such posts as may be occupied during the year, and gun-houses for the protection of the 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-commissioned officers and soldiers; building and repairing stables for dragoons and light artillery; 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 safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, &c., and of grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for military purposes; one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For transportation of officers' baggage, when travelling on duty without troops, fifty 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; two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For contingencies of the army, six thousand dollars. For the purchase of ordnance, ordnance stores, and supplies, one hundred thousand dollars. For current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred thousand dollars. For manufacture of arms at the national armories, three hundred thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Springfield armory, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. And the sum of five thousand dollars, out of the appropriation made for the said objects by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-five, is declared to have been intended for the purchase of the lots adjoining the armory ground, as expressed in the estimates, to which purpose it has been applied. And of the sum allowed by the said act to be applied to repairs at the national armories, such amount as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, may be applied to the purchase of land from individuals and from the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, and the assent of Congress is hereby given to such purchase. For repairs and improvements, and new machinery, at Harper's Ferry armory, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-one dollars. For arsenals, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars, of which twelve thousand five hundred dollars are authorized to be applied to the purchase of a site and building a magazine for Washington arsenal. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, forty thousand dollars. For expenses of the mineral land service, including those incurred Surveys. Appropriation for 1846, ch. 17. Pay. Officers' subsistence. Forage for officers' horses. Payments in lieu of clothing. Subsistence. Recruiting. Clothing, equipage, &c. Regular supplies of quartermaster's depart ment. Incidental expenses of quar since the first January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, thirty thousand dollars. For surveys in reference to the military defences of the frontier, inland and Atlantic, twenty thousand dollars. For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi, thirty thousand dollars. For continuing the surveys of the northern and north-western lakes, twenty-five thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to meet the expenditures which may be incurred under the acts passed during the present session 66 to authorize an increase of the rank and file of the army, and to provide for raising a regiment of mounted riflemen," viz. : For pay, eight hundred and fourteen thousand five hundred and twelve dollars. For commutation of officers' subsistence, twelve thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For commutation of forage for officers' horses, eight thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. For payment in lieu of clothing to officers' servants, one thousand one hundred and ten dollars. For subsistence in kind, four hundred and eighty-seven thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars. For expenses of recruiting, seventy-nine thousand six hundred dollars. For clothing, camp, garrison, and horse equipage, two hundred and eighty-four thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, &c., one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's department, consisting of expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, extra termaster's de- pay to soldiers, purchase of horses for dragoons, &c., ninety-three thousand five hundred dollars. partment. Transportation and supplies. Medical and hospital depart ment. For transportation of troops and supplies for the army, three hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars. For the medical and hospital department, twenty thousand dollars. Aug. 8, 1846. CHAP. XCVI.—An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the followAppropriation. ing sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated out of any money Pay. Subsistence. Forage. Clothing. Incidental and in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven: For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, seventy-eight thousand nine hundred dollars. For commutation of subsistence, five thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars. For commutation of forage for officers' horses, two thousand four hundred dollars. For clothing for their servants, four hundred and twenty dollars. horses and oxen, stationery, printing, and other incidental and con- contingent tingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars. penses. ed. Barracks. ex Board of visit How selected. For completing the barracks for cadets, fifteen thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be authorized to appoint a board of visitors, to attend the annual examination of the Military Academy, whose duty it shall be to report to the Sec- ors to be appoint retary of War, for the information of Congress, at the commencement of the next succeeding session, the actual state of the discipline, instruction, police administration, fiscal affairs, and other concerns, of the institution: Provided, That the whole number of visitors each year shall not exceed the half of the number of States in the Union; and that they shall be selected, alternately, from every second State, each member being a bona fide resident citizen of the State from which he shall be appointed; that not less than six members shall be taken from among officers actually serving in the militia; and that a second member shall not be taken from any Congressional district, until every other district in the State shall have supplied a member : Provided, further, That no compensation shall be made to said members beyond the payment of their expenses for board and lodging while at the Military Academy, and an allowance not to exceed eight cents per mile, for travelling by the shortest mail route from their respective homes to the Academy, and back to their homes. And the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to defray the expenses of said board of visitors, at the next annual examination. Compensation. Appropriation. Certain teach SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the teacher of drawing, and the first teacher of French, at the Military Academy, shall here- ers to be profesafter be, respectively, professor of drawing, and professor of the French language. APPROVED, August 8, 1846. CHAP. XCVII. —An Act supplementary to the Act passed on the twentieth Day of sors. interim. conditions and restrictions as are hereinbefore prescribed in respect to the original election of guardian; and for the interval of time between the removal, death, or incompetency, of the first elected guardian, and the new election of another by such orphan, the said Guardian ad court may, if it deem it expedient, appoint a guardian ad interim until such new election be made; taking such security of such guardian ad interim, and exercising over him such jurisdiction and powers, as are or may be required and given in the cases of other guardians: And provided further, That, where a guardian is to be superseded by such election, he shall have notice of the application by summons, or in writing. Notice of ap plication to su persede. Sureties may complain, &c. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any surety of a guardian, by petition to the court before which he was bound, setting forth that he apprehends himself or herself to be in danger of suffering thereby, shall pray that he may be relieved, the said court, after a summons to answer the petition shall have been served upon the guardian, or a copy of such summons left at the place of his usual abode, shall order him to give counter security for the complete indemnity of the original surety, or to deliver the ward's estate into the hands of the surety, or of some other person; in either of which cases it shall take sufficient security of the person into whose hands the ward's estate shall be delivered as aforesaid; and such court shall and may make such further and other order for the relief of the petitioner as to it shall seem just. APPROVED, August 8, 1846. Aug. 8, 1846. Change of time for holding Cir- S. for Southern July term abolished. Either court may remit indict ments to other. the -- CHAP. XCVIII. - An Act to regulate the Proceedings in the Circuit and District Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York shall hereafter be held on the third Monday in October, instead of the last Monday in November; and that all writs, pleas, suits, recognizances, indictments, and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shall be returnable to and have day in court, and shall be heard, tried, and proceeded with, by the said court, in the same manner as might and ought to have been done, if the court had been held at the time heretofore directed by law; and it is further provided, that the term of the Circuit Court appointed by law to be held on the last Monday in July, in each year, in said district, shall not hereafter be holden. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever the district attorney shall deem it necessary, it shall be lawful for any Circuit Court, in session, by order entered on its minutes, to remit to the next term or session of the District Court of the same district any indictment pending in the said Circuit Court, when the offence or offences therein charged may be cognizable by the said District Court ; and in like manner it shall be lawful for any District Court to remit to the next term or session of the Circuit Court of the same district Effect of such any indictment pending in the said District Court; and such remission remission. Grand juries of shall carry with it all recognizances, processes, and proceedings pending in the case in the court from which the remission is made; and the court to which such remission is made shall, after the order of remission is filed therein, act and proceed in the case as if the indictment, and all other proceedings in the same, had been originated in said court. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the District Courts grand juries impanelled and sworn in any District Court to take may take cogni- zance of crimes Court. Other remis cognizance of all crimes and offences within the jurisdiction of the said Circuit and District Courts, and every indictment for a capital offence, presented to the District Court, shall, by order entered on the minutes of the court, be remitted to the next term and session of the Circuit Court, together with all recognizances taken therein; and on filing such order and indictment with the clerk of said Circuit Court, that court shall thereafter proceed thereupon, the same as if the indictment had been originally found and presented in said court; and the said District Court may, moreover, in like manner, remit to the Circuit Court any indictment pending in said District Court, sions of cases. when, in the opinion of the court, difficult and important questions of law are involved in the case; and the proceedings thereupon shall thereafter be the same in the Circuit Court as if such indictment had been originally found and presented therein. That no grand jury shall hereafter be summoned to attend any Circuit or District Court of the United States, unless the judge of such District Court, or one of the judges of such Circuit Court, shall, in his own discretion, or upon a notification by the district attorney that such jury will be needed, order a venire to be issued therefor: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent either of said courts in term from directing a grand jury to be summoned and impanelled, whenever, in its judg- moned ment, it may be proper to do so, and at such time as it may direct: time. And provided further, That nothing herein shall operate to extend beyond what the law now permits the imprisonment before indictment found of an individual accused of a crime or offence, or the time during which an individual thus accused may be held under recognizance before indictment found. How grand juries shall be sum moned. May be sum at any Proviso. bail. Surrender of SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That any party charged with a criminal offence, and admitted to bail, may, in vacation, be arrested criminals by their by his bail, and delivered to the marshal or his deputy, before any judge or other officer having power to commit for such offence; and at the request of such bail, the judge or other officer shall recommit the party so arrested to the custody of the marshal, and endorse on the recognizance, or certified copy thereof, the discharge and exoneratur of such bail; and the party so committed shall therefrom be held in custody until discharged by due course of law. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any captain, or other officer or mariner, of a ship or vessel on the high seas, or any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States, shall piratically or feloniously run away with such ship or vessel, or any goods or merchandise on board' such ship or vessel to the value of fifty dollars, or yield up such ship or vessel voluntarily to any pirate, every such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding ten years, or both, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence. Penalty against captains, &c., of vessels, for the commission of certain crimes. New bail to be cases SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That upon the necessary proof being made to any judge of the United States, or other magistrate given in certain having authority to commit on criminal charges against the laws of the United States, that a person previously admitted to bail on any such criminal charge is about to abscond, and that his bail is insufficient, it shall and may be lawful for any such judge or magistrate to require such person to give better security, or, for default thereof, to cause him to be committed to prison; and, to that end, an order for his arrest may be endorsed on the former commitment, or a new warrant therefor may be issued by such judge or magistrate, setting forth the cause thereof. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That, on the application of any |