ducted from the proportion of the tax actually | or not, and adjudged and condemned to the use of paid on or before the last day of June in each the United States and of the captors, or of the year, and 10 per cent. from that paid on or before United States alone if seized by a collector, surthe last day of September; and the quota of any veyor, or marshal, in the manner now provided by State may be satisfied in whole or in part by the law. The President may instruct the commanders release of any claim of such State against the of public armed vessels, and authorize the conUnited States; but on default of any State so manders of any other armed vessels sailing under undertaking in any year, the Secretary of the the authority of letters of marque and reprisal Treasury may procure the collection of the tax granted by Congress, or of any other suitable by his own officers. vessels, to subdue and seize any such vessel or boat, and if found upon the high seas to bring it into any port of the United States; and the collectors and surveyors of ports and United States marshals are required to seize any and all such vessels or boats, and cause the same to be duly proceeded against. (Aug. 5, 1861.) For the purposes of this act, the office of Commissioner of Taxes is created in the Treasury Department. (See 2d Session, Chap. cxix.) (Aug. 5, 1861.) No. 43. CHAP. XLVI.-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to authorize a National Loan, and for other Purposes." The Secretary of the Treasury may issue bonds at 6 per cent., in sums of not less than $500, payable after 20 years, and exchangeable for treasury notes at 70 per cent., issued under the act of July 17, 1861, at the option of the holder of such notes, the whole amount of the bonds not to exceed the whole amount of such notes. Treasury notes shall be signed by the Treasurer of the United States and countersigned by the Register of the Treasury, or by such other officer of the Treasury Department for each as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate; and no such notes shall require the seal of the Department. The lowest denomination of treasury notes shall be $5 instead of $10. $100,000 additional are appropriated for expenses. Treasury notes of a less denomination than $50 shall be receivable in payment of public dues. The act of Aug. 6, 1846, is so far suspended as to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit money obtained from loans in such solvent specie-paying banks as he may select. For any portion of the 7 per cent. bonds authorized by the act to which this is supplementary, the Secretary of the Treasury may issue bonds at 6 per cent. payable not more than 20 years from date. (Aug. 5, 1861.) No. 44. CHAP. XLVII.-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to increase the present Military Establishment of the United States," approved July 29, 1861. The appointment of additional aides-de-camp is authorized, as may be recommended by the lieutenant-general or any major-general of the regular army commanding forces in the field. (Aug. 5, 1861.) No. 45. CHAP. XLVIII.-An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to protect the Commerce of the United States and punish the Crime of Piracy." Any vessel or boat which shall be built, purchased, fitted out in whole or in part, or held for the purpose of being employed in the commission of any piratical aggression, &c. shall be liable to be captured upon the high seas, or in any port or place in the United States, whether the same shall have actually sailed upon any piratical expedition or committed or attempted any act of piracy, No. 46. CHAP. XLIX.-An Act to reduce Consular Fees for Vessels running to or between Foreign Ports. American vessels so running regularly by weekly or monthly trips, or otherwise, shall not be required to pay fees to consuls for more than four trips in a year. (Aug. 5, 1861.) No. 47. CHAP. L.-An Act authorizing additional Enlistments in the Navy of the United States. The Secretary of the Navy may cause to be enlisted in the navy, for the term of three years or during the war, such number of able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys, as he may judge necessary and proper. (Aug. 5. 1861.) No. 48. CHAP. LI.-An Act making further Ap propriation for the Support of the Naval Service for the Year ending June 30, 1862, and for other Purposes. $462,000 are appropriated for naval purposes; $20,000,000 for collecting, drilling, and organizing five hundred thousand volunteers; and $7000 for repairs to Fort Abercrombie. (Aug. 5, 1861.) No. 49. Chap. LII.-An Act making Appropriation to pay the Expenses of the Investigating Committees of the House of Representatives and Senate appointed the First Session of the 37th Congress, and of the Commission authorized to examine and report as to the Compensation of all Officers of the Government. $10,000 are appropriated as part of the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives. (Aug. 5, 1861.) No. 50. CHAP. LIII.-An Act authorizing the Construction of Twelve small Side-Wheel Steamers. $1,200,000 are appropriated for the purpose. (Aug. 5, 1861.) No. 51. CHAP. LIV.-An Act making Appro priation for Fortifications and other Purposes. $100,000 are appropriated for contingencies of fortifications, and $5000 for improving the grounds around the Washington Infirmary, used as an army hospital. Any commissioned officer of the army, navy, or marine corps, who, having tendered his resignation, shall, prior to due notice of the acceptance of the same by the proper authority, and without leave, quit his post or proper duties with the intent to remain permanently absent therefrom, shall be registered as a deserter, and punished as such. Flogging as a punishment in the army is abo- required or permitted by the person to whom lished. (Aug. 5, 1861.) No. 52. CHAP. LV.-An Act in relation to the Office of Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The said attorney shall be paid a salary of $6000 per annum, dating from April 4, 1861, and office-expenses as determined by the Secretary of the Interior. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 53. CHAP. LVI.-An Act to punish certain Crimes against the United States. Any person convicted of recruiting soldiers or sailors in any State or Territory to engage in armed hostility against the United States, or opening a recruiting station for such purpose, shall be fined from $200 to $1000, and be imprisoned from one to five years. Any person so enlisting shall be fined $100, and imprisoned from one to three years. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 54. CHAP. LVII.-An Act to promote the Efficiency of the Engineer and Topographical Engineer Corps, and for other Purposes. An increase of the corps named, and the appointment of two additional inspectors-general, are provided for. (See United States Army, p. 88.) Vacancies hereafter occurring among the commissioned officers of the volunteer regiments shall be filled by the Governors of the States respectively, in the same manner as original appointments. (See No. 9.) The superintendents of national armories shall hereafter be appointed from officers of the Ordnance Department. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 55. CHAP. LVIII.-An Act to authorize an Increase in the Corps of Engineers and Topographical Engineers. This is, as far as it goes, a repetition of the preceding act. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 56. CHAP. LIX.-An Act to provide for holding the District and Circuit Courts in Judicial Districts during a temporary Vacancy of the Judgeship. The duties of the vacant judgeship, in any State where there are two judicial districts, may be performed by the judge of the other district, either in the district or circuit court, during the continuance of such vacancy.. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 57. CHAP. LX.-An Act to confiscate Property used for Insurrectionary Purposes. During the present or any future insurrection, after the requisite proclamation by the President, any property used, or intended or suffered by the owner to be used, in aiding, abetting, or promoting such insurrection or resistance to the laws, is declared to be lawful subject of prize and capture wherever found; and it shall be the duty of the President of the United States to cause the same to be seized, confiscated, and condemned. Such prizes and capture may be condemned in any district or circuit court having jurisdiction of the amount, or in admiralty in any district in which the same may be seized, or into which they may be taken and proceedings first instituted. Any person claimed to be held to service or labor under the law of any State, who shall be such labor or service is claimed to be due, or by his lawful agent, to take up arms against the United States, or to work or be employed in any military or naval service whatsoever, against the Government and lawful authority of the United States, in every such case the claim to such labor shall be forfeited; and the fact of such employment is made a bar to the subsequent enforcement of such claim. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 58. CHAP. LXI.-An Act relative to Appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States. In all cases of appeal to the Supreme Court by both parties, a transcript of the record filed in the Supreme Court by either party may be used on both appeals. The United States District Attorney in any district in California may transcribe and certify to the Supreme Court the records of the court in his own district, in all appealed land cases in which the United States is a party; and records so certified shall be as valid as if certified by the clerk of the proper district court. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 59. CHAP. LXII.-An Act to create a Metropolitan Police District of the District of Columbia, and to establish a Police therefor. Such district and police are established, and $60,000 additional to an existing balance appropriated. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 60. CHAP. LXIII.-An Act to increase the Pay of the Privates in the Regular Army and in the Volunteers in the Service of the United States, and for other Purposes. The pay of privates shall be $13 per month for three years, and until otherwise fixed by law. The provisions of the act "for the relief of the Ohio and other volunteers" (see No. 16) are extended to all volunteers, for whatever term. "All the asts, proclamations, and orders of the President of the United States after the 4th of March, 1861, respecting the army and navy of the United States, and calling out or relating to the militia or volunteers from the States, are hereby approved and in all respects legalized and made valid, to the same intent and with the same effect as if they had been issued and done under the previous express authority and direction of the Congress of the United States." (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 61. CHAP. LXIV.-An Act requiring an Oath of Allegiance, and to support the Constitu tion of the United States, to be administered to certain Persons in the Civil Service of the United States. The heads of the several departments shall cause such an oath to be administered to every person employed in their several departments; and all who refuse to take such oath shall be immediately dismissed, and those violating it shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 62. CHAP. LXV.-An Act explanatory of an Act entitled "An Act concerning the AttorneyGeneral and the Attorneys and Marshals of the several Districts." (See No. 37.) Said act shall not in any way affect the Solicitor of the Treasury. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 63. CHAP. LXVI.-An Act to provide for the Repairs of the Long Bridge across the Potomac River. $20,000 are appropriated. (Aug. 6, 1861.) No. 64. CHAP. LXVII.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of War to pay the Volunteers who, under the Command of Charles W. White, and by Order of Brigadier-General T. A. Morris, enlisted to protect the Railroad Bridges and other Property, in the Vicinity of Oakland, Alleghany County, Maryland. (Aug. 6, 1861.) PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS. No. 1.-Joint Resolution authorizing the Appointment of Examiners to examine a Steam Floating Battery at Hoboken, New Jersey. The Secretary may appoint a board to examine the battery, ascertain the cost of completing the same, how soon it can be completed, and the expediency thereof, and report thereon for the next meeting of Congress. (July 24, 1861.) No. 2.-A Resolution relative to the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations to be holden in London in the Year 1862. $2000 are appropriated to enable the President to take such measures as shall seem to him best to facilitate a proper representation of the industrial interests of the United States at the said exhibition. (July 27, 1861.) No. 3.-A Resolution requesting the President of the United States to recommend a Day of Public Humiliation, Pasting, and Prayer. (Aug. 5, 1861.) No. 5.-A Resolution authorizing an Examination of James's Projectiles for Rifled Cannon. (Aug. 6, 1861.) the several paymasters shall, at each regular pay- SECOND (FIRST REGULAR) SESSION OF THE 37TH CONGRESS. No. 1. CHAP. I.-An Act to further promote the Efficiency of the Navy. Any officer whose name shall have been borne on the Naval Register 45 years, or who shall be 62 years old, shall be retired from active service, but may be assigned to shore duty. The President may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, detail officers from the retired list for the command of squadrons and single ships, as he may believe that the good of the service requires; and such officers may be restored to the active list if upon the recommendation of the President they shall receive a vote of thanks from Congress for their services and gallantry in action against an enemy, and not other- No. 6. CHAP. VI.-An Act making Appropriawise. The President may select any officer from tions for the Payment of Invalid and other Penthe grades of captain or commander, and assignsions of the United States for the Year ending June him to the command of a squadron with the rank 30, 1863. $1,450,600 are appropriated. (Jan. 8, and title of "flag officer." (Dec. 21, 1861.) 1862.) No. 2. CHAP. II.-An Act to increase the Duties on Tea, Coffee, and Sugar. (See New Tariff, p. 283.) (Dec. 24, 1861.) No. 3. CHAP. III.-An Act relative to CourtsMartial in the Army. In time of war the commander of a division or separate brigade may appoint general courts-martial, and act upon their sentences as allowed and restrained in the 65th and 89th Articles of War to commanders of armies and departments; but sentences extending to loss of life or dismission of a commissioned officer shall require the confirmation of the general commanding the army to which the division or brigade belongs. (Dec. 24, 1861.) No. 4. CHAP. IV.-An Act to provide for Allotment Certificates among the Volunteer Forces. The President shall appoint, for each State having volunteers in the United States service, not exceeding three persons to visit the volunteers from their respective States and procure their allotments of their pay to their families or friends, duly certified in writing and attested, upon which No. 5. CHAP. V.—An Act making an Appropriation for Gunboats on the Western Rivers. $1,000,000 are appropriated. (Dec. 24, 1861.) No. 7. CHAP. VIII.-An Act to promote the Efficiency of the Dead-Letter Office. The PostmasterGeneral may return all dead letters, except those containing circulars and other worthless matter, to their writers, whenever their names can be ascertained; all valuable letters to be charged treble, and all others double, the ordinary rate of postage. He may employ additional clerks for the purpose, provided he is satisfied that the receipts for deadletter postage will amount to sufficient for their compensation, and shall report the results to the next session of Congress. (Jan. 21, 1862.) No. 8. CHAP. IX.-An Act in relation to the Letters of Sailors and Marines in the Service of the United States. The act authorizing soldiers to send letters through the mail without prepayment of postage is extended to sailors and marines in the actual service of the United States. (Jan. 21, 1862.) No. 9. CHAP. X.-An Act to authorize the President to appoint two additional Assistant Secretaries of War. Their offices shall continue for one year, at a salary of $3000 each. (Jan. 22, 1862.) 30, 1863, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending June 30, 1862. $1,166,270.10 are ap No. 10. CHAP. XI.—An Act amending the Pro-propriated for 1863, and $69,119.89 for 1862. No. 16. CHAP. XVIII.-An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to strike from the Pension Rolls the Names of such Persons as have taken up Arms against the Government, or who may have in any manner encouraged the Rebels. (Feb. 4,1862.) No. 17. CHAP. XIX.-An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the Year ending June 30, 1863. $156,211 are appropriated. (Feb. 10, 1862.) No. 18. CHAP. XX.-An Act to authorize an additional Issue of United States Notes. The Se No. 11. CHAP. XII.-An Act authorizing an In-cretary of the Treasury may issue $10,000,000 in crease of the Clerical Force in the War and Navy Departments. (Jan. 27, 1862.) No. 12. CHAP. XIII.-An Act to provide for the Protection of Overland Emigrants to California, Oregon, and Washington Territories. $25,000 are appropriated, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of War. (Jan. 27, 1862.) No. 13. CHAP. XIV.-An Act to pay the Expenses of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives, appointed July 8, 1861, to ascertain and report in regard to Contracts with any Department of the Government for Provisions, Supplies, Transportation, &c. $10,000 are appropriated. (Jan. 31, 1862.) No. 14. CHAP. XV.-An Act to authorize the President of the United States in certain Cases to take Possession of Railroad and Telegraph Lines, and for other Purposes. The President may, when in his judgment the public safety may require it, take possession of any or all the telegraph and railroad lines in the United States, and every thing belonging to them; prescribe rules and regulations for holding, using, and maintaining them; extend, repair, and complete them, in the manner most conducive to the safety and interest of the Government; and place their officers, agents, and employees under military control, so that they shall be considered as a post road and a part of the military establishment of the United States. Three commissioners shall be appointed to assess damages or determine the compensation to which any railroad or telegraph company may become entitled in consequence of such seizure, and their award shall be submitted to Congress for their action. The transportation of troops, munitions of war, &c. throughout the United States shall be under the immediate supervision and control of the Secretary of War and his authorized agents. The provisions of this act, so far as relates to the operating and using said railroads and telegraphs, shall not be in force any longer than is necessary for the suppression of this rebellion. (Jan. 31, 1862.) demand notes of not less than $5, in addition to the $50,000,000, and as part of the $250,000,000 loan authorized by the acts of July 17 and Aug. 5, 1861. (Feb. 12, 1862.) No. 19. CHAP. XXI.-An Act authorizing the Detail of Naval Officers for the Service of the War Department. Three competent naval officers may be detailed for the inspection of transport-vessels, &c. (Feb. 12, 1862.) No. 20. CHAP. XXII.—An Act making an Appropriation for the Purchase of Cotton and Tobacco Seed for general Distribution. $3000 are appropriated for cotton-seed and $1000 for tobaccoseed, the former to be procured from places where cotton is grown as far north as practicable. (Feb. 13, 1862.) No. 21. CHAP. XXIII.-An Act to authorize the Construction of Twenty Iron-Clad Steam Gunboats. $10,000,000 are appropriated. (Feb. 13, 1862.) No. 22. CHAP. XXIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes, and to preserve Peace on the Frontiers," approved June 30, 1834. The provisions against the sale of spirituous liquors to Indians are made more stringent. (Feb. 13, 1862.) No. 23. CHAP. XXV.-An Act making an Appropriation for completing the Defences of Washington, and for other Purposes. $150,000 are appropriated for completing the defences of Washington. The law providing for the discharge of minors enlisted without the consent of their parents or guardians is repealed. Hereafter no person under the age of 18 shall be mustered into the service of the United States, and the oath of enlistment taken by the recruit shall be conclusive as to his age. No volunteers or militia shall be mustered into the service on conditions limiting their service to any State or Territory, beyond the number of 10,000 in Missouri and 4500 in Maryland heretofore authorized by the President or Secretary of War. (Feb. 13, 1862.) No. 24. CHAP. XXVII.-An Act to prohibit the No. 15. CHAP. XVII.-An Act making Appro- "Coolie Trade" by American Citizens in American priations for the Consular and Diplomatic Ex- Vessels. Every vessel engaged in such trade shall penses of the Government for the Year ending June be liable to be seized at sea or in port and for feited; and persons concerned therein shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $2000, and be imprisoned not exceeding one year. The laws of Feb. 22, 1847, and March 3, 1849, relating to the carriage of passengers in merchant-vessels, are extended to all American vessels and their masters carrying passengers between foreign ports. (Feb. 19, 1862.) No. 25. CHAP. XXVIII.-An Act making Appropriations for the Construction, Preservation, and Repairs of certain Fortifications and other Works of Defence for the Year ending June 30, 1863, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending June 30, 1862. $4,260,000 are appropriated for 1863, $2,625,000 for 1862, and $750,000 for 1862-63. (Feb. 20, 1862.) No. 26. CHAP. XXIX.—An Act making an Appropriation to illuminate the Public Buildings. $1000 are appropriated for illuminating the public buildings on Washington's birthday. (Feb. 20, 1862.) No. 27. CHAP. XXX.-An Act to authorize a change of Appropriations for the Payment of necessary Expenditures in the Service of the United States for Indian Affairs. The act provides for the settlement of the accounts of Benjamin Davis, late Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Utah, and payment to him of a balance of $9,730.10. (Feb. 22, 1862.) No. 28. CHAP. XXXI.—An Act making Appropriations for the Signal Service of the United States Army. $55,950 are appropriated. (Feb. 22, 1862.) No. 29. CHAP. XXXII.—An Act making additional Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June 30, 1862. $208,392,488.77 are appropriated. (Feb. 25, 1862.) No. 30. CHAP. XXXIII.-An Act to authorize the Issue of United States Notes, and for the Redemption or Funding thereof, and for Funding the Floating Debt of the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury may issue $150,000,000 of United States notes, not bearing interest, payable to bearer, in denominations of not less than $5. $50,000,000 shall be in lieu of the demand treasury notes authorized by act of July 17, 1861, for which demand notes the notes herein provided for shall be substituted as rapidly as practicable, and the amount of both kinds together shall at no time exceed $150,000,000. The notes herein authorized shall be receivable for all dues to the United States except duties on imports, and for all demands against the United States except interest upon bonds and notes, which shall be paid in coin. With these exceptions, they shall be a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the United States; and they may be reissued. Holders may receive in exchange for them, in sums of $50 or some multiple of $50, 6 per cent. bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States at any time after five years, and payable 20 years from date; and, for the purpose of funding the treasury notes and floating debt of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury may issue such bonds to an amount not exceeding $500,000,000. He may dispose of them at any time, at their market value, for coin and for treasury and United States notes; "and all stocks, bonds, and other securities of the United States, held by individuals, corporations, or associations within the United States, shall be exempt from taxation by or under State authority." $300,000 are appropriated for expenses. The Secretary of the Treasury, or any Assistant Treasurer or authorized depositary, may receive United States notes on deposit from any person or persons, or any corporation, for not less than 30 days, in sums of not less than $100, in exchange for certificates of deposit at 5 per cent, interest, such interest to cease at the pleasure of the Secretary of the Treasury: such deposits may be withdrawn at any time after ten days' notice, and their aggregate shall at no time exceed $25,000,000 (increased to $50,000,000 by act of March 17). All duties on imported goods shall be paid in coin, or in notes heretofore authorized and receivable for public dues; and the coin so paid shall be set apart as a special fund, and applied as follows:-1st. To the payment in coin of the interest on the bonds and notes of the United States. 2d. To the purchase or payment of one per cent. of the entire debt of the United States in each fiscal year after July 1, 1862, which is to be set apart as a sinking fund, and the interest of which shall in like manner be applied to the purchase or payment of the public debt as the Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time direct. 3d. The residue thereof to be paid into the Treasury of the United States. (Feb. 25, 1862.) No. 31. CHAP. XXXIV.-An Act making Appropriations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June 30, 1863, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending June 30, 1862. $1,756,983.90 are appropriated for 1863, and $143,737.05 for 1862. (March 1, 1862.) No. 32. CHAP. XXXV.-An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Certificates of Indebtedness to Public Creditors. He may cause to be issued to any public creditor who may be desirous to receive the same, in satisfaction of audited and settled demands against the United States, certificates for the whole amount due, or parts thereof, not less than $1000, payable in one year from date, or earlier, at 6 per cent, interest. (March 1, 1862.) No. 33. CHAP. XXXVI.-An Act fixing the Number of the House of Representatives from and after March 3, 1863. After that date the number shall be 241; and the eight additional members shall be assigned one each to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Vermont, and Rhode Island. (March 4, 1862.) No. 34. CHAP. XXXVII.-An Act to provide for the Appointment of additional Clerks in the |