New Patent

on the said building, certified by the Commissioner of public Buildings, to amount, on the fifteenth [of] April, eighteen hundred and forty, to the sum of fifty-three thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars and six cents, one hundred and five thousand dollars;

For continuing the construction of the New Patent office Building, Office building. including the arrearages due for materials furnished, and labor performed on the said building, certified by the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, to amount, on the fifteenth of April, eighteen hundred and forty, to the sum of forty-two thousand four hundred and eighty-one dollars and eighty-three cents, one hundred thousand dollars;

New General Post Office

building.

Capitol.

Grounds

For continuing the construction of the New General Post Office Building, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars;

For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, and incidental expenses, fifteen hundred and fifty-one dollars;

For lighting lamps, purchasing trees, shrubs, and compost, for keeparound Capitol. ing in order the public grounds around the Capitol, the iron water pipes, and wooden fences, six thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars;

For attendance at the western gates of the Capitol, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents;

For salary of the principal gardener, twelve hundred dollars;

For alterations and repairs of the President's house and furniture, for purchasing trees, shrubs, [and] compost, and for superintendence of the grounds, three thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars;

For payments to the artists engaged in executing four historical paintings for the vacant panels of the rotundo of the Capitol, eight thousand dollars: Provided, the paintings are in such a state of progress as in reference to the whole sum to be paid to the artists respectively, for their execution, shall, in the opinion of the President of the United States, render it proper to make such payments;

For payment of Luigi Persico, and Horatio Greenough, for statues to adorn the two blockings, east front of the Capitol, eight thousand dollars: Provided, that the work is in such state of progress as in reference to the whole sum to be paid to the artists respectively, for their execution, shall, in the opinion of the President of the United States, render it proper to make such payments;

For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, fourteen thousand five hundred and three dollars and fifty cents;

For payment of the expenses of the sixth census, including the enumeration and returns, necessary blanks, clerical services, &c., seven hundred and forty thousand dollars;

For surveying the public lands, to be apportioned to the several surveying districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, in addition to the unexpended balance of appropriations, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars;

For closing the surveys of the public lands in the State of Mississippi, chiefly relinquished contracts, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile for township lines, eighteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars;

For retracing certain old surveys in the State of Mississippi, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile for section lines, and eight dollars per mile for township lines, seventeen thousand two hundred dollars; For completing the surveys of unfinished portions of townships, islands, lakes, &c., in Florida, at a price not exceeding five dollars per mile, ten thousand dollars;

For surveying in the State of Louisiana, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, and to be applied, if hereafter found expedient, for retracing and correcting certain old surveys, in said State, ten thousand dollars;

For completing the custom-house building at New York, one hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars; For the construction of a new custom-house at Boston, one hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars;

For repairing the public works at Staten Island, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars;

For repairs of the custom-house building at New Bedford, five hundred dollars;

For repairs of the custom-house building at New London, one thousand seven hundred dollars;

For repairs of the marine hospital at Norfolk, four thousand dollars;

For the payment of expenses incurred by the collector of New York, under the act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, to remit the duties upon certain goods destroyed by fire at the late conflagration at the city of New York, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;

Custom-house at New York. Custom-house at Boston. Public works at Staten island. Custom-house at N. Bedford. Custom-house at N. London. Marine hospital at Norfolk. Expenses under act to remit 1838, ch. 174.

certain duties,

For salaries of the Ministers of the United States to Great Britain, Ministers. France, Spain, Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Mexico, sixty-three thousand dollars: Provided, That the sum of nine thousand dollars, or such part thereof as may be necessary, may be applied to the outfit and salary of a Charge d'Affaires to Spain in lieu of a Minister;

For salaries of the Secretaries of Legation to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars;

Secretaries of legation.

For salary of the Minister Resident of the United States to Turkey, Minister to six thousand dollars;

For salaries of the Charges des Affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, New Granada, Venezuela, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of all the Missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars;

For outfits for a Minister to Russia, and of Charge d'Affaires to Sardinia, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Turkey.

Chargés des affaires.

Expenses of

missions.
Outfits.

Consuls at

Paris.

For salaries of the Consuls of the United States at London and Paris, four thousand dollars; and twelve thousand dollars for the expenses and London and salaries of diplomatic agents to be employed under the direction of the President of the United States, in attending to the Tobacco interest of the United States, in Europe;

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, forty thousand dollars;

Tobacco agents.

Relief, &c. of Am. seamen.

Office of con

For clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and other expenses in the office of the American Consul at London, per act of January nineteenth, eigh- sul at London. teen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand eight hundred dollars;

For interpreters, guards, and other expenses incident to the consulates in the Turkish dominions, five thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of the principal and two assistant Librarians, pay of the messenger, and for contingent expenses of the Library, four thousand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; For the purchase of books for the Library of Congress, five thousand dollars;

For compensation to William Gibbs McNeill, being an excess of expenditure over and above the appropriation for surveys made under his direction of the East pass of the Appalachicola Bay, one hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-nine cents;

For the payment of certain certificates, being part of the balance of a former appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund, December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, fifty dollars;

1836, ch. 2.

Consulates in Turkish dominions.

Library of Congress.

Purchase of books.

W.G.McNeill.

Payment of certificates.

General Post

For the service of the General Post Office, for the year eighteen hundred and forty, in conformity to the act of second of July, eighteen hun- Office.

dred and thirty-six, five millions one hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars, viz:

For transportation of the mail, three millions five hundred and twenty thousand dollars;

For compensation of Postmasters, one million and ninety-seven thousand dollars;

For ship, steamboat, and way letters, forty-three thousand dollars;
For wrapping-paper, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For office furniture, five thousand dollars;

For advertising, thirty-six thousand dollars;
For mail-bags, forty-six thousand dollars;

For blanks, thirty-three thousand dollars;

For mail locks, keys, and stamps, twelve thousand dollars;

For mail depredations, and special agents, twenty-two thousand dollars;

For clerks for offices, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars; For miscellaneous, sixty-seven thousand dollars: Provided, That the President and the Postmaster General shall have the same power to transfer funds from one to another head of appropriation, between the foregoing appropriations, made for the service of the General Post Of fice, as the President and any other head of an Executive Department now have to transfer funds appropriated under one head to the service of another, in any other branch of the public service.

APPROVED, May 8, 1840.

CHAP. XXIII. An Act for altering the time of holding the District Court of the
United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, at Williamsport.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the term of the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, which is now directed by law to be holden at Williamsport, in the county of Lycoming on the first Mondays of June and October in each year, shall be hereafter holden on the third Mondays of June and October in each year.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the first session of the District Court to be held at Williamsport after the passage of this act shall be on the third Monday of June one thousand eight hundred and forty. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all process which may have issued, or which may hereafter issue at Williamsport returnable to June term, as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be returned, to the terms as changed by this act. APPROVED, May 8, 1840.

May 27, 1840. CHAP. XXV.—An Act to revive an act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them and to locate others in lieu thereof, and for other purposes.

Act of 22d May 1826, ch. 147, revived and

continued for five years.

Act of Jan. 27, 1835, ch. 6.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of the twenty-second of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof," be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the term of five years; and the provisions of the above recited act shall be, and are hereby, extended to those having like claims in the States of Illinois and Missouri.

APPROVED, May 27, 1840.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. XXVI.-An Act to extend for a longer period the several acts now in force May 27, 1840. for the relief of insolvent debtors of the United States. (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States," passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and an act in addition thereto, passed on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and an act to revive and amend the said acts, passed on the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, be, and the same are hereby, revived, extended and continued in force for three years from and after the passage of this act, and until the cases then pending shall be determined for the purpose of finally disposing of such cases, but for no other pur

pose.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the said several acts shall apply to cases of insolvency, which shall have occurred on or before the passage of this act, or shall occur during the said three years.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized to cause satisfaction to be entered of record upon all judgments against any debtor or debtors who may have heretofore been released under the provision of any of the acts which are extended, continued and revived by this act, or who may hereafter be released by the said acts: Provided, The district judge in the district in which such judgments are on record, shall certify that it has not been made to appear to the satisfaction of the said district judge, by evidence submitted to him by the district attorney of the United States, that the debtor is possessed of or entitled to any property which was not disclosed and set forth to the commissioners of insolvency at the time of the examination of such debtor, under his, her, or their petition, to be released from his, her, or their indebtedness to the United States. Every application for such certificate shall be made to a judge at Chambers, and ten days' previous notice shall be given to the district attorney for the district wherein the said application is made, together with copies of all the papers on which such application shall be made. And so much of the said recited acts, or either of them, as is inconsistent herewith, or is hereby altered or supplied, be, and the same hereby is, repealed.

APPROVED, May 27, 1840.

[Expired.]

Acts of the 2d

March 1831, ch. 61; 14th July 1832, ch. 230; and 7th June 1834, ch. 45, revived and extended.

CHAP. XXVII.—An Act authorizing Sippican and Mattapoisett, within the town May 27, 1840. ship of Rochester, in the State of Massachusetts, to be known hereafter as ports under those names.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Sippican and Mattapoisett, harbors within the township of Rochester, in the State of Massachusetts, be hereafter respectively known as ports under those names within the collection district of New Bedford; and that the respective inhabitants thereof be authorized to describe as the law requires their vessels as belonging to the respective places instead of Rochester.

APPROVED, May 27, 1840.

(a) See notes to the act of March 2, 1831, chap. 61.

Sippican and Mattapoisett to be known as ports, &c.

STATUTE I.

June 1, 1840.

Act of June 22, 1838, ch. 119.

sidence on one

quarter section, and cultivation

CHAP. XXXII.—Ân Act supplemental to the act entitled "An act to grant pre-emp tion rights to settlers on the public lands," approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the In cases of re- United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where a settler on the public lands may reside, or have his dwellinghouse upon one quarter section, and cultivate land on another and different quarter section, such settler may make his election under the act to which this is a supplement, to enter either of said quarter sections, or legal subdivisions of each, so as not to exceed one quarter section in all.

of land on another.

In cases of improvements made by one person, and leased or rented to another.

Certain lands not surveyed,

&c.

Persons who settled on any

public land be

by any State for a seminary of learning.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where an individual may have made an improvement on the public land, and had afterward leased or rented such improvement to another person, who was in possession of the same on the twenty-second of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for the period of four months next preceding, or when the lessor and lessee, together, occupied such improvement during said four months, the person who made such improvement, and so rented or leased the same, shall be entitled to the right of preemption, notwithstanding he may have been out of possession of his improvement during said four months, or any part thereof.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That every settler on the public lands, which were not surveyed at the passage of the act to which this is a supplement, and who, since the survey of such public lands has been ascertained to have resided at the date of said act, and for four months preceding, on a sixteenth section, set apart for the support of schools in any township, shall be entitled to enter at the minimum price any other quarter section of the public lands lying in the same land district, to which no other person has the right of pre-emption, on making satisfactory proof of his or her residence as aforesaid on such sixteenth section, before the register and receiver of the land office of said district.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That every person who may have been a settler, within the meaning of the act to which this is a supplefore its selection ment, on any public land before its selection by any State for the purposes of a seminary of learning, under any act of Congress authorizing such selection, on satisfactory proof of the facts before the register and receiver of the district in which his improvements were situated, shall be permitted to enter at the minimum price, any other quarter section lying in the same land district, to which no other person has the right of pre-emption.

The act of 22d June 1838, ch. 119, continued till 22d June 1842.

Right of preemption extended.

1838, ch. 119.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the "Act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the public lands," approved, June twentysecond, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, continued in full force till the twenty-second day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-two; and the right of pre-emption, under its provisions, shall be, and hereby is, extended to all settlers on the public lands at the date of this act, with the same exceptions, whether general or special, and subject to all the limitations and conditions contained in the aboverecited act, and with the explanatory provisions of the preceding sections of this act; and nothing in the last proviso of the act of the twentysecond of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall be so construed as to defeat any right of pre-emption accruing under said act, or under this act, or under any preceding act of Congress, nor shall said preemption claims be defeated by any contingent Choctaw location. APPROVED, June 1, 1840.

(a) See notes of the acts which have been passed relative to pre-emptions of public lands; act of May 29, 1830, chap. 208.