CHAP. I.-An Act authorizing the holding of a special session of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana. (15 Dec. 1862.)

CHAP. III.-An Act to adjust Appropriations heretofore made for the civil service of the Navy Department to the present organization of that Department. Certain sums previously appropriated are transferred so as to correspond with the pay and organization as authorized by the act of 5 July, 1862. (19 Dec. 1862.)

CHAP. IV.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide Internal Revenue to support the Government, and to pay Interest on the Public Debt," approved July 1, 1862. Assessors, collectors, &c. are empowered to administer oaths, but to charge no fees. No instrument to be void for want of particular stamp if legal stamp of equal value be used thereon, proprietary articles excepted. Official documents of United States are exempted from duty. Instruments required to be stamped issued prior to 1 March, 1863, without a stamp, not for that reason to be void; but such instruments, before they can be used in evidence, must have the proper stamps affixed in presence of the court. Section 24 of chap. 163, act of 1862, repealed. (25 Dec. 1862.)

CHAP. V.-An Act to facilitate the Discharge of Disabled Soldiers from the Army, and the Inspection of Convalescent Camps and Hospitals. Eight medical inspectors added to the medical corps of the army. All medical inspectors to make regular and frequent inspections of military hospitals and convalescent camps. (27 Dec. 1862.)

CHAP. VI.-An Act for the Admission of the State of West Virginia into the Union, and for other purposes. That part of Virginia known as West Vir ginia, embracing the following counties,-viz.: Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Tyler, Pleasants, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Mercer, McDowell, Webster, Pocahontas, Fayette, Raleigh, Greenbrier, Monroe, Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire, and Morgan, is hereby declared to be one of the United States, to be known as West Virginia, admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and, until the next census, to be entitled to three members in the House of Representatives. The act not to take effect until sixty days from the date of a proclamation by the President announcing the ratification of a change in the Constitution of West Virginia, by which the seventh section thereof is to be stricken out, and the following inserted:-"The children of slaves born within the limits of this State after the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be free; and that all slaves within the said State who shall, at the time aforesaid, be under the age of ten years, shall be free when they arrive at the age of twenty-one years; and all slaves over ten and

under twenty-one years, shall be free when they arrive at the age of twenty-five years; and no slave shall be permitted to come into the State for permanent residence therein." (31 Dec. 1862.) CHAP. VII.-An Act to improve the organization of the Cavalry forces. Each regiment of cavalry to have two assistant surgeons, and each troop to have from sixty to seventy-eight privates. (6 Jan. 1863.)

CHAP. IX.-An Act prescribing the times and places for holding Terms of the Circuit Court for the Districts of Iowa, Minnesota, and Kansas. Terms of the circuit court to be held each year as follows: For the District of Iowa at Des Moines, first Tuesday in May and November; for Minne sota at St. Paul, third Monday of June and October; for Kansas at same place as district court, fourth Monday of May and November. (13 Jan. 1863.)

CHAP. X.-An Act to provide for the Imprisonment of Persons convicted of crime by the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia. (16 Jan. 1863.)

CHAP. XI-An Act making Appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the 30th June, 1864. $183,394 appropriated for pay of officers, instructors, cadets, musicians, for subsistence, repairs, expenses, &c. (23 Jan. 1863.)

CHAP. XIII.-An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act of the third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, entitled 'An Act supplementary to the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Judicial System of the United States.""" The Districts of Ohio and Michigan to constitute Seventh Circuit, and Districts of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin to constitute Eighth Circuit. (28 Jan. 1863.)

CHAP. XIV.—An Act to provide for the printing of the Annual Report of the Banks of the United States. Report to be completed before first Mon day in October, and 5000 copies to be printed before first of December. (30 Jan. 1863.)

CHAP. XVII.-An Act making Appropriations the United States for the year ending the 30th of for the payment of Invalid and other Pensions of June, 1864. $7,685,300 appropriated. (3 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XIX.-An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Govern ment for the year ending June 30, 1864. $1,260,544.34 appropriated. (4 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XX.-An Act in relation to Commissioned Officers of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. Commissioned officers to be appointed by Presi dent. Engineers graded into chief, first, and second assistants, with pay of first, second, and third lieutenants. Wages of petty officers and crew same as for like services in merchant service. Relative rank of officers when serving in the Navy prescribed. (4 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XXI.-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act for the Collection of Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary Districts within the United States,

and for other purposes," approved June 7, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Prescribes mode of proceeding for sale of lands on which taxes remain unpaid, how payment shall be made, and for certificate of sale; also how, and by what persons, the land sold may be redeemed. (6 Feb. 1863.) CHAP. XXIL-An Act to increase the clerical and other force of the Quartermaster-General's Office, and for other purposes. The second section provides that the affidavit of a commander of a company may be received to prove loss of vouchers. (7 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XXIII-An Act to authorize the raising of a Volunteer Force for the better Defence of Kentucky. The Governor of Kentucky is authorized, under the direction of the President, to raise twenty thousand volunteers, to serve for twelve months, within the limits of the State, in repelling invasion, suppressing insurrection, and protecting public property. (7 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XXIV.-An Act to provide for the protection of Overland Emigrants to the States and Territories of the Pacific. $30,000 appropriated to provide means of protection. (7 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XXV-An Act making Appropriations for the support of the Army for the year ending the 30th of June, 1864, and for a Deficiency for the Signal Service for the year ending June 30, 1863. $729,861,598.80 appropriated. The second section enacts that no money shall be paid to any person assuming to act in an office not authorized by law; or to any person appointed to a vacancy which existed while the Senate was in session, unless such appointee shall have been confirmed by the Senate. (9 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XXXVII.-An Act for the Relief of Persons for Damages sustained by reason of Depredations and Injuries by certain Bands of Sioux & Indians. This act annuls the treaties with certain bands of the Sioux or Dakota Indians, in consequence of their acts of war and massacre in Minnesota during the year 1862, and directs that twothirds of the annuities due, and to become due, to the surviving members of families who suffered said Indians, to the amount of $200,000, be paid to damage by the depredations of said Indians. Commissioners to execute the act to meet at St. to be heard after September 1, 1863. (16 Feb. Peter's, Minnesota, by April 1, 1863, and no claims 1863.)

CHAP. XLIII-An Act making Appropriations for the construction, preservation, and repairs of certain Fortifications and other Works of Defence for the year ending 30th of June, 1864. $6,900,000 appropriated. (20 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XLIV.-An Act to provide for the ap pointment of an Assistant Register in the Treasury Department, and a Solicitor for the War Depart ment, and for other purposes. (20 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XLV. An Act temporarily to supply vacancies in the Executive Departments in certain cases. The President is empowered, in case of death, resignation, sickness, or absence of the head of any executive department, to authorize the head of any other department, or other officer of any department, to perform the duties of the vacant office. (20 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XLVI-An Act concerning Pardons and the Remission of Penalties and Forfeitures in Crimi nal Cases. The President is empowered, wherever a person shall be sentenced to two kinds of punishment,-one pecuniary and the other corporal,to pardon or remit, in whole or in part, either punishment, without impairing the legal validity of the other punishment, not pardoned or remitted. (20 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XXVII-An Act concerning the District Courts of the Territory of Washington. Terms to be held as Legislative Assembly shall direct. (9 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XXVIII-An Act to make the State of Wisconsin a part of the Ninth Judicial Circuit. (9 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XXIX.-An Act to promote the efficiency of the Commissary Department. A brigadier general added to the subsistence department, who shall be commissary-general; also a colonel, a lieutenant-colonel, and two majors. (9 Feb. 1863.) CHAP. XXXII-An Act to supply Deficiencies in the Appropriations for the Service of the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1863. $109,825,997.50 appro priated. (12 Feb, 1863.)

CHAP. XXXIII.-An Act to incorporate the National Association for the Relief of destitute Colored Women and Children. (11 Feb, 1863.)

CHAP. XXXIV-An Act to establish the office of Register of Deeds for the District of Columbia. (14 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XXXVI.-An Act to issue an American Register to the Steamship Karnak. (16 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XLVII-An Act to change the times of United States for the District of Indiana. The District and Circuit Courts for the District of Indiana shall be held on the first Tuesdays of May and November. (20 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. XLIX. An Act to change the times of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the

United States in the several Districts in the Seventh Circuit. The Circuit and District Courts of the Seventh Judicial Circuit shall be held as follows:

For the Northern District of Ohio, at Cleveland, first Tuesdays of January, May, and September; for the Southern District at Cincinnati, first Tuesdays of February, April, and October; for the District of Michigan, at Detroit, first Tuesdays of March, June, and November. (21 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. L-An Act to allow the United States to prosecute Appeals and Writs of Error without giving security. (21 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. LI-An Act extending the time for carrying into effect the provisions of the Third Section of the Act entitled "An Act relating to Highways in the County of Washington and District of Colum bia," approved May 3, 1862. (21 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP, LII.-An Act to annex a part of the State of New Jersey to the Collection District of New York, and to appoint an Assistant Collector, to reside at Jersey City. Hudson and Bergen counties, N.J., annexed to the New York Collection Dis

trict, and an assistant collector appointed, to reside at Jersey City. (21 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. LIII.-An Act for the removal of the Winnebago Indians, and for the Sale of their Reservation in Minnesota for their Benefit. The President authorized to set apart for the Winnebago Indians a tract of land beyond the limits of any State, and to remove to and settle said Indians on said tract. The Secretary of the Interior is directed, after the removal of said Indians, to cause their present lands to be appraised, after which said lands are to be open for pre-emption and sale as prescribed in the act. (21 Feb. 1863,)

who shall purchase or receive arms, &c., from soldiers; may be arrested and held for trial by courtmartial, and on conviction be punished by fine, imprisonment, or by any other penalty except death. Offenders may be tried by court-martial after their discharge or dismissal from the service; prosecutions to be commenced within six years. Section 8 prohibits officers, agents, or members of banking and commercial corporations and firms from acting as agents of the United States in its business with such banks, &c. (2 March, 1863.)

CHAP. LXVIII-An Act to authorize an increase in the number of Major-Generals and BrigadierGenerals for Forces in the Service of the United States. Thirty additional major-generals, and

CHAP. LV.-An Act to establish certain Post Roads. The third section of this act grants to the Overland Mail Company the privilege to occupy certain lands on their route where their stations are fixed, with right of pre-emption. (24 Feb. 1863.) CHAP. LVI-An Act to provide a temporary Government for the Territory of Arizona, and for other purposes. (24 Feb. 1863.) [See title ARIZONA.] CHAP. LVIII.-An Act to provide a National Currency secured by a Pledge of United States Stocks, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof. (25 Feb. 1863.) [See title NATIONAL BANKING LAW.]

CHAP. LIX.-An Act making Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June 30, 1864, and for the Year 1863, and for other purposes. $7,866,476.17 appropriated. Section 2 authorizes the appointment of a number of additional clerks and employees in certain executive offices, to be employed during the rebellion, and for one year thereafter. (25 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. LX. An Act to prevent Correspondence with Rebels.-Correspondence with Rebel Government or agents punished by fine not exceeding $10,000, and by imprisonment not less than six months nor exceeding five years. (25 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. LXL-An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to prevent Members of Congress and Officers of the Government of the United States from taking Considerations for procuring Contracts, Office, or Place from the United States, and for other purposes." Provisions of act to embrace any agent of the Government. (25 Feb. 1863.)

CHAP. LXVII.-An Act to prevent and punish Frauds upon the Government of the United States. Any person in the land or naval forces, or the militia, who shall present any false claim against the Government, or false voucher, or make false oath, or forge any signature, or utter forged papers in relation thereto, or conspire to defraud, or steal or embezzle moneys or property of the Government; any contractor who shall conceal property; any person who shall give false receipts in the purchase or delivery of arms; any person

CHAP. LXIX.-An Act to fix the terms of the Circuit and District Courts in the Districts of Wisconsin and Iowa. The circuit court for Wisconsin shall be held at Milwaukee on third Monday in April, and first Monday in July, and at Madison on second Monday in November. The circuit and district courts for Iowa to be held at Des Moines shall be held on second Tuesday of May and third Tuesday of October; and the fall term of district court at Dubuque, on third Tuesday in November. (2 March, 1863.)

CHAP. LXX. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide a Temporary Government for the Territory of Colorado." Section 1 of this act enlarges and defines the general powers of the Governor, and fixes his term of office; section 2 confers the veto power; and section 3 makes radical alterations in relation to the judicial power, which is by this act vested in a supreme court, district courts, probate courts, and justices of the peace. and two associate justices, who shall hold an anThe supreme court shall consist of a chief justice nual term at the seat of government. The Territory shall be divided into three judicial districts, and one of the judges is to reside in each district, and hold a district therein. Justices of the peace shall have no jurisdiction of titles or boundaries of land, or where the sum in dispute exceeds $300. Probate courts shall have no jurisdiction of debts or claims above $1000. The supreme, district, and probate courts shall possess chancery as well as common-law powers. Appeals may be taken to Supreme Court of United States. Section 4 extends provisions of sections 1 and 2 to the Territory of Dakota. (2 March, 1863.)

CHAP. LXXI.-An Act to amend the laws relating to the Post-Office Department. (3 March, 1863.) [For abstract of this important act, see title POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.]

CHAP. LXXII.-An Act to disapprove of the Twenty-Sixth Section of the Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, and for other purposes. Section 26 of an Act of the Legislative Assembly of Dec. 20, 1862, required all corporations under other States and Territories having their principal place of business outside of Nevada, to remove their places of business to some point inside of the Territory, within six months, under penalty. This act of Congress disapproves and annuls said Territorial Act, and further empowers all incorporated companies to sue and be sued, &c. in the several courts of Nevada. (3 March, 1863.)