CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the Carriage of Passengers in Merchant Vessels," and to determine the Time when said Act shall take Effect.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act to regulate the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, approved the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall, in regard to all vessels arriving from ports on this side of the Capes of Good Hope and Horn, take effect and be in force from and after the thirty-first day of May next ensuing, and in regard to all vessels arriving from places beyond said capes, on and after the thirtieth day of October next ensuing.

Provision to children

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of said act as authorizes shippers to estimate two children of eight years of age pealed. and under as one passenger, in the assignment of room, is hereby repealed.

APPROVED, March 2, 1847.

CHAP. XXXV.- An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army and of Volunteers for the Year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, and for other Purposes.

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 the same are hereby, appropriated, for the support of the army and of volunteers, for the year ending the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, six hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and forty-two dollars.

For commutation of forage for officers' horses, one hundred and forty-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars.

For payments in lieu of clothing for officers' servants, forty-two thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.

For pay of volunteers, including general and staff officers, two million eight hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars.

March 2, 1847.

1847, ch. 16.

For pay of the army, three million three hundred and sixty-five Army. thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars.

For clothing of the army, camp, and garrison equipage, nine hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars.

For expenses of recruiting, including bounties, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

Act of 1847, ch. 16, to take effect

from 31st May, as to vessels from

this side the Capes of Good Hope and Horn.

March 2, 1847.

[Obsolete.J

servants.

For subsistence in kind of the army, volunteers, and employees, two million two hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and twenty-six kind. dollars.

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Commutation

of subsistence.

Forage.

Clothing

re

Pay of volunteers.

For three months' extra pay to non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, twelve thousand dollars.

For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officers' horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen belonging to the quartermaster's department, at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the three regiments of dragoons, the four companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted riflemen; of straw for soldiers' bedding; and of stationery, including company and other blank books, for the army; certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster's department, and the printing of department orders, army regulations and general regulations; three million seven hundred and ten thousand six hundred dollars.

For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's department, con- penses.

for

Subsistence in

Clothing of ariny, &c.

Recruiting,

Three months' extra pay.

Regular supplies of the department. quartermaster's

Incidental ex

sisting of postage on letters and packets received by officers on public
service; expenses of courts-inartial and courts of inquiry, including
the additional compensation to judge advocates, members and wit
nesses, while on that service, under the act of the sixteenth of March,
one thousand eight hundred and two; extra pay to soldiers employed
in the erection of barracks and quarters, the construction of roads,
and other constant labor, for periods of not less than ten days, under
the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts; of escorts to
paymasters; of the necessary articles for the interment of non-com-
missioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to
clerks to the officers of the quartermaster's department, at posts where
their duties cannot be performed without such aid; and compensation
to agents in charge of dismantled works, and to such wagon and
forage-masters as it may be necessary to employ under the act of the
fifth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; various
expenditures necessary to keep the three regiments of dragoons, the
four companies of light artillery, and the regiment of mounted rifle-
men complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the places
of those which may be lost and become unfit for service; also includ-
ing the purchase of horses for the additional regiment of dragoons
and the purchase of saddles, bridles, and other horse equipments for
the same; shoeing horses, for the purchase of blacksmiths' and other
tools, iron and other materials, and the apprehension of deserters, and
the expenses incidental to their pursuit; two million one hundred and
seventy-three thousand three hundred dollars.

For repairing and enlarging barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, at the several posts; for erecting temporary cantonments at such posts as may by occupied during the year, and gun-houses for the protection of cannon at the several posts and military works, including the necessary tools and materials for the objects enumerated, and for the authorized furniture of the barrack-rooms of non-com missioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons, light artillery, and mounted riflemen; for rent of quarters for officers, barracks for troops, at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, and of store-houses for the safekeeping of subsistence, clothing, &c., and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military purposes, one million one hundred and seven thousand two hundred dollars.

For transportation of officers' baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, eighty thousand dollars.

For transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land or water, freights and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats; for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; drayage and cartage at the several posts, hire of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay department; the expense of sailing public transports between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts as, from their situation, require it; of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories, to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, five million two hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred dollars.

Contingencies.
Medical

For contingencies of the army, fifty thousand dollars.

and

For the medical and hospital department, one hundred and fifty uospital depart thousand dollars.

ments.

Ordnance.

For the purchase of orduance, ordnance stores, and supplies, three

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hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars.

For current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars.

For armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. For manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Springfield Springfield ararmory, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.

mory.

For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Harper's Ferry armory, seventeen thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. For arsenals, fifty-one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For expenses of preparing drawings of a uniform system of artillery, five thousand dollars.

For transportation and supplies, &c., in quartermaster's department, four millions dollars.

For services of private physicians, including the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, sixty-five thousand dollars.

diers.

For surveys with armies in the field, twenty-thousand dollars. For providing for the comfort of discharged soldiers who may be landed at New Orleans, or other places within the United States, so disabled by disease or by wounds received in the service as to be unable to proceed to their homes, and for forwarding destitute soldiers to their homes, five hundred thousand dollars; said sum to be applied and expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

For pay, including subsistence and other allowances to officers of the ten regiments of regular troops, authorized during the present session, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars.

For subsistence in kind for such regiments, two hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty

Harper's Ferry armory.

Arsenals.

Drawings of

artillery.
Surveys.

Land and erec

For the purchase of land, erection of barracks for soldiers, and quarters for officers and laundresses, and for brick wall to enclose tion of barracks. the grounds, and grading and paving the river banks at Newport barracks, Kentucky, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingencies of fortifications, two hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations made for the service of the present fiscal year, under the following heads, viz:

Volunteers, pay under reso

For pay of volunteers, under resolution of eighth August, eighteen lution of Aug. 8, hundred and forty-six, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

1846, No. 20.
Volunteers,
pay under
13th May, 1846,
ch. 16.

For pay of volunteers under act of thirteenth May, eighteen hun-
dred and forty-six, one hundred and forty-three thousand dollars.
For travelling allowance of volunteers, five hundred thousand
dollars.

act

Travelling allowance.

Discharged sol

Contingencies of fortifications. Deficiencies.

Transportation and supplies. Private physi cians.

Pay, &c. to officers of the ten regiments. 1847, ch. 8.

Subsistence in

kind.

two cents.

For pay of eleven regiments of volunteers recently called into service, one million three thousand one hundred and ten dollars.

For subsistence in kind, of said regiments of volunteers, two hundred and eighty-three thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-five cents.

Recruiting.

For expenses of recruiting, including bounties, two hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars.

For ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies, four hundred and fiftytwo thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars.

Ordnance, &c.

For the repair and construction of roads and bridges for the use of armies in the field, one hundred thousand dollars.

Repair. &c., of roads, &c.

Fortifications

For deficiency of former appropriations for fortifications at Oak at Oak Island. Island, one thousand and thirty dollars and fifty-nine cents.

Pay of volun

teers.

Subsistence.

Deficiencies, &c., Cape Fear River.

Deficiency of appropriation for

removing the great raft of Red River.

1838, ch 59.

March 2, 1817. [Obsolete.]

Pay.

Subsistence.

Forage.

Barracks.

March 2, 1847.

Clothing.

For clothing of officers' servants, four hundred and twenty dollars. For repairs and improvements; fuel and apparatus; forage for contingent ex- public horses and oxen; stationery, printing, and other incidental

Incidental and

penses.

Transportation.

Transportation by steam-ships.

1845, ch. 69.

For deficiency of former appropriations for the improvement of Cape Fear River, six hundred and one dollars and ninety-two cents. For deficiency of appropriation for removing the great raft of Red River, made by the act approved April twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, being the amount advanced by Daniel T. Witlee and others, through the branch of the Real Estate Bank of Washington, Arkansas, to Henry M. Shreve, government agent for such removal, and expended by him for that purpose.

APPROVED, March 2, 1847.

Postmasters.

Proviso as to compensation of deputy-postmas

CHAP. XXXVI. An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the Year ending on the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

from revenues of the Post-Office

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Appropriations United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the Department. service of the Post-Office Department, for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, namely: For transportation of the mails within the United States, two million four hundred and forty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars.

For transportation by steam-ships between New-York and Bremen, according to the contract with Edward Mills, authorized by the" Act to provide for the Transportation of the Mail between the United States and foreign Countries," approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-five, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand six hundred and nine dollars.

ters.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following ums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending on the thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight:

For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, seventynine thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars.

For commutation of subsistence, five thousand four hundred and two dollars.

For forage for officers' horses, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.

and contingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars.

For barracks for cadets, fifteen thousand dollars.
APPROVED, March 2, 1847.

CHAP. XXXVII. · An Act making Appropriations for the Service of the PostOffice Department for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

For compensation to postmasters, one million and forty-two thousand dollars: Provided, That it shall not be lawful for the PostmasterGeneral to make any allowance or compensation to any deputy-postmaster, in addition to his commissions, except the special allowance made by law to the postmasters at New Orleans and the city of

Washington, and excepting, also, the allowance to which postmasters are entitled by law, from the income from boxes: And provided, further, That each deputy-postmaster, whose compensation for the last preceding year did not exceed two hundred dollars may send through the mail all letters written by himself, and receive through the mail all written communications addressed to himself, on his private business, which shall not exceed in weight one half ounce, free of postage.

For ship, steamboat, and way letters, seventeen thousand dollars.
For wrapping paper, sixteen thousand dollars.

For office furniture, (for the offices of postmasters,) three thousand dollars.

For advertising, thirty thousand dollars.

For mail bags, twenty thousand dollars.

For blanks, seventeen thousand dollars.

For mail locks, keys, and stamps, four. thousand dollars.

For mail depredations and special agents, thirteen thousand dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ, when the service may require it, the assistant postmasters-general as special agents, and to make them compensation and allowance therefor, not to exceed the amount expended by said agents as necessary travelling expenses while so employed.

For clerks for offices, (in the offices of postmasters,) two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Howland and Aspinwall, of the city of New York, the sum of five thousand dollars, with interest from the first day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the amount of a draft drawn by James Reeside, on the Post-Office Department, dated the eighteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, payable on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, to the order of the said Reeside, and accepted by the treasurer of the Post-Office Department, and by the said Reeside indorsed to the order of H. H. Williams, of Baltimore, and by the said Williams indorsed in blank, and which draft is the property of the said Howland and Aspinwall. APPROVED, March 2, 1847.

CHAP. XXXVIII. — An Act further to extend the Charter of the Union Bank of
Georgetown, in the District of Columbia.

Franking priv. ilege of deputypostmasters.

Letters.

Paper.
Furniture.

Advertising.

Mail bags.
Blanks.

Locks. Depredations & special agents. Proviso.

Clerks.

For miscellaneous, fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case the revenues of the department referred to in the first section of this act, shall prove insufficient to meet the foregoing appropriations, then any deficiency that may thus arise shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Salary of assist

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the assistant messengers, of the Post Office Department shall be entitled to an annual salary of ant messengers. four hundred and fifty dollars.

Miscellaneous.

Any deficiency of revenue to be

supplied from the treasury.

Howland and

Aspinwall to be paid $5000 with interest, &c.

March 2, 1847, [Obsolete.]

Act to extend the of

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An Act to extend the Charter of the Union Bank of George-aid bank further town, in the District of Columbia," approved the twenty-fifth day of extended. May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same 1838, ch. 88. is hereby, further extended to the first day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, until which time said act shall be in full force, for the sole purpose of enabling the president and directors of VOL. IX. PUB. -20