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RESOLUTIONS.

No. 2. Joint Resolution on the subject of printing the tables of the sixth census. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the payment of the money heretofore appropriated by Congress, to pay the expenses of the sixth census, be so far suspended, as that no money shall be paid for the printing of the compendium or abridgement of the sixth census by counties and principal towns, together with the tables of apportionment, as prepared at the Department of State for the use of Congress, until the further order of Congress.

APPROVED, April 14, 1842.

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No. 3. A Resolution further to provide for the distribution of the printed returns April 15, 1842. of the sixth census, and other documents connected with the same, the printing of which has been heretofore directed by law.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the statistics, including the census of pensioners, and the compendium or abridgement of the sixth census of the United States, heretofore required by law to be printed under the direction of the Secretary of State, shall be distributed and disposed of by the Secretary in the manner and in the proportions specified in the joint resolution of Congress passed the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one: Provided, always, That seventeen thousand copies of the said compendium or abridgement shall be distributed among the States, Territories, and persons entitled to distribution under the said resolution, and in the proportions therein specified, and that the remaining copies of the said statistics and compendium be placed in the Library of Congress for future distribution.

APPROVED, April 15, 1842.

The other cen

sus documents to be distribu

ted in the manner specified by Sept. 1841.

resolution of 1st

Proviso.

No. 4. Joint Resolution to continue two clerks in the business of reservations and May 18, 1842. grants under Indian treaties.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authority given to the Secretary of War by the joint resolution, approved second May, one thousand eight hundred and forty, to continue the employment of two clerks in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties, be extended, after the expiration of the period for which that authority was granted, for the term of two years. APPROVED, May 18, 1842.

No. 5. A Resolution to authorize the extension of the contract for carrying the mail on the route between Mobile and New Orleans.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he hereby is, authorized to extend the existing contract for carrying the mail upon the steamboat route between Mobile and New Orleans for three years from the time at which said contract would expire by its own limitations, if, in his opinion, the public interest and convenience will be promoted by such extension of said contract. APPROVED, June 1, 1842.

Period for which they were authorized

extended for two years.

June 1, 1842.

Postmaster General authorized to extend

the existing con

tract for three

years.

Aug. 11, 1842. No. 7. Joint Resolution to authorize the commission appointed to prepare rules and regulations for the naval service to appoint a clerk.

Employment of a temporary clerk authorized.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized, agreeably to his request, to employ a temporary clerk for the purpose of aiding the Attorney General and himself in carrying into effect the resolution of the twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and forty-two, which requires of them the preparation of rules and regulations for the Navy.

APPROVED, August 11, 1842.

Aug. 16, 1842. No. 8. A Resolution declarative of the pension act of July seventh, eighteen kundred and thirty-eight.

Benefits of the

act not to be withheld from

certain widows.

1838, ch. 189.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the benefits of the act entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,” approved the seventh day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, shall not be withheld from any widow whose husband died after the pas sage of the act of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirtytwo, and before the act of the seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, if otherwise entitled to the same. APPROVED, August 16, 1842.

Aug. 30, 1842. No. 10. Joint Resolution to institute proceedings to ascertain the title to Rush Island, ceded in the Caddo Treaty.

U.S.Attorney for the Western

district of Louisiana directed

to institute proceedings.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the District Attorney of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana be, and is hereby directed to institute such legal proceedings in the proper court as may be necessary to vindicate the right of the United States to Rush Island, which is alleged to have been improperly included in the limits of the lands ceded by the Caddo Indians to the United States, by the treaty of the first July, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and reserved by said treaty in favour of certain persons by the name of Grappe. APPROVED, August 30, 1842.

Aug. 31, 1842. No. 12. Joint Resolution authorizing experiments to be made for the purpose of testing Samuel Colt's submarine battery, and for other purposes.

Secretary of the Navy to render facilities

to Mr. Colt to

test his submarine battery, and report to Congress.

Proviso.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, instructed to render Mr. Samuel Colt facilities to test his submarine battery to an extent which will settle the questions whether these or any other plan can, with ease and safety, successfully be employed as a power sufficient to destroy the largest class of ships of war, when in motion passing in or out of harbor, without the necessity of approach within reach of shot from guns of the largest caliber; and whether continued operations of the destruction of one or more vessels can be effected with renewing the means under exposure of an advancing squadron; and whether the same can be used for the defence of a harbor without endangering the passage in or out of other than hostile vessels. And that he report at the next session of Congress, the expense and result of these experiments: Provided, That the amount so expended does not exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to be taken from the fund appropriated by the act of eleventh of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, for experiments connected with the naval service of the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to make such experimental trial of the several inventions of Thomas M. Easton, Ethan Campbell, Aaron Quinby, or either of them, or of other persons, to prevent the explosion of steam boilers, as may be necessary to test their value and utility as applicable for the purposes aforesaid, to the steamships of the United States; and the sum of six thousand dollars is hereby appropriated therefor out of the fund heretofore named.

APPROVED, August 31, 1842

Trial of inven

tions to prevent
the explosion of
steam boilers

authorized.
1843, ch. 94, § 5.

Appropriation.

No. 13. A Resolution to provide for the payment of the expenses incurred by the Aug. 31, 1842. Legation at Mexico.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of six thousand dollars be and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated to defray the expenses incurred by the Legation of the United States at Mexico, on account of the subsistence, clothing and transportation of prisoners, Provided so much be necessary upon the adjustment of the accounts of the State Depart

ment.

APPROVED, August 31, 1842.

No. 14. A Resolution to authorize an extension of a contract for carrying the mail.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized, if in his opinion the interest of the Department will be promoted thereby, to extend at this time the contract for the conveyance of the mail on the Potomac, for four years from the termination of the present contract, in such a way as to receive the regular transmission of the mail, by means of ice-boats: And provided That the compensation does not exceed the present rates for two boats' service.

APPROVED, August 31, 1842.

Appropriation to defray ex

penses on ac

count of prison

ers.

Proviso.

Aug. 31, 1842.

Extension of

the contract for the conveyance

of the mail on the Potomac

authorized.

Proviso.

VOL. V.-74

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ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the third session, which was begun and held at the City of
Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 5th day
of December, 1842, and ended the 3d day of March, 1843.

JOHN TYLER, President of the United States. WILLIE P. Mangum,
President of the Senate, pro tempore. JOHN WHITE, Speaker of the
House of Representatives.

STATUTE III.

CHAP. II. An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three.

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 hereby are, appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the half calendar year ending on thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, namely:

For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from the Territories, three hundred and sixty-six thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars.

For compensation of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, twenty thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars.

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For compensation of the principal and two assistant librarians, and messenger of the library of Congress, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of said library, four hundred dollars.

For purchase of books of [for] said library, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For purchase of law books for said library, five hundred dollars. For compensation of the President of the United States, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

Department of State.-For compensation of the Secretary of State, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his department, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For incidental and contingent expenses of said department, including publishing and distributing the laws, twelve thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the superintendent and three watchmen of the northeast executive building, six hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents.

For contingent expenses of said building, viz:
For labor, six hundred dollars;

For fuel and light, seven hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars. Treasury Department.-For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, thirteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars. For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, eleven thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Treasury Department.

Secretary, &c.
First Comp-

troller, &c.
Second Comp-

For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, seven thousand six hundred and twenty-five troller, &c.

dollars.

For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, nine thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, ten thousand seven hundred and five dollars and forty-nine cents.

For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, nineteen thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, ten thousand and seventy-five dollars.

For compensation of the Fifth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, seven thousand four hundred dollars.

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For compensation of the Treasurer of the United States, and the Treasurer, &c. clerks and messenger in his office, six thousand eight hundred and

seventy-five dollars,

For compensation of the Register of the Treasury, and the clerks, Register, &c. messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, fourteen thousand three hundred dollars.

Commiss'rs of General Land

For compensation of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the recorder, solicitor, draughtsman, assistant draughtsman, clerks, Office, &c. messengers, and packers, in his office, forty-nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and the clerks and messenger in his office, six thousand two hundred dollars. For the incidental and contingent expenses of the Treasury Department, viz. :

In the office of the Secretary of the Treasury:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, one thousand seven hun

dred and fifty dollars;

For newspapers and periodicals, fifty dollars;

For labor, seventy-five dollars;

For extra clerk hire, seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For printing, (including the printing of the public accounts,) one

thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars;

For sealing ship registers, fifty dollars;

For miscellaneous items, three hundred and fifty dollars;

For translating foreign languages, seventy-five dollars;

In the office of the First Comptroller :

For blank books, binding, and stationery, five hundred dollars;

For labor, two hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For extra clerk hire, two hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For miscellaneous items, one hundred and fifty dollars;

In the office of the Second Comptroller:

For blank books, binding, and stationery, three hundred and fifty dollars;

Solicitor, &c.

Contingent

expenses.

Office of the
Secretary.

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For labor, one hundred dollars;

For extra clerk hire, two hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, one hundred dollars;

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