For improving the entrance of Whitehall harbor, on Lake Champlain, eight thousand dollars.

For building an ice-breaker on Staten island, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For improving the harbor at New Brunswick, by removing the obstructions in the Raritan river, according to a plan reported to the War Department by Hartman Bache, seven thousand dollars.

For the protection and improvement of Little Egg harbor, according to the plan reported to the War Department, five thousand dollars.

For a survey of Crow Shoal in Delaware bay, to ascertain the expediency of constructing a breakwater or artificial harbor, one thousand dollars.

For repairs at the harbor of Chester, three thousand dollars.

For removing the bar on the river Delaware, in the neighborhood of Fort Mifflin, with the view of improving the harbor of Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars.

For improving the harbor of Wilmington, by removing the bar at the mouth of Christiana river, according to the plan recommended by Hartman Bache, of the engineer corps, fifteen thousand dollars.

For deepening the harbor of Baltimore, twenty thousand dollars. For a survey of the head waters of Chesapeake bay, pursuant to a resolution of the Legislature of Maryland, five hundred dollars.

For a survey of James river, with the view of improving the harbor of Richmond, five hundred dollars.

For improving the navigation of the natural channels at the northern and southern entrances of the Dismal Swamp canal, fifteen thousand dollars.

For removing a sand shoal in Pamtico river, five thousand dollars, by means of the dredging machine now in operation at Ocracock inlet.

For removing the oyster shoal in New river, Onslow county, by means of the dredging machine now in operation in the collection district of Wilmington, five thousand dollars.

To improve the harbor of Beaufort, five thousand dollars.

For a survey of the bar and harbor at Georgetown, one thousand dollars.

For the removal of the Brunswick bar, with the view of improving the harbor of Brunswick, ten thousand dollars.

For constructing two piers and improving the navigation at the mouth of Vermilion river, ten thousand dollars, according to the plan reported to the War Department.

For the construction of a harbor at Michigan city, according to the plan reported to the War Department, twenty thousand dollars.

For increasing the depth of water in the mouth of the Mississippi river, by closing some of the passages leading out of it, or by cutting a ship channel, or by any other means which shall be deemed expedient by the Secretary of War, with the approbation of the President of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars; the said sum to be expended in whole or in part, as may be thought proper by the War Department, after the necessary survey shall have been made.

For a pier to give direction to the current of the Mississippi river, near the city of St. Louis, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the survey of Saint Francis, Black, and White rivers, in Arkansas and Missouri, to determine upon the expediency of removing the natural rafts thereon, one thousand dollars.

For removing a mud shoal, called the Bulk Head, in the channel from East Pass to Appalachicola, ten thousand dollars.

For the construction of a pier or breakwater at the mouth of the river Saint Joseph, twenty thousand dollars.

For the survey of the mouth of Milwaukie river, on Lake Michigan, to determine the practicability of making a harbor by deepening the channel, four hundred dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the reports upon all the aforesaid surveys shall contain a statement of all such facts within the knowledge of the engineers respectively making the surveys, as are or may be in any way materially connected with the proposed improvements, and also with estimates, in detail, of the sums of money necessary for such improvements, respectively. APPROVED, July 4, 1836.

CHAP. CCCLXIV.—An Act to repeal so much of the act of March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as respects the issuing of certificates on the importation of wines.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act of Congress, passed second March, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as requires that the surveyor or chief officers of inspection of any port, where wines may be landed, shall give to the proprietor, importer or consignee thereof, or his or her agent, a certificate, as mentioned in the fortieth and forty-first sections of said act, is hereby repealed. APPROVED, July 4, 1836.

RESOLUTIONS.

No. 1. Resolution authorizing the President to furnish rations to certain inhabitants of Florida.

Be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be authorized to cause rations to be delivered from the public stores to the unfortunate sufferers, who are unable to provide for themselves, and who have been driven from their homes by Indian depredations in Florida, until they can [be] re-established in their possessions, or so long as the President shall consider it necessary. APPROVED, February 1, 1836.

No. 2. Resolution to establish certain post roads in Missouri and Arkansas. 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 to establish the following post roads ; From Fort Towson, in the Territory of Arkansas, to Fort Gibson, and from Fort Gibson, by Fayette, in Arkansas Territory, Barry courthouse, Van Buren court-house, Jackson court-house, Fort Leavenworth, Liberty, in Clay county, Plattsburgh, in Clinton county, Fort Des Moines, to the town of Dubuque on the Mississippi river. same shall be continued until otherwise provided for by law. APPROVED, March 19, 1836.

And the

No. 3. Resolution to suspend the sale of a part of the public lands acquired by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek.

Be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands, acquired by the treaty concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians, at Dancing Rabbit creek, on the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, as has been conditionally, or otherwise located by the locating agent of the United States to persons claiming reservations under the fourteenth article of said treaty, be

Rations from the public stores to be de

livered, &c.

Post roads to

be established.

Reservations

of lands to be withheld from public sale until

1st December,

1836.

Proviso.

The contract

year for carrying the mail to end on the 30th

of June.

Act of July 2,

1836, ch. 270.

Evidence, if satisfactory, to be received, although not conforming to existing rules.

Unexpended balance appropriated to repairs.

withheld from public sale until the first day of December next: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall be taken or construed as indicating any intention on the part of Congress to confirm said claims. APPROVED, May 9, 1836.

No. 4. A Resolution to change the time of making contracts for the transportation of the mail.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be authorized, provided the same can be done at the present rates of compensation, to extend the term of the existing contracts for the transportation of the mail, to the thirtieth day of June inclusive, next succeeding the thirty-first day of December, in each year in which said contracts expire, so that the contract year may, after the first day of January next, commence on the first day of July, instead of the first day of January.

APPROVED, May 14, 1836.

No. 5. A Resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to receive additional evidence in support of the claims of Massachusetts and other States of the United States, for disbursements, services, &c. during the late war.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War, in preparing his report pursuant to a resolve of the House of Representatives, agreed to on the twenty-fourth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and he hereby is, authorized, without regard to existing rules and requirements, to receive such evidence as is on file, and any further proofs which may be offered tending to establish the validity of the claims of Massachusetts upon the United States, or any part thereof, for services, disbursements, and expenditures during the late war with Great Britain; and in all cases where such evidence shall in his judgment prove the truth of the items of claim, or any part thereof, to act on the same in like manner as if the proof consisted of such vouchers and evidence, as is required by existing rules and regulations touching the allowance of such claims: And that in the settlement of claims of other States upon the United States for services, disbursements, and expenditures during the late war with Great Britain, the same kind of evidence, vouchers and proof shall be received as is herein provided for in relation to the claim of Massachusetts, the validity of which shall be, in like manner, determined and acted upon by the Secretary of War.

APPROVED, May 14, 1836.

No. 6. A Resolution authorizing the repair of the bridge across the river Potomac, at Washington.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to have all repairs made to the bridge across the Potomac river, which have become necessary from the late flood, and that the expenses of said repairs be paid out of the money heretofore appropriated for the erection of said bridge, and which is now in the Treasury, unexpended.

APPROVED, June 7, 1836.

No. 7. A Resolution providing for the distribution of weights and measures. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards, and now either made or in the progress of manufacture for the use of the several custom-houses, and for other purposes, to be delivered to the Governor of each State in the Union, or such person as he may appoint, for the use of the States respectively, to the end that an uniform standard of weights and measures may be established throughout the United States.

APPROVED, June 14, 1836.

A complete set of such weights

and measures as are intended for

custom-houses to be delivered

to each State.

Contract to be

American artists.

No. 8. A Resolution to furnish the Rotundo with paintings. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a joint committee be made with four appointed to contract with one or more competent American artists for the execution of four historical pictures upon subjects serving to illustrate the discovery of America; the settlement of the United States; the history of the Revolution; or of the adoption of the Constitution; to be placed in the vacant pannels of the Rotundo; the subjects to be left to the choice of the artists under the control of the committee. APPROVED, June 23, 1836.

No. 9. A Resolution referring the petition and papers of the heirs of Robert Fulton, deceased, to the Secretary of the Navy, to report thereon to Congress. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the petition and papers of the heirs of Robert Fulton, be referred to the Secretary of the Navy, to state an account between the United States and said heirs, by debiting them with all the moneys paid to the said Robert Fulton, and not settled on the books of the Treasury Department.

Second. To credit the said heirs with all moneys advanced or expended by the said Fulton, in and about the business of the United States, committed to his care, or about which he had an agency. Third. To credit the said heirs a compensation commensurate with the value and importance of the services rendered by the said Robert Fulton, to the United States, in inventing a system of coast and harbor defence, and in testing its utility so far as he was employed or engaged to render such services by the authorities of the United States, or when such services were recognised as having been rendered for the United States, previous to, or during, the late war with Great Britain. Fourth. To credit the said heirs with the like compensation, for the services of the said Robert Fulton, for inventing and in superintending the construction of a steam frigate, at New York, during and after said war.

Moneys paid to Robert Fulton to be debited to

his heirs.

Moneys expended by R. F. for the U. S. to be credited.

A compensation commensurate with the tem of harbor defence to be allowed.

value of his sys

Compensation for inventing and superintending steam frigate.

Allowance to

tention of the Vesuvius.

Fifth. To credit the said heirs with a just and equitable compensation, for the detention of the steam-boat Vesuvius, at New Orleans, be made for defrom the thirtieth of December, eighteen hundred and fourteen, to the twelfth of March, eighteen hundred and fifteen, both days inclusive, being the time the said boat remained aground by reason of her being impressed into the service of the United States, and grounded when in said service.

SEC. 2. Be it further resolved, That the said Secretary of the Navy be authorized to take such further testimony as he shall think necessary, and that he ascertain what defence was made to the suit in favor of the United States, against the representatives of Robert Fulton in the

M

Secretary of Navy may take

further testimony, &c. relating to a suit in favor

of the United

States, and report to Congress.

The balance

southern district of New York, and what composed the items of set-off to the claim of the United States; and that said Secretary report his proceedings at the next session of Congress.

APPROVED, June 23, 1836.

No.10. A resolution to apply the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Potomac bridge to the improvement of Maryland avenue leading thereto, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United of the appropri- States of America in Congress assembled, That the balance of the apation to be ex-propriation for the construction of the bridge across the Potomac, at the pended on Maryland avenue. city of Washington, remaining unexpended after the said bridge shall have been repaired in obedience to the directions contained in the joint resolution passed for that purpose at the present session of Congress, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the Commissioner of the Public Buildings, towards the graduation, gravelling and planting of the Maryland avenue, in said city, from its eastern extremity to the said bridge, in equal proportions on the east and west of the Capitol, according to distance.

Commissioner of public buildings to attend to the draws, &c. He may employ three assistants.

SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Public Buildings to attend to the draws, cause the bridge to be properly lighted, to guard against wanton injuries and obstructions, and to preserve a due police on and near it, so as to ensure the safety of passengers and of the public property; that said Commissioner shall receive for his services the yearly compensation of three hundred dollars, and be authorized to employ three assistants, at a compensation not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents a day.

APPROVED, July 1, 1836.