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tox rivers...

Do. Rock River rapids and Des Moines
rapids, in the Mississippi river...
For a ship channel leading from the Mis-
sissippi river into the Gulf of Mexico..
Removing raft of Red river....
Improvement of Colorado river, Texa
For the harbor of Boston.....
Other harbors in Massachusetts.........
Harbors in Maine, Connecticut, and R.
Improvement of New York Harbor......
Patapsco river..........
For steam-dredge and discharging acows,
for Atlantic coast..
Breakwater across Croatan sound....
Harbor of Charleston, S. C....

ehall receive mileage for attendance at any extra | Improvement of the James and Appoma-
Session of Congress, convened within ten days
after the adjournment of a regular session, ex-
cept in the case of a new member or Senator. The
President may appoint au associate Law Agent
of the United States for California, with a salary
of $5.000 per annum. The Postmaster-General
i- authorized to appoint five additional Clerks in
the Post-Office Department. In lieu of the pres-
ent compensation, the deputy naval officers of
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and
New Orleans, shall receive $2,000 per annum.
The act further provides for paying Boyd Hamil-
on $50,000 for surrendering his contract as Pub-
lic Printer; and that no officer of the United
State Government, whose salary is $2.500, shall
receive pay for discharging the duties of any other
office.

An Act making appropriations for the Naval service for the year ending June 30, 1853.—Appropriates as follows:

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Do. Mobile, Ala...
Do. Lake Ponchartrain, La...
Surveys of Northern and Northwestern
lakes..

Harbor of Chicago, Ill...

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Do. Michigan city, Ind............
Improvement of Saint Clair river....
Steam-dredge and discharging-scows for
Lake Michigan....

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For pay of officers and men at sea.... $2,771,698
Pay of Superintendents, Naval Con-
structors, &c...

Provisions for officers and seamen..........
Repair of vessels in ordinary, and wear
and tear of vessels in commission, &c.
Ordnance, ordnance stores, and small

arins...

Contingent expenses...

Con-truction, repairs, &c., at Navy
Yards....

Pay of officers and men on shore..
Vessels for survey of Pacific whale
fisheries...

New Navy Yard at San Francisco...
Miscellaneous items...

Harbor of Cleveland, Ohio.............................................
Erie, Penn..

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sula of Florida..

Levee across mouth river San Diego, Cal.

125,000 Steam-dredge and discharging ecows of
100,000 Lake Champlain..

290.590

Improvement of Tennessee river.run
Illinois river....................................

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Total river and harbor appropriations. $2,114,290 An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30, 1853Appropriates as follows:

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 any naval school in the Navy, shall be made un le-s recommended by the member of Congress representing the district in which the applicant resides, in the same manner that cadets at West Point are now appointed; and that Robert Armstrong, 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 specified in the law passed at this session of Congress.

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For current and contingent expenses of
Indian Department..
Payments to the Chippewas of Lake
Superior and the Mississippi..
Creek Indians..

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$137,250

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Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi.

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Delawares, Wyandots, &c., &c.

294,981

Total Indian appropriations....$2,000.376 This act provides that no part of the appropria 51,090 tions herein made, or that may hereafter be made. 40,000 for the benefit of any Indian, or tribe, shail 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 Indians, 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:Transporta ion of mails from New York to Liverpool and back.

Do. from New York to New Orloans, 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 $56,000.......... Transporting mails between Charleston and Havana..

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across the Isthmus of Panama.

Total appropriations.............

$858,000

to the Light-house Board. The Board are r 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

An Act in addition to "An Act to promote the stealing mail-bags or other property belonging to progress of the useful arts"-Provides that appeals the Post-office Department. No ship or vessel from the decisions of the Commissioner of Pat-shall be allowed to make entry or break bulk at enta, may be made to either of the Assistant any port in the United States, until all letters on Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, as well as to the Chief Judge of said

Court,

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 erec make any just and reciprocal arrangement for tion and establishment of the same, and for other purposes.-This act makes the following appro-jacent Province or country, to pass from one allowing the mails of Canada, or any other adpriations, viz:—

Tor Light-houses, &c., on coast of Maine.
Light-house at Minot Ledge..

Other Light-houses, &c., on N. E. Coast...
On other Atlantic and Gulf States....
Light-houses, &c., in interior States......
Completion of Light-houses in California
and Oregon....

Other appropriations for California......

80,000

55 360 to any other point in the same Province. The
point in such Province, through the United States
Postmaster General is also authorized to procure
91,115
281,270
-tamped letter envelops, to be furnished to Post-
masters and sold at cost, or as near as may be,
58,100
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 provistons 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 taken as a final adjustment of all bounty land secretaries, who shall constitute the Light-house claims to officers and soldiers of Virginia for Board of the United States, and shall have power ginia, by act of Legislature, shall relinquish all Revolutionary services, and provided that Vir. to adopt such rules and regulations for the govern- claim to lands in the Virginia military land dis 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 Treasury, and under his superintendence, shall nois, a Port of Delivery. This act constitutes An Act to constitute Alton, in the State of Illi 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, within 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 adopt-they be officers or sol liers in the actual service ed during this session, were the following:

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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 contraband of war. Free ships shall give freedom 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 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 otherwise. 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 ene▲ Resolution to authorize the continuance of the my's property, if shipped with a knowledge of the existence of war. In case the flag of the work upon the two wings of Capitol Appropriates neutral does not protect the enemy's property, five hundred thousand dollars for that-purpose. then the goods of the neutral embarked in sach 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.

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found in a vessel bound to an enemy's port, shall be subject to detention and confiscation, leaving free the rest of the cargo and the vessel. gard to the visiting or examination of ships on the high seas, the contracting parties agree that when. ever a vessel-of-war shall meet with a neutral of Joint Resolution providing for the distribution the other party, the first shall remain out of canof the laws of Congress and the debates thereon- non shot, and may send its boat, with two or three men only, in order to execute the examination, Provides that the Congressional Globe and ap-without the least extortion or ill-treatment, and pendix, which contain the laws and debates there- the neutral party shall in no case be required to on, shall pass free through the mails so long as the same shall be published by order of Congress, go on board the examining vessel for the purpose of exhibiting her papers, or for any other purpose Another resolution approves the action of the whatever. 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 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 couCitizens 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 occupareinain inviolate. The citizens of each country tions in the respective countries, shall be respect. may 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. Payments for objects other than the Ordinary Expenses of Government: Awards for indemnity to American Principal of the public debt.... 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 vice-consuls of the respective parties. This treaty shall remain in force for twelve years, and until 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 nutually 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 ce 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 occupations, 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,
1852 under the 12th article of the
second Treaty..

Expenses relative to the limits and
Public buildings in Washington......
boundary with Mexico.............
Military Asylum, paid for under the
Act of 3d March, 1851, from contri-
butions in Mexico..

Five and three per cents on the sale of
public lands paid to the West and
Southwest States..

Payments for land erroneously sold..
Taking the Seventh Census..

Settlement with the State of Maine..

Public buildings in the Territory of

Minnesota

Lands for a Cemetery near the city of

Mexico...

Building Custom-Houses..

Do. Marine Hospitals..
Fortifications...
Navy-Yards....
Fulfilling Indian treaties (exclusive
Dry Docks......
of $2,114,841 98 for the current and
other expenses in Indian account).
On Account of the Ordinary Expenses
of Government, viz. :—
Pay,mileage, and contingent expenses
of Congress..

Congressional Globe, American Ar-
Salaries of the President, Executive
chives. Documentary History, &c..
Officers, Heads of Bureaux, and
their contingent expenses..
Judiciary..

Government of Territories.........
Surveyors and their Clerks...
Officers of the Mint and branches...
Expenses of

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Commissioner of the Public Buildings
Interest for the public debt..
Secretary signing Land-Patents......
Premium on the purchase of stock..
Assistant Treasurers, and expenses
for safe-keeping pubile moneys, per
Act 6th August, 1846.
Survey of the coast-East and West,
Florida.....

Relief of the District cities-interest
on Dutch Loan..
Relief of individuals (civil & Naval).
Exploring Expedition.
Mail service (see mail-steamers)..
Building Light-houses.
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Marine Hospital establishment..
Collecting revenue from Customs*..

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do. do. Lands*

Payments for bounties and allow.
ances, refunded duties, debentures,
and charges on the revenue....................
Survey of public lands..

Other surveys and land claims.......

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 31

20,000 00

9,000 00 521,491 23

128,693 44

285,596 71

741,692 68

671,796 91

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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.

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9,982 38

30,910 14

55,165 21

262, 88

262,088 46

5,174,471

5,274,867 86

5,063,474

5,063.474 381

986.(83 14,028,876

986,683 87 14,568,740 304

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388 75 Total S's & Ter. $6,008,664,399 $7.093,312.431

$46,007,893 18

* Only 13 counties included. The other returns were de stroyed by fire in San Francisco.

+ Only Real Estate was returned in the Census. The amounts given are partly estimated.

15.295 24 11,920 00 In Minnesota only a part of the Territory was returned. 10,700 44 This table presents a better show of wealth to 9,833 38 each person in the South than in the North, from 1,943 29 the fact that the Northern capitalists do not own the 2.000 00 laborers, and do count them as persons. South 5,000 00 Carolina makes the best relative show of wealth on paper, being $1,017 to each person in the State; but if we add her 334,984 slaves to the 283.523 free persons, and then divide the aggregate wealth of the State among the whole number, it will show but $416 for each. If we deduct for each slave $300 (which is much below the usual quotations for such merchandise), and then divide among all the population of the State, the amount to each Value. will be reduced to $258. So of other slave-holding $1,712,152 States. The average amount of property to each 1,401,586 person in the United States, excluding slaves, is 1,213,126 $355. The average amount in the slave States being 10,205,284 $455, and in the free States $317. Add the slaves 1,252,900 to the free population of the Southern States, and 3,554,894 there will be for each person $904, and deduct for each slave $300, and there remains only $236 to $19.339,942 each person in those States.

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

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