ports of the United States, on payment of no higher duties of tonnage, or on their cargoes, as aforesaid, than are imposed on American vessels, and on like cargoes therein imported: ProThe President vided, That if the President of the United States shall, at any pend the opera- time, receive satisfactory information that the privileges allowed tions of this act, to American vessels and their cargoes in the said colony of authorized to sus when. The amount of consistent with this act, to be refunded. French Guiana by the arretes of its Governor, bearing date the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of duties levied in the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund, out of any money the provisions of in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amount, of the 1st section of duty, inconsistent with the provisos of the first section of this act, which, since the arretes, and the tariffs, and regulations referred to in the provisions to the first section of this act, have been in operation in said colony, as may have been levied in the ports of the United States upon any French vessels coming directly from the port of Cayenne, laden with such articles, the growth or manufacture of said colony, which were allowed to be exported therefrom in American vessels. Approved, June 1st, 1842. per month allow ed. CHAP. 33.—AN ACT granting a pension to Benjamin Franklin. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Benjamin Franklin, who A pension of $6 received an injury while serving as an ordinary seaman on board of the United States frigate President, in the Mediterranean, in the year eighteen hundred and one, and while in the line of his duty, a pension of six dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and continuing during his natural life; to be paid out of the naval pension fund, or, in case of the failure thereof, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 1st, 1842.. CHAP. 34.—AN ACT for the relief of James Kiser and Barnett Foley, of [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress J. Kiser and B. assembled, That James Kiser and Barnett Foley, of Missouri, to enter certain or their legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter at the land office, at St. Louis, Missouri, at the Foley authorized land. price of one dollar and twenty-five cents, per acre, the west half Proviso, entry, &c., to be made within six months. Further proviso, that the land has not been sold. CHAP. 35.-AN ACT for the relief of Plumb Island Bridge and Turnpike Company. of a bridge [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to the Plumb Island Bridge and To be paid $8,000 Turnpike Company, of Newburyport, in the State of Massa- for the destruction chusetts, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand dollars, for the destruction of a bridge, occasioned by the construction of a breakwater by the United States. Approved, June 4th, 1842. CHAP. 36.—AN ACT for the relief of Caleb Eddy. ties on eertain cof [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to Caleb Eddy, of Warren, in To paid the the State of Rhode Island, out of any money in the Treasury draw bek of dunot otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and eighty- fee. five dollars and eighty-seven cents, for the amount of drawback of duties on thirty-nine bags of coffee, shipped at the port of Boston in the vessel called the Rasselas, in the month of May in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one. Approved, June 4th, 1842. CHAP. 37.-AN ACT for the relief of Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair, daughters and heirs of Israel Pearce. Seven U. S. Miwarrants of 100 [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is authorized, and he is hereby required, to issue to Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. litary land bounty Telfair, jointly, seven United States military land bounty war- acres each to be is rants, of one hundred acres each, which appear to be due to the jointly. following named individuals, for their services as private soldiers in a Rhode Island regiment, in the war of the Revolution, and sued to them, gal claims of other their right to which they, each and all of them, assigned, in April, seventeen hundred and eighty four, to Israel Pearce, father of the aforesaid Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair, Proviso: bond to namely: Robert Allen, Marks Barrons, Casar Finch, Ichabod indemnify, the U. S. against the le- Howard, Joseph Wheeler, Hugh McDugal, and Jabez Remingpersons, to be giv. ton, who each and all appear to be entitled to land bounty, but who assigned their right, as aforesaid, to Israel Pearce: Provided, The said Elizabeth Pearce and Mary M. Telfair shall, on the delivery to them of the land warrants aforesaid, execute and lodge with the Secretary of War their joint bond, with approved security, to indemnify the United States against the legal claim of all other persons to the said warrants. en Approved, June 4th, 1842. 2d March, 1799, as CHAP. 38.-AN ACT to authorize the collector of the district of Fairfield to reside in either of the towns of Fairfield or Bridgeport. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress So much of Act assembled, That so much of the act entitled "An act to regurequires the col- late the duties on imports and tonnage," approved March second, lector to reside at seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as requires the collector for the district of Fairfield, in the State of Connecticut, to reside in the town of Fairfield, be; and the same is hereby, repealed; and the said collector shall reside in said town of Fairfield, or in the town of Bridgeport, within said district. Fairfield repealed, &c. Approved, June 4th, 1842. for the militia call of the State, in as been due, if it had the service of the U.S. CHAP. 39.-AN ACT to provide for the settlement of the claim of the State of Maine for the services of her militia. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Maine to be paid assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, aued into the service thorized and directed to cause to be reimbursed and paid to the 1839, such amount State of Maine, on the order of the Governor of said State, out would have of any money not otherwise appropriated, such amount as the been called into Paymaster General of the United States army, and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall ascertain and certify would have been due from the United States to the militia called into the service of the State in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine for the protection of her northeastern frontier, by the Governor, if said militia had been duly called into the service of the United States, and regularly received and mustered by the officers of the United States army, according to the laws and regulations which have governed in the payment of the volunteers and militia of other States. And the Paymaster General and accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and required to include the following claims, presented by said State, viz: The following claims to be in cluded, viz: First. The cost of cannon balls and knapsacks purchased by Cannon balls and the State, for the use of the troops called into service, and for knapsacks. defence of the frontier aforesaid: Provided, That said balls and knapsacks shall belong to the United States. Second. The amount paid by the State for transportation of military stores, and of her troops in actual service as aforesaid; Provided, The amount should, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, appear to be reasonable. Transportation. Third. The pay or compensation allowed by the State to the Pay of staff offi Paymaster and Commissary General, and other staff officers, cers. while they were respectively employed in making or superintending disbursements for the militia in actual service as aforesaid: Provided, The compensation paid by, the State, as aforesaid, shall not exceed that paid by the United States for similar services. Fourth. The sum paid by the State for blankets for the use of her militia while in actual service as aforesaid, or so much thereof as shall appear reasonable. Blankets. Fifth. The amount of expenditures by said State in necessary repairs of arms used by the militia while in actual service Repairs of arms. as aforesaid. Provided, That the accounts of the agent employed by the State of Maine to make said payments, be submitted to the Paymaster General and the accounting officers for their inspection. Approved, June 13th, 1842. Proviso: accounts of the agent of Maine to be submitted for inspec tion. CHAP. 40.-AN CT to amend an act entitled "An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States with regard to the five per cent. fund and the school reservations.” amended, that the lected under the sissippi. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the second section of the act enti- The 2d section tled "An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and of said act, so Mississippi, the existing compacts with those States in regard to lands may be sethe five per cent. fund and the school reservations," as requires direction of the the land therein designated as reserved to the State of Mississippi Governor of Misfor the use of schools to be selected, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, "out of any public lands, remaining unsold, that shall have been offered at public sale within either of the land districts in said State of Mississippi, contiguous to said lands, within said State," ceded by the Chickasaws, be so amended that the said lands may be selected, under the direction of the Governor of said State of Mississippi, out of any public lands remaining unsold within either of the land districts in said State of Mississippi contiguous to the lands in said State ceded by the Chickasaw Indians. Approved, June 13th, 1842. Mauual Labor CHAP. 41.-AN ACT to incorporate Washington's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Washington's assembled, That James L.. Edwards, Thomas Sewall, Anthony School and Male Preston, Michael Nourse, Thomas L. Smith, Joseph W. Hand, Orphan Asylum John P. Ingle, Peter Force, William Morton, Thomas F. Hunt, trict of Columbia, Franklin Knight, Leonidas Coyle, and Peter W. Gallaudet, incorporated. trustees for said school and asylum, and their successors in Society of the Dis May hold property. office as trustees, are hereby made, declared, and constituted a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance forever under the name, style, and title, of Washington's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society of the District of Columbia. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the lands, tenements, rents legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chattels, that may have heretofore been given, granted, sold, devised, or bequeathed, to the said Washington's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum Society, be, and they are hereby, vested in and confirmed to the said corporation; and that the said corporation may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights, and privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised unto it, or to the said trustees, or either of them, as trustees of the said school and asylum, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and to dispose of the same for the benefit of the said society: Provided, That the clear income of proper amount of annual income of property to be acquired by said ty not to exceed corporation shall at no time exceed the sum of five thousand Proviso: annual $5,000. sued. Adopt and use a seal. &c. dollars. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation, by the name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter, May sue and be capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in as effectual a manner as other persons or corporations can sue and be sued; and that they shall adopt and use a common seal, and the same use, alter, or exchange, at pleasure; that they Appoint officers, may appoint such officers as they shall deem necessary and proper; assign them their duties and regulate their compensation, and remove any and all of them, and appoint others, as often as they shall think fit. And the said corporation shall make such Make by-laws. by-laws as may be useful for the government and support, and for the general accomplishment of the objects of the said asylum and school, and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, or the laws in force in the District of Columbia, for the time being; and the same to alter, amend, and abrogate, at pleasure; but all by-laws adopted by said corporation shall before they have any force or effect, be submitted to and receive the approval of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia: |