ALL PUBLIC TREATIES MADE AND RATIFIED SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE PUBLICATION OF
THE LAWS OF THE PRECEDING SESSION, AND ALL PROCLAMATIONS BY THE
PRESIDENT, PROMULGATED WITHIN THE SAME PERIOD, THAT AF-

FECT ANY LAW OR TREATY OF THE UNITED STATES,

ACTS OF THE THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS

1850.

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HÉLD AT THE CITY OF

WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ON MONDAY, THE THIRD DAY

OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE.

ZACHARY TAYLOR, President. - MILLARD FILLMORE, Vice President. Howell

COBB, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHAP. 1.-AN ACT to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages

to Sarah Polk:

K. Polk.

[Sec. 1.) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-

resentatives of the United States of America in Congress as-

sembled, That all letters and packages to and from Sarah Franking privi.

lege granted to

Polk, relict of the late James K. Polk, shall be received and sarah Polk, relict

of the late James

conveyed by post, free of postage for and during her life.

HOWELL COBB,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

MILLARD FILLMORE,

President of the Senate.

Approved January 10, 1850.

2. TAYLOR.

CHAP. 2.-AN ACT to enable the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal

Church in Georgetown in the District of Columbia to hold certain property
for the purposes therein recited.

[Sec. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the United States of America in Congress as-
sembled, That the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church them. E. Shurch
of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, be and they are of Georgetown,
hereby, enabled to hold the property on Montgomery street in hola ihe property
said town, now used and occupied by the religious congrega- street, for religi-
tion, of which they are the regularly appointed Trustees, for ous púrposes.
the purposes and to the intents expressed in the conveyance
from the heirs of Anthony Holmead, deceased, to the said
Trustees, bearing date the seventh day of November, in the
year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and recorded in Liber