X. PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS. [The omitted numbers are private resolutions.] No. 1. A Resolution explanatory of an Act supplementary to an Act approved 23d May, 1850. No allowance shall be made to any person for constructive or other services, rendered as Secretary of the Census Board, after 1st June, 1850. December 23, 1852. No. 2. Joint Resolution authorizing the Settlement of the Account of the Public Printer, for Paper used by him since 1st November, 1852. December 23, 1852. No. 3. A Resolution explanatory of the Act appropriating Money for the Removal of the Raft of Red River. The contract may, after suitable public notice, be awarded to the person who, for the amount of the appropriation, will agree to remove the obstruction, and to keep the navigation free for the longest time. January 7, 1853. No. 4. A Resolution in Relation to the Census Returns from the State of California. The Secretary of the Interior shall append these returns to the report thereof, now preparing at the Census Office. January 7, 1853. No. 5. A Resolution allowing in certain Cases to the Owners of Steamers further Time to make the necessary Preparations to bring their Vessels within the Provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled' An Act to provide for the Better Security of the Lives of Passengers on board of Vessels propelled in whole or in part by Steam, and for other Purposes," approved 30th August, 1852. Reasonable further time, not exceeding 90 days after January 1st, 1853, may be allowed by inspectors; and during such extension of time, no seizure shall be made, nor penalty enforced, upon any vessel so allowed further time. January 7, 1853. No. 6. A Resolution for the Appointment of Regents in the Smithsonian Institution. Alexander Dallas Bache and John MacPherson Berrien are appointed in the class "other than members of Congress." January 13, 1853. No. 7. A Resolution for surrendering the Site of the old Oglethorpe Barracks to the City Council of Savannah, Georgia. This is done in consideration of the city's heretofore having given to the government lands, now known as the New Barracks, in said city. January 20, 1853. No. 8. A Resolution explanatory of the Appropriation for the Improvement of the Mouth of the Seekonk River and Harbor of Providence, Rhode Island. Any rock or other obstruction at the crook, or entrance, or mouth of the river, may be removed under the appropriation. January 20, 1853. No. 12. A Resolution to provide for Straightening the Eastern Boundary Line of the Naval Hospital Lands at New York. March 2, 1853. No. 13. A Resolution in Amendment of a Joint Resolution relating to the Duties of Inspectors of Steamers, approved 7th January, 1853. The inspectors must exercise the powers conferred on them therein, but the time shall in no instance extend beyond June 1st, 1853. Boilers and steam-pipes not made of stamped iron. may, prior to July 1st, 1853, be approved of, if stamped iron could not seasonably be procured. Safe and suitable substitutes for metallic life-boats may be allowed, upon satisfactory proof that metallic life-boats could not be procured seasonably, or upon reasonable terms. No person interested in any patent for life preservers, boats, or any other article required by the steamboat law of 30th August, 1852, shall be an inspector under said act. March 3, 1853. No. 14. A Resolution for the Relief of the Spanish Consul and other Subjects of Spain residing at New Orleans, and of Subjects of Spain residing at Key West, by Indemnity for Losses occasioned in the Year 1851. Losses to these Consuls, caused by the violence of individuals, arising out of intelligence then recently received at those places of the execution of certain persons at Havana, in Cuba, by the Spanish authorities of that island, are to be ascertained by the President, and upon the certificate of the Secretary of State, that they are proven to the satisfaction of the President, they are to be paid to those entitled. March 3, 1953. No. 15. A Resolution providing for the Printing and Binding of the "Returns of the Seventh Census." There shall be printed so much of the abstract of the "returns of the Seventh Census" as is recommended to be printed by the report of the select committee of the Senate, made the 28th of June, 1852, and in the manner therein prescribed, (the "History and Statistics of the State of Maryland, according to the 'Returns of the Seventh Census' of the United States," with the alterations recommended by the committee, being taken as the sample,) that is to say: First. Omit the "Historical Account," the "History and Description of Counties," the "Sketch of Geology," and the remarks with the heading "Population" (of the State of Maryland) prefixed to the tabular statements, embracing 22 pages, from 1 to 22, both in clusive, with the exception of the tabular statement at page 20, showing the progress of population from 1790 to 1850, which shall be retained. Second. Insert the tabular statements of population, covering from pages 23 to 26, inclusive. Third. Omit the tabular statements from pages 27 to 30, inclusive, and substitute tables showing the nativity of the inhabitants of the State, without reference to local residence, giving the sex and color, similar to the table headed "Recapitulation," at page 35. Fourth. Omit the tables relating to the deaf, dumb, blind, insane, and idiotic, occupying from pages 31 to 34, inclusive; retain the table headed " "Recapitulation on page 35, and omit that headed "Manumitted and Fugitive Slaves," on the same page; retain the table headed "Professions, Occupations, and Trades," on page 36, and tables headed "Agricultural Productions," on pages 37 and 38. Fifth. Omit the tables of "Industrial Establishments," from pages 39 to 62, inclusive. Sixth. Omit tables headed "Real and Personal Estate and Taxes," "Wages," and "Pau perism and Crime," on pages 63 and 64; omit the column which professes to give the "Private Libraries," in the statement headed "Libraries," retaining the residue, and retaining also the statement headed "Newspapers and Periodicals," on page 64, and the statements headed "Education" and "Churches," on pages 65 to 68, inclusive. Seventh. Omit medical statistics, life tables, &c. to the end of the work. Eighth. There shall be prepared and published tabular statements, showing the population alone in the local subdivisions of States less than counties, such as towns, townships, hundreds, &c., wherever the returns are sufficient for their formation. Ninth. The condensed tables for the United States shall conform to the alterations sug gested in the detailed tables for the States. -There shall be printed 7,000 additional copies for the use of the Senate, and 10,000 for the House of Representatives; the cost of composition not to exceed per 1,000 ems 62 cents for plain matter, and 70 cents for table-work; and the press-work shall not cost over 44.65 cents per 1,000 quarto pages. The binding shall be executed under the direction of the res pective Committees on Printing of each House. The entire work shall be printed in a compact quarto form, upon paper measuring not less than 26 by 38 inches, weighing 48 lbs. to the ream of 480 sheets, and of the quality now used for the extra copies of documents ordered to be printed by Congress; the type to be used to be brevier, except for the headings of the several columns of the tabular statements, the notes, and such tables as will not appear to advantage in brevier, which shall be printed in nonpareil. In all other respects, except those specified, the work shall be executed according to the provisions of the act of the 26th of August, 1852, concerning the public printing. March 3, 1853. XI. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. 1. Statement of Duties, Revenues, and Public Expenditures during the Fiscal Years ending June 30, 1851, and June 30, 1852. [From Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, Dec. 26, 1851, and Jan. 15, 1853.] The receipts into the Treasury were as fol- During the first quarter, ending From sales of public lands, Year ending Year ending June 30, 1852. Sept. 30, 14,764,043.05 $14,754,909.34 Dec. 31, 8,361,563.77 9,601,509.40 Mar. 31, 14,448,679.17 12,109,761.80 June 30, 11,443,281.93 10,873,146.08 49,017,567.92 47,339,326.62 2,352,305.30 2,043,239.58 943,106.65 345,820.69 Total receipts, exclusive of loans, &c., Balance in the Treasury, July 1, 1850 and '51, Total means, The expenditures, exclusive of trust funds, were as follows: 52,312,979.87 49,728,386.89 6,604,544.49 10,911,645.68 58,917,524.36 60,640,032.57 Commissioner to Sandwich Islands, A. Ten Eyck's salary and cont. expenses, Intercourse with Barbary powers, Interpreters, guards, &c. at the Consulates in Turkish dominions, Instalment and interest due May 30, 1851, under Art. 12 of treaty with Mexico, Instalment and interest due May 30, 1852, under Art. 12 of treaty with Mexico, Expenses of commission, and pay of commissioners, under treaty with Mexico, Do. do. under convention with Brazil, Expenses of agent of Sublime Porte, Treaty of peace, limits, and boundaries, &c., with Mexico, Awards under the 15th Article of said treaty, Total foreign intercourse, Miscellaneous. Surveys of public lands, Distribution of the proceeds of public lands, Collecting revenue from sales of public lands, Support and maintenance of light-houses, &c., Building light-houses, &c., . 556,449.01 597,466.09 64,173.00 113,103.33 Marine hospitals, 203,115.23 Building marine hospitals, and repairs, 167,829.75 128,693.44 Public buildings in Washington, &c., 141,406.23 Patent fund, 173,791.47 99,117.00 Mail service for government, 865,555.55 Mail service for Congress, &c., 163,888.89 Mail service for census papers, 12,000.00 Selecting certain Wabash and Erie Canal lands in Ohio, act June 30, 1834, Geologists and survey, &c. of mineral lands in Michigan, Iowa, &c., Completing survey of copper region in Michi gan, 12,780.77 Payment of war bounty land warrants, 8,325.00 5,900.00 Building custom-houses and warehouses, 1,227.37 |