutive miles are completed, patents for coterminous lands to issue to company;
and so as to any other twenty-five consecutive miles.
Railroad how to be constructed.
Rails.
Gauge.
Telegraph line.
Rates for service.
Other railroads may form running connections with it
Odd sections not liable to sale, or entry or pre-emption.
Provisions of pre-emption and homestead acts extended to lands on line of road.
1841. ch. 16, §10.
Vol. v. p. 455.
1862, Ch. 75.
Vol. xii. p. 392.
Company may take any land necessary for working of road.
Width.
Lands for stations, &c.
Trees.
Damages, how to be determined.
When lands are to be deemed taken by the company.
Appeal to a jury.
Appellant to give bonds.
Costs.
Payment into court of a sum equal to final award to vest title of land in company.
Proceedings where lands taken are held by persons under disability.
Proceedings where the interest in the land is for a term of years, &c.;
where lands are unoccupied and without apparent owner.
Rights and privileges of this act are granted and accepted, upon conditions, &c.
Work, when to be commenced and when completed.
If conditions are broken and continue so one year, the United States may complete the road.
Who may subscribe to stock.
Railroad to be a post route and military road.
Charges for government transportation.
Acceptance of these conditions by company to be in writing, and within two years.
Annual report
Rates of fare, tolls, &c.
President and vice-president.
Treasurer and secretary.
Bonds.
Secretary to be sworn.
Who may not be a director.
Term of office of president, vice-president, mid directors.
If directors are not elected on day appointed by by-laws.
Powers of directors.
Quorum.
By-laws.
Vacancies.
Engineers, agents, &c.
Ten per cent of subscriptions to be paid in cash.
Balance, when to be paid.
Notice when payments are due.
If stockholders neglect to pay, stock and previous payments forfeited.
Redemption.
Company may accept and held any grant, loan, aid, &c.
Grant from any Indian tribe to be subject to the approval of the President of the United States.
Southern Pacific R. R. Co. may connect with the Atlantic and Pacific road.
Point of connection.
Gauge and rates of fare.
May have similar grants of land on like terms.
This act to be void, unless, &c.
Act may be altered or repealed.
When in grants to corporations, the United States reserves the right to appoint directors, or agents, &c. all costs, pay, &c. of such persons are to be borne by the corporations.
Rate of pay to such persons.
If company neglects to make such payments, no more patents for lands, &c. to issue.
General Hospital of the District of Columbia incorporated.
Name and powers of corporation.
Annual income of property not to exceed, &c.
President and other officers.
Vacancies.
Powers of corporation.
Property to be devoted to what purposes.
By-laws.
Act may be altered.
California and Louisiana respectively to form only one judicial district.
How called.
Judges, marshals, and attorneys.
Pending, &c. process.
Clerks of southern district of California and western district
of Louisiana to deposit books and property with the clerks of courts hereby established.
Executions to collect judgments heretofore rendered.
Salary of judge for the district of Louisians.
Postal balances denominated in grams of the metric system may he furnished certain post-offices.
One half ounce to be the equivalent of fifteen grams.
Certain license taxes of wholesale dealers may be refunded.
1804, ch. 173 §79.
Vol. xiii. p. 251.
1865, ch.78, § 13.
Vol. xiii. p. 485.
Section 13 of the act 1866, ch. 78, amended by substituting the words “without
paying the special tax therefor,” for “without having first obtained a license so to do.”
One appraiser to be appointed at the port of New York.
Qualifications.
Oath.
Packages to be sent for examination and appraisement.
Proviso.
When and how appraiser may act by deputy.
Ten assistant appraisers to be appointed for the port of New York.
Qualifications.
To act under direction of appraiser.
Oath.
Their report approved by appraiser, to be deemed the appraisement required by law.
One of the assistant appraisers to act as special examiner of drugs.
1848, ch. 70. Vol. ix. p. 237.
One assistant appraiser to examine damaged merchandise.
Examiners to be appointed.
Number and pay to be determined by Secretary of Treasury.
Qualifications.
Oath.
Clerks, verifiers, samplers, openers, packers, and messengers.
No officer appointed under this act to engage in mercantile business.
Pay of appraiser and assistants.
Compensation to be paid monthly.
Inconsistent laws repealed
Present laws respecting appraisers, &c. to apply to those appointed under this act.
When this act takes effect.
Assistant appraisers may be required to work more than usual business hours.
Aids to the revenue to have pay of inspectors of customs.
Certain imports at Portland, Me., to be free of duty.
Drawback of import duties on materials used in buildings erected on the ground burned over.
Proviso.
Seamen in merchant service not to wear sheath knives.
Persons offering to ship as seamen to be notified of law.
Penalty.
Number of copies of reports of Executive departments and documents to be printed for use of departments;
1864, ch. 156. Vol. xiii. p. 184.
additional of papers relating to foreign affaire accompanying annual message.
Statement of offers of supplies in report of secretary of navy to be omitted, &c.
Superintendent of public printing to submit estimates to committee of paper required for the year.
Committee to fix on standard for different kinds of paper.
Proposals to be advertised for, and how.
Samples.
Proposals to be opened before, and an award made by, committee.
Advertisement for proposals to state what.
Proposals of manufacturers or dealers only to be considered.
Equitable time to be allowed for filling contracts.
No contract valid unless approved by committee.
Annual report of superintendent to include what.
Superintendent of public printing to see that paper delivered conforms to contract.
Committee to determine differences with contractor.
If contractor is in default, superintendent to report to committee or secretary, and make a new contract;
meanwhile to purchase in open market.
Defaulting contractors to be charged with any increase of price.
Suits on bonds.
Paper may be purchased in open market where quantity required is small, or the want immediate.
Conflicting provisions of law repealed.
Superintendent not to print greater number of copies unless, &
[Amended. See 1867, ch. 1196. Post, p. 568.]
Suits where the matter in dispute exceeds $ 600 in State courts against aliens, or by citizens of the State where brought, against any citizen of said Stare and a citizen of another State, if the suits are, &c. may be
removed by the alien defendant, or by the defendant who is a citizen of such other State, to the circuit court of the United States.
Proceedings for removal.
State court to proceed no further against such defendants.
Attachments.
Injunctions.
Bond of indemnity, &c,
Plaintiff may proceed in State court against other defendants.
Copies of pleadings to have same effect as originals.
Claims of Nebraska for expenses in suppression of Indian hostilities to be examined, allowed, and paid.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Salaries of certain collectors of customs changed and established.
Maximum.
District of Corpus Christi in Texas established, and collector authorized.
Corpus Christi to be port of entry, and Aransas a port of delivery.
Indianola to be port of entry for district of Salaria.
This net to take effect August 1, 1866.
Pay of certain deputy collectors, general and local appraisers;
deputy naval officers and surveyors;
custom-house weighers.
Twenty-five per cent additional to officers at San Francisco.
Blank books, blanks, and stationery for officers of customs.
Per diem compensation of appraisers not increased by act. 1865, ch. 67, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 442
Clerk of supreme court of District of Columbia to pay into treasury all excess of earnings.
Accounts of earnings and expenses, how to be adjusted.
Court to pass upon report of auditor.
Account, how to be settled
Clerk to furnish copy of decree to solicitor of treasury.
Repealing clause.
Trustees, &c of Wyandotte and Quindaro mission of the Kau-
sas Conference to be paid for destruction of church buildings, &c.
Appropriation.
Civil expenses appropriations.
Miscellaneous.
Detection, &c. of counterfeiters of United States securities and coins.
Seamen.
Public buildings and furniture.
For furniture, repairs of furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous items for the same, twenty thousand dollars.
Treasury extension.
Roofs.
Heating apparatus.
Burglar-proof safes &c.
Office furniture.
Detection, &c. of perpetrators of frauds upon the United States.
Custom-house at Toledo;
Charleston.
Arsenal at Hudson City.
Court house at Springfield, Illinois.
Marine Hospital at Chelsea.
National cemeteries.
Medical and surgical history of the rebellion. Medical statistics of provost-marshal general’s bureau. Editions, how to be disposed of. Engraving and lithographing therefor.
Marine corps.
Custom-house, &c. at Bangor;
at Middletown.
Chapel at naval academy.
Coast survey.
For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the survey of the South Florida reefs, shoals, keys, and coast, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, and excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of the navy employed in the work, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For publishing the observations made in the progress of the survey of the coast of the United States, including compensation of civilians employed in the work, five thousand dollars.
For repairs of steamers and sailing schooners used in the coast survey, twenty thousand dollars.
For pay and rations of engineers for four steamers used in the hydrography of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department, ten thousand dollars.
Survey of Isthmns of Darien for ship canal.
Statistics of gold and silver mines of Western States and Territories.
Light-house establishment
For supplying the light-houses and beacon-lights with oil, wicks, glass chimneys and other necessary expenses of the same, and repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, two hundred thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses of improving and refitting the same, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For salaries of five hundred and eighty-nine keepers of light-houses and lighted beacons, and their assistants, two hundred and thirteen thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
For salaries of forty-three keepers of light-vessels, twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars.
For seamen's wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of forty-three light-vessels, two hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of beacons and buoys, and for chains and sinkers for the same, one hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
Consul at Quebec.
Light-houses, &c. on the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington.
For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty light-houses and buildings connected therewith, fifteen thousand dollars.
For salaries of forty-one keepers and assistant keepers of light-houses at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of floating buoys and beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, ten thousand dollars.
Officers of army on light-house duty.
Block Island light-house.
Light-house on Race Rock.
Rebuilding beacons.
For rebuilding beacon-lights on the Breakwater at Plattsburg, New York, three thousand dollars.
Light-houses and stations.
For a new light-house with suitable piers of protection at Coxsackie, New York, twenty-two thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Sandy Hook light station, New York, seven thousand one hundred dollars.
Life-boats, stations, &c. for preservation from shipwreck.
Light-houses, &c.
For repairs and renovations at Esopus, Fourtnile Point, Beavertail, Passaic, Black Rock, and Great West Bay light-stations, five thousand one hundred dollars.
For additional appropriations for building a new first-class light at Assateague, Virginia, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For a new light-house at Bay Point, Port Royal entrance, South Carolina, fifty thousand dollars.
For building range-lights at St. Clair Flats, Lake St. Clair, sixty thousand dollars.
For the erection of a light-house at Beaver Bay on Lake Stipe rior, fifteen thousand dollars: Light-houses, &c.
For building a new light-house at McGulpin’s Point, near old Fort Mackinac, twenty thousand dollars.
For a beacon-light on the end of the pier at Chicago, three thousand dollars.
For a new light-house at Eagle Bluff, Wisconsin, twelve thousand dollars.
For repairs at Grand Island light-house, Lake Superior, seventeen thousand dollars.
For beacon-light at the entrance to Grand Island harbor, Lake Superior, ten thousand dollars.
For additional aids to navigation in Green Bay, Wisconsin, including a third-class light-house on Mahno-mah or Chambers’ Island, and beacon on Peshlego shoal, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For repairs to light-house at Huron Island, Lake Superior, seventeen thousand dollars.
For light-house and pier light at South Haven, in the State of Michigan, six thousand dollars.
For range-lights at Portage entry, Lake Superior, six thousand dollars.
For a light-house to mark the channel between Keewenaw Point and Manitou Island, Lake Superior, fifteen thousand dollars.
Fog-signals.
Superintendents of life-saving stations.
Keepers of stations.
Light-houses.
For a new light-house at the harbor of White River, Muskegon County, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.
Proviso.
For completion of pier of protection and repairing Waugoshance light-house at Straits of Mackinac, ninety thousand dollars.
For the establishment of beacon-lights to mark Brewerton Channel, Patapsco River, Maryland, thirty thousand dollars.
Re-establishing lights on Southern coast
Furnishing President’s house.
Little Falls bridge.
Interest on sums loaned for government purposes.
Extra pay to commissioner and chief clerk of general land office.
Iron fences, &c.
For repairing gates to the iron fence enclosing Lafayette Square, five hundred dollars.
To repair mid whitewash the wooden fences around the several reservations, one thousand dollars.
For repairing the arch on New Jersey Avenue below the coast survey building, one thousand dollars.
Waterpipes, road drainage, &c.
For making the road from the President’s stable to the house, fifteen hundred dollars.
For four new pave-washers on Pennsylvania Avenue, one thousand dollars.
To pay for drainage by pipes of the waste-water from the President's bouse, the cowstable, cowyard, and small greenhouse, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Botanic garden.
Escutcheons of West Virginia and Nevada.
Additional laborer in library of Congress.
Warming library.
Transient paupers
Public grounds.
For purchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds, four hundred dollars.
For purchase of trees and tree-boxes, to replace, when necessary, such as have been planted by the United States, to whitewash tree-boxes and fences, and to repair pavements in front of tho public grounds, three thousand dollars.
Capitol water-closets.
Virginia Avenue.
Water-pipes.
Capitol extension.
Fuel.
Lighting Capitol, &c.
Corporation of Washington, how to light street lamps.
Pay of lamp-lighters, &c,
Bridges.
Miscellaneous.
For public reservation number two and Lafayette Square, in addition to the sale of hay which may be raised on the former, three thousand dollars.
For purchase of fuel for the centre building of the capitol, fifteen hundred dollars.
For erecting a new draw in the navy yard bridge, five thousand dollars.
For taking care of the grounds south of the President’s house, continuing the improvement of the same, and repairing fences, three thousand dollars.
For repairs of water-pipes, five hundred dollars.
For cleaning and repairing sewer traps on Pennsylvania Avenue, three hundred dollars.
For casual repairs of all the furnaces under the capitol, five hundred dollars.
For under-draining the President’s garden and capitol grounds, one thousand dollars.
To enable the commissioner of public buildings to so grade a portion of North Capitol Street as to relay the water-pipes leading from the government spring to the capitol, sufficiently below the grade as to secure from frost, and to relay said pipes, eight thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
For hauling manure for top-dressing the public grounds, five hundred dollars.
For the protection and improvement of Franklin Square, fifteen hundred dollars.
For watchman for Franklin Square, six hundred dollars.
Extra clerks in office of Indian affairs. 1854, ch. 267. Vol. x. p. 581. 1854, ch. 175, §23. Vol. x. p. 673.
1865, ch. 127. Vol. xiii. p. 557. Patent office.
Northeast executive building.
Commissioners to revise statutes. 1866, ch. 140. Ante, p. 74.
Temporary clerks in pension office.
Rooms for pension office.
Site and building for government purposes at Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Jail in District of Columbia.
For salary of warden of the jail in the District of Columbia, two thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the same is hereby authorized.
School-houses in Washington County.
Columbia hospital.
Revision of laws of District of Columbia. Vol. xiii. p. 409.
eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “
Smithsonian Institution.
Washington aqueduct.
To complete the connecting conduit around and outside the receiving reservoir, seventy thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars.
To finish gate-house at Great Falls, four thousand dollars.
For temporary dam at Conn’s Island, one thousand dollars.
For management, miscellaneous, and contingents, fifteen thousand dollars.
Government Hospital for the insane.
For finishing, furnishing, and lighting additional accommodations in the east wing, in part unfinished, five thousand dollars.
For continuation of the wall enclosing the grounds, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase and fencing fifty-six and one half acres of meadow land, lying near the hospital, provided the Secretary of the Interior shall approve of the purchase in view of the price and quality of the land, and the necessity of adding it to the hospital farm, six thousand dollars.
Patent office.
For preparing illustrations and descriptions for the report of the commissioner of patents, six thousand dollars.
Columbian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
For the erection, furnishing, and fitting up of two extensions to the buildings, to provide enlarged accommodations for the male and female pupils and the resident officers of the institution, thirty-two thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For the erection of a brick barn, carriage-house, cow-house, shop, gas-house, and ice-house, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For the improvement and enclosure of the grounds of the institution, including under-drainage and sewerage, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Providence Hospital. Proviso. 1864, ch. 50. Vol. xiii. p. 43.
Destitute colored women and children. 1863, ch. 33. Vol. xii. p. 650.
Reimbursement of Washington for expenses for streets. &c. 1864, ch. 81, § 3. Vol. xiii. p. 69.
Congressional library.
For furniture for the two wings of the extension of the congressional library, and for sliding cases for illustrated books, ten thousand dollars.
Decoration of capitol. 1856, ch, 129. Vol. xi. p. 88.
Pay of labor era.
Fire-proof building, for treasury.
Presses machinery, &c. in treasury building may be sold at auction. Washington and Georgetown to provide, buildings for orphan's court, and fire-proof vault for register of wills. A tax to he levied therefor.
General post-office building.
Surveys of public Iands in Minnesota;
Dakota;
Nebraska;
Kansas;
Colorado;
Nevada;
For compensation of the surveyor-general of Nevada, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of the clerks in his office, five thousand dollars.
For office rent, messenger, furniture, books, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses of office, three thousand dollars.
New Mexico;
California;
Oregon;
Washington;
Montana;
For compensation of the surveyor-general of Montana, three thousand dollars.
For compensation of clerks in his office, five thousand dollars.
For office rent, messengers, furniture, books, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses of office, three thousand dollars.
Indian reservations.
Collection of revenue from sales of public lands.
For incidental expenses of the several land offices, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.
For necessary expenses incident to providing accommodations for internal revenue officers in existing United States fire-proof buildings, wherever possible, fifteen thousand dollars.
Site for building fur federal offices at Des Moines.
Government building at Portland, Me.
Seminoles. Post, Treaties, p. 72.
For the purchase of agricultural implements, seed-, corn, and other stock, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, twenty thousand dollars.
For the erection of a mill, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, fifteen thousand dollars.
For interest on fifty thousand dollars from the date of the ratification of the treaty, at the rate of five per cent per annum, to be paid annually for the support of schools, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
For interest on twenty thousand dollars from the date of the ratification of the treaty, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid annually for the support of the Seminole government, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
For this amount, to be expended for subsisting the Seminole Indians, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, forty thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the losses that may be awarder! under the provisions of article fourth of treaty March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as per third article of said treaty, fifty thousand dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenses of a board of commissioners, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, to investigate the losses of the loyal Seminole Indians, as per fourth article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For the erection of agency buildings, as per sixth article of treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ten thousand dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to cause a census of each tribe to be taken, as per first clause seventh article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand live hundred dollars.
For transportation of such articles as may be purchased under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the Seminole Indians, under treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or so much thereof as may be necessary, twelve thousand dollars.
Creeks. Creeks. Post, Treaties, p 103.
For interest on seven hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars from the date of the ratification of the treaty at the rate of five per cent per annum to be expended under the direction of tile Secretary of the Interior, as per third article treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to cause the line dividing the Creek country as provided for by the terms of the sale of the Creek land to the United States in article third, as per eighth article treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, four thousand dollars.
For the erection of agency buildings, as per ninth article treaty of Juno fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, ten thousand dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to cause a census of the Creeks to be taken, as per first clause, tenth article treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hun dred and sixty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenses incurred in negotiating treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as per fourteenth article of said treaty, ten thousand dollars.
For transportation of such articles as may be purchased for the Creek nation of Indians under treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or so much thereof as may be necessary, seven thousand dollars.
Office of United States depositary at
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, viz: —
Louisville;
Chicago;
Pittsburg;
Baltimore;
San Francisco.
Office United States depositary at Cincinnati.
Portions of commutation fund appropriated to pay awards to loyal persons for service of colored volunteers or drafted men. 1864, ch. 13, § 24, Vol. xiii. p. 11. Allegiance of claimant to government to he satisfactorily proved No money to be paid until final report of commissioners. See Post, p. 377. Vol. xv. p. 29.
Provision for pay of revenue agent at New York repealed.
1866, ch. 28.
Ante, p. 22.
Deficiency for mail service for 1866.
Pay of watermen in public buildings.
Increase of pay of metropolitan police force;
to be borne by Washington and Georgetown, and in what proportion.
Special tax may be levied therefor.
Property paved from rebel steamer Florida may be sold, and proceeds distributed.
Midshipmen, &c. entitled to one ration, &c.
Appropriation for minister resident in Greece repealed.
1863, ch. 79. Vol. xii. p. 752.
Travelling expenses of first Michigan cavalry.
Judicial powers extended to American consuls, &c. in Egypt.
1860, ch. 179, § 22.
Vol. xii. p. 76.
Consul-general at Alexandria.
Additional bounty of $ 100 to certain enlisted soldiers, honorably discharged;
or their widows, minor children, or parents.
Additional bounty of to certain enlisted soldiers, &c.
Soldiers who have sold, assigned, loaned, &c. their discharge papers, not entitled to the bounty.
Soldier applying for bounty to make oath.
Claim not to be entertained, except, &c.
Paymaster-general to examine accounts of soldiers making application for bounties, &c
Rules for accounting officers in paying claims of widows, &c. for additional bounty.
Pay and mileage of senators, representatives, and delegates in Congress.
Accrued mileage accounts not affected.
Mileage accounts, how to be certified.
Pay of speaker.
Twenty per cent additional pay to officers, clerks, reporters, of Senate and House of Representatives, and librarian, &c. of congressional library.
Preservation of harbor of Provincetown, Mass.
Deficiencies appropriations for 1866.
Executive.
Treasury Department.
Office of 1st comptroller;
comptroller of currency.
For compensation of the comptroller, deputy comptroller, clerks, messengers, and laborers, thirty thousand dollars.
Light-house board.
Stationery.
Southeast executive building.
For contingent expenses, viz: For fuel, labor, light, and miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars.
For rent of buildings for the accommodation of clerks who cannot be accommodated in the treasury building, five thousand dollars.
Department of Interior. Assistant secretary.
Biennial Register.
Post Office Department.
Additional pay of assistant post-masters general. Pay of additional clerks. 1866, eh. 10. Ante, p. 3.
Contingent expenses.
Twenty per cent additional to female clerks. 1664, ch. 147, §3. Vol. xiii. p. 160. Female folders in dead-letter office to have $ 60 a month.
Twenty per cent additional to laborers.
District attorneys.
Mail steamship service with Brazil.
Watchmen for dome of capitol.
Navy hospital at Washington.
Compensation of deputy solicitor of court of claims established.
General land office.
Marshal of eastern district of New York.
Public buildings and grounds. Sewer through botanic garden. Proposals to be advertised for. Work to be let to lowest bidder, &c. Report to Congress of appropriations, &c. for this work.
Lower water-closets of supreme court room, &c.
Long Bridge.
Public grounds. President's house.
To enable the commissioner of public buildings to make such alterations in the arrangement of the business offices in the President’s house as the President may desire, two thousand dollars.
For repair of one of the greenhouses at the President’s, five hundred dollars.
For annual repairs of the President’s house, six thousand dollars, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
To complete the repairing and furnishing of the President’s house, twenty thousand dollars.
Lighting streets.
To so alter the roof-gutters at the President’s house as to prevent injury by overflow of water, three thousand dollars.
Twenty per cent to messenger of court of claims.
Bathroom of House of Representative.
Pennsylvania bank building.
Indian department Miscellaneous. Indian service in Nevada. Payment to James W. Nye.
Statutes at large.
Edward Jarvis, for digest of facts as to mortality and diseases, in census of 1860.
Office of Secretary of State.
Pay of temporary clerks in quartermaster-general's office made equal to that of first-class clerks.
Expenses of delegation of Southern Cherokees. Sum to be refunded from sales of lands.
Increased pay of judges of supreme court of District of Columbia.
1856, ch. 103, §2.
Ante, p. 55.
Quieting title to occupants of certain lands conveyed by the United States. Vol. vii. p. 190.
Construction of 1865, ch. 78, $ 4. Vol. xiii. p. 483.
Collectors of internal revenus acting as disbursing agents, to disburse what moneys.
Increased pay to capitol police.
Appropriation for depositary at Santa Fe.
For compensation of the depositary at Santa Fe, New Mexico, per act of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, one thousand dollars.
Additional clerks, &c. 1846, ch. 90. Vol. ix. p. 59.
Life-saving stations. 1855, ch. 1. Vol. x. p. 697. 1856, ch. 160. Vol. xi. p. 95.
For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations, per same acts, six thousand dollars.
Quartermaster-general's office.
Contingent expenses of the Senate.
For the Senate folding-room, six thousand dollars.
For additional messengers during the session, five thousand dollars.
Estimates for fire-proof buildings for War Department.
Amendment of 1849, ch. 129, § 4 Vol. ix. p. 415. 1769, ch. 12. Vol. i. p. 65.
Index to Senate list of private claims.
Duties in lieu of former duties, from August 10, 1866, upon
That from and after the tenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in lieu of the duties now imposed by law on the articles mentioned and embraced in this section, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on all goods, wares, and merchandise imported from foreign countries, the duties heretofore [hereinafter] provided, viz :
Cigars, cigarettes, and cheroots. Imported cigars, how to be packed; how to be entered, and where placed; to be stamped. Stamps to be provided.
Cotton.
Compounds or preparations of distilled spirits. Brandy, spirituous liquors, and wines how to be imported; if in less quantities after October 1, 1666, to be forfeited.
Vessels between the United States and Sandwich Islands, &c. not to pay tonnage duty more than once a year.
1865, ch. 80. Vol. xiii. p. 493.
Guano, exportation of certain.
1856, ch. 164. Vol. xi. p. 119.
Fishing bounties repealed.
Duties may be remitted on salt used in curing fish.
Goods arriving at designated ports, destined for places in adjacent provinces, &c. may be entered and carried through, &c.
Goods, with consent of authorities of provinces, &c. may be carried across their territory from one place to another in the United States.
Excess of moneys paid for duties, when may be refunded, without compliance with certain forms of law.
1864, ch. 171, §§ 14, 15.
Vol. xiii. p. 214.
The protection given to revenue officers extends to persons acting by direction of the executive under the laws for the collection of abandoned property, &c. 1833, ch. 57, §§ 3, 4.
Vol. iv. p. 632. 1863, ch. 120, § 12.
Vol. xii. p. 820. 1863, ch. 120.
Vol. xii. p. 820. 1864, ch. 225.
Vol. xiii. p. 375
Amounts recovered in suits against such officers, to be paid out of proceeds of sales and leases, &c.
Dutiable value of imported merchandise, how to he determined.
Additions to entered value to be part of actual value;
if over ten per cent, what duty to be paid.
Duty never on less than invoiced value.
This not to apply to certain wools, unless, &c.
Proceeds of goods sold, after remaining three years in public store, less expenses, &c. to be paid owner, &c.
1862, ch. 163, § 21.
Vol. xii. p. 560.
1846, ch. 84, § 1. Vol. ix. p. 53.
Machinery to make sugar from beets may be duty free for one year.
Upon reimportation of products of the United States that have not paid an internal tax, a duty shall be imposed equal to such tax.
Bureau of statistics established in Treasury Department.
Director, his salary and duties.
Statistics of commerce and navigation.
Report, when to be submitted to Congress.
Monthly reports of exports and imports.
Annual statement of vessels.
System of numbering vessels enrolled, registered, and licensed, may be established.
Numbers, how to be marked.
Vessel ceasing to be marked ceases to be a United States vessel.
Annual statement of merchandise in transit, warehoused. &c.
Statistics of manufacture.
Clerks.
Expenses of bureau.
Franking privilege.
Collection of direct tax in any State declared in insurrection may be suspend ed until Jan. 1, 1868.
1861, ch. 45. Vol. xii. p. 292
See 1867, ch. 159.
Post, p. 434.
Military peace establishment to consist of what.
Artillery.
Cavalry.
Infantry.
Appointments from volunteer officers and soldiers, how distributed.
Proviso.
Each regiment of infantry to have what officers and men.
Indian scouts.
Military bands.
Ordnance sergeant, hospital steward, and post chaplain.
Superintendent to each national cemetery.
Enlistments hereafter to be for what term.
Recruits at general rendezvous.
When men who have been wounded may be enlisted;
to what regiments to be assigned.
General, lieutenant-general, major-generals, brigadier-generals.
Adjutant-general’s department.
Inspectors-general and assistant inspectors-general.
Bureau of military justice.
Judge-advocate-general, &c.
1867, ch. 79.
Post, p. 410.
Quartermaster’s department.
Vacancies, how filled.
Military storekeeper.
Provisions of 1864, ch. 253. Vol. xiii. p. 394. extended.
Subsistence department.
Medical department.
Medical department.
Vacancies.
1867, ch. 145, § 5.
Post, p. 423.
Hospital stewards.
Pay department.
Corps of engineers.
Engineer soldiers.
Ordnance department.
Storekeeper and paymaster at Springfield.
Chief signal officer.
Signal duty.
Appointment of adjutant-general and heads of departments.
Persons not to be commissioned as officers until after examination.
Appointments to be made from qualifications and services.
Mileage.
Office of sutler abolished.
Articles, how to be furnished.
When this section takes effect.
The President, upon application, may detail army officers to act as presidents, &c. of certain colleges.
Schools for enlisted men at posts, garrisons, or permanent camps.
What to be taught.
Building for school and religious purposes.
Who not to be appointed to office in the army.
Officers of colored troops to be deemed officers of volunteers.
Rank, pay, &c. of chaplains.
1864, ch. 53. Vol. xii. p. 46.
Chaplain for colored troops.
Transportation.
Commissions of certain officers not vacated by this act.
Officers of the regular army, who and how may be retired.
Provost-marshal-general’s office and bureau.
Officers of volunteers to bear their titles and wear their uniforms.
Volunteer rank of regular officers to be entered upon army register.
Proviso.
Provisions as to commutation of officers’ subsistence to be continued one year.
1865, ch. 81, § 3. Vol. xiii. p. 497.
Proviso.
Authority for solicitor of war department repealed.
1863, ch. 44, § 3. Vol. xii. p. 656.
Code of regulations for the army and militia in actual service, and courts-martial.
Repealing clause.
The act granting right of way and lands to Arkansas and Missouri for railroad revived and extended for ten years.
Lands heretofore granted and reverted to be restored to same custody and condition as at time reversion took place.
Mineral lands reserved.
Property and troops of the United States to be transported free of cost.
Additions to former grant for same uses and trusts.
Lands reserved or to which homestead or pre-emption rights have attached, excepted from grant.
Whole grant not to exceed ten sections a mile.
Lands, how only to be disposed of.
Sections of ten consecutive miles.
If twenty miles are not completed in three years, and at least twenty miles each year afterwards, and the whole in ten years, lands then unpatented to revert to the United States.
Lands hereby granted to be reserved from entry, pre-emption, &c.
Lands given to Missouri for Cairo and Fulton railroad.
When to be patented to the State;
may be held and used toward paying certain State bonds.
When this act takes effect as relates to the Memphis and Little Rock, and Little Rock and Fort Smith branches of road.
Use of weights and measures of the metric system authorized.
Tables of equivalents.
Measures of length;
| metric denominations and values. | equivalents in denominations in use. | |
|---|---|---|
| Myriameter | 10,000 meters. | 6 2137 miles. |
| Kilometer | 1,000 meters. | 0.62137 miles, or 3280 feet and ten inches. |
| Hectometer | 100 meters. | 328 feet and 1 inch. |
| Dekameter | 10 meters. | 393.7 inches. |
| Meter | 1 meter. | 39.37 inches. |
| Decimeter | 1/10 of a meter. | 3.937 inches. |
| Centimeter | 1/100 of a meter. | 0.3937 inches. |
| Millimeter | 1/1000 of a meter. | 0.0394 inches. |
of surface;
| metric denominations and values. | equivalents in denominations in use. | |
|---|---|---|
| Hectare | 10,000 square meters. | 2.471 acres. |
| Are | 100 square meters. | 119.6 square yards. |
| Centare | 100 square meters. | 1550 square inches. |
of capacity.
| METRIC DENOMINATIONS AND VALUES. | EQUIVALENTS IN DENOMINATIONS IN USE. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Names. | Number of liters. | Cubic measure. | Dry measure. | Liquid or wine measure. |
| Kiloliter, or stere | 1,000 | 1 cubic meter | 1.308 cubic yards | 264.17 gallons. |
| Hectoliter | 100 | 1/10 of a cubic meter | 2 bushels and 3.35 pecks | 26.417 gallons. |
| Dekaliter | 10 | 10 cubic decimeters | 9.08 quarts | 2.6417 gallons. |
| Liter | 1 | 1 cubic decimeter | 0.908 quarts | 1 0567 quarts. |
| Deciliter | 1/10 | 1/10 of a cubic decimeter | 6.1022 cubic inches | 0.845 gills. |
| Centiliter | 1/100 | 10 cubic centimeters | 0 6102 cubic inches | 0 338 fluid ounces. |
| Milliliter | 1/1000 | 1 cubic centimeter | 0.061 cubic inches | 0.27 fluid drams. |
Weighs.
| METRIC DENOMINATIONS AND VALUES. | EQUIVALENTS IN DENOMINATIONS IN USE. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Names. | Number of grams. | Weight of what quantity of water at maximum density. | Avoirdupois weight. |
| Millier or Tonneau | 1,000,000 | 1 cubic meter | 2204.6 pounds. |
| Quintal | 100,000 | 1 hectoliter | 220.46 pounds. |
| Myriagram | 10,000 | 10 liters | 22.046 pounds. |
| Kilogram or kilo | 1,000 | 1 liter | 2 2046 pounds. |
| Hectogram | 100 | 1 deciliter | 3.5274 ounces. |
| Dekagram | 10 | 10 cubic centimeters | 0.3527 ounces. |
| Gram | 1 | 1 cubic centimeter | 15.432 grains. |
| Decigram | 1/10 | 1/10 of a cubic centimeter | 1.5432 grains. |
| Centigram | 1/100 | 10 cubic millimeters | 0.1543 grains. |
| Milligram | 1/1000 | 1 cubic millimeters | 0.0154 grains. |
1858, ch. 154, § 17.
Vol. xi. p. 327.
Secretary of Treasury may appoint disbursing agent, where there is no collector at place of location of any public work.
That there be paid, out of any Payment and division of rewards offered for the capture of the assassins of the President and Secretary of State.
For the capture of Payne:— For capture of Payne;
| To Major H. W. Smith, who had charge of, and commanded the force, the sum of | $1,000 |
| Richard C. Morgan, detective | 500 |
| Eli Devore, detective | 500 |
| Charles H. Rosch, detective | 500 |
| Thomas Sampson, detective | 500 |
| William M. Wermerskirch, detective | 500 |
| John H. Kimball, citizen | 500 |
| P. M. Clark, citizen | 500 |
| Susan Jackson, colored | 250 |
| Mary Ann Griffin | 250 |
| $5,000 |
For the capture of Atzerott:— of Atzerott;
| To Major E. R. Artman, 213th Pennsylvania Volunteers | $1,250 00 |
| Sergeant Zachariah W. Gemmill, 1st Delaware Cavalry | 3,598 54 |
| Private Christopher Ross, 1st Delaware Cavalry | 2,878 54 |
| Private David H. Barker, 1st Delaware Cavalry | 2,878 78 |
| Private Albert Bender, 1st Delaware Cavalry | 2,878 78 |
| Private Samuel J. Williams, 1st Delaware Cavalry | 2,878 78 |
| Private George W. Young, 1st Delaware Cavalry | 2,878 78 |
| Private James Longacre, 1st Delaware Cavalry | 2,878 78 |
| James W. Purdum, citizen | 2,878 78 |
| $25,000 00 |
For the capture of Booth and Herold:— of Booth and Herold;
| To E. J. Conger | $15,000 |
| “ Lafayette C. Baker | 3,750 |
| “ Luther B. Barker | 3,000 |
| “ Lieutenant E. P. Doherty | 5,250 |
| “ James R. O’Bierne | 2,000 |
| “ H. H. Wells | 1,000 |
| “ George Cottingham | 1,000 |
| “ Alexander Lovett | 1,000 |
| $32,000 |
| Sergeant Boston Corbett, 16th New York cavalry; Sergeant Andrew Wendell, 16th New York cavalry; Corporal Charles Zimmer, 16th New York cavalry; Corporal Michael Uniac, 16th New York cavalry; Corporal John Winter, 16th New York cavalry; Corporal Herman Newgarten, 16th New York cavalry; Corporal John Walz, 16th New York cavalry; Corporal Oliver Lonpay, 16th New York cavalry; Corporal Michael Hormsley, 16th New York cavalry; Private John Myers, 16th New York cavalry; Private John Ryan, 16th New York cavalry; Private William Byrne, 16th New York cavalry; Private Phillip Hoyt, 16th New York cavalry; Private Martin Kelley, 16th New York cavalry; Private Henry Putnam, 16th New York cavalry; Private Frank McDaniel, 16th New York cavalry; Private Lewis Savage, 16th New York cavalry; Private Abraham Genay, 16th New York cavalry; Private Emery Parady, 16th New York cavalry; Private David Barker, 16th New York cavalry; Private William McQuade, 16th New York cavalry; Private John Millington, 16th New York cavalry; Private Frederick Deitz, 16th New York cavalry; Private John H. Singer, 16th New York cavalry; Private Carl Steinbrugge, 16th New York cavalry; Private Joseph Zisgen, 16th New York cavalry, one thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars eighty-four, eight tenth cents each | $43,000 |
| $ 75,000 000 |
Term of district court to be held at Erie, Pennsylvania.
Transportation for disabled soldiers to whom artificial limbs are furnished.
”1866, ch. 85.
Ante, p. 48.
Supplemental appropriation for postal service.
See pages 5, 189, 280.
Manufacturers, &c. of mineral waters, &c. sold in bottles on which are their names or marks, may file in court description of bottles, &c.
The filling such bottles with mineral water, &c. without permission, declared unlawful.
Penalty.
Grant of certain lots of land in Washington for the sole use of schools for colored children.
To revert, if &c.
Commissioners of the circuit courts may exercise powers of justice of peace, under act 1790, ch. 29, § 7.
Vol. i. p. 134.
Proceedings in the United States provisional court for Louisiana, to be transferred to the district court, and to be as though originally commenced there.
Proviso.
Record in certain suits to remain in district court without further action.
Judgments, &c. of the provisional court to become at once the judgments, &c. of the district or circuit court.
Office of surveyor-general of Iowa and Wisconsin to be removed to Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
Nebraska and Iowa to constitute a surveying district.
Repealing clause.
Physical disqualification of officers of navy, occasioned by wounds received in line of duty, and not incapacitating them, not to prevent promotion on active list.
1864, ch. 63, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 53.
Pay of navy officers on retired list and not on duty, &c.
Pay of clerks of navy yards, &c. increased twenty-five per cent.
Disbursing officers of the navy and marine corps to be allowed credits for such losses of property as shall, &c.
Subsistence and clothing for destitute Indians, &c.
1819, ch. 101. Vol. iii. p. 532.
Provisos.
Preamble.
See 1867, ch. 59.
Post, p. 398.
Bond of Superintendent of Public Printing.
See Post, pp. 362, 563
Preamble.
Industrial Exposition at Paris, France.
Acts of Secretary of State approved.
General agent at New York
may appoint clerks;
their pay.
Secretary of State to make general regulations.
Gift to Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home of Iowa.
Use of portion of military reserve on St. Clair river granted for horse railroad.
Conditions.
Distribution of writings of James Madison.
Time for completion of Burlington and Missouri River railroad extended.
1864, ch. 103, § 8. Vol. xiii. p. 98
Thanks of Congress to Vice-Admiral Farragut, and those under his command.
President to communicate this resolution
Appropriation for expenses of Joint Committee upon the condition of the socalled confederate states.
Preamble.
1864, ch. 199. Vol. xiii. p. 340.
A steam vessel to be detailed to aid in laying the telegraph cable between the western and eastern continents.
Preamble.
Appropriation to reimburse Miss Clara Barton.
Printing.
Transfer of Berkeley and Jefferson counties from Virginia to West Virginia.
Stores for the National Home for Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans.
Preamble.
Help to sufferers by the explosion of the United States arsenal in the District of Columbia.
Name of ship “Art Union” changed to “George M. Barnard.”
United States vessels, &c. for use of commissioners of quarantine.
[Extended. See Post, pp. 569, 570.]
Publication of the Laws of the United States.
Vol. v. p. 799.
Vol. ix. p. 564.
Time of delivery.
Price.
Boundaries may be so altered as to allow the laying out, &c. of streets.
Vol. v. p. 719.
Commanders Reynolds and Woolsey restored to the active list in the navy.
Construction of the words in the bounty act, “or in the line of duty.”
1865, ch. 79, § 4.
Vol. xiii. p. 488.
Burial of soldiers who died in the service of the United States during the rebellion.
Preamble.
Protest against pardons by foreign governments of convicts, on condition of emigration to the United States.
Temporary relief of the destitute population in the District of Columbia.
Managers of National Asylum for disabled volunteer soldiers.
1866, ch. 21, § 3.
Ante, p. 10.
Thanks of Congress to Major-General Hancock.
Transfer of appropriations for the Post Office Department.
Proviso.
Appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs.
1858, ch. 160, § 1. Vol. xi. p. 337.
The gratitude of the nation expressed by Congress to the
officer, soldiers, and seamen of the United States.
Time for completing the eastern division of the Union Pacific Railway extended.
1862, ch. 120. Vol. xii. p. 480. 1865, ch. 216, § 5. Vol. xiii. p. 358.
Succeeding sections.
Northern Pacific railroad.
Crude petroleum, &c. to be exempt from internal tax.
Congratulations of Congress that the Emperor of Russia escaped assassination.
President requested to forward copy
Commission to select site for post office and court house in New York city;
to make report.
Lumber may be used for fair.
Time for construction of first section of Western Pacific Railroad extended, upon conditions, &c.
Certain medals to veteran soldiers to be free of postage.
Secretary of Treasury may make quarantine regulations against cholera in aid of State authorities.
Revenue officers and cutters.
Appropriation.
Authority, when to expire.
Collection of plants, tendered by Frederick Pech, to be accepted.
Appropriation.
Board to examine site, near Portland, Maine, for fresh-water basin for ironclads.
Report.
Additional salary to letter-carriers in San Francisco.
See Post, p. 367.
Presumption to hold that a colored soldier
was a freeman at the time of enlistment, when nothing to the contrary appears.
1864, ch. 124, § 4.
Vol. xiii. p. 129.
What to be sufficient proof of marriage of colored soldier, to secure arrears of pay, &c. due at his death.
Issue of such marriage to be lawful heirs.
Appropriation for negotiating treaties with certain Indian tribes.
Proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Article xiv.
Who are citizens of the United States and of the States; their privileges and immunities.
Apportionment of representatives.
Certain persons disqualified from holding office.
How disability may be removed.
The validity of the public debt not to be questioned.
Certain debts and obligations not to be assumed or paid.
This article may be enforced by legislation.
Age for admission of cadets to United States Military Academy.
Cadets to be appointed one year in advance of their admission, except, &c.
Pay to commence after admission.
New requirements for admission.
1812, ch. 72. Vol. ii. p. 720.
Mode of appointments.
[Repealed. 1867, ch. 170, § 3, Post, p. 487.]
Appointments at large.
Proviso.
Provisions of act 1864, ch. 240, extended to Berkeley and Jefferson counties, West Virginia.
Appropriation for repair of Potomac bridge.
Bounty to be paid to the enlisted men of certain Indian regiments.
The words “in a Northwestern direction,” how to be construed in authorizing the location of the road.
Congress assents to the location of the Portage and Superior Railroad Company;
and consents to the selection and application of the lands.
Intention of this resolution.
Richard L. Law may be restored to active list of the navy.
That the Secretary of the Interior Distribution of surplus copies of American state papers.
To each member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the present Congress, one copy of each of said seventeen volumes; and to such public and college libraries as may be designated by the joint committee on the library, one copy each.
Vermont to be paid for expenses for defence and
protection of frontier.
Proviso.
A swing bridge may be erected upon government piers across Cuyahoga river, at Cleveland, Ohio.
Buildings may be hired for the temporary use of Department of State.
See Ante, p. 347.
Post, p. 563.
Appropriation for participation in the Universal Exhibition at Paris.
Furniture and fixtures.
Additional accommodations.
Principal agent.
Office rent at New York, &c.
Ante, p. 347.
Expenses at Havre and Paris
Expenses of commissioners.
Additional commissioners.
Who shall not be commissioners.
The people of the States invited to take part in the exhibition.
Detailed statement to be made of expenditures hereby authorized.
Enlisted men detailed for special duty not thereby to be deprived of bounty.
Certain clothing, camp equipage, bedding, &c. to be placed at the disposal of the authorities of Portland, Maine.
Preamble.
Tennessee declared restored to the Union.
Preamble.
See 1867, ch. 145, § 3.
Post, p. 422.
Union soldiers, sailors, and marines held as prisoners in the rebel States, to be paid commutation of rations at cost prices.
Proviso.
Preamble.
The stock of the United States in the Dismal Swamp Canal to be sold, and how.
Proviso.
Additional watchmen for Smithsonian, grounds.
Law library of James Louis Petigru to be bought for the library of Congress.
Appropriation.
Gold medals to be presented, as testimonials of national gratitude for the rescue of the passengers, officers, and men of the wrecked steamship San Francisco.
Reward of $ 7500 to each master of the vessels participating in the rescue.
Reward of $ 500 to each mate, and $100 to each man and boy of said vessels.
The use of certain engraved plates of the United States Exploring Expedition to be granted to the Navy Department.
Cots and bedding for five hundred persons granted to the Illinois Soldiers’ College, &c. for use of free students therein, disabled by the war.
Payment of certain claims against the late Territory of Nevada
See Post, p. 567.
A general customs revenue law to be prepared and submitted to Congress.
Claim of Massachusetts for expenses for coast defence to be examined.
Right of way granted to the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its branches through the military reserves.
Grant for depot and other purposes.
Such portions of these reserves as are not needed for military purposes to be restored to public domain.
Usefulness for military purposes not to be interfered with.
The words “at the time of his enlistment,” at
end of section one, stricken ont.
Agent or attorney making claim for bounty must file with each claim his oath that, &c.
Fees of agents.
Penalty for charging more than legal fees.
If payments are made by check, &c. claimant how to establish his identity.
Soldiers not to sell or assign, &c. discharges, &c.
Such sales, &c. void.
Certain commissioned officers actually entering on duty, but not mustered in within &c. to have full pay from what date.
Heirs, &c. of such officers to receive arrears of pay and pensions.
Circuit court for West Virginia to be held at Parkersburg, and not at Lewisburg.
Provision for printing official reports of the armies of the United States repealed.
Vol. xiii. p. 406.
Certain official documents to be arranged and prepared for publication.
Plan and estimates of cost.
Compensation of person doing the service.
Proviso.
Collection of certain internal revenue taxes in Portland, Maine, may be suspended.
Proviso.
A set of standard weights and measures of metric system to be furnished each State.
Preamble.
Certain citizens may be authorized to use a certain building in Washington for public meetings.
The payment of $ 39,000 to be made to certain Michigan Indians.
Vol. ix. p. 853.
Annuity now paid to be restored.
Payment to be made from what funds and how.
A contract may be made with Miss Vinnie Ream for statue of President Lincoln.
1864, ch. 240. Vol. xiii. p. 381.
Provisions of act 1864, ch. 240, extended to loyal
citizens of Tennessee.
The adjutant-general of New Jersey may send free by mail certificates of thanks awarded to the soldiers of that State.
The Territory of Colorado to be settled with for the services of its militia forces.
Amount found due to be reported to Congress.
Preamble.
Special income tax not to be further enforced against certain officers and soldiers.
PUBLIC ACTS OF THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
That the following sums, or so Deficiency and other appropriations for 1867.
Office of Superintendent of Public Printing.—For public printing, Public printing.
For paper for public printing, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Paper for public printing.
Bureau of Statistics.—For contingent expenses, viz: Laborers, office Bureau of Statistics.
Southeast Executive Building, including the Extension.—For fuel, light, Southeast Executive Building and Extension.
Office of the Sixth Auditor.—To refund to the office of the sixth Office of Sixth Auditor. 1864, ch. 87, § 13. Vol. xiii. p. 79.
For Special Objects, estimated for by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.—For fencing the grounds south of the treasury building, and Special objects.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, twenty-five thousand Public grounds, and buildings.
For furniture, and repairs of furniture for the same, ten thousand dollars.
For furniture, carpets, and repairs of treasury buildings in Washington, District of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars.
For heating apparatus for public buildings, ten thousand dollars. Heating apparatus.
For salaries of ten supervising, and fifty-nine local inspectors, appointed Supervising and local steamboat inspectors. 1852, ch. 106. Vol. x. p. 61.
For a deficiency in flagging the furnace room, and repairs about the stable at the executive mansion, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Metropolitan Police. 1866, ch. 215. Ante, p. 212.
One captain and inspector, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and ninety-one cents.
One clerk to major of police, at one thousand dollars per annum, six hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-six cents.
Twenty sergeants of police, at sixty-five dollars a month, ten thousand four hundred dollars.
Fifty privates of police, at sixty dollars a month, twenty-four thousand dollars.
Compensation increased, and how to be borne. Special tax authorized.
Department of the Interior. Engineer Office.
Washington Aqueduct.
Watchmen in Smithsonian Grounds.
Watchmen in public buildings. 1866, ch. 296, § 5. Ante, p. 321.
State Department. Foreign intercourse.
1864, ch. 213. Vol. xiii. p. 355.
Deficiency in former land grant to Oregon, caused by lands sold or reserved, &c. made up.
Lands, how to be selected.
Who to be deemed electors and entitled to vote in the District of Columbia.
Penalty for wilfully refusing to receive, or rejecting the ballot of one entitled to vote;
for wilfully disturbing, &c. an elector in the exercise of his franchise.
Criminal courts in the District to charge Grand Jury.
Voting lists to be prepared in Washington and Georgetown;
to be posted in public places ten days before annual election.
Check-list to be used at all elections, and votes received only, &c.
Penalty for offering, &c. money, &c. to any person to influence his vote;
for accepting money, &c. to influence one’s vote.
Repealing clause.
The President of the United States having returned to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia,” with his objections thereto, the Senate proceeded in pursuance of the Constitution to reconsider the same, and
The House of Representatives having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution to reconsider the bill entitled “An act to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia,” returned to the Senate by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the Senate to the House of Representatives, with the message of the President returning the bill :
Final report of commissioners upon claims of loyal persons for
services of colored volunteers or drafted men, to be made to Congress.
1866, ch. 296. § 62.
Ante, p. 321.
No money to be paid until report is approved by Congress.
1864, ch. 13, § 24. Vol. xiii. p. 11. Vol. xv. p. 29.
1862, ch. 195, § 13. Vol. xii. p. 592.
That the thirteenth section of Authority of the President to proclaim amnesty and pardon, repealed.
Endorsed by the
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Net proceeds of Internal Revenue of Arizona, Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, and Washington Territories, for three years, devoted to the erection of penitentiary buildings.
Limit of amount to be expended in the several Territories.
Additional meeting of Congress provided for.
Mileage.
Pay of route agents of the Post-Office Department.
National Safe Deposit Company of Washington incorporated.
Seal and powers.
Capital stock.
Subscriptions to capital stock.
Choice and number of directors.
President and Vice-President.
Vacancies.
Powers, duties, and privileges of the corporation.
Capital, how invested.
Dividends;
not to be made if capital is diminished, until, &c.
By-laws.
Corporation not to circulate any bill of its own as currency;
nor pay imprest on deposits.
Operations confined to the District of Columbia.
That from and after the passage The elective franchise in the Territories not to be denied on account of color, race, &c. Repeal of inconsistent laws.
Endorsed by the
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Washington County Horse Railroad Company incorporated.
Route.
Proviso.
Rate of fare.
Railroad to be deemed real estate.
Taxation.
Mode of construction.
Width and gauge of track.
Ordinary travel not to be interfered with.
This act may be altered, &c.
Corporation not to issue notes, &c. as currency.
Capital stock, shares, and how transferable.
Cars to be first-class;
to be run as often as, &c.
Offices, stables, &c.
Articles of value left in the cars.
Freight for the use of the United States to be carried over the railway.
Subscription to the capital stock.
Proviso.
Meeting for choice of directors.
Votes and proxies.
Directors, number and term of office of.
Treasurer; bonds.
Vacancies.
By-laws.
Annual meeting of stockholders.
Penalty for obstructing railway.
Railway to be completed within one year.
Repeal of inconsistent acts.
Levy court of Washington County not to hinder, &c. construction, &c. of road.
First Congregational Society of Washington incorporated.
Corporate powers.
Exemption from taxes.
Limit to amount of value of real estate.
First meeting of Society.
Notice.
By laws.
Powers of corporation to vest in board of trustees.
Number and term of office of trustees.
Penalty for buying, selling, &c. forged bonds, notes, &c. with intent that they shall be passed or used as genuine.
The making or using cards, circulars, &c. in the similitude of any United States security declared unlawful.
Penalty, how recovered and to whose use.
The printing, &c. of any business card or notice, &c. on any United States security, made unlawful.
Penalty, how recovered, and to whose use.
Penalty for making, &c. impressions upon any material by any tool, &c. used, &c. in
printing, &c. or in making other tools, &c. to be used in printing, &c. any security, &c. to be issued by or for the United States.
Penalty for having in possession, without authority and with intent to defraud, any impression, &c. of any tool, &c. used or intended for printing, &c. by security to be issued by or for the United States;
for secreting, carrying away, &c. without authority, from any place of deposit, any tool, &c. used or intended, for printing, &c. or for making tools, &c. to be used for printing, &c. any security, currency, &c. to be issued by or for the United States;
for taking, &c. without authority, any material prepared and intended to be used in making such stamps or currency, or printed, &c. in whole or in part, and intended for circulation and use, as such currency, &c.;
for taking without authority from any place of deposit, any paper prepared or intended for use to procure the payment of money from, or allowance of claims against, the United States, whether such
paper has or has not been so used, or such claim has or has not been so allowed.
Penalty for using, or attempting to use any such paper.
1866, ch. 80.
Ante, p. 46.
When in any suit begun in a State court and removed to the circuit court of the United States, the defendant is in actual custody under the State process, the clerk of the circuit court shall issue a habeas corpus cum causa.
1863, ch. 81. Vol. xii. p. 755.
Proceedings thereon.
The marshal to take the body;
to file duplicate copy with the clerk of the State court.
Attachments, bail, &c. to continue in full force.
1789, ch. 20. Vol. i. p. 73.
See Post, p. 545.
The United. States courts and judges, in addition to present authority, may grant writs of habeas corpus in certain cases.
Proceedings in applications for the writ.
The writ to be awarded forthwith, unless, &c.
Writ how to be directed.
Return to be made, and within what time.
Upon the return, a day to be set for hearing the case, and within what time.
Petitioner may on oath deny facts set forth in the return and allege others.
Return may be amended, &c.
Court or Judge to determine the facts summarily, and discharge the petitioner if, &c.
Penalty for refusing to obey the writ, &c.;
for not making return, or making a false return.
Appeals.
Terms, regulations and orders respecting appeals, &c.
Pending proceedings or appeal, and after final judgment discharging the petitioner, all proceedings in State court to be null.
Writs of error from the Su preme Court of the United States, for what causes may be issued.
Citation, how signed
Effect of writ.
Proceedings upon reversal.
Supreme Court may award execution, or remand to the lower court.
This act not to apply to certain cases.
Preamble.
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company may extend lateral railroad into the District of Columbia.
Powers, privileges, and restrictions.
Rights and immunities.
One lateral road only to be constructed.
Before locating road upon, or using materials from, lands of another, the assent of the owner to be obtained.
Proceedings where owner is absent or under
disability, or terms cannot be agreed upon.
Jury.
Notice.
Proceedings as to warrant and jury;
as to estimating and valuation of damages, &c.
Proviso.
Crossing or intersecting streets or ways.
Wagon ways across railroad.
Lots, &c. owned by the United States, not to be entered upon or used.
Level and grade of road in Washington.
Rates for tolls and transportation.
Proviso.
The company may make special contract for carrying the mail, and transporting persons or property for the United States.
Passenger fares within the District.
Lateral road to be commenced in two years and completed in four.
Congress may grant to other corporations privileges like those in this act;
may authorize additional railroads or roads;
may prescribe rules as to speed of cars, &c. and the security of persons and property.
No rights given beyond the District.
Act may be altered or repealed.
That the following property, Property of a head of a family or householder in the District of Columbia exempt from levy sale, &c. Proviso.
All wearing apparel belonging to all persons, and to all heads of families, Schedule of property exempt. Property exempt. No deed of trust, sale, &c. of exempted articles, valid unless signed by the wife of the debtor, if married, &c. Exemption not good against claims of servants for wages, &c. except, &c.
Penalty for knowingly voting, or offering to vote, in the District of Columbia, when not qualified; or for procuring registration as a voter;
for knowingly voting or attempting to vote in wrong ward or precinct, or more than once at same election, or voting double.
Judges of elections in Washington and Georgetown; their number, appointment, term of office, &c.
Voting lists.
Sessions for correcting the lists.
Voting lists to be posted in public places at least ten days before election.
Repealing clause.
Agencies for payment of pensions may be established.
Pension agents, their appointment, term of office, bond.
Limit of number of pension agencies in any State or Territory.
Official term of present pension agents.
Residuary legacy of James Smithson may be received on same terms as the original bequest.
Interest of such legacy, how to be applied.
1846, ch. 178. Vol. ix. p. 102
Preamble.
1864, ch. 59. vol. xiii. p. 47
Nebraska declared to be one
of the United States of America.
The State to be entitled to the privileges and subject to the conditions of the enabling act.
1864, ch. 59. Vol. xiii. p. 47.
Fundamental conditions of this act.
Elective franchise not to be denied, &c.
Assent of State to be declared by solemn act and copy transmitted to the President, who shall proclaim the fact.
Admission then to be complete.
State legislature to be convened within thirty days.
The President of the United States having returned to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act for the admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union,” with his objections thereto, the Senate proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and
The House of Representatives having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “An act for the admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union,” returned to the Senate by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the Senate to the House of Representatives, with the message of the President returning the bill—
Deficiency appropriation.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
For miscellaneous items, forty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.
For folding documents, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Folding documents.
For fuel and lights, including pay of engineers, firemen, and laborers, Fuel and lights.
Pay and allowances of quartermaster-sergeant of the battalion of engineers.
That the following sums be, and Appropriations for Post-Office Department, for year ending June 30, 1868. 1836, ch. 270. Vol. v. p. 80.
For transportation of the mails (inland), eight million six hundred Transportation of mails.
For transportation of the mails (foreign), six hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars. Ship, steamboat, and way letters.
For compensation to postmasters, four million two hundred and fifty Compensation to postmasters.
For clerks for post-offices, two million dollars. Clerks.
For payment to letter-carriers, six hundred and forty thousand dollars. Letter-carriers.
For wrapping paper, eighty thousand dollars. Wrapping paper and twine.
For twine, twenty thousand dollars.
For letter balances, four thousand dollars. Letter balances.
For compensation to blank agents and assistants, eight thousand dollars. Blank agents.
For office furniture, three thousand dollars. Office furniture.
For advertising, eighty thousand dollars. Advertising.
For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, two hundred and seventy-five Postage stamps and stamped envelopes.
For mail depredations and special agents, and expenses of negotiating Depredations, special agents, and postal conventions.
For mail bags and mail-bag catchers, one hundred thousand dollars. Mail bags.
For mail locks, keys, and stamps, thirty thousand dollars. Locks, keys, and stamps.
For payment of balances due to foreign countries, three hundred and Foreign balances.
For miscellaneous payments, four hundred thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.
Further appropriation for the Post-Office Department.
Service between the United States and Brazil; San Francisco, Japan, and China. Steamships need not touch at Honolulu. 1865, ch. 37. Vol. xiii. p. 430. Branch line from Japan to Shanghae. Service to be by what vessels.
Overland mail and marine mail transportation.
Transfer of clerks to office of auditor of treasury for the Post-Office Department.
Appropriation.
Provisions of act to prevent smuggling, not to affect any right or suit pending at the time of its passage.
Suits, &c. may be tried and disposed of.
Coasting vessels between ports on Lake Michigan laden, &c. may unlade without previous permit.
1866, ch. 201, § 26.
Ante, p. 184.
March substituted for July.
Proprietors of copyrighted articles failing to deliver a copy within a month after publication to library of Congress, subject to a penalty of $25.
Penalty, how to be collected.
Such copyrighted articles may be sent to the library free of postage, if marked, &c.
Duty of postmasters.
Prize money to be paid to certain officers and men of the signal corps of the army.
The Secretary of War may purchase certain lots of ground adjoining the Allegheny arsenal.
Appropriation.
Title to be good.
The Secretary of the Navy may accept the title to League island in the Delaware river, &c. when made complete and indefeasible, and recommended by a board of officers.
Island and appurtenances to be held for naval purposes exclusively.
When League island is selected, the navy yard at Philadelphia to be dispensed with, &c.
The trustees of the Foundry Church, in Washington, D. C. may sell and convey square numbered two hundred and thirty-five in that city, free of any trust, &c.
The dead interred in that ground to be removed and placed in some public cemetery, &c.
See Post, p. 544.
The city of Washington may use certain buildings and engine-houses for the purposes of the fire department during the pleasure of Congress.
Proviso.
Before Congress meets, the clerk of the next preceding House of Representatives to make a roll, &c.
Names of what members to be placed on the roll.
In case of the disability of the clerk, the sergeant-at-arms to do the same duty. If the clerk and sergeant-at-arms are unable, door-keeper to do this duty.
Endorsed by the President: “Received 9th of February, 1867.”
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That the provisions of chapter Claims for supplies, &c. taken or used by the Union troops, or for injuries caused by them in a State, &c. declared in insurrection, or &c. not to be entertained by the court of claims. Vol. xii. p. 1266. Tennessee and West Virginia excepted. Ante, p. 370. Ante, p. 360.
Endorsed by the President: “Received February 9th, 1867.”
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Appropriations for pensions.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight:
Invalid.
Revolutionary pension agents, &c. 1818, ch. 19. 1828, ch. 53. 1832, ch. 126. 1836, ch. 362. 1838, ch. 189. 1843, ch. 102. 1844, ch. 102. 1848, ch. 8, 108, 120. 1853, ch. 41. 1858, ch. 85. 1862, ch. 166.
Navy pensions. 1848, ch. 155. 1862, ch. 166.
The Senate to elect a person to take charge of the government printing office.
The person elected to be deemed an officer of the Senate,
hereand how designated.
His duties.
Office of superintendent of public printing abolished.
Salary.
When act takes effect.
Repealing clause.
Circuit court for the district of Rhode Island, where and when to be held.
Proviso.
Provision for pending process.
Same subject.
National cemeteries to be enclosed.
Graves to be marked.
Register to be kept.
Porter’s lodge to be erected at the principal entrance of each cemetery.
Superintendent, how selected, pay, &c.
An officer to be detailed to inspect annually all the cemeteries, and make reports.
Reports to be submitted to Congress, with estimates.
Penalty for wilfully defacing, removing, &c. any structure, or injuring, &c. any shrub, &c. in any national cemetery.
When to be prosecuted for.
Superintendent may arrest persons committing such acts, and take them before certain magistrates, &c.
The Secretary of War may purchase or take any real estate necessary for national cemeteries.
Proceedings where real estate is entered upon and appropriated.
Fee simple of such estate, upon payment, &c. of appraised
value, to be vested in the United States.
Jurisdiction exclusive, &c.
Owner to be paid the appraised value.
Appropriation.
Board of trustees of National Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home.
Number.
Quorum.
Names.
Powers.
Vacancies.
Board of lady managers.
Election.
Powers, bylaws, &c.
Vacancies.
Term of office.
Parents, &c. may withdraw children.
Minors over sixteen to be discharged on their written request
Repealing clause.
Civil jurisdiction of justices
of the peace in the District of Columbia.
Rules of practice, forms of pleadings and trials.
Bill of fees and costs for such justices and for constables.
Execution not to be stayed in certain cases;
when to issue in such cases;
to be staved in other cases, and for how long, upon security given for debt, costs, &c.
Justices may issue writs returnable before themselves.
Cause may be removed to nearest justice on affidavit, &c.
Persons not to be fined, &c. for disorderly conduct, unless, &c.
Officers punishable for wanton severity in making arrests.
Defendants to have time to make defence.
Bail.
Non-residents not to commence suits without first giving security for costs.
Persons arrested on a warrant for assault, &c. to be taken before the justice, and may plead guilty, and pay fine and costs.
Execution may issue for fine and costs.
Repeal of inconsistent laws.
When act to take effect.
Appeals from a judgment of a justice of the peace not to be allowed unless, &c.;
when allowed, original papers to be filed in the office of clerk, of the supreme court of the District.
Clerk to docket the cause when, &c. and to issue a summons to the appellee.
Subsequent proceedings.
1823, ch. 24.
Vol. iii. p. 743.
Proceedings if appellant fails to prosecute his appeal.
Execution of the judgments of the supreme court of the District not to be stayed, &c. except, &c.
Set-off of mutual debts.
Form of plea of set-off.
Judgment to be for balance found due.
Mutual judgments may be set off, and execution issue for the balance.
Publication may be substituted for personal service of process, when, &c.
Publication not. to be substituted for personal service until the issue of a summons and return thereon.
Form of order of publication.
At law,) (In equity,) No—.
On motion of the plaintiff, by Mr.———, his attorney, it is ordered that the defendant cause his appearance to be entered herein on or before the first rule day occurring forty days after this day; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default.”
bales in cases where publication is substituted for personal service.
Proceedings to enforce a lien.
Decree in such cases.
Process how served in actions against foreign corporations.
Right of landlord to seize on the personal chattels of tenant for rent in arrear abolished.
Tacit lien given;
when to commence, and how long to continue;
how may be enforced.
Form of declaration in replevin.
Plaintiff to file an affidavit with the declaration.
Affidavit to state what.
Plaintiff in replevin suits to give security to abide by, &c. the judgment.
Practice in replevin cases.
Appearance and plea of defendant.
Plaintiff’s damages to be ascertained, when and how.
Measure of damages.
Judgment.
Form of judgment if for defendant.
Damages when the defendant has eloigned the things sued for.
Judgment in such cases.
Judgment by default in suits on open accounts verified by affidavit, &c.
Practice as to such affidavits.
Proceedings against two or more joint or several obligors, promisors, &c.
Effect of sales under decrees in equity upon the right, &c. of former owner;
and of decree where registered.
Particular forms of conveyance.
Plaintiff not to recover costs when amount of verdict is less than, &c.
Repeal of inconsistent laws.
Penalty for larceny of money or goods and chattels of the value of $35, or more;
for larceny or malicious destruction of notes, bank bills, &c. of said value, with knowledge, &c.;
for buying or receiving goods, notes, &c. knowing them to be stolen;
for the larceny, &c. of money, goods, &c. or the malicious destruction of notes, &c. of less value than $35.
Penalty for receiving or buying the same, knowing them to be stolen, to defraud the owner thereof.
Twofold restitution, fine, or imprisonment.
Embezzlement.
Penalty as for larceny.
Embezzlement of evidences of debt executed but not delivered.
Penalty for knowingly buying or receiving embezzled property;
upon carriers for hire, for taking, converting, &c. property delivered to them for carriage.
Persons imprisoned in jail may be employed at hard labor.
Rules for the government, discipline, and protection of prisoners in the jail.
Defendant entitled to four peremptory challenges when, &c.
Court may allow witnesses for defence to be paid as, &c.
Repealing clause.
When act takes effect.
Lieut. Joseph P. Fyffe may be appointed to the active list of the navy, &c.
Pay of bailiffs and criers of the courts of the District of Columbia.
A submerged iron tubular bridge may be built and maintained across the Mississippi river at Saint Louis.
Questions of obstructing the free navigation of the river may be tried in what courts.
Top of bridge to be below the bed of the river, &c.
Any such bridge to be a lawful structure and a post-route.
Charges for transportation.
Bridge to be open equally to all steam railroads, &c. and at what charges.
Grant of land to Oregon for a military wagon road, &c.
Extent of grant.
Lands granted, how to be applied.
Reservations.
Right of way over lands reserved.
Mineral lands not included in grant.
Lands granted, how only to be disposed of.
Road to be a public highway, and free to the United States.
Road, how to be constructed.
Additional public lands may be used in the construction of the road.
Lands granted, how to be disposed of.
To revert to the United States, unless, &c.
Lands granted to be surveved.
1866, ch. 201, § 21.
Ante, p. 183.
Forfeiture of fifty cents a ton for steam tugboats not of the United States, employed in towing, &c. not to apply to certain towing.
1866, ch. 299, § 12.
Ante, p. 334.
Judge advocates of the army, tenure of office of, &c.
Buildings erected by any railroad company upon the military reservation at Fort Gratiot, to be of wood or fire-proof.
1859, ch. 26. Vol. xi. p. 381.
Collection districts of Oxford and Vienna in Maryland abolished, &c.
Oxford district to be annexed to the district of Baltimore.
District of Vienna annexed in part to Cherry-Stone district, and the rest made the eastern district.
Collector, salary, residence.
Crisfield to be the port of entry.
Offices of a certain deputy collector and surveyor discontinued.
Repealing clause.
Four collection districts established in North Carolina.
Albemarle.
Port of entry at Plymouth.
Pamlico.
Port of entry at Newbern.
Beaufort.
Port of entry at Beaufort.
Wilmington.
Port of entry at Wilmington.
Collectors, appointment, residence, salary.
Proviso.
Port of entry in Beaufort district may be changed.
Repealing clause.
1866, ch. 234, § 9. Ante, p. 228.
Section nine of the act of 1866, ch. 234, amended.
What vessels subject to the navigation laws.
Steam vessels to be subject to regulations.
1852, ch. 106, § 29.
Vol. x. p. 72.
Sea-going steam vessels, except, &c. when under way, except upon the high seas, to be under the direction of pilots.
Certain existing regulations under State laws not affected.
The Clinton bridge across the Mississippi river declared a postroute.
Rates of tolls, &c.
Regulations as to the draw of the bridge.
Litigation arising from alleged obstruction to navigation, whereto be tried.
Act may be amended so as, &c.
Consular and diplomatic expenses appropriation.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, namely:—
Envoys extraordinary, ministers and commissioners. Present minister resident at Portugal. American legation at Rome.
For salaries of secretaries of legation, thirty thousand dollars. Secretaries of legation.
For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, Assistant secretaries.
For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand Interpreters.
For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars.
For salary of the interpreter to the legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifty thousand Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, three thousand Barbary powers.
For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely: interpreters, Consulates in the Turkish dominions.
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, American seamen in foreign countries. 1811, ch. 28. Vol. ii. p. 651.
For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of Rescue from shipwreck.
For the purchase of blank books, stationery, book cases, arms of the Blank books, stationery, &c. postages and exchange.
For office rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents Office rent of certain consuls-general, &c.
For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, namely:—
Consulates General.
Schedule B.
Consulates.
Schedule B.
Commercial agencies.
Schedule B.
Consulates.
Schedule C.
Commercial agencies.
Schedule C.
Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Lonndo [Loanda,] including loss by exchange thereon, four hundred and thirty-one thousand five No pay to any consul, &c. unless a citizen of the United States.
Interpreters to consulates in China.
Bringing home persons charged with crime.
Marshals of consular courts.
Consulates established at Mahe and San Domingo; appropriations.
Prisons for American convicts in Japan, &c.
Ministers resident, &c. to Hayti and Liberia.
For expenses under the act of Congress, to carry into effect the treaty
Suppression of slave-trade. 1862, ch. 140. Vol. xii. p. 531.
For expenses under the act to encourage immigration, twenty thousand Immigration. 1864, ch. 246. Vol. xiii. p. 385.
For expenses under the neutrality act, twenty thousand dollars. Neutrality.
For expenses of the commission to run and mark the boundary line Boundary line on Washington Territory.
For defraying the expenses which may be incurred by despatches over Despatches over the Atlantic cable.
For the payment of the second annual instalment of the proportion Second annual instalment towards the capitalization of the Scheldt dues. Vol. xiii. p. 649.
That the following sums be, and Military Academy appropriation.
For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, one hundred and Pay.
For commutation of subsistence, five thousand and fifty dollars. Commutation, &c.
For pay in lieu of clothing to officers’ servants, one hundred and fifty-six Pay in lieu of clothing.
For current and ordinary expenses, sixty-six thousand four hundred Current and ordinary expenses.
For increase and expense of library, three thousand dollars. Library.
For expenses of board of visitors, five thousand dollars. Board of visitors.
For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, nine thousand dollars. Forage.
For horses for artillery and cavalry practice, one thousand dollars. Horses.
For repairs of officers’ quarters, five thousand dollars. Officers’ quarters.
For targets and batteries for artillery practice, five hundred dollars. Artillery practice.
For furniture for cadets’ hospital, two hundred dollars. Hospital.
For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, six hundred dollars. Gas pipes, &c.
For materials for quarters for subaltern officers, five thousand dollars. Subaltern officers.
For ventilating and heating the barracks and other academic buildings ; Ventilating, heating, hospital buildings, &c.
For purchase of fuel for cadets’ mess-hall, three thousand dollars. Fuel.
For the removal and enlargement of the gas works, twenty thousand Gas works.
For additional appropriations, for which estimates were not made last year:— Additional appropriations.
For enlarging cadet laundry, five thousand dollars. Laundry.
For furniture for soldiers’ hospital, one hundred dollars. Soldiers’ hospital.
For increasing the supply of water, replacing mains, and so forth, fifteen Water.
Ice-house, store, &c. rooms.
Fire-proof building.
Wall of water battery.
Derrick.
Cadets to have the ration, &c.
Pay of assistant professor of Spanish.
No part of appropriation to go to cadet from any State declared in rebellion, &c.
Compensation of officers of revenue cutter service established.
Duty pay.
Captains.
Lieutenants and engineers.
Second lieutenants and first assistant engineers, fifteen hundred dollars per annum.
Third lieutenants and second assistant engineers, twelve hundred dollars per annum.
Leave of absence or waiting orders pay.
Captains.
Lieutenants and engineers.
Second lieutenants and first assistant engineers, twelve hundred dollars per annum.
Third lieutenants and second assistant engineers, nine hundred dollars per annum.
Officers on duty entitled to one navy ration per day.
Appropriation.
Preamble.
1864, ch. 13, § 5. Vol. xiii. p. 6.
Drafted persons who paid commutation and were required to serve or furnish a substitute, may have $ 300 refunded.
Appropriation.
Amount paid by drafted persons who furnished substitutes, &c. when not liable to personal service or draft, to be refunded.
This section to apply only to certain claims.
Port of Camden annexed to the collection district of Philadelphia.
Assistant collector at Camden;
to receive instructions from the collector at Philadelphia.
Salary.
Assistant collector may enroll and license certain vessels engaged in the coasting trade and fisheries.
Such licenses, &c. to be valid.
Responsibilities of collector.
Right of the United States to land in the towns of Santa Clara and Petaluma, Cal. relinquished to those towns, &c.
The grant not to extend to any reservation; nor prejudice adverse rights; nor preclude judicial examinations.
Public works appropriation.
That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction and superintendence of the Secretary of War, for the repair, preservation, and completion of the following works heretofore commenced under the authority of law, and for the other purposes hereinafter named, that is to say:—
Examinations and surveys. On Atlantic and Pacific coasts; northwestern lakes; western, &c. rivers. Re-examinations, &c. to be made and plans may be changed. Other harbors to be examined to determine the improvements required and their cost. Report to Congress. Balance of existing appropriations may be applied to continue. &c. such works, when, &c.
For extending the pier at Erie harbor, Pennsylvania, and dredging Erie harbor.
For improvement at mouth of Conneaut river, Ohio, ten thousand dollars. Conneaut river.
For improvement at Ashtabula harbor, Ohio, fifty-four thousand dollars. Ashtabula
For improvement of works at Grand River harbor, Ohio, sixty thousand Grand River.
For improvement of Sandusky river, from Fremont to Lake Erie, in Sandusky river.
For improvement of Maumee bay, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars. Maumee bay.
For improvement of St. Clair flats, in Michigan, one hundred and fifty St. Clair flats.
For improvement at mouth of Saginaw river, Michigan, twenty-eight Saginaw river.
For improvement of St. Mary’s river, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars. St. Mary’s river.
For improving mouth of Au Sable river, Lake Huron, fifty thousand Au Sable river.
For improving Marquette harbor, Lake Superior, eighty-five thousand Marquette harbor.
For improving Eagle harbor, Lake Superior, sixty-five thousand dollars. Eagle harbor.
For improving harbor at Superior City, Wisconsin, sixty-three thousand Superior City.
For improving harbor of Aux Bees Scies, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Aux Becs Scies.
For improvement of Grand River harbor, Michigan, forty thousand Grand River.
For improvement of Black Lake harbor, Michigan, fifty-one thousand Black Lake.
For improving harbor of St. Joseph, Michigan, twenty-three thousand St. Joseph.
For improving harbor at Racine, Wisconsin, forty-five thousand dollars. Racine.
For improving harbor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, eight thousand dollars. Sheboygan.
For improving harbor of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, forty-five thousand Manitowoc.
For improving harbor of Green Bay, Wisconsin, forty-five thousand Green Bay.
For improving harbor of Manistee, Michigan, sixty thousand dollars. Manistee.
For improvement of White River harbor, Michigan, fifty-seven thousand White River.
For improvement of Muskegon harbor, Lake Michigan, fifty-nine thousand Muskegon.
For improving harbor of South Haven, Michigan, forty-three thousand South Haven.
For improving harbor of New Buffalo, Michigan, sixty thousand dollars. New Buffalo.
Dunkirk.
Buffalo.
Olcott.
Oak Orchard.
Big Sodus bay.
Little Sodus bay.
Oswego.
Plattsburg.
Kennebec river.
Ogdensburg.
Burlington.
Thames river.
St. Croix river. Province of New Brunswick to pay the like sum, &c.
Hudson river.
Marcus Hook.
Chester harbor.
Delaware breakwater.
Patapsco river.
Mississippi river.
Ohio river.
Saco river.
Boston harbor.
Improving the navigation of the Mississippi river at Des Moines; Canal to be free of tolls.
Rock Island rapids.
Ontonagon harbor.
For building and operating two dredges and snag-boats, to be used on Dredges and snag-boats on the Mississippi river;
For building and operating one dredge or snag-boat on the Wisconsin the Wisconsin river.
For improving harbor of Pentwater, Lake Michigan, fifty-five thousand Harbor of Pentwater;
For improving harbor of Pere Marquette, Lake Michigan, fifty thousand Pere Marquette.
To improve the navigation of the Willamette river, Oregon, below the Willamette river.
For removing snags and boulders throughout the Minnesota river, Snags, &c. in the Minnesota river.
For improvement of Providence river, Rhode Island, off Pawtuxet bar, Providence river.
For improvement of the Pawtucket river, Rhode Island, seventeen Pawtucket river.
Former appropriation for harbor at Michigan City how to be expended.
1866, ch. 138.
Ante, p. 73.
Double the amount must have been expended by the Michigan City Harbor Company.
Vessels not to be subject to toll.
Appropriations to be so applied as to complete the works;
for other purposes than for examinations, &c. by contract;
how to be expended when the work cannot be the subject of contract.
Contracts not to be made until, &c.
Secretary of War to report results of surveys to Congress with plans, &c.
Report to state what;
to be continued until works are completed.
Separate proposals and contracts for each work and each class of works, &c.
Disbursing officers except, &c. to give bonds.
United States officers not to receive commissions for disbursements.
Appropriations to be at the disposal of the Secretary of War.
Examinations, or surveys, or both, to be made at various points, and the purpose of the examinations ;
to be continued st certain other points.
Pay of army officers below the rank of major-general to be increased one third for two years;
of field and mounted officers ;
Increased pay of non-commissioned officers and soldiers to be continued for three years from, &c.
1864, ch. 145, § 1. Vol. xiii. p. 144.
Provision as to commutation of rations to apply to enlisted men who died as prisoners of war, or after their release.
Ante, p. 364.
to whom to be paid.
Repeal of act of 1861, ch. 42, § 1, authorizing an assistant secretary of war.
Vol. xii. p. 287.
Promotion of surgeons and assistant surgeons in the volunteer service.
1866, ch. 299, § 17.
Ante, p. 335.
The word “white” stricken out of the acts relating to the militia.
1792, ch. 33.
Vol. i. p. 271.
Rank, pay, &c. of storekeepers of the army, except, &c.
Post chaplains.
Chaplains, how to rank.
Tenure of office, allowances &c. of army chaplains.
In applications for bounty, where discharge has been lost, what secondary proof is to be admitted of its issue, &c.
General officers may receive an additional ration for every five years’ service.
1838, ch. 162, § 15.
Vol. v. p. 258.
Officers on retired list.
Convicts under any law of the United States confined in prison, conducting themselves well, to have deductions made from the term of their sentence.
Claims of contractors for building certain vessels of war and steam machinery to be investigated.
Basis of the investigation.
Tabular statement of each case to be reported to Congress, and to contain what.
Claim of W. H. Webb for constructing the Dunderberg.
Time for completion of first twenty miles of road-bed of Amboy, &c. railroad extended to July 1, 1867.
That the Secretary of the Treasury Secretary of Treasury to contract for the building, at not over a certain cost, of lighthouses at Trowbridge Point. Mendota.
For building a lighthouse on a proper site at Trowbridge Point, in Thunder Bay, in the State of Michigan, at a cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars.
For building a lighthouse on a proper site at Mendota, on Lake Superior, in the State of Michigan, at a cost not exceeding fourteen thousand dollars.
For building a lighthouse on a proper site at Santa Cruz, in the State Santa Cruz.
For building a lighthouse at Pigeon river, or vicinity, Lake Superior, Pigeon river.
For building a lighthouse on a proper site at or near Braddock’s Point, Braddock’s Point.
For building a lighthouse to mark Tybee Island Knoll, Georgia, at a Tvbee Island Knoll.
For building range-lights on Morris Island, as guides in crossing Charleston Mofris Island.
For rebuilding the lighthouse on a proper site at Deepwater Shoals in Deepwater Shoals.
For rebuilding lighthouse tower and keeper’s dwelling on a proper site Saint Simon’s.
Survey to be made at Crossledge Shoals, &c. Delaware bay, and report and estimate.
Contract to be made after advertisement for proposals, and with lowest bidder, &c.
Salaries of keepers of lighthouses to be regulated by the Secretary of the Treasury.
The average not to exceed $ 600 to each.
1864, ch. 95.
Vol. xiii. p. 85.
Legislative assemblies of Territories not to grant special charters; but may pass general incorporation acts for, &c.
Jurisdiction of probate courts in Montana extended to certain civil and criminal cases;
but not to certain other causes.
Appeals allowed.
Salary of the chief justice and associates of Montana and Idaho.
Judges of supreme court to define the judicial districts, assign judges, and appoint the times and places of holding the courts.
Two terms a year at each place.
Legislative functions of the Territory of Montana revived.
Assembly, &c. districts.
Election of members.
Voters.
Apportionment of representation.
District may be changed.
Certain former acts of assembly of Montana declared null.
Claims for vested rights may be made.
Certain legislation not to be valid until, &c.
Salary of judges of supreme courts in Territories, except.
Repealing clause.
1863, ch. 117.
Vol. xii. p. 808.
Judges of Supreme Court to define the judicial districts, assign judges, and appoint times and places for holding courts.
Sessions of the legislative assembly.
Elections for members.
Term of office of members of house and of council.
Councillor districts, and election of members of council.
Proviso.
Repealing clause.
Repeal of part of section six of act of 1866, ch. 236.
City of Washington to pay $ 78,000 as its part for building jail in the District of Columbia.
Georgetown to pay $ 12,000.
Preamble.
See Vol. xv. pp. 2, 14, 29, 30.
Certain rebel States to be divided into military districts and subjected to military authority.
First District.
Second District.
Third District.
Fourth District.
Fifth District.
President to assign army officer to command each district.
Military force to be detailed.
Commanders of districts, their powers and duties.
Local civil tribunals.
Military tribunals.
State interference declared null.
Persons under military arrest to be speedily tried.
Punishment.
Sentences of military tribunals.
Sentences of death.
Conditions upon which such States shall be declared entitled to representation in Congress.
Delegates to conventions to form constitution, by whom elected.
Provisions of constitutions as to the elective franchise.
Constitutions to be ratified by popular vote;
to be approved by Congress.
The States to adopt the amendment to the Constitution.
Ante, p. 358.
Senators and representatives to be admitted upon taking the oath, and this act becomes inoperative.
Proviso.
Certain persons not eligible as members of the constitutional convention.
The civil government of such States to be provisional only until they are admitted to representation.
Who may vote in elections to office under provisional governments, and who are eligible to office.
Vol. xv. p. 4.
The President of the United States having returned to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” with his objections thereto, the House of Representatives proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and
The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” returned to the House of Representatives by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the House of Representatives to the Senate, with the message of the President returning the bill:
Persons holding or appointed to any civil office, to hold the same until, &c.
The Secretaries of the several departments to hold office for, &c. Subject to removal.
When civil officers, except, &c. shall become disqualified, &c. the President may suspend them and appoint persons temporarily to such offices.
Such persons to take the oaths and give the bonds.
The President to report such suspensions and appointments to the Senate.
If Senate concurs, the President may remove the officer and appoint successor.
If Senate does not concur, the suspended officer resumes his office.
Provision as to salary, &c. during the suspension.
proviso.
Suspension may be revoked and officer reinstated, if, &c.
Vacancies happening dur-
ing the recess of the Senate, how to be filled.
When office to remain in abeyance.
Powers of office during such period, to be exercised by whom.
No term of office extended by this act.
Penalty for accepting or exercising office contrary to this act.
The removal, or employment, or appointment, or issuing, &c. of a commission, &c. of any person contrary to this act, made a high misdemeanor, and penalty therefor.
Proviso.
Secretary of Senate at the end of each session to furnish lists of nominations and rejections, &c.
The President to notify the Secretary of the Treasury when he has made an appointment to office without the consent of the Senate.
Duty of the Secretary in such case.
Money not to be paid to, or received by, any person contrary to this act.
No claim, account, &c. for such payment, to be approved, &c.
Violations of this section declared high misdemeanors, and penalty therefor.
The President of the United States having returned to the Senate, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices,” with his objections thereto, the Senate proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and
The House of Representatives having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices,” returned to the Senate by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the Senate to the House of Representatives, with the message of the President returning the bill:
Certain acts, proclamations, and orders of the President of the United States, or acts done by his authority and approval, legalized and made valid, as if, &c.
No court to have or take jurisdiction of, &c.
All officers, &c. held prima facie to have been authorized, &c.
Repealing clause.
The chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States to be allotted by order of court.
New allotments.
Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States; his appointment, salary, duties.
Assistant marshals and messengers.
Laws applicable.
The tax upon agencies of insurance companies in Washingington, D. C., not to exceed, &c.
Repealing clause.
Department of education established at Washington, D. G. and for what purpose.
Commissioner of education; his appointment, duties, and salary;
his clerks and their salary;
how appointed and removed.
Annual report of the commissioner.
First report to present a statement of the land grants by Congress to promote education, their management, &c.
Proper offices to be furnished this department.
In computing the service of any army officer, the time of all actual service is to be taken into account.
This provision to apply to all appointments under act 1866, ch. 299.
Ante, p. 332.
All rules as to pay, rank, duties, &c. to apply alike to officers and soldiers of the regular army and of the volunteer service.
State militia not affected hereby.
Emoluments of commissioned officers of army not increased by act 1864, ch. 145. Vol. xiii. p. 144.
The first section of act 1865, ch. 79, vol. xiii. p. 487, not retroactive.
The Alexandria, Washington, &c. R. R. Co. may use steam power to draw their cars, &c.
1863, ch. 110. Vol. xii. p. 805.
Corporation of Washington may make regulations.
Limited partnerships for, &c. may be formed in the District of Columbia.
Partnership to consist of general and special partners.
Liability of each.
Number of special partners not to exceed six.
Mode of forming limited partnerships; certificate to be signed and to state what;
how to be acknowledged and certified, and where to be filed and recorded.
Affidavit of general partner to be filed with the certificate, and to state what.
Partnership not to be formed until certificate and affidavit are filed.
All persons interested to be liable as general partners, if, &c.
Terms of the partnership when registered to be published.
Affidavits of publication, how made, filed, and effect thereof.
Renewals or continuance of such partnerships.
Certain alterations in the partnership to be deemed a dissolution.
Business maybe conducted under what name.
In suits against the partnership the general partners only to be necessary defendants.
Effect of judgments.
General partners to transact the business.
Special partners to be liable, if, &c.
Sums contributed by special partners not to be withdrawn, &c.
Interest and profits.
If capital is reduced by payment to special partner, he shall make good the same, &c.
Sales, transfers, &c. of partnership property, or, &c. because, or in view, of insolvency, or to give preference, to be void as against creditors.
Special partners to become liable as general partners if, &c.
In case of Insolvency, special partners not to claim as creditors, until, &c.
Suits respecting partnership business to be brought by and against general partners, except, &c.
Proceedings in suits against general and special partners, when special partners appear not to be liable;
Proceedings against general partners, when special partners afterwards appear to have become liable.
Judgment to be prima facie evidence of, &c.
Partnership not to be dissolved before the time stated in certificate, unless, &c.
General partners liable to account to each other and to special partners.
The Howard University incorporated in the District of Columbia.
Corporators.
Corporate name and powers.
Net annual income not to exceed $50,000 over, &c.
First meeting of corporators.
Notice.
By-laws.
Board of trustees, how elected; their powers and duties.
Common seal.
President, secretary, treasurer.
Bond of treasurer.
Professors, tutors, and other officers.
Meetings of board; how called.
Quorum.
University to consist of what departments.
Each department to be governed by its faculty, subject, &c.
Trustees to regulate course of study, &c. confer degrees, &c.;
may remove any professor or officer;
to publish an annual report.
Gifts, clevises, &c. not affected by a mistake in name.
Funds not to be employed in banking operations.
Act may be altered or repealed.
The Secretary of the Treasury may authorize one of the assistant secretaries to sign warrants to pay money, &c.
The National Theological Institute and University.
Amount of real estate.
Authority of corporation.
Time for completing part of line of Metropolitan R. R. Co. extended.
1864, ch. 190, § 17.
Vol. xiii. p. 329.
Legislative, executive, and judicial expenses appropriation.
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, namely:—
Legislative. Pay and mileage of senators, officers, clerks, &c. Pay of officers &c. of Senate.
For contingent expenses of the Senate, viz:— Contingent expenses.
For stationery, twenty-five thousand dollars. Stationery.
For newspapers, five thousand dollars. Newspapers.
For Congressional Globe, thirty-five thousand five hundred and thirty-two Congressional Globe.
For reporting and printing the proceedings in the Daily Globe for the first session of the fortieth Congress, twenty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the Senate Additional compensation to reporters.
For one complete set of the Congressional Globe and Appendix for Globe and Appendix; sets to new senators. Proviso.
For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, Globe and Appendix.
For clerks to committees, pages, horses, and carryalls, fifty-five thousand Clerks to committees, &c.
For capitol police, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Capitol police.
For expenses of heating and ventilating apparatus, twenty-five thousand Heating and ventilating.
For miscellaneous items, thirty thousand dollars. Miscellaneous.
For compensation and mileage of members of the House of Representatives Pay and mileage of representatives, &c.
For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others receiving of officers, clerks, &c. Pay of officers and clerks of the House of Representatives. See Joint Res. No. 36. March 30, 1867. Vol. xv.
Capitol police.
Contingent expenses of House.
Cartage.
Clerks to committees and temporary clerks.
Globe and Appendix.
For paying the publishers of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, according to the number of copies taken, one cent for every five pages exceeding three thousand, including the indexes and laws of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars.
Sets to new representatives and delegates. Notice to terminate the purchase of sets. 1864, ch. 250, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 392.
For folding documents, including materials, forty-two thousand dollars. Folding.
For fuel and lights, including plumbing, gas fitting, repairs, and materials, Fuel, lights, &c.
For furniture, repairs, and packing boxes for members, forty thousand Furniture.
For horses, carriages, and saddle horses, ten thousand two hundred and Horses, carriages, &c.
For laborers, twelve thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars. Laborers.
For additional annual compensation to Louis Saunders, in charge of Louis Saunders.
For miscellaneous items, fifty-three thousand six hundred and fifty Miscellaneous.
For newspapers, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Newspapers.
For pages and temporary mail boys, sixteen thousand two hundred Pages, &c.
For reporting and publishing proceedings in the Daily Globe, twenty-eight Reporting, &c. in Daily Globe.
For stationery, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Stationery.
For the usual additional compensation to the reporters of the House Additional pay to reporters.
Public Printing.—For compensation of the superintendent of the public Public printing. Pay of superintendent, clerks, &c.
For contingent expenses of his office, viz: For stationery, postage, advertising, Contingencies.
For the public printing, four hundred and forty-three thousand eight Public printing.
For paper for the public printing, seven hundred and sixty-five thousand Paper for public printing.
For the public binding, three hundred and fifty-one thousand three Binding.
For mapping in cases pending in the Supreme Court of the United Mapping.
For lithographing and engraving for the Senate and House of Representatives, Lithographing and engraving.
Library of Congress.—For compensation of librarian, five assistant Library of Congress. Pay of librarian, &c.
For twenty per centum additional on the above, twenty-seven hundred
For contingent expenses of said library, two thousand dollars. Contingencies.
For purchase of books for said library, eight thousand dollars. Books.
For purchase of law books for said library, two thousand dollars.
For botanic garden, grading, draining, procuring manure, tools, fuel, Botanic garden and greenhouses.
For pay of superintendent and assistants, and assistants in botanic Superintendent and assistants.
For twenty per centum additional allowance on pay of the above, twelve hundred and twenty-nine dollars and sixteen cents.
For purchasing files of the leading periodicals and newspapers for said Files of periodicals and newspapers.
Court of claims. Judges, solicitors, &c.
Contingencies.
Attorneys to take testimony, &c.
Judgments.
Executive. President.
For compensation of secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Secretaries, clerks, steward, and messenger.
Contingencies.
Department of State. Pay of Secretary, &c.
Contingent expenses. Pamphlet laws and in newspapers.
Proof-reading, &c.
Stationery, &c.
Miscellaneous.
Copperplate printing.
Extra clerk hire, &c.
Building occupied by State Department.
For alterations and improvements of the building, and for means of protection against its destruction by fire, fifteen thousand dollars.
For compensation of four watchmen and two laborers of the northeast executive building, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous expenses, ten thousand dollars.
Treasury Department. Pay of secretaries, assistant, &c.;
of 1st comptroller
of 2d comptroller;
of 1st auditor;
For compensation of the second auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, Compensation of 2d auditor;
For compensation of the third auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, of 3d auditor;
For compensation of the fourth auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, of 4th auditor;
For compensation of the fifth auditor, chief clerk, and the clerks, of 5th auditor,
For compensation of the auditor of the treasury for the Post-Office of auditor for Post-Office Department;
For compensation of the treasurer of the United States, assistant of treasurer, assistant treasurer, &c.;
For compensation of the register of the treasury, assistant register, of register, assistant register, &c.;
For compensation of the solicitor of the treasury, assistant solicitor, of solicitor, assistant solicitor, &c.;
For compensation of the commissioner of customs, chief clerk, and the of commissioner of customs ;
For compensation of the chief clerk, clerks, messenger and laborer of of lighthouse board;
For compensation of the comptroller of the currency, deputy comptroller, of comptroller of currency, deputy, &c.
For paper, special dies, and printing of circulating notes, and expenses Paper, dies, and printing circulating notes
For salaries of commissioner, deputy commissioners, solicitor, heads of Internal revenue office. Pay of commissioner, &c.
For rent, dies, paper, and so forth, for stamps and incidental expenses, Bent and contingent expenses.
For salaries and expenses of collectors, assessors, assistant assessors, Salaries and expenses of collectors, assessors, &c. No assessor or collector entitled to any part of salary, unless confirmed by the Senate, except, &c.
Contingent Expenses of the Treasury Department.—In the office of Contingent expenses of treasury ;
For copying, labor, binding, sealing ships’ registers, translating foreign in office of the Secretary.
Additional clerks, &c.
Janitors.
Contingent expenses in office of 1st comptroller;
For furniture, public documents, state and territorial statutes, and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
of 2d comptroller;
For contingent expenses of the office, one thousand dollars.
of 1st auditor;
For stationery, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars.
of 2d auditor;
For stationery, office furniture, and miscellaneous items, including two newspapers to be filed and preserved for the use of the office, twenty-five thousand dollars.
of 4th auditor;
For contingent expenses of the office, three thousand dollars.
of 5th auditor;
For stationery, postage, furniture, and miscellaneous expenses, in which are included two daily newspapers, two thousand dollars.
of auditor for Post-Office Department;
For contingent expenses of the office, ten thousand dollars.
of treasurer;
For contingent expenses of the office, seven thousand dollars.
of register;
For miscellaneous items, including office furniture, six thousand dollars.
of solicitor;
For blank books, binding, stationery, labor, and miscellaneous items, and for statutes and reports, and for care of library, four thousand two hundred dollars.
of commissioner of customs ;
For stationery, miscellaneous items, and office furniture, fitting up files, and safe for depositing official bonds, five thousand dollars.
of lighthouse board;
For miscellaneous expenses and postage, one thousand five hundred dollars.
of comptroller of currency;
For contingent expenses of the office, five thousand dollars.
of commissioner of internal revenue.
For office furniture, maps, labor, miscellaneous items, and other contingent expenses, fifty thousand dollars.
Bureau of statistics. Contingent expenses.
Mines and minings.
Stationery for department and bureaus.
Southeast executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz: for fuel, light, labor, and miscellaneous items, one hundred thousand dollars.
For rent of buildings for the accommodation of clerks who cannot be accommodated in the treasury building, two thousand dollars.
Department of the Interior.—For compensation of the Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Pay of secretary, &c.
For compensation of the commissioner of the general land office, chief of commissioner of general land office;
For compensation of additional clerks in the general land office, under of additional clerks; 1855, ch. 207. Vol. x. p. 701. Proviso. Piece-work, &c. To whom to be given.
For compensation of the commissioner of Indian affairs, chief clerk, Pay of commissioner of Indian affairs, &c.
For compensation of the commissioner of pensions, chief clerk, and the of commissioner of pensions;
For additional clerks in the pension office, forty-one thousand dollars: additional clerks in pension office. Proviso.
Contingent Expenses—Department of the Interior.—Office of the Secretary Contingent expenses.
For stationery, furniture, and other contingencies, and for books and Office of secretary.
For casual repairs of the patent-office building, including the laying of Patent office.
For expenses of packing and distributing congressional journals and Distributing journals and documents. Vol. xi. p. 253. 1859, ch. 22. Vol. xi. p. 379
For fuel and lights for the patent-office building, including the salaries Fuel and lights.
Office of the commissioner of Indian affairs: Office of commissioner of Indian affairs;
For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, including two of the daily city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, five thousand dollars.
Office of the commissioner of pensions : of commissioner of pensions ;
For stationery, engraving, and retouching plates for bounty land warrants, printing and binding the same, office furniture, and repairing the same, and miscellaneous items, including two daily newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, and for detection and investigation of fraud, twenty-two thousand dollars.
Office of the commissioner of public buildings : of commissioner of public buildings.
For compensation of the commissioner of public buildings, and the clerk and messenger in his office, four thousand seven hundred dollars.
For stationery, blank books, plans, drawings, and other contingent expenses of his office, five hundred dollars.
Surveyors-general and their clerks. Minnesota.
Dakota and Montana.
Kansas.
Iowa and Nebraska. 1866, ch. 311. Ante, p. 344. Salary of surveyor-general to be $2,000.
Colorado and Utah.
New Mexico and Arizona.
California.
Idaho.
Nevada.
Oregon.
Washington.
Recorder of land titles in Missouri.
Rent of surveyor-general’s office in Oregon;
California;
Washington;
Kansas;
Iowa and Nebraska;
Dakota and Montana;
Colorado and Utah;
Idaho;
Nevada.
Expenses of courts of the United States, suits in which the United States are concerned, safekeeping of pris- oners, and prosecution of crime.
War Department.—For compensation of the Secretary of War, assistant War Department. Pay of secretary, &c. ;
For compensation of the clerks and messengers in the office of the Office of adjutant-general,
For compensation of the clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, and of quartermaster-general ;
For compensation of the chief clerk, clerks, messengers, assistant of paymaster-general ;
For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborers in the office of commissary general;
For compensation of the clerks, messenger, and laborer in the office of of surgeon-general ;
For compensation of the clerks, messengers, and laborers in the office of chief engineer;
For compensation of the clerks and messenger in the office of the of colonel of ordnance.
For additional compensation to employees in the offices of the Secretary Additional compensation to employees. 1866, ch. 208, § 7. Ante, p. 207.
For compensation of two clerks of class two in the signal office, two Pay of clerks in signal office ;
For compensation of one clerk of class fear in the office of inspector of military academy;
For compensation of the clerks in the office of military justice, seven of military justice.
Contingent Expenses of the War Department.—Office of the Secretary Contingent expenses.
For blank books, stationery, labor, books, maps, extra clerk hire, and Office of Secretary of War;
Office of the adjutant-general: of adjutant-general ;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Office of the quartermaster-general: of quartermaster-general;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Office of the paymaster-general: of paymaster-general ;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
Office of the commissary-general: of commissary-general ;
For blank books, stationery, and binding, including rent of office and hire of watchmen, fourteen thousand dollars.
Office of the chief engineer: of chief engineer;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the surgeon-general: of surgeon-general.
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, including rent of office, fifteen thousand dollars.
Office of chief of ordnance;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars.
of military justice;
For blank books, stationery, binding, and miscellaneous items, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Northwest executive building.
For labor, fuel, light, and miscellaneous items, twenty thousand dollars.
1866, ch. 208, § 7. Ante, p. 207.
Building corner of F and Seventeenth streets.
For fuel, compensation of firemen, and miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.
For additional compensation to subordinate employees, under provisions of act of July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
Building corner of F and Fifteenth streets.
Navy Department. Pay of secretary, assistant, solicitor, &c.
Bureau of yards and docks; clerks, &c. authorized ;
equipment and recruiting;
of navigation;
of ordnance; salary of draughtsman;
of construction and repair; salary of draughtsman;
of steam engineering; salary of draughtsman;
of provisions and clothing;
of medicine and surgery.
Incidental and Contingent Expenses of the Navy Department.—Office Contingent expenses.
For stationery, labor, newspapers, periodicals, and miscellaneous items, Office of Secretary of Navy;
Bureau of yards and docks : Bureau of yards and docks;
For stationery, books, plans, drawings, and incidental labor, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Bureau of equipment and recruiting: equipment and recruiting;
For stationery, books, and miscellaneous items seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Bureau of navigation : navigation;
For stationery, blank books, binding, and miscellaneous items, two thousand four hundred dollars.
Bureau of ordnance : ordnance;
For stationery, and miscellaneous items, including three hundred dollars for photographer, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Bureau of construction and repair: construction and repair;
For stationery and miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.
Bureau of steam engineering: steam engineering;
For blank books, binding, stationery, and miscellaneous items, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Bureau of provisions and clothing:
For blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five provisions and clothing;
Bureau of medicine and surgery: medicine and surgery.
For blank books, stationery, and miscellaneous items, eight hundred dollars.
For the General Purposes of the Southwest Executive Building.—For Southwest executive building.
For contingent expenses of said building, viz :
For labor, fuel, lights, and miscellaneous items, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Post-Office Department.—For compensation of the Postmaster-General, Post-Office Department. Pay of Postmaster-General, assistants, &c.
For additional compensation to subordinate employees, under the provisions Additional pay to employees. 1866, ch. 208, § 7. Ante, p. 207
For additional and temporary clerks, forty thousand dollars. Clerks.
Contingent Expenses of the Post-Office Department.—For blank books, binding, and stationery, fuel for the general post-office building, including the auditor’s office, oil, gas, and candles, printing, repair of the general Contingent expenses of Post-Office Department.
Department of Agriculture.—For compensation of commissioner of Department of agriculture.
For contingencies, viz: For stationery, freight, purchase of library, Contingencies.
For collecting agricultural statistics for annual and monthly reports, Agricultural statistics.
For purchase and distribution of new and valuable seeds, viz: Purchase and
distribution of seeds. Rare and uncommon seeds only to be purchased. Annual report of expenditures to Congress.
Glover Museum.
Seed room.
Plants, cuttings, and shrubs. Proviso.
Experimental garden.
Mint at Philadelphia.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars.
For specimens of ores and coins to be preserved in the cabinet of the mint, six hundred dollars.
For freight on bullion and coin, five thousand dollars.
Branch mint at San Francisco.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, two hundred and five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, repairs and wastage, in addition to available profits, fifty-seven thousand and forty-seven dollars and seventy-three cents.
For specimens of ores, three hundred dollars.
Assay office, New York.
For wages of workmen, in addition to unexpended balances of former appropriations, forty thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, seventy thousand dollars.
Branch mint at Denver.
For wages of workmen, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Independent treasury. Pay of assistant treasurers at Boston, New York, Charleston, and St. Louis.
Philadelphia.
New Orleans.
Denver.
For additional salary of the treasurer of the branch mint at San Francisco, San Francisco. Salary not to be increased beyond what law allows.
For salaries of the clerks and messengers in the office of assistant treasurer Clerks, &c. in office of assistant treasurer at Boston;
For salaries of clerks, messengers, and watchmen in office of the assistant treasurer at Philadelphia, eighteen thousand three hundred dollars. Philadelphia;
For salaries of additional clerks in the office of the assistant treasurer at Philadelphia, six thousand five hundred and eighty-five dollars.
For salaries of clerks, messengers, and watchmen in the office of the assistant New York;
For salaries of clerks, messenger, and watchmen in the office of the assistant St. Louis;
For additional salaries to the messenger, at four hundred dollars per St. Louis;
For salaries of clerks, porter, and watchmen in the office of the assistant New Orleans;
For compensation to stamp clerk in the office of the assistant treasurer San Francisco;
For compensation of the depositary at Santa Fe, and the clerk, watchman, Santa Fe;
For salary of the clerk to the acting assistant treasurer at Denver, one Denver;
For salaries of clerks in the office of the depositary at Louisville, five Louisville;
For salaries of clerks in the office of the depositary at Chicago, two Chicago;
For salaries of clerks and watchmen in the office of the depositary at Pittsburg;
For salaries of clerks and messengers in the office of the depositary at Baltimore;
For salaries of clerks in the office of the assistant treasurer at San San Francisco;
For salaries of clerks in the office of the depositary at Cincinnati, ten Cincinnati.
For salaries of additional clerks, and additional compensation of officers Additional clerks, &c. 1846, ch. 90. Vol. ix. p. 59.
For compensation to designated depositaries, under fourth section of the Designated depositaries.
For compensation to special agents to examine the books, accounts, and Special agents.
For salaries often supervising and fifty-nine local inspectors, appointed Inspectors of steamboats. 1852, ch. 106. Vol. x. p. 61. Investigation of causes of disaster to vessels, and prosecutions for violations of law.
For contingent expenses under the act of the sixth of August, eighteen
Contingent expenses. No part for clerical services.
Checks and certificates of deposit.
Governments in the Territories.
Territory of New Mexico;
Territory of New Mexico.—For salaries of governor, chief justice, and two associate judges, and secretary, twelve thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Utah;
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Washington;
For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerk, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Nebraska;
For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Colorado;
For contingent expenses of said Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Dakota;
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, fifteen thousand dollars.
Arizona;
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand dollars.
For interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative, assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Territory of Idaho.—For salaries of governor and superintendent of Territory of Idaho;
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the assembly, twenty thousand dollars.
Territory of Montana.—For compensation of governor and superintendent Montana.
For contingent expenses of the Territory, one thousand dollars.
For compensation and mileage of the members of the legislative assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars.
Judiciary.
Office of the Attorney-General.—For salaries of the Attorney-General, Office of Attorney-General.
For additional compensation to one messenger, under provisions of act 1866, ch. 208, § 7. Ante, p. 207.
Contingent expenses of the office of the Attorney-General, namely : Contingent expenses.
For fuel, labor, furniture, stationery, and miscellaneous items, seven thousand dollars.
For purchase of law and necessary books for the office of the Attorney-General, Law, &c. books.
For the purchase of reports of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the use of the Department of State, one thousand dollars.
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.—For salaries of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
For one associate justice, six thousand dollars.
For travelling expenses of the judge assigned to the ninth circuit for attending session of the Supreme Court of the United States, one thousand dollars.
For salaries of the district judges of the United States, one hundred District-judges.
For salaries of the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District Courts in the District of Columbia.
For salary of the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Reporter of decisions
For the purchase of reports of the Supreme Court of the United States for the use of the Department of State, one thousand dollars.
For compensation of the district attorneys, eighteen thousand five District attorneys.
For compensation of the district marshals, eleven thousand three Marshals.
For necessary expenses in carrying into effect the several acts of Expenses of loans and treasure notes.
For facilitating communication between the Atlantic and Pacific States Telegraph between the Atlantic and Pacific States.
For expenses in detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons Detection, &c. of counterfeiters of the securities and coin of the United States.
For supplying deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled Sick and disabled seamen.
For salaries of commissioners under “An act to provide for the re- Commissioners to revise, &c. the statutes, clerks, and printing. 1866, ch. 140. Ante, p. 74.
Laborers in capitol.
For compensation of four laborers in the capitol, two thousand four hundred dollars.
Public gardener and laborers.
For compensation of a foreman and twenty-one laborers employed in the public grounds, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars.
Gate-keeper and watchmen.
For compensation of two day watchmen employed in the capitol square, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Policemen, &c. at President’s house.
For compensation of the doorkeeper at the President’s house, one thousand dollars.
For compensation of two watchmen at the President’s house, eighteen hundred dollars.
Watchmen on dome.
Heating apparatus of library.
Assistant doorkeeper at President’s house.
Watchmen.
For compensation of five watchmen in reservation number two, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Draw-keepers at Potomac bridge.
For compensation of two draw-keepers at the two draw-bridges across the eastern branch of the Potomac, and for fuel, oil, and lamps, one thousand three hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Furnace-keeper and watchman.
For compensation of watchman in Franklin Square, nine hundred dollars.
For compensation of furnace-keeper at the President’s house, six hundred dollars.
Additional pay to watchmen and laborers.
Metropolitan police. Pay increased fifty per cent, from July 1, 1867. Increase, how to be borne. Levy court may levy special tax. No person to be appointed policeman or watchman who has not, &c.
Witnesses not to be excluded on account of color.
1864, ch. 210, § 3. Vol. xiii. p. 351.
Geological and topographical exploration between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, if, &c.
That the following sums be, and Civil expenses appropriations
Survey of the Coast.—For the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts Coast survey. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
For continuing the survey of the western coast of the United States, Western coast.
For continuing the survey of the South Florida reefs, shoals, keys, and South Florida reefs, &c.
For publishing the observations made in the progress of the coast Publishing.
For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Vessels.
For pay and rations of engineers for four steamers used in the hydrography Pay, &c. of engineers.
Lighthouse Establishment.—For the Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific Lighthouse establishment. Atlantic, Gulf, Lake, and Pacific coasts.
It or supplying the lighthouses and beacon-lights with oil, wicks, glass chimneys, chamois skins, whiting, spirits of wine, polishing powder, cleaning towels, brushes, and other necessary expenses of the same, and repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, two hundred and forty-six thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses, improving and refitting lighthouses and buildings connected therewith, two hundred and five thousand dollars.
Lighthouse establishment.
For salaries of forty-three keepers of light-vessels, twenty-three thousand nine hundred dollars.
For seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of forty-three light-vessels, two hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of beacons and buoys, and for chains and sinkers for the same, two hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs and incidental expenses of refitting and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars.
For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars.
Commissions. 1851, ch. 32. Vol. ix. p. 608.
Wharf, &c. at Wood’s Hole.
Connimicut Point.
Repairs at various stations.
Cumberland Head.
Saugerties.
Stuyvesant
Sands’s Point.
Execution Rocks.
Great Captain’s Island.
Norwalk Island.
Old Field Point.
Eaton’s Neck.
Little Gull Island.
Cedar Island.
North Brother Island.
Lighthouse depot, Staten Island.
For repairs and renovations at the breakwater which protects the lighthouse establishment property at Staten Island, New York, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations to the sea-wall at lighthouse depot, Staten Lighthouse depot, Staten Island.
For landing wharf, roadway, and coal-shed, at the Staten Island depot, fifteen thousand dollars.
For workshops for lampists, blacksmiths, coopers, at Staten Island depot, fifteen thousand dollars.
For repairs and renovations at Morgan’s Point light-station, twelve Morgan’s Point.
For tramways, grading, and fences and dredging at the Staten Island depot, eight thousand dollars.
For protection of the lighthouse site at Absecom, New Jersey, five Absecom.
For rebuilding the lighthouse at Egg Island, New Jersey, fifteen thousand Egg Island.
For constructing a buoy-shed at the lighthouse depot, Staten Island, Staten Island.
For a beacon-light at Somers’s Cove, Maryland, ten thousand dollars. Somers’s Cove.
For rebuilding the first-class lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Cape Hatteras.
For repairs and renovations at Tybee Island light-station, in addition to Tybee Island.
For rebuilding the lighthouse at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and fitting Cape Canaveral.
For repairs and renovations at Pensacola light-station, twenty thousand Pensacola.
For rebuilding Sand Island light-station, eighty thousand dollars. Sand Island.
For rebuilding Mobile Point lighthouse, which the lighthouse board Mobile Point.
For repairs and renovations of the following light-stations, viz: East Repairs, &c. at various stations.
For beacon-light on Sister Island, Saint Lawrence River, ten thousand Sister Island.
For repairs and renovations at the light-station on West Sister Island, Lake Erie, twelve thousand dollars.
For additional appropriation for range-lights at Maumee Bay, Ohio, Maumee Bay.
For repairs and renovations at Bayley’s Harbor light-station, Michigan, Bayley’s Harbor.
For repairs and renovations at Bois Blanc Island light-station, Michigan, Bois Blanc Island.
For new lighthouse on the South Fox Island, Lake Michigan, eighteen South Fox Island.
For a new lighthouse and fog-signal on Granite Island, Lake Superior, Granite Island
For rebuilding and improving the lighthouse at Skillagalee (Isle aux Skillagalee.
For day-beacon to mark Stanard’s Rock, Lake Superior, ten thousand Stanard’s Rock.
For new lighthouse at Sturgeon Point, Lake Huron, fifteen thousand Sturgeon Point.
For new lanterns at the light-stations at Grand River and Milwaukee, Grand River and Milwaukee.
For rebuilding the keeper’s dwelling at Presque Isle light-station, Lake Presque Isle.
Thunder Bay.
Muskegon.
Sand Point.
Point Conception.
Southern coasts.
Life-saving stations; superintendents, keepers, &c.
For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingencies of life-saving stations on the coast of the United States, ten thousand dollars.
Lighthouses. Santa Cruz.
Trowbridge Point.
Mendota.
Braddock’s Point.
Tybee Island Knoll.
Morris Island.
Deep Water Shoals.
Saint Simon’s.
Southwest Pass.
Punta Arenas.
Cape Blanco.
Estate of Charles H. Peaslee.
Barge office.
Suspension bridge.
Custom-house at Wiscasset;
New Orleans.
Patent-office building.
For continuing the work on the north portico of the patent-office building, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For continuing the work on the capitol extension, two hundred and fifty Capitol extension.
For the dome of the capitol, fifteen thousand dollars. Dome.
For the purpose of paying the total liabilities of the census office, exclusive Census office.
For repairs to marine hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, ten thousand Marine hospital.
For a custom-house in Newport, Vermont, ten thousand dollars. Custom-house at Newport, Vt.
For purchase of a site and the erection of a building for a customhouse Machias;
For custom-house and post-office at Astoria, Oregon, twenty-five thousand Astoria. Loading, &c. of vessels at Portland.
For constructing fire-proof appraisers’ stores on the property known as Appraisers’ stores, Philadelphia.
For repairs and preservation of custom-houses and other public buildings, Repairs, &c. of custom-houses, &c.
For repairs of the building used as the custom-house and post-office at Middletown, Connecticut, six thousand dollars; and for the erection, under the direction of the lighthouse board, of an iron spindle on Success Rock, Iron spindle on Success Rock.
For the payment of fixtures and furniture furnished to said office, six hundred dollars.
For furniture and repairs of furniture of custom-houses and other public Custom-houses
For burglar and fire proof vaults and safes for depositories, twenty Burglar, &c. proof safes.
For replacing galvanized iron roofs with copper or slate roofs, twenty-five Copper, &c roofs.
For furniture, carpets, and miscellaneous expenses of treasury buildings, Treasury buildings.
To defray the expenses of a survey of a tract of land for a park and Presidential mansion.
For heating apparatus for public buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars. Heating.
For United States court-house and post-office at Des Moines, Iowa, Court-house, &c. at Des Moines.
For the completion of the approaches and fencing to the treasury building, Treasury building.
For continuation of the treasury extension, fifty thousand dollars.
For repairs and alterations in the New York custom-house, thirty thousand New York custom-house.
For furniture and repairs of the same, seven thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase thirty copies of the Statutes at Large.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to adjust and settle the accounts James Tufts. Census of Montana. 1864, ch. 95, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 87.
Heating Supreme Court room.
Extra clerks.
Lewis Heyl.
Public buildings and grounds. Transient paupers, &c.
Carts and tools.
For purchase and repair of tools used in the public grounds, four hundred dollars.
Trees, treeboxes, &c.
Water-pipes, stables, &c.
Lighting buildings, grounds, and streets.
Corporation of Washington, how to light their lamps, and for what time.
Lamp-lighters, &c.
Bridges.
Fuel.
Pennsylvania Avenue.
Public reservations.
Squares and grounds.
Water-pipes.
Sewer traps.
Furnaces.
Public grounds.
For purchase of fuel for the centre building of the Capitol, fifteen Buildings and streets.
For taking care of the Circle on Pennsylvania Avenue, one thousand dollars.
For continuing the grading and repairing of Virginia Avenue, ten thousand dollars.
For the necessary expenses to be incurred in consequence of opening Sixth Street west across the Mall, and in making fences, two thousand dollars.
For renewing the heating apparatus at the President’s house, eight thousand dollars.
For laying a new pipe from the K Street main to the Capitol, in order to supply the building at all times with a full flow of water, five thousand dollars.
To enable the commissioner of public buildings to put in thorough repair Conservatory and greenhouse.
For the construction of a new greenhouse, with central dome and a wing, to correspond in size with the present greenhouse in the Botanic Garden, to be built of iron and glass according to a plan prepared by the architect of the capitol extension, and approved, by the joint committee on the library, thirty-five thousand dollars; the same to be expended under the direction of the joint committee on the library of Congress.
For enabling the commissioner to cause the old and useless lightning-rods Hawley’s conductors.
For enabling the commissioner to employ a suitable electrician to take Lighting dome of capitol.
For repairing in front of the War Department on Pennsylvania Avenue and on Seventeenth Street with stone flagging, sixteen thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of the President’s house, six thousand dollars. Public buildings, grounds, streets, &c.
For purchase of tools for public grounds, five hundred dollars.
For purchase of flower-pots, mats, glasses, putty, wire, twine, and so forth, for use on the greenhouses, one hundred dollars.
For the removal of the foot-bridge on Maine Avenue, now of no Foot-bridge on Maine Avenue.
To complete the culvert through the Botanic Garden, fifteen thousand dollars.
For removing snow and ice from pavements and public walks, three hundred dollars.
For manure and cartage of the same for Smithsonian grounds and public reservations, one thousand dollars.
For completing the improvement of Franklin Square, gravelling walks and deepening the same, and purchasing and planting trees and shrubbery, five thousand dollars.
For improvement of reservations on New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Reservations. &c.
For further improvement of the Circle on Pennsylvania Avenue, six hundred dollars.
For purchase and planting of trees and boxes for the same, replacing
Streets and squares.
For painting the iron fences around Lafayette Square, in front of the War and Navy Departments, in front of the executive mansion, and the government portion of the fence around Judiciary Square, five thousand dollars.
For new crossings on Pennsylvania Avenue, five thousand dollars.
For annual repairs of fences around the public reservations, one thousand dollars.
Lighting rotunda.
Historical library of Peter Force.
Bust of Pulaski.
Office of register of deeds.
Warden of jail.
Department of agriculture.
Smithsonian Institution; collections of surveying expeditions.
Government hospital for the insane. Salary of superintendent established.
East wing.
Wall.
Coal-house.
Washington aqueduct.
Patent Office. Copyrights.
Illustrations, &c. of commissioner’s report.
Columbian Institution for the deaf and dumb. Not over ten deaf mutes may be received from the States and Territories, and how.
For the erection, furnishing, and fitting up of additions to the buildings Additions to buildings.
For the enlargement and further improvement of the grounds of the Enlargement, &c. of grounds.
To furnish an increased supply of Potomac water and for the erection Water.
Columbia Hospital.—To aid in the support of the Columbia Hospital Columbia Hospital.
Expenses of Collection of Revenue from Sales of Public Lands.—For Expenses of collecting revenue from sales of public lands.
For incidental expenses of the several land offices, nineteen thousand Salaries, &c. of registers and receivers.
Surveying the Public Lands.—For surveying the public lands in Minnesota, Surveys of public lands in Minnesota;
For surveying the public lands in Dakota Territory, including the lands Dakota;
For surveying the public lands in Nebraska, at rates not exceeding ten Nebraska;
For surveying the public lands in Kansas, at rates not exceeding ten Kansas;
For surveying the public lands in Idaho, at rates not exceeding fifteen Idaho;
For surveying the public lands in Colorado, at rates not exceeding fifteen Colorado;
For surveying the public lands in Nevada, at rates not exceeding fifteen Nevada;
For surveying the public lands in Arizona, at rates not exceeding fifteen Arizona;
For surveying the public lands in California, at rates not exceeding fifteen California;
For surveying the public lands in Oregon, at rates not exceeding fifteen Oregon;
For surveying the public lands in Washington Territory, at rates not Washington Territory;
For the survey of the forty-second parallel of north latitude, so far as forty-second parallel between California and Oregon.
Survey of boundary between Oregon and Idaho;
thirty-seventh parallel.
Office of commissioner of public buildings abolished; chief engineer to perform duties, superintend Washington Aqueduct, &c.
Appointment of capitol police.
Lighthouse board may apply unexpended balances on Pacific coast;
may purchase sites for lighthouses, &c. when, &c.
Certain superintendents of lights not to receive pay as disbursing agents for lighthouse establishment.
Salary of general appraiser at New York;
of assistants at certain ports.
Pay of clerk of pardons in State Department.
Vol. xiii. p. 758.
Clerk of the House to select newspapers in each of the ten rebel States in which the laws, legal notices, &c. shall be published.
See Vol. xv. p. 8.
Pay therefor.
Heads of executive departments and, judges to be notified, and they are to publish only in such newspapers.
Rates of pay in all the States for publishing the laws.
Secretary of Treasury may sell at auction the old customhouse at Alexandria, New Haven, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Perth Amboy and Sackett’s Harbor;
to examine and report upon the public buildings in New Mexico.
All advertisements, notices, &c. to be printed only in two newspapers in the District of Columbia, and in each equally.
See Vol. xv. p 7.
Rates of pay.
Printing to be done by government printer, except, &c.
Vol. xv. p. 13.
Repeal of inconsistent laws.
Pay of clerks at arsenal in Springfield increased.
Laws relating to army, navy, &c. may be published in Army and Navy Journal, and at what rates.
Deficiency appriations for the year ending June 30, 1867.
Department of the Interior.
Pension bureau.
For contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars.
For navy widows and orphans, seventy thousand dollars:
Engineers’ office.
For compensation of clerks, three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For contingencies, five hundred dollars.
Capitol extension.
For ventilating, nine thousand dollars.
For supplying deficiency in appropriation for work on the Capitol extension, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars. Census Office. Amount due marshals and assistants in California; Maine; Ohio; Oregon; Kansas; Kentucky; Maryland;’ Missouri; Tennessee; New Mexico; Washington. No part to be paid to any one participating in the rebellion.
Indian bureau. Indian service in Oregon and Washington. Payment to be made only to original owner of claim.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Isaac Strohm for Isaac Strohm.
Library of Congress.—To enable the librarian of Congress to employ Library of Congress.
For six iron stairways, repairs and repainting in the library of Congress, and for a new skylight in the central library, five thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Public buildings and grounds. Accounts for repairs and furnishing executive mansion to be approved.
Public Buildings and Grounds.—To pay for completing the repairs and furnishing the executive mansion, thirty-five thousand dollars:
To replace the bruised and worn copper water-pipes or roof gutters of Capitol.
To supply a deficiency in fuel for the President’s house and for the Fuel.
To pay for a poudrette pit at the President’s stable, five hundred and sixteen dollars and nineteen cents.
To pay for repairing streets passing along government reservations Streets.
To pay for sewer in the rear of II Street, between Sixteenth and Sewers.
To thoroughly repair the roof of the executive mansion, two thousand Executive mansion.
To pay deficiency and keep in repair the bridge at or near Little Falls, Little Falls Bridge.
To pay deficiencies in the contingent expenses of the Senate as follows Contingent expenses of the Senate.
For additional messengers, seven thousand dollars.
For additional labor in the folding-room and material, ten thousand dollars.
For stationery, ten thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous.—For deepening and improving Westport harbor, Connecticut, Miscellaneous. Westport harbor.
For dredging and maintaining the channel of the river Thames near Thames river
For services rendered by the late F. M. Rotch, in furnishing an original F. M. Rotch.
For temporary clerks in the Treasury Department for the fiscal year Temporary clerks in Treasury Department; may be classified.
For the purpose of enabling the director of the mint to purchase Mint.
For defraying the expenses incurred by the Department of State by
Atlantic Cable.
Custom-house in Charleston.
Beacons in New York bay.
American Coast Pilot.
Registers, &c. of land offices. 1866, ch. 262. § 7. Ante, p. 252.
Geological survey of Nebraska.
Ten cents a cask to be collected on gaugeable goods, &c. withdrawn from bonded warehouses, or on which drawback is allowed.
Salary of gaugers at New York;
not to exceed amount of fees.
Claim of Butler and Carpenter to be paid. 1866, ch. 28, § 2.
Ante, p. 23.
Transfer of surplus to purchase books for library of Congress.
Vol. xiii. p. 570.
Pay of deputy surveyor at San Francisco.
Pay of temporary clerks in quartermaster-general’s office.
Salaries of district judges of the United States courts.
Salaries of district judges.
To be in full for all official services.
Reporter of decisions of the Supreme Court, if second volume is published in any year.
Notice to publishers of Congressional Globe and Appendix, to terminate agreement.
1864, ch. 250, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 392.
Additional clerks in office of commissioner of pensions.
Appropriation.
All acts relative to the internal revenue laws now required to be done in May and June to be done hereafter in March and April.
Tax on cotton.
Additional special tax on. apothecaries, butchers, confectioners, plumbers, and gas-fitters;
how to be assessed and paid.
District attorney to report concerning: suits
under internal revenue laws to commissioner.
Commissioner to make rules for district attorneys and marshals respecting suits;
to have charge of all real estate conveyed to the United States under internal revenue law, &c.
may sell the same at public auction with the approval of the Secretary of Treasury;
may release to debtor land taken upon payment of debt and interest.
Additional penalty upon manufacturers for selling, &c. without a stamp articles required to be stamped.
Proceedings in such cases.
Commissioner may designate any assistant assessor to make assessments upon specified objects of taxation.
Other assistant assessors to report.
Assistant assessor may act anywhere in county, where, &c.
Return.
Commissioner may pay sums for detection and trial of persons violating internal revenue laws, &c.
Appropriation.
Penalty for neglect or failure to pay tax as required, to be five per cent and interest.
No interest for any fraction of a month.
Act of 1864, ch. 173. Vol. xiii. p. 223, amended.
That section twenty-two be amended by striking out, after the words, Section 22 amended. Ante, pp. 104, 105. Pay of assistant assessors to be five dollars a day, from and after March) 1867. Allowance for office rent, &c. discontinued. Amendment.
That section twenty-four be amended by inserting in the proviso to said Section 24. Ante, p. 106. Commissions on articles shipped, &c. Section 40. Vol. xiii. p. 238. Vacancy in office of collector. Section 73. Ante, p. 113. Penalty for exercising any trade, &c. without payment of tax;
That section forty be amended by striking out the following words: “
That section seventy-three be amended by striking out all after the enacting clause, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: That any person who shall exercise or carry on any trade, business, or profession, or do any act hereinafter mentioned, for the exercising, carrying on, or doing of which a special tax is imposed by law, without payment thereof, as in that behalf required, shall, for every such offence, besides being liable to the payment of the tax, be subject to a fine or penalty of not less than ten or more than five hundred dollars. And if such person upon manufacturers of tobacco, snuff, or cigars, or dealers in liquors.
Section 79. Ante, p. 116. Definition of dealers in liquors. Ante, p. 119. Manufactures of butter and cheese. Certain venders not to be deemed pedlers.
Section 90. Ante, p. 125. Forfeiture of tobacco, snuff, and cigars.
Section 94 may be changed.
Ante, p. 128. Tax on gas to consumers. Tax on sugars, &c. Ante, p. 129.
[By striking out] the paragraphs relating to “
“On all sugars produced from the sugar-cane, and not from sorghum or imphee, other than those produced by the refiner, a tax of one cent per pound.”
“On refined sugars, and on the products of sugar refineries, not including sirup or molasses, a tax of two per centum ad valorem: Who to be regarded as a sugar refiner.
Wood screws. Ante, p. 130.
Also, by striking out the paragraph relating to “
Gunpowder. Ante, p. 130.
Cigarettes, cigars, and cheroots. Ante, p. 133.
“On cigarettes, cigars, and cheroots of all descriptions, made of tobacco or any substitute therefor, five dollars per thousand.”
Section 94 further amended. Ante, pp. 131, 132.
India-rubber boots, &c.
Hats, caps, bonnets, &c.
Hoop-skirts.
Leather and skins.
On manufactures exclusively of glass, other than window glass, three Manufactures of glass, except, &c.; of wool.
On manufactures of wool, or of which wool is the chief component material, or the component material of chief value, two and a half per centum ad valorem.
That section ninety-four be amended by adding to the end of said No tax upon the redyeing or reprinting of cloths. Section 96. Vol. xiii. p. 272. Exemptions from tax.
That section ninety-six be amended by inserting after the words “
That section one hundred and three be amended by striking out the Section 103. Ante, p. 136. Tax on gross receipts of toll-roads, ferries, and bridges. Schedule B. Legal documents.
That schedule B, in relation to stamp duties, named in section one hundred and fifty-one, be amended by striking out of said schedule the words “ Tax on manifests, not to apply, &c. Affidavits exempt from stamp duty.
Also by inserting at the end of the last paragraph relating to “ No stamp for probate of wills, &c. unless value of estate exceeds $ 1,000; none upon papers for collecting soldiers’ claims on government for pay, pensions, &c. When this takes effect.
Act of 1866, ch. 184, ante, p. 98, amended. Amendments.
That section ten be amended by adding after the word “ Section 10. Ante, p. 147. Articles, &c. exempt from taxation.
Also, by striking out in the paragraph relating to monuments, after the word “
That section eighteen be amended by adding thereto the following: Section 18. Ante, p. 152. Products of manual-labor schools.
That section nineteen is hereby amended by adding the following thereto Section 19. Ante, p. 152. Suits.
That section forty-three be amended by striking out the last two sentences. Section 43. Ante, pp. 162, 163.
Amend section forty-eight of the act relating to internal revenue, approved Section 48. Ante, p. 164. Tax on beer, lager beer, ale, porter, &c.
Additional articles and products exempt from internal tax.
Alcoholic and ethereal vegetable extracts, when solid and used solely for medicinal purposes;
Bale rope, seines and netting for seines, twine, and lines of all kinds;
Bar, rod, hoop, band, sheet, and plate iron of all descriptions, and iron prepared for the manufacture of steel:
Brush blocks;
Canned and preserved meats, and shell-fish;
Carbolic acid and carbolate of lime, used solely for disinfectants;
Carpet-bag and cabar frames.
Canned and preserved vegetables and fruits;
Casks, churns, barrels, wooden brushes and broom handles, tanks and kits made of wood, including cooperage of all kinds, bungs and plugs, packing boxes, nest boxes, and match boxes, whether made of wood or other materials; wooden hames, plough-beams, split-bottom chairs, and turned materials for the same unmanufactured, and saddle-trees made of wood, and match boxes heretofore made on which a tax has not been paid;
Castings of iron, copper, or brass made for machinery, cars or scales, and castings made to form a part of any article upon which, in a finished state, a tax is assessed and paid;
Cast-iron hollow ware, and. cast-iron hollow ware tinned, enamelled, japanned, or galvanized;
Clock trimmings, namely: Clock work, clock pillars, sash fastenings for clocks, winding keys, verges, and pendulum rods ;
Clothing or articles of dress not specially enumerated, made by sewing, for the wear of men, women, or children, from cloths or fabrics on which a tax or duty has been paid;
Coffee mills, coffee grinders and roasters, and apple-paring machines;
Copper bottoms for articles used for domestic and culinary purposes;
Doors, window-sash, blinds, frames, and sills of whatever material;
Drain, gas, and water pipe made of wood, or cement;
Frames and handles for saws and buck-saws;
Glue and gelatine, of all descriptions, in the solid state;
Glue and cement made wholly or in part of glue in the liquid state;
Horse-rakes, horse-powers, tedders, hames, scythe-snaths, hay-forks, hoes, and portable grinding mills;
Horse-blankets, made from cloth on which a tax or duty has been paid;
Licorice and licorice paste;
Magnesium lamps;
Manufactures of jute;
Molasses, concentrated molasses or melado, sirup of molasses or sugarcane juice, and cistern bottoms ;
Oil, naphtha, benzine, benzole, or gasoline, marking more than seventy degrees Baume’s hydrometer, the product of the distillation, or redistilla-
Articles, &c. exempt from internal tax.
Palm-leaf and straw, bleached, split, prepared, or advanced by being braided or woven, but not made up into hats, bonnets or hoods;
Potato hooks, pitchforks, manure and spading forks;
Pottery ware of all descriptions, including stone, earthen, brown and yellow earthen, and common or gray stone ware;
Rock and root diggers or excavators;
Root-beer and other small beer ;
Salt;
Soap, common brown, in bars, sold for less than seven cents per pound ;
Saws for cotton gins, when used by the maker, in the manufacture of gins ;
Pumps, garden engines, and hydraulic rams ;
School-room seats and desks, blackboards, and globes of all kinds;
Sleds, wheelbarrows, and handcarts, and fence made of wood;
Soles and heel-taps made of India-rubber or of India-rubber and other materials ;
Shirt fronts or bosoms, wristbands or cuffs for shirts, except those made of paper;
Spiral springs used in the manufacture of furniture ;
Stove polish or other manufacture exclusively of plumbago, buck-saws, stump machines, potato diggers ;
Steel of all descriptions, whether made from muck-bar, blooms, slabs, loops, or otherwise;
Scythes;
Straw or binder’s board and binder’s cloth, and straw wrapping paper;
Tags for merchandise and direction of cloth, paper or metal, whether blank or printed; thimble skeins and pipe boxes, made of iron;
Tin-ware for domestic and culinary purposes ;
Ultramarine blue;
Varnish ;
Wagons, carts, and drays, made to be used for farming, freighting, or lumber purposes;
Washing, mangling, and clothes-wringing machines, zinc washboards, spinning and flax wheels, hand reels, hand looms, wooden knobs and beehives ;
Exemptions confined to articles in what condition.
Tax on brandy from grapes.
Penalty for making, selling, &c. as brandy from grapes, any fluid not really such.
Simulated fluid to be forfeited.
Further amendments to laws relating to internal taxes. 1864, ch. 173. Vol. xiii. p. 223.
Income.—That section one hundred and sixteen be amended by striking Income tax. Section 116. Vol. xiii. p. 281. Rate. Amount exempt. Tax to be for year ending December 31.
Section 117. Vol. xiii. p. 281. In estimating income, what to be included; what to be deducted. Proviso. Further proviso. Income. Further proviso.
That section one hundred and eighteen be amended by striking out all Section 118. Vol. xiii. p. 282. List or return. Oath. Increase. Neglect or false returns. Penalty. Proviso. Income tax paid in another district. Amount of income may be proved. Appeal Penalty for neglect and refusal not to be assessed until after notice.
Section 119. Ante, p. 138. Income tax, when to be levied and when due; to last until 1870 and no longer. Penalty if tax is not paid when due. Proviso as to tax for 1866.
Section 123. Ante, p. 139. Tax on the income of those in the civil, military, or naval service of the United States. Rate of tax. Amount of tax to be deducted. Pay-roll, &c. to show such payment. Accounting officers to require proof that taxes have been deducted and paid over. Payments of prize money to be deemed income; but not payments to laborers. Books of Treasury Department. When this section takes effect.
Tax on distilled spirits;
by whom to be paid;
who liable therefor;
to be a lien, and on what, and for how long.
Tax upon spirits removed from place of distillation, and not deposited in bonded warehouse, when to be assessed, and how collected;
to be collected at no lower rate than basis of first proof.
Proof spirit to be what.
Secretary of Treasury may adopt meters, &c.
Owners of distilleries to use meters.
Changes of, or additions to, distilling apparatus to be made.
Gallon to be gallon of first proof.
Who to be deemed a distiller, and what presumptive evidence thereof.
Distilled spirits, before removal from distillery, to be inspected and gauged.
Law requiring an inspector for each distillery repealed.
1866, ch. 184, § 29.
Ante, p. 155.
Who to perform
their duties.
Collector may direct spirits stored in a bonded warehouse to be removed to general bonded warehouse.
Spirits not to be removed from place of manufacture, &c. in certain packages, nor between sunset and sunrise.
Penalty.
Officer specially authorized to seize property.
Powers of such officer.
Barrels, &c. containing, or supposed to contain, distilled spirits, may be seized when and by whom, and detained.
If certain distilled spirits are sold, &c. at a price less than the tax, such sale, &c. to be prima facie evidence that they are liable to forfeiture.
This provision not to apply to certain sales.
Persons drawing off articles subject to tax from barrels, &c. marked, &c. to efface such marks.
Penalty.
distilled spirits from bonded warehouse is forfeited, obligors to pay what.
Their property may be distrained.
If property is not found, bond to be put in suit.
Stills fit for use. if not over $ 1000 in value, seized for violation of internal revenue laws, not to be released;
if forfeited, to be destroyed. 1866,ch. 184, § 44.
Ante, p. 163.
If a still seized is over $ 1000 in value, its release to be at the discretion of the court.
Additional penalty upon owners, &c. of stills, for neglect or refusal to do what the law requires concerning distilled spirits.
Fine, forfeiture, and imprisonment.
Stills, &c. may be seized and held.
Proceedings to enforce forfeiture.
Penalty upon collectors, assessors, and others, for asking or accepting any money, &c. for compromising, &c. any charge of violating the laws relating to internal taxes.
Fine and imprisonment.
Forfeited distilled spirits not to be sold for less price than, &c.;
shall be destroyed, if, &c.
Penalty, for falsely assuming to be a revenue officer, and acting as such.
Fine and imprisonment.
The mixing, for sale, of naphtha and illuminating oils, or selling, &c. prohibited.
Penalty.
Penalty for conspiring to commit any offence against the laws of the United States, or to defraud the United States, if any party to the conspiracy does any act in pursuance and in aid thereof.
Offence to be deemed to be committed where.
Inspectors to give bonds.
Penalty for selling or giving away, &c. empty cigar boxes that have been stamped, without defacing stamp.
Such cigar box may be destroyed.
Tonnage duty, how often to be levied and collected.
Tax on advertisements and gross receipts of toll-roads repealed.
Inconsistent acts repealed.
Saving clause.
That the following sums be, Army appropriation.
For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, and compensation Recruiting and pay of citizen surgeons.
For pay of the army, fourteen million seven hundred and fifty-seven Pay.
For commutation of officers’ subsistence, two million two hundred and Commutation of subsistence and forage.
For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars.
For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, two hundred and Payments in lieu of clothing.
For payments to discharged soldiers for clothing not drawn, two hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies of the army, one hundred thousand dollars. Contingencies,
For artificial limbs for soldiers and seamen, seventy thousand dollars. Artificial limbs.
For army medical museum, ten thousand dollars. Medical museum.
For medical works for library of surgeon-general’s office, ten thousand Medical works.
For expenses of commanding-general’s office, ten thousand dollars. Commanding-general’s office.
For Repairs and Improvements of Armories and Arsenals.—For arsenal Armories and arsenals. Rock Island.
For the erection of a bridge at Rock Island, Illinois, as recommended Bridge at Rock Island. Proviso.
Watervliet arsenal.
Ordnance service.
Arsenals. Allegheny;
Champlain;
Columbus;
Fort Monroe;
Fort Union;
Frankford;
Kennebec;
Indianapolis;
Leavenworth ;
New York;
Pikesville;
Saint Louis;
Washington;
Watertown.
Purchase of Willard Sears estate. Land in South Boston may be sold.
Bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands.
Salaries.
Stationery and printing.
Quarters and fuel.
Commissary stores.
Medical department.
Transportation.
School superintendents.
For buildings for schools and asylums, including construction, rental, and repairs, five hundred thousand dollars.
For telegraphing and postage, eighteen thousand dollars: Schools and asylums. Telegraphing and postage. Certain educational institutions. Limit to pay of certain agents or clerks.
General of the army, headquarters of, orders, &c.
General of the army not to be removed, without, &c.
Penalty for issuing orders contrary hereto.
Repeal of section three of resolution relating to appointments to military academy.
Ante, p. 359.
Fire-proof buildings in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Whipping or maiming, as a punishment for crime, forbidden in, &c. until, &c.
Militia forces organized or in service in certain rebel States to be disbanded, and their further organization prohibited.
Payment of travelling expenses of certain California and Nevada volunteers.
Appropriation.
That the following sums be, Appropriations for fortifications and other works of defence. Appropriation for Fort Scammel.
For Fort Scammel, Portland, Maine, fifty thousand dollars.
Appropriation for Fort Georges;
Fort Winthrop ;
Fort Warren;
Fort at New Bedford harbor;
Fort Schuyler;
at Willett’s Point;
on site of Fort Tompkins;
at Sandy Hook;
Fort Washington ;
Fort Monroe;
Fort Taylor;
Fort Jefferson;
Fort Clinch;
at Fort Point;
at Lime Point;
at Alcatraz Island;
Fort Preble;
Fort McClary ;
Fort Independence.
Survey of northern, &c. lakes.
Fort Montgomery.
Purchase, &c. of instruments.
Purchase of sites for seacoast defences; not to be made until, &c.
For purchase of sites now occupied by temporary sea-coast defences:
Barracks, &c. near St. Louis, Missouri;
at Willett’s Point.
Not over one half of these appropriations to be expended this year, &c.
Residue.
Board of officers to make experiments to test the power of resistance of turreted and broadside systems of iron-clad vessels of war
against guns of the heaviest calibre.
Facilities, how to be furnished, and expenses how borne.
That the following suras be, and Navy appropriations.
For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, ten Pay of officers and seamen.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.—For contingent expenses that may accrue Bureau of yards and docks.
Navy Yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire.—For completing reservoirs Navy yard at Portsmouth;
For repairs of all kinds, sixty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
Navy Yard at Boston.—For repairs of all kinds, one hundred and Boston;
Navy Yard at New York.—For repairs of all kinds, one hundred and New York;
Naval Laboratory, New York.—For repairs of apparatus, machinery, fixtures, painting, glazing, wagons, furniture, and so forth, thirty-five hundred dollars.
Navy Yard at Philadelphia.—For repairs of all kinds, fifty-one thousand at Philadelphia;
Navy Yard at Washington.—For repairs of all kinds, eighty thousand at Washington; gift of land in the Thames river, near New London, Ct. to be accepted;
Navy Yard at Pensacola.—For repairs of all kinds, eighty thousand at Pensacola;
Navy Yard at Mare Island.—For gas house, four thousand and seven at Mare Island.
For cisterns for building number forty-one and officers’ houses, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, sixty thousand dollars.
Naval station at Sackett’s Harbor;
at Mound City.
Naval asylum.
For the purchase of books, under the direction of the governor of the asylum for the increase of the sailors’ library in that institution, one thousand dollars.
For house-cleaning and whitewashing, eight hundred dollars.
For furnaces, grates, and ranges seven hundred dollars.
For gas and water rent, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For improvement of grounds, five hundred dollars.
For wharves and lots, eight hundred dollars.
For painting houses and walls, two thousand dollars.
For repairs of all kinds, three thousand dollars.
For improvement of cemetery, three thousand dollars.
For support of beneficiaries, fifty-two thousand dollars.
Civil establishment at navy yards. Civil engineers and naval storekeepers, how appointed. Master mechanics, &c. to be skilled, and appointed from civil life.
Collection of facts, &c. to illustrate the history of the navy.
Bureau of navigation.
Naval academy.
Naval observatory.
Nautical Almanac.
Visitors to naval academy.
Bureau of equipment and recruiting.
For expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, namely: expenses of recruiting, transportation of men, printing and stationery, advertising in public newspapers, postage on public letters, wharfage and demurrage. apprehension of deserters, assistance to vessels in distress, &c. five hundred thousand dollars.
Bureau of Construction and Repair.—For pay of superintendents and Bureau of construction and repair.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.—For pay of superintendents and the of steam engineering ;
Bureau of Provisions and Clothing.—For pay of the civil establishment of provisions and clothing;
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.—For surgeons’ necessaries and appliances of medicine and surgery;
For contingent expenses of the bureau of medicine and surgery, contingent expenses ;
For pay of the civil establishment, under the bureau of medicine and civil establishment.
Naval Hospital, Boston.—For repairs and improvements of all kinds, Naval hospitals; Boston;
Naval Hospital, New York.—For repairs and improvements of all New York;
Naval Hospital, Philadelphia.—For furniture and general outfit of the Philadelphia;
Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C.—For repairs of building and appendages, Washington;
Naval Hospital, Norfolk.—For repairs of buildings, appendages, Norfolk;
Naval Hospital, Mare Island, California.—For building naval hospital Mare Island.
Marine Corps.—For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musisicians, Marine corps. Pay, rations, and clothing.
For provisions, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents.
For clothing, two hundred and ninety-two thousand one hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty-four cents.
For fuel, thirty thousand one hundred and seventeen dollars. Fuel.
For military stores, viz: Pay of mechanics, repair of arms, purchase Military stores.
For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and expenses of Transportation, &c.
For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public Barracks and offices.
For contingencies, viz: Freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; wharfage; Contingencies.
Marine corps. Contingencies.
Secretary of Navy to effect a further exchange of lands with the city of Brooklyn, N. Y. &c.
Title to be approved.
Workmen in navy yards not to be required to pay money for political purposes ;
not to be discharged for political opinions.
Penalty.
Appropriations for expenses of the Indian Department and treaty stipulations.
That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes:—
For the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, namely,—
Superintendents, agents, subagents, clerks, &c.
For pay of sub-agents, six thousand dollars.
For pay of clerk to superintendent at St. Louis, Missouri, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For pay of temporary clerks by superintendents of Indian affairs, five thousand dollars.
For pay of clerk to superintendent of Indian affairs in California, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Interpreters, presents, provisions.
For presents to Indians, five thousand dollars.
For provisions for Indians, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.
Buildings and repairs.
Contingencies.
Treaty stipulations.
Apaches. Post, p. 712.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the transportation of goods, provisions, and so forth, purchased for the Apache Indians, according to the terms of the same article of same treaty, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas River.—For Arapahos and Cheyennes. Post, p. 704.
For transportation of goods, provisions, and so forth, purchased for the Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas river, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, twenty thousand dollars.
Assinaboines.—For first of payments to be made during the pleasure Assinaboines.
Arickarees, Gross Ventres, and Mandams.—For first of payments to be Arickarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandams. Pierre Gavreau.
Cheyennes of the Upper Platte River.—For this amount, the Cheyennes Cheyennes of the Upper Platte.
Camanches and Kioways.—For second of forty instalments, to be expended Camanches and Kioways. Post, p. 718.
For transportation of goods, provisions, and so forth, purchased for the Camanche and Kioway Indians, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, or so much thereof as may be necessary, eight thousand dollars.
Camanches, Kiowas, and Apaches, of Arkansas River.—For the Camanches, Kiowas, and Apaches of Arkansas River. Vol. x. p. 1014.
For expenses of transportation of the fourth of five instalments of goods, provisions, and agricultural implements, per sixth article treaty, twenty-seventh July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, seven thousand dollars.
Calapooias, Molalla, and Clackamas Indians, of Willamette Valley.— Calapooias, Molallas, and Clackamas. Vol. x. p. 1144.
Chasta, Scoton, and Umpqua Indians.—For thirteenth of fifteen instalments Chastas, Scotons, and Umpquas. Vol. x. p. 1122.
Chastas, &c.
For thirteenth of fifteen instalments for pay of physician, medicines, and expense of care of the sick, per fifth article treaty eighteenth November, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For thirteenth of fifteen instalments for pay of teachers and purchase of books and stationery, per fifth article treaty eighteenth November, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Chippewas, Menomones, Winnebagos, and New York Indians. Vol. vii. p. 304.
Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River. Vol. xi. p. 634.
Chippewas of Lake Superior. Vol. x. p. 1109.
For thirteenth of twenty instalments in goods, household furniture, [and] cooking utensils, per fourth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, eight thousand dollars.
For thirteenth of twenty instalments for agricultural implements, and cattle, carpenters’ and other tools, and building materials, per fourth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, three thousand dollars.
For thirteenth of twenty instalments for moral and educational purposes, three hundred dollars of which to be paid to the Grand Portage band yearly to enable them to maintain a school at their village, per fourth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, three thousand dollars.
For thirteenth of twenty instalments for six smiths and assistants, per second and fifth articles treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, five thousand and forty dollars.
For thirteenth of twenty instalments for the support of six smiths’ shops, per second and fifth articles treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
For eleventh of twenty instalments for the seventh smith and assistant, and support of shops, per second and fifth articles treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand and sixty dollars.
For support of a smith, assistant, and shop for the Bois Fort band, during the pleasure of the President, per twelfth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one thousand and sixty dollars.
For support of two farmers for the Bois Fort band, during the pleasure Post, p. 764.
For insurance, transportation, and necessary cost of delivery of annuities and provisions for Chippewas of Lake Superior, five thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-three cents.
Bois Fort band of Chippewas. Post, p. 765.
For second of twenty instalments, for the support of one school Bois Fort band of Chippewas. Post, p. 764.
For second of twenty instalments for the instruction of the Indians in farming, and purchase of seeds, tools, and so forth, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, eight hundred dollars.
For second of twenty instalments of annuity in money, to be paid per capita, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For second of twenty instalments of annuity in provisions, ammunition, and tobacco, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one thousand dollars.
For second of twenty instalments of annuity in goods and other articles, as per third article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For transportation and necessary cost of delivery of annuity goods and provisions to the Bois Fort band of Chippewa Indians, as per sixth article treaty of April seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Chippewas of the Mississippi. For first of ten instalments of the second Chippewas of the Mississippi. Vol. vii. p. 592. Vol. x. p. 1109. Vol. xiii. p. 694.
For first of ten instalments of the second series for the pay of two carpenters, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article treaty seventh May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, four hundred dollars.
For first of ten instalments of the second series, in goods, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article treaty seventh May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For first of ten instalments of the second series for the support of schools, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty seventh May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For first of ten instalments of second series, for the purchase of provisions and tobacco, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty seventh May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For first of ten instalments of the second series for the support of two smiths’ shops, including the pay of two smiths and assistants, and furnishing iron and steel, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty seventh May, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For first of ten instalments of the second series, for pay of two farmers, per fourth article treaty fourth October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and eighth article treaty thirtieth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-
Chippewas of the Mississippi.
For thirteenth of twenty instalments of annuity in money, per third article treaty twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, twenty thousand dollars.
For the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first of twenty-six instalments, to be paid the Chippewas of the Mississippi, as per third article treaty of August second, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, eleven Vol. ix. p. 904.
For insurance, transportation, and necessary cost of delivery of annuities and provisions for Chippewas of Mississippi, three thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-five cents.
Chippewas, Pillager, and Lake Winnebagoshish bands.
For thirteenth of thirty instalments of annuity in goods, per third Vol. x. p. 1165.
For thirteenth of thirty instalments for purposes of utility, per third article treaty twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand dollars.
For thirteenth of twenty instalments for purposes of education, per third article treaty twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.
For thirteenth of fifteen instalments for support of two smiths and smiths’ shops, per third article treaty twenty-second February, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For pay of an engineer to grist and saw mill at Leech Lake, six hundred dollars.
Chippewas of the Mississippi, Pillagers, and Lake Winnebagoshish bands of Chippewas in Minnesota. Vol. xiii. p. 694.
For the employment of two carpenters, one thousand eight hundred dollars, and two blacksmiths, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four farm laborers, two thousand four hundred dollars; one physician, one thousand two hundred dollars; and medicine for the sick, five hundred dollars, per fifth article treaty May seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
For this amount, to be applied towards the support of a saw-mill to be built for the common use of the Chippewas of Mississippi, and the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Chippewas, so long as the President may deem it necessary, per sixth article treaty May seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, one thousand dollars.
For pay of services and travelling expenses of a board of visitors, to consist of not more than five persons, to attend the annuity payments to the Indians, and to inspect the fields, buildings, mills, and other improvements, as stipulated in the seventh article treaty May seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, not exceeding any one year more than twenty days’ service, at five dollars per day, or more than three hundred miles’ travel, at ten cents per mile, six hundred and fifty dollars.
For pay of female teachers employed on the reservation to instruct Indian girls in domestic economy, one thousand dollars, as per thirteenth article treaty May seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Chippewas of Red Lake, and Pembina Tribe of Chippewas.—For Chippewas of Red Lake, and Pembina tribe of Chippewas. Vol. xiii. pp. 668, 689.
For this amount to the Pembina band of Chippewas, during the pleasure of the President, per same treaty, five thousand dollars.
For the fourth of fifteen instalments for the purpose of supplying the Red Lake band of Chippewas with gilling twine, cotton matter, calico, linsey, blankets, sheeting, flannels, provisions, farming tools, and for such other useful articles, and for such other useful purposes as maybe deemed for their best interests, per third article supplementary treaty of twelfth April, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, eight thousand dollars.
For the fourth of fifteen instalments for same objects for the Pembina band of Chippewas, per same treaty, four thousand dollars.
For fourth of fifteen instalments for pay of one blacksmith, one physician, who shall furnish medicine for the sick, one miller, and one farmer, per fourth article of same treaty, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
For fourth of fifteen instalments for the purchase of iron and steel and other articles for blacksmithing purposes, per same treaty as above, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For fourth of fifteen instalments, to be expended for carpentering and other purposes, per same treaty, one thousand dollars.
For fourth of fifteen instalments, to defray the expenses of a board of visitors, to consist of not more than three persons, to attend upon the annuity payments of the said Chippewa Indians, whose pay shall not exceed five dollars per day each, and for not more than twenty days, and ten cents per mile for travelling expenses, and not to exceed three hundred miles, per sixth article treaty October second, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, three hundred and ninety dollars.
For insurance and transportation of annuity goods and provisions, and iron and steel for blacksmiths, for the Chippewas of Red Lake and Pembina tribe, five thousand dollars.
Chickasaws.—For permanent annuity in goods, per act of twenty-fifth Chickasaws. 1799, ch. 11. Vol. i. p. 618.
For this amount, to pay the interest on certain non-paying stock, held in trust by the Secretary of the Treasury for the Chickasaw Indians, for Post, p. 773. Attorney-General to inquire into the condition of all funds held in trust for Indian tribes, &c. &c.
Choctaws.—For permanent annuity, per second article treaty sixteenth Choctaws. Vol. vii. p. 99. Vol. xi. p. 614
November, eighteen hundred and five, and thirteenth article treaty twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.
For permanent annuity for support of light-horsemen, per thirteenth article treaty eighteenth October, eighteen hundred and twenty, and thirteenth Vol. vii. p. 213.
For permanent annuity for education, per second article treaty twentieth Vol. vii. p. 235. Choctaws.
For permanent annuity for support of blacksmith, per sixth article treaty eighteenth October, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article treaty January twenty, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article treaty twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars.
For permanent annuity for iron and steel, per ninth article treaty twentieth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred and twenty dollars.
For interest on five hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum per annum, for education, support of the government, and other beneficial purposes, under the direction of the general council of the Choctaws, in conformity with the provisions contained in the tenth and thirteenth articles of the treaty of twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Middle Oregons. Vol. xii. p. 694.
For eighth of fifteen instalments for pay and subsistence of one farmer one blacksmith, and one wagon and plough maker, per fourth article treaty twenty-fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for pay and subsistence of one physician, one sawyer, one miller, one superintendent of farming operations, and one school-teacher, per fourth article treaty twenty-fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five thousand six hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for salary of the head chief of said confederated bands, per fourth article treaty twenty-fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
Creeks. Vol. vii. p. 36. Vol. xi. p. 700.
For permanent annuity in money, per second article treaty sixteenth Vol. vii. p. 69.
For permanent annuity in money, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth Vol. vii. p. 287.
For permanent annuity for blacksmith and assistant, and for shop and tools, per eighth article treaty twenty-fourth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eight hundred and forty dollars.
For permanent annuity for iron and steel for shop, per eighth article treaty twenty-fourth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and seventy dollars.
For permanent annuity for the pay of a wheelwright, per eighth article treaty twenty-fourth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, six hundred dollars.
For blacksmith and assistant and shop and tools, during the pleasure of of the President, per fifth article treaty fourteenth February, eighteen Vol. vii. p. 419.
For iron and steel for shop, during the pleasure of the President, per
Creeks.
For wagon-maker, during the pleasure of the President, per fifth article treaty fourteenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred fifty-six, six hundred dollars.
For assistance in agricultural operations, during the pleasure of the President, per eighth article treaty twenty-fourth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two thousand dollars.
For education, during the pleasure of the President, per fifth article treaty, fourteenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and fifth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one thousand dollars.
For five per centum interest on two hundred thousand dollars for purposes of education, per sixth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, ten thousand dollars.
For interest on seven hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty cents, under provisions of third article treaty June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and Post, p. 785.
For transportation of such articles as may be purchased for the Creek nation under treaty of June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, five thousand dollars.
Cherokees.—For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary Cherokees.
For provisions and clothing furnished the army under Ap-potho-le-ha-le Post, p. 801.
For pay of losses of property by missionaries, or missionary societies, on account of the troops and agents of the United States, treaty July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thirtieth article, twenty thousand dollars.
Crows.—For first of payments to be made during the pleasure of Congress, Crows.
For this amount for pay of sixteen half-breeds, in goods or money, at the discretion of the President—fifty dollars each—eight hundred dollars.
F or this amount to be paid Pierre Chien, in consideration of the friendship Pierre Chien.
Delawares.—For life annuity to chief, per private article to supplemental Delawares. Vol. vii. pp. 188, 327.
Delawares. Vol. x. p. 1048.
For this amount, to be placed to the credit of the Delawares in the purchase of their new reservation in the Indian country, by provisions of Post, p. 797.
D’Wamish and other allied tribes in Washington Territory. Vol. xii. p. 927.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the establishment and support of an agricultural and industrial school, and to provide said school with a suitable instructor or instructors, per fourteenth article treaty twenty-second January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the establishment and support of a smith and carpenter shop, and to furnish them with the necessary tools, per fourteenth article treaty twenty-second January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the employment of a blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and physician who shall furnish medicines for the sick, per fourteenth article treaty twenty-second January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand six hundred dollars.
Flatheads and other confederated tribes. Vol. xii. p. 976.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, keeping in repair the buildings, and providing suitable furniture, books, and stationery, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for providing suitable instructors therefor, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair blacksmiths’, tin and gun smiths’, carpenters’, and wagon and plough makers’ shops, and providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the employment of two farmers, two millers, one blacksmith, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter, and one wagon and plough maker, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, seven thousand four hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair saw and flouring mills, and for furnishing the necessary tools and fixtures therefor, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the hospital, and providing the necessary medicines and furniture therefor, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for pay of a physician, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the buildings required for the various employees, and furnishing necessary furniture
Flatheads and other confederated tribes.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the pay of each of the head chiefs of the Flathead, Kootenay, and Upper Pend d’Oreilles tribes, per fifth article treaty sixteenth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, fifteen hundred dollars.
For insurance and transportation of annuity goods and provisions, per fifth article of treaty of July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, eleven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars and forty-one cents.
Iowas.—For interest in lieu of investment on fifty-seven thousand five Iowas. Vol. x. p. 1071.
Kansas.—For interest in lieu of investment on two hundred thousand Kansas. Vol. ix. p. 812.
Kickapoos.—For fourteenth instalment of interest, at five per centum, on Kickapoos. Vol. x. p. 1078.
For fourteenth instalment on two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid in eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, per second article treaty eighteenth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, seven thousand dollars.
Klamath and Modoc Indians.—For second of five instalments, to be Klamath and Modoc Indians.
For first of twenty instalments for keeping in repair one saw-mill, one flouring-mill, buildings for the blacksmith, carpenter, and wagon and plough maker, the manual-labor school, and hospital, as per fourth article treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, one thousand dollars.
For second of twenty instalments for the purchase of tools and material for saw and flour mills, carpenter, blacksmith, wagon and plough maker’s shops, and books and stationery for the manual-labor school, as per fourth article treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For second of fifteen instalments for pay and subsistence of one superintendent of farming, one farmer, one blacksmith, one sawyer, one carpenter, and one wagon and plough maker, as per fifth article treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, six thousand dollars.
For second of twenty instalments to pay salary and subsistence of one physician, one miller, and two school teachers, as per fifth article treaty of October fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, three thousand six hundred dollars.
Makah Tribe.—For second of four instalments of thirty thousand dollars, Makah tribe. Vol. xii. p. 940.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, and for pay of teachers, per eleventh article treaty thirty-first January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for support of a smith and carpenter’s shop, and to provide the necessary tools therefor, per eleventh article treaty thirty-first January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
Makah tribe.
Menomonees. Vol. ix. p. 952. Vol. x. p. 1065.
For second of fifteen instalments of annuity upon two hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars, for cession of lands, per fourth article treaty May twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and Senate amendment thereto, sixteen thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and six cents.
For twelfth of fifteen instalments for pay of miller, per third article treaty twelfth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, six hundred dollars.
Miamies of Kansas. Vol. vii. p. 191. Vol. x. p. 1095.
For permanent provision for miller, in lieu of gunsmith, per fifth article treaty sixth October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, fifth article treaty twenty-third October, eighteen hundred and thirty four, and fourth article Vol. vii. p. 459.
For interest on fifty thousand dollars, at five per centum, for educational purposes, per third article treaty fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments upon two hundred thousand dollars, per third article treaty fifth June, eighteen hundred and fifty four, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Miamies of Indiana. Vol x. p. 1095.
Miamies—Eel River. Vol. vii. p. 51.
Vol. vii. p. 91.
For permanent annuity in goods or otherwise, per third and separate Vol. vii. p. 114.
Molels. Vol. xii. p. 981.
For eighth of ten instalments for the pay of a carpenter and joiner to aid in erecting buildings and making furniture for said Indians, and to furnish tools in said service, per second article treaty twenty-first December, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand dollars.
For pay of teachers to manual-labor school, for all necessary materials therefor, and for the subsistence of the pupils, per second article treaty twenty-first December, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.
Nisqually, Puyallup, and ether bands of Indians Vol. x. p. 1134.
For thirteenth of twenty instalments for pay of instructor, smith, physician, who shall furnish medicine to the sick, carpenter, and farmer, per tenth article treaty twenty-sixth December, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, six thousand seven hundred dollars.
Nez Perce Indians.—For third of five instalments of second series for Nez Perce Indians. Vol. xii. p. 958.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the support of two schools, one of which to be an agricultural and industrial school; keeping in repair school buildings, and for providing suitable furniture, books, and stationery, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the employment of one superintendent of teaching and two teachers, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand two hundred dollars,
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair blacksmiths’, tinsmiths’, gunsmiths’, carpenters’, and wagon and plough makers’ shops, and for providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the employment of one superintendent of farming, and two farmers, two millers, two blacksmiths, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter, and one wagon and plough maker, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair saw and flouring mill, and for furnishing the necessary tools and fixtures therefor, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the hospital, and providing the necessary medicines and furniture therefor, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for pay of a physician, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand four hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the buildings for the various employees, and for providing the necessary furniture therefor, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the salary of such person as the tribe may select to be their head chief, per fifth article treaty eleventh June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For second of four instalments to enable the Indians to remove and locate upon the reservation, to be expended in ploughing land and fencing lots, as per first clause fourth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred Post, p. 649.
For second of the sixteen instalments for boarding and clothing the children who shall attend the schools, providing the schools and boardinghouses with necessary furniture, the purchase of necessary wagons, teams, agricultural implements, tools, and so forth, and for fencing of such lands as may be needed for gardening and farming purposes for the schools, as per fourth clause fourth article treaty of June nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, three thousand dollars.
For salary of two subordinate chiefs, as per fifth article treaty of June nine, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, one thousand dollars.
Nez Perce Indians.
For first of fifteen instalments for repairs of houses, mills, shops, and so forth, and providing the necessary furniture, tools, and materials, as per article fifth treaty June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, two thousand dollars.
For salary of two matrons to take charge of the boarding-schools, two assistant teachers, one farmer, one carpenter, and two millers, as per fifth article treaty of June ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, seven thousand six hundred dollars.
Omahas. Vol. x. p. 1044.
For second of ten instalments for keeping in repair a grist and saw Post. p. 668.
For second of ten instalments, for pay of one engineer and assistant, as per eighth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For second of ten instalments, for pay of one miller and assistant, as per eighth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For second of ten instalments, for pay of farmer, as per eighth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, nine hundred dollars.
For second of ten instalments, for pay of blacksmith and assistants, as per eighth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For second of ten instalments, for support of blacksmith shop and supplying tools for the same, as per eighth article of treaty of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and third article of treaty of March sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, three hundred dollars.
Osages. Vol. vii. p. 242.
For interest on three hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum per Post, p. 686.
For transportation of goods, provisions, and so forth, purchased for the Great and Little. Osage Indians, or so much thereof as [may] be necessary, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Ottawas and Chippewas of Michigan. Vol. xi. p. 623.
Ottoes and Missourias. Vol. x. p. 1039.
Pawnees.—For annuity perpetual, at least one half of which to be Pawnees. Vol. xi. p. 729.
For support of two manual-labor schools, annually, during the pleasure of the President, per third article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, ten thousand dollars.
For pay of two teachers, under the direction of the President, per third article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shop, during the pleasure of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars.
For pay of two blacksmiths, one of whom to be a gunsmith and tin-smith, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation of two strikers or apprentices in shop, per fourth article of treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, four hundred and eighty dollars.
For last of ten instalments for farming utensils and stock, during the pleasure of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For pay of farmer, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, six hundred dollars.
For ninth of ten instalments for pay of miller, at the discretion of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, six hundred dollars.
For ninth of ten instalments for pay of an engineer, at the discretion of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For compensation to apprentices, to assist in working the mill, per fourth article treaty twenty-fourth September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars.
For keeping in repair the grist and saw mill, three hundred dollars.
Poncas.—For the fourth of ten instalments of the second series, “to Poncas. Vol xii. p. 997
For ninth of ten instalments for the establishment and maintenance of one or more manual-labor schools, under the direction of the President, per second article treaty twelfth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, five thousand dollars.
For ninth of ten instalments, or during the pleasure of the President, to be expended in furnishing said Indians with such aid and assistance in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, including the working of the mill provided for in the first part of this article, as the Secretary of the Interior may consider advantageous and necessary for them, per second article treaty twelfth March, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Pottawatomies.—For permanent annuity in silver, per fourth article Pottawatomies. Vol. vii. p. 51.
For permanent annuity in silver, per third article treaty thirtieth September, Vol. vii. p. 114.
For permanent annuity in silver, per third article treaty second October, Vol. vii. p. 185.
For permanent annuity in money, per second article treaty twentieth Vol. vii. p. 317.
For permanent annuity in specie, per second article treaty twenty-ninth Vol. vii. p. 320.
Vol. vii. p. 379.
Vol. vii. p. 432.
Vol. vii. p. 296. Vol. vii. p. 317.
For permanent provision for the payment of money in lieu of tobacco, Vol. vii. p. 379. Vol. ix. p. 855.
For permanent provision for three blacksmiths and assistants, and for iron and steel for shops, per third article treaty sixteenth October, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, second article treaty twentieth September, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and second article treaty twenty-ninth July, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
For permanent provision for fifty barrels of salt, per second article of treaty twenty-ninth July, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For interest on six hundred and forty-three thousand dollars, at five per centum, per seventh article of the treaty of the fifth and seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, thirty-two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Pottawatomies of Huron. Vol. vii. p. 105.
Quapaws. Vol. vii. p. 425.
For blacksmith and assistant, and tools, and iron and steel for shop, during the pleasure of the President, per third article treaty thirteenth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, one thousand and sixty dollars.
For farmer, during the pleasure of the President, per third article treaty thirteenth May, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, six hundred dollars.
Qui-nai-elts and Quil-lehutes. Vol. xii. p. 972.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, and for pay of suitable instructors, per tenth article [treaty] first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for support of smith and carpenter shop, and to provide the necessary tools therefor, per tenth article treaty first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the employment of a blacksmith, carpenter, and farmer, and a physician who shall furnish medicines for the sick, per tenth article treaty first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand six hundred dollars.
Rogue Rivers. Vol. x. p. 1018.
Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi. Vol. vii. p. 85
For interest on two hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum, per second article treaty twenty-first October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, Vol. vii. p. 540.
For interest on eight hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum, per second article treaty eleventh October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, Vol. vii. p. 596. Those in Tamar county, Iowa.
Sacs and Foxes of Missouri.—For interest on one hundred and fifty-seven Sacs and Foxes of Missouri. Vol. vii. p. 540.
Seminoles.—For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty Seminoles. Vol. xi. p. 702.
For interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, at five per centum, to be paid as annuity, (they having joined their brethren west,) per eighth article treaty seventh August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For interest on fifty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum, Post, p. 756.
For interest on twenty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, “to be paid annually,” for the support of the Seminole government, as per third article treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, one thousand dollars.
Senecas.—For permanent annuity in specie, per fourth article treaty Senecas. Vol. vii. p. 161.
For permanent annuity in specie per fourth article treaty seventeenth September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, five hundred dollars.
For blacksmith and assistant, shop and tools, and iron and steel, during the pleasure of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, one thousand and sixty dollars.
For miller, during the pleasure of the President, per fourth article treaty twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six hundred dollars.
Senecas of New Tork.—For permanent annuity, in lieu of interest on Senecas of New York. 1831, ch. 26.
For interest, in lieu of investment, on seventy-five thousand dollars, at Vol. iv. p. 442. 1846, ch. 34.
For interest, at five per centum, on forty-three thousand and fifty dollars, transferred from Ontario Bank to the United States treasury, per Vol. ix. p. 35.
Senecas and Shawnees.—For permanent annuity in specie, per fourth Senecas and Shawnees. Vol. vii. p. 179.
For blacksmith and assistant, shop and fools, and iron and steel for Vol. vii. p. 352.
Shawnees. Vol. vii. p. 51. Vol. x. p. 1066.
For fourteenth instalment of interest, at five per centum, on forty thousand dollars for education, per third article treaty tenth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand dollars.
For permanent annuity, in specie, for educational purposes, per fourth Vol. vii. p. 161.
Shoshones; Western bands;
Eastern bands;
Northwestern bands; Vol. xiii. p. 663.
Goship bands.
Sioux of Dakotah. Blackfeet band. Post, p. 727.
Lower Brule band. Post, p. 699.
Minneconjon band. Post, p. 695.
Onk-pah-pah. Post, p. 738.
Ogallala band. Post, p. 747.
For this amount, for the Brule and Ogallala bands of Sioux, to be placed at the disposal of the President, to be expended by him or under his direction, in such manner as will best tend to sustain peaceable relations with said Indians, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Sans Arcs Band.—For second of twenty instalments, being thirty Sans Arcs band. Post, p. 731.
Two Kettles Band.—-For second of twenty instalments, to be paid in Two Kettles band. Post, p. 723.
Upper Yanktonais Band.—For second of twenty instalments, to be Upper Yanktonais band. Post, p. 743.
Yanktonais Band.—For second of twenty instalments, being thirty Yanktonais band. Post, p. 734.
Sioux of Dakotah.—For expense of transporting and delivering articles Sioux of Dakota. Post, pp. 694–748. See p. 522.
Lower Brides.—For first of five instalments, being twenty-five dollars Lower Brules. Post, p. 699.
For pay of farmer, per sixth article treaty of October fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, nine hundred dollars.
For the erection of a blacksmith shop, per sixth article treaty of October fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, five hundred dollars.
For the support of one blacksmith, and for tools, iron, and steel, and other articles necessary for the blacksmith shop, per sixth article treaty of October fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Two Kettles.—For first of five instalments, being twenty-five dollars Two Kettles. Post, p. 723.
Yanktonais.—For first of five instalments, being twenty-five dollars Yanktonais. Post, p. 735.
Sans Arcs.—For first of five instalments, being twenty-five dollars for Sans Arcs. Post, p. 731.
Six Nations of New York. Vol. vii. p. 46.
S’Klallams. Vol. xii. p. 934.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the support of an agricultural and industrial school, and for pay for suitable teachers, per eleventh article treaty twenty-sixth January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the employment of a blacksmith, carpenter, farmer, and a physician who shall furnish medicines for the sick, per eleventh article treaty twenty-sixth January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, four thousand six hundred dollars.
Tabeguache band of Utahs. Vol. xiii. p. 675.
For the fourth of five instalments, per tenth article of same treaty and Senate amendment thereto, to be applied for the purposes of agriculture, and for the purchase of farming utensils and stock animals, ten thousand dollars.
For the fourth of ten instalments, per eighth article of said treaty, for the purchase of provisions, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase of iron, steel, and necessary tools for blacksmith’s shop, as per tenth article of said treaty, two hundred and twenty dollars.
For pay of blacksmith and assistant, as per same article, one thousand one hundred dollars.
For insurance, transportation, and general incidental expenses of the delivery of goods, provisions and stock, five thousand dollars.
Umpquas (Cow Creek band). Vol. x. p. 1027.
Umpquas and Calapooias, of Umpqua Valley, Oregon. Vol. x. p. 1126.
For thirteenth of fifteen instalments for the pay of a physician and purchase of medicines, per sixth article treaty twenty-ninth November, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, two thousand dollars.
For thirteenth of twenty instalments for the pay of a teacher and purchase of books and stationery, per sixth article treaty twenty-ninth November, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
Walla-Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes. Vol. xii. p. 947.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the purchase of all necessary mill fixtures and mechanical tools, medicines and hospital stores, books, and
Walla-Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the pay and subsistence of one superintendent of farming operations, one farmer, two millers, one blacksmith, one wagon and plough maker, one carpenter and joiner, one physician, and two teachers, per fourth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, eleven thousand two hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the pay of each of the head chiefs of the Walla-Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla bands, the sum of five hundred dollars per annum, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for salary for the son of Pio-pio-moxmox, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, one hundred dollars.
Winnebagoes.—For interest on one million dollars, at five per centum, Winnebagoes. Vol. vii. p. 545.
For twenty-first of thirty instalments of interest on eighty-five thousand Vol. ix. p. 878.
Wall Pah-Pe Tribe of Snake Indians.—For breaking and fencing a Wall Pah-Pe tribe of Snake Indians. Post, p. 683.
For first of five instalments, to be expended under the direction of the President, as per seventh article treaty of August twelfth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, two thousand dollars.
Yakama Nation.—For third of five instalments of second series for Yakama Nation. Vol. xii. p. 953.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the support of two schools, one of which is to be an agricultural and industrial school; keeping in repair school buildings, and for providing suitable furniture, books, and stationery, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the employment of one superintendent of teaching and two teachers, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand two hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the employment of one superintendent of farming and two farmers, two millers, two blacksmiths, one tinner, one gunsmith, one carpenter, and one wagon and plough maker, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, nine thousand four hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair saw and flouring mills, and for furnishing the necessary tools and fixtures, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the hospital, and providing the necessary medicines and fixtures therefor, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair blacksmith’s, tinsmith’s, gunsmith’s, carpenter’s, and wagon and plough maker’s shops, and for providing necessary tools therefor, per fifth article treaty June ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the pay of a physician, per fifth
Yakama Nation.
For eighth of twenty instalments for keeping in repair the buildings required for the various employees, and for providing the necessary furniture therefor, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred dollars.
For eighth of twenty instalments for the salary of such person as the said confederated tribes and band of Indians may select to be their head chief, per fifth article treaty ninth June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, five hundred dollars.
Yancton Sioux. Vol. xi. p. 744.
General incidental expenses of Indian service in Arizona;
California;
Colorado Territory;
Dakota Territory;
Idaho Territory;
Montana Territory;
Nevada Territory;
New Mexico Territory;
Oregon and Washington Territory.
Utah Territory.—For the general incidental expenses of the Indian Incidental expenses in Utah Territory.
For the transportation and necessary expenses of delivery of provisions to the Indians within the Utah superintendency, twenty thousand dollars.
For this amount, to carry out the action contemplated by the act of Congress, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to vacate and sell the present Indian reservations in Utah Territory, 1864, ch. 77. Vol. xiii. p. 63.
For this amount, to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “incidental 1865, ch. 127. Vol. xiii. p. 558
Miscellaneous.—For the expenses of colonizing, supporting, and furnishing Miscellaneous. Colonizing, &c. Texas Indians on the Choctaw leasehold.
For the reappropriation of the sum carried to the surplus fund for Allotting reserved tracts to proper persons. Vol. vii. p. 330.
For this amount, being the balance due on the award of the Secretary Expenses of Southern Cherokees in negotiating recent treaty.
For the Wichitas and other affiliated Bands.—For the expenses of Wichitas and other affiliated bands.
California.—For pay of one physician, one blacksmith, one assistant California. Physicians, farmers, &c. on reservations.
For the purchase of cattle for beef and milk, together with clothing and Cattle.
For additional pay of four physicians, four blacksmiths and assistants, four carpenters, and four farmers, on the four reservations in California, for the fiscal year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For this amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to purchase Saw, &c. mill for Round Valley reservation.
For defraying the expenses of the removal and subsistence of Indians Removal and subsistence of Indians in Oregon and. Washington.
Navajo Indians in New Mexico.
For the relief of the Navajo Indians now at or near Fort Sumner, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, one Rations, &c. not to be furnished after, &c. unless, &c.
Pottawatomies and Winnebagoes in Wisconsin.
For salary of a special agent to take charge of Winnebago and Pottawatomie Indians now in the State of Wisconsin, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Expenses of Sisseton, Wahpaton, Medawakanton, and Wahpakoota bands of Sioux or Dakota Indians. Interest on non-paying stock held in trust for Indian tribes; on abstracted bonds, Cherokee school and national funds.
For payment of interest on one million six hundred and ninety thousand three hundred dollars, non-paying stock, held by the Secretary of the Interior in trust for various Indian tribes, up to and including the interest payable July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, one hundred thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars.
For payment of interest on fifteen thousand dollars, abstracted bonds, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, for the Cherokee school fund, nine hundred dollars.
For payment of interest on sixty-eight thousand dollars, abstracted bonds, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, of the Cherokee national fund, four thousand and eighty dollars.
Delivery of annuities to Indians in Minnesota and Michigan; Pawnees, Poncas, and Yancton Sioux; Sioux of Dacota Indians.
For insurance, transportation, and necessary expenses of the delivery to the Pawnee, Ponca, and Yancton Sioux Indians of annuity goods and provisions, ten thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for transporting goods purchased for the Sioux of Dakota Indians, under treaty made at Fort Sully in October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the fiscal year ending Ante, p. 509.
Flatheads. Vol. xii. p. 976.
Qui-nai-elts and Qui-lehutes. Vol. xii. p. 972.
Vaccination.
Locating Colorado River In- dians in Arizona, and canal for irrigation. 1865, ch. 127. Vol. xiii. p. 559. Rescue of prisoners from Indians, and arrest of persons charged with crimes against Indians.
For actual necessary expenses incurred, and that may hereafter be incurred by officers of the Indian department in the rescue of prisoners from Indian tribes and returning them to their homes, and for expenses incident to the arrest and confinement within the territory of the United States, by order of such officers, of persons charged with crimes against the Indians, five thousand dollars.
No money or annuity to be paid to any Indian tribe engaged in hostilities against the United States, &c. since, &c.;
nor until new appropriations are made.
Commissioner to report to Congress any case of hostilities by any tribe.
Officer in charge of Indian bureau to report to Congress tabular statement of separate objects of expenditure, &c.
Appointment of Sub-Indian agents whose salaries are over $ 1000 a year
Appropriations for Miamies of Indiana, to whom to be paid.
Vol. x. p. 1095.
Admiral to be the ranking officer of navy.
1864, ch. 6. Vol. xiii. p. 420.
1866, ch. 281.
Ante, p. 222.
Rank, pay, and allowances of secretary of admiral.
Cadet engineers; restrictions as to age and certain qualifications when appointed removed.
1864, ch. 252, §§ 3, 4. Vol. xiii. p. 393.
Officers of volunteer naval service transferred to regular navy or marine corps to be credited with their sea service.
Marine officers.
Storekeeper at Naval Academy, how to be detailed ;
may procure clothing, &c. for midshipmen.
Summary courts-martial on petty officers and persons of inferior ratings.
1855, ch. 136. Vol. x. p. 627.
Sentence.
Disabled persons, who have served as enlisted persons in the navy or marine corps for twenty years, to receive from naval pension fund half of their rating when discharged.
1862, ch. 204, § 11.
Vol. xii. p. 607.
How and by whom to be paid.
Such persons so serving for not less than ten years, &c. may apply for aid from surplus income of naval pension fund.
Board to examine applicants.
Limit of allowance.
Rank and pay of commandant of marine corps.
Number of midshipmen in Naval Academy.
Reduction riot to affect present appointments or vacancies.
Repeal of part of acts 1862, ch. 164, and ch. 183, § 11, vol. xii. pp. 565, 585.
Promotion of officers on retired and reserved lists.
Pay.
Proviso.
Brevet rank may be conferred on officers in the army for gallant conduct, &c. in the volunteer service.
District courts of the United States made courts of bankruptcy.
Jurisdiction.
Courts always open.
Authority of judge in term time or vacation.
Jurisdiction in matters of bankruptcy.
Courts may sit in any place in the district.
Circuit courts to have general superintendence and jurisdiction;
may act as in equity.
Concurrent jurisdiction with district courts.
Suits to be brought within two years, &c.
Eights barred not revived hereby.
Administration of the law.
One or more registers in each Congressional district.
Who eligible.
Bond.
Oath.
1862, ch. 128. Vol. xii. p. 502.
Registers; their powers and duties.
Docket.
District clerk.
Registers may interchange duties.
What registers may not do.
Registers to state issues of fact for the court;
not to be of counsel in any suit;
nor assignee, &c.
Fees of registers.
District judge may direct register to attend at any place in district to hear voluntary applications, &c.
Travelling and incidental expenses, and how to be paid.
Depositions and other acts to be reduced to writing.
Removal of registers, filling vacancies.
During proceedings under this act, any party may take the opinion of district judge upon any matter arising therein.
Proceedings in such cases.
Judgment of court to be final, unless, &c.
Agreement in special cases.
Parties and witnesses summoned before register to attend, &c.
Contempt.
Penalty for perjury.
Persons refusing, &c. to obey order of register to be referred to judge.
Appeals and writs of error.
Appeals from district to circuit court;
when to be entered ;
may be waived.
Writ of error.
No appeal or
writ of error to the Supremo Court, unless, &c.
General orders to regulate the practice and procedure in bankruptcy;
For regulating the practice and procedure of the district courts in bankruptcy, and the several forms of petitions, orders, and other proceedings to be used in said courts in all matters under this act;
For regulating the duties of the various officers of said courts ; duties of officers of courts;
For regulating the fees payable and the charges and costs to be allowed, fees, costs, and charges.
For regulating the practice and procedure upon appeals; appeals;
For regulating the filing, custody, and inspection of records ; records;
And generally for carrying the provisions of this act into effect. generally;
After such general orders shall have been so of framed, or any of may be rescinded, or varied, or new ones made; to be reported to Congress.
Voluntary bankruptcy, commencement of proceedings.
Who may apply for the benefit of this act.
Petition.
Schedule of debts and creditors to contain what.
Inventory of estate.
Filing of the petition to be an act of bankruptcy.
Oath on filing petition.
Warrant, when to issue.
Marshal to act as messenger.
Notice.
Notice, how sent ;
to state that warrant has issued ;
payment of debts and transfer of property forbidden;
Register to preside at meetings.
Return of warrant.
Proceedings if notice is insufficient, or debtor dies.
Assignees, choice, &c. of;
to signify acceptance ;
subject to approval ;
new election;
to give bond, when, &c.;
failing to give bond, to be removed.
Assignment;
What exempt from the assignment.
What exempt from assignment.
Exemption, how to operate.
Certain mortgages of personal property not to be invalidated.
What to be vested in the assignee by the adjudication of bankruptcy, &c.
Powers of assignee.
Evidence of his title.
Property in trust not to pass.
Suits against assignees not to be maintained without previous notice.
Books of account.
Suits not to be abated by death, &c.
Performance of conditional contracts.
Debtor to make conveyances.
Notice of appointment of assignee.
Assignment to be recorded.
Record to be evidence.
Assignee to make demand, &c;
to sell, &c.
Court may make order.
Assignee to keep accounts.
Assignee to have same power as debtor to recover, &c.;
may prosecute pending suits.
Provisions as to suits pending.
Assignee to deposit moneys received, and how;
to keep effects of the estate separate.
Temporary investment by direction of court.
Assignee to give notice of meetings and dividends.
Assignee may retain what;
may submit to arbitration, &c.;
may settle controversies.
Assignee may be removed by court;
or by creditors;
may resign.
Vacancies, how filled.
Assignee not released by resignation, &c. from closing up his trust, &c.
If number of assignees is reduced, estate to vest in remaining ones.
Conveyances, &c. to new assignees.
Court may make orders.
Who cannot vote for, or be chosen, assignee.
Assignee may be punished for contempt for refusing to obey a lawful order of court.
Debts and proof of claims.
Debts provable.
Liabilities as drawer, indorser, &c.
Contingent debts and liabilities.
Bail, sureties, guarantor, &c.
Rent, &c.
Unliquidated damages in contracts or torts.
No other debts provable.
Mutual debts and credits.
Set off.
Proviso.
Persons having a lien or security, to prove only balance.
Where value of security exceeds the debt.
Creditors proving debts to be held to have waived all rights of action, &c.
Creditors, whose debts are provable, not to prosecute suits
to judgment until, &c.
Suits to be stayed, &c.
Liability of bankrupt on distinct contracts, &c.
Proofs of debts of resident creditors ;
of non-residents.
Claims, how to be verified.
Deposition in writing, on oath.
No claim allowed, unless, &c.
Oath to be made by and before whom.
Other evidence.
Claims of corporations, how verified.
Claim to be sent to assignee if proof satisfies the register.
His duty as to such claim.
Examination of bankrupt.
Summoning of persons.
Proceedings when before election of assignee, judge doubts validity of claim.
Persons accepting preferences not to prove debt or receive dividend until, &c.
List of debts proved.
Creditors may act by attorney.
Proceedings on appeals from decree of district court disallowing claims.
Final judgment of circuit court conclusive.
Costs of appeal.
Evidences of debt left in court may be delivered, and how.
Proceedings in regard to perishable property;
where the title is in dispute.
Proceeds of sales.
Proviso.
Examination.
Bankrupt may be examined upon oath.
Examination, how conducted.
Witnesses compelled to attend.
Proceedings if bankrupt is imprisoned, or under disability.
Bankrupt to be subject to order of court;
to do all acts, &c.
If bankrupt is without the district, &c. and offers to attend.
Bankrupt may correct schedule of creditors.
Wife of bankrupt may be required to attend &c.
If she does not attend.
Bankrupt not liable to arrest, &c.
Distribution of bankrupt’s estate.
No priority except certain wages.
Persons liable as bail, &c. not to receive share until, &c.
After three months, assignee to make report, and exhibit accounts, &c. to creditors.
Creditors to decide as to division of proceeds of estate.
Assignee to decide when, &c.
Proceedings if dividend is ordered.
Like proceedings after next three months or earlier.
Third meeting of creditors.
Final dividends.
Assignee to submit his account and notify creditors.
Accounts of assignee.
Dividend.
Allowance to assignee for services.
Commissions.
If assignee has not sufficient funds to defray expenses, he shall not be obliged to proceed.
Proceedings when meetings of creditors are not called in due time.
In dividends claims to have priority.
Fees, costs, &c.;
debts due the United States.
due the State;
wages;
debts due persons entitled to priority.
Taxes not affected.
Discharge of bankrupt, and its effect.
What will prevent or avoid a discharge.
Persons once discharged under this act, not to be again discharged, unless, &c.
Creditors opposing discharge.
Certificate of discharge.
(Seal)
Judge.
Certain debts not discharged by the act.
In proceedings commenced after, &c. discharge not to be granted to debtor whose assets do not pay fifty per cent.
Discharge to release the bankrupt from all demands provable against the bankrupt.
Validity of discharge may be contested.
Proceedings in such case.
Notice to bankrupt.
Finding of the court.
Preferences and fraudulent conveyances declared void.
Bankruptcy of partnerships and corporations.
Joint and separate estate to be taken.
Assignee to keep accounts of estate separate.
Estate how distributed.
Discharge.
Jurisdiction where partners reside in different districts.
This act to apply to what corporations and joint stock companies.
Proceedings.
Fraudulent conveyances and preferences.
No allowance or discharge.
Distribution of estate.
Dates and depositions.
Filing of petition to be deemed the commencement of proceedings.
Records.
Dockets open to inspection.
Copies.
Evidence, how may be taken.
Witnesses.
Books.
Involuntary bankruptcy.
What to be deemed acts of bankruptcy.
Proceedings.
Petition, &c.
Debtor to be notified to appear and show cause.
Debtor may in the meantime be enjoined;
may be detained by marshal.
Service upon debtor of petition and order to show cause.
Further proceedings.
Allegations of petition to be summarily heard.
Proceedings to be dismissed if debtor proves, &c.
Debtor to be declared a bankrupt, if, &c.
Warrant to issue.
Order to require what.
Proceedings if debtor has failed to appear.
If petitioning creditor does not appear.
Proceedings in bankruptcy may be superseded by arrangement
Creditors to determine, &c.
Trustees.
Court to approve.
Consent of creditors to be filed.
Conveyance to trustees.
Effect of these proceedings.
Rights and powers of trustees.
If resolution is not approved, &c.
Penalty against bankrupts for secreting or concealing property;
for destroying and mutilating books, &c.
Penalty against judges and officers for offences under this act.
Penalty for forgery, &c.
Fees and costs;
For issuing every warrant, two dollars.
For each day in which a meeting is held, three dollars.
For each order for a dividend, three dollars.
For every order substituting an arrangement by trust deed for bankruptcy, two dollars.
For every bond with sureties, two dollars.
For every application for any meeting in any matter under this act, one dollar.
For every day’s service while actually employed under a special order of the court, a sum not exceeding five dollars, to be allowed by the court.
For taking depositions, the fees now allowed by law.
For every discharge when there is no opposition, two dollars.
to have priority of payment.
Before dividend is ordered, assignee to pay to messenger certain fees.
For custody of property, publication of notices, and other services, his actual and necessary expenses upon returning the same in specific items, and making oath that they have been actually incurred and paid by him, and are just and reasonable, the same to be taxed or adjusted by the court, and the oath of the messenger shall not be conclusive as to the necessity of said expenses.
For cause shown, and upon hearing thereon, such further allowance may be made as the court, in its discretion, may determine.
Court may prescribe tariff of fees.
Meaning of terms and computation of time.
Jurisdiction of United States courts in the District of Columbia and Territories.
In districts not in organized circuits, judge to exercise power of circuit court.
When act to take effect.
Proviso.
Town authorities, &c. may enter public lands occupied as town sites, at minimum price, in trust, &c.
Trust, how executed.
Entry, &c. when to be made;
to include what;
upon surveyed lands.
1820, ch. 51.
Vol. iii. p. 566.
Amount of land that may be entered.
Proviso.
Where there is no land office, statements to be filed where.
Certain acts of trustees to be void.
Regulations.
This act not to apply to certain reservations ;
nor to mines of gold, &c.
Albany, New York, made a port of delivery.
Surveyor.
1831, ch. 87. Vol. iv. p. 480.
Bond, fees, and salary
Privileges and restrictions applicable.
Privileges of former acts, &c. extended to this port.
1846, ch. 84.
Vol. ix. p. 53.
1854, ch. 30.
Vol. x. p. 270.
Surveyor-general for Montana.
Salary and duties.
Clerk hire, office rent, and fuel.
Montana and Arizona land districts established.
Registers and receivers;
their duties and compensation.
Location of offices.
Arizona attached to surveying district of California.
State laws for discharge from imprisonment, &c. for debt, to apply to process from courts of the United States.
Oath, notice, &c.
Proceedings to be had before commissioners.
The iron-clad Onondaga may be transferred to George Quintard.
Monthly mail steamship service between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Proposals to be advertised for.
Contract with lowest bidder.
Certain bids not to be considered.
Steamships to be inspected before they are accepted for the service.
Contract under this act, when to go into effect.
Stipulations thereof.
1867, ch. 48.
Ante, p. 397.
Right to use and occupy the Union engine-house, repealed.
Provisions of act, 1860, ch.188.
Vol. xii. p. 85, extended for three years.
See Ante, p. 885.
Appeals or writs of error brought from districts in which the sessions of the courts have been interrupted, &c. to be valid, &c;
may be brought within one year.
Act not to apply to certain cases.
Appeals from district court to circuit court may, if parties agree, be disposed of at circuit court held by district judge, &c.
Preamble.
Commissioner of bureau of refugees, &c. constituted the custodian of retained bounty fund, and appointed trustee;
may invest the fund, and for what purpose
Provisos.
Peonage declared unlawful, and abolished.
Acts establishing it, &c. void.
Penalty for holding, &c. a person in peonage.
Foregoing section to be enforced.
Penalty for obstructing its enforcement.
From proceeds of fines, penalties, &c. under customs laws, deductions to be made of charges, &c.;
of an amount equal to the duties in coin.
Residue, how distributed;
one half to United States;
one fourth to informer;
one fourth to collector, naval officer, and surveyor, equally.
Where officer of revenue cut-
ter is informer, residue how divided.
Judge of district court may issue warrant to seize invoices, books, &c. and produce them before the court, if, &c.
Such invoices, books, &c. to be subject to order of judge, and may be retained.
Examination allowed.
Warrant not to issue, unless, &c.;
to be returned.
Liens for freight on imported merchandise.
Merchandise not to be delivered from warehouse until, &c.
Freight to be paid in case of sale after forfeiture.
Repeal of act, 1863, ch. 76, § 7.
Vol. xii. p. 740,
and of act, 1866, ch. 201, § 17.
Ante, p. 182.
Right of way through public lands granted to the Stockton and Copperopolis R. R. Co.
Route.
Material from adjacent lands.
Extent of grant.
Ground for stations, &c.
Condition of grant.
Grant of public land to California to aid in construction of said road.
Alternate sections.
Lands in lien of those reserved, &c.;
those containing gold, silver, or copper, excepted from act.
“Mineral” not to include iron or coal.
Patents to issue for lands as sections of ten consecutive miles of road are ready for service.
Commissioners.
Commissioners to be paid by the company.
Railroad, how to be constructed;
gauge.
Lands on both sides of road to be surveyed.
Odd sections not liable to entry, &c. except, &c.
1841, ch. 16.
Vol. v. p. 453.
1862, ch. 75.
Vol. xii. p. 393
Conditions of grant.
Time of commencing and completing road.
Unpatented lands to revert,
If conditions of grant remain broken one year, Congress may complete the road.
Railroad made a post-route and military road.
Transportation for the United States to be free.
Conditions of grant to be accepted, how and when.
This act to be void unless, &c.
Subscription to and payment of stock.
Act may be repealed, &c.
Town and village lots exempted.
Joint Stock Company of the Young Men's Christian Association incorporated.
Objects.
Capital stock.
Powers of corporation.
Limit to value of property.
Seal.
Directors.
By-laws.
Directors to receive rents, &c. and pay interest on stock.
Surplus of rents, &c. above interest, how to be applied.
When whole stock is purchased and absorbed, real, &c. estate to be transferred to Young Men's Christian Association.
Corporation to be dissolved.
Income, how then to be applied.
Property and income exempt from taxation.
Act may be repealed.
Post-routes established in Arizona;
California;
From Benton, via Bridgeport and Antelope Valley, to Mammoth Ledge, in Nevada.
From Drytown to Fiddletown.
From Havilah, via Rio Bravo Ranche, to Bakerlield.
Colorado;
From Badito to Spanish Peaks.
From Pueblo to Homosilla.
From Pueblo, via Rock Carson Ridge and Frazier Settlements, to Carson City.
From Boulder to Jamestown.
From Erupea City, via Argentine and Pera, Munchy district, to Breckenridge.
Illinois.
From Oneida to Woodhull.
From Albion to Buxton.
From Frederick, via Browning, Sheldon's Grove, Bluff City, Marbletown, and Bend town, to Lewistown.
From Marietta to Cuba.
From Rock Island to Centre Ridge.
From Traverse City, via Munroe and Wexford, to Sherman's, in Michigan.
From Shelbyville, via Todd's Point, to Wanoborne.
From Decatur to Newburg.
From Marrisa to Erie.
From Seneca, via Scott, to Sunbury.
From Danville, via Rossville and Blue Grass, to Paxton.
From Oakland, via Greasy Point and Rural Retreat, to Arcola.
Post-routes established in Illinois;
From Bloomington to Paxton.
From Casey, via Greenup, to Effingham.
From Hutton to Union Centre.
From Westfield to Casey.
From Rock Island, via Coaltown, Zuma, and Carver Creek, to Sterling
Indiana;
From Memphis to Jasper.
From Jasper to Lynnville.
From Glen Hall, via West Point, Shawnee Mound, and Sugar Grove, to Farmers' Institute.
From Glen Hall to Farmers' Institute.
From Perrysville to Danville.
From Rockville, via Bruin's Cross Roads, Weaveland, and Brown's Valley, to Crawfordsville.
From Seymour to Nashville, via Waymansville and Pike's Peak.
From Shelbyville to Winterrowd.
Iowa;
From Homer City to Grant.
From Webster City to Grant.
From Lakin's Grove to Hawley.
From Central City to Monticello.
From Iowa Falls to Algona.
From Homer to Webster City.
From Sioux Rapids, via Douglas and Lincoln, to Spencer.
From Chariton, via Freedom, Bixler's Grove, and Lancaster's Mills, to Corydon.
Kansas;
From Osage Mission, via Sherman City and Hamlin, to Petersville.
From Marmaton, via Cato, Owego, Logansport, Lafayette, and Wheaton, to Cherokee City.
From Fort Scott, via Allington, Reno, Worcester, Pleasant View, and Clarksville, to Petersville.
From Troy, via Doniphan and Atchison, to Leavenworth.
Kentucky;
From Brownville to Rocky Hill.
From Falmouth to Milford.
Maryland;
From Middleville, via Leighton, to Wayland.
From Leonardtown to Hollywood.
Michigan;
From Galesburg, via Pavillion and Brady, to Menden.
From Climax Prairie, via Leonidas and Colon, to Burr Oak.
From Pierson to Wright's.
From Traverse City, via Monroe Centre and Wexford, to Sherman's.
From Big Rapids, via Paris, to Manistee.
Minnesota.
From Sunrise City to Fish Lake.
From Forest City, via Mananah, Ewing, and Nichols to New London.
From Winnebago City to Jackson.
From Richmond to Chippewa Station. Post-routes established in Minnesota;
From Redwood Falls to Yellow Medicine.
From St. Charles, via Worth and Arago, to Rushford.
From Paynesville, via Georgesville, Lake Johanna, Iola, and Glenwood, to Alexandria.
From Richmond, via Glenwood, Reno City, Holmes City, and Pomme-de-Terre, to Fort Abercrombie, in Dakota.
From Clearfield to Marion.
From Jackson, Minnesota, and Spirit Lake, in Iowa, to Sioux City, Iowa.
From Fairmount, Fox Lake, Wooster, and Graham Lake, in Minnesota, to Yancton, in Dakato [Dakota] Territory.
From Fort Ridgeley, via Birch Cooley, Beaver Creek, Sacred Harp Creek, Hawk Creek, and Palmer's Creek, to Chippewa City.
From Rushford, via Brossburg, Highland, Lenora, in Minnesota, and Burr Oak, to Decorah, in Iowa.
From Shakopee to Excelsior.
From Owatouna to Albert Lea.
From Mankato to Minnesota Lake.
From Paynesville, via James Tuttle's, Burbank City, Norway Lake, Limberg's Town, Glenwood, and Big Stone Lake, Minnesota, to Fort Wadsworth, Dakota Territory.
From Richmond, via Lake George, Big Grove, Grove Lake, White Bear Lake, Reno City, and Holmes City, to Chippewa.
From Geneva to Freeborn.
From Buffalo, via Frankfort, Hassan, Battineau Prairie, to Minneapolis.
From Paynesville, via Burbank and Norway Lake, to School Lake.
From Crow Wing to Fort Clark.
From Saint Charles, via Quincy and Little Valley, to Plainview.
From Paynesville to Alexandria.
From Swan River, via Martin's, Long Prairie and Hoadley, to Long Prairie River.
From Sunk Centre, via Scott, Long Prairie and Lanthear, to Bassett.
From West Union to Long Prairie.
From Minneapolis, via Richfield, Bloomington, Bloomington Ferry, and Eden Prairie, to Shakopee.
Missouri;
From Sedalia, via Osceola, Virgil City, Lamar, Carthage, and Granby, to Neosho.
From Osage, via Last Creek and Walton's Mill to Potosi.
From Brunos, via Cold Water and Mosier's Hill, to Green.
From New London, via Madisonville, to Wellsville.
From Danville, via Big Spring, Dry Fork Mills, Rhineland, Loutre Island, to Herman.
Nebraska;
From Plattsmouth, via Weeping Water, Stoor Creek, Shirley Station, Lancaster, Saline City, and Middle Creek, to Blue River.
From Beatrice, via Snow City, to Big Sandy.
New Mexico.
Nevada.
Post-routes established in New York;
From South Petersburg to Berlin.
From Monticello, via Bush ville, Stevensville, Briscoe, Jeffersonville, Falls Mill, and Calicoon, to Calicoon Station.
From Oswego City, via Oswego Centre, and North Hannibal, to Hannibalville.
North Carolina;
Ohio;
From Columbus to Beckett's Store.
From Young Hickory, via Sand Hollow, to Bristol.
From Caledonia to Delaware.
Oregon;
Pennsylvania;
From Roxbury, via Amberson's Valley, to Dry Run.
From Sugar Grove, in Pennsylvania, to Watts's Station, in New York.
From Mahoutongo to Sweet Home.
From Warfordsburg, via Emmasville, to Ray's Hill.
From Dayton to Kerr's Store.
From Reading, via Angelica, Hammel's Store, California, and Welsh Mountain, to Waynesburgh.
From Birdsboro, via White Bear Town, Beckersville, Hammel's Store, to Adamstown.
From Kasson, via Kane, to Marion.
From Chatham Valley, via Darius Syke's and Roswell Achley's, to Westfield.
From Kinneysville, via Treat's Corners, to Knoxville.
From Auburn Four Corners, via West Auburn and East Springhill, to Wyalusing.
From Rowe, via Joseph Seeley's and Kenyon Corners, to Nichols.
From Blossburgh, via Ogdensburgh, to mouth of Roaring Branch.
From Hollidaysburgh, via L. Bennett's Mills, to Whitney's Corners. From Karthon's to Round Island.
From Tioga, via Farmington Hill and Farmington Centre, to Osceola.
From Montoursville, via Loyal Sock, Fairfield Centre and Wolf Run, to Munchy Borough.
From H. Vermillyer's, via Long Run and Sabinsville, to Westfield.
From Ulysses, via Harrison Valley, to Westfield.
From Tarentum to Saxonburgh.
From Kittanning to Plumville.
From Mohrsville to Bernville.
From Dundaff to Uniondale.
From Salona to Lamar Mills.
Tennessee;
Utah;
Virginia.
Post-routes established in West Virginia.
From New Port, via Salt Pond, Weisiger's and Brown's, to Salt Sulphur Springs.
From Cabel Court House, via Tudge's Creek and Porter's Mill, to Hamlin.
From Petroleum, via California House and Oil Rock, to Rathbone.
From Perrysville, via Clear Fork, to Tug River Post-Office.
From Petroleum Station, via California House and Oil Rock, to Running Springs.
Wisconsin;
From Milwaukee, via New Koelu, to Paynesville.
From Rural, via Waupaca, Ogdensburg, Little Wolf, North Royalton, and Northport, to New London.
Kansas.
From Salina, Salina County, via Ottawa County, up the Saline River Valley, to the mouth of Spillman's Creek.
From Saline, via the Kansas Salt Company's Works, Oakland, Minneapolis, thence up the Solomon River Valley, via Usher's Creek, to the mouth of Oak Creek.
From Emporia, Lyon County, via Madison, Janeville, and Noonday, to Eureka, Greenwood County.
From Humboldt, Allen County, via South Branch of Bull Creek, thence down the East Branch of Buffalo Creek to its mouth, in Wilson County, thence to Coyville.
From Topeka via Indianola, in Shawnee County, and Mitchell's Mills, to Holton, in Jackson County.
From Wamego, Pottawatomie County, by way of Allen, Wabaunsie County, to Council Grove.
Front Burlington, Coffey County, to Belmont, Woodson Comity.
From Hiawatha, Brown County, via Muscatah to Grasshopper Falls, Jefferson County.
From Osage Mission, Neasho County, via Sherman, Salamanca, Petersville, Cherokee County, to Neosho, Newton County, Missouri.
From Lawrence, via Oskaloosa, to Grasshopper Falls.
From Desota, Johnson County, via Gardner, to Ossawatomie.
From Topeka, by way of Holton and Sabetha, to Nebraska City.
From Mound City, Linn County, Kansas, by way of Trading Post, Linn County', to Pleasant Hill, Missouri.
From Manhattan, Riley County, by way of Clay County, to Lake Sibley, in Shirley County.
From Manhattan, by way of Westmoreland, and Savannah, Pattawatomie County, to Council Grove.
From Paola to Rockville, by way of Miami Village, to New Lamtaster, Miami County.
From Fort Scott, via Cato, to Monmouth; and a tri-weekly mail from Prairie City, via Centropolis, to Burlingame; also tri-weekly from Council Grove to intersect Santa Fe mail near Fort Larned.
From Topeka to Holton, Jackson County, Kennekuk, Atchison County, and Troy, Doniphan County.
Missouri River Railroad from Wyanandotte to Le[a]ven worth.
From Mound City, Linn County, to Cherokee City, Cherokee County, via Mannaton County, Monmouth, Crawford County.
From Fort Scott to Baxter's Springs, via Pleasant View and Petersville, Cherokee County.
From Council Grove via Cottonwood Falls, Eldorado, Fort Arbuckle, to Sherman, Texas.
From Topeka, Shawnee County, to Burlington, Coffey County.
Post-routes in Kansas.
A route from Carlyle, Allen County, to Geneva, Allen County.
A route from Fort Scott, Kansas, via Mapleton, Xenia, in Bourbon County, to Garrett, Anderson County.
From Cottonwood Falls to Junction City.
National Capitol Insurance Company incorporated.
Powers.
Seal.
Directors, by-laws, &c.
Insurance upon lives, and against accidents.
Directors.
Elections.
Notice.
Ballot.
Proxies.
Vacancies.
Annual meetings.
President and other officers.
Funds, how invested.
Liability of stockholders.
Suits to collect assessments upon stock.
Executive committee.
Capital stock.
$ 150,000 to be paid in before effecting insurance.
Dividends.
Proviso.
Location of company.
Agencies.
Annual report.
Statement to be published, of profits, losses, debts, funds, &c.
Act may be repealed.
Robbery and larceny punished.
Temporary loan certificates may be issued to redeem compound interest notes.
1862, ch. 33, § 4.
Vol. xii. p. 346.
Bate of interest.
Principal and interest payable in lawful money.
Certificates may be held by banks as reserve.
1804, ch. 106, §§ 31, 32.
Vol. xiii. pp. 108, 109.
Proviso.
Corporation of Washington to be paid for expenses in improving, &c. public streets, grounds, and bridges, prior to May 6, 1864.
Account to be presented.
Items to be examined and proved.
Receipt in full.
1866, ch. 288.
Ante, p. 306.
Certain suits in State courts may be removed to circuit court
of the United States, when, from local influence, &c. justice cannot be had in State court
Proceedings to remove.
Bail, attachments, injunctions, &c.
Duties in lieu of present duties on unmanufactured wool, &c.
Wools to be divided into three classes.
Class 1.—Clothing wool to include what.
That is to say, merino, mestiza, metz, or metis wools, or other wools of merino blood, immediate or remote; down clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Buenos Ayres, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, and also including all wools not hereinafter described or designated in classes two and three.
Class 2.—Combing wools.
That is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, Lincolnshire, down combing wools, “Canada long wools” included herein. Pub. Res. No. 8. March 22, 1867. Vol. xv. p. 21.
Class 3.—Carpet wools and other similar wools.
Such as Donskoi, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, and including all such wools of like character as have been here-
Samples of various kinds to be deposited in custom-houses. Standard samples in Treasury Department. Duty upon wools of first class; on second class; of third class; Wools imported in other than ordinary condition, or changed in condition to evade duty, &c. to pay double duty. Rate of duty when wool of different qualities is imported in same bale. Duty upon washed wools of first class to be double, &c.; upon scoured wools of all classes to be three times, &c.; on raw, &c. sheep or goat skins; woollen rags, waste, &c.
Duties in lieu of present duties on manufactures of wool imported;
On woollen cloths, woollen shawls, and all manufactures of wool of on woollen cloths, shawls, &c.;
On flannels, blankets, hats of wool, knit goods, balmorals, woollen and flannels, blankets, hats, knit goods, woollen and worsted yarns,; &c.;
On endless belts or felts for paper or printing machines, twenty cents endless belts or felts;
On bunting, twenty cents per square yard, and, in addition thereto, bunting;
On women's and children's dress goods and real or imitation Italian women's and children's dress goods, &c.; Proviso.
On clothing ready made, and wearing apparel of every description, and ready made clothing and wearing apparel;
On webbings, beltings, bindings, braids, galloons, fringes, gimps, cords, webbings, beltings, &c. Words “unmixed with silk” stricken out. Pub. Res No. 19. March 29, 1867. Vol. xv. p. 24.
On Aubusson and Axminster carpets, and carpets woven whole for rooms, fifty per centum ad valorem; on Saxony, Wilton, and Tournay velvet carpets, wrought by the Jacquard machine, seventy cents per square yard, and, in addition thereto, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; on Brussels carpets wrought by the Jacquard machine, forty-four cents Carpets. Duties On carpets; mats, rugs, screens, &c.;
oil-cloths.
Erastus B. Wolcott and John S. Cavender, appointed managers of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
See Ante, pp, 347, 362.
Specimens of the cereal productions of the United States to be prepared, &c. for exhibition at the Paris Exposition.
Proviso.
Medals may be sent free through the mails to certain honorably discharged soldiers of West Virginia.
Commission appointed to purchase site for a building for
the post-office and United States courts in New York. city.
Lower part of City Hall Park to be purchased.
Title and condition.
Secretary of the Treasury authorized to pay therefor.
Appropriation for expenses of joint Committee on retrenchment.
Pay of witnesses.
Secretary of War may transfer to the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers certain property of the United States.
1866, ch. 21, § 12.
Ante, p. 11.
[Repealed. Act March 16, 1867. Vol. xv. p. 1.]
Secretary of War may contract with low-
est bidder for the removal of the wreck of the Steamship Scotland, from the entrance to New York harbor.
Appropriation.
Advertisement.
Contract not to exceed the appropriation.
Alcohol and burning fluid made from certain materials on which taxes have been paid, to be exempt from tax.
Repeal of portion of act of 1864, ch. 173, § 96. Vol. xiii. p. 272.
Tax on certain products of distillation.
Annual tax of $50 on distillers of burning fluid, &c. repealed.
1864, ch. 173, § 79.
Vol. xiii. p. 253.
1866, ch. 184.
Ante, p. 117.
Claims of forces under the command of James S. Fish, to be investigated and paid.
Rates of pay.
Actual service only to be allowed for.
Alcohol may be withdrawn, from bond by
curators of scientific institutions without payment of internal tax for, &c. upon giving bond, &c.
Conditions of bond.
Penalty for violation of conditions of bond.
Ocean mail service between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.
Cost not to exceed.
Bids and contracts.
Pensions of widows of revolution any soldiers to be increased and from what date.
David's Island to be purchased.
Ante, p. 867.
Time for submitting to Congress a general customs revenue law extended to January 1, 1868.
Lieut.-Commander S. L. Breese may be appointed to the active list of the navy.
A public vessel may be employed to transport supplies to the suffering people of the Southern States.
Survey of Isthmus of Darien for ship canal.
See No. 51. Post, p. 572.
Preamble.
Name of yacht “Mayflower” changed to “Silvie.”
Register to steam yacht “Glance.”
Quota of direct tax of West Virginia, how to be ascertained.
1861, ch. 46, § 8.
Vol. xii. p. 294.
West Virginia to have same duties and privileges as other loyal States.
Proviso.
Tax in Berkeley and Jefferson counties.
Taxes illegally collected to be refunded.
Collection of direct tax in West Virginia to be suspended until, &c. unless, &c.
Repeal of 1865, ch. 87, § 2.
Vol. xiii. p. 501.
Effect of certificates of sale under tax law.
1862, ch. 98.
Vol. xii. p. 422.
Twenty per cent additional pay to certain persons in the civil service at Washington, D. C.
Temporary clerks, messengers, watchmen, and other employees.
Employees of patent-office.
Resolution not to apply to those whose salary exceeds $3500 a year.
Repeal of former acts.
Public lands to Tennessee for agricultural college.
1862, ch. 130.
Vol. xii. p. 504.
1865, ch. 209.
Ante, p. 208.
Authority to place United States vessels, &c. for use of commissioners
of qunrantine continued for two years.
Ante, p. 351.
Dahlgren guns for experimental trials of Ridgway's patent revolving battery.
Payments to Henry Standish, Dimick B. Huntingtons Harrison Severe, and Buchanan and Company.
1860, ch. 56.
Vol. xii. p. 17.
1862, ch. 30.
Vol. xii. p. 344.
Additional copies of Appendix to Diplomatic Correspondence of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
How to be bound and distributed.
Bronze equestrian statue to Brevet Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott.
Payment by any government officer to any person not known to have been opposed to the rebellion, &c. prohibited.
Proviso.
1864, ch. 171, § 5.
Vol. xiii. p. 208.
Certain duty on lastings, &c. repealed.
See Vol. xv. p. 24.
Machinery for manufacture of beet sugar exempt from duty.
Repeal of port of 1862, ch. 199.
Vol. xii. p. 593.
Accounts and vouchers of disbursing officers to be sent where.
Excess of duty paid by any national bank to be refunded.
1864, ch. 240, § 2.
Vol. xiii. p. 381.
Claims for certain quartermasters' stores to be settled.
Authority for the United States to make survey of the Isthmus of Darien for ship canal.
See No. 26, Ante, p. 667.
Acknowledgment of resolution of Chambers, &c. of Brazil, of sorrow, &c. for death of President Lincoln.
Copy hereof to Emperor of Brazil.
Commission to select site for post-office and sub-treasury in Boston.
Water power for arsenal at Rock Island.
1864, ch. 60.
Vol. xiii. p. 60.
1806, ch. 141.
Ante, p. 76.
Exchange of certain public documents.
Southwestern boundary of military reservation of Fort Riley established.
Land released granted to Kansas for bridge over Republican river.
Condition of grant.
Patent, when to issue.
Proviso.
Thanks of Congress to Cyrus W. Field.
Gold medal.
Copy of resolution and medal to Mr. Field.
Appropriation.
Surveys and estimates to he made for a bridge or bridges across the Potomac.
Gold chronometer to be presented to Captain James G. Smith, for rescue of the passengers and crew of the American brig E. H. Fitler.
No money to be paid towards the construction of the new jail in the District of Columbia, unless, &c.
1866, ch. 286.
Ante, p. 231.
New site for jail.
PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS
UNITED STATES,
$25,000 to be paid to Mrs. Mary Lincoln.
Proviso.
Payment of $7,500 to Charles F. Anderson.
Pension to Charlotte Bence.
Patent to heirs of James Bawdin for land at Eagle Harbor.
Proviso.
Pension of Robert Henne increased.
Credit of $4,770 to be allowed to John W. Campbell.
J. B. Rittenhouse to be released from accountability for money stolen, on proving larceny.
Pension to Sarah Fitzgibbon.
Proviso.
Payment to F. A. Patterson.
Pension to Jane W. Nethaway.
Accounts of David Nethaway to be settled.
Pension to Emma Jane Hail.
Preamble.
1860, ch. 188.
Vol. xii. p. 86.
Lot in St. Louis confirmed to Augustin Amiot.
Estate of E. W. Eddy to be credited with $200,000.
Preamble.
Administrators, &c., of Almon W. Babbitt released.
Pension to Altazera L. Willcox.
Pension to Isabella Fogg.
Pension to Virginia K. V. Moore.
Pension to Elizabeth York.
Payment to Charles Youly.
Pension to Nicholas Hibner.
Pension to Albert Nevins.
Pension to Lewis W. Dietrich.
Payment to James G. Clarke.
Pension to Sarah E. Wilson.
Pension to Agnes W. Laughlin.
Pension to Anu Heth.
Pension to Emerance Gouler.
Amended.
See act 1866, ch. 185.
Post, p. 594.
Pension to Thomas Hurly.
Payment to Thomas F. Wilson.
Two bonds to be issued to Theodor G. Eiswald in lieu of two partially destroyed.
Proviso.
Payment to George K. Frank.
Credit to be allowed R. E. Bryant.
Payment to R. L. B. Clarke.
Payment to Francis A. Gibbons.
Pension to Spencer Kellogg.
Pension to John Hoffman.
Payment to representatives of Betsey Nash.
1867, ch. 158.
Vol. xi. p. 610.
Pension to Martha J. Willey.
Pension to Isabella Strubing.
Pension to Leonard St. Clair.
Copyright to issue to Mrs. William L. Herndon.
Credit to be allowed Cornelius B. Gold.
Proviso.
Pension to Sally Andrews.
Pension to Joanna Winans.
Arrears of pension to Christina Elder.
Pension to Cordelia Murray.
1665, ch. 5.
Vol. xiii. p. 593.
Pension to Martha Stevens.
Pension to Anna E. Word.
Land grant to José Serafin Ramirez confirmed.
Claim of the United States only released.
Land grant to José Domingues confirmed.
Survey.
Patent.
Claim of the United States only released.
Pension to Anna G. Gaston.
Title of Maria Syphax to certain Land in Virginia confirmed.
Pension to Abigail Ryan.
A credit of $225 to be allowed Captain John H. Crowell in settlement of his accounts.
Payment to James Todd, administrator of Joshua D. Todd.
Credit to be allowed J. W. Gordon in settlement of accounts.
1862, ch. 201. Vol. xii. p. 697.
Elisha W. Dunn, settlement of accounts of.
Payment to tho Amoskeag Manufacturing Company for three cook wagons.
Name of Emil Cohen changed to Emil Cornely.
1686, ch. 136.
Vol. xiii. p 800.
Preamble
Pension to Almira M. Berry.
Pension to Mrs. Jerusha Witter.
Pension to Ira B. Curtis.
Pension to Jane Harris.
Pension to Mrs. Amarilla Cook.
Pension to Benjamin Franklin.
Pension to Mrs. Harriet B. Crocker.
Pension to Jane D. Brent.
Pension to Cornelius Crowley.
Pension to Andrew J. Gray.
1862, ch. 166. Vol. xii. p. 580.
Preamble.
1862, ch. 75. Vol. xii. p. 392.
A. M. Jess may locate and settle upon 160 acres of public lands.
Title to former location to revert to the United States.
New location not to be upon mineral lands.
Pension to Jane E. Miles.
Pension to Sarah J. Purcell.
Pension to Mrs. Margaret A. Farran.
Pension to Mrs. Mary C. Hamilton.
1866, ch. 62.
Ante, p. 584.
Pension to Mrs. Emerance Gouler, to continue to her minor children, if, &c.
Pension to Mary A. Patrick
Pension to Joel Farley.
Pension to James L. Perham.
Pension to John W. Jones.
Pension to Ann Sheehey.
Accounts of John Sheehey to be adjusted, &c.
Account of Charles M. Stout to be stated.
Pension to Lient.-Colonel Frank Lynch.
Pension to John Gordon.
Payment to J. Judson Barciay.
Pension to Matilda I. Monroe.
Pension to Lucinda Gates.
1864, ch. 255.
Vol. xiii. p. 586
Pension to Mrs. Mary A. McManus.
Pension to Mrs. Mercie E. Scattergood, in lieu of present one.
Pension to George W. Bush
Account of A. T. Spencer and Gurdon S. Hubbard to be audited and paid.
Pension to Samantha Rader.
Pension to Jonathan W. Beach.
Pension to Mrs. Charlotte E. Reed.
Pension to the minor children of Salvador Accadi.
Payment to William G. Lee.
Preamble.
1862, ch. 33.
Vol. xii. p. 345.
Duplicate of bond to be issued to William H. Wheeler, upon his giving, &c.
Payment to owners of Ha-waiian bark for passage of American seamen.
Payment to owners of bark Maria Henry.
Allowance to Edward P. McKinney of $475, upon his proving, &c.
Payment to Henry Horne.
Payment to William Cook.
Allowance to the heirs of Horace I. Hodges.
Payment to Rev. Liston H. Pearce.
Credit to be allowed James G. Holland in settlement of accounts.
Payment to owners of the British vessel Magicienne, and to owners and shippers of cargo.
Sum, how distributed.
Payment to Thomas W. Stevens.
Payment to Alois Klaus.
Payment to James P. Johnson.
Daniel Winslow and his representatives relieved from contract and from judgments thereon.
Payment to Mrs. Eleanor C. Ransom.
Pension to W. B. Kelley.
Pension to Mrs. Nancy A. Stocks.
Pension to Drusey A. Layman.
Pension to John Pyle.
Pension to Abraham Lansing.
Patent of Thaddeus Hyatt for improvements in vault covers extended for seven years, upon condition.
Effect of extension.
Proviso.
Credit to be allowed John Hastings in settlement of accounts.
1866, ch. 132. Vol. xiii. p. 599.
Samuel Stevens may enter and purchase a certain tract of land.
1865, ch. 109. Vol. xiii. p. 530.
Patent to issue to Samuel Stevens, upon, &c.
Payment to Mrs. Ann E. Smoot.
1857, ch. 12, § 6.
Vol. xi. p. 154.
Pension to Francis Colgen
Pension to William Croswell.
Pension to Marion M. Buxton.
Pension to Quincy A. May.
Pension to Daniel Lucas.
Preamble.
1847, ch. 6, § 9. Vol. ix. p. 126.
Patents to issue to Robert Baldwin for lands in Missouri upon surrender of duplicate certificates of location.
Commodore William Radford may accept a decoration.
Rear-Admiral H. Paulding may accept a decoration.
Accounts of Alexander Thompson to be adjusted
Accounts of Beals and Dixon to be adjusted.
Proviso.
Certain lands in Ohio to be reappraised.
1864, ch. 231. Vol. xiii. p. 684.
Proviso.
Payment to Harrison Heermance.
Claim of Joseph Nock referred to court of claims.
Proviso.
Claim of Samuel Norris to be referred to the court of claims.
Rule for determining the amount to be paid.
Payment to Charles M. Blake.
See Post, p. 612.
Payment to Elizabeth Woodward.
Payment to George Chorpenning.
Amounts to be deducted from annuities.
Demand of Ambrose L. Goodrich and Nathan Cornish to be audited and settled;
Proviso.
also that of Daniel Wellington and J. C. Dorsey.
Proviso.
Payment to Joseph Parkins in satisfaction of claims under contract.
Accounts of Wyatt H, Hamrick to be settled.
Pension to Edgar T. Harris.
Penalty under contract to be remitted to John Wells and Sons.
Payment to legal representatives of Lieut.-Colonel Charles B. Randall, for horse lost in the military service.
Preamble
Isaac Ranney to be credited with amount of stamps stolen.
Preamble.
1855, ch. 122.
Vol. x. p. 612.
1863, ch. 02, § 9.
Vol. xii. p. 765.
Claim of Richard W. Meade, administrator, referred to court of claims.
Payment to Sergeant Muton McKinnon amount of lost draft.
Duplicate to be filed and indemnity given.
Accounts of Caleb T. Fay and William Y. Patch to be audited and settled.
Payment to Charles M. Blake.
Ante, p. 609.
Payment to Fontaine T. Fox, Jr.
Reimbursement of Mrs. Mary Phelps.
Payment to Henry Charles De Alma.
Honorably mustered out of military service.
Secretary of War may contract with Dr. Alexander Dunbar, for, &c.
Payment to Lewis Ferdinand Fix as lieutenant-colonel
Pension to Charles M. Pott.
1866, ch. 106, § 1.
Ante, p. 56.
Payment to Rev. Charles B. Boynton, as Chaplain of the House.
PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS
UNITED STATES,
Pension to Mrs. Katharine F. Winslow.
Claim of Alexis Gardapier to land in Wisconsin confirmed.
Land to be surveyed, and patent to issue.
1823, ch. 10, § 5.
Vol. iii. p. 725.
Release to Francis S. Lyon of land in Alabama.
Accounts of Lewis Dyer to be audited and settled.
Payment to James Pool.
Catharine Welsh to receive bounty, &c. due John Welsh without further proof of his death.
Payment to Solomon P. Smith.
Payment to Josiah O. Armes, for property destroyed in Virginia by United States troops.
Pension to Matilda Harmon.
Repealed. See act July 19, 1867. Vol. xv. ch. 31.
Payment to George W. Fish for consular services, &c.
Payment to Mary E. Finney of the extra pay, &c.
Pension to Barbury Frye.
Pension to William A. Hinshaw and Jacob M. Hinshaw.
Payment to James Starkey.
Payment to E. J. Curley, for Corn.
Credit to be allowed Rufus C. Spalding in the settlement of his accounts.
Proviso.
Sureties on the Official bond of James T. Pollock released, and suits against them discontinued.
Payment to Alexander F. Pratt.
Pension to Mrs. Jane Clements.
1886, ch. 235, § 2.
Ante, p. 230.
Additional pension to Samuel Downing.
Pension to Lemuel Worster.
Pension to Hiram Hedrick.
Pension to Mrs. Elizabeth Fletcher.
If she dies or remarries, pension to be paid to the guardian of the children of Capt. L. W. Fletcher, until, &c.
Pension to John Morean.
Pension to John Gray.
Pension to John J. Sohan.
Pension to certain children of Solomon Long.
Pension to Daniel F. Bakeman.
Delia A. Jacobs may apply for an extension of patent.
Application to be made within what time.
Provisos.
Credit of $1265 to be allowed John C.McFerran.
James C. Cook may apply for extension of patent.
Pension to Catharine Mock.
Pension to Kennedy O’Brien.
Pension to Charles N. Weiss.
Pension to Olivia W. Cannon.
Pension to Jerusha Page.
Pension to Adeline M. Gould.
Pension to John Carter.
Pension of Charles Appleton increased.
Pension to Mary A. Smith.
Pension to Ernestine Becker.
Pension to Caroline McGee.
Pension to Josephine Slocum.
Pension to Ezra B. Gordon.
Edward St. Clair Clarke to be allowed $4022 for loss of public funds by theft.
Pension to Patrick Mechan.
Payment to Henry S. Davis.
Payment to Captain John J. Young.
Payment to James Tetlow.
William Mann and Jacob Senneff may apply for extension of patent.
Application to be published.
Payment to Henry P. Blanchard.
Accounts of Hiram Paulding to be audited, and allowances made.
For appropriation, see act of March 30, 1867.
Vol. xv. ch. 26.
Pension to Margaret Boucher.
Pension to James Kiddle.
Claim of J. and O. P. Cobb & Co. for bay to be paid.
Pension to children of John Faris.
Pension to Peter Fisher.
Pension to Rufus L. Harvey.
Pension to Thomas Glasgow.
Pension to Joseph Wrenn.
Pension to Ann I. Duchman.
Pension to Francis Barron.
Pension of John Russell increased.
Pension to Levisa Daniel.
Pension to Mary Fitzpatrick.
Pension to Lewis A. Horton.
Pension to Mary B. Fowler
Pension to George W. Knabb.
Pension to Daniel McMahon.
Pension to William H. Hafer.
Pension of Isabella Fogg increased.
1866, ch. 51.
Pension to Elizabeth Staley.
Pension to Mary Hosea.
Pension to David B. Champion.
Pension to John Rogers.
Pension to Mary A. Cross.
Payment to Sally Allen of arrears of pension.
1864, ch. 161.
Vol. xiii. p. 681.
Pension to Effie J. Harvey.
Pension to Nancy Hinton.
Pension to William Gleason.
Payment to Milton Velzy.
Payment of pension to Mary J. Dexter.
Pension to Charles Valence.
Pension to Mrs. Rachel McClelland.
Pension of Levi M. Roberts increased.
1830, ch. 97, § 5.
Vol. vi. p. 417.
Claim of Richard Chenery to be examined, &c.
Name of Nathan Sargent Dustin changed to Nathan Sargent.
Patents of Sylvanus Sawyer, and that of William E. Ward may be extended.
Proviso.
Payment to Elizabeth F. Chipman.
Payment to Ernst F. Kleinschmidt.
Payment to Henry Rudd.
Payment to James M. Bishop for services.
Payment to W. W. Potter of amount of draft.
Payment to Oliver Lumphrey.
Payment to Samuel M. Beatty.
Land claim of heirs of John E. Bouligny confirmed, and new certificates to issue.
Execution of this act suspended.
Joint Res. No. 35. March 30, 1867. Vol. xv.
Application of Joshua H. Butterworth for extension of patent to be considered.
Pay, &c. of Frank Pugsley.
Release to William H. Webb, &c.
Credit allowed to James Fulton.
Acconnt of Elias Beale to be paid.
Extension of patent granted to Thomas D. Burrall.
Certain letters patent extended to Eliza Wells.
Patent extended.
Payment to Hugh Leddy.
Preamble.
Vol. xiii. p. 405.
In settling the accounts of William P. Wingate, certain additional duty not to be exacted.
Preamble.
Payment to Abby Green.
Payment to William D. Nelson for services in recruiting.
Certain settlers on the Sioux reservation may enter their lands at the minimum price, &c.
The steam screw sloop-of-war “Idaho,” to be accepted from Paul S. Forbes, in discharge of his contract, for the money already paid him.
Allowance to Charles Clark in settlement of accounts, for public money lost by fire.
In settlement of accounts of James Keenan, payment to be made for loss on exchange.
Preamble.
Ober, Nanson, and Company.
| $ 5000, | letter | D, | numbers | 272,801 | to | 272,900 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | A, | numbers | 276,201 | to | 276,300 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | C, | numbers | 270,801 | to | 270,900 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | A, | numbers | 268,601 | to | 268,700 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | C, | numbers | 268,601 | to | 268,700 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | C, | numbers | 268,301 | to | 268,400 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | C, | numbers | 275,501 | to | 275,600 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | D, | numbers | 270,501 | to | 270,600 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | C, | numbers | 275,301 | to | 275,400 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | D, | numbers | 276,201 | to | 276,300 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | A, | numbers | 275,601 | to | 275,700 | inclusive; |
| 5000, | letter | A, | numbers | 275,901 | to | 276,000 | inclusive; |
Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Ober, Nanson, and Company the amount of certain compound-interest notes, supposed to be lost, with interest.
Proviso.
Bond of indemnity.
Payment to Stephen E. Jones.
Annuity to Mrs. Martha McCook.
John A. Webster, Jr. may receive n gold chronometer from the government of Great Britain.
Claim of D. Randolph Martin, assignee, to be settled.
Pension to Daniel Cole.
Payment to Virginia S. Wilson of amount of pension accruing to George W. Wilson.
Payment to Walter C. Whitaker.
Pension to Obadiah Aderton.
Payment to the mother of Charles O. Rowohl.
Payment to the guardian of the children of William Whelan.
Preamble.
Tuller and Fisher.
Claim of Tuller and Fisher to be audited and paid.
Payment to John H. Hamlin.
Dempsey Reece to be discharged from contract when, &c.
When this resolution takes effect.
Accounts of John Sedgewick to be audited and settled.
Credit to be allowed to Almanson Eaton for public money lost.
Papers in the case of F. A. Gibbons and F. X. Kelley to be referred back to the court of claims.
Preamble.
Claim of John R. Beckley to be audited and paid.
Proviso.
Further proviso.
Credit to be allowed James I. Hudnall for public money lost.
Preamble.
Joseph R. Morris.
Patent to issue to Joseph R. Morris.
Payment to William T. Con-
nell, John Keplinger, and Isaac Conrad.
Payment to Dyer B. Pettijohn.
Payment to J. H. Riley.
Gustavus V. Fox and certain officers may accept presents from the Emperor of Russia.
Such presents may be admitted tree of duty.
Preamble.
Articles of agreement made and concluded at the Council Ground, in the Contracting parties.
Cession of lands to the United States.
The United States agree to reserve for a home, and for Reservation. Boundaries.
Reservation to be for the sole use of the tribe, who shall settle thereon within a year.
All of which tract shall be set apart, and the above-described boun daries shall be surveyed and marked out for the exclusive use and benefit of said tribe as an Indian reservation, nor shall any white man. except ing those in the employment of the Indian department, be permitted to reside upon the said reservation without permission of the tribe and the superintendent and agent; and the said tribe agrees that so soon after the United States shall make the necessary provision for fulfilling the Stipulations of this instrument as they can conveniently arrange their affairs, and not to exceed one year from its ratification, they will vacate the country hereby relinquished, and remove to and settle upon the lands herein reserved for them, (except as may be hereinafter provided.) In the mean time it shall be lawful for them to reside upon any ground now occupied or under cultivation by said Indians at this time, and not included in the reservation above named. And it is provided, that any Improvement on lands ceded, to be paid for; may be sold to loyal whites. Certificates of sale.
Boundary lines to be marked, and hinds surveyed into lots.
Heads of families may locate on lot.
Certificates therefor.
These lots to be exempt from levy, taxes, &c.
Residue to be held in common.
Restriction not to be removed without the consent of Congress.
Payments to the tribe.
Vol. xii. p. 958.
Churches.
Subordinate chiefs.
Vol. xii. p. 959.
The United States further agree, that in addition to a head chief the tribe shall elect two subordinate chiefs, who shall assist him in the performance of his public services, and each subordinate chief shall have the same amount of land ploughed and fenced, with comfortable house and necessary furniture, and to whom the same salary shall be paid as is already provided for the head chief in art. 5th of the treaty of June 11th, 1855, the salary to be paid and the houses and land to be occupied during the same period and under like restrictions as therein mentioned.
And for the purpose of enabling the agent to erect said buildings, and to plough and fence the land, as well as to procure the necessary furniture, and to complete and furnish the house, &c., of the head chief, as heretofore provided, there shall be appropriated, to be expended within the first year after the ratification hereof, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.
And inasmuch as several of the provisions of said art. 5th of the treaty of June 11th, 1855, pertaining to the erection of school-houses, hospital, shops, necessary buildings for employees and for the agency, as well as providing the same with necessary furniture, tools, &c., have Further appropriations.
Schools.
Hospital.
Blacksmith’s shop, tools, &c.
Houses, mills, &c.
Matrons, teachers, mechanics, and millers.
And it is further agreed that the United States shall employ, in addi tion to those already mentioned hi art. 5 th of the treaty of June 11th, 1855, two matrons to take charge of the boarding-schools, two assistant teachers, one farmer, one carpenter, and two millers.
All the expenditures and expenses contemplated in this treaty, and not otherwise provided for, shall be defrayed by the United States.
Payment to the chief, Timothy.
Claims for services and for horses to be paid.
It is also understood that the aforesaid tribe do hereby Authority, &c., of the United States acknowledged. Vol. xii. p. 950.
But it is further provided, that the United States is the only competent Roads and highways.
And the said tribe hereby consent, that upon the public roads which Hotels and stage stands.
And it is further understood and agreed that all ferries and bridges Ferries and bridges.
Such rules and regulations shall be made by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, as shall regulate the travel on the highways, the management of the ferries and bridges, the licensing of public houses, and the leasing of lands, as herein provided, so that the rents, profits, and issues thereof shall inure to the benefit of said tribe, and so that the peraons thus licensed, or necessarily employed in any of the above relations, shall be subject to the control of the Indian department, and to the provisions of the act of Congress “to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers.”
All timber within the bounds of the reservation is exclusively the property Timber.
The United States also agree to reserve all springs or fountains not Springs or fountains.
Robert Newell to receive a patent for a tract of land.
Treaty when to take effect.
Execution.
In testimony whereof the said C. H. Hale, superintendent of Indian affairs, and Charles Hutchins and S. D. Howe, United States Indian agents in the Territory of Washington, and the chiefs, headmen, and delegates of the aforesaid Nez Percé tribe of Indians, have hereunto set their hands and seals at the place and on the day and year hereinbefore written.
Signed and sealed in presence of—
Ratification.
April 17, 1867.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclamation
In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
Preamble.
For the purpose of encouraging and facilitating the commerce of the citizens Contracting parties.
Articles free of duty.
Sheet lead, solder, matting, ratan, oil for painting, indigo, gypsum, firing pans, and baskets.
At reduced duty of five per cent.
Machines and machinery; drugs and medicines. (Note.—The prohibition of the importation of opium according to the existing treaty remains in full force.) Iron, in pigs or bars; sheet iron and iron wire; tin plates; white sugar, in loaves or crushed; glass and glassware; clocks, watches, and watch-chains; wines, malted and spirituous liquors.
Those importing and exporting to pay the duty.
When this convention takes effect.
Done in quadruplicate, each copy being written in the English, Japanese, Execution.
In witness whereof, the above-named plenipotentiaries have hereunto set their hands and seals, at the city of Yedo, the twenty-eighth day of
Ratification proclaimed.
Now, therefore, be it known that I,
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Vol. xi. p. 633.
The said Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black Release to the United States of reservation and of right to locate and purchase certain lands.
The said Indians also agree to relinquish to the United States all claim to any right they may possess to locate lands in lieu of lands sold or dis posed of by the United Stales upon their reservation at Isabella, and also the right to purchase the unselected lands in said reservation, as provided for in the first article of said treaty.
In consideration of the foregoing relinquishments, the Certain lands set apart for the Indians in Isabella county.
The north half of township fourteen, and townships fifteen and sixteen north, of range three west; the north half of township fourteen and town ship fifteen north, of range four west, and townships fourteen and fifteen north, of range five west.
Mode and order of selections of lands in lieu of those relinquished.
After a reasonable time shall have been given for the parties aforesaid to make their selections in lieu of those relinquished, the other persons entitled thereto may then proceed to make their selections, in quantities as follows, viz:—
Chiefs.
For each chief of said Indians who signs this treaty, eighty acres in addition to their selections already made, and to patents in fee simple.
Headmen.
For one headman in each band into which said Indians are now di vided, forty acres, and to patents in fee simple.
Heads of families.
For each person being the head of a family, eighty acres.
Single persons.
For each single person over the age of twenty-one years, forty acres.
Orphan children.
For each orphan child under the age of twenty-one years, forty acres.
Married women.
For each married female who lias not heretofore made a selection of land, forty acres.
Other persons.
And for each other person now living or who may be born hereafter, when he or she shall have arrived at the age of twenty-one years, forty acres, so long as any of the lands in said reserve shall remain unselected, and no longer.
William Smith and others may select lands, and receive patents therefor.
In consideration of important services rendered to said Indians during many years past by William Smith, John Collins 1st, Andrew J. Cam peau, and Thomas Chatfield, it is hereby agreed that they shall each be allowed to select eighty acres in addition to their previous selections, and receive patents therefor in fee simple; and to Charles H. Kodd, eighty acres, and a patent therefor in fee simple, to be received by said Rodd as a full consideration and payment of all claims he may have against said Indians, except claims against individuals for services rendered or money expended heretofore by said Rodd for the benefit of said Indians.
Certain Ottawas, Chippewas, and Pottawatomies may select and hold lands.
It is understood and agreed that those Ottawas and Chippewas and Pottawatomies now belonging to the bands of which Metayomeig, May-me-she-gaw-day, Keche-kebe-me-mo-say, and Waw-be-maw-ing-gun are chiefs, who have heretofore made selections upon said reservations, by permission of said Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, who now reside upon said reservation in Isabella county, or who may remove to said reservation within one year after the ratification of this treaty, shall be entitled to the same rights and privileges to select and hold land as are contained in the third article of this agreement.
Agent to make lists.
So soon as practicable after the ratification of this treaty, the agent for the said Indians shall make out a list of all those persons who have here tofore made selections of lands under the treaty of August 2d, 1855, aforesaid, and of those who may be entitled to selections under the pro visions of this treaty, and he shall divide the persons enumerated in said Two classes.
Competents.
Those who are intelligent, and have sufficient education, and are qualified by business habits to prudently manage their affairs, shall be set down as “competents,” and those who are uneducated, or unqualified in other respects to prudently manage their affairs, or who are of idle, wandering, Those not so competent.
Patents to those of both classes.
The United States agrees to issue patents to all persons entitled to se lections under this treaty, as follows, viz: To those belonging to the class denominated “competents,” patents shall be issued in fee simple, but to those belonging to the class of “those not so competent,” the patent shall contain a provision that the land shall never be sold or alienated to any person or persons whomsoever, without the consent of the Secretary of the Interior for the time being.
Manual-labor school.
The United States agrees to expend the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the support and maintenance of a manual-labor school upon said reservation: Buildings.
The superintendent of public instruction, the Board of visitors of such school.
The said Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church shall Control, &c. of school and farm. Annual appropriation;
The United States reserves the right to suspend the annual appropriation may be suspended. If school and farm are abandoned, the rights under this treaty are lost. Amendment. Post, p. 661. Land and buildings may be sold.
At the expiration of ten years after the establishment of said school, if Land to be conveyed in fee simple, if, &c. Amendment. Post, p. 661.
In case said Missionary Society shall fail to accept the trust herein If society does not accept trust, &c.
It is understood and agreed that said Missionary Society may use the Present schoolhouse.
Blacksmith shop, stock, tools, &c.
Mill and land at Isabella City may be sold.
James Nicholson may select 80 acres, upon, &c.
Amendment.
Post, p. 661,
Eighth article of former treaty not affected.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the said H. J. Alvord and the said D. C. Leach, Commissioners as aforesaid, and the undersigned chiefs and headmen of the Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, have hereto set their hands and seals at Isabella, in the State of Michigan, the day and year first above written.
In the presence of—
In the presence of—
To
Special Com’r, &c.
Interpreter Charles H. Rodd having fully explained and interpreted to me the treaty made by you and Indian Agent Leach, special Com’rs, &c., with the Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, Michi gan, and concluded the 18th instant, you are hereby authorized to put my name to the same along with the other chiefs.
In the presence of—
In Executive Session, Senate of the United States,
May 22, 1866.
Amendments.
Ante, pp. 659, 660.
1st Article 4, after the word “rights,” at the end of line 11, insert the following: in the lands, buildings.
2d. Same article, page 13, line 7, strike out the words “in fee simple,” and insert in lieu thereof the following: in trust for the benefit of said Indians.
3d. Article 7, after the word “acres,” in line 9, insert as follows; of land, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
Amendments assented to.
Done at the Mackinac Agency, in the State of Michigan, on this eigh teenth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
In the presence of—
Office Mackinac Indian Agency,
Detroit, July 7, 1866.
I do hereby certify on honor that the foregoing amendments to the treaty negotiated with the Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, within this agency, the eighteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, were by me submitted to the said Indians, and that the same were duly assented to and ratified by them.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
Preamble.
The representatives of the United States of America, Great Britain, France, and the Netherlands, in view of the hostile acts of Mori Daizen, prince of Nagato and Suwo, which were assuming such formidable proportions as to make it difficult for the Tycoon faithfully to observe the treaties, having been obliged to send their combined forces to the Straits of Simonoseki in order to destroy the batteries erected by that daimio for the destruction of foreign vessels and the stoppage of trade; and the government of the Tycoon, on whom devolved the duty of chastising this Amount of damages to be paid the four treaty powers.
The undersigned, representatives of treaty powers, and Sakai Hida no Kami, a member of his second council, invested with plenipotentiary powers by the Tycoon of Japan, animated with the desire to put an end o all reclamations concerning the acts of aggression and hostility committed by the said Mori Daizen since the first of these acts, in June, 1863, against the flags of divers treaty powers, and at the same time to regulate definitively the question of indemnities of war, of whatever kind, in respect to the allied expedition to Simonoseki, have agreed and determined upon the four articles following:—
All claims included.
Instalments, and when payable.
Opening of a port in tlie Inland sea may be accepted in lieu of payment of money.
When to be ratified.
Execution.
In token of which, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed and sealed this Convention, in quintnpiicate, with English, Dutch, and Japanese versions, whereof the English shall be considered the original.
Done at Yokohama, this 22d day of October, 1864, corresponding to the 22d day of the ninth month of the first year of Gengi.
(Signature of Sakai Hida no Kami.)
Ratification.
Proclaimed.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, [
to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting:
Preamble
Contracting parties.
Cession of land to the United States.
Boundaries.
Proviso.
Payment to the Omaha,and how to be expended.
Article of former treaty to be extended.
Vol. x. p. 1045.
Damages.
Present reservation to be divided among members of the tribe in severalty.
How assigned.
Agency.
Omaha reservation.
Whites not to go or reside thereon, unless, &c.
Certificates to be issued for tracts assigned.
Not to be alienated nor leased, &c.
Omahas may repurchase this land, if the location of the Winnebngos affects their peace.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the said Clark W. Thompson and Robert W. Furnas, Commissioners as aforesaid, and the said chiefs and delegates of the Omaha tribe of Indians, have hereunto set their hands and seals at the place and on the day and year hereinbefore written.
In presence of—
February 13, 1866.
Ratification.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Cession of lands to tlie United States.
Reservation for the Winnebagos.
Boundaries.
The United States to erect mills, to break, &c. lands, to furnish seeds, tools, &c.
Amendment.
Post, p. 672.
Agency and other buildings and houses for chiefs.
Expenses of removal, &c.
In testimony whereof, the said Wm. P. Dole, Clark W. Thompson, and St. A. D. Balcombe, Commissioners as aforesaid, and the undersigned chiefs and delegates of the Winnebago Tribe of Indians, have hereunto set their hands and seals, at the place and on the day hereinbefore written.
In presence of—
February 13, 1860.
Ratification with amendment.
See Ante, p. 671.
Amendment accepted.
February 20, 1866.
Be it known that we, the chiefs of the Winnebago Tribe of Indians, in council assembled, being informed by Superintendent. E. B. Taylor, through acting agent R. W. Furnas, that the treaty entered into by our chiefs mid legal representatives, ou our part, and the United States, by Commission ers, on its [their] part, iu March, 1865, has been so amended as to provide for four hundred head of horses instead of sixty head, as originally stipu lated, we hereby agree to said amendment, and consent to its being made a part of the original Treaty.
In testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals the day and year above written.
Signed in presence of—
Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and con sent of the Senate, as expressed in its resolution of the thirteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, accept, ratify, and confirm the said Treaty with the amendment as aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Cession of lands to the United States. Vol. xii. p. 997.
Boundaries.
Certain fractionsl townships of land ceded by the United States to tha Poncas.
Claims of settlers for improvements, low to be settled.
Indemnity for spoliation.
Expenses of this treaty to be paid by Indians.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the said Win. P. Dole, Commissioner as afore said, and the undersigned, chiefs of the Ponca tribe of Indians, have hereunto set their hands and seals at the place and on the day hereinbe fore written.
Executed in the presence of—
Ratification advised.
In Executive Session Senate of the United States,
March 2, 1867.
Proclaimed.
Now, therefore, be it known that I,
In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
In the name of the only God! There is no strength nor power but of God.
His Excellency the President of the United States of America, and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, his Majesty the King of the Belgians, her Majesty the Queen of Spain, his Majesty the Emperor of the French, her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, his Majesty the King of Italy, his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, his Majesty the King of Portu gal and the Algarves, his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, and his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco and of Fez, moved by a like desire to assure the safety of navigation along the coasts of Morocco, and desirous to provide, of common accord, the measures most proper to attain this end, have resolved to conclude a special convention, and have for this purpose appointed their plenipotentiaries, to wit:—
His Excellency the President of the Republic of the United States: Plenipotentiaries.
His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and of Bohemia: Sir John Hay Drummond Hay, commander of the very honorable Order of the Bath, his general agent ad interim near his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;
His Majesty the King of the Belgians: Ernest Daluin, knight of his Order of Leopold, commander of number of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, of Spain, commander of the Order of Nichan Eftikhar, of Tunis, his consul-general for the west coast of Africa;
Her Majesty the Queen of Spain: Don Francisco Merry y Colom, Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, decorated with the Imperial Ottoman Order of Medjidie of the third class, officer of the Order of the Legiou of Honor, her minister resident near his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;
His Majesty the Emperor of the French: Auguste Louis Victor, Baron Ayme d’Aquim, officer of the Legion of Honor, commander of the
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Sir Joint Hay Drummond Hay, commander of the very honorable Order of the Bath, her minister resident near his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;
His Majesty the King of Italy: Alexander Verdinois, knight of the Order of St. Maurice, and Lazarus, agent and consul-general of Italy, near his Majesty the Sullan of Morocco;
His Majesty the King of the Netherlands: Sir John Hay Drummond Hay. commander of the very honorable Order of the Bath, acting consul-general of the Netherlands, in Morocco;
His Majesty the King of Portugal and the Algarves; José Daniel Colaco, commander of his Order of Christ, knight of the Order of the Rose of Brazil, his consul-general near his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;
His Majesty the King of Sweden and of Norway: Selim d’Ehrenhoff, knight of the Order of Wasa, his consul-general near his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco;
And his Majesty the Sultan of Morocco and of Fez, the Literary Sid Mohammed Bargash, his minister for foreign affairs;
Who, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, agreed upon the following articles:—
The direction of the lighthouse nt Cape Spratel to devolve upon, &c.
The expenses of management to be boruc by whom.
Guard for the lighthouse.
Regulations for the superintendence of the establishment.
This Convention to continue in force ten years.
Further continuance.
Execution of the engagements hereof made subordinate, &c.
Ratification.
In faith whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed thereto the seals of their arms.
Done in duplicate original, in French and in Arabic, at Tangier, protected Execution.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of Proclaimed.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting:
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Peace.
Prisoners and slaves.
Cession of lands to the United States.
Boundaries.
Indians to remove to reservation.
to submit io the United States, and not depredate.
Offenders to be given up, &c.
Wrongs upon the Indians, now redressed.
Hostile tribes.
Sale of arms, &c.
Fencing, and cultivating lands.
Seeds, tools, &c.
Beneficial expenditures.
Physician.
Mechanics, &c.
Mills and school-houses.
Interpreter.
Possession of ardent spirits on reservation, how punished.
Treaty, when to be obligatory.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the said J. W. Perit Huntington, superintendent of Indian affairs, and the undersigned chiefs and headmen of the tribe aforesaid, have hereunto set their signatures and seals, at the place and ou the day and year above written.
Executed in our presence—
Ratification.
In Executive Session, Senate of the United States,
July 5, 1866.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting:
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Sale of lands to the United States.
Boundaries.
Proviso.
Payment for lands purchased and in what.
Lands to be surveyed and sold.
See amendment, page 692.
Proceeds.
Cession of other land to the United States to be held in trust.
See amendment, page 662.
Proceeds of sales thereof.
How to be expended.
Proviso.
School fund.
One section granted to John Schoenmaker, in trust, and with privilege, &c.
Certain loyal persons, heads of families, &c. may buy a quarter section each, at, &c.
See amendment, page 602.
James N. Coffey and A. B. Canville to be paid their claims.
Proviso.
Heirs of Charles Mograin may select a section of land, &c.
$500 to be paid the chiefs annually.
One section of land to be selected, &c. for purposes of education.
Patent to issue to Darius Kogers for 160 acres, and he may purchase other lands, at, &c.
See amendment, page 692.
Dependence on the United States acknowledged.
Right of way through reservations for highways and railroads.
See amendment, page 692.
Indians to remove from ceded lands, &c.
United States to advance expenses of survey and sale;
to be reimbursed.
Patents to issue to half-breeds for 80 acres, including their improvements.
Heirs of Joseph Swiss.
Ostiges may unite with other Indians, and receive portion of annuities.
If Indians remove from Kansas, their diminished reservation to be sold, and proceeds now applied.
Rejection of some articles not to effect others, &c.
Signatures.
Witnesses:
Counsellor Little Bear Band.
Attest:
Witnesses, Little Bear’s Band:
White Hair’s band of witnesses:
We the undersigned, chiefs and headmen of the Clermont and Black Dog Band of the Great Osage nation, in council at Fort Smith, Ark., have had the foregoing treaty read and explained in full by our inter preter, L. P. Chouteau, and fully approve the provisions of said treaty made by our brothers the Osages, and by this signing make it our act and deed.
Witnesses:
I certify that the foregoing treaty was fully explained by me, and that the above signatures, the first as chiefs and headmen and the others as witness[es,] signed the same as their free act and deed.
Ratification advised with amendments.
In Executive Session, Senate of the United States,
June 26, 1866.
Amendments.
Ante, p. 687.
1st. Article I. line 38, after the word “laws” insert the following: “including any act granting lands to the State of Kansas in aid of the construction of a railroad through said lands.”
Ante, p. 688.
2d. Article II. strike out all after the word “benefit,” in line 8, to and including the word “sold,” in line 12, and insert in lieu thereof the following: “under the direction of the commissioner of the general land office, at a price not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre as other lands are surveyed and sold, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time prescribe.”
Ante, p. 688.
3d. Article IV. line 8, after the word “as,” where it occurs the sec-ond time, insert: “upon.”
Ante, p. 680.
4th. Article IX. line 9, after the word “cents” insert: “per acre.”
Ante, p. 680.
5th. Article XI. line 3, after the words “through the” insert: “remaining.”
6th. Same article, line 4, strike out “herein reserved,” and insert in lieu thereof: “of said Indians.”
Amendments assented to.
1st. Article I. line 38, after the word “laws” insert the following: “including any act granting lands to the State of Kansas, in aid of the construction of a railroad through said lands.”
2d. ArticleII. strike out all after the word “benefit,” in line 8, to and including the word “sold,” in line 12, and insert in lieu thereof the following: “under the direction of the commissioner of the general land office, at a price not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, as other lands are surveyed and sold under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time prescribe.”
3d. Article IV. line 8, after the word “as,” where it occurs the sec-ond time, insert “upon.”
4th. Article IX. line 9, after the word “cents,” insert “per acre.”
5th. Article XI. line 3, after the words “through the,” insert “remaining.”
6th. Article XI. line 4, strike out “herein reserved,” and insert in lieu thereof “of said Indians.”
Now, therefore, we, the undersigned, chiefs and headmen of the said Great and Little Osage Indians, having heard the above amendments read, and fully explained to us, on this twenty-first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, do hereby accept and consent to the aforesaid amendments.
Attest:
Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Ratification.
In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
Preamble.
Contracting parties
Jurisdiction and authority of the United States acknowledged, &c.
Persons and property of other tribes not to be first attacked.
Controversies between the tribes to be submitted to the President for arbitrament, &c.
Indians to withdraw from overland routes.
Amendment.
Post. p. 697.
Payment to the Indians.
Proviso.
Individual Indians locating on lands to be protected.
Amendments to be binding.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the said Minneeonjon band of Da kota or Sioux, have hereunto set their hands, this tenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, after the contents had previ ously been read, interpreted, and explained to the said chiefs and headmen.
Signed by the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and by the chiefs and headmen, after the treaty had been fully read, interpreted, and explained in our presence:
R. R. Hitt, Reporter of Com’n.
The following chiefs came into council on the 20th Oct. and desired to sign the treaty. They are represented as always friendly to the whites, and have, therefore, been away from most of the tribe.
March 5th, 1866.
Ratification with amendment.
See Ante, p. 696.
Proclaimed.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and con sent of the Senate, as expressed in its resolution of the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty, with the amendment as aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, I have signed the same with my hand and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Jurisdiction and authority of the United States acknowledged
Persons and property of other tribes not to be first attacked.
Controversies between the tribes to be submitted to the President for arbitrament, &c.
Indians to withdraw from overland routes.
Amendment.
Post, p. 702.
Payment.
Proviso.
Individual Indians locating on lands to be protected.
Reservation for Lower Brulés.
It is hereby agreed upon the part of the government of the United States, that the said band of Lower Brulés shall locate on a permanent reservation at or near the mouth of the White river, to include Boundaries. Payments for agricultural, &c. purposes. Stock, &c., to be the property of the United States.
Blacksmith and farmer.
Roads.
The United States reserve the right to construct a road or roads through the said reservation.
Whites not to go, &c., thereon.
No white person, other than officers, agents or employés of the United. States, shall be permitted to go on or remain on the said reservation, unless previously admitted as a member of the said band according to their usages.
Schools.
Whenever the Secretary of the Interior may so direct, schools for the instruction of the said band may be opened on the said reservation.
Two Kettles band may be located adjoining to the Brulés.
Amendments to be binding.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the said Lower Brulé band of Dakota or Sioux, have hereunto set their bands, this fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, after the contents
Signed by the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and by the chiefs and headmen, after the treaty had been fully read, interpreted, and explained in our presence:—
March 5, 1866.
Ratified with amendment.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and con sent of the Senate, as expressed in its resolution of the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty, with the amendment as aforesaid.
In testimony whereof, I have signed the same with my hand and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Perpetual peace.
Hostile acts to be settled by arbitration.
Members of tribes committing depredations to be surrendered.
Reservation for Indians who arc parties hereto.
The United States hereby agree that the district of couutry embraced within the following limits, or such portion of the same as may hereafter be designated by the President of the United States for that purpose, viz: commencing at the mouth of Red creek or Red fork Boundaries. No whites, except, &c. to settle thereon, unless, &c. Indians not required to settle thereon, until, &c.; See amendments. Post, pp. 708-710.
to remove thereto and not leave, unless, &c.;
The Indians parties hereto, on their part, expressly agree to remove to and accept as their permanent home the country embraced within said limits whenever directed so to do by the President of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of this treaty, and that they will not go from said country for hunting or other purposes without the consent in writing of their agent or other authorized person, such written consent in all eases specifying the purpose for which such leave is granted, and shall be borne with them upon their excursions as evidence that they are rightfully away from their reservation, and shall be respected by all officers, employees, and citizens of the United States as their sufficient safeguard and protection against injury or damage in person or property by any and all persons whomsoever.
to refrain from depredations;
It is further agreed by the Indians parties hereto that when absent from their reservation they will refrain from the commission of any depredations or injuries to the person or property of all persons sustaining friendly relations with the government of the United States; that they not to encamp within ten miles of, &c. Claims to other lands relinquished, and especially to certain thus bounded.
Until removed to reservation, Indians to be where.
Proviso.
Proviso.
United States may build roada through reservation, and establish military posts.
Damages therefor to be ascertained and paid.
Patent for 640 acres of land ia fee-simple to certain persons.
See amendments. Post, pp. 708-710.
Grant of lands, in reparation for outrages against certain bands, to certain chiefs of bands.
See amendments. Post, pp. 708-710.
Conditions of grants.
Lands, how to be selected.
Further compensation for property lost.
Annuities for forty years.
The United States agree that they will expend annually during the period of forty years, from and after the ratification of this treaty, for the benefit of the Indians who are parties hereto, and of such others as may unite with them in pursuance of the terms hereof, in such maimer and for such purposes as, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, for the time being, will best subserve their wants and interests as a people, the following amounts, that is to say, until such time as said Indians shall be removed to their reservation, as provided for by Amount. When to bo delivered.
Present number of Indians.
For the purpose of determining from time to time the aggregate amount to be expended under the provisions of this article, it is agreed that the number entitled to its beneficial provisions the coming year is two thousand eight hundred, and that an accurate census of the Indians entitled shall be taken at the time of the annuity payment in the spring of each year by their agent or other person designated for that purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, which census shall be the basis on which the amount to be expended the next ensuing year shall be determined.
Other portions of tribes to be urged to join in tills treaty.
Arrears of annuities under former treaties to be paid as soon as, &c.
See amendments. Post, pp. 708-710.
In testimony whereof, the said Commissioners as aforesaid, and the Execution.
Signed and sealed in the presence of—
Secretaries.
Ratification advised with amendments.
May 22, 1866.
Ante, p. 704.
1st. Article II. page 3, after the word “tribes,” at the end of line 21, insert the following words: “
Ante, p. 705.
2d. At the end of Article V. insert the following words: “
Ante, p. 705.
3d. Article VI. page 8, lines 4 and 5, strike out the words “
Ante, p. 706.
4th. Strike out Article IX. and insert in lieu thereof the following: “
Ante, p. 704.
1st Article II. page 3, after the word “
Ante, p. 705.
2d. At the end of Article V. insert the following words: “
Ante, p. 705.
3d. Article VI. page 8, lines 4 and 5, strike out the words “
4th. Strike out Article IX. and insert in lieu thereof the following: “
Done at Fort Zarah, Kansas, on this 10th day of November, 1866.
Treaties.
Post, p. 713.
Ante, p. 704.
1st. Article II. page 3, after the word “
Ante, p. 705.
2d. At the end of Article V. insert the following words: “
Ante, p. 705.
3d. Article VI. page 8, lines 4 and 5, strike out the words “
Ante, p. 706.
4th. Strike out Article IX. and insert in lieu thereof the following: “
Treaties.
Post, p. 713.
Done at Fort Zarah, Kansas, this the 19th day of November, A. D. 1866.
Signed in the presence of
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Ratification.
In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name, and have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
to all and singular to whom these presents shall comb, greeting:
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Ante, p. 703.
Cheyenne, Arrapahoe, and Apache tribes are united and recognized as confederated tribes by the United States.
Stipulation of former treaty to be binding upon the parties hereto.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the undersigned, Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of said tribes, have hereunto set their hands and seals at the council-ground on the Little Arkansas, in the State of Kansas, this 17th day of October, A. D. 1865.
Signed and sealed in presence of—
Ratification.
May 22, 1866.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred [
to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting!
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
It is agreed by the parties to this treaty that hereafter Perpetual peace.
For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this article, it is agreed Hostile acts to be settled by arbitration.
And the Indians parties hereto, on their part, agree, in case crimes or Members of tribe committing crimes to be surrendered.
Reservation for Indians who are parties hereto.
Boundaries.
No whites, except. &c. to settle thereon, unless, &c.
Indians to remove thereto, and not leave, unless, &c.;
to refrain from depredations;
not to encamp within ten miles of, &c.
Claims toother lands relinquished.
Until removal to reservation, Indians to be where.
Proviso.
Proviso.
United States may build roads through reservation, and establish military posts.
Damages therefor to be ascertained and paid.
The United States agree that they will expend annually, Annuities for forty years. Amount When to be delivered.
For the purpose of determining from time to time the aggregate amount Present number of Indians. Census to De taken annually.
Other portions of tribes to be urged to join in this treaty.
In testimony whereof, the said Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the said bands of Camanche Indians and of the Kiowa tribe of Indians, hereinbefore referred to, and designat ed in connection with their signatures, have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals on the day and year first above written.
Signed and sealed in presence of—
Ratification.
May 22, 1866.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting:
Whereas
Preamble.
Contrading parties.
Authority and jurisdiction of the United States acknowledged.
Persons and property of other tribes not to be first attacked.
Controversies to be submitted to the arbitrament of the President.
Indians to withdraw from ovcriiind routes.
Amendment.
Post, p. 725.
Payment.
Proviso.
Individual Indians locating upon lands to be protected.
Payments for agricultural, &c. implements.
Farmer and blacksmith.
Teachers.
Indemnity for killing a chief.
Amendment to be binding.
Execution
In testimony whereof, the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the said Two Kettles band of Dakota or Sioux, have hereunto set their hands, this nineteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, after the contents had previously been read, interpreted, and explained to the said chiefs and headmen.
Signed by the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and by the chiefs and headmen, after the treaty had been fully read, interpreted, and explained, in our presence:—
The foregoing signatures in this handwriting (that of Gen. Curtis) were made in presence of the undersigned.
Maj.
Ratification with amendment.
March 5, 1866.
Ante, p. 724.
Proclaimed.
Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Jurisdiction and authority of the United States acknowledged, &c.
Persons and property of other tribes not to be first attacked.
Controversies to be submitted to the arbitrament of the President.
Indians to withdraw from overland routes.
Amendment.
Post, p. 729.
Payments.
Proviso.
Amendments to be binding.
Execution.
In testimony whereof the commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and beadmen of the said Blackfeet band of the Dakota or Sioux, have hereunto set their hands, this nineteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, after the contents had previously been read, interpreted, and explained to the said chiefs and headmen.
Signed by the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and by the chiefs and headmen after the treaty had been fully read, interpreted, and explained, in our presence:—
Interpreter[s]
Soldiers.
CE-HA-PA-CHI-KE-LA, Little Blackfoot, his x mark.
CHAN-TA-PE-A, Strong Heart, his x mark.
NON-PA-GE-GU-MUGAMA, Round Hand, his x mark.
March 5, 1866,
Untitled with amend meut.
See Ante, p. 728
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Authority and jurisdiction of the United States acknowledged.
Persons and property of or her tribes not to be first attacked.
Controversies to he submitted to the arbitrament of the President.
Indians to withdraw from overland routes.
Amendment.
Post, p. 133.
Payment.
Proviso.
Individual Indians locating upon lands to be protected.
Payments for agricultural, &c., implements.
Farmer and blacksmith.
Teachers.
Amendments to be binding.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the said Sans Arcs band of Dakota or Sioux Indians, have hereunto set their hands this twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, after the contents hud previously been read, interpreted, and explained to the chiefs and headmen.
Signed by the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and by
Charles Degre, his x mark, Interpreter.
Chief
March 5, 1866.
See Ante, p. 733.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Jurisdiction and authority of the United States acknowledged.
Persons and property of other tribes not to be first attacked.
Controversies to be submitted to the arbitrament of the President.
Indians to withdraw from overland resources.
Amendment.
Post, p. 737.
Payments.
Proviso.
Individual Indians locating on lands to be protected.
Payments for agricultural, &c., purposes.
Farmer, blacksmith, and teachers.
Amendments to be binding.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the said Yanktonai band of Dakota or Sioux Indians, have hereunto set their hands, this twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, after the contents had previously been read, interpreted, and explained to the chiefs and headmen.
In presence of—
The foregoing signatures in this handwriting (that of General Curtis) were made in presence of the undersigned on the 28th and 29th October, 1865 at Fort Sully.
March 5, 1866.
Ratification with amendment.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof 1 have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred anti sixty-six, [
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Authority and jurisdiction of the Uni ted States acknowledged.
Persons and property of the tribes not to be first attacked
Controversies to be submitted to the arbitrament of the President.
Indians to withdraw from overland routes.
Amendment.
Post, p 741.
Payments.
Proviso.
Individual Indians locating on lands to be protected.
Payments for agricultural, &c., purposes.
Farmer, blacksmith, and teachers.
Amendments to be binding.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the said Onkpahpah band of Da kota or Sioux Indians, have hereunto set their hands this twentieth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, after the contents had pre viously been read, interpreted, and explained to the chiefs and headmen.
Signed by the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and by the chiefs and headmen, after the treaty bad been fully read, interpreted, and explained in our presence:—
The foregoing signatures in this handwriting (that of Gen’l Curtis) were made in presence of the undersigned on the 28th and 29th Oct. 1865, at Fort Sully.
Ratification with amendment.
March 5th, 1866.
See Ante, p. 739.
Proclaimed.
Now, therefore, be it known that I,
In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Jurisdiction and Authority of the United States acknowledged.
Persons and property of other tribes not to be Erst attacked.
Controversies to be submitted to the arbitrament of the President
Indians to withdraw from overland routes.
Amendment.
Post, p. 745.
Payments.
Proviso.
Individual Indians localing on lands to be protected.
Payments for agricultural purposes.
Farmer, blacksmith, and teachers.
Amendments to bo binding.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the said Upper Yanktonais band of Dakota or Sioux Indians, have hereunto set their hands this twenty-eighth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, after the contents had previously been read, interpreted, and explained to the chiefs and headmen.
The above signatures were made in our presence:—
Chief: Big Head,
Soldier: Big Hand,
Soldier: Left-handed Bear,
Soldier: The Fine Dressed Man,
The Man Covered with Lice,
Little Soldier,
The Spread Horn,
Black Tiger,
The Man Afraid of his War-club,
The Big Shaved Head,
Lazy Bear,
The Man.
Rock Man,
Chief: Black Catfish,
Chief: The Curley-headed Goose,
The above signatures in this handwriting (that of Gen’l Curtis) were made in presence of the undersigned, on the 28th and 29th Oct., 1865, at Fort Sully.
Maj.
March 5th, 1866.
Proclaimed.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and con sent of the Senate, as expressed in its resolution of the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, accept, ratify, and confirm the said treaty with the amendment as aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Jurisdiction and authority of the United States acknowledged.
Persons and property of othet tribes not to be first attacked.
Controversies to bo submitted to the arbitrament of the President.
Indians to withdraw from overland routes.
Amendment.
Post, p. 749.
Payments.
Proviso.
Individual Indians locating on lands to bo protected.
Payments for agricultural, &c., purposes.
Farmer, blacksmith, and teachers.
Amendments to be binding.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and headmen of the said O’ Gallala band of Dakota or Sioux Indians, have hereunto set their hands this twenty-sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-five after the contents had previously been read, interpreted, and explained io the chiefs and headmen.
Signed on the part of the Commission, in our presence:—
Chief
The
The foregoing signatures in this handwriting (that of General Curtis) were made in presence of the undersigned on the 28th and 29th Oct, 1865, at Fort Sully.
Ratification with amendment.
March 5, 1866.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Certain rights granted by the former treaty relinquished hereby.
Vol. xii. p. 964.
The tribes to remain upon their reservation.
Penalty for leaving, &c.
Permits to go without the boundaries of the reservation.
Indians breaking this treaty to forfeit annuities.
Money for the purchase of teams, &c.
Allotment of land to each head of a family.
Punishment of parsons unlawfully furnishing ardent spirits to the Indians.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the said J. W. Perit Huntington, superintendent of Indian affairs, on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs and head confederated tribes and bands aforesaid, have hereunto, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses and of each other, affixed our signatures and seals on this fifteenth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Done in presence of—
Ratification
March 2, 1867.
Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto signed my name, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
Preamble.
Now, therefore, the United States, by its commissioners aforesaid, and the above-named delegates of the Seminole nation, the day and year above written, mutually stipulate and agree, on behalf of the respective parties, as follows, to wit:—
There shall be perpetual peace between the United Peace and friendship.
Military occupation and Bion by the United States.
The Seminoles also agree to remain nt peace with all other Indian tribes, and with themselves. In return for these pledges of peace and friendship, the United States guarantee them quiet possession of their country, and protection against hostilities on the part of other tribes; and in the event of such hostilities, that the tribe commencing and prosecuting the same shall make just reparation therefor. Therefore the Seminoles agree to a military occupation of their country at the option and expense of the United States.
Amnesty.
A general amnesty of all past offences against the laws of the United States, committed by any member of the Seminole nation, is hereby de clared; and the Seminoles, anxious for the restoration of kind and friend ly feelings among themselves, do hereby declare an amnesty for all past offences against their government, and no Indian or Indians shall be pro scribed, or any act of forfeiture or confiscation passed against those who have remained friendly to or taken up arras against the United States, but they shall enjoy equal privileges with other members of said tribe, and all laws heretofore passed inconsistent herewith are hereby declared inoperative.
Slavery not to exist among the Seminoles.
Rights of those of African descent.
Cession of lands to the United States.
Payment by the United States.
Grant to the Seminoles.
Boundaries.
Payment therefor.
Balance due the Seminoles.
How to be paid.
Board of commissioners to determine losses sustained by loyal Seminoles.
Census of those loyal.
No compensation except to loyal Indians
Awards of commissioners.
Pay.
What claims for losses included.
Right of way for railroad granted through the land of the Seminoles.
Lands will be sold.
Proviso.
Agency buildings.
Seminoles agree to certain legislation.
The Seminole nation agrees to such legislation as Congress and the President may deem necessary for the better adminis tration of the rights of person and property within the Indian territory: Proviso.
General council.
The Seminole nation also agree that a general council, consisting of delegates elected by each nation, a tribe lawfully resident within the In dian territory, may be annually convened in said territory, which council shall be organized in such manner and possess such powers as are here inafter described:—
Census.
First general council, bow composed.
Time end place of meeting.
Sessions not to exceed 30 days.
Special sessions.
Powers of general council.
Who to preside over council.
Secretary of council.
Pay.
Pay of members.
Courts.
This treaty to be a full settlement of all claims.
Diversions of annuities.
Treaty obligations reaffirmed.
Land granted for missionary or educational purposes;
not to be sold, except, &c.
When sold, proceeds to be how applied.
Inconsistent treaty provisions annulled.
Execution.
In testimony whereof, the said Dennis N. Cooley, Commissioner of In dian affairs, Elijah Sells, superintendent of Indian affairs, and Col. Ely S. Parker, as aforesaid, and the undersigned, persons representing the Seminole nation, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
In presence of—
U. S. Interpreter for Seminole Indians.
U. S. Indian Agent for Seminoles.
U. S. Interpreter for Creek Indians.
U. S. Indian Agent for the Oreeh Nation.
Signed by John F. Brown, special delegate for Southern Seminoles, in presence of, this June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six—
Ratification.
July 19, 1866.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
Done at the city of Washington this sixteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninety-first.
Preamble.
Vol. xii. p. 1191.
Contracting parties.
Provisions of third article of former treaty extended to all adult persons of the tribe.
In testimony whereof the said parties by their Commissioner and Business Execution.
Signed in presence of—
Ratification.
April 26, 1866.
Proclaimed.
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States of America, do, in pursuance of the advice and con sent of the Senate, as expressed in its resolution of the twenty-sixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, accept, ratify, and con firm the said supplemental article of treaty as aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have signed the same with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
ANDREW JOHNSON,
April 7, 1866.
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Peace and friendship.
Cession of lands to the United States.
Boundaries.
Vol. x. p. 1109.
The United States to set apart a reservation.
The United States to erect shop, school-house, houses for chiefs, and other buildings;
to pay annuities tor twenty years.
Objects of annuities.
Payment of $50,000 to Indians.
Amendment.
Post, p. 767.
Grant of lands to certain persons for services.
Annuities to be paid upon the reservation, if, &c.
Inconsistent provisions of former treaties abrogated.
Part of treaty of Sept. 30, 1854,
to remain in full force.
Vol. x. p. 1110.
The United States also agree to pay the necessary Payment of expenses of delegation to Washington.
In testimony whereof, the undersigned, Commissioners on behalf of the United States, and the delegates on behalf of the Bois Forte band of Chippewas, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
In presence of—
Ratification with amendment.
Ante, p. 766.
Amendment accepted.
“In article IV. of said treaty, line 4, strike out the word ‘fifty,’ and insert in lieu thereof the word thirty.”
Now, therefore, we, the chiefs, headmen, and warriors of the said Bois Forte band, duly authorized by our people, do hereby assent and agree to the said amendment above written, the same having been interpreted to us, and being fully understood by us.
Witness our hands and seals this 28th day of April, A. D. 1866, at Washington, D. C.
Witness:—
Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof, I have signed my name, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
ANDREW JOHNSON,
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Peace and friendship.
Slavery and involuntary servitude to cease.
Cession of the leased district to the United States.
Purchase money to be invested by the United States and held in trust until, &c.
Rights of negroes laid freedmen.
Amnesty for past offences.
Amendment.
Post, p. 762.
Right of way through their country for railroads.
Vol. xi. p. 614.
Damages.
Companies subject to laws, &c.
Indians may subscribe to stock.
Provisos.
When companies to be entitled to patents for the lands.
Other lands may be selected in lieu of occupied sections.
Legislation by Congress for rights of persons and property.
A council to be convened annually.
Census of the tribes to be taken.
Council to consist of whom
Members to which each tribe is entitled.
Time and place of meeting.
Length of session and special sessions.
Power of general assembly.
President of council.
Secretary.
Duty and pay.
Pay and mileage of members.
Courts may be established.
Superintendent of Indian affairs to be the executive.
Title and duties.
Marshal.
And the said marshal and the said secretary shall each be entitled Salary of marshal and secretary.
The salary of the interpreter shall be five hundred dollars, to be paid Salary of interpreter.
Appointment of marshals and deputies.
Provision for an upper house of the council
Certain sums invested to remain so invested.
Amendment.
Post, p. 782.
Treaty obligations, &c. reaffirmed and payment of annuities to be renewed.
Survey and division of lands in severalty.
Land office established at Boggy Depot.
Maps of surveys to exhibit actual occupancies, &c.
Notice to parties interested to examine the maps.
Lands may be selected for seats of justice, for schools, seminaries and colleges.
Each Indian to have a right to one quarter-section of land.
Actual Occupant.
Infants.
Actual occupant, prior to surveys, may abandon his improvements and select other land.
Proviso.
Occupation by missionaries of missionary establishments not to be interfered with.
Rights of certain missionaries.
Rights of parents in selecting land for children.
Mode of selecting lands.
Proof of improvements to be made prior to entries.
Sections sixteen and thirty-six to be reserved for schools.
Proviso.
Military posts and Indian agencies.
Names of persons for whom selections are made to be in books of register.
Town lots.
When patents to issue for selected lands.
Citizens by adoption or intermarriage to have same rights.
Disputes as to selections of lands, how to be settled.
Contiguous selections.
Selections to be inalienable, &c.
Not over 10,000 Kansas Indians will be received into district east of, &c. who shall have same rights, &c.
Such Kansas Indians may come at once.
Documents in land offices to be given to Choctaws and Chickasaws in two years.
Proceedings afterwards.
Selected lands to be held in severalty, and the unselected in common.
Those prevented from selecting in ninety days may select afterwards.
Selections after transfer of land, records.
Selected land abandoned for seven years, except, &c. may be rented, &c.
Payment by the United States for lands selected by other Indians.
White persons marrying Indiana and residing in the nation, or adopted, to be members of the nation and subject to its laws.
Licenses to trade.
Amendment.
Post. p. 782.
Treaty restrictions upon sales of personal property removed.
Witnesses.
Surrender of fugitives from justice.
Amendment.
Post, p. 782.
No white person except, &c. to be permitted to go into said territory, unless. &c.
Post offices and mails.
Former rights and immunities of the Indians to remain in force.
Money due the Indians under this treaty, how to be paid.
Amendment.
Post, p. 782.
After survey and assignment of the lands in severalty, annuities and funds to be capitalized, &c.;
to be divided per capita.
Certain sums maybe retained.
Payment of $25,000 to commissioners of each nation for incidental expenses.
Commission to settle damages of loyal Indians driven from their homes.
Amendment.
Post, p. 782.
Commission to determine the claims of loyal
citizens of the United Suites for damages.
Amendment.
Post, p. 782.
Provisos.
Inconsistent treaty provisions declared null.
In testimony whereof, the said Dennis N. Cooley, Elijah Sells, and E. S. Parker, commissioners in behalf of the United States, and the said commissioners on behalf of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, have hereunto set their hands and seals tile day and year first above written.
In presence of—
Ratification with amendments.
Amendments.
Ante, p. 770.
The people of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations stipulate and agree to deliver up to any duly authorized agent of the United States all public property in their possession which belong[s] to the late so-called “confederate states of America” or the United States, without any reservation whatsoever, particularly ordnance, ordnance stores, and arms of all kinds.
Ante, p. 774.
Ante, p. 778.
Ante, p. 779.
Ante, p. 780.
Ante, p. 780.
Ante, p. 781.
Amendments presented to.
Now, therefore, we, the commissioners on the part of the said Choctaws and Chickasaws, do hereby assent and agree to the said amendments above written, the same having been interpreted to us, and being fully understood by us.
Witness our hands and seals this second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six at Washington, D. C.
In presence [of]
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof I have signed my name, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and of
ANDREW JOHNSON,
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
preamble.
Peace and friendship.
Military occupation and protection by the United States.
Amnesty.
Slavery not to exist among the Creeks.
Rights of those of African descent.
Cession of lands to the United States.
Payments therefor, and mode of payment.
Amendment.
Post, p. 791.
Amendment.
Post, p. 791.
Losses of loyal refugee Indians and freedmen, soldiers enlisted in federal army.
Census, &c.
Right of way granted for a railroad.
Conditions.
Lands will be sold.
Proviso.
Creek orphan fund, and orphan children.
Amendment.
Post, p. 791.
Seminoles may convey to the United States.
Line dividing the Creek country to be surveyed.
Agency buildings.
In consideration whereof, the Creeks hereby cede and relinquish to the United Slates one section of their lands, to be designated and selected by their agent, under the direction of the superintendent of Indian affairs, upon which said agency buildings shall be erected, which section of land shall revert to the Creek nation when said agency buildings are no longer used by the United States, upon said nation paying a fair and reasonable value for said buildings at the time vacated.
Creaks agree to certain legislation.
General council.
Census.
First general council, how composed.
Time and place of meeting.
Sessions not to exceed 30 days.
Special sessions.
Powers of general council.
Who to preside over council.
Secretary of council.
Pay.
Pay of members.
Courts.
This treaty to be a full settlement of all claims.
Diversions of annuities.
Treaty obligations reaffirmed.
Lands granted for missionary or educational purposes;
not to be sold, except, &c.;
when sold, proceeds to be how applied.
Inconsistent treaty provisions annulled.
Execution.
In presence of—
Ratification, with amendments.
July 19, 1866.
Article III. line 21, after the word “paid,” insert the words: in Ante, p. 786.
“ same line, strike out the words “in money.”
“ line 43, after the word “paid” insert the words: in Ante, p. 787.
“ same line, strike out the words “in money.”
Ante, p. 788.
And whereas the foregoing amendments having been fully explained Amendments assented to.
Whereas the Senate of the United States did, on the 19th day of July, 1866, advise and consent to the ratification of the treaty of cession and indemnity concluded at the city of Washington on the 14th day of June, 1866, by and between the United States, represented by their Commissioners, and the Creek nation of Indians, with the following amendments, to wit:—
Article III. line 21, after the word “paid” insert the words: in money and divided.
“ same line, strike out the words “in money.”
“ line 43, after the word “paid” insert the words: in money and divided.
“ same line, strike out the words “in money.”
Now, therefore, we, the delegates representing the Creek Nation of Indians, do hereby assent and agree to the said amendments above written, the same having been interpreted to us and being fully understood by us.
Witness our hands and seals this 23d day of July, A. D. 1866, at Washington, D. C.
In presence of—
Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six,
ANDREW JOHNSON,
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Preamble.
It is hereby agreed between Thomas Murphy, superintendent of Indian affairs, John G. Pratt, agent for the Delawares, and William II. Watson, special commissioner, who are duly appointed to act for the United States; and Captain John Connor, Captain Sarcoxie, and Charles Journeycake, chiefs, and James Ketchum, James Connor, Andrew Miller, and John Sarcoxie, councillors, duly appointed and authorized by said Delaware Indians to act for them and in their behalf, to wit:—
Value of reservation heretofore sold to be paid the Delawares.
Remainder of reservation may be sold.
Price.
Lands of those Indians electing to become citizens to be reserved from sale.
Improvements to be appraised;
value thereof paid to each Indian.
Lands to be set apart for children born since allotment.
Improvements.
The United States to sell certain lands to the Delawares.
Price.
Boundaries and surveys.
Peaceable possession guaranteed.
Proceeds of sales of lands to be paid to the Indians, and how.
Purchase of the lands by the Missouri River Railroad Company.
If, &c. land may be sold to others.
Payment, when to be made.
Registry to be made of Delawares electing to become citizens.
Mode of procedure to become citizens.
Patent of land before allotted.
Proportion of proceeds of sales.
Minor children.
Grant to those that have become citizens.
Funds of the tribe not to be used to pay debts of individual members.
Licenses to trade.
Salaries of chiefs.
Dependence and protection.
Side of lands.
Right of way for railroads.
Settlement of all claims of the Delawares for depredations.
Delawares not to move until new homes are provided.
In testimony whereof, the said superintendent, agent, and special commissioner, Execution.
Isaac Johnycake, U. S. Interpreter.
In presence of—
Ratification.
July 26, 1866.
Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto signed my name and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this tenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ANDREW JOHNSON,
Preamble.
Contracting parties.
Pretended treaty declared void.
Amnesty.
Amendment
Post p. 807.
Confiscation laws repealed and former owners restored to their rights.
Improvements.
Cherokees, freed persons, and free negroes may elect to reside where.
Proviso.
Those so electing to reside there may elect local officers, judges, &c.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Representation in national council.
Unequal laws.
Courts.
Courts.
Process.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Licenses to trade not to be granted unless, &c.
Slavery, &c. not to exist.
Freedmen.
No pay for emancipated slaves.
Farm products may be sold, &c.
Right of way for railroads.
General council.
Census.
First general council, how composed.
Time and place of first meeting.
Sessions not to exceed 30 days.
Special sessions.
Powers of general council.
Laws, when to take effect. Legislative power may be enlarged.
President of council.
Secretary of council.
Pay.
Pay of members of council
Courts.
Lands for missionary or educational purposes;
not to be sold, except, &c.;
proceeds of sale
The United States may settle any civilized Indians, The United States may settle civilized Indians in the Cherokee country. How may be made part of Cherokee nation. Those wishing top reserve tribal organization, to have land set oft to them;
And the said tribe thus settled shall also pay into the national fund a to pay sum into national fund. Limits of places of settlement.
Where the United States may settle friendly Indians. Lands.
Said lands thus disposed of to be paid for to the Cherokee nation at such price as may be agreed on between the said parties in interest, subject to the approval of the President; and if they should not agree, then the price to be fixed by the President.
Possession and jurisdiction over such lands.
Cession of lands to the United States in trust.
The lands herein ceded shall be surveyed as the public lands of the Lands to be surveyed and appraised;
And the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time, as such surveys may be sold to highest bidder. Improvements. Proviso. Amendment. Post, p. 807.
Sales by Cherokees of lands in Arkansas.
Heads of families.
Lands reserved to be surveyed and allotted.
Boundary line to be run and marked.
Agent of Cherokees to examine accounts, books, &c.
Funds, how to be invested.
Interest, how to be paid.
Payment to Rev. Evan Jones.
Bounties and arrears for services as Indian
volunteers, how to be paid.
Possession and protection guaranties.
Military posts in Cherokee nation.
Spirituous, &c. liquors forbidden, except, &c.
Certain persons prohibited from coming into the nation.
Payment for certain provisions and clothing.
Expenses of Cherokee delegations.
Amendment.
Post, p. 807.
Payment of certain losses by missionaries, &c.
Inconsistent treaty provisions annulled.
Execution.
In presence of—
Signatures witnessed by the following-named persons, the following interlineations being made before signing: On page 1st the word “the” interlined, on page 11 the word “the” struck out, and to said page 11 a sheet attached requiring publication of laws; and on page 34th the word “ceded” struck out and the words “neutral lands” inserted. Page 47½ added relating to expenses of treaty.
Ratification with amendments.
July 27, 1866.
Insert at the end of Article II. the following:— Ante, p. 790.
But the Cherokee nation stipulate and agree to deliver up to the United States, or their duly authorized agent, any or all public property, particularly ordnance, ordnance stores, arms of all kinds, and quartermasters’ stores, in their possession or control, which belonged to the United States or the so-called confederate states, without any reservation.
Strike out the last proviso in Article XVII. and insert in lieu Ante, p. 805.
Insert at the end of Article XXIX. the following:— Ante, p. 806.
And the Secretary of the Interior shall also be authorized to pay the reasonable costs and expenses of the delegates of the southern Cherokees.
The moneys to be paid under this article shall he paid out of the proceeds of the sales of the national lands in Kansas.
Amendments assented to.
Whereas the Senate of the United States did, on the twenty-seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, advise and consent to the ratification of the articles of agreement and convention, made at the city of Washington, on the nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, between the United States and the Cherokee nation of Indians, with the following
Insert at the end of Article II. the following:—
But the Cherokee nation stipulate and agree to deliver up to the United States, or their duly authorized agent, any or all public property, particularly ordnance, ordnance stores, arms of all kinds, and quarter-masters’ stores, in their possession or control, which belonged to the United States or the so-called confederate states, without any reservation.
Strike out the last proviso in Article XVII. and insert in lieu thereof the following:—
Insert at the end of Article XXIX. the following:—
And the Secretary of the Interior shall also be authorized to pay the reasonable costs and expenses of the delegates of the southern Cherokees.
The moneys to be paid under this article shall be paid out of the proceeds of the sales of the national lands in Kansas.
Now, therefore, we, the delegates on the part of the said Cherokee nation, do hereby assent and agree to the said amendments above written, the same having been explained to us and being fully understood by us.
Witness our hands and seals, this thirty-first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, at Washington, D. C.
In presence of—
Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of Proclaimed.
In testimony whereof I have signed my name hereto, and have caused the seal of the United States to he affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
Preamble.
Vol. xii. p. 1258.
Vol. xii. p. 1262.
1861, ch. 3, § 5.
Vol. xii. p. 257.
Vol. xii. p. 1266.
Vol. xiii. p. 739.
1861, oh. 3, § 5.
Vol. xii. p. 257.
Preamble.
Vol. xiii. p. 763.
Now, therefore, I, The Insurrection declared at an end in certain States of the Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this second day of April, in the year [
Preamble.
All citizens warned against violating neutrality laws.
Major-General Meade authorized to employ army and navy and militia to prevent the carrying on the enterprise.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this sixth day of June, in the year of [
Preamble.
“The port of Matamoras, and all those of the northern frontier which have withdrawn from their obedience to the government, are closed to foreign and coasting traffic during such time as the empire of the law shall not be therein reinstated.
Merchandise proceeding from the said ports, on arriving at any Other where the excise of the Empire is collected, shall pay the duties on importation, introduction, and consumption; and on satisfactory proof of contravention shall be irremissibly confiscated. Our Minister of the Treasury is charged with the punctual execution of this decree.
“ Given at Mexico, the 9th of July, 1866.”
Decree of blockade of Matamoras and other Mexican ports declared null and void.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington the seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and [
Preamble.
Vol. xii. p. 1258.
Vol. xii. p. 1262.
1861, ch. 3, § 5.
Vol. xii. p. 257.
Vol. xii. p. 1266.
1862, ch. 98, § 2.
Vol. xii. p. 422.
Vol. xiii. p. 730
1861, ch. 3, § 5.
Vol. xii. p. 257
Vol. xiii. p. 734.
1863, ch. 81.
Vol. xii. p. 755.
Vol. xiii. p. 763
Preamble.
Ante, p. 811.
Vol. xv.
Appendix.
Proclamation No. 2.
Preamble.
The insurrection in Texas declared to be at an end.
The insurrection at an end, and peace, &c. exist throughout the United States.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this twentieth day of August, in the [
Thursday, Nov. 29, 1866, appointed a day of thanksgiving and praise.
The civil war that so recently closed among us has not been anywhere reopened. Foreign intervention has ceased to excite alarm or apprehension. Intrusive pestilence has been benignly mitigated. Domestic tranquillity has improved, sentiments of conciliation have largely prevailed, and affections of loyalty and patriotism have been widely renewed. Our fields have yielded quite abundantly. Our mining industry has been richly rewarded, and we have been allowed to extend our railroad system far into the interior recesses of the country, while our commerce has resumed its customary activity in foreign seas.
These great national blessings demand a national acknowledgment.
Now, therefore, I,
In offering these national thanksgivings, praises and supplications, we have the divine assurance that “the Lord remaineth a King forever; them that are meek shall He guide in judgment, and such as are gentle shall He learn His way. The Lord shall give strength to His people, and the Lord shall give to His people the blessing of peace.”
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and of the [
Preamble.
Rates of tonnage duty on French vessels entering ports of the United States on and after Jan. 1, 1867. 1824, ch. 4. Vol. iv. p. 2. 1828, ch. 111. Vol. iv. p. 308.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be at fixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, [
Preamble.
1880, ch. 179, §§ 15, 24.
Vol. xii. p. 72.
Now, therefore, be it known Notification and regulation as to American merchant vessels stopping or anchoring in any port, &c. in Japan, except the three opened ports.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and of [
Preamble.
1828, ch. 111.
Vol. iv. p. 308.
Acts imposing discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States to be suspended as respects vessels of the Hawaiian Islands, and their cargoes, from December 10, A. D. 1866, and to continue until, &c.
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, the twenty-ninth day of January, m the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and [
Preamble.
Admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union declared to be complete.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this first day of March, in the year of [
Extraordinary session of the Senate convened for April 1, 1867.
Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at Washington, the thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight [