No. 21. To revive an act to constitute Hannibal, Missouri; and Peoria, Illinois, ports of delivery. No. 22.-Providing for holding a circuit court at Erie, Pa. March 12, 1868. No. 23.-To facilitate the settlement of paymasters' accounts. March 16, 1868. No. 24.-Military Academy appropriations; total, $277,512. Hereafter there will be only seven official visitors. No part of the money shall be applied to the pay or subsistence of any cadet from any State declared to be in rebellion against the government of the United States, appointed after the first day of January, 1868, until such State shall have been returned to its original relations to the Union. (Not having been returned by the President within the time prescribed, it became a law without his approval.) No. 25.-Provides fifty more clerks, and other facilities for determining and paying off soldiers' bounties under act of 1866. March 19, 1868. No. 26.-Amending an act entitled “An Act to amend the judiciary act, passed Sept. 24, 1789.” Allows any revenue officer to appeal from Circuit Court judgments to United States Supreme Court, without regard to amount involved. (Vetoed by the President, and passed by Congress over the veto). No. 27. To establish certain post roads. March 30, 1868. No. 28.-Amending an act entitled "An Act to provide for the prompt settlement of public accounts," approved March 3, 1817. March 30, 1868. No. 29.-Making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869. Principal items: inland mail transportation, $10,526,000; foreign transportation. $420,000; pay of postmasters, $4,250,000; clerks, $2,000,000; letter carriers, $750,000; stamps and envelopes, $450,000; special agents, $100,000; bags, locks, and stamps, $145,000; balances to foreign countries, $350,000; rent, light, fuel, &c., $375,000; China steamers, $500,000; Brazil steamers, $150,000; Sandwich Islands, $75,000; the whole appropriation is $19,969,000. March 30, 1868. No. 30.-Making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1869, and for other purposes. Total, $1,159,850, besides $55,584 in gold for Scheldt dues, and as much more as necessary to carry out the treaty. If an army or navy officer accepts a diplomatic or consular office, he thereby resigns his place in the army or navy. The act of July 4, 1864, to encourage immigration, is repealed. March 30, 1868. No. 31. Exempting certain manufactures from internal tax, and for other purposes. Repeals sections 94 and 95 of "An Act to provide internal revenue to support the government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved June 30, 1864, and all acts and parts of acts amendatory of said sections, except only so much of the said sections and amendments thereto as relates to the taxes imposed thereby on gas made of coal wholly or in part, or of any other material; on illuminating, lubricating, or other mineral oils or articles the products of the distillation, redistillation, or refining of crude petroleum, or of a single distillation of coal, shale, peat, asphaltum, or other bituminous substances, on wines therein described, and on snuff and all the other manufactures of tobacco, including cigarettes, cigars and cheroots: Provided. That the products of petroleum and bituminous substances hereinbefore mentioned, except illuminating gas, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be taxed at one-half the rates fixed by the said section 94, and provides that after June 1, 1868. no drawback of internal taxes paid on manufactures shall be allowed on the exportation of any article of domestic manufacture, on which there is no internal tax at the time of exportation; nor shall such drawback be allowed in any case unless it shall be proved by sworn evidence in writing, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Internal Revenue, that the tax had been paid, and that such articles of manufacture were, prior to April 1, 1868, actually purchased or actually manufactured and contracted for, to be delivered for such exportation, and that every person, firm, or corporation, who shall manufacture by hand or machinery, any goods, wares, or merchandise, breadstuffs and unmanufactured lumber excepted, not otherwise specifically taxed as such, or who shall be engaged in the manufacture or preparation for sale of any articles or compounds, not otherwise specifically taxed, or shall put up for sale in packages with his own name or trade mark thereon, any articles or compound not otherwise specifically taxed, and whose annual sales exceed five thousand dollars, shall pay for every additional thousand dollars in excess of $5,000, two dollars, and the amount of sales in excess of the rate of $5,000 per annum shall be returned quarter-yearly to the assistant assessor, and the tax on the excess of $5,000 shall be assessed by the assessor and paid quarter-yearly in the months of January, April, July, and October of each year; and, that every person engaged in carrying on the business of a distiller who shall defraud or attempt to defraud the United States of the tax on the spirits distilled by him, or any part thereof, shall forfeit the distillery and distilling apparatus used by him, and all distilled spirits, and all raw materials for the production of distilled spirits found in the distillery and on the distillery premises, and shall on conviction, be fined not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, and be imprisoned not less than six months, nor more than five years; and that if any officer or agent appointed and acting under the authority of any revenue law of the United States shall be guilty of gross neglect in the discharge of any of the duties of his office, or shall conspire or collude with any other person to defraud the United States, &c., he shall, on conviction, be fined $1,000-5,000, and be imprisoned not less than six months, nor more than three years. March 31, 1868. No. 32.-Making appropriations for the expenses of the trial of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, $10,000, and other contingent expenses of the Senate for the year ending June 30, 1868, $72,000. Total, $82,000. May 19, 1868. No. 33.-Granting the right of way to the Whitehall and Plattsburgh Railroad Company. May 20, 1868. No. 34. To extend the charter of Washington City, also to regulate the election of officers, and for other purposes. (Not having been returned by the President within the time prescribed, it became a law without his approval) No. 35.-Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the execution of the reconstruction laws in the third military district, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868. (Not having been returned by the President within the time specified, it became a law without his approval). No. 36. Declaring St. George, Boothbay, Bucksport, Vinalhaven, and North Haven, in the State of Maine, and San Antonio in the State of Texas, ports of delivery. June 5, 1868. No. 37. To partially supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868. Expenses of House of Representatives, $47,960; collecting, $1,800,000; to facilitate bounty payments, $60,000; sundry items, $48,000; total, $1,955,960. June 8, 1868. No. 38.-Making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June 30, 1869, and for other purposes. Pay of army, $15,000,000; transporting recruits, $100,000; commutation of officers' subsistence, $2,133,413; in lieu of clothing, $250,000; medical department, $200,000; quartermaster's, $5,000,000; general expenses, $2,000,000; transportation and quarters, $7,000,000, &c. Whole amount, $33,057,093. June 8, 1868. No. 39.-Amending an act entitled "An Act for the relief of the inhabitants of cities and towns upon the public lands." Approved March 2, 1867. No. 40.-Extending the time for completing the military road authorized by an act entitled "An Act granting lands to the States of Michigan and Wisconsin to aid in the construction of a military road from Fort Wilkins, Copper Harbor, Kewenaw county, in the State of Michigan, to Fort Howard, Green Bay, in the State of Wisconsin." June 8, 1868. No. 41.-To further provide for giving effect to the various grants of public lands to the State of Nevada. June 8, 1868. No. 42.-Making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending June 30, 1869. Pay of officers and men, $8,000,000; material and vessels, $3,000,000; yards, docks, &c., $1,272,000; equipment and recruiting, $1,268,000; marine corps, $48,000. The entire appropriations are $13,752,600. Hereafter the whole number of enlisted men, including seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, mechanics, apprentices, and boys, is fixed at $8,000 and no more. June 17, 1868. No. 43.—To admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress. Whereas the people of Arkansas, in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled "An Act for the more efficient government of the rebel States," passed March 2, 1867, and the acts supplementary thereto, have framed and adopted a constitution of State government, which is republican, and the legislature of said State has duly ratified the amendment to the constitution of the United States proposed by the thirty-ninth Congress, and known as article fourteen: Therefore, Be it enacted, That the State of Arkansas is entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as one of the States of the Union upon the following fundamental condition: That the constitution of Arkansas shall never be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the right to vote, who are entitled to vote by the constitution herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted, under laws equally applicable to all the inhabitants of said State: Provided, That any alteration of said constitution prospective in its effect may be made in regard to the time and place of residence of voters. (Passed over the President's veto). No. 44.-Admitting the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, to representation in Congress, provides that each of these States shall be entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as a State of the Union, when the legislature of such State shall have duly ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the 39th Congress, and known as Art. 14, upon the following fundamental conditions: That the constitution of neither of said States shall ever be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the right to vote in said State, who are entitled to vote by the constitution thereof herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted under laws equally applicable to all the inhabitants of said State: Provided, That any alteration of said constitution may be made with regard to the time and place of residence of voters; and the State of Georgia shall only be entitled and admitted to representation upon this further fundamental condition: that the first and third subdivisions of section 17 of the fifth article of the constitution of said State, except the proviso to the first subdivision shall be null and void, and that the general assembly of said State by solemn public act shall declare the assent of the State to the foregoing fundamental condition. That the first section of this act shall take effect as to each State, except Georgia, when such State shall, by its legislature, duly ratify Art. 14 of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the 39th Congress, and as to the State of Georgia when it shall in addition give the assent of said State to the fundamental condition herein before imposed upon the same. (Passed over the President's veto). No. 45.-Providing for appeals from the Court of Claims, and for other purposes. 25, 1868. June No. 46.-Provides that eight hours shall constitute a days work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics now employed, or who may be hereafter employed, by or on behalf of the government of the United States. June 25, 1868. No. 47. For the relief of certain exporters of rum. June 25, 1868. No. 48. To re-establish the boundaries of the collection districts of Michigan and Michilimackinac, and to change the names of the collection districts of Michilimackinac and Port Huron. June 25, 1868. No. 49. To extend the boundaries of the collection district of Philadelphia. June 25, 1868. No. 50.-Amending an act entitled "An Act to provide for carrying the mails from the United States to foreign ports." June 25, 1868. No. 51. Relative to filing reports of Railroad companies. June 25, 1868. No. 52.-Appropriating money to sustain the Indian commission and carry out treaties made thereby. June 25, 1868. No. 53. Changing the times of holding the District and Circuit Courts of the United States in Tennessee. June 25, 1868. No. 54.-Amending an act entitled "An act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Central Pacific Railroad, in California, to Portland, in Oregon." The Oregon branch to complete at least 20 miles in each two years, and finish the road by July 1, 1880. June 25, 1868. No. 55.-Relating to the Supreme Court of the United States. June 25, 1868. No. 56.-Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to change the names of certain vessels. June 25, 1868. No. 57.-Relating to contested elections in the city of Washington. (Not having been returned by the President within the time prescribed, it became a law without his approval). No. 58. For holding terms of the District Court of the United States for the southern district of Illinois at the city of Cairo, in said state. July 3, 1868. No. 59. Confirming the title to a tract of land in Burlington, Iowa. July 4, 1868. No. 60.-Authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Black river, in Lorain county, Ohio. July 6, 1868. No. 61. To incorporate the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington. July 7, 1868. No. 62.-To amend an act entitled "An act concerning the registering and recording of ships or vessels." July 7, 1868. No. 63. To continue the Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees. (Not having been returned by the President within the prescribed time, it became a law without his approval). No. 64.-Prescribing an oath of office to be taken by persons from whom legal disabilities shall have been removed. July 11, 1868. No. 65. To incorporate the Connecticut Avenue and Park Railway Company, in the District of Columbia. July 13, 1868. No. 66.-To incorporate the National Hotel Company of Washington City. July 13, 1868. No. 67.-Amending the act providing for the construction of certain wagon roads in Dakota Territory. July 13, 1868. No. 68.-Creating the office of Surveyor General in the Territory of Utah, and establishing a Land Office in said Territory. July 16, 1868. No. 69.-Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1869. Expenses of senate, $600,170.80; of house, $1,624,238.60; public printing, $1,214,656.79; library, $51,570; court of claims, $139,800; executive, $44,622.22; public grounds and buildings, $49,140; state department, $151,200; treasury, $9.110,866; interior, $1,816,720; war, $750,420; navy, $25,301; post office, $396,680; agriculture, $127,895; education, $20,000; mints and assay offices, $450,307.68; independent treasury, $388,135; territorial governments, $225,500; judiciary, $294,300. Whole amount, $17,111,723.09 July 20, 1868. No. 70.-Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1869. The items are: Miscellaneous, $181,440; coast survey, $250,000; lakes, $75,000; light-houses, $1,919,042; revenue cutters, $1,237,290; buildings for customs, &c., $1,093,008; interior department, $16,300; capitol extension, $133,200; Smithsonian institution, $4,000; metropolitan police, $211,050; collection of revenue from public lands, $260,300; surveying lands, $405,425; public buildings and grounds, $269,503. The whole sum in the bill is $5,055,258. July 20, 1868. No. 71. To facilitate the settlement of certain prize cases in the southern district of Florida. July 20, 1868. No. 72.-Authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. July 20, 1868. No. 73.-For the registration or enrolment of certain foreign vessels. July 20, 1868. No. 75.-Amendatory of an act entitled "An act to authorize the construction of certain bridges." July 20, 1868. No. 76. Providing for the sale of a portion of the Fort Gratiot military reservation. July 20, 1868. No. 77.-To aid the improvement of the Des Moines and Rock Island rapids. July 20, 1868. No. 78. Declaratory of the law in regard to officers cashiered or dismissed from the army by the sentence of a general court-martial. No officer of the army of the United States who has been or shall hereafter be cashiered or dismissed from the service by the sentence of a general court-martial, formally approved by the proper reviewing authority, shall ever be restored to the military service except by a re-appointment, confirmed by the Senate of the United States. July 20, 1868. No. 79.-Imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes: Provides, That there shall be levied and collected on all distilled spirits on which the tax prescribed by law has not been paid, a tax of fifty cents on each and every proof gallon, to be paid before removal from distillery warehouse; the tax on such spirits shall be collected on the whole number of gauge or wine gallons when below proof, and shall be increased in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of proof spirit as defined in this act; and any fractional part of a gallon in excess of the number of gallons in a cask or package shall be taxed as a gallon. The tax on brandy made from grapes shall be the same and no higher than that upon other distilled spirits; the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to exempt distillers of brandy from apples, peaches or grapes exclusively, from such other of the provisions of this act relating to the manufacture of spirits as in his judgment may seem expedient. Every distillery, whether intended for use or otherwise, must be registered with the Assessor of its district. Its owner must file with that officer notice of its location, description and boundaries, its mashing, fermenting and distilling capacity, and its fermenting period, together with the number, kinds and contents of the stills, boilers, tubs and cisterns employed. An accurate plan of the distillery and its apparatus, showing the relative location of every still, boiler, doubler, worm-tub, cistern, pipe-valve, and other parts of the machinery, must be displayed upon the premises, and a copy filed with the Assessor. With the aid of a person, skillful and competent for such purpose, the Assessor is required to make a survey of every distillery, and to estimate and determine its true producing capacity, for the purpose of assessment in case of deficient returns. Copies of all the papers above referred to are sent to the revenue office, where a full and complete record is kept of every distillery. A warehouse must be established for every distillery, and, under the direction and control of the Collector of the district, placed in charge of a storekeeper appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. A bond in the penal sum of double the tax upon the possible production of the distillery for fifteen days must be given by the distiller, with at least two sureties approved by the Assessors, conditioned, among other things, to a faithful compliance with all the provisions of the law. All this must be done before a distillery is allowed to commence operations. Afterwards daily reports are made by its storekeeper of all spirits entered and withdrawn from warehouse, and monthly reports of materials used, beer made, and spirits produced at the distillery. Reports of like character are made each month by the assessors, based upon the tri-monthly reports to them from distillers, and including also their assessments of deficiencies, and of the per diem and per barrel taxes imposed by law. These various reports when received, compared with and checked by each other, are duly recorded and filed. July 20, 1868. No. 80.-To construct a wagon road from West Point to Cornwall Landing, all in the county of Orange, state of New York. July 23, 1868. No. 81. To authorize the temporary supplying of vacancies in the Executive Department. July 23, 1868. No. 82.-Making a grant of land to the state of Minnesota to aid in the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi river; grants to the state of Minnesota for the purpose of aiding said state in constructing and completing a lock and dam at Meeker's island, in the Mississippi river, in said state; two hundred thousand acres of public lands, to be selected in alternate odd-numbered sections, from the public lands lying within the limits of the state of Minnesota. July 23, 1868. No. 83.-Making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1869. Appropriates $30,350,000 in all. July 23, 1868. No. 84. To incorporate the "Washington Target-Shooting Association," in the District of Columbia. July 23, 1868. No. 85.-Making appropriations and to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, and for other purposes. The main items are: Legislative, $16,977.04; interior, $29,548.09; treasury, $61,882.40; construction, $365,000; war, $1,612,530; bounties, $9,300; aqueduct, $52,500; Rock Island arsenal, $100,000; post office, $912,500; reconstruction, $510,078.24; public buildings and grounds, $25,593; Indians, $172,820.11; Washington city, $296,943.88; miscellaneous, $176,277.57. The whole sum is $4,341,970.33. July 25, 1868. No. 86. For the relief of the loyal Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. July 25, 1868. No. 87.-Providing a temporary government for the territory of Wyoming. July 25, 1868. No. 88. In addition to an act passed March 26, 1804, entitled "An act in addition to an act entitled 'An act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States.''' July * 25, 1868. No. 89. To provide for a further issue of temporary loan certificates, for the purpose of rodeeming and retiring the remainder of the outstanding compound interest notes, authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue an additional amount of temporary loan certificates, not exceeding twenty-five millions of dollars; said certificates to bear interest at the rate of three per centum per annum, principal and interest payable in lawful money on demand. July 25, 1868. No. 90.-To create an additional land district in the State of Minnesota. July 25, 1868. No. 91. To incorporate the National Life Insurance Company of the United States of America. July 25, 1868. No. 92. To confirm the title to certain lands in the State of Nebraska. July 25, 1868. No. 93.-Authorizing the trustees of Union Chapel of the Methodist Episcopal church, in the city of Washington, to mortgage their property for church purposes. July 25, 1868. No. 94. To extend the time for the construction of the Southern Pacific railroad in the state of California. July 25, 1868. No. 95.-Providing for the sale of the arsenal grounds at St. Louis and Liberty, Missouri, and for other purposes. July 25, 1868. No. 96.-To establish certain post-roads. July 25, 1868. No. 97.-Relating to the Freedmen's Bureau, and providing for its discontinuance: Provides, that the duties and powers of Commissioner of the Burcau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees, shall continue to be discharged by the present Commissioner of the Bureau; and in case of vacancy in said office occurring by reason of his death or resignation, the same shall be filled by appointment of the President on the nomination of the Secretary of War, and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and no officer of the army shall be detailed for service as Commissioner or shall enter upon the duties of Commissioner unless appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and all assistant commissioners, agents, clerks, and assistants, shall be appointed by the Secretary of War on the nomination of the Commissioner of the Bureau; and that the Commissioner of the Bureau, shall on the first day of January next, cause |
