I. CONSULATES GENERAL. SCHEDULE B. Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai. III. CONSULATES. SCHEDULE B. Acapulco, Aix-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aspinwall, Aux Cayes, Bahia, Barcelona, Bankok, Basle, Belfast, Beirut, Bergen, Bermuda, Bilbao, [Bilboa,] Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux, Bremen, Bristol, Brindisi, Boulogne, Cadiz, Callao, Candia, Canton, Cardiff, Chin Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Curaçoa, Demarara, Dundee, Elsinore, Erie, Foo Choo, Funchal, Galatz, Gaspé Basin, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Gottenberg, Guaymas, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Honolulu, Hong-Kong, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston, Kingston in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, Lahaina, La Paz, La Union, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Lyons, Macao, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Manzanillo, Maracaibo, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Moscow, Munich, Nagasaki, Nantes, Naples, Nassau, (West Indies,) Newcastle, Nice, Odessa, Oporto, Palermo, Panama, Paramaribo, Paris, Pernambuco, Pictou, Ponce, Port Mahon, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Revel, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan, (Porto Rico,) Santander, Santiago de Cuba, Santos, Port Sarnia, Scio, Singapore, Smyrna, Southampton, Stockholm, Saint John, (Newfoundland,) Saint John, (New Brunswick,) Saint Petersburg, Saint Pierre, (Martinique,) Saint Thomas, Stuttgardt, Swatow, Saint Helena, Tabasco, Tampico, Tangier, Tehuantepec, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Trinidad, Tripoli, Tunis, Turk's Island, Valparaiso, Valencia, Venice, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich. IV. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE B. Amoor River, Antigua, Balize, (Honduras,) Gaboon, Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo, Saint Marc. V. CONSULATES. SCHEDULE C. Barbadoes, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthegena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guyaquil, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omos, Payta, Paso del Norte, Piræus, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, Saint Catherine, Santa Cruz, (West Indies,) Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Spezzia, Stettin, Tahita, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Zanzibar. VI. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE C. Commercial agents. Consuls. Commercial agents. Apia, Saint Paul de Loando, [Loanda,] including loss by exchange thereon, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For interpreters to the consulates in China, including loss by exchange Interpreters. thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars. Persons charged with crime. Marshals in For expenses incurred, under instructions from the Secretary of State, in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto, twenty thousand dollars. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China, consular courts. Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, nine thousand dollars. Prisons. Hayti and Liberia. Suppression of slave-trade. 1862, ch. 140. Vol. xii. p. 531. Immigration. 1864, ch. 246. Ante, p. 385. Neutrality. Boundary line commissioners. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand dollars. For salaries of commissioners and consuls-general to Hayti and Liberia, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses under the act of congress to carry into effect the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade, seventeen thousand dollars. For expenses under the act to encourage immigration, twenty-five thousand dollars. For expenses under the neutrality act, twenty thousand dollars. For expenses of the commission to run and mark the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions bounding on Washington Territory, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. APPROVED, January 24, 1865. Jan. 24, 1865. CHAP. XIX. — An Act to provide for an Advance of Rank to Officers of the Navy and Marine Corps for distinguished Merit. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Certain officers States of America in Congress assembled, That any officer of the navy or of army and navy marine corps, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may be may be advanced in rank. advanced, not exceeding thirty numbers in rank, for having exhibited eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle, or extraordinary heroism. Jan. 24, 1865. counsellors in SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any officer of the navy or marine corps, either of volunteers or otherwise, who shall be nominated to a higher grade by the provisions of the first section of this act, or of that of section nine of an act entitled "An act to establish and equalize the grades of line officers of the United States navy," approved July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, shall be promoted, notwithstanding the number of said grade may be full, but no further promotions shall take place in that grade, except for like cause, until the number is reduced to that provided by law. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all acts, or parts of acts, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. APPROVED, January 24, 1865. CHAP. XX. An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to prescribe an Oath of Office, and for other Purposes," approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person, after the date of this act, shall be admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the United States, or at any time after the fourth of March next, shall be admitted to the bar of any circuit or district court of the United States, or of the court of claims, as an attorney or counsellor of such court, or shall be allowed to appear and be heard in any such court, by virtue of any previous admission, or any special power of attorney, unless he shall have first taken and subscribed the oath prescribed in "An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, according to the forms and in the manner in the said act provided; which said oath so taken and subscribed shall be preserved among the files of such court, and any person who shall falsely Falsely taking, take the said oath shall be guilty of perjury, and, on conviction, shall be to be perjury. liable to the pains and penalties of perjury, and the additional pains and penalties in the said act provided. Oath to be filed. APPROVED, January 24, 1865. CHAP. XXII. — An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide Ways and Means for the Support of the Government, and for other Purposes," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Jan. 28, 1865. 1864, ch. 172. Ante, p. 218. Treasury notes may be issued in lieu of bonds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of any bonds authorized to be issued by the first section of the act entitled "An act to provide ways and means for the support of the government," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, that may remain unsold at the date of this act, the Secretary of the Treasury may issue, under the authority of said act, treasury notes of the description and character authorized by the second section of said act: Provided, That the whole amount of bonds authorized as aforesaid, and treasury notes issued and to be issued in lieu thereof, shall not exceed the sum of four hundred millions of dollars; and such treasury notes may be disposed of for lawful money, or for any other treasury notes or certificates of indebtedness of; or certificates of deposit issued under any previous act of congress; and such notes shall be exempt from taxation by or under state or municipal taxation. authority. Bonds and notes not to exceed $400,000,000 how disposed exempt from sold. 1862, ch. 33. Vol. xii. p. 345. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any bonds known as five- Certain fivetwenties, issued under the act of twenty-fifth February, eighteen hundred twenties may be and sixty-two, remaining unsold to an amount not exceeding four millions of dollars, may be disposed of by the Secretary of the Treasury in the United States, or, if he shall find it expedient, in Europe, at any time, on such terms as he may deem most advisable: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to give any authority for the issue of any legal tender notes legal tender notes, in any form, beyond the balance unissued of the hereby. amount authorized by the second section of the act to which this is an amendment. APPROVED, January 28, 1865. No additional authorized CHAP. XXIII. An Act making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office Depart- Jan. 28, 1865. ment during the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-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, Post-office apand the same are hereby, appropriated, for the service of the Post-Office propriation. Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six : For transportation of the mails, (inland,) seven million eight hundred thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars. For compensation to postmasters, three million one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For clerks for post-offices, one million three hundred thousand dollars. For twine, seventeen thousand dollars. For office stamps, six thousand dollars. For letter balances, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to blank agents and assistants, seven thousand dollars. For office furniture, two thousand dollars. For advertising, sixty-eight thousand dollars. For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For mail depredations and special agents, seventy thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, eight thousand dollars. Transportation of mails. ters. Postmasters. Clerks. Wrapping paper, twine, stamps, &c. &c. Blank agents, Advertising. Postage stamps and envelopes. Special agents. Mail bags, locks and keys. Balances to For payment of balances due to foreign countries, three hundred and foreign countries. fifty thousand dollars. Foreign mail transportation. Jan. 30, 1865. Price of gas in For miscellaneous payments, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. CHAP. XXIV. - An Act to amend the Charter of the "Washington Gas-Light Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the acts of June twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty, and July eleven, eighteen 1860, ch. 211. hundred and sixty-two, as relate to the price of gas furnished by the Vol. xii. p. 107. "Washington Gas-Light Company," be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and the act incorporating the "Washington Gas-Light Company" is hereby so amended as to prohibit the said company from receiving, on and after the first day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the benefit of its stockholders, a greater price for gas than forty cents per hundred cubic feet, subject to a discount of ten per centum on all bills for gas furnished to the general government, and five per centum on all bills for gas furnished to other consumers, if paid at the office of the company within seven days from the rendition thereof. 1862, ch. 143. Vol. xii. p. 534. 1848, ch. 96. Vol. ix. p. 722. Jan. 30, 1865. 1864, ch. 190, § 17. APPROVED, January 30, 1865. CHAP. XXV. - An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company, in the District of Columbia,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Time for com- States of America in Congress assembled, That section seventeen of the act pleting portion of road extended. to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company, of the District of Columbia, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to extend the time for the completion of their railroad line, except that part thereof between Seventeenth Street and the Capitol, for one year from the passage of this act: Provided, however, That the line from Seventeenth Street and the Capitol be completed, equipped, and running, within thirty days from the passage of this Proviso. Jan. 30, 1865. 1838, ch. 16. Vol. vi. p. 704. Charter of Eranklin Insurance Company extended for twenty years. act. APPROVED, January 30, 1865. CHAP. XXVI. - An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act to amend and extend the Charter of the Franklin Insurance Company," approved second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act to amend and extend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company, passed on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, extended and continued in force for the period of twenty years, from the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, the time at which such amendatory act expired; and that all proceedings had by the said Acts legalized. Franklin Insurance Company, and all legal rights accrued or acquired, and all legal obligations entered into by said company between the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and the date of this act be, and the same are hereby, made valid for all legal purposes. Increase of capital stock. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Franklin Insurance Company are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock to an amount not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. APPROVED, January 30, 1865. CHAP. XXIX.-An Act for the Relief of certain friendly Indians of the Sioux Nation, Feb. 9, 1865. in Minnesota. Relief of Indians in Min WHEREAS certain Indians of the Sioux nation did, during the outbreak in Minnesota in eighteen hundred and sixty-two, at the risk of their friendly Sioux lives, aid in saving many white men, women, and children from being nesota. massacred, and, in consequence of such action, were compelled to abandon their homes and property, and are now entirely destitute of the means of support: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the Examination United States be, and he hereby is, authorized and requested to cause an of facts to be examination to be made in relation to all the facts pertaining to the action welfare provided of the said Indians, and to make such provision for their welfare as their for. necessities and future protection may require. made, and their How to be ex SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying Appropriation. out the provisions of this act, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; one third of said sum to be paid and expended for the benefit of Am-pe-tu-to-ke-cha, or John Other-day, and pended. the remainder for the benefit of such other Indians as shall appear specially entitled thereto, for their friendly, extraordinary, and gallant services in rescuing white settlers from massacre in Minnesota: Provided, That not more than the sum of five hundred dollars shall be expended for any one Indian, except the chief above mentioned; and that the Secretary of the Interior shall report to the next congress the names of the Indians gress. for whose benefit the same shall be expended, and the amount expended for each. APPROVED, February 9, 1865. CHAP. XXX. Proviso. Report to con An Act to extend to certain Persons in the Employ of the Government, the Feb. 9, 1865. Benefits of the Asylum for the Insane in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That during the continuance of the rebellion, civilians employed in the service of the United States in the quartermaster's department and subsistence department of the army, who may be, or may hereafter become insane while in such employment, shall be admitted, on the order of the Secretary of War, the same as persons belonging to the army and navy, to the benefits of the asylum for the insane in the District of Columbia, as provided in such other cases by the fourth section of the "Act to organize an institution for the insane of the army and navy, and of the District of Columbia in the said District," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. APPROVED, February 9, 1865. CHAP. XXXII.— An Act to provide for Acting Assistant Treasurers or Depositaries of the United States in certain Cases. Certain persons may be admitted to the asylum for the insane in the District of Co lumbia. 1855, ch. 199, 4. Vol. x. p. 682. Feb. 13, 1865. Acting assist ant treasurers States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in case of the sickness or unavoidable absence of any assistant treasurer or depositary of the United States from his office, he may, with the approval of the Secretary of the and depositaries Treasury, authorize the chief clerk, or some other clerk employed therein, of the United to act in his place, and to discharge all the duties required by law of such assistant treasurer or depositary: Provided, That the official bond given by the principal of the office shall be held to cover and apply to the acts of the person appointed to act in his place in such cases: And provided further, That such acting officer shall, for the time being, be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for the official misconduct subject to penalin like cases, of the assistant treasurer or depositary respectively for whom ties. he shall act. APPROVED, February 13, 1865. Bond. Acting officers |