Improvement of the James and Appoma- chall receive mileage for attendance at any extra | An Act making appropriations for the Naval service for the year ending June 30, 1853.—Appropriates as follows: For pay of officers and men at sea.... $2,771,698 Provisions for officers and seamen....... arms... Contingent expenses. Construction, repairs, &c., at Navy Pay of officers and men on shore. New Navy Yard at San Francisco..., Do. for Atlantic coast.... Harbor of Charleston, S. C... Do. Mobile, Ala... Harbor of Chicago, Ill... Do. Michigan city, Ind. Harbor of Cleveland, Ohio............................................. Do. 90.960 686,200 Do. Dunkirk. N. Y.. 30,000 1,365,000 Steam-dredge, discharging scows for Lake 20,000 125.000 Harbor at mouth of Genesee river...... 20,000 40,000 527,840 Steam-dredge and discharging-scows for ........... 20,000 558.555 Improving Cape Fear River.. 20,000 217,984 Survey for a ship-canal across the Penin- Levee across mouth river San Diego, Cal. Do. Total Naval appropriations... .....$6,858,827 Sundry other appropriations....................... $82,700 This act provides that hereafter no appointment of midshipmen, acting midshipmen, or pupil at Total river and harbor appropriations. $2,114,200 any naval school in the Navy, shall be made un- An Act making appropriations for the current less recommended by the member of Congress and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, representing the district in which the applicant and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various resides, in the same manner that cadets at West Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1853– Point are now appointed; and that Robert Arm-Appropriates as follows:strong, the Public Printer, be directed to execute without delay the public printing ordered by either House of Congress since his election as Public Printer, and that all paper used by the Pub lic Printer for the space of sixty days from this date (August 31), shall be furnished by him at cost, and shall be of the quality and description speci fied in the law passed at this session of Congress. Total Indian appropriations....$2,000.376 This act provides that no part of the appropria51,090 tions herein made, or that may hereafter be made, 40,000 for the benefit of any Indian, or tribe, shall be 50,000 paid to any attorney or agent of such Indian, or 90,000 tribe, but shall in every case be paid directly to 90,000 the Indian or Indians themselves to whom it shall 40,000 be due, or to the tribe or part of a tribe per capita, 40,000 unless the imperious interest of the Indian or In dians, or some treaty stipulation, shall require the payment to be made otherwise, under the direc 150,000tion of the President. Nor shall the Executive branch of the Government, now or hereafter, rec-| meet four times a year, and as much oftener as ognise any contract between any Indian, or tribe, the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. The or part of a tribe, and any attorney or agent for Clerks in the Treasury Department. now cmthe prosecution of any claim against the Govern-ployed on light-house duties, are to be transferred ment under this act. An Act making appropriations for the transportation of the United States Mail by Ocean-Steamers and otherwise, during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1853-Appropriates as follows:Transporte ion of mails from New York to Liverpool and back. Do. from New York to New Or loans, Charleston, Savannah, Havana, Chagres, and back.. Transporting mails from Panama to California and Oregon and back..... Do. from New York by Southamp ton, to Bremen and back, and from New York by Cowes, to Havre and back, in addition to an unexpended balance of $56,000Transporting mails between Charleston and Havana. Do. across the Isthmus of Panama. $858,000 to the Light-house Board. The Board are re. and Lake coasts of the United States into twelve quired to arrange the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific, or less Light-house Districts, and an officer of the army or navy is to be assigned to each district as a Light-house Inspector, to act under the orders of the Light-house Board. An Act to establish certain Post. Roads, and for other purposes.-This act establishes new post290,000 roads in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl 348,250 vania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan. Wisconsin, lowa. Florida, Texas, California, Oregon, Utah, New Mex 294,000 ico. and Minnesota. The act also authorizes the Postmaster General to contract for the transpor 50,000 tation of the United States Mail between Boston 100,000 and Halifax, on the steam-vessels which now ply regularly between these ports; also provides se $1,940,250 vere penalties for purloining, embezzling, or unlawfully making mail-locks and keys, and for stealing mail-bags or other property belonging to the Post-office Department. No ship or vessel shall be allowed to make entry or break bulk at any port in the United States, until all letters on board such vessel shall have been delivered into the Post-office. Provisions are made for the search for and seizure cf letters and packages illegally An Act making appropriations for Light-houses, by the advice and consent of the President, to carried. The Postmaster General is authorized, Light-boats, Buoys, &c., and providing for the erection and establishment of the same, and for other allowing the mails of Canada, or any other admake any just and reciprocal arrangement for purposes.-This act makes the following appro-jacent Province or country, to pass from one priations, viz :— Total appropriations....... An Act in addition to "An Act to promote the progress of the useful arts"-Provides that appeals from the decisions of the Commissioner of Patenta, may be made to either of the Assistant Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, as well as to the Chief Judge of said Court, Tor Light-houses, &c., on coast of Maine. Other Light-houses, &c., on N. E. Coust... Other appropriations for California...... 55 360 to any other point in the same Province. The point in such Province, through the United States 80,000 Postmaster General is also authorized to procure 91,115 281,270 tamped letter envelops, to be furnished to Post58,100 masters and sold at cost, or as near as may be, with the addition of the value of the postage 120,000 stamps printed or impressed on such envelops. 36,000 Letters may be carried outside the mail when enclosed in these envelops. Total Light-house appropriations.... $711,845 This act requires the President to appoint An Act making further provisions for the satis two officers of the navy, of high rank, one off-faction of Virginia Land Warrants-Provide cer of the corps of engineers of the army, one that all unsatisfied military land-warrants, issued officer of the topographical engineers of the prior to March 1, 1852, by Virginia, for services army, and two civilians of high scientific at in the Revolutionary war may be surrendered, tainments, whose services may be at the dis- and assignable United States scrip, payable in posal of the President, and an officer of the public lands, issued therefor. This act shall be navy, and an officer of engineers of the army, as claims to officers and soldiers of Virginia for taken as a final adjustment of all bounty land secretaries, who shall constitute the Light-house Revolutionary services, and provided that VirBoard of the United States, and shall have power ginia, by act of Legislature, shall relinquish all to adopt such rules and regulations for the govern-claim to lands in the Virginia military land die ment of their meetings as they may judge expe-trict in the State of Ohio. dient; and the Board so constituted, shall be at tached to the office of the Secretary of the An Act to constitute Alton, in the State of Illi Treasury, and under his superintendence, shall nois, a Port of Delivery.-This act constitutes discharge all the administrative duties of said Alton and Galena, Illinois, Burlington, Iowa, and office relating to the construction, illumination, in- Knoxville, Tennessee, ports of delivery subject spection, and superintendence of light-houses, to the same regulations and restrictions as other light-vessels, beacons, buoys, sea-marks, and their ports of delivery in the United States. A Surappendages. The Secretary of the Treasury is veyor of Customs is to be appointed for each to be ex-officio President of the Light-house Board, port, and said ports are made a part of the collecand there all be a Chairman elected to preside tion district of New Orleans. Port Jefferson, on in the absence of the President. The Board is to the north side of Long Island, N. Y., is made a port of delivery, withip the collection district of the port of New York, with a Surveyor, who hall have power to enroll and license vessels to be employed in the coasting-trade and fisheries, and to enter and clear, and grant registers and other usual papers to vessels employed in the whale-tisheries. JOINT RESOLUTIONS. Among the Joint Resolutions which were adopted during this session, were the following : A Resolution of welcome to Kossuth-Resolved, That Congress, in the name and behalf of the people of the United States, give to Louis KOSSUTH & cordial welcome to the capital and the country, and that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to him by the President of the United States. sieged, blockaded, or invested. in goods not confree ships shall give freedom traband of war. to goods, and everything shall be deemed free which shall be found on board the vessels of the citizens of either nation, though the lading should belong to the enemies of either, contraband goods always excepted. The same liberty shall be extended to persons found on free-ships, so that said persons can not be taken out of them, even if they be enemies of one or both parties, unless they be officers or sol liers in the actual service of the enemy. The stipulation declaring that the flag shall cover the property, shall apply only to either of the contracting parties shall be at war those powers who recognise this principle. If with a third. and the other neutral, the flag of the neutral shall cover the property of such enemy. provided said enemy acknowledges this principle. not otherwi-e. When the neutral flag of either of the contracting parties shall protect the property of the enemies of either, it shall be understood that the neutral property found on board such enemy's vessels shall be considered as enemy's property, if shipped with a knowledge of the existence of war. In case the flag of the neutral does not protect the enemy's property, then the goods of the neutral embarked in such A Resolution to establish certain Post-Routes-enemy's ship shall be free. Contraband goods, Authorizes the Postmaster-General, in his discre: tion, to contract or carrying the mail on all the plank-roads which have been or shall be constructed in the United States, and during the continuance of auch contract, such roads are declared to be post-roads. A. Resolution extending the time of the Commission under the Convention with Brazil-Continues the Commission four months from and after the first day of March, 1852. A Resolution to authorize the continuance of the turk the two wings of Capitol-Appropriates five hundred thousand dollars for that-purpose. προτε Joint Resolution providing for the distribution of the laws of Congress and the debates thereon Provides that the Congressional Globe and appendix, which contain the laws and debates thereon, shall pass free through the mails so long as the same shall be published by order of Congress, Another resolution approves the action of the Territorial Legislature of Oregon in locating the capital of Oregon at Salem, in Marion county. Another changes the name of St. Peters river, in Minnesota, to Minnesota river. TREATIES. in re found in a vessel bound to an enemy's port, shall the other party, the first shall remain out of can- whatever. In case one of the contracting parties should be engaged in war, the vessels belonging to citizens of the other, must be furnished with sea-letters or passports, expressing the name, property, and bulk of the ship, and the name and residence-of the maste, also with certificates containing the Three treaties have been ratified and proclaim- particulars of the cargo and place whence the ed during the past year, viz.: with the Republics ship sailed. Without such papers or equivalent of Guatemala, Costarica, and Peru. The treaty testimony, vessels may be detained, to be adjudged with Guatemala provides that commercial favors by competent tribunal, and may be declared legal granted by either party to other nations, shall be prizes. These provisions in regard to visiting and granted to each other on the same conditions. examination, apply only to vessels without cou Citizens of each country may frequent all the voy. When under convoy, the verbal declaration Coasts and countries of the other, and reside and of the commander of the convoy, on his word of trade there in all kinds of produce, manufactures, honor, that the vessels under his charge belong and merchandise, and enjoy all the commercial to his nation, and have no contraband goods on privileges of citizens. The same privileges are board, shall be sufficient. Whenever one of the to be accorded to the vessels of each nation by contracting parties shall be at war with another the other, that the other grants to its own vessels, State, no citizen of the other party shall accept except in regard to the coasting-trade. No dis- a commission, or letter of marque, at the hands criminating duties are to be laid on the produce of the enemy, on pain of being treated as a pirate. of either country. No embargo or detention for In case of war between the two contracting parmilitary purposes shall be made or laid without ties, the merchants residing on the coasts or in indemnification. Property captured by pirates, the ports of each other, shall be allowed six and found within the territory of either country, months to arrange their business and transport shall be surrendered on proof. The persons and their effects out of the country. Those residing property of citizens of either nation, shall be pro- in the interior, shall be allowed one year for the tected in the other. Rights of conscience shall same purpose. The citizens of all other occupa reinain inviolate. The citizens of each country tions in the respective countries, shall be respectmay trade from the ports of either with the ene-ed and maintained in the full enjoyments of their my of either, except at such places as are be-personal liberty and property, unless improper During the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1852. Principal of the public debt... Payments for objects other than the Ordinary Expensen of Government: Awards for indemnity to American citizens under the Treaty with Mexico.... $2,163,994 00 529,980 78 conduct shall cause them to forfeit such protec- EXPENDITURES of the GOVERNMENT tion. The two contracting parties shall form a consular convention, which shall declare specially the powers and iminunities of the consuls and shall remain in force for twelve years, and until vice-consuls of the respective parties. This treaty twelve months' notice thereafter. The acts of individuals infringing this treaty, shall not disturb the harmony of the two nations, unless such acts shall be sanctioned by the Government of such individuals. In case of any infringement of this treaty by either party, satisfaction shall be demanded before war is declared or reprisals made. The privileges of the most favored nations are mutually conceded. In the event of war between the two nations, the money, private debts, shares in the public funds, or any other property, shall in no case be sequestered or confiscated. The treaty with Costarica has no important provision not contained in that with Guatemala The treaty with Peru contains, in addition to the general provisions of those with Guatemala and Costarica, the following: The Republic of Peru engages to accord to any citizens of the United States who may establish a line of steam-vessels to navigate regularly between the different porte of entry within the Peruvian Territories, the same privileges of taking in and landing freight, entering the by-ports to receive and land passengers, carrying the public mails, establishing depots for coal, and all other favors enjoyed by any other association or company whatever. The steamers of either nation shall not be subject in the ports of the other to any duties other than those paid by any other association or company. Every vessel actually owned by citizens of Peru, and commanded by a Peruvian, shall be considered a Peruvian vessel, though the construction and crew may be foreign. American whale-ships shall have access to the port of Tumbez and the ports of entry in Peru, and may sail from cue port to another, and barter supplies to the amount of $200, ad valorum, duty free; and may further sell, free from tonnage or harbor duties, oil or other goods, to the additional amount of £1,000 each vessel, on payment of such import duties as are paid by citizens of the most favored nations. Peruvian citizens, frequenting the mines in California, shall enjoy all the privileges accorded to citizens of the most favored nations. In case of a wreck, or other damage, to a vessel of either of the contracting parties, on the coast of the other party, such vessel shall enjoy the same protection and privileges as a national vessel. In case of war between the two nations, it is agreed that the merchants, traders, and other citizens of all occu pations, of either of the two parties, residing in the dominions of the other, shall have the privilege of remaining and continuing their business therein, and shall be maintained in the full enjoy. ment of their liberty and property, so long as they conduct themselves peaceably and properly. Suspected persons, however, may be ordered to leave the country, the term of twelve months being allowed them, in which to arrange and settle their affairs, and remove with their families and effects, to which end a safe conduct shall be given them; but suspected persons may be ordered forthwith to remove to such places in the interior as may be designated. This treaty shall remain in force ten years and further, until one of the contracting parties shall have given ten months' notice. Installment and interest due May 30, Expenses relative to the limits and Five and three per cents on the sale of Payments for land erroneously sold.. Settlement with the State of Maine.. Public buildings in the Territory of Minnesota. Lands for a Cemetery near the city of Building Custom-Houses... Navy-Yards Congressional Globe, American Ar- Government of Territories...... Do. Commissioner of the Public Buildings Relief of the District cities-interest Do. 8,180,000 00 89,075 48 591,518 60 118,791 19 96,1.58 18 49.916 39 547.385 02 60,610 St 20,000 00 9,000 00 521,491 23 128,693 44 285,596 71 741,692 68 671,796,91 722,410 74 1,248 017 90 125,633 16 1,248,011 91 718,065 44 77,515 58 72,528 46 55,300 00 140,000 00 2,000 00 1,500 00 4,001,758 11 170,068 42 34,707 97 893,000 00 $6,868 54 20.000 00 348,725 22 1,041,444 44 113,143 33 597,466 09 208.115 23 167,082 14 Marine Hospital establishment. 1,872,020 57 242.883 52 80,783 56 * Paid under the Act of the 3d March, 1849-these ex Penses were previons to 1st July, 1849, paid out of the rev enue, and accounted for in their quarterly settlements at the Treasury. land warrants 55,165 21 Auxiliary guard, Washington. Penitentiary. 388 75 Total Ss & Ter. $6,008,664,399 $7.093,312.431 $46,007,893 18 CHURCHES AND CHURCH PROPERTY IN NEW ENGLAND. The following figures in regard to Churches, &c, in New England, are taken from the returns in the Census Department — * Only 13 counties included. The other returns were de stroyed by fire in San Francisco. 15.295 24 355 + Only Real Estate was returned in the Census. The amounts given are partly estimated. |