Revolutionary pensions.

Invalid pensions.

Pensions to wid

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For revolutionary pensions under the act of eighteenth March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, one hundred and sixty six thousand dollars..

For invalid pensions under various acts, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

For Pensions to widows and orphans under the act of fourth ows & orphans, July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, three hundred and twenty eight thousand five hundred dollars.

Arrearages.

Evidence necessary to enti

pension.

For pensions to widows under the act of seventh July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, and the acts supplementary thereto, three hundred thousand dollars.

For pensions to widows under the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and forty three, eighty thousand dollars. For pensions to widows under the act of seventeenth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, six hundred thousand dollars.

For half pay pensions to widows, and orphans, payable through the Third Auditor's Office, four thousand five hundred doliars.

For arrearages prior to July second, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the Third Auditor's Office, one thousand two hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enated, That no widow entitled tle a widow to a to a pension under existing laws, and claiming a pension whose husband was drawing a pension at the time of his decease, shall be required in any such case to furnish any further evidence that said husband was entitled to a pension; nor shall any evidence, in any case, be required to entitle the widow to a pension, when the evidence is in the archives of the Government, other than such proof as would be sufficient to establish the marriage between the applicant and the deceased pensioner in civil personal actions in a court of justice: Provided, That upon a revision of the testimony in the case of the deceased husband the Commissioner be satisfied that the pension was properly granted.

Proviso.

Sec. 4 of the

the civil and di

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fourth section act making ap- of an act entitled “ An act making appropriations for the civil propriations for and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the fiscal year plomatic expen-ending the thirtieth day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and sex. &c. not to forty-six, and for other purposes," shall not be so construed as to applying to ap apply to applications for pensions.

be construed as

plicat ons

pensions

for

Approved, May 7, 1846.

CHAP. 14-AN ACT to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for certain objects made for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

[SEC. 1.] 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 here- .

by appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for various objects made for the service of the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty six, namely:

For the contingent expenses of the Senate, being for printing Contingent exand lithographing, ordered during the twenty eighth Congress, penses of the seventy seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Senate.

For the contingent expenses of the Senate, being for prin- Printing and ting and lithographing, ordered by the Senate, during the first lithographing. session of the twenty-ninth Congress, fifty one thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, seventy thousand dollars.

Contingent ex

penses of House of Representa→

uves.

To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States to comply with former orders of the House directing him to supply the members with certain books, to wit: Purchase of For two hundred and twenty six copies of the fourteenth certain books. volume of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, six hundred and seventy-eight dollaus: Provided, That this appropriation, or any legislation heretofore had in relation to said work, shall not be deemed to authorize any further subscription to said work, or the purchasing any further volumes thereof.

For seventy six copies of the fourteenth volume of the Register of Debates, seven hundred and sixty dollars.

For one hundred and finty-eight copies of Contested Elections," seven hundred and ninety dollars.

For two hundred and nineteen copies of the fourth and fifth Documentary volumes of the Documentary History, seven thousand forty History. three dollars and ninety one cents: Provided, That this appro- Proviso. priation, or any legislation heretofore had in relation to said work shall not be deemed to authorize any further subscription to said work, or the purchasing any further volumes thereof beyond the number authorized and required by existing contracts with the publishers.

For contingent expenses in the office of the First Auditor, Contingent exthree hundred dollars.

penses office of 1st and 4th Au

For contingent expenses in the office of Fourth Auditor, ditors. five hundred dollars.

Secretary of the

For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Contingent exTreasury. for publishing notices as required by acts of the penes office of twelfth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the Treasury. seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, one

thousand dollars.

For compensation to the superintendent of the Post Office Compensation building for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen of Superintend hundred and forty five, two hundred and fifty dollars.

ant of the Post Office.

district

For additional salaries of the District Judges of Ohio, Indi- Salaries of cerana, Illinois, and Missouri, from the third of March, eighteen tain hundred and forty five, two thousand three hundred and nine- judges. ty-four dollars and ninety-seven cents.

and

Expenses of the For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, Circuit, and Supreme Court District District Courts of the United States, including the District of Courts of the U Columbia; also for jurors and witnesses, in aid of funds arisS. also jurors witnesses, &c. ing from fines, penalties, and forfeitures; and likewise for de-" fraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are, concerned, and for prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Insane paupers

Columbia.

For expenses incurred, and to be incurred for the support, of the District of clothing, and medical treatment of the insane paupers of the District of Columbia, one thousand three hundred and twenty five dollars and seventy nine cents.

Light on Delaware Break

water.

Outfits of Char

For reimbursement of the Philadelphia board of underwriters, for expenses paid and to be paid by them in maintaining the light on the Delaware breakwater from the first of July,. eighteen hundred and forty-four, to the thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and forty six, one thousand six hundred dollars.

For outfits of chargés des affaires to Texas, Austria, Peru, ges des Affaires. and Venezuela, five hundred dollars; and that the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow to William H Stiles, Chargé d'Affaires to Austria, his salary from the tenth day of May to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and to pay the same out of any unexpended balance of the appropriations for salaries of the Chargés des Affaires of the United States.

For outfits of the late Chargés des Affaires to Peru and Venezuela, and Chargés des Affaires to Naples, Holland, New Grenada, Sweden, Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Sardinia, Chili, and Buenos Ayres, fifty-four thousand dollars.

Contingent ex- For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty penses of foreign thousand dollars.

missions.

Pensions.

For payment of invalid pensions under various laws, seventyfour thousand dollars.

For payment of pensions under act of July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one hundred and two thousand dollars..

For payment of widows' pensions under act of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty eight, and the acts supplementary thereto, one hundred and three thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairing the State Artillery of the State of Louisiana, Repairing State artillery of Lou- injured in the service of the United States in Texas, during the summer and fall of eighteen hundred and forty five, one thousand five hundred and sixty six dollars.

isiana.

Payment of T'exFor payment of four companies of Texas volunteers and as and Louisi two companies of Louisiana volunteers, including the supplies ana volunteers. required by the quartermaster's department, sixty nine thousand two hundred and six dollars and sixty eight rents. Transportation For transportation of officers' baggage, thirty thousand dolof officers' bag- lars.

gage.

Transportation For the transportation of troops and supplies of the army of troops, sup- including baggage of troops when moving either by land plies, &c. or water; freight and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses,

mnles, 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 of the pay department; expense of sailing public transports between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and procuring water at such posis as from their situation require it; of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of sub. sistence from the places of purchase and from the places of delivery, under contracts, to such places as the necessities of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arnis from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, -fortifications, and frontier posts, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's department, Supplies of consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of Quartermaster's department. 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 two regiments of dragoons and of the four companies of light artillery; 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 departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, one hundred thousand dollars.

joint resolution

For amount required for the support of the District of Co- Clerical error; lumbia for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hun- corrected by the dred and forty-six, eleven-thousand nine hundred and forty- of May 15, 1846. nine dollars and sixty four cents.

For refunding certain duties collected under the act of the Refunding cer thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and forty two, entitled tain duties. An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes," contrary to the terms of the convention of eighteen hundred and fifteen between Great Britain and the United States, in fulfilment of the agreement lately entered into by the Government of the United States and Great Britain, one hundred thousand dollars.

For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of Compensation the House of Representatives and delegates, the same being and mileage of Senators and rendered necessary by an increase in the number of Senators members of the and members of the House of Representatives, twenty thousand House of Repredollars.

sentatives, and delegates.

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, seven thou- Contingent exsand five hundred dollars. penses of foreign intercourse.

For salary of the commissioner to reside in China from the Salary of Com first of April to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and missioner forty five, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

Approved, May 8, 1846.

China.

land.

CHAP. 15.-AN ACT to repeal a part of the act entitled "An act supplementary to the several laws for the sale of the public lands," approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, aud for other purposes.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress usRepeal of the sembled, That, from and after the passage of this act the se2d proviso in the cond proviso to the act entitled "An act supplementary to act of April 5, 1832, permitting the several laws for the sale of the public lands," approved entries &c. of April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thiny two, which is as follows, viz: “That no person shall be permitted to enter more than one half quarter section of land under this act in quarter quarter sections, in his own name, or in the name of any other person, and in no case unless he intends it for cultivation, or for the use of his improvement. And the person making application to make an entry under this act shall file his or her affidavit, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, that he or she makes the entry in his or her own name, for his or her own benefit, and not in trust for another," shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and all entries, selecions or locations of lands now suspended in the General Land Office, because made contrary to the restrictions in this proviso shall be and they are hereby confirmed, provided they are in all other respects fair and regular. Approved, May 8, 1846.

Preamble.

President au

val, and military

CHAP. 16-AN ACT providing for the prosecution of the existing war be tween the United States and the Republic of Mexico. Whereas, by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that Government and the United States: [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of enabling the Government thorized to em- of the United States to prosecute said war to a speedy and ploy militia, na- successful termination, the President be and he is hereby auforces of the U.thorized to employ the militia, naval, and military forces of the S. and to call or United States, and to call for and accept the services of any services of vol number of volunteers, not exceeding fifty thousand, who may anteers not ex-offer their services either as cavaly, artillery, infantry, or rflemen, to serve twelve months after they shall have arrived at the place of rendezvous, or to the end of the war, unless sooner discharged, according to the time for which they shall have Ten millions of been mustered into service; and that the sum of ten millions dollars appropri- of dollars, out of any moneys in the Treasury or to come into the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this act into effect.

and accept the

ceeding 50,000

Time volunteers are to serve.

a.ed.

Militia to serve

SFC 2 And be it further enacted, That the militia, when for six months. called into the service of the United States by virtue of this act,