of the funds.

ficers, &c.

Provided, also, That no part of the funds of said corporation Proviso relative shall be appropriated to pay the trustees of said society, except to the application the teachers and instructors of the children, any compensation for their services, but such services shall in all cases be gratuitous. Annual meeting SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a to be held for the meeting of the trustees of the Washington's Manual Labor appointment of ofSchool and Male Orphan Asylum Society, in each year, the manner of giving notice for which, and the time and place for said meeting, to be regulated by the by-laws; at which meeting the said trustees may fill all vacancies in their own board, and appoint their officers for the ensuing year, whose duties shall be regulated by the by-laws of the society. Vacancies in the board may also be filled at such other meetings of the trustees as may be necessary, and under such regulations as may in their by-laws be prescribed.

Conditions upon

dren may be re

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, with the consent and approbation of the parent, or guardian, or other competent which male chilauthority having charge of any male child, the same may be re- ceived. ceived into the said Washington's Manual Labor School and Male Orphan Asylum, under such regulations as may be made by the by-laws, and there protected, instructed, and supported; and he shall not thereafter be withdrawn or be at liberty himself to withdraw from the said asylum, without the consent or dismissal of the corporation aforesaid, until he shall have attained the age of twenty-one years; but up to the age aforesaid, he shall remain subject to the direction of the said corporation, unless he may, by the same, be exonerated from service previous to attaining the age aforesaid; and the said corporation shall have the power, with the consent of the parent or guardian of any child under their care, to bind any such child, for the purpose of acquiring a knowledge of some useful trade, occupation, or profession, under such conditions as may be determined by the by-laws; a copy of which conditions shall be delivered to, and they shall be binding on every person to whom any child may be so bound, Provided, That every such orphan, whilst he shall remain subject to the direction of the said corporation, or during the period of his service, if bound out as an apprentice as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the benefit and protection of all the laws of the District relating to apprentices.

Journal to be

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said corporashall shall keep a journal of all its proceedings, in which the kept, and an anby-laws shall be recorded; and shall make report, at the annual nual report made. meeting as aforesaid, of the affairs and condition of the said school and asylum for the preceding year.

Authority to alter or repeal this

SEC. 7, And be it further enacted, That it may be lawful for Congress hereafter to alter, amend, modify, or repeal, the act. foregoing act..

Approved, June 13th, 1842.

A register to be issued.

CHAP. 42.-AN ACT to authorize the issuing of a register for the brig
Gulnare.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be issued, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the brig Gulnare formerly a British vessel, now lying in the port of New York, which was seized in Boston, by George Barclay and Schuyler Livingston of the city and State of New York, citizens of the United States, for a debt due to them from the then owner of said brig, and sold by the sheriff, under a decree of the Court of Massachusetts, and by authority of the laws of that State, to the said Barclay and Livingston, and by them purchased in order to secure in part the debt due to them from the said owner, and Proviso, as to which vessel has been, by them repaired: Provided It shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the cost of the repairs of said vessel, made in the United States, by the said Barclay and Livingston her present owners, after the purchase of her by them, shall be equal to, or exceed three fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage and materials in the United States.

cost of repairs.

Approved, June 13th, 1842.

CHAP. 43.-AN ACT for the relief of George Nix.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Upon the sur- assembled, That upon the surrender to the Secretary of the tent for a certain Treasury to be cancelled, by George Nix, or his legal represenmaci of land, to tatives, of his patent for the southwest quarter of section number for another tract nineteen, township number twenty-two, range number eleven,

render of his pa

receive a patent

in lieu thereof.

the said tract not

in the district of lands subject to sale at Cahawba, in the State of Alabama, a patent shall issue to the said George Nix, or his legal representatives, for the southwest quarter of section number twenty-two, township number nineteen, range number Proviso: should eleven, in the district and State aforesaid: Provided, That said have been sold by last mentioned tract of land shall not, previous to such surrender, have been sold by the United States: And provided, also, That Proviso: should said tract of land, so authorized to be surrendered, shall not have the tract surren- been sold by the said George Nix, or his legal representatives, been sold by him. previous to such surrender.

the U. S.

dered not have

Approved, June 22d, 1842.

CHAP. 44.-AN ACT for the relief of Francis G. McCauly.

him on the settle

[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 the Treasury pay to Francis To be paid the G. McCauly, a purser in the navy of the United States, the sum amount found due of seven hundred and forty-two dollars and nine cents, out of ment of his acany money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; that counts. being the amount found to be his due, on settlement of his accounts with the Treasury Department, in July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

Approved, June 22d, 1842.

CHAP. 45.-AN ACT for the relief of Charles H. Atherton.

land, to which the

[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 the Treasury be, and he here- To be paid the by is, authorized and directed to pay to Charles H. Atherton, or amount paid for to his legal representatives, out of any money in the Treasury u. 3. could not not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand three hun- give him a title. dred thirty-three dollars and eighty-six cents, it being for money paid by the said Atherton for public land entered by him in the St. Helena land district, in Louisiana, to which the United States are unable to give him a title, or to correctly locate the same: Provided, That said Charles H. Atherton, or his legal representatives, shall first surrender to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be cancelled, the original certificates for said land, or shall relinquish to the United States all interest in the in same, such form as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, June 22d, 1842.

Proviso: Atherton to surrender ficate, or relin

the original certi

quish all interest to the U. S.

CHAP. 46.-AN ACT authorizing the county commissioners of Lake county Illinois, to enter a quarter section of land for a seat of justice in said county.

Authorized to enter a certain

of the one former

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That upon proof being made to the Secretary of the Treasury of the payment of the minimum price per acre by tract of land in lieta the county of Lake in the State of Illinois, to the United States, ly selected for a for the southeast quarter of section twenty-one, in township forty-seat of justice, five north, of range twelve, east of the third principal meridian, upon which the county seat of said county is located, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to cause a patent for said land to be issued to said county, in lieu, and in full satisfaction of the claim of said county to enter one quarter section of land in virtue of the act of the twenty-sixth May eighteen hundred and twenty-four entitled "An act granting to the

linquishment of

counties or parishes of each State and Territory of the United States in which the public lands are situated the right of preemption to quarter sections of land for seats of justice within the Proviso: a re- same," Provided, said county shall relinquish in such form the former selec- as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, all claim whatwith the Secreta- ever to the northeast quarter of section twenty-one, township ry of the Treasu- forty-four, range eleven east, lying in said county and which tract was first selected by said county for the use of the county seat for said county in virtue of the provisions of the act aforesaid.

tion to be filed

ry.

Approved, June 22d, 1842.

resentatives to be

bers elected 'agree

one

Representa

six hundred and

each State, and

each State having

than one moiety of said ratio.

CHAP. 47.-AN ACT for the apportionment of Representatives among the several States according to the sixth census.

seven;

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the third day of March, one thouHouse of Rep sand eight hundred and forty-three, the House of Representatives composed of mem- shall be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one ably to a ratio of Representative for every seventy thousand six hundred and eighty tive to every se- persons in each State, and of one additional representative for venty thousand each State having a fraction greater than one moiety of the said eighty persons in ratio, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constian additional Re- tution of the United States; that is to say: Within the State of presentative for Maine, within the State of New Hampshire, four; witha fraction greater in the State of Massachusetts, ten; within the State of Rhode Island, two; within the State of Connecticut, four; within the State of Vermont, four; within the State of New York, thirtyfour; within the State of New Jersey, five; within the State of Pennsylvania, twenty-four; within the State of Delaware, one; within the State of Maryland, six; within the State of Virginia, fifteen; within the state of North Carolina, nine; within the State of South Carolina, seven; within the State of Georgia, eight; within the State of Alabama, seven; within the State of Louisiana, four; within the State of Mississippi, four; within the State of Tennessee, eleven; within the State of Kentucky, ten; within the State of Ohio, twenty-one; within the State of Indiana, ten; within the State of Illinois, seven; within the State of Missouri, five; within the State of Arkansas, one; and within the State of Michigan, three.

Where a State is

than

sentative, the

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in every case where entitled to more a State is entitled to more than one Representative, the number one Repre- to which each State shall be entitled under this apportionment election to be by shall be elected by districts composed of contiguous territory district to elect equal in number to the number of Representatives to which said more than one Re-State may be entitled, no one district electing more than one presentative. Representative.

districts and no

Approved, June 25th, 1842.

CHAP. 48.-AN ACT for the relief of Jesse Carpenter.

lic moneys to re

tain purchase mo.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the receiver of public moneys in the land, Receiver of pub office at Montgomery, Alabama, be, and he is hereby, required fund to him certo refund to Jesse Carpenter, of Russell county, in said State, ney paid for a tract the purchase money heretofore paid by Joshua Threadgill, for of land. the west half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-four in township seventeen, of range twenty-seven, in the district. of lands subject to sale at the aforesaid land office: Provided, Said Carpenter shall first produce the certificate of purchase, issued to said Threadgill, together with satisfactory proof that he, the said Carpenter, holds the same by fair, legal, or equitable transfer from said Threadgill; and shall also surrender said certificate to be cancelled.

Approved, June 27th, 1842.

Proviso.

CHAP. 49.-AN ACT for the relief of Jacob Pennell and others, owners of the Eliza, of Brunswick.

to them

foreign tonnage

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re- The Secretary presentatives of the United States of America in Congress of the Treasury to assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is refund certain money inhereby, authorized to refund to Jacob Pennell, Jordan Wood- correctly paid as ward, Richard T. Dunlap, Robert P. Dunlap, and Isaac Denn- duty. ing, American citizens, and owners of the American vessel Eliza, of Brunswick, the sum of thirty-eight dollars, which was incorrectly demanded and received by the collector at Saco, in the State of Maine, as foreign tonnage duty on said Eliza, of Brunswick.

Approved, June 27th, 1842.

CHAP. 50.—AN ACT confirming certain land claims in Louisiana.

Certain land claims in the New district,

confirmed.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims to lands within the land district of New Orleans, being numbers six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, Orleans twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, thirty, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-eight, forty-seven, forty-eight, fifty-seven, fifty-nine, sixty, sixty-one and sixty-two, of the two reports of the register and receiver of said land district, dated fourteenth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and second of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and made under the provisions of the