VIII. TITLES AND ABSTRACTS OF THE PUBLIC LAWS, PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE 36TH CONGRESS. [The references by Chapters are to Little, Brown, & Co.'s authorized edition of the Laws of the United States. The omitted Chapters are private laws.] General Appropriations for the Years ending June 30, 1860, and June 30, 1861. Military Academy, June 30, 1860. 179,588.00 6,976,835.77 1,047,745.00 June 30, 1861. $647,993.08 $183,892.00 5,911,522.73 1.158,380.00 Indian Department and Treaty Stipulations with Indian Tribes, 2,418.468 52 4,296,009.26 20.035 153 72 19,021,022.75 2,576,503.43 849,000.00 General Deficiencies for the year ending June 30, 1860, Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses, Consular and Diplomatic Expenses, Civil Expenses, Naval Service Appropriation, Army Appropriation, Post-Office Deficiency Appropriation for 1859, Post Office Appropriation, Ocean Mail Steamers, Invalid and other Pensions, 852,000.00 Military and Wagon Roads in Territories, 110.000.00 Lighthouses, Light-Boats, Buoys, &c., 331,507.70 New Post Routes, Returning Captured Africans, Relief of Sundry Individuals, Miscellaneous, 88,504.76 630.456.58 425,160 00 250 000.00 433,237.99 264,684.08 Total definite Appropriations for the years 1860 and 1861, $41,443,825.59 $86,886,404.55 Vice-President, Department of State, Treasury Department, Some of the principal items of the appropriations for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses for the two years are as follows: Legislative.-Congress, pay of members and mileage, Officers and Clerks of both Contingent expenses of Senate, including en- Paper and printing of both Houses, Library of Congress. Books and expenses, Executive. - President of the United States, Department of the Interior (exclusive of Surveyor-Gen. & clerks), 518,870.00 8,000.00 81,025.00 676,044.72 $1,557,861.72 $804,388.28 157,639.60 160,912.16 196,436.00 237,305.00 257,198.60 170,000.00 170.000,00 17,000 00 17,000.00 414,820.00 102,870 00 127,187 06 126,720.00 124.320.00 102,140 00 102,140.00 172.800.00 172,800.00 18,967 00 31,300 00 125,275.22 134.500.00 606,423 50 428,287.66 46,300 00 33,800.00 13,615.92 12,564.00 58,500.00 55.000 00 322,700.00 64,463.00 233,750.00 No. 1. Ch. 1. An Act making Appropriations to defray the Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal Year ending June 30, 1859, and in part for the Support of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal Year ending June 30, 1860. For the deficiency for the year ending June 30, 1859, $ 4,296,009.26 are appropriated for the year ending June 30, 1860, $6,400,000. Interest at 6 per cent is to be paid on certain sums found due contractors for services between May 1, 1859, and February 15, 1860; it is to be paid only to the contractors themselves, and to be in full for all damages. $1,000 are appropriated for temporary clerks in the department, to expedite the payment of creditors. Post-Office blanks are to be printed by contract, which is to be awarded to the lowest bidder, under the direction of the Superintendent of Public Printing. Feb. 15, 1860. No. 2. Ch. II. An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June 30, 1861. $849,000 are appropriated. March 2, 1860. No. 3. Ch. III. An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Registers to Schooners Helen Blood and Sarah Bond, of Oswego, in the State of New York. March 2, 1860. No. 4. Ch. V. An Act to extend the Provisions of "An Act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the Swamp Lands within their Limits" to Minnesota and Oregon, and for other Purposes. The act named is the act of 1850, ch. 84. The selections under said act, and the act of 1849, ch. 87, of lands already surveyed, must be made within two years of the adjournment of the legislature of each State at its next session after the date of this act; and of lands to be surveyed within two years from such adjournment, at the next session after notice by the Secretary of the Interior to the Governor of the State, that the surveys have been completed and confirmed. March 12, 1860. No. 5. Ch. VII. An Act to repeal the third Section of an Act entitled "An Act to increase and regulate the Terms of the Circuit and District Courts for the Northern District of the State of New York," approved July 7, 1838. The section repealed provided for the subdivision of the district into three divisions for the trials of issues of fact. March 24, 1860. No. 6. Ch. VIII. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the Carriage of Passengers in Steamships and other Vessels," approved March 3, 1855, for the better Protection of Female Passengers, and other Purposes. Any officer or seaman, or other person employed on board any vessel of the United States, who, during the voyage, by promises or threats or solicitation or gifts, seduces and has illicit connection with any female passenger, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction may be punished by imprisonment for not over twelve months, or by a fine of not over $1,000. If the punishment imposed is a fine, the Court may order it to be paid for the benefit of the female seduced and her child or children, if any. The indictment must be found within two years from the arrival of the vessel at her then port of destination. The subsequent intermarriage of the parties seducing and seduced may be pleaded in bar of a conviction. The uncorroborated testimony of the female seduced is not sufficient to convict. The frequenting, without permission, the part of the vessel assigned to emigrant passengers works a forfeiture of wages; and a master who permits persons to frequent such part of such vessel is guilty of a misdemeanor, and is liable to a fine of $50 for each offence. Notices hereof in the English, French, and German languages must be conspicuously posted in the vessel, under a penalty on the master of not over $500 for neglect thereof. March 24, 1860. No. 7. Ch. IX. 27, 1860. An Act to establish Mail Routes in the Territory of Kansas. March No. 8. Ch. X. An Act making Appropriations for fulfilling Treaty Stipulations with the Ponca Indians, and with certain Bands of Indians in the State of Oregon and Territory of Washington, for the Year ending June 30, 1860. $589,750 are appropriated. March 29, 1860. No. 9. Ch. XI. An Act authorizing Publishers to print on their Papers the Date when Subscriptions expire, and in relation to the Postage on Drop Letters. After publication of printed matter, there may be printed or written thereon, or upon the cover or wrapper, "the name, the date when the subscription expires, and the address of the person to whom it is to be sent," and no other word or communication. April 3, 1860. No. 10. Ch. XIII. An Act in relation to the Return of undelivered Letters in the PostOffice. Any uncalled-for letter, with the address of the writer thereof indorsed thereon, may be sent to such writer after remaining uncalled for at the office to which it is directed thirty days, or such time as the writer may direct. Such letters are not to be treated as dead letters, until so returned to the Post-Office of the writers, and there remaining uncalled for one quarter. April 6, 1860. No. 11. Ch. XXVII. An Act to settle the Titles to Lands along the Boundary Line between the States of Georgia and Florida. When the dividing line between those States is determined, all claims under grants or sales of lands by Georgia falling within Florida, approved by the Secretary of the Interior, are confirmed, if Georgia first confirms sales and grants by the United States of lands in Florida then falling within the new limits of Georgia. April 13, 1860. No. 12. Ch. XXXI. An Act to incorporate "The United States Agricultural Society.” The corporation may hold property to the amount of not over $100,000 in all. The annual meeting must be held at Washington on the 2d Wednesday of January, when, or at some subsequent time within the year, the President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary, and an Executive Committee of seven members, must be elected to hold office for one year, and until their successors are elected. The President and Secretary are ex-officio members of the Executive Committee, and the President is Chairman thereof. Not less than fifteen members of the Society constitute a quorum, but a less number may adjourn from time to time. The business office of the Secretary must be at Washington. The terms of membership are the payment of such a sum as may be prescribed in the Constitution or By-Laws. April 19, 1860. No. 13. Ch. XXXV. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to titled An Act to establish a Criminal Court in the District of Columbia.'" of the Criminal Court is unable to hold court, the Judges of the Circuit amend an Act enWhen the Judge Court for the Dis trict shall in turn perform his duties; and if any Circuit Judge so acting is disabled, an other Circuit Judge shall supply his place. The Circuit Judges get no additional compensation for these services. The Clerk of the Criminal Court may in certain cases adjourn it from day to day for not exceeding a week. April 20, 1860. No. 14. Ch. XXXVII. An Act supplemental to an Act entitled "An Act providing for the taking of the seventh and subsequent Censuses of the United States, and to fix the number of the Members of the House of Representatives and provide for the future Apportionment among the several States," approved May 23, 1850. One chief Clerk and other clerks may be employed in the census office. May 5, 1860. No. 15. Ch. XXXIX. An Act authorizing the Corporation of Washington City to make a loan and issue Stock for two hundred thousand Dollars, for building a Market-house. Certain land is also given for the construction of a Market-house thereon, to belong to the city only so long as the building is used for a Market. May 9, 1860. No. 16. Ch. XL. An Act to provide Payment for Depredations committed by the Whites upon the Shawnee Indians in Kansas Territory. $36,711 are appropriated. May 9, 1860. No. 17. Ch. XLVIII. An Act to carry into Effect a Convention between the United States and the Republic of Paraguay. The President is to appoint a Commissioner to act with a Commissioner appointed by Paraguay to determine the amount of the claims which the "United States and Paraguay Navigation Company" have against Paraguay. He is to appoint a Secretary to the Commissioner. The Commissioners may make rules for conducting their business. Pay of Commissioner, $1,500; of Secretary, $1,000. The papers necessary for the proof and decision of the case are to be sent from the State Department to the Commissioners, and returned thither. Whatever amount is paid in pursuance of this act is to be retained from that received from Paraguay. May 16, 1860. No. 18. Ch. XLIX. An Act to furnish additional Mail Facilities. $25,160 is appropriated for mail service on the routes established by the act of March 27, 1860, see ante, No. 7, p. 158. No. 19. Ch. L. An Act to create an additional Land District in Washington Territory. The "Columbia River District" is established, its boundaries defined, and the appointment of a register and receiver authorized. May 16, 1860. No. 20. Ch. LVI. An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the fiscal Year ending June 30, 1860. $647,993.08 are appropriated. One item is for the expenses of delegates appointed by the President to attend the International Statistical Congress at London in July, 1860. The employment of draughtsmen and clerks in the office of the House of Representatives upon land maps is to cease after June 30, 1860. May 24, 1860. No. 21. Ch. LVII. An Act making Appropriations for the Construction of certain Military Roads in the Territory of Washington. $110,000 are appropriated to be expended under the direction of the War Department, as follows: $100,000 for a road from Fort Benton to Walla-Walla; $10,000 to be expended on that portion of the road from Steilacoom to Fort Vancouver, between Cowlitz River and Monticello. May 25, 1860. No. 22. Ch. LX. An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June 30, 1861, and for other Purposes. $1,158,380 are appropriated. May 26, 1860. No. 23. Ch. LXI. An Act to settle the Titles to certain Lands set apart for the Use of certain Half-Breed Kansas Indians, in Kansas Territory. The interest of the United States in the lands set apart for their use by treaty is vested in such of the said reservees as are now living, and in the heirs of those deceased. Any contract, in writing or otherwise, for the sale of such lands by any of said reservees or their heirs is not made of any force hereby. If any reservee does not desire to occupy the land to which he is entitled hereby, the Secretary of the Interior may sell the same for their benefit; and he may sell, for the benefit of the Kansas tribe, the lands of those who have died without heirs ; and patents shall issue therefor. May 26, 1860. No. 24. Ch. LXII. An Act to authorize the President of the United States, in Conjunc |