sent Rebellion, he is authorized to suspend the CHAP. LXXXV.-Letters of Marque.-President may, for three years only, grant letters of commission to privateers as he may deem pro per. CHAP. LXXXVI-Pries Cases-Regulating legal proceedings in condemning and disposing of prize vessels or other property. CHAP. XCII.-Court of Claims. The President to appoint two additional judges; the act regulates proceedings; members of Congress cannot practice in the court; appeals lie to the Supreme Court. CHAP. XCIIL-United States Courts. If the judge for any circuit is unable to hold court, one from another circuit may take his place. CHAP. XCV.-Testimony to go Abroad.Prescribes the mode of taking testimony in this country for courts abroad. Witnesses are treated as to fees, pay, etc., as witnesses in our own Federal courts. CHAP. XCVI-Mint in Nevada. -Establishes a branch mint at Carson City, with the necessary officers, to be under the direction of the Director of the Mint at Philadelphia; the branch being a depository of public money, and the superintendent authorized to take gold dust on deposit; $100,000 is appropriated to start the mint. CHAP. XCVII.-Public Land. To dispose of Fort Howard and Fort Crawford military reserves, in Wisconsin, with certain lands adjoining the former. CHAP. XCVIII.-Lande for Kansas.-Grants to Kansas, to aid the construction: First, of a railroad and telegraph from the city of Leavenworth, by the way of the town of Lawrence, and via the Ohio City crossing of the Osage River, to the southern line of the State, in the direction of Galveston Bay in Texas, with a branch from Lawrence by the valley of the Wakarusa River, to the point on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé railroad where said road intersects the Neosho River. Second, of a railroad from the city of Atchison, via Topeka, the capital of said State, to the western line of the State, in the direction of Fort Union and Santa Fé, New Mexico, with a branch from where this last-named road crosses the Neosho, down said Neosho valley to the point where the said firstnamed road enters the said Neosho valley; every alternate section of land, designated by odd numbers, for ten sections in width on each side of said roads and each of its branches. If any such lands are sold or preëmpted, other as near as possible shall be given in lieu, but in no case further than 20 miles from the line of road; the granted lands to be applied exclusively to aid the roads. The sections among these lands remaining to the United States are not to be sold for less than double the minimum price, nor subject to private entry until first offered at public sale, except in case of actual settlers, who may buy at minimum price; the homestead law also applies to all these lands. The roads are to be free to the United States for carrying troops or any property. Rules for disposing of the lands are set down. If no part of the roads is done in ten years, the grant is void. CHAP. XCIX.-Indian Appropriations.For superintendents, agents, etc., $217,150; Blackfeet, $59,404.77; Chasta Choton and Umpqua, $5,700; Chippewas of Lake Superior, $47146 66; Chippewas of the Mississippi, $30,400 01. Chippewa, Pillager and Lake Winnebagoshish Indians, $23,88666; Chippewas of Saginaw, Sevan and Black Rivers, $25.240; Chippewas, Menomonees, Winnebagoes and New York Indians, $1,500; Chickasaws, $3,000; Choctaws, $35,520; Comanches, Kiowas and Apaches of Arkansas River, $25,000; Creeks, $49,140; Delawares, $2,404; Iowas, $2,875; Kansas, $10,000; Kickapoos, $14,000; Menomonees, $21,516 66; Miamis of Kansas, $27,808 84; Miamis of Indiana, $80,874 15; Miamis of Eel River, $1,050; Nisqually and others, $8,200; Omabas, $87,12850; Osages, $8,406; Ottoes and Missourias, $16,940; Ottawas and Chippewas of Michigan, $89,040; Ottawas of Kansas, $2,600; Pawneen, $47,480; Pottawatomies, $81,766; Quapaws, dle channel of the Snake River where the north $2,660; Rogue Rivers, $2,500; Sacs and Foxes, $58,870; Seminoles, $82,200; Senecas, $14,56250; Shawnees, $7,060; Six Nations, $4,500; to aid removal of Sioux, $50,01660; treaty of Fort Laramie, $70,000; Umpgreat, $8,900; Winnebagoes, $59,250, and to ald removal, $50,000; Yancton Sioux, $65,000; Clackamas, $8,000; Poncas, $24,500; Dwamagh and others, $20,100; Makahs, $9,600; Walla-Wallas, $23,800; Yakimas, $26,100; Nez Rerces, $26,400; Flatheads, $20,500; tribes in Middle Oregon, $17,600; of longitude west of Washington; thence north ern boundary of Oregon intersects the same; then follow down said channel of Snake River to a point opposite the mouth of the Kooskooskia, or Clear Water River; thence due north to the forty-ninth parallel of latitude; thence east along said parallel to the twenty-seventh degree of longitude west of Washington; thence south along said degree of longitude to the northern boundary of Colorado Territory; thence west along said boundary to the thirty-third degree along said degree to the forty-second parallel of latitude; thence west along said parallel to Molels, $9,100; Quinaelts, $9,200; Sklaltams, $36,100, Wichitas, $37,800; for service in Choc taw country, $22,825; in California, $64,000; the eastern boundary of the State of Oregon; in Oregon and Washington, $85,000; in Nevada, $25,000; in Utah, $26,500; in Colorado, $25,000; for Arapahoes and Cheyennes, $55,000; Ottawas of Blanchard's Fork, $44,705 90; incidental expenses, $71,700; miscellaneous, $238,985 56.Total, $2,178,569 01. CHAP. C.-Courts for Oregon and California. The United States Supreme Court to consist of chief justice and nine associates, six to be a quorum; one additional justice to be appointed; California and Oregon to be the 10th circuit; existing United States courts in this district are abolished, and circuits are to be held by a regular associate justice of the Supreme Court, in California at San Francisco and Los Angelos, and in Oregon at Portland, at times now set down. The justice officiating there to have $1,000 per year extra for travelling expenses. CHAP. CI.-Peru. -Appoints two commissioners to carry into effect a convention with Peru for settling claims; $15,500 appropriated for salaries. CHAP. CIII.-Colored Youth. -Incorporates a society to educate colored youth in the District of Columbia. CHAP. CIV.-Lands to Michigan and Wisconsin.-Grants every alternate section for three sections in width on each side, to aid the construction of a military wagon road from Fort Wilkins, Copper Harbor, to Houghton, Portage Lake, and south to the state line of Wisconsin, and in Wisconsin to Fort Howard, Green Bay; no such reservation in case of sale or preëmption; land granted to be not over 15 miles from the road. The road to be 40 feet wide, graded 16 feet. CHAP. CV.-Infant Asylum.-Incorporates in the District of Columbia, St. Ann's Infant Asylum, for the support of foundlings and infant orphan and half orphan children, and also to provide for deserving indigent and unprotected females during their confinement; may dispose of children by adoption or apprenticeing. CHAP. OXI-National Academy. Incorporates Prof. Louis Agassez and other eminent scientific men as "The National Academy of Sciences," having ordinary corporate powers, to meet once a year at least at places of its own selection, and is bound to assist the Government in scientific researches without pay. thence north along said boundary to place of beginning. And the same is hereby created into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Idaho. [The usual provisions are made for governor, legislature, etc.] "Every free male white inhabitant" residing in the territory at the passage of this act may vote at the first election; slavery shall not be allowed. CHAP. CXVIII-Naval Appropriations.Pay of officers and men, $14,784,382 70; construction and repairs, $9,298,000; purchase and building steamers, $15,000,000; two armorplated sea steamers, $8,000,000; hemp, etc., $320,000; fuel, $2,690,000; equipment of vessels, subsistence, guns, etc., $20,089,545; yards and docks, $679,000; equipment and recruiting, $1,000,000; various contingencies, $891,000; marine corps, $1,248,417 31; barracks at Mare Island, $100,000; navy yards, $2,153,578; hospitals, $118,400; magazines and civil branch, $148,283; naval observatory, $60,850.-Total, $71,041,401 01. CHAP. CXIX. Removal of Indians.-Authorizes the President to assign new reservations, remove the Sisseton, Wahpaton, Medawakanton, and Wahpakoota bands of Sioux, and sell their present lands in Minnesota and Dakota. In the distribution of lands and goods, discrimination may be made in favor of such Indians as are loyal, and such as tried to prevent the massacre of whites in 1868. CHAP. CXX.-Abandoned Property.-Agents may be appointed to collect, in insurrectionary districts, abandoned property, except material used in war; such property may be appraised and taken for public use, or forwarded to loyal States for sale at auction, the proceeds to go to the United States. Owners of such property to have process in courts of claims for recovery within two years, and on proof of ownership and loyalty, shall be repaid. Property of this kind coming from such places through any persons except these agents is confiscated, and the parties concerned may be fined and imprisoned. Army and navy officers must turn abandoned property over to these agents. [Note-The aggregate of appropriations authorized by the foregoing laws is nearly $972,000,000.] THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. CHAP. CXII.--Pacific Railroad. Establishes the guage of this road and branches at By the President of the United States of four feet eight inches, CHAP. OXVII.-Government of Idaho.The territory included within the following limits, to wit: beginning at a point in the mid America. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a Proclamation was issued by the President of the United Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, AsStates, containing among other things the fol- cension, Assumption, Terre Bonne, Lafourche, lowing, to wit: St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including "That on the first day of January, in the the City of Orleans), MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred FLORIDA, GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves NORTH CAROLINA, and VIRGINIA (except within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth and FOREVER FREE, and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this Proclamation were not issued. of such persons, and will do no act or acts to. And by virtue of the power and for the pur repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. pose aforesaid, I do order and declare that ALL PERSONS HELD AS SLAVES within sald designated States and parts of States ARE, AND HENCKFORWARD SHALL BE FREE! and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the Military and Naval Authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons. "That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive And I further declare and make known that evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free, to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence, and I recommend to them that in all cases, when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I Invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God. Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed Rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said Rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-name, and caused the seal of the United States to dred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my be aflixed. purpose so to do, publicly proclaim for the full period of one hundred days from the day of the first abovementioned order, and designate, as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit: ARKANSAS, TEXAS, LOUISIANA (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one [L. 8.] thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-seventh. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President.-WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State Missouri. Kentucky Total... 43,908 Double-end iron steamers.. 878 41,163 91,561 67,335 1,068,769 1,276,246 Of course all the three and nine months' men (and the two years' men) are now out of service. In the total is included 262 raised in Maine, 8191 in Indiana, 10,540 in Missouri, 1860 in Kentucky for State defence, 2,587 for twelve months in Indiana, and 30,181 for two years in New Yor't. No returns have been received from the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and California. Since the date of the above summary there have been two calls for 300,000 each. An idea of the number in the field, or that may be put there, is conveyed by the War Department estimates. The Paymaster-General of volunteers asks money for 961 regiments of infantry, 159 of cavalry, 42 of artillery, 4 of engineers, and 174 artillery batteries-in all about equal to 1150 full regiments. The regular army to be added, coneiets of 6 regiments of cavalry, 5 of arttttery, and 19 of infantry; making an aggregate army of about 1,200 regiments, which at the maximum numbers would embrace nearly a million and a quarter of men, Title. 64 Single turret iron-clad. Total.. WHAT THE NAVY WILL THEN SHOW. Iron clad coasters... Total.. 588 4443 467967 PRIZES IN 1868.-Whole number, 1045; of which, steamers, 179; schooners, 547; sloops, 181; brigs, 30; barks, 26; ships, 15; yachts, etc., 117. Many more were destroyed on the coast and great rivers. Value of prizes sent to courts since the blockade began, $18,000,000; already condemned, $6,897,970 36. During the war of 1812, we had 301 vessels of all sorts in the navy, and 517 privateers commissioned; the whole number of prizes taken by them during the war was 1719. THE INDEBTEDNESS OF THE UNITED STATES. Loan of 1842.20 years.. Aft. Dec. 31, 1862.6 cent. $8,343,886 03 8,908,341 80 3,461,000 00 Sep. 30, 1863. $302,620 75 $242,620 75 9,415,250 00 114,115 48 114,115 48 Treasury Notes...... Demand. On demand...Iml.to6 pct. 104,521 64 104,511 64 13,000 00 12,900 00 Loan of 1858. Loan of 1860. Treasury Notes 15 years.. Aft. Dec. 31, 1873.5 cent. 20,000,000 00 20,000,000 00 20,000,000 00 7,022,000 00 600 00 Loan of Feb. 1861...20 years.. Aft, June 1, 1881 6 cent. 18,415,000 00 18,415,000 00 18,415,000 00 2ys.60dys.2 years & 60 days.6 Scent. 25,364,450 00 20 years.. Afl. July 1, 1881.6 cent. 1,090,850 00 Twenty-year Sixes...20 years. Aft. June 30,1881.6 cent. 50,000.000.00 Seven-thirty Notes...3 years... Aft. Aug. 18, 1864. 7.30Bet. 53,003,300 00 Seven-thirty Notes...3 years... Aft. Sep. 30, 1864.7.30ct. 86,995,700 00 Demand Notes Demand. On demand. No in'st. 60,000,000 00 Twenty-year Sixes ..20 years.. Aft. June 30,1881.6 cent. Ex. for 7.30s. U. S. Notes, new iss. 776,750 00 1,021,300 00 512,900 00 1,021,000 00 50,000,000 00 52,981,000 00 50,000,000 00 52,725,350 00 86,989,500 00 86,953,650 00 3,351,019 75 2,022,173 00 28,500 00 320,000 00 None... 150.000.000.00 147,767,114 00 147,767,114 00 Five-Twenties ...5 or 20 yrs. Aft. Apl. 30, 1867.6 cent. Being issued. 168,880,250 00 273,511,500 00 Temporary Loan ....30 days... Aft. 10 dys notice. 4 & 53ct. Being issued. 102,384,085 30 104,934,192 70 cent. Being issued. 156,784,241 65 156,918,437 49 U. S. Notes.... None ...150,000,000 00 150,000,000 00 150,000,000 00 Postal Currency. None... 20,192,456 00 20,192,456 00 17,766,056 00 U. S. Notes, new iss. None...104,969,927 00 89,879,475 00 104,969,937 00 Total, (as per Treasury Report of Dec., 1863).. $1,098,793,181 37 $1,222,113,559 86 THE SHRINKAGE OF THE REBELLION. THE following table gives a birdseye view of the extent to which the Slaveholders' Rebellious Confederacy has grown the wrong way (for them) since the flag of the Union was fired upon at Fort Sumter in April, 1861. The table shows how much the conspirators claimed in 1861 in territory and population, and how much of each they hold after two years and a half of active military operations: Maryland Virginia. North Carolina Georgia.. Florida Alabama Louisiana. Mississippi. Texas.... Arkansas. Tennessee Kentucky. Missouri Territories. REBEL CLAIMS IN 1861. RE-TAKEN TO DEC. 1863. IN REBELLION, DEC. 163. Sq. miles. Pop. 1860. 9,356 687,049.... Sq. miles. Pop. 1860. Sq. miles. Pop. 1860. 687,049.. 100,000.... 35,000 892,622 24,000 650,000 59,268 100,000.... 708,002.... 47,156 791,305. 150,000 52,198 400,00 35,450 45,600 1,109,801.... 37,680 1,155,684. 67.380 1,182,012. 220,000.... 1,222,390 12,348,078. Total. 867,646 7,802,997.... 354,744 4,585,504 • Florida ought to be counted about half and half; her territory gives no strength and her people contribute little aid (except in provisions) to the Rebellion. Arkansas is practically clear of every form of rebel power. Thus it appears that the Slaveholders' Rebellion, which set out to grasp all territory south of the Missouri line (and claimed even Delaware, which we do not allow them), has already lost more than two-thirds of its territory, and more than three-fifths of its population as reckoned in 1860. What with the wear and tear of war, the escape of slaves, and the diseases incident to insufficiency of food and shelter, it may be safely estimated that the States now under the rule of Jeff. Davis, show a heavy decrease from the last census (as applied to the territory by them now actually occupled) say a total population now of but little over four millions, black and white, Instead of the twelve and a half millions on which the war was based. ARMS AND AMMUNITION. [From the Report of the Secretary of War.] The quantities of the principal articles of ordnance materials in the control of the department at the beginning of the war, the quantities of those articles that have since been procured, and the quantities of those articles on hand on June 30, 1863, are shown in the following table, viz.: On hand at begin Procured olmes Issued since war On hand for is At the beginning of the war we were compelled to rely upon foreign countries for the supply of nearly all our arms and munitions. Now all these things are manufactured at home, and we are independent of foreign countries not only for the manufactures, but also for materials. FOREIGNERS IN THE UNITED STATES.-It appears by census tables (not yet printed) that the entire population of the United States, born in foreign countries, was, in round numbers, in 1860, 4,186,000. This aggregate was distributed in States and Territories, in round numbers, as follows: Alabama, 12,000; Arkansas, 4,000; California, 146,000; Connecticut, 80,000; Dela ware, 9,000; Florida, 8,000; Georgia, 11,000; Illinois, 824,000; Indiana, 118,000; Iowa, 106, 000; Kansas, 12,000; Kentucky, 59,000; Louisiana, 81; Maine, 87,000; Maryland, 77; Mas sachusetts, 260,000; Michigan, 149,000; Minnesota, 59,000; Mississippi, 8.000; Missouri, 160,000; New Hampshire, 20,000; New Jersey, 122,000; New York, 998,000; North Carolina, 8,000; Ohio, 828,000; Oregon, 5,000; Pennsylvania, 430,000; Rhode Island, 87,000; South Carolina, 10,000; Tennessee, 20,000; Texas, 47,000; Vermont, 32,000; Virginia, 85,000; Wisconsin, 276,000; Colorado, 8,000; Dacotah, 2,000; District of Columbia, 12,000; Nebraska, 6,000; Nevada, 2,000; New Mexico, 6,000; Utah, 12,000; Washington Territory, 8,000. |