Pensions to widows and or phans. 1836, ch. 362. 1838, ch. 189. 1843, ch. 102. 1844, ch. 102. Arrearages. Evidence necessary to entitle a sion. For pensions to widows and orphans under the act of fourth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, three hundred and twentyeight thousand five hundred dollars. For pensions to widows under the act of seventh July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and the acts supplementary thereto, three hundred thousand dollars. For pensions to widows under the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, eighty thousand dollars. For pensions to widows under the act of seventeenth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, six hundred thousand dollars. For half-pay pensions to widows and orphans, payable through the Third Auditor's office, four thousand five hundred dollars. For arrearages prior to July second, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the Third Auditor's office, one thousand two hundred dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no widow entitled to a widow to a pen- pension under existing laws, and claiming a pension, whose husband was drawing a pension at the time of his decease, shall be required, in any such case, to furnish any further evidence that said husband was entitled to a pension; nor shall any evidence, in any case, be required to entitle the widow to a pension, when the evidence is in the archives of the government, other than such proof as would be suffi cient to establish the marriage between the applicant and the deceased pensioner in civil personal actions in a court of justice: Provided, That, upon a revision of the testimony in the case of the deceased husband, the commissioner be satisfied that the pension was properly granted. Proviso, that the commission 1848, ch. 71, § 2. er is satisfied. Act of 1845, ch. 71, 4, respecting the reopening of settled accounts, and the limita tion of claims on the U. S., not to apply to pen Bions. May 8, 1846. [Obsolete.] Appropriation. Contingent SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fourth section of an act entitled "An Act making Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth Day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-six, and for other Purposes," shall not be so construed as to apply to applications for pensions. APPROVED, May 7, 1846. CHAP. XIV. - An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for certain Objects made for the Service of the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for various objects made for the service of the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, namely: For the contingent expenses of the Senate, being for printing and expenses of the lithographing, ordered during the twenty-eighth Congress, seventy Senate. Printing and lithographing. Contingencies of H. of Rep. Purchase of certain books. Cong. Globe seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the contingent expenses of the Senate, being for printing and lithographing, ordered by the Senate, during the first session of the twenty-ninth Congress, fifty-one thousand dollars. For the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, seventy thousand dollars. To enable the clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States to comply with former orders of the House, directing him to supply the members with certain books, to wit: For two hundred and twenty-six copies of the fourteenth volume of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, six hundred and seventy-eight dollars: Provided, That this appropriation, or any legislation hereto fore had in relation to said work, shall not be deemed to authorize any further subscription to said work, or the purchasing any further volumes thereof. For seventy-six copies of the fourteenth volume of the Register of Register of De Debates, seven hundred and sixty dollars. For one hundred and fifty-eight copies of "Contested Elections," seven hundred and ninety dollars. For two hundred and nineteen copies of the fourth and fifth volumes of the Documentary History, seven thousand forty-three dollars and ninety-one cents: Provided, That this appropriation, or any legislation heretofore had in relation to said work, shall not be deemed o authorize any further subscription to said work, or the purchasing any further volumes thereof, beyond the number authorized and required by existing contracts with the publishers. For contingent expenses in the office of the First Auditor, three hundred dollars. bates. Contested Elections. Documentary History. Contingent ex penses, office of 1st and 4th Au For contingent expenses in the office of the Fourth Auditor, five ditors. hundred dollars. Contingent ex penses, office of Secretary of the Treasury. For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, for publishing notices as required by acts of the twelfth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and the seventeenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the superintendent of the post-office building of superintendfor the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fortyfive, two hundred and fifty dollars. For additional salaries of the District judges of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, from the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, two thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and ninety-seven cents. Compensation ent of the post office. Additional Salaries of certain District judges. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, Circuit, and District Expenses of Courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also the Courts of the U. S.; also of for jurors and witnesses, in aid of funds arising from fines, penalties, jurors, witnesses, and forfeitures; and likewise for defraying the expenses of suits in &c. which the United States are concerned, and for prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Insane paupers Columbia. For expenses incurred, and to be incurred, for the support, clothing, and medical treatment, of the insane paupers of the District of of the District of Columbia, one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents. For reimbursement of the Philadelphia board of underwriters, for expenses paid and to be paid by them in maintaining the light on the Delaware Breakwater from the first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-four, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one thousand six hundred dollars. Light on Del Break aware Outh's of char For outfits of chargés des affaires to Texas, Austria, Peru, and Venezuela, five hundred dollars; and that the proper accounting gés des affaires. officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow to William H. Stiles, chargé d'affaires to Austria, his salary from the tenth day of May to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and fortyfive, and to pay the same out of any unexpended balance of the appropriations for salaries of the chargés des affaires of the United States. For outfits of the late chargés des affaires to Peru and Venezuela, and chargés des affaires to Naples, Holland, New Grenada, Sweden, Portugal, Denmark, Belgium, Sardinia, Chili, and Buenos Ayres, fifty-four thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars. Contingent ex penses of foreign missions Pensions. 1856, ch. 362. 1833, ch. 189. Repairing State artillery of Louisiana. Payment of isiana volunteers. For payment of invalid pensions under various laws, seventy-four thousand dollars. For payment of pensions under act of July four, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one hundred and two thousand dollars. For payment of widows' pensions under act of July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and the acts supplementary thereto, one hundred and three thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairing of the State artillery of the State of Louisiana, injured in the service of the United States in Texas, during the summer and fall of eighteen hundred and forty-five, one thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars. For payment of four companies of Texas volunteers, and two comTexas and Lou panies of Louisiana volunteers, including the supplies required by the quartermaster's department, sixty-nine thousand two hundred and six dollars and sixty-eight cents. Transportation of officers' baggage. Transportation of troops, supplies, &c. Supplies of quartermaster's department. Penitentiary in the District of Columbia. Refunding certain duties collected in contra vention of treaty with G. Britain. 1842, ch. 270. Compensation and mileage of members of Congress, and delegates. For transportation of officers' baggage, thirty thousand dollars. For the transportation of troops and supplies of the army, including baggage of troops, when moving either by land or water; freight and ferriages; the purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the transportation of supplies, and for garrison purposes; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire of teamsters; transportation of funds of the pay department; expense of sailing public transports between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and procuring water at such posts as from their situation require it; of clothing, from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence, from the places of purchase, and from the places of delivery, under contracts, to such places as the necessities of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance, ordnance stores, and small arms, from the founderies and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For the regular supplies of the quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage in kind for the authorized number of officers' horses, and for the horses, mules, and oxen, belonging to the quartermaster's department at the several military posts and stations, and for the horses of the two regiments of dragoons, and of the four companies of light artillery; of straw for soldiers' bedding; and of stationery, including company and other blank books for the army, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the pay and quartermaster's departments, and the printing of department orders, army regulations, and general regulations, one hundred thousand dollars. For amount required for the support of the [penitentiary of the](a) District of Columbia, for the fiscal year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, eleven thousand nine hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents. For refunding certain duties collected under the act of the thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled "An Act to provide Revenue from Imports, and to change and modify existing Laws imposing Duties on Imports, and for other Purposes," contrary to the terms of the convention of eighteen hundred and fifteen, between Great Britain and the United States, in fulfilment of the agreement lately entered into by the government of the United States and Great Britain, one hundred thousand dollars. For compensation and mileage of senators and members of the House of Representatives and delegates, the same being rendered necessary by an increase in the number of senators and members of the House of Representatives, twenty thousand dollars. (a) The words in brackets were, by a clerical error, omitted, in engrossing the bill The omission is corrected by the joint resolution of May 15, 1846, post, p. 110. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the commissioner to reside in China from the first of CHAP. XV. An Act to repeal a Part of the Act entitled "An Act supplementary to the several Laws for the Sale of the public Lands," approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, the second proviso to the act entitled "An Act supplementary to the several Laws for the Sale of the public Lands," approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo, which is as follows, viz., "That no person shall be permitted to enter more than one half quarter section of land under this act in quarter quarter sections, in his own name, or in the name of any other person, and in no case, unless he intends it for cultivation, or for the use of his improvement. And the person making application to make an entry under this act shall file his or her affidavit under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, that he or she makes the entry in his or her own name, for his or her own benefit, and not in trust for another," shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and all entries, selections, or locations of lands now suspended in the General Land Office, because made contrary to the restrictions in this proviso, shall be, and they are hereby, confirmed, provided they are, in all other respects, fair and regular. APPROVED, May 8, 1846. CHAP. XVI.-An Act providing for the Prosecution of the existing War between the United States and the Republic of Mexico. May 13, 1816. Supplementary Whereas, by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists act, post, p. 17. between that Government and the United States: Preamble. President au thorized to employ militia, naval, and military S., and to call for and accept volunteers, not exceeding 50,000. forces of the U. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purpose of enabling the government of the United States to prosecute said war to a speedy and successful termination, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to employ the militia, naval, and military forces of the United States, and to call for and accept the services of any number of volunteers, not exceeding fifty thousand, who may offer their services, either as cavalry, artillery, infantry, or riflemen, to serve twelve months after they shall have arrived at the place of rendezvous, or to the end of the war, unless sooner discharged, according to the time for which they shall have been mustered into service; and that the sum of ten millions of dollars, out of any moneys in the treasury, or to come into the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, of dollars approand the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose priated. of carrying the provisions of this act into effect. Time volunteers are to serve. Ten millions Militia to serve SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the militia, when called into the service of the United States by virtue of this act, or any other for six months. act, may, if in the opinion of the President of the United States the public interest requires it, be compelled to serve for a term not exceeding six months after their arrival at the place of rendezvous, in any one year, unless sooner discharged. VOL. IX. PUB. — 2 Volunteers to furnish clothes, horses and equipments; to be arm ed by the United States. Volunteers to rules and articles of war. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said volunteers shall furnish their own clothes, and if cavalry, their own horses and horse equipments; and when mustered into service shall be armed at the of the United States. expense SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said volunteers shall, be subject to the when called into actual service, and while remaining therein, be subject to the rules and articles of war, and shall be, in all respects except as to clothing and pay, placed on the same footing with similar corps of the United States army; and in lieu of clothing every noncommissioned officer and private in any company, who may thus offer himself, shall be entitled, when called into actual service, to Commutation receive in money a sum equal to the cost of clothing of a non-comfor clothing. missioned officer or private (as the case may be) in the regular troops of the United States. Volunteers, how to be accepted. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said volunteers so offering their services shall be accepted by the President in companies, battalions, squadrons, and regiments, whose officers shall be Their officers, appointed in the manner prescribed by law in the several States and Territories to which such companies, battalions, squadrons, and regiments, shall respectively belong. how appointed. into &c. Organization regiments, Apportionment of field, staff, and general officers. Provision for vol in service SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to organize companies so tendering their services into battalions or squadrons, battalions and squadrons into regiments, regiments into brigades, and brigades into divisions, as soon as the number of volunteers shall render such organization, in his judgment, expedient; and the President shall, if necessary, apportion the staff, field, and general officers among the respective States and Territories from which the volunteers shall tender their services as he may deem proper. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the volunteers who may unteers wounded be received into the service of the United States by virtue of the provisions of this act, and who shall be wounded or otherwise disabled in the service, shall be entitled to all the benefit which may be conferred on persons wounded in the service of the United States. President au thorized to complete all public armed vessels SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized forthwith to complete all the public armed vessels now authorized by law, and to purchase now authorized or charter, arm, equip, and man, such merchant vessels and steam by law, and to boats as, upon examination, may be found fit, or easily converted into armed vessels fit for the public service, and in such number as he may deem necessary for the protection of the seaboard, lake coast, and the general defence of the country. purchase, &c., merchant vessels and steamboats. Organization, ments. Allowance to SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That whenever the militia or pay, and emolu- volunteers are called and received into the service of the United States, under the provisions of this act, they shall have the organization of the army of the United States, and shall have the same pay and allowances; and all mounted privates, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and artificers, shall be allowed 40 cents per day for the use and risk of their horses, except of horses actually killed in action ; and if any mounted volunteer, private, non-commissioned officer, musician, or artificer, shall not keep himself provided with a serviceable horse, the said volunteer shall serve on foot. mounted men for use and risk of their horses. APPROVED, May 13, 1846. |