New London harbor. Fort Schuyler. Fort Hamilton. Fort Lafayette. bus. Castle Wil liam. South battery, Gov'rs island. Fort Monroe. Bridge over Mill creek. Road. Purchase of land near Fort Monroe. Fort Calhoun. Fort Caswell. Fort Sumter. Fort Pickens. Fort Morgan. Fort Wood. Battery Bien venue. Tower Dupre. Ft. St. Philip. Contingencies. penses. For fortifications at New London harbor, twenty-five thousand dol lars; For Fort Schuyler, eighty thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Hamilton, twenty thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Lafayette, five thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Columbus, one thousand six hundred and sixtytwo dollars; For repairs of Castle William, five thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars; For repairs of south battery, Governor's island, three thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs of Fort Monroe, fifty thousand dollars; For rebuilding bridge over Mill creek, near Fort Monroe, five thousand dollars; For repairs of road from Fort Monroe to said bridge, one thousand dollars; For purchase of land in the vicinity of Fort Monroe, one thousand dollars; For Fort Calhoun, fifty thousand dollars; For Fort Caswell, six thousand dollars; For Fort Sumter, twenty-five thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Moultrie, ten thousand dollars; For Fort Pulaski, forty-four thousand dollars; For Fort on Foster's bank, Florida, fourteen thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Barrancas, fifteen thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Morgan, ten thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Pike, five thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort Wood, three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars; For repairs of the battery Bienvenue, two thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs of Tower Dupre, four hundred dollars; For repairs of Fort Jackson, twenty thousand dollars; For repairs of Fort St. Philip, three thousand three hundred dollars; For Fort Livingston, Grande Terre, Louisiana, fifteen thousand dollars; For contingencies of fortifications, ten thousand dollars; For incidental expenses attending repairs of fortifications, fifty thousand dollars. Provided, however, That in case of a disappointment in the receipts of revenue from customs, or lands, or other sources, or of a failure to collect the debts due from the late deposite banks, or from the Bank of the United States of Pennsylvania, so that the means of the Treasury shall not be sufficient to meet the ordinary calls for the service of the year, according to the appropriations made by Congress, and also the expenses authorized by this act, the President of the United States shall be, and hereby is, authorized, upon ascertainment, at any time, of these facts, from the Secretary of the Treasury, to direct the postponement until after the close of the next session of Congress, or until Congress shall otherwise direct, of the whole, or such portion of the appropriations made by this act as the state of the Treasury shall seem to him to require; any order for postponement to be made alike applicable to each item of appropriation, so far as the state of facts, at the time it is made, and a due regard to the public interests, will permit, and all contracts entered into in pursuance of these appropriations to be made subject to the conditions of this proviso. APPROVED, July 21, 1840, RESOLUTIONS. No. 1. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to continue certain clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authority given to the Secretary of War by the sixteenth clause of the first section of the act entitled "An act providing for the salaries of certain officers therein named, and for other purposes," dated the ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, to employ two clerks in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties, be extended after the expiration of the period for which that authority was granted for the term of two years. APPROVED, May 2, 1840. May 2, 1840. Authority contained in 16th clause 1st sec. act 9th May 1836, ch. 60, extended for two years. May 27, 1840. Measures to be No. 3. A Resolution concerning the statue of Washington, by Greenough. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized and instructed to take measures for the importation taken for its imand erection of the statue of Washington, by Greenough. APPROVED, May 27, 1840. portation and erection. No. 4. A Resolution to authorize the President to dispose of certain presents from July 20, 1840. the Imaum of Muscat and the Emperor of Morocco. 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, and he is hereby, authorized to dispose, in such time and manner as he shall see fit, of all such of the presents to the Government of the United States as have been sent from the Imaum of Muscat or the Emperor of Morocco, and cannot conveniently be deposited or kept in the Department of State, and cause the proceeds thereof to be placed in the Treasury of the United States. APPROVED, July 20, 1840. Such as cannot conveniently be deposited in the Department of State to be disposed of, &c. No. 5. Joint Resolution for the exchange of books and public documents for foreign July 20, 1840. publications. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the librarian, under the supervision of the Committee on the Library, be authorized to exchange such duplicates as may be in the library for other books or works. Second. That he be authorized, in the same way, to exchange documents. Third. That hereafter, fifty additional copies of the documents, printed by order of either House, be printed and bound for the purpose of exchange in foreign countries. APPROVED, July 20, 1840. Exchange of duplicates in the Library authorized. Of documents. Documents to be printed for exchange. Dec. 18, 1840. [Obsolete.] Members of Congress. Officers of the Senate and H. Expenses of Pay to messengers for bringing the electoral votes. STATUTE II. Jan. 14, 1841. Construction to be given to the act of 28th ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the district of Columbia, on Monday, the 7th day of December, 1840, and ended the 3d day of March, 1841. ROBERT MARTIN VAN BUREN, President. RICHARD M. JOHNSON, Vice Presi- STATUTE II. CHAP. I.-An Act making appropriations, in part, for the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. 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, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz: For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the sums due by law to the several messengers of the respective States, as compensation for conveying to the seat of Government the vote of the electors of the said States for President and Vice President of the United States. APPROVED, December 18, 1840. CHAP. II.-An Act supplementary to an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases. (a) 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 abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases," approved Feb. 1839, ch. February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, shall be so construed as to abolish imprisonment for debt, on process issuing out of any court of the United States, in all cases whatever, where, by the laws of the State in which the said court shall be held, imprisonment for debt has been, or shall hereafter be, abolished. APPROVED, January 14, 1841. 35, (a) Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to imprisonment for debt, vol. 1. 269. STATUTE II. CHAP. III.-An Act further to amend the act entitled "An act to provide for taking Jan. 14, 1841. the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine. Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 80. The time al lowed for mak. tions and reing enumeraturns, extended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for such of the assistants to the marshals, in the respective States and Territories, who have not, before the passage of this act, made their respective returns to such marshals under the act hereby amended, to complete their enumerations and make their returns, under the said act, at any time before the first day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for the marshals of such States and Territories to make their returns to the Secretary of State at any time before the first of June, eighteen hundred and forty-one; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such marshals and assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid, unless their returns shall be made within the time prescribed in this act: And provided, further, Further proThat no person be included in the returns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitants of the district for which such returns shall be made, on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the eleventh section of the act for taking the sixth census as applies to the printing, under the direction of the Secretary of State, of the aggregate returns received from the marshals, be so construed as to apply equally to the census of pensioners, and the statistical aggregates returned by said marshals: And be it further provided, That for arranging and preparing the census of pensioners required by the thirteenth section of the act for taking the sixth census and for the compiling and supervision of the printing of the statistical returns taken under said act, there be allowed to the superintending clerk, upon the completion of the work, such compensation as the Secretary of State may deem just and equitable, not exceeding the rate heretofore allowed for compiling the statistics of the third census; and that an allowance be made to the disbursing agent of the Department of State for the extra duties which have been, or may be, imposed upon him on account of the sixth census, in relation to its preparatory measures, the accounts of the marshals, and the disbursements, at a rate not exceeding that allowed him for his services in relation to the fifth census, according to the time he shall have been engaged in such duties. APPROVED January 14, 1841. CHAP. V.—An Act to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause Treasury notes to be issued for such sum or sums as the exigencies of the Government may require; but not exceeding the sum of five millions of dollars of this emission, outstanding at any one time, to be reimbursed in the last quarters of the year, if the condition of the Treasury will permit it, and to be issued under the limitations and other provisions, contained in the act, entitled "An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes," approved the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and as modified by an act, entitled "An act additional to the act on the subject of Treasury notes," approved the thirty-first day Proviso. viso. Construction of 11th sec. act 3d March 1839, ch. 80, with regard to printing the returns, Extra compen. sation to the clerk superintending the execution of said act. Extra compensation to the disbursing agent of State dep't. STATUTE II. Feb. 15, 1841. [Obsolete.] An emission of not exceeding $5,000,000 at any one time outstanding, authorized. To be issued under the act of 12th Oct. 1837, chap. 2, as mo dified by the act of 31st March 1840, ch. 5. (a) Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to the issuing and reimbursement of Treasury notes, vol. 2, 766. This law to expire in one year. Proviso. STATUTE II. Feb. 18, 1841. [Obsolete.] Appropriations. Revolutionary pensioners. 1818, ch. 19. Invalid pen sions. Widows and orphans. 1836, ch. 362. Five years' pensions to widows. 1838, ch. 189. Half-pay pen sions. Arrearages. Removal, &c. of Seminoles. of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty, except that this law shall expire in one year from and after its passage: Provided, That in case the Treasury notes outstanding and unredeemed, issued under former laws of Congress, added to the amount of such notes issued under this act, and actually expended or issued to meet payments due and payable before the fourth day of March next, shall, on the fourth day of March next, exceed the sum of five millions of dollars, then the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue, by virtue of the provisions of this act, such further amount of the said notes as will make the whole amount issued under this act, and applicable to payments falling due after the third day of March next, the full sum of five millions of dollars. APPROVED, February 15, 1841. CHAP. VI.—An Act making appropriations for the payment of revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and fortyone, 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 sams be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, in addition to former appropriations, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one : For the revolutionary pensioners under the act of the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, three hundred and fourteen thousand dollars; For payment of invalid pensions, one hundred and seven thousand dollars; For pensions to widows and orphans under the act of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, four hundred and fortyeight thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars; For five years' pensions to widows under the act of the seventh of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand three hundred and fourteen dollars; For half-pay pensions, payable through the offices of the Second and Third Auditors, five thousand dollars; For arrearages, payable through the Second Auditor's office, six hundred dollars; For arrearages, payable through the Third Auditor's office, one thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, for the removal, subsistence, and benefit of such of the Seminole Indian chiefs and warriors as may surrender for emigration. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no rifles, or arms of any No arms to be delivered to kind, shall be delivered to said Indians until they reach the western them until, &c. boundary of the State of Arkansas. STATUTE II. Feb. 18, 1841. Act of April 18, 1806, ch. 31. APPROVED, February 18, 1841. CHAP. VII.-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same," passed the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Tennessee be, and hereby is, constituted the agent of the Government of the |
