the said Bureau to be withdrawn from the several States within which said Bureau has acted, and its operations shall be discontinued. But the educational department of said bureau, and the collection and payment of moneys due the soldiers, sailors and marines, or their heirs, shall be continued as now provided by law, until otherwise ordered by act of Congress. (Passed over the President's veto).

No. 98. To further amend the postal laws. Provides, that when any writer of a letter, on which the postage is prepaid, shall endorse in writing or in print upon the outside thereof his name and address, the same, after remaining uncalled for at the post office to which it is directed 30 days, or the time the writer may direct, shall be returned to the said writer without additional postage, whether a specific request for such return be endorsed on the letter or not; and fixes charges for money orders as follows, viz.: For one dollar or any sum not exceeding $20, a fee of ten cents; for all orders exceeding $20 and not exceeding $30, fifteen cents; for all orders exceeding $30 and not exceeding $40, twenty cents; for all orders exceeding $40 and not exceeding $50, twenty-five cents. July 27, 1868.

No. 99.-Making an appropriation of money to carry into effect the treaty with Russia of March 30, 1867. July 27, 1868.

No. 100.-Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes for the year ending June 30, 1869, and for other purposes. For superintendents, agents, clerks, interpreters, and contingencies, fulfilling treaties, and all other matters, about $3,250,000. July 27, 1868. No. 101.--Concerning the rights of American citizens in foreign States. July 27, 1868. No. 102.-To establish a new land district in the State of Nebraska. July 27, 1868. No. 103.-Regulating the sale of hay in the District of Columbia. July 27, 1868.

No. 104. To incorporate the Evening Star Newspaper Company, of Washington. July 27, 1868.

No. 105.-Authorizing the city of Washington to issue bonds for the purpose of paying the floating debt of the city. July 27, 1868.

No. 106. To amend section one of "An Act to prevent and punish frauds upon the revenue, and for other purposes," approved March 3, 1863: requires, that in case of goods, wares, and merchandise, imported from a foreign country adjacent to the United States, the declaration in this section hereinbefore required may be made to, and the certificate indorsed by, the consul, vice-consul, or commercial agent, at or nearest to the port or place of clearance for the United States. July 27, 1868.

No. 107.-Supplementary to an act entitled "An Act to allow the United States to prosecute appeals and writs of error, without giving security,” and for other purposes. July 27, 1868. No. 108.-To protect the rights of actual settlers upon the public lands of the United States. July 27, 1868.

No. 109.-Changing the ports of entry from Plymouth to Edenton, in North Carolina, and Port Royal to Beaufort, in South Carolina. July 27, 1868.

No. 110. In amendment of an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States;" Provides, that "In all proceedings in bankruptcy commenced after the first day of January, 1869, no discharge shall be granted to a debtor whose assets shall not be equal to fifty per centum of the claims proved against his estate upon which he shall be liable as the principal debtor, unless the assent in writing of a majority in number and value of his creditors to whom he shall have become liable as principal debtor, and who shall have proved their claims, be filled in the case at or before the time of the hearing of the application for discharge. July 27, 1868.

No. 111. To transfer to the Department of the Interior certain powers and duties now excrcised by the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with Indian affairs. July 27, 1868.

No. 112.-To provide for an American line of mail and emigrant passenger steamships between New York and one or more European ports. The postmaster general may contract with the Commercial Navigation Company for conveyance of mails weekly or semi-weekly between New York and Bremen, touching at Southampton or Liverpool and Queenstown, the steamers to be first-class constructed and owned in the United States, contract not to exceed fifteen years in duration. The company must within one year have ready seven first-class steamships, the postmaster general to have inspection of them if he desires, average rate of speed to be equal to other lines. That the compensation for carrying the mails, as shall be in conformity with the act of Congress, approved June 14, 1858, and shall in no event exceed the sum therein provided, being all postage on letters, newspapers, and all other matter transported by or in the mails carried by said navigation company, shall belong to said company, and shall be paid to said company quarterly, or applied to their use. Provided, That when the receipts from sea

postages shall equal or exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollars per annum, then the right of said company to receive the inland postages shall cease, and said company shall only receive the sea postages: Provided, That such postages shall not exceed six hundred thousand dollars per annum, after the discontinuance of said inland postage. That to insure the construction of the above-mentioned vessels within the time and in the manner provided, the said Commercial Navigation Company may issue bonds to such an amount that the entire annual interest thereon shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, such bonds to be made payable at the expiration of fifteen years. For the protection of the holders of said bonds they are to be registered at the post office department, and the postage earned by the steamships is to be applied for the payment of the interest and to provide a sinking fund for the redemption of the principal of the bonds. July 27, 1868.

No. 113. Relating to the Alexandria Canal." July 27, 1868.

No. 114.-"Making Appropriations for the service of the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and establishing additional regulations for the Government of the institution, and for other purposes," appropriates for Columbia Institution, $65,000; Government Hospital for Insane, $97,500; Columbia Hospital for Women, and Lying-in Asylum, $15.000; Providence Hospital, $30,000; National Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, $1,000; care of transient paupers, &c., $12,000; in all, $241,500. 2. One Senator and two Representatives added to directors of Columbian Institution. 3. Real and personal property to be devoted to no other purpose than education; real estate not to be alienated but under special act. 4. Repeals payment for pupils admitted by order of Secretary of Interior. 5. Number of students from the several States, under act of March 2, 1867, increased from ten to twenty-five. 6. Superintendents of the institutions to make annual reports of expenditures. July 27, 1868.

No. 115.-"Making Appropriations for certain executive expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869," appropriates for State Department, $41,000; arched roadway over Tiber creek, $5,000, provided city of Washington apppropriates sufficient additional to complete work; Henry B. Ste. Marie, the spy in the Surratt case, $10,000; in all, $56,000. July 27, 1868. No. 116. Relating to pensions," arranges precedence to relatives. 1. Mothers. 2. Fathers. 3. Orphan brothers or sisters, under sixteen; pensions for wounds or disease, only when received in line of duty; with minor details. July 27, 1868.

No. 117. "To pay for indexing the tax-bill." July 27, 1868.

No. 118.-"To correct an error in the enrollment of the 'Act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes,'" supplying the word "not" before "more than one pint" in last clause of section 48. July 27, 1868.

No. 119.-"Amendatory of an act entitled 'An act granting public lands to the State of Wisconsin, to aid in the construction of railroads in said State,' approved June 3, 1856," permits the change of benefit in lands granted for La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad to Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage Company. July 27, 1868.

No. 120.-"Granting the right of way to certain railway companies over the Military Reservation at Fort Leavenworth." July 27, 1868.

No. 121.-"Donating a portion of the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation for the exclusive use of a public road." July 27, 1868.

No. 122.-"Regulating the times and places of holding the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the northern district of Florida." July 27, 1868.

No. 123. "To disapprove an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Washington Territory, redistricting the Territory, and re-assigning the judges thereto." ." July 27, 1868. No. 124. To amend an act entitled "An act proposing to the State of Texas the establishment of her northern and western boundaries, the relinquishment of said State of all territory claimed by her, exterior to said boundaries, and of all her claims upon the United States, and to establish a territorial government for New Mexico." 1. Gives the Governor of New Mexico the "veto" power. 2. Constitutes the Secretary of the Territory ex-officio superintendent of public grounds and buildings. July 27, 1868.

No. 125.-"To extend the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce and navigation over the territory ceded to the United States by Russia, to establish a collection district therein, and for other purposes," the "other purposes" being a prohibition of the killing of fur-bearing animals, except under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; giving jurisdiction of offences to the district courts in California, Oregon and Washington; authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to remit penalties, and appropriates $50,000 to carry the act into effect, and to collect internal revenue. July 27, 1868.

No. 126.-"Authorizing the Manufacturers' National Bank of New York to change its location"-to the city of Brooklyn. July 27, 1868.

No. 127.-"Relating to the district courts of Utah Territory," giving the Governor power to assign terms of district court. July 27, 1868.

No. 128.-"Regulating judicial proceedings in certain cases, for the protection of officers and agents of the Government, and for the better protection of the treasury against unlawful claims." 1. Extends the provisions of section 8, of the act of July 28, 1866, "to protect the revenue, and for other purposes," and of section 12 of the act of March 3, 1863, to all suits and proceedings, except those in behalf of the United States, against any officer, or for acts done during the rebellion by virtue or color of his office, or employment. 2. That no action shall be maintained by any alien or in his behalf or interest, against any person for acts or omissions as an officer or agent, under act of March 12, 1863, the act of July 2, 1864, or any other act of Congress relative to the insurrectionary states, and such facts may be pleaded in bar; but this shall not deprive citizens of a government allowing citizens of the United States to prosecute claims against it in its courts, the privilege of bringing suit in the Court of Claims. 3. Declaring the intent and meaning of the act of March 12, 1863, to be the precluding of the owner of any property taken under that act from redress in any other court than the Court of Claims, and the defendant in all suits may plead the act in bar, provided that where elaims are sustained under this act, no money shall be paid except after appropriation. July 27, 1868.,

PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS.

The following are the Public Resolutions of general interest:

No. 1.-Resolution excluding from the electoral college votes of certain States lately in Rebellion. That none of the States whose inhabitants were lately in rebellion shall be entitled to representation in the electoral college for the choice of President and Vice President of the United States, nor shall any electoral votes be received or counted from any of such States, unless at the time prescribed by law for the choice of electors the people of such States, pursuant to the acts of Congress in that behalf, shall have, since the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, adopted a constitution of State government under which a State gov ernment shall have been organized and shall be in operation, nor unless such election of electors shall have been held under the authority of such constitution and government, and such State shall have also become entitled to representation in Congress, pursuant to the acts of Congress in that behalf: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to any State which was represented in Congress on the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven. (Vetoed and repassed).

No. 4.-That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to dispose of such iron-clad vessels, except those of the "Dictator," "Kalamazoo,” “Monadnock,” and “Passaic" classes, as in his judgment are not required by the interests of the service, at a price to be determined by appraisal, to be made by a board of not less than five naval officers, two of whom shall be engineers.

No. 5.-That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to take immediate measures for the reduction of the expenses of the army and of the war department at and in the vicinity of New York city, at as early a day as practicable, by concentrating the business of the quartermaster, commissary, clothing, ordnance, and medical bureaus, and recruiting service in said city.

No. 6. "For the relief of destitute persons at the South," allows the issue of dessicated potatoes, &c., to "destitutes" in the South, under the direction of the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau.

No. 8.-"To provide for a commission to examine and report on metres for distilled spirits," to report before March 1, 1869.

No. 9.-That all moneys which have been received by any officer or employe[e] of the government, or any department thereof, from sales of captured and abandoned property in the late insurrectionary districts, under or under color of the several acts of Congress providing for the collection and sale of such property, and which have not already been actually covered into the treasury, shall immediately be paid into the treasury of the United States, together with any interest which has been received or accrued thereon. That a sum of the proceeds of such sales not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the payment of the necessary expenses incurred by or under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, for incidental expenses in acting under the laws respecting the collection and disposition of captured and abandoned property, and for the necessary expenses of defending, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, such suits as have been brought against him or his agents in the premises, and for prosecuting suits in the United States for the recovery of such property, and

for providing for the defence of the United States against suits for or in respect to such property in the court of claims.

No. 11-"To authorize the Secretary of War to employ counsel in certain cases," to provide counsel for Generals Meade and Ruger, and any other persons intrusted with the re-enforcement of the reconstruction acts. [Passed through lapse of time, without President's approval.] No. 14. That section eight of an act entitled "An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound, on the Pacific coast,” is hereby so amended as to read as follows: That each and every grant, right, and privilege herein, are so made and given to and accepted by said Northern Pacific Railroad Company upon and subject to the following conditions, namely: That the said company shall commence the work on said road within two years from and after the second day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and shall complete not less than one hundred miles per year after the second year thereafter, and shall construct, equip, furnish, and complete the whole road by the fourth day of July, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

No. 15.-"Authorizing the Lighthouse Board to place warnings over obstructions at the entrance of harbors, or in the fairway of bays and sounds, and for other purposes," the "other purposes" being the appointment of a commissioner to examine the wreck of steamer Scotland, in the harbor of New York.

No. 17.-That the time fixed and limited by an act entitled "An act granting lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads in the State of Wisconsin," approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the completion of the railroad from Tomah, in the county of Monroe, to Saint Croix river or lake, between townships twenty-five and thirty-one, be, and the same is hereby, further extended for a period of three years to the West Wisconsin Railroad Company, a corporation established by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, and which by the laws of said State, is entitled to the land grant made in the second section of said act: Provided, That if said railway company shall not have completed said railroad from Tomah to Black River Falls, on or before the expiration of one year from the passage of this resolution, this act shall be null and void.

No. 19. That all who served as officers, non-commissioned officers, privates or other enlisted men in the regular army, volunteer or militia forces of the United States, during the war of the rebellion, and have been honorably discharged from the service or remain still in the same, shall be entitled to wear, on occasions of ceremony, the distinctive army badge ordered for and adopted by the army corps and division, respectively, in which they served.

No. 23. That the people of the United States renew the expression of their sympathy with the suffering people of Crete, to whom they are bound by the ties of a common religion and of the gratitude due to the Greek race, of which the Cretans are a part; that they rejoice to believe that the suffering of this interesting people may be happily terminated by a policy of forbearance on the part of the Turkish Government.

PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT.

FIRST AMNESTY PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, In the month of July, A. D. 1861, in accepting the condition of civil war, which was brought about by insurrection and rebellion in several of the States which constitute the United States, the two houses of Congress did solemnly declare that the war was not waged on the part of the government in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor for any purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but only to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution of the United States, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that so soon as these objects should be accomplished, the war on the part of the government should cease:

And whereas, The President of the United States has heretofore, in the spirit of that declaration, and with the view of securing for it ultimate and complete effect, set forth several proclamations, offering amnesty and pardon to persons who had been or were concerned in the aforesaid rebellion, which proclamations, however, were attended with prudential reservations and exceptions, then deemed necessary and proper, and which proclamations were respectively issued on the 8th day of December, 1863, on the 26th day of March, 1864, on the 29th day of May, 1865, and on the 7th day of September, 1867:

And whereas, The said lamentable civil war has long since altogether ceased, with an acknowledged guarantee to all the States of the supremacy of the Federal Constitution and the government thereunder; and there no longer exists any reasonable ground to apprehend a re

newal of the said civil war, or any foreign interference, or any unlawful resistance by any portion of the people of any of the States to the Constitution and laws of the United States: And whereas, It is desirable to reduce the standing army, and to bring to a speedy termination military occupation, martial law, military tribunals, abridgment of freedom of speech and of the press, and suspension of the privilege of habeas corpus, and the right of trial by jury--such encroachment upon our free institutions in times of peace being dangerous to public liberty, incompatible with the individual rights of the citizen, contrary to the genius and spirit of our republican form of government, and exhaustive of the national resources:

And whereas, It is believed that amnesty and pardon will tend to secure a complete and universal establishment and prevalence of municipal law and order, in conformity with the Constitution of the United States, and to remove all appearances or presumptions of a retaliatory or vindictive policy on the part of the government attended by unnecessary disqualifications, pains, penalties, confiscations, and disfranchisements; and on the contrary, to promote and procure complete fraternal reconciliation among the whole people, with due submission to the Constitution and laws:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do, by virtue of the Constitution and in the name of the people of the United States, hereby proclaim and declare, unconditionally and without reservation, to all and to every person who directly or indirectly participated in the late insurrection or rebellion, excepting such person or persons as may be under presentment or indictment in any court of the United States having competent jurisdiction upon a charge of treason or other felony, a full pardon and amnesty for the offence of treason against the United States, or of adhering to their enemies during the late civil war, with restoration of all rights of property, except as to slaves, and except also as to any property of which any person may have been legally divested under the laws of the United States.

In testimony whereof, I have signed these presents with my hand, and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, the fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the independence of the United States of America the ninety-third. ANDREW JOHNSON.

By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION OF GENERAL AMNESTY INCLUDING ALL POLITICAL OFFENDERS.

By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.

Whereas, The President of the United States has heretofore set forth several proclamations, offered amnesty and pardon to persons who had been or were concerned in the late rebellion against the lawful authority of the Government of the United States, which proclamations were severally issued on the 8th day of December, 1863, on the 26th day of March, 1864, on the 29th day of May, 1865, on the 7th day of September, 1867, and on the 4th day of July, in the present year: and

Whereas, The authority of the Federal Government having been re-established in all the States and Territories within the jurisdiction of the United States, it is believed that such prudential reservations and exceptions as, at the dates of said several proclamations were deemed necessary and proper, may now be wisely and justly relinquished, and that an universal am. nesty and pardon for participation in said rebellion, extended to all who have borne any part therein, will tend to secure permanent peace, order, and prosperity throughout the land, and to renew and fully restore confidence and fraternal feeling among the whole people, and their respect for, and attachment to the National government, designed by its patriotic founders for the general good:

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested by the Constitution, and in the name of the sovereign people of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare, unconditionally and without reservation, to all and to every person who directly or indirectly participated in the late insurrection or rebellion, a full pardon and amnesty for the offence of treason against the United States or of adhering to their enemies during the late civil war, with restoration of all rights, privileges and immunities, under the Constitution and the laws which have been made in pursuance thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed these presents with my hand and have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, the twenty-fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of the independence of the United States of America the ninety-third. ANDREW JOHNSON.

By the President: F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary of State.