of false swearing in taking the oath, at the rendition of his accounts as CHAP. XXXVI.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. by the 5th section of this act, to be deemed perjury. Sec. Treasury may direct the Dist. Attorney to prosecute the offender. Laws incon sistent with the 5th, 6th and 7th sections of this act, repealed. STATUTE II. March 3, 1841. [Obsolete.] Appropria tions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same hereby are, appropriated to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one; For the pay of the army, one million one hundred and seventy-two Pay. thousand and twenty-eight dollars; For subsistence of officers, five hundred and fourteen thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars; Subsistence of officers. For forage of officers' horses, one hundred and fourteen thousand five Forage of offihundred and seventy-one dollars; For payments in lieu of clothing not drawn in kind, eighty thousand and thirty dollars; For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, six hundred and fortyeight thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars; For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, five hundred and five thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars; For the medical and hospital department, twenty-eight thousand dollars; cers' horses. Payments in lieu of clothing. Subsister.ce. Clothing, &c. Medical and hospital depart ment. Quartermas For the regular supplies furnished by the Quartermaster's Department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationery, and printing, two ter's departm't. hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars; For barracks, quarters, and store-houses, embracing the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses and hospitals; the erection of temporary cantonments, and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon; the purchase of tools and materials, and of furniture for the barrack-rooms; rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, of store-houses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing and other military supplies, and of grounds for summer cantonments, and encampments for military practice, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For transportation of officers' baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, sixty-five thousand dollars; For transportation of troops and supplies, viz: transportation of the army and baggage; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for purposes of transportation, or garrison use; drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of transport vessels, and of procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it; transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the VOL. V.-55 2 M Barracks, &c. Transportation. of officers' baggage. Transportation of troops and supplies. troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery under contracts to such points as the circumstances of the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and arms from the foundries and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and of lead from the mines to the several arsenals, two hundred and forty-two thousand dollars; For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's Department: consisting of postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, including compensation to judge advocates, members and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under the act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen; expenses of expresses, and of the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation of clerks in the offices of the quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and of temporary agents in charge of dismantled works and in the performance of other duties; expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments of dragoons complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for the service, and the erection of stables, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars; For the contingencies of the army, nine thousand dollars; For extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for the contingent expenses of the recruiting service, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and fortynine dollars; For the current expenses of the ordnance service, eighty-five thousand dollars; For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars; For ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, eighty thousand dollars; For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For the purchase of a site and rebuilding the arsenal at Charleston, For repairs and improvements and new machinery at the Springfield armory, twenty thousand dollars; For repairs and improvements and new machinery at the Harper's Ferry armory, thirty-eight thousand dollars; For the expense of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery, three thousand six hundred dollars; For the purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, twenty thousand dollars; For continuing the barracks, quarters, &c., at Fort Smith, fifty thousand dollars; For barracks, quarters, &c., at Turkey river, fifteen thousand dollars; For continuing the military road on the western frontier, five thousand dollars; For continuing the barracks, quarters, &c., at Sackett's Harbor, one thousand dollars; For preventing and suppressing hostilities in Florida, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth of March and the second of July eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and the acts therein referred to, viz: For forage; for freight or transportation of military supplies of every description from the places of purchase to Florida; for the purchase of wagons and harness, of boats and lighters, and other vessels, of horses, mules, and oxen to keep up the trains, of tools, leather, and other materials for repairs; for transportation within Florida, including the hire of steamboats and other vessels for service in the rivers, and on the coasts; and the expenses of maintaining the several steamboats and transport schoon ers, connected with the operations of the army; for hire of mechanics, laborers, mule-drivers, teamsters and other assistants, including their subsistence; for miscellaneous and contingent charges, and for arrearages in eighteen hundred and forty, one million sixty-one thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars; for removing the raft of Red river under the direction of the Secretary of War seventy-five thousand dollars; SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to cause to be audited the account of the corporate authorities of the city of Mobile, for advances of money and expenses incurrred in equipping, mounting, and sending to the place of rendezvous, two full companies of mounted men, under a call from the Governor of Alabama, at the beginning of the hostilities of the Creek Indians, in the summer of eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and the amount or balance found due, is hereby directed to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as soon as the Secretary of War shall approve the same. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of designating and marking the boundary line between the State of Michigan and Territory of Wisconsin, agreeably to the true intent and meaning of the second section of the act entitled "An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union, upon the conditions therein expressed," there be, and is hereby appropriated, the sum of six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, in the survey and examination of the country situated between the mouths of the Menomonie and Montreal rivers, who is hereby directed to cause to be made a plat or plan of such survey and examination, which shall be returned to Congress with all convenient despatch. APPROVED, March 3, 1841. CHAP. XXXVII.—An Act making an appropriation for the temporary support of certain destitute Kickapoo Indians, and to defray the expense of removing and subsisting the Swan Creek and Black River Indians of Michigan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the temporary support of certain destitute Kickapoo Indians, and that those clerks specially charged with the business of the Chickasaws be paid as heretofore out of the Chickasaw fund such sums as the President of the United States shall authorize. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to adjust and settle the accounts of Clements, Bryan and Company, with the United States, arising under a contract, alleged to have been made on the twelfth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, for subsisting the emigrating Cherokee Indians, upon principles of equity and justice; Provided, That in settling said accounts said accounting officers shall also take into consideration the contract of said Clements, Bryan and Company, with the United States of the twenty-seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and deduct any profits which they may have made under said last-mentioned contract, from whatever amount may be found due to them under said contract of June twelfth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; and such balance so found to be due, shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, March 3, 1841. For removing Red river raft. Settlement of the account of the corporate authorities of Mobile. Survey of the country betw'n the Menomonie and Montreal rivers. Act of June 15, 1836, ch. 99. STATUTE II. March 3, 1841. [Obsolete.] Temporary support of destitute Kickapoo Indians. Payment of the Chickasaw clerks. Settlement of the accounts of Clements, Bry. an & Co. CHAP. XXXVIII. — An Act to amend the act entitled "An act to amend the act approved May thirteenth eighteen hundred, entitled 'An act to amend an gct entitled 'An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States."" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That nothing contained in the act entitled "An act to amend the act approved May thirteenth eighteen hundred entitled 'An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,' passed the twentieth July, eighteen hundred and forty shall be deemed or taken to apply to the courts of the United States holden, or to be holden in and for the districts of Pennsylvania, but jurors in said districts shall be selected, returned and empanelled, as if the said act had not been passed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue in force one year and no longer. APPROVED, March 3, 1841. CHAP. XL. -An Act to abolish the port of delivery and the office of Surveyor of the Customs at Currituck Inlet in North Carolina. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the port of delivery and the office of Surveyor of the Customs at Currituck Inlet in North Carolina be, and the same are hereby abolished, and that all laws in conflict with this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. APPROVED, March 3, 1841. RESOLUTION. Joint Resolution to present incorporated universities, colleges, &c., with copies of the catalogue of the Library of Congress. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That one copy of the catalogue of the Library of Congress be presented to each of the incorporated universities, colleges, athenæums, and historical societies in the United States, not exceeding three hundred in number, and to the American Antiquarian Society. APPROVED, January 14, 1841. ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the district of Columbia, on Monday, the 31st day of May, 1841, and ended the 11th day of September, 1841. SAMUEL L. SOUTHARD, JOHN TYLER, President of the United States. STATUTE I. CHAP. I.—An Act making appropriations for the present session of Congress. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz: For the pay and mileage of the members of the Senate for the present session, sixty-eight thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty cents; For the pay of the Chaplain of the Senate, five hundred dollars; For printing, stationery, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate for the present session, twenty thousand dollars; For the pay and mileage of the members of the House of Representatives, including five hundred dollars to the Chaplain, for the present session of Congress, two hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred dollars; For the printing, stationery, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives for the present session, thirty thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars. For the supply of stationery for the House of Representatives for the second session of the twenty-seventh Congress, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, always, That no part of the sums appropriated for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress, shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them. APPROVED, June 25, 1841. CHAP. II.-An Act for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President June 30, 1841. of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Mrs. Harrison, widow of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States, or, in the event of her death before payment, then to the legal representatives of the said William Henry Harrison, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided always, That any sum of money which shall have been paid to the personal representatives 2 M 2 (437) Appropriation to Mrs. Harri son. Proviso. |