one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and including a deficiency in the existing appropriation of three thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-six cents, to pay for work already completed and returned, five thousand eight hundred dollars. For completing the retracing of certain old surveys in the State of Mississippi, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of May eight, one thousand eight hundred and forty, for the survey of private land claims, and connecting the same with the adjacent public lands, south of the thirtyfirst degree of latitude, at the same rate, eleven thousand one hundred dollars. For completing the surveys in Missouri, in the towns named in the act of May twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, for a similar object, and including office work, four thousand dollars. Mississippi. 1840, ch. 22. Missouri. 1824, ch. 184. 1841, ch. 25. The several For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several surveying dis- districts. tricts according to the exigencies of the public service, forty thousand dollars. For the survey of small detached tracts situated in Illinois and Missouri, principally in the military district of Illinois, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, and including office work, three thousand dollars. Intercourse with Foreign Nations.-For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, seventy-two thousand dollars. For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, sixteen thousand dollars. For salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, Venezuela, New Grenada, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia, fifty-four thousand dollars. For outfits of a minister to France, and of a chargé d'affaires to Denmark, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars. For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to a commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, twenty thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars. For the salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars. Illinois and Missouri. Foreign inter- course. Secretaries of legation. Chargés des affaires. Outfits. Minister to Turkey. Commissioner to the Sandwich islands. Contingent expenses. Consul at Lon don. Consul at Bey root. American sea Consulate at London. Barbary pow. For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the men abroad. American consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, fifteen thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses attending the conveyance and forwarding, by land, and of the receipt and delivery, of mails, letters and despatches at and between Chagres and Panama, including the com.pensation to an agent of the United States at each of said places for the above purposes, one thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. ers. Transmission of letters between Chagres and Panama. Post Office Department. Act of July 2, Post Office Department.—For the service of the General Post Office for the year commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and 1836, ch. 270. Transporta tion. Compensation. Ship letters, &c. per. Wrapping pa Office furni ture. Advertising. Mail locks. &c. Proviso. Miscellaneous. Power of transferring funds. Furnaces in the Capitol. Capitol, grounds, &c. President's &c. forty-three, in conformity to the act of second July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, four million five hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, viz: For transportation of the mail, three million one hundred and ninetyfive thousand dollars. For compensation of postmasters, nine hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way-letters, twenty-two thousand dollars. For office furniture (for the offices of postmasters) seven thousand dollars. For advertising, thirty-two thousand dollars. For mail bags, eighteen thousand dollars. For blanks, thirty thousand dollars. For mail locks, keys, and stamps, nine thousand dollars. For mail depredations and special agents, twenty-eight thousand dollars: Provided, That no special or travelling Post Office agent shall receive a higher compensation than one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and in addition thereto, two dollars per day for his travelling expenses. For clerks for offices (for the offices of postmasters) two hundred and ten thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, fifty-six 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, of the foregoing appropriations, made for the service of the General Post Office, 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. For taking down the two old furnaces in the crypt under the rotundo, and building two new ones, cutting out the necessary flues, and doing other work connected therewith, according to a proposition of John Skirving, under date of February first, eighteen hundred and forty-three, the sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty-four dollars. For constructing two furnaces under each end of the first story of the centre of the Capitol, for warming the rooms and passages upon and above said first story, including the Congress library room, according to the proposition of John Skirving to the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings, seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars. For annual repairs of the Capitol, attending furnaces and water-closets, lamp-lighting, oil, laborers on the Capitol grounds, tools, keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at the western gates, gardener's salary, and top dressing for plants, for the eighteen months ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, eleven thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty cents. For annual repairs at the President's house, gardener's salary, laborers, house, grounds, tools, and top dressing for plants, for the eighteen months ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, three thousand seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty-five cents. Treasury, Post Office, &c. Treasury. Post Office. Iron pipe. For the amount due for work and materials on the Treasury building, on the General Post Office, and the bridge on Pennsylvania avenue, seven thousand and four dollars and forty-four cents. For iron-railing and gates on the lower terrace of the Treasury building, and tripods and lamps on the blocking in front of the portico, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For tripods with lamps, for the blocking in front of the General Post Office, two hundred dollars. For repairing damage to iron pipes by freshet, seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-one cents. For materials and work for bulkhead frames and doors and windows in the cellar of the Capitol, two hundred and twenty-one dollars. For marble basin at the fountain on the terrace of the Capitol, one hundred and twenty dollars. For pay of James Kelly, amount allowed him by the commissioners under the resolution of Congress, fifty dollars and forty-four cents. For preparing and publishing charts, and otherwise carrying into effect the act of August twenty-six, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, for publishing an account of the discoveries of the exploring expedition, under the supervision and direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, twenty thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case the sum appropriated for any object of contingencies, should be found more than sufficient to meet the expense thereby contemplated, the surplus may be applied under the direction of the head of the proper department, to supply the deficiency of any other item in the same department or office: Provided, That the expenditure for newspapers and periodicals shall not exceed the amount specifically appropriated to that object by this act, except in the State Department. APPROVED, March 3, 1843. Capitol. Fountain. J. Kelly. Charts of the exploring expe dition. Application of surplus appropropriations. Proviso. STATUTE III. CHAP. CI.-An Act for the relief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, in the Ter- March 3, 1843. ritory of Wiskonsan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the township of land, containing twenty-three thousand and forty acres, (or whatever quantity now remains to them,) lying on the east side of Winnebago lake, in the Territory of Wisconsin, which, by the proviso of a treaty made with the Menomonie Indians on the seventeenth day of February, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and ratified on the ninth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, was reserved for the use of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, and which, by a subsequent treaty with the Menomonie tribe, bearing date twenty-seventh October, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and ratified thirteenth March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, was further secured to the said Stockbridge tribe of Indians, may be partitioned and divided among the different individuals composing said tribe of Stockbridge Indians, and may be held by them, separately and severally, in fee simple, after such division shall have been made in the manner hereinafter mentioned. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of making partition and division of said lands among the individuals of said tribe of Stockbridge Indians, a board of commissioners shall be constituted, to consist of five of the principal or head men of said tribe, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum to do business, whose duty it shall be to make a just and fair partition and division of said lands among the members of said tribe, or among such of them as, by the laws and customs and regulations of said tribe, are entitled to the same, and in such proportions and in such manner as shall be consistent with equity and justice, and in accordance with the existing laws, customs, usages, or agreements of said tribe. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of electing or choosing said board of commissioners, a meeting of said tribe shall be held at their church or principal public place, on the reservation of land aforesaid, on the first Monday in April, eighteen hundred and fortythree, at which all the male members of said tribe, over the age of twenty-one years, shall be allowed to vote for such commissioners; and the said five commissioners shall then and there be elected or chosen by the said tribe, by a majority of the whole number of such voters then Land reserved for Stockbridge Indians may be divided. Board of commissioners to son, how constituted. make the divi Manner of electing the commissioners. How the division shall be made. Proviso. Commiss'rs to make a report of their proceedings, with a map. Mode of proceeding in case of the division being unsatisfactory. Three copies of report and present. And the judge of the district in which said lands are situated (or, in his absence, the register of the land office at Green Bay, or the commanding officer of the United States troops at Fort Howard) shall attend at the time and place aforesaid, and preside at said meeting, superintend the said election, and see that the proceedings are fairly conducted. And the said presiding officer may, in his discretion, prescribe whether the said election shall be by ballot or viva voce, and shall, in other respects, cause the proceedings to be conducted in such a manner as to ensure a fair and proper choice or election; and after the said commissioners shall have been so chosen or elected, the said presiding officer shall immediately certify that fact, setting forth the names of the commissioners who shall be elected, and shall make two copies of said certificate, one of which he shall file in the office of the register of the land district at Green Bay, and the other he shall transmit by mail to the President of the United States. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That after the said commissioner shall have been elected or chosen as above prescribed, and as soon thereafter as conveniently may be, they shall proceed to make partition and division of all the lands aforesaid, among the individual members of said tribe, or among such of them as, by the laws, customs, usages, or agree ments of said tribe, are justly entitled to the same, and in such way and manner, and upon such principles, and in such proportions, as shall be agreeable to equity and justice, and consistent with the laws, usages, customs, and agreements of said tribe: Provided, however, That the buildings and improvements, and the farms on which the same are situated, which are now held or possessed in severalty by the members of said tribe, shall, so far as the same can consistently be done, be allotted or apportioned to the present occupants; and that no person or individual of said tribe shall be dispossessed or deprived of the improve ments or land which they now occupy, unless it shall be found by the said commissioners that such person or persons are in possession of and occupying more land than they are justly entitled to, and then the overplus may be apportioned to others. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That after the said commissioners shall have made such partition and division as aforesaid, they shall make, or cause to be made, a full report of their proceedings in the premises, setting forth the name of each person to whom they have apportioned any part of said land, the quantity apportioned or allotted to each, with the metes and bounds, or other definite description of each several piece or parcel of land; and they shall accompany the said report with a fair and accurate map of the whole, showing the divisions and partitions aforesaid; which report and map, or a true copy thereof, shall be deposited with the town clerk of said tribe, on or before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and shall remain open for inspection to all for the space of twenty days thereafter; and if any mem ber or members of said tribe shall object to the partition or division so made by the said commissioners, or shall deem himself or themselves aggrieved thereby, he or they may, within ten days thereafter, give notice thereof to the said commissioners, who shall, within twenty days thereafter, meet to hear and determine such grievances, and take testimony, if necessary, and, after such hearing, shall have power to alter or modify such partition, if, in their judgment, any alteration or modifica tion is necessary, in order to do equal and exact justice to all parties interested. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That, after the said report shall be finally completed, the commissioners shall cause three fair copies of map to be made the said report, and of the map accompanying the same, as finally agreed upon and settled, to be made and signed by said commissioners, one copy of which shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of said and disposed of, how. Territory, one copy in the office of the clerk of the county within which said lands are situated, and the other shall be transmitted to the President of the United States, who shall thereupon cause patents to be issued to the several individuals named in said report, for the lands so apportioned to them respectively, by which the said persons shall be authorized to hold the said land in fee simple, to themselves and their heirs and assigns. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said report and map shall be filed with the Secretary of said Territory, and in the clerk's office of said county, and shall also be transmitted to the President, on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-four; and, after the same shall have been filed and transmitted to the President as aforesaid, the said Stockbridge tribe of Indians, and each and every of them, shall then be deemed to be, and from that time forth are hereby declared to be, citizens of the United States, to all intents and purposes, and shall be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of such citizens, and shall, in all respects, be subject to the laws of the United States and of the Territory of Wisconsin, in the same manner as other citizens of said Territory; and the jurisdiction of the United States and of said Territory shall be extended over the said township or reservation now held by them, in the same manner as over other parts of said Territory; and their rights as a tribe or nation, and their power of making or executing their own laws, usages, or customs, as such tribe, shall cease and determine: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to deprive them of the right to any annuity now due them from the State of New York or the United States, but they shall be entitled to receive any such annuity, in the same manner as though this act had not been passed. APPROVED, March 3, 1843. Patents to be issued. Disposition of the report and map to be made on or before 1st January 1844; after which the Indians shall be citizens of the United States. Proviso. STATUTE III. March 3, 1843. Pensions to certain widows continued for 1832, ch. 126. 1838, ch. 189. 1842, ch. 191. Resolution of April 16, 1842. CHAP. CII.-An Act granting a pension to certain revolutionary soldiers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the widow of any person who served in the war of the Revolution in the manner set forth in the act approved the seventh day of June, eighteen hundred one year. and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," and whose widow, in virtue of an act approved the seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," and an act approved the twenty-third day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, amendatory thereof, and a resolution approved the sixteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled "A resolution declarative of the pension act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight," received, or is entitled to an annuity or pension for the term of five years from the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be entitled to receive the same annuity or pension which she received, or is entitled to receive, under said acts or said resolution, or either of them, for and during the further term of one year from the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, or during such portion of said term as said widow shall survive, subject in all respects, however, to the rules, limitations, and conditions, in and by said acts and resolution made and provided. therefor. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three hundred Appropriation and eighty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the annuities or pensions in and by this act granted. APPROVED, March 3, 1843, |