NAVY HOSPITALS.

Secretaries of the navy, treasury and war made a board

of commissioners of navy hospitals,

chap 93, s. 1, p. 342

Appropriation of money, to be paid over to them,

ibid.
s. 2, p. 343

Fines to be paid to them,
Commissioners to procure sites, at suitable places, for

s. 3, p. 343
s. 4, p. 344

hospitals,
Rules to be prepared by secretary of navy,
Allowance from the wages and pensions of invalids to

be paid over to commissioners,

s. 5, p. 344

NAYLOR, JOHN L. See Columbia, District of.
NEW JERSEY, DISTRICT OF. See Customs.

NIAGARA, FORT. See Customs.

NON-INTERCOURSE. See Commercial

Intercourse.

NOVA IBERIA. See Customs.

OATHS OF OFFICE.

Of the persons employed in making the third census or
enumeration of the inhabitants of the United

States,

chap. 35, s. 1, p. 64 and 65

For the post master general and persons employed in

His department,

chap. 54, s. 2, p. 159

With respect to letters carried coastwise, s. 14, p. 165

For the marshals, &c. &c.

.

chap. 55, s. 1, p. 185

OGDENBURG.

Made a port of entry,

chap. 98, s. 2, p. 357

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OHIO, STATE OF. See Judiciary.

OPELOUSAS. See Lands of United States:

3L

1

OSAGE, GREAT AND LITTLE NATIONS
OF. See Indian Treaties.

OSWEGATCHIE.

Formed into a collection district, chap. 98, s. 2, p. 357

P.

PATENT OFFICE.

To be removed,

chap. 51, s. 1, p. 149

1

PATENT RIGHTS.

The usual residence dispensed with in the case of Jo-

seph Joshua Dyster,

chap. 23, p. 36

PENOBSCOT. See Customs.

PINKERTON, ANDREW.

To be placed on pension list, chap. 48, s. 3, p. 147
PLYMOUTH, PORT OF ENTRY OF. See Cus-

toms.

POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENT.

Letters from Thomas Jefferson exempt from postage.

chap. 14, p. 21

Message from President, and accompanying documents
may be transported by mail free of postage,

Post roads established,

-

chap. 18, p. 31
chap. 48, s. 1, p. 105

Post roads, heretofore established, discontinued,

General and city post offices to be removed,

s. 2, p. 135

chap. 51, s. 1, p. 149

General post office established at the seat of govern.
ment-Duties of the post master general,

chap 54, s. 1, p. 158

Breaches of duty punishable, though the parties may

not have taken the usual oaths,

s. 2. p. 159

Post master general to provide for the

carriage of the

mail,

s. 3, p. 159

Free white persons to be employed in the carriage of

the mail-Penalty,

s. 4, p. 160

Post master general may allow his deputies such com-
pensations as he shall judge proper, s. 5, p. 160
Post roads obstructed by gates to be reported to Con-
gress, that others may be substituted, s. 6, p. 161

Penalties for obstructing or retarding the mail,

s. 7, p. 161
Proposals for contracts to be published-Duplicates of
contracts to be lodged with comptroller of the

treasury,

-

s. 8, p. 162
Regular attendance to be given in post offices-Regula-

tions,

s. 9, p. 162

No fees or perquisites allowable in general post office,

titled to postage,

-

Penalties upon others establishing posts,
Regulations concerning way letters,

Penalties for detaining, opening or delaying letters, &c.

packets, en-

s. 15, p. 165

s. 16, p. 165

s. 17, p. 166

s. 18, p. 167

Robberies of the mail, how punishable,

s. 19, p. 169

s. 20, p. 171

Penalties for injuring mail portmantuas, &c. &c.

Accessories to be punished as principals, s. 21, p. 171
Persons imprisoned under this act to be kept at hard
s. 22, p. 171

labor,

Regulations concerning unclaimed letters, &, &

Persons to and from whom letters may be received free

of postage

s. 23, p. 172

s. 24, p. 173

Penalties upon franking other letters than their own,

Regulations concerning newspapers,

s. 26, p. 174

Further regulations,

s. 27, p. 175

Compensation of the post masters,

s. 28, p. 176

Deputy post masters to pay over balances in their hands

to general post office,

s. 29, p. 177

Penalties upon the deputies not making due returns to

the general post office,

-

s. 30, p. 178

To whose benefit forfeitures &c. &c. are to enure,

s. 31, p. 179

Post master general may provide for transmitting let-

ters beyond sea,

s. 32, p. 179

Post masters and others engaged in the transmission of
mail to be exempt from militia duties,

Courts, in cases under this act, to give judgments forth-

Post master's emoluments limited,
Certain deputy post masters to send lists
&. &c. to post master general,
Repealing clause,

Certain documents to be transmitted by

postage,

Salary of additional assistant post master general fixed,

POTO MAC, BANK OF. See Columbia, District of.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Authorised to have such fortifications as may be neces-
sary for the protection of the northern and western
frontiers erected

s. 39, p. 181
s. 40, p. 182
of their clerks,

s. 41, p. 182

s. 42, p. 183
mail free of

chap. 68, p. 251

chap. 71, p. 253

May cause certain reservations of lands ceded by the
Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians,

chap. 4, s. 1, p. 7
May remit penalties and forfeitures in the case of cer-
tain fugitives from Cuba, violating the slave act,

chap. 8, s. 1, p. 11
Authorised to make an arrangement with the minister
plenipotentiary of France, for transporting these
fugitives to France,

s. 2, p. 12

May cause vessels to be chartered for public service,

chap. 9, s. 3, p. 15
Authorised, in a certain event, to cause such of the
frigates, &c. &c. as he may designate to be dis.
charged from public service, and laid up in ordina-
chap. 17, s. 1, p. 23
His message, and the documents accompanying it, may
be transported by mail free of postage,

ry,

chap. 18, p. 31
Money appropriated for making a road from Cumber-
land, in Maryland, to the state of Ohio, to be ex-
pended under his direction,

chap. 25, p. 39

Experiments may be made, under his direction, to as-
certain the advantages of the Torpedo or sub-ma-

rine explosion,

chap. 38, p. 74

To cause a certain number of the land laws to be collect.
ed into one volume and printed, chap. 50, p. 148
Authorised to procure a house for the better accommo-
dation of the general post and patent offices,