Bureau of provisions and clothing, of medicine and surgery, of steam engineering. Marine corps. Navy yards. Bureau of Provisions and Clothing. For contingent expenses, viz: For candles, freight to foreign stations, transportation from station to station within the United States, cooperage, pay of assistants to inspectors, advertising for proposals, printing paymasters' blanks, and stationery for cruising vessels, five hundred thousand dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. For contingent expenses of the bureau of medicine and surgery, sixty thousand dollars. Bureau of Steam Engineering. For contingent expenses, viz: For transportation of materials, printing, stationery, advertising, books, drawings, models, postages, and incidental expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. Marine Corps. For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, clerks, messengers, steward and nurse and servants; for rations and clothing for officers' servants; additional rations to officers for five years' service; for undrawn clothing, and additional pay to musicians of the band, seven hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty cents. For provisions, one hundred and thirty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars. For clothing, two hundred and twenty-three thousand three hundred and ninety-eight dollars. For fuel, thirty-one thousand four hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-five cents. For military stores, viz: Pay of mechanics, repairs of arms, purchase of accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, and other instruments, fifteen thousand dollars. For transportation of officers, their servants, troops, and expenses of recruiting, twenty-two thousand dollars. For repairs of barracks, and rent of offices where there are no public buildings, eight thousand dollars. For contingencies, viz: freight; ferriage; toll; cartage; wharfage ; purchase and repair of boats; compensation to judge-advocates; per diem for attending courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant labor; house rent in lieu of quarters; burial of deceased marines; printing, stationery, postage, telegraphing; apprehension of deserters; oil, candles, gas; repairs of gas and water fixtures; water rent, forage, straw, barrack furniture; furniture for officers' quarters in the barracks; bed sacks, wrapping-paper, oil-cloth, crash, rope, twine, spades, shovels, axes, picks, carpenters' tools; keep of a horse for the messenger; pay of matron, washerwoman, and porter at the hospital head-quarters; repairs to fire-engine; purchase and repair of engine hose; purchase of lumber for benches, mess-tables, and bunks; repairs to public carryall; purchase and repair of harness; purchase and repair of handcarts and wheelbarrows; scavengering; purchase and repair of galleys, cooking-stoves, ranges; stoves where there are no grates; gravel for parade grounds; repair of pumps; furniture for staff and commanding officers' offices; brushes, brooms, buckets, paving, and for other purposes, forty-five thousand dollars. For widening and improving the marine barracks, and officers' quarters at the navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, twenty-two thousand dollars. For building marine barracks, at navy yard, Mare Island, California, thirty-nine thousand fifty-eight dollars and forty-four cents. NAVY YARDS. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For plumbers, coppersmiths, and tinshops, quay-walls, mooring-piers, iron store, extension of ship-house, machinery and tools, repairs on floating dock, barracks and guard-house, on Seavey's Island, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and fifty-one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars. Boston. Boston. For additional amount for joiners' shop, additional amount Navy Yards. for coal-house, extension of shear wharf, railroad tracks, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred dollars. New York. For dredging channels; quay-wall at saw-mills; new foundery; improvements on cob dock; improvements to dry dock; machineshop extension; improvements of dry dock; quay-wall at new derrick; iron-plating shop; receiving store; iron fence in front of officers' houses; repairs of all kinds; machinery for iron-clad building; machinery for pattern, boiler, and machine-shop; machinery for new foundery; machinery for machine-shop extension; machinery for smithery, joiner, and oakum shops; one six-ton, one four-ton, and one two-ton hammer, six hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars. New York. Philadelphia. For repairs of dry dock, pitch-house, dredging; repairs Philadelphia. of damage to store by fire, and for repairs of all kinds and for the pur chase of two lots adjoining navy yard, Philadelphia, extending from Front Street to the commissioners' line in the Delaware river, at a price not exceeding ninety thousand dollars - two hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars. Washington, District of Columbia. For extension of copper rolling- Washington. mill; machinery and tools; storehouse for provisions and clothing; dredging channels; repairs of all kinds, and rail tracks in yard, one hundred and forty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars. Norfolk. For repairs of victualling-house, boat-shed, blacksmith-shop, Norfolk. and tools; wharves, foundery, officers' quarters, boiler-shop, repairs of dry dock, engine-house, mast-house, and sail-loft; saw-mill and machinery; offices and storehouse and repairs of all kinds, two hundred and twentythree thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars. Pensacola. For repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand dollars. Pensacola Mare Island. For continuation of grading and paving, ten thousand Mare Island. dollars; scows, lighter, and stages; foundery and machinery for same; machinery for saw-mill; continuing coal-shed and wharf; continuing seawall; steam hammer and tools for smithery; rigging and sail-loft; repairs of all kinds; excess of expenditure on wharf; guard-house; machinery for machine-shop, and gas-works, two hundred and twenty-four thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars. HOSPITALS. Boston. For remodelling old section of the hospital; heating and cooking and laundry apparatus; brick wall and iron gateways on Broadway; and repairs of building and improvement of grounds, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Hospitals. New York. For repairs and improvements of buildings and grounds, New York. increase of apparatus in the laboratory, and repairs to heating-apparatus, nine thousand dollars. Norfolk. For general improvement and repairs of building, ground, and wharves, five thousand dollars. Norfolk. Pensacola. For completion of extension of building, thirty thousand dollars. Pensacola. Memphis. For improvements and repairs of hospitals, seven thousand dollars. Memphis. New Orleans. New Orleans. For improvements and repairs of hospital, five thousand dollars. Mare Island, California. - For completion of hospital, seventy-five Mare Island. thousand dollars. MAGAZINES. Magazines Portsmouth. For howitzer and gun-equipment shed; machinery for Portsmouth. Hospitals. Boston. New York. Philadelphia. Washington. Mare Island. Miscellaneous. Civil establishments at Navy Yards. Salary of constructing engineer at Mare Island. Naval Academy. Proviso. Key West. Naval observatory. Nautical Alma nac. ordnance building, and for fitting and furnishing new wing of ordnance building; grading grounds for repairs of ordnance buildings and railways, twenty thousand and fifty dollars. Boston. For repairs of magazine and shell-houses at Chelsea, and powder-boat; repairs of ordnance store, shell-houses, and gun and shot parks; tools for gun-carriage shop; and for completing ordnance store, sixty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars. New York. For machinery for repairing small arms; repairs to wharves and track on Ellis' island; sea-wall on north side of Ellis' island; repairs on magazine at Ellis' island; dredging at Ellis' island; and for repairs of all kinds, forty-two thousand dollars. Philadelphia. For repairs and alterations of ordnance storehouse and office; machinery and tools in ordnance workshops; and for magazine, wharf-buildings, and grounds, eight thousand one hundred and sixtythree dollars. Washington. For repairs and improvements of the magazine, ordnance buildings, and grounds of the ordnance yard; erecting temporary sheds; additional ordnance machinery; and for continuing the new ordnance foundery, sixty-nine thousand dollars. Mare Island, California. For two small magazines at north end of the yard; enlargement of shell-house; preparing gun park; building skids and shot beds; machinery and tools for ordnance shop; and for repairs on magazine buildings and pile wharf, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments of the several navy yards and stations, one hundred and twentyfive thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars; and the annual salary of the constructing engineer at Mare Island, California, shall be three thousand two hundred dollars, after the close of the present fiscal year. For expenses of professors, watchmen, and others, and contingencies of the United States Naval Academy, one hundred and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty-five cents: Provided, That no money appropriated for the support of the naval academy shall be applied to the support of any midshipmen hereafter appointed not in strict conformance with the provisions of the law for appointing midshipmen to the naval academy. For constructing coal-wharf at Key West, Florida, thirty-two thousand dollars. For altering coal-depot to storehouse at Key West, Florida, eighteen thousand dollars. For constructing railroad from naval wharf to coal-yards at Key West, Florida, ten thousand dollars. For the pay of mileage of visitors to the naval academy, two thousand dollars. NAVAL OBSERVATORY. For pay of assistant astronomer, three aids, and clerk, eight thousand dollars, and four thousand dollars thereof shall be equally divided among the three aids as their salary. For wages of instrument maker, watchman, porter, and laborers; keeping grounds in order, and repairs to buildings and enclosures; fuel, lights, office furniture, and stationery; and for freight, transportation, postage, and incidental expenses, twelve thousand dollars. For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twentyfive thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA. For furniture and repairs of same; house-cleaning and whitewashing; repairs to furnaces, grates, and ranges; gas and water rent; for hospital, and repairs of all kinds, five thousand two hundred dollars. Naval asylum. Beneficiaries. Gratuities and medals. For the purchase and preparation of a site for a cemetery for the navy Cemetery. and marine corps, near Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars. For support of beneficiaries, thirty-two thousand dollars. For gratuities and medals of honor, five thousand dollars. For bounties for destruction of enemies' vessels, as per "act of July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for the better government of the navy," two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of photographer, for ordnance bureau, three hundred dollars. For compensation of petty officers, seamen, and others of the crew of the United States steamer Monitor, lost at sea December thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, three thousand dollars. For compensation of petty officers, seamen, and others of the crew of the United States steamer Cairo, lost in Yazoo river December twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, out of the appropriation of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a floating dry dock at navy yard, New York, provided for by the act making appropriations for the naval service of the United States, approved third March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to construct one or two dry docks, as he may deem expedient, at New York and Philadelphia, at two hundred and sixty thousand dollars each, and to expend the balance of said appropriation, if it shall be necessary, to enlarge the sectional docks to a capacity to receive the large vessels now building. Destruction of vessels. 4. Vol. xii. p. 606. Pay of officers, &c., of the Moni tor; the Cairo. Two dry docks authorized. Application of former appropriation. 1863, ch. 118, Vol. xii. p. 817. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be added three Additional proprofessors to the number of professors of mathematics now authorized by fessors at the naval academy. law, who shall be appointed and commissioned as now provided by law, and who shall be a professor of ethics and English studies, a professor of Spanish, and a professor of drawing, at the naval academy. my to be re SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the United States naval Naval acadeacademy shall be returned to and established at the naval academy turned to Angrounds in Annapolis, in the state of Maryland, before the commencement of the academic year eighteen hundred and sixty-five. APPROVED, May 21, 1864. CHAP. XCIV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to enable the People of Nevada to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of such State into the Union on an equal Footing with the original States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the fifth section of the act to which this act is an amendment as provides by ordnance for submitting the Constitution to the people of said state, for their ratification or rejection, at an election to be held on the second Tuesday of October, be so amended as to read "on the first Wednesday of September," and that the election for the purposes aforesaid be held on that day instead of the second Tuesday of October. APPROVED, May 21, 1864. napolis. CHAP. XCV.-An Act to provide a temporary Government for the Territory of Mon-May 26, 1864. tana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of VOL. XIII. PUB. -8 Territory of Montana estabLished. Boundaries. Territory may be divided, boundaries changed, &c. Rights of Indians preserved. Executive. the territory of the United States included within the limits, to wit: Commencing at a point formed by the intersection of the twenty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington with the forty-fifth degree of north latitude; thence due west on said forty-fifth degree of latitude to a point formed by its intersection with the thirty-fourth degree of longitude west from Washington; thence due south along said thirty-fourth degree of longitude to its intersection with the forty-fourth degree and thirty minutes of north latitude; thenee due west along said forty-fourth degree and thirty minutes of north latitude to a point formed by its intersection with the crest of the Rocky Mountains; thence following the crest of the Rocky Mountains northward till its intersection with the Bitter Root Mountains; thence northward along the crest of said Bitter Root Mountains to its intersection with the thirty-ninth degree of longitude west from Washington; thence along said thirty-ninth degree of longitude northward to the boundary line of the British possessions; thence eastward along said boundary line to the twenty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington; thence southward along said twenty-seventh degree of longitude to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, created into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Montana: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to inhibit the government of the United States from dividing said territory or changing its boundaries in such manner and at such time as congress shall deem convenient and proper, or from attaching any portion of said territory to any other state or territory of the United States: Provided, further, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said territory so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribes, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any state or territory; but all such territory shall be excepted out of the boundaries, and constitute no part of the Territory of Montana, until said tribe shali signify their assent to the President of the United States to be included within said territory, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States to make any regulations respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights, by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent for the government to make if this act had never passed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the executive power and auGovernor, term thority in and over said Territory of Montana shall be vested in a govof office, power, &c.; ernor, who shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States. The governor shall reside within said territory, and shall be commander-in-chief of the militia and superintendent of Indian affairs thereof. He may grant pardons and respites for offences against the laws of said territory, and reprieve for offences against the laws of the United States until the decision of the President of the United States can be made known thereon; he shall commission all officers who shall be appointed to office under the laws of the said territory, and shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. to be superintendent of Indian affairs. Secretary, residence, powers, and duties. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a secretary of said territory, who shall reside therein and hold his office for four years, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States; he shall record and preserve all laws and proceedings of the legislative assembly hereinafter constituted, and all the acts and proceedings of the governor in his executive department; he shall transmit one copy of the laws and journals of the legislative assembly within thirty days after the end of each session, and one copy of the executive proceedings and official correspondence semi-annually, on the first days of January and July in each |