enter as a pre

tract of land in Louisiana.

CHAP. 184.-AN ACT for the relief of Amelia Couvillion, of Louisiana.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Mrs. Amelia Couvillion, wife of Zenen St. Authorized to Romain, be, and she is hereby, authorized to enter as a preemption a certain emption, and at the minimum price of public lands, the area, in legal sub-divisions of one quarter section, so as to embrace her present actual settlement and "a certain improvement on a piece of public land, situated in the parish. of Avoyelles, on Bayou Des Glaises," in the State of Louisiana, it appearing from an official certificate, dated the sixteenth of October, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, of the recorder of said parish, that the said Mrs. Amelia Couvillion became the purchaser at sheriff's sale of all the right, title, and interest of her said husband in the aforesaid improvement: Provided, however, That the right hereby allowed be subject to any valid adverse claim, if such exist, to any part of the land.

Approved March 3, 1849.

1

CHAP. 185.-AN ACT for the relief of Polly Aldrich.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be required to place the name of Polly Aldrich upon the pension roll, and that the said A pension of Polly Aldrich be entitled to receive the sum of forty dollars a year, during her natural life, to commence on the fourth day. of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in. consideration of the services of her deceased husband, Clark Aldrich, (as a private in the revolutionary war,) for twelve months.

$40 per annum allowed her.

Approved March 3, 1849.

CHAP. 186.-AN ACT for the relief of Daniel Wilson.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Daniel Wilson, of the county of A pension of $8 Kane, and the State of Illinois, on the roll of invalid pensions, and pay him a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the first day of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen. hundred and forty-seven, to continue during his natural life. Approved March 3, 1849.

per month allowed him.

RESOLUTIONS.

[No. 1.]-A RESOLUTION for the appointment of regents in the Smithsonian Institution.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the

Vacancies

in

vacancies in the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institu- board of regents, tion, of the class "other than members of Congress," be filled how to be filled. by the reappointment of the late incumbents, viz: Rufus Choate, of Massachusetts, and Gideon Hawley, of New York. Approved December 19, 1848.

[No. 2.1-A RESOLUTION relating to the compensation of persons appointed to deliver the votes for President and Vice President of the United States to the President of the Senate.

Proviso in general appropria

iting the compen

bringing on the

dent and Vice

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the tion act of 12th civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year end- Aug, 1848, liming the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sations of persons forty-nine, and for other purposes," as relates to the compensa votes for Presition to be allowed persons appointed by the electors of any President repeal State to deliver to the President of the Senate a list of the votes ed. for President and Vice President, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and that the messengers appointed under the operation of the clause hereby repealed, who bore, or may hereafter deliver, the votes cast in the Presidential election of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, shall be entitled to demand and receive the same amount that they would have been entitled to compensation rehad the act approved August twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, not passed. Approved January 6, 1849.

Original rate of

stored.

[No. 3.]-A RESOLUTION to defray the expenses of certain Chippewa Indians and their interpreter.

for defraying the

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Appropriation sum of six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appro- expenses of a del. priated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro- egation of Chip. priated, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a certain Washington. delegation of Chippewa Indians and their interpreter, in coming

pewa Indians to

correctly enrolled

to Washington city upon business of their tribe with the Government of the United States, and their expenses whilst engaged in such business in the city, and on their return home; the money to be paid into the hands of the chiefs of said delegation, or to an agent to be appointed by the Secretary of War, at his option, to conduct said Indians on the way home as far as Detroit, who shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for such services out of the money appropriated as aforesaid. Approved February 22, 1849.

[No. 4.]-JOINT RESOLUTION concerning the settlement of the accounts of William Speiden, purser in the nvay of the United States.

by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the *See page 154 accounting officers of the treasury, under the direction of the for this resolution Secretary of the Navy, be, and they are hereby, authorized to settle the accounts of William Speiden, purser in the navy of the United States, and to credit him with such portion of the amount of the provisions, clothing, small stores, and money, and such other things as belong appropriately to the custody of the pursers' department, with which he stands charged on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, as they shall be satisfied was inevitably lost with the loss of the United States vessel Peacock, at the mouth of the Columbia river, in eighteen hundred and forty-one, and that he be fully exonerated, by such credit, from all liability on account of the provisions, clothing, small stores, money, and any other articles with which he stands charged, proved to have been lost on board said vessel.

Approved February 22, 1849.

[No. 5.]-JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of John B. Nevitt, of Adams county, Mississippi.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, within six months after the passage of this joint resolube made of cer- tion, to cause an accurate survey to be made of certain unsurCounty, veyed lands lying in township seven and eight, of range three

Comm'rof Gen'l Land office to cause a survey to

tain lands in

Adams

Miss.

west, in Adams county, Mississippi, and more particularly known as a triangular slip lying between the lands granted to Joseph Bernard, and surveyed for his representatives, in the year eighteen hundred and six, on the north, and the lands, marked on the maps of the Surveyor General's office, south of Tennessee, as Balser Shillings, and now occupied and owned And when sur- by John B. Nevitt on the south; and when so surveyed, it shall veyed, to notify be the duty of the Commissioner, as aforesaid, to notify the the number of said John B. Nevitt of the number of acres ascertained to be allow him or his vacant, and if the said Nevitt, or, in case of his death, his legal tives to enter the representatives, shall, within six months next succeeding suclu

John B. Nevitt of

acres vacant and

legal representa

imum price.

notice, offer to pay to the receiver of the land office of the dis- same at the mintrict within which said lands lie, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the same, it shall be the duty of the receiver aforesaid to accept such offer, and, on payment being made, to give a receipt therefor, as in other cases of land entries, and on the presentation of said receipt to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, he shall cause a patent to issue as in all other cases of lands paid for.

Approved February 22, 1849.

[No. 6.]—JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing a settlement of the accounts of Thomas M. Howe, late pension agent at Pittsburg, upon equitable principles.

be settled on prin

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, His accounts to and they are hereby, authorized to settle and adjust the ac- ciples of justice counts of Thomas M. Howe, late pension agent at Pittsburg, and equity. in the State of Pennsylvania, according to the principles of equity; and to admit the vouchers without regard to strict legal rules, if to them it shall appear that said vouchers are in all other respects correct.

Approved February 22, 1849.

neral, in adjust

[No. 7.]—A JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of H. M. Barney. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General, in the adjustment of the accounts of Postmaster GeH. M. Barney, postmaster at Brimfield, Peoria county, Illinois, ing his accounts, be required to charge Barney nothing for the receipts of his nothing for reoffice during the quarter ending the thirty-first of December, eigh-ceipts of his office teen hundred and forty-seven. Approved February 22, 1849.

[No. 8.] JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of J. Melville Gilliss and

others.

to charge him

during the 4th quarter of 1847.

ficers of the trea

the accounts of

& his assistants,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized Accounting of and directed, in settling the accounts of Lieutenant J. Melville sury, in settling Gilliss, of the navy, for the time during which he had charge Lieut. J. M.Gilliss of the depot of charts at Washington, and also in settling the to allow to each accounts of those officers of the navy who were employed as of them certain additional assistants of Lieutenant Gilliss, for making astronomical and scientific observations in connexion with the objects of the late surveying and exploring expedition, to allow him and each of them, respectively, such extra pay as was allowed by the act of one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, chapter one hundred, to the officers attached to that expedition. Approved February 26, 1849.

extra pay.

it him with the

provisions, cloth

with the loss of

[Nc. 9.]—JOINT RESOLUTION concerning the settlement of the accounts of William Speiden, purser in the navy of the United States.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Accounting of the accounting officers of the treasury, under the direction of sury to settle his the Secretary of the Navy, be, and they are hereby, authorized accounts & cred- to settle the accounts of William Speiden, purser in the navy amount of such of the United States, and to credit him with such portion of ing,stores,money the amount of the provisions, clothing, small stores, and money, &c., as was lost and such other things as belong appropriately to the custody of the U. S. vessel the purser's department, with which he stands charged on the books of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, as they shall be satisfied was inevitably lost with the loss of the United States vessel Peacock, at the mouth of the Columbia river, in eigh teen hundred and forty-one; and that he be fully exonerated, by such credit, from all liability on account of the provisions, clothing, small stores, money, and any other articles with which he stands charged, proved to have been lost on board said vessel.

Peacock.

Approved February 26, 1849.

of the Blue Book

[No. 10.]-JOINT RESOLUTION for the distribution of the Official Register, or Blue Book, among the several States.

Whereas a number of copies of the Official Register, or Blue Book, are now deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, subject to the order of Congress; therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a full Surplus copies set of one for each year, or so far as is practicable, be furnished to be distributed to each of the State libraries; and where there are no State among the seve- libraries, to be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, and that the Secretary of State be requested to have the same transmitted to them.

ral States.

Approved March 2, 1849.

of the Exploring

[No. 11.]-JOINT RESOLUTION directing that the Government of Russia be supplied with certain volumes of the Narrative of the Exploring Expedition, in lieu of those which were lost at sea, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the librarian of Congress be, and is hereby, directed to procure and. Two copies additional of vols. 6 deliver to the Secretary of State two copies of volumes six and and 7 of the works seven of the Narrative of the Exploring Expedition under CapExpedition to be tain Wilkes; and the Secretary of State is hereby directed to of deliver them to the Government of Russia, in lieu of those heretofore delivered, which were lost at sea on their passage to Russia; and that the cost of the same be paid out of the funds heretofore appropriated to the publication of the works of the Exploring Expedition.

delivered to the Government

Russia.