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BY AUTHOIRTY. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. CHAPTER CLXXV. IN CONTINUATION. AN ACT making Appropriations for the Civil and DipV matic Expenses of Government, for the year ending ike thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and for other Purposes. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the salaries to which envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary shall he entitled on the first July, eighteen hundred and fif* ty five, may be allowed to such as may ho in office on that day without reappointment, nor shall such envoys extraor dinary and ministers plenipotentiary he.required to take with them secretaries of legation, unless they should be al lowed by the President of theJJnited States. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-live, the Secretary of Sta’e, be and he is hreebv, authorized and required to cause the examination, classification, and dis trunnion, of the clerks in the Department of State, in the same manner as directed in other executive departments by the provisions contained in the third section of the act en titled “An act —aking appropriations for the civil and di plomatic expenses of emverument,” approved third March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, who shall he paid annual salaries according to the act amendatory thereof, approved twenty-second A ril, eighteen hundred and fifty four. And the whole permanent clerical force in said department sha 1 consist ot three clerks of class one, two of class two, eight of class three, eight of class four, and one chief clerk, in lieu of those now authoriz-d by law ; and one of the said clerks of class four shall give bonds as required by the In-* dependent Treasury Act, and make the disbursements for the department, and superintend the northeast executive building, and shall receive therefor two hundred dollars p~r annum, in addition to his salary as clerk of class tour: Provided, That the increased salary hereby allowed the chief clerk, shall he construed to take effect from the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and be paid ac cordingly. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That upon the tract so to be selected and set apart, tlier shall be erected, under the direction of the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, a marine hospital for said district, of faced brick exterior walls, upon a hammered granite untie, pinning, one hundred and forty feet long, fifty two feet deep in the centre, and one hundred f-et deep at the wings, and forty-five feet high front top ol entrance story floor to the eaves, w ith verandahs to each story on each side between the. wings, and on each end oi the building; for the construction of which a sum equal to the procee.ls of the saie hereinafter directed, is hereby ap propriated. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That a tract of ten acres of the land heretofore purchase i by the United States lor the purposes of the naval hospital at Chelsea, Massa chusetts, he selected and set apait under the direction of the Pieodent of the United S'ates, for the use of the ma rine hospita of the district of Boston and Charlestown. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the I’rean iry is hereby authorized to sell and convey the land wnh Ih i buildings tliere<m belonging to the United States, n w o copied as the marine hospital at Clit-l<ea. as may seem tube most advantageous to the Uniled. States; and he is her-by empowered to execute valid title deeds ot the same to the purchaser or purchasers , and that the pro ceeds of such sales shall he paid i.ito the treasury of the United States. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted. That the provisions contained in the s coud section of the act entitled “An act making appropriation* for tlv- civil and diplomatic expenses of the government,” approved the seventeenth day of June, eightee.i hundred and forty four, be required to be carried into effid in all particulars, any act in conflict therewith being hereb/ repo led ; and all estimates for the comnen satibn of officers of the government authorized by law to be employed shall be based upon the expressed -provisions of law, and not upon the authority of executive distribution thereof; and the act, and section authorizing the same, with the volume and page where such authority nmy be found, shall be cited in each and all estimates respectively. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the proper ac c uinting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized an J required to credit T. Butler Kiiu>, laie col lector and depositary at San Francis* o, in ihe sum of twelve thousand e ght hundred and twenty four dollars and ninety eigiit cents, being the amount of money proved to have been lost by the destruction of the custom-house building and vault at Sin Francisco, by the fire of May, eighteen hundred and fifv-one. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed arid paid in the manner now provided by law, four pr ncipal examiners and four assisiant examiners of patents, in addition to the examining force now authorized by law, to be so employed in the Patent-Office; and should the necessities oi the public service, in the estimation of the Commissioner of Patents, require any additional exam ining f-rce to that herein provided, previous to the next sess ion of Congress, there may also he appointed ami paid in the manner now provided by law, in addition to the Trego iog, not exceeding two principal and two assistant examin ers, who shall not so continue to he employed subsequent to the expiration of said next session of Congress, without further provision of law. That the second section of the act of thirty-first August eighteen hundred and fifty-two, which provides “that the’ clerks, inessengeis, watchmen, and laborers, employed at an annual sa ary, or in temporary positions, in the Execu tive and Legislative Departments of ilie Government in the City of Washington, whose annual compensation does not exceed twelve hundred dollars, shall, in addition there to, ba allowed an increase compensation of twenty per cent,” shall be construed to include the principal clerk at the National Observatory at Washington ; and that here after the salary of said clerk shall be fifteen hundred dol lars per annum. And one thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifteen cents to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for bu Iduig four steam dreiga boats, in use by the War De partments, on Lakes “Champlain,” “Erie,” “Michigan ” and Ontario, to he applied for material-, machinery, tools, and labor furnished in painting said boats. Sec. U. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and lie is hereby, authorized to cause to be constructed the following buildings: At Burlington, Vermont, a marine hospital, to cost not more than thirty-five thousand dollars. At Wilmington, North Caro'ina, a marine hospital in cluding a pest-house lor the Separate accomodution of na lients with contagioue and infective diseases, to cost not more than forty thousand dollars. Skc. 12. And be it further enacted, That the several sums mentioned in the preceding section, as the cost of the bui Lungs therein authorized to be constructed, together with ten per cent, thereon, to cover the compensation of architects, superintendents, advertising, arid other conlin gent expenses, and so much as may bo required to purchase suitable sites for said building-, be, and the same are here by appropriated for the piirposesVoresaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Prodded Tim no money hereby appropriated shall he used, or applied fo the purposes mentioned, until a valid title for the land for the site of such building, in each ca-e, shall he vested in the United States; and until the Stale shall also dulv ro lease and relinquish to the United States the right to tax o in any way assess said site or property of the. United States that may be thereon during the time .hat the United Stat- s shall he or remain the owner thereof. That the compensation of the collector of customs nr Sn.l U .ky ToUmI.. ami . Inland, ha h.raafmr “he 118 IS now allowed by law to the collector at Detroit That the provisions of the act of February twentV-sixth eighteen [hundred] and fifty-three, “to the fees and costs to be allowed clerks, marshals, and attorneys of the circuit and district courts of the United States ami for other purposes, ’ hereby extended to the Territories of Min nesSota, New Mexico and Utah, as fully, in all particular as they would he, had the word “ Territories “been inserted in lhe sixth line after the word “States,” and -the same had read, in tliQ several States'and in the Territories of the United b.ates Ihis clause to take effect from and after the date ol said act, and the accounting officers w ill —u'e the accounts within its purview, according y. Tor the building of a light-house on the°g overnment re servation at Minnesota Point, near the head of Lake S,*- penor, m the i erntory of Minnesota fifteen thousand dol- And for the construction of two lubt-houses j„ Califor nia. one ai ( rescent City, and one at Trinity Bay fifteen thousand dollars each, should th* Secretary of tlfe'lW ury decide that end I,ght h uses were necessary, after pnm er examination and surveys • * c r,, P Skc 13 And be it further enacted That Frank’in in the collection districtm Pa*, t | H ’ Texa- be and the same is hereby made the port of I- an ” the •to id of Fronteru; and rl, col ec r !t,l, f ’ ,n * Siv la And Lit 11,1 *"*11 reside thereat. ----- l*. Ana be it further enacted. That the made ourli.g the present Congress u 01, L l\V V , That in the settlement of the accounts of E. p E-ale late supermtemlentof Indian affair- in California li e c’ counting officers of the treasury Iw authorized to allow him ttic amount acmalty paid loan in.erpre.er, during eighteen hundred and fit.y-ihree, and eighteen hundred and tilt y-lour, npou Producing satisfactory vouchers tl^etor EC : d* o, be tt further enacted, That the sum of wven hundred and sixty-five dollars, the balance of two t i u-and two hundred dollars directed to be paid Janie; I. ‘ dler, and 1: vne-y oh-te-real, or eiiher of them by iTa. en -’ *° . tha n ? Wy J wl,b he Miama In and 1 i. v e JS' lt€€r i ,!Undrtd and fifty-four, be. •no ttie wr„e is hereby, directed to be paid u the .aid JM* ler and Pyne-y-oh*te*-mah, out of any moneys in the trea sury not otherwise appropriated. * To pay this amount for interest due to the Chicka-aws, at the rate of five per cent, per anuum, in pursuance of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, on the sum of one hundred and twelve thousand, forty-two dollars arid ninety-nine cents, improperly charged to said nation, ac cording to the decision of the proper accounting officers of the treasury, from the first September eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, until the ninth March, eighteen hundred and fifty, seventy-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars and twenty-five cents. Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury ba, and he is hereby authorized and direc ted to cause to h constructed the following buildings:— At Bristol Rhode Island, for the accomodation of the cus tom house and post-office, a building of brick, with five proof floors, constructed of iron beams, and brick work, iron roof, shutters, sills, &c., twenty-five feet by thirty, and twenty-five feet high, to cost not more, than twelve thou sand five hundred dollars. At Pensicola, Florida, for the accommodation of the custom-house, post-office, and United States court, a buil ding of like materials, thirty-five by fifty feet, and forty feet high, to cost not more than thirty-five thousand dollars. At Cleveland, Ohio, for the accomodation of the custom house-, post offitc, and United States court, a buiiding of stone, eighty-five by sixty feet high, of like floors, beams, root, shnoers, <fec., to cost not more than eighty-eight thou sand dollars. At Platlsburgh, New Pork, for th* accomodation of the custom house, post-office, and United States court, a buil ding of brick, of like fl >ors, roof, beams, shutters, Arc., forty-five feet by sixty, and forty-eight feet high, to cost not more ttian fifty thousand dollars. At Alexandria, Virginia, to accommodate the custom house, post-office, and United States court, a building of brick, of like fl >ors, beams, roof, shutters, &c., forty-five feet by sixty, and forty-eight feet high, to co3t not more than fifty thousand dollars. At Barnstable, Massachusetts, for the accomodation of the custom house and post-office, a building of brick, of like floors, beams,roof,shutters,<fec.,forty-five feet by thir ty-two, and thirty-two feet in height, and to cost not more than twenty thousand dollars. Skc. 17. And be it further enacted, That the several sums mention*: i in tlie preceding section of this act, as the cost of the buildings therein authorized to be constructed, together with ten per cent, thereon to cover the compen sation of architects, superintendents, advertising, and other contingent expenses, and so much as rnay be required, to purchase suitable sites, for said buildings, be, and are. hereby appropriated, for the purposes aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated : Prodded, That no money hereby appropriated slia.ll he u*ed or applied for the purposes mentioned, until a valid U'le to the land for the site of suoh buildings, in each case, shall be. vested in the United Siates, and .until the State | -hall also duly release and relinquish to the United States the rig t to lax, or in any way assess said site, or the pro perty of the United States that may be thereon during the tmie that the United States shall ba or remain the owner thereof. Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury ot the United states, be and they tire hereby authorized and required to ere'it the secretary of the Terri'ory of Minnesota, in the settlement of his accounts, wit h the sum of eight hundred and eighty five dollars, the amount paid hv the said secretary for col lating, indexing, and superintending the printing of the statutes of raid Tertitory, lor the years eig teen hundred and forty nine, eighteen hundred arid silty-one, eighteen nundred and fifty-two, and eighteen, hundred and fifty three ; and for arranging, indexing, and in part reporting the decisions of the supreme court of said Territory, under j tin t res lotion of the legislative assembly of said Territory, pass | ed in the year eighteen hundred and fifiv-threo. j Skc. 19 And be it further enacted, That the proper i accounting officer of the Department of the Interior be au j fhorized arjd directed to audit and settle the claim of John Random, dec’d , a friendly creek Indian (of the halfbolod,) tor losses sustained and properly destroyed by hostile creek fndians.in the war of eighteen hundred and fourteen,in such manner and upon such terms as rnay be just and equitable ; the am >unt, when so ascertained, to bi paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the h°irs and legal representatives of the said John Random: Provided, That the amount shall not exceed the sum of rive thousand nine hundred and twent('"dollars. Sec 20. And be it furl her enacted, That there shall he appointed a consul genera! to reside in the British North American provinces, with a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, and the sum ot four thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for that object. Jor the reimbursement of the Patent-Office fund for mon eys heretofore paid out by appropriations of Acts of Con : gress, for seeds, arid the collection of agricultural statistics, | forty thousand and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-eight i cents, to be paid out of any moneys in treasury not other i wise appropriated. For filling up and draining the grounds in the vicinity of j the national greenhouses, known as the Botanic Garden; and for walling with brick the creek which passes through thesnme, twelve thousand dollars. | Sec 21. And be it further enacted. That the sum of ! twenty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby ap ; propriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ! appropriated, to pay the necessary expenses of six compan i of volunteers called into the service of the United States, | by Brigadier-General Smith, in the State of Texas, to be paid under the direction of the Secretary of War. That the President be authorized to appoint, during the recess of Congress, to he nominated to the Senate for”con fir mat ion at. the next session, the register and receiver of the land-office for the Umpqua land district, in the Terri tory of Oregon, established by the act of February seven teenth eighteen hundred and fifty-five, to take effect on the seventeenth of May eighteen hundred and fifty-five. Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized, in his discretion, the employ ment of temporary clerks by superintendents of Indian affairs, on such occasions and for such periods of time as he may deem necessary to the public service , for which purpose there is hereby appropriated the sum of five thou sand do' ! ars. Sec .23. And be it further enacted, That the seventh section of the act of eighteenth January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled “An act supplementary to an act establishing the mint, and reguliting the coins of the Uni ted States,” be so amended as to extend the allowance, for the annual salary of the clerks in the branch mint of the l fitted States at New Orleans, to eighteen hundred dollars each, from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, at. the discretion of the officers authorized by hw to appoint, with the approbation of the President of the United States. ‘That t lie accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized to allow to the Secretary of the Territory of Nebraska the difference between the salary of the governer of said Territory, and iris salary as sec. tary, during the period he acted as governer after the decease of, and until the arrival in the ‘Territory of the successor of the late Governor Burt, which amount after being ascertained is payable out of the appropriation “for salaries of governor, three judges and secretary” of said Territory, as made by Congress, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and liftv-five. Sec. 2-!. And be it further enacted. That the teeth sec tion oi’ tile act making appropriations for the current and contingent expen es of the Indian Department, and for ful filling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, ap prove i July thirty first, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, be carried into efUot by paying the valuations, ascertained and reported by Messrs, Upton and Summey, ad other official assessors, as ordered by the commissioners, under the Cher okee treaty of eighteen hundr and and thirty-five, and eigh teen hundred and thirty-six, with interest on said valuations respeciively front the date of the said commissioners’ orders lor assessment; and that the Secretary of the Inerior be further directed to fill the blanks in such awards as are on his tiles, with such amounts respectively as may be ectab jished by proof of value statisfactory to him, and pay the rame. For taking up and relaying and renewing so much as has washed away at the sewer along . ifteenth Street west, con litiguous to the public grounds south ot the President’s, three thousand do'lars. Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That the first as* sisiant examiners in tire Patent-Office, shall be rated as of the fourth class ol cleik-q and the second assistant exarnin-’ ers, machinist and librarian, as of the third class. That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and required t# settle and adjust the accounts of John Adair, o-d’ett-pr of customs at Astoria, Oregon, upon lair and equitable principles, taking into consideration the parucu-> lar circumstances of the case. Sec. 2f. And be it further enacted, That there ehall be paiil to the. surveyor general o! Washington Territory and the officers employee under him, the same amount of com pensation as is allowed to the surveyor-general of New Mexico, and the officers employed under hint. Sec. 27. And be it further enacted. That, in accor dance with the memorial of the* Menominee Indians to the President and Congress, dated the fourth of October, eigh teen hundred ami fitty-lbur, and executed in general coun cil of the nation, the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Richard W. Thompson, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, one half of the amount stipoia l ited in said memorial, and in an agreement of said Indians with sani Thompson dated the fifteenth of February, eigh teen hundred and fifty one, tor his services as attorney for said Indians in the prosecution of a claim in their behalf fi r additional compensation tor lands ceded by them to the United Stales by the treaty of eighteen hundred and furiy eight, and that the snm so paid bo deducted from the an nuities when due and payable, that R'e tube paid to the said Indians under the treaty of die twelfth of May, eigh teen bundled and fifty four, and the amendments thereto For rebuilding add repairs of the building far tr.e branch mint a* New Orients, fiiry-tive thousand uoiiir*. F f *r the erection of a building f*r a enurr heuae, peg* office, and other public purposes, at Indianapolis, Indiana, j fifty thousand dollars. Sec. 28. And be it further enacted, That to enable the President of the United States to contract with Hiram Powers, for some work of art executed or to be executed by him, and suitable for the ornament of the Capitol, a sum not exceeding-twenty five thousand dollars. Sec. 29. And be it further enacted, That the Secre* tary be authorized to sell the United States court-house and the water-lot belonging to the United States, at Detroit, Michigan, on which the custom-house, post-office, and courfhouse was directed to be constructed, under the pro visions of the second section of the art approved fifth [fourth] August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four ; and to apply so much of the proceeds as may be necessary to the purchase of a suitable site for said building as is therein provided for, and on which the Secretary ot the Treasury is authorized to erect said building. For fulfilling treaty with the Chippewa Indians, negotia ted February twenty-second, eigeteen hundred and fifty five, one hundred ar and ninety-Civeq thousand, two hundred and eighty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. For fulfilling treaties with the Winnebug >es, per articles of twenty-seventh February, eighteen hundred and fifty five, seventy-three thousand seven hundred dollars.^ For fulfilling the articles with the Umpquasand Calapoo ias of the Umpqua Valley, Oregon, of the twenty-ninth November, eighteen hundred and fifty four, twenty-three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. For fulfilling the articles neeotiated November eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty four, with certain bands of Chasta, Scoton, and Umpqua Indians, thirty five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. For fulfillsng treaty with the Rogue River Indians, per i articles of fifteeth November, eighteen hundred and fifty four, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. F<r fulfilling the articles negotiated December twenty sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, with certain bands of Indians of Puget’s Sound, Washington Territory, six teen thousand five hundred dollar*. For fulfilling the articles negotiated January tenth, eigh teen hundred and fifty-five, with certain confederated bands of Calapooia, Molala, and Clackamas Indians, of Oregon, sixtv two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For the increased pay of Indian agents and pay of additional agents authorized by the act passed the first March, eighteen hundred and fifty five, six thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. F’or the increase of pay to Indian suh-agents, authori zed by the act passed March first, eighteen hundred and fiity-five, one thousand three hundred and thirty-four dol lars. For pay ol three Indian agents in California, per act tw’enty-eighth September, eighteen hundred and fitty, and act passed March first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, twelve thousand dollars. For eipenses of the reconnoissance of the boundary line between the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indiana, one thou sand dollars,- For fulfilling treaty with the Wyandott Indians of thirty-first January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five : Pro vided, That the appropriations made for said Indians by the Indian appropriation bill passed at this session of Con gress are hereby repealed: one hundred and uventy-etght thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. For arreages due the Choctaw Indians under various treaty stipulations, as per report on statement of the proper accounting officer of the treasury, transmitted by the Sec retary oi the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the tenth March, eighteen hundred and fifty three, to be jiaid over or expended for the benefit ot the Choctaw nation, as may be requested by the authorixed delegation thereof now in Washington, ninety-two thou sand two hundred and fil’ty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Approved, March 3, 1855. \ g CHAPTER. CLXXI. AN ACT making Appropriations for Fortifications and other Works of Defence, and for Repairs of Barracks and Quaters, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, •one thousand eight hundred and fifty six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States oj America in Congress as sembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby i appropriated, for the constiuction, preservation, and repairs, ot certain fortifications, barracks, and quarters, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hun dred and fifty s ; x. For Fort Montgomery, at outlet of Lake Champlain, New York, fifteen thousand dollars: For FYirt Knox, at narrows of Penobscot River, Maine, sixty thousand dollars: For preservation of the site of Fort Warren, at the nar rows of Boston harbor, Massachusetts, ten thousand dol lars : F'or Fort Schuyler, entrance t > Long Island Sound, New \ r ork, twenty five thousand dolla-s : For Fort Richmond, at the narrows, New York harbor, seventy-five thousand dollars: For Fort Delaware, Delaware River, Delaware, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; For Fort Carroll, Baltimore harbor, Maryland, one hun dred thousand dollars: For Fort Monroe, entrance to Hampton Roads, Virginia, fifty-live thousand dollars: For Fort Calhoun, entrance to Hampton Roads, Virginia, lwenty thousand dollars. For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, eighty thousand dollars: For Fort Clinch,entrance to Cumberland Sound, Florida, twenty five thousand dollars: Fi r Fort Barraneas, Pensacola harbor, Florida, thirty thousand dollars: For Fort Mcßee, and preservation of its site, Florida, twenty five thousand dollars: For Fort Gaines, Dauphin Island, Alabama, fifty thou sand dollars: For Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: For Fort Jefferson, Tortugas, Florida, one hundred and fiftv thousand dollars: For forts on the western frontier of Texas, fifty thousand dollars. For fortifications at Fort Point, entrance to San Francis co bay, California, three hundred thousand dollars : For fortifications at Alcatraz Is'and, San Francisco bay, California, two hundred thousand dollars. For repairs of Fort Niagara, New York, six thousand dollars: tUFor construction and repairs of quarters and barracks at Fort Columbus, New York harbor, twenty six thousand five hundred dollars: For construction of an additional magazine for batteries Hudson and Morton, Staten Island, New York, five thou sand dollars: For repairs of Fort Madison, Anapolis harbor, Maryland, ten thousand six hundred doliars : For repairs of Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, five thousand dollars: For repairs of Fort Jackxon, Savannah River, Georgia, tvv?nty thousand dollars: For Repairs of Fort Macomb, Chef Menteur Pass, Lou isiana, nine thousand five hundred doliais : For the extension of battery at Fort Jackson, Mississippi River, ten thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort St. Philip, Mississippi River, Louis iana, thirty five thousand dollars : For contingent expenses of the fortifications not herein mentioned, the meservation of sites, the protection of titles, and repairs of sudden damages to forts, twenty thousand dollars. Approved March 3, 1855. CHAPTER CLXXIII. An Act further to amend the Act entitled “An Act to reduce and modify the Rates of Postages in the United States, and for other Purposes,” passed March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. And be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu ot the rates of postage now estab lishen by law, there shall be charged the following rates, to wit:— For evary single letter in manuscrint, or paper of any kind in whieh information shall be asked for or communi cated in writing, or by marks or signs, conveyed in the mail for any distance he-ween places in the United States not exceeding three thousand miles, three cents; and for any distance exceeding three thousand miles, ten ceuts. And for a doublo.letter there shail be charged double the rate above specified ; and for a treble letter, treble tiioso rates ; and fora quadruple letter,quadruple those rates; and every letter or parcel not exceeding half an ounce in weight shall be desmed asingls letter ; and every addition al weight of half an ounce, or additional weight of less than half an ounce, shall be charged with an additional single postage ; and upon all letters passing through or in the mail of the United States, excepting such as are to or from a foreign country, the postages as above” specified shall be prepaid, except upon letters and packages address ed to officers of the government on official business, which shall bx so marked on the envelope. And from and after th> first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty six, the Postmaster General may require postmaster to place postage stamps upon all prepaid letters upon which such stamps may not have been placed by the writers. And all drop letters, or letters placed in any post office j not for transmission through the mail, but for delivery only, j shall lie charged with postage at the rate of one and all k tiers which shall hereafter be-advertised as re- j rnaining ovpr, or uncalled for. in any pent office, sh’U be ; charged with one cent each, in addition to the regular po*; teg?, both to be aeconnted for as ether nesses now a r e ; feEC t And be it further enacted, j'bat t shall j.ot { b lawful hr my porMnasot er other parson to ssjl %qy pontage stamp or stamped envelope for any larger sum than that.iniicaetJ upon the face of such postage stamp orior a larger sum than that charged therefor by the Post Urtu e Department; and any person who shall violate this pro* vision shall be deemed guilty of a m.sdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, siiall be fined in any sum aot less than ten, nor more than five hundred dollars. This act to take effect and be in force from and after the commencement of the nest fiscal quarter after its passage. Provided, i hat nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to alter the laws in relation to the franking privilege. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the grealrr security of valuable letters posted for transmission in ‘ e mails of the United States, the Postmaster General be, and hereby is, authorized to establish a uniform plan lc; : t!’ • registration of such letters on application of j xrf pa ting the same, and to require the prepayment of the po: • ! ta"e, as well as a registration fee ol live cents on every S such letter or packet, to be accounted for by postmasters receiving the same in such manner as the Postmaster Gen eral shall direct: Provided, however, That such registra tion shall not be compulsory; and it shall not render l ie Post Office Department or its revenue liable for the less of such letters or packets, or the contents thereof. Approved, March 3, 1855. CHAPTER CLXIX. AN ACT making Appropriations for the Support, of the Army, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-six, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress ns ssmbled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army, for the yo..r ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty six:— For pay of the army, two million six hundred thousand eight hundred and six dollars. For pay, supplies, and traveling expenses ol’ six compa nies of Texas volunteers, called into service by the gov ernor of Texas, and mustered into the service of the Unit ed States, one hundred aud thirty seven thousand seven hun dred and fifty five dollars and thirty eight cents. For commutation of officers’ subsistance, six hundred and twenty eight thousand one hundred and sixty eight dollars. For commutation of forage for officers’ horses, one hund red and four thousand eight hundred and thirty two dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing for officers’ servants, thirty six thousand three hnndred and fifty dollars. For expenses of recruiting, transportation of recruits, three months’ extra pay to non commissioned officers, mu sicians, and privates, on re-enlistment, one hundred thou sand dollars. For subsistence in kind, one million three hundred and thirty one thousand and sixty eight dollars and seventy fivo cents. For clothing for the army, camp and garrison equipage, five hundred and seventy four thousand eight hundred and seventy six dollars and fifty nine cents. For the regular supplies of the quarter master’s depart ment , consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the quarter master’s department, at the several military posts and stations, and with the armies in the field ; for the horses of the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mountod riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may be moun ted, and, also,for the authorized number of officer's horses when serving in the field and at the outposts; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including company and’ other blank books for the army, certificates for dis charged soldiers, blank forms, for the pay, and quarter master’s departments, and for the printing of division, and department orders, army regulations, aud reports, eight hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For the incidental expenses of the quarter master’s de partment, consisting of postage on letters and p ickets re ceived and sent by officers of the army on public service ; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including the additional compensation to judge advocates, recorders, members, and witnesses, while on that service, under the act of March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and two tra pay to soldiers employed, under the direction of the quarter master’s department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and hospitals; the constructioia of roads, and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under the acts of March second, eighteen hund red and nineteen, and August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty four, including those employed as clerks at division, and department head quarters ; expenses of expresses to and from the frontier posts and armies in the field ; of escorts to pay masters, other disbursing officers, and trains, when military escorts cannot be furnished ; expenses of the inter ment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers ; authoriz ed office furniture ; hire of laborers in the quarter master’s department, including hire of interpreters, spies, and guides, for the army : compensation of clerk to officers of the quarter master’s department; compensation of forage and wagon mastere, authorized by the act of July sth, eighteen hundred and thirty eight; for the apprehension of deserters, and the expenses incident to their pursuit; the various ex penditures required for the first and second regiments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the regiment of mounted riflemen, and such companies of infantry as may he mounted, viz: for the purchase of horse equipments, as saddles, bridles, saddle blankets, nosebags, iron combs, cur ry combs, and spurs, and straps ; of traveling forges, black smiths’ and shoeing tools, horse and mule shoes, iron and steel for shoeing, hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, shoeing horses of mounted corps, and repairing dragoon and rifle equipments, three hundred and seventy five thousand three hundred and sixty eight dollars. For constructing barracks and other buildings at posts, which it rnay be necessary to occupy during the year, and for repairing, altering, and enlarging buildings at the es tablished posts, including hire or commutation of quarters for officers on military duty ; hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, and of grounds for summer cantonments; for encampments and temporary frontier stations, lour hundred and ninety thou sand four hundred and fifty eight dollars. For mileage to officers of the army for traasportation of themselves and baggage when traveling on duty, without troops or escorts, one hundred thousand dollars. For transportation of the army, including the baggage of i the troops when moving either by laud or water ; of cloth ! ing, camp and garrison equipage, horse equipments, from | the depot at Philadelphia to the several posts and army depots; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to lie sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores and small arms, from tho foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and army depots; freights, warfage, tolls, and ferriages ; for the purchase and hire of horses, mules and oxen, and the purchase and repair of wagons, carts, drays, ships and other sea-going vessels and boasts for the transportation of supplies, and lor garrison purposes ; for drayago and cartiage at the several posts ; hire of team sters ; transportation of funds for the pay and other dis bursing departments; the expense of sailing public trans- i ports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the j Atlantic and Pacific: and /or procuring water at such poats i as from their situation require that it be brought from a dis- • tance, and for clearing roads and removing obstructions from roads, harbors, and rivers, to the extent which may ! be required for the actual operations of the troops on tho j frontier, ono million two hundred thousand dollars. For the purchase of horses for the lirst and second regi ments of dragoons, the companies of light artillery, the ! mounted riflemen, and such infantry as the commanding ; officers at the frontier posts may find it necessary to mount, i two hundred thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, six thousand dollars. ! For the medical and hospital departments, fifty two thou- , sand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the adjutant general’s de- j partment, at division and department head quarters, four : hundred dollars. For armament of fortifications, one hundred and tweuty five thousaud dollars. For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, oue hund red thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars. For the manufacture of arms at the national armories, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Harper’s Ferry, thirty two thousand six hundred and seven ty three dollars. * For repairs and improvements and new machinery at Springfield armory, fifty four thousand dollars. For new machinery at Harpers’s Ferry aimory, twenty thousand dollars For repairs, preservation, and contingencies of arsenals, fifty thousand dollars, and tor continuing the construction of the arsenal at Benicia, California, forty thousand dol lars. And it is hereby provided, that the annual compen sation of the civil superintendents of the national armories be two thousand five hundred dollars, without perquisites, alTbwaneee, or additions of any kind, quarters excepted, and that the same be paid out of any money iu the treasury not otherwise appropuated. For continuing the survey of tire northern and northwest ern lakes, inclur ing Lake Superior, fifty thousand dollars. For surveys for military defences of the sea and inland frontier, fifteen thousand dollars. For printing anew system of light infantry and rifle tac tics, to b*e stereotyped, with engraved plates, and for pro curing for distribution to the militia of the United States, books of tactical instruction, including the system of regu- , latiooa now in court* oi preparation, thirty thousand del- ! lan-'. For compensation o? the clerk and meseaßget in the office I of the commanding general, two thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the offic* es he command- i irvg general, three bond red dollar*. I For arrearages prior to July first, one • t. hundred and filteeu, payable through the office ol *he tKIh Auditor under an act approved May the fus? one Thou sand eight hundred and twenty, m addition t 0 the baUnJL undrawn m the treasury, two thousand dollars aianf^ For the Capitol extension, three hundred and twent* five thousand dollars. twenty To complete the road from Point Dou<d a on the Mi sksippi River,to the mouth of the St. Louis Rj v , rG f LaU Superior, in Wisconsin, thirty four thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty cents. 0 To complete the road from Point Douglass to For* Gaines, now Fort Ripley, thirteen thousand four hundred aud ninety four dollars and nine cents. To comple‘6 the road from Swan River to the Winneba go Agency, two thousand five hundred and thirty nin M cents. To complete the road from Wabashaw to Meudota thirteen thousand eight nuudred and seventy one dollars and seventy six cents. The said road to be completed un der the direction ot the Secretary of War. To complete the road from Mendo } to the Big Sioux River, twenty seven thousand tour hundred and seventy five dollars and sixty eight cents. That the sum of thirty two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, oat of auv monevs in the treasury not ctherwi. a appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the manner fol lowing, namely : Sixteen thousand dollars tor the improve ment of the road from Fort Union to Santa Fe ; ton thou sand dollars lor the improvement of the road from Secalota to Albuquerque, via Canon Blanco and Canon Carnue; and six thousand dollars for the improvement of the road from Canada to Abiquea ; all the said roads being in iho Territory of New Mexico. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the hoard of officers appointed under the sixth section of the act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year end ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty three, appro ved August thirty first, eighteen hundred and fifty two, is hereby abolished : Provided, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to appoint, during the recess of Congress, such of the commissioned officers authorized by this act below thb grade of field officer, as may net bn appointed during the present session whose commissions shall expire on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty six. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That the provis ions ol an act entitled “An act lor the payment of the civil offieors employed in the Territory of New Mexico, while uuder military government,” approved July seventeenth, eighteen hundred and fifty four, be, and the same are hereby, extended to embruee the case of Lieutenant Colonel J. M. Washington, deceased, late of the army, for and during the period of his appointment and service as military gov ernor of the Now Mexico, ex-officio superintendent of Indian affairs, aud commander of the troops, prio/ to the formation of the civil government. Sec. 4. And be it. further enacted, That th®*?um of thirty thousand dolhrs be, and the same is hereby appro priated, to bo expended under the direction of the War Department, in the purchase and importation of camels and dromedaries, to be employed for militarv purposes. Sec. 5 And be it'further enacted, Tnat the provisions of the first section of the act entitled “Au act making ap propriations for the support of the army for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty one,” approved September twenty eight, eighteen hundred and fifty, granting extra pay to the officers and eulisted men of the army serving in Oregon and California, bo extended to the officers and men composing the garrison of the post of Fort Laramie, on the Oregon route, lor the samo period of time as was allowed by the sixth section of the act [of } I third March,eighteen hundred and fifty three, to the officers I and men of the two companies of regiment of mounted ! riflemen that garrisoned Fort Laramie; and that the pro- I visions of the same section of the same act be also extend i ed to the officers and men composing the escort to the Mexi | can boundary commission, while they were serving as such i eaeo-it. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted. That the laws grant ing extra pay to officers and soldiers who had served in Ca'ifornia, apply to chaplains who were attached to the army in California during the period embraced by such laws. Sec. 7. And he it further enacted, That the annual distribution of arms to the several States, under the act ap> proved April twenty third, eighteen hundred and eight, en titled “An act making provision lor arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the 1 nited States,” shall be hereafter made according to the number of their repre sentatives and senators in Congress, respectively ; and that arms be distributed to the Territories and the District of Columbia, in such qualities and under such regulation tv* the I’resident, in ins discretion, may prescribe : Provided, That the Secretary •! War shall first equalize, as far an practicable, the number of arms heretofore distributed aud now in possession of the several States, so that each State which has received less than its pro rata share shall receive a number sufficient to make an equal pro rata proportion for all the States, according to the present number of their representatives and senators in Congress, respectively. Sec. 8. Aud be it. further enacted, That there shall I*o added to the army two regiments ot infantry and two regi ments of cavalry, organized as in the existing force; and there shall he appointed by the President, by and with tlio advice and consent of the Senate, one brigadier genera), and that the officers and men authorized by this act shall be entitled to the same provisions for wounds and disabili ties, and the same provisions for widows and children, and the same allowances and benefits, in every respect, as are allowed to other troops composing, the army of the United States. They shall he subject to the rules and arti cles of war, and the men shall be recruited in the same manner as other troops, and with the same conditions aud limitations. Sec. 9. And. be it further enacted, That to enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the pro visions of so much ot’ this act as relates to the employment of an additional military force, such sum ol money, not exceeding two millions five hundred thousand dollar?, as may be necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropria ted. Approved, March 3,1855 CHAPTER CLXVII. AN ACT to provide for tho erection of Public Building* iu the Territory of Kansas. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United. States of America in Congress as sembled, That tho fc±im of twenty live thousand dollars be, and same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, lor the continuation and erection of public buildings lor the use of the legisla ture ol the Territory ol Kansas, to be expended under l!i direction of the governor of said territory ; Provided, Suid money, or any part thereof, or of any portion of the mo ney heretofore appropriated for this purpose, shall not be expended until the legislature of said territory shall have fixed by law the permanent seat of government. Approved, March 3, 1855. CHAPTER CIAVIII. AN ACT to provide for the erection of Public Building* in the Territory of Nebraska. Bets. enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives (if the United States of America,” in Cvngree as sembled, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, tor the construction of public buildings in the Territory of Nebraska, to be expend ed under the direction of the governor of said territory : Prodded, Said money, or any part thereof, shall not be expended uutil tho legislature shall have fixed by law the permanent seat of government. Approved, March 3, 1855. CHAPTER CLXXH. AN ACT for the Construction of certain Military Road* in the Territory of Kansas. Be if roar fed bit the Senate and House nf Represent*- ; tires of the United. States of America in Comress assetn ’ sembled, T ANARUS! at the sum of fifty thousand dollar* be, am] the snme is herybv, appropriated, not of anv moneys in the treasury not otherwise anpropriat-d. for tho coni ruction of a road from Fn-t Riley to sueh point on the A'lhishi, Riv er as may. in the opinion of the Secretary of War, he most eyn**d : ent for miliinry purposes. Skc. ‘2 And be it further enacted. That the further sum of fifty thousand dollars be. and the same is hereby, Bpnropriated, out of any money* in the treft'ttrv not olher nnnropr’s’ed. for the construction nf m rowd from Fort Rilev to B'idger’s Pass, in the K<>ckv Mountain*. The said sum* to he expended under the direction of tie Secretary of War, in pursuance of contracts t he wa'*a by him. Approved, March 3, 185'. CHAPTER CTAX. AN ACT to appropriate .Money to remove Gl*trurt or in tie Savannah River, helciv the City ©f .Savannth, in the Slate of Georgia. Be it. enacted by the Senate and House of Rept*s*v tjrtires of the United States of Amman in CoaQiaee ns sembled. That the rum of one hundred and mtv “ne thou sand dolJars he, and the same is hereby, appropriated r of any roone’t not heretofore. ai'pr >priate.i. vrmove ‘ha obstructions in tb Savannah R v *”. Sel°w the ‘■ y •’* Faxannah, in the S*ate of Georgia. p'*< ed there dur a thft rgfoln;ionary war. fr ♦*' ‘-■•inmoit drteiKtt Approved, March % IB’