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may be happily terminated by a policy of forbearance on the part of the Turkish government, and they hereby declare their earnest hope that the Turkish government will listen kindly to this representation, and will speedily adopt such generous steps as will secure to Crete the much-desired blessings of peace and the advantages of autonomic government. SEC. [2]. And be it further resolved, That religion, civilization, and Crete should be humanity require that the existing contest in Crete should be brought to a close, and to accomplish this result the civilized powers of the world should unite in friendly influence with the government of Turkey.

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SEC. [3]. And be it further resolved, That it shall be the duty of the President to instruct the minister of the United States at Constantinople to co-operate with the ministers of other powers in all good offices to terminate the sufferings of the people of Crete; and that it shall be the further duty of the President to communicate a copy of this resolution to the government of Turkey.

APPROVED, July 27, 1868.

July 27, 1868. [No. 83.] Joint Resolution to aid in relieving from Peonage Women and Children of the Navajo Indians.

Women and

children of Navajo Indians to be reclaimed from peonage.

July 27, 1868.

clerk in office of sergeant-at

arms of the House.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Lieutenant-General W. T. Sherman be, and is hereby, authorized and requested to use the most efficient means his judgment will approve to reclaim from peonage the women and children of the Navajo Indians, now held in slavery in the territory adjacent to their homes and the reservation on which the Navajo Indians have been confined.

APPROVED, July 27, 1868.

[No. 84.] Joint Resolution relative to the Pay of the chief Clerk in the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Pay of chief States of America in Congress assembled, That the clerk is directed to pay from the contingent fund of the House to the chief clerk in the office of the sergeant-at-arms the difference between his present pay and the amount voted him by a resolution of the House, passed June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, thereby fixing the salary of the clerk in the office of the sergeant-at-arms at twenty-five hundred dollars per annum. APPROVED, July 27, 1868.

PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FORTIETH CONGRESS

UNITED

OF THE

STATES,

Passed at the Third Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December, A. D. 1868, and was adjourned without day on Thursday, the fourth day of March, A. D. 1869.

ANDREW JOHNSON, President. BENJAMIN F. WADE, President of the Senate. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives, until the third day of March, A. D. 1869, on which day he resigned, and THEODORE M. POMEROY was elected Speaker, and so acted for the remainder of the session.

CHAP. II. — An Act providing for the Sale of the Lands, Tenements, and Water Privi- Dec. 15, 1868. leges belonging to the United States at and near Harper's Ferry, in the County of Jefferson, West Virginia.

Harper's Ferry.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, Secretary of War to sell at and he is hereby, authorized and directed to make sale at public auction auction the of the lands, tenements, and water privileges belonging to the United property of the States, at and near Harper's Ferry, in the county of Jefferson, West Vir- United States at ginia, except as hereinafter provided, in such parcels as shall, in his opinion, be best adapted to secure the greatest amount of money therefor, on a credit of one and two years, taking bond and security from the purchaser or purchasers for the payment of the purchase-money; and that the proceeds of such sale shall be applied by him as follows: Provided, That no such sale shall be made until the time, terms, and place thereof shall have been published in one of the principal newspapers in each of the cities of Washington, New York, and Cincinnati for sixty days prior to the day of sale:

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First, in defraying the expenses of making said sale. Second, in refunding to the United States the principal sum of purchase- sale, how applied. money paid for said lands, tenements, and water privileges by the United States, and for the erection of buildings thereon.

Third, if any surplus remain, he shall deliver the same to such agent Surplus to go as the legislature of the State of West Virginia shall appoint to receive the to West Virginia as part of school same; but upon condition that such surplus shall be received by the State fund of the State. of West Virginia, to be set apart, held, invested, used, and applied as a part of the school fund of that State, under and by virtue of, and in manner and form as provided in section first of the tenth article of the constitution of West Virginia, and for no other purpose. And on making such sale of the said lands, tenements, and water privileges, or any part thereof, the War to execute said Secretary of War is hereby empowered and required, on receiving the purchase-money in full, to execute all necessary deeds therefor to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, on behalf of the United States.

Secretary of

deeds.

Secretary of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorWar to convey ized and directed to convey by deed to Storer College, an institution of portions to Storer College; learning chartered by the State of West Virginia, all those certain portions of the aforesaid property, namely: the buildings, with the lots on which they stand, numbered thirty, thirty-one, and thirty-two, and also building numbered twenty-five, with enough of the lot on which it stands to give a breadth of ten rods on High Street, otherwise known as Washington Street, all of said buildings and lots being situated at Harper's Ferry aforesaid, being the same which have heretofore been assigned by the War Department to the bureau of refugees, freedmen, and and other por- abandoned lands, for educational purposes; and also to convey by deed to the proper persons all such other lands and buildings, portions of the aforesaid property, as have heretofore been set apart by the proper authority for religious, charitable, and town purposes.

tions to other

persons.

Dec. 22, 1868. 1868,ch.186, § 78. Ante, p. 159.

1869, manufactured tobacco not to be sold,

APPROVED, December 15, 1868.

CHAP. IV. - An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act imposing Taxes on distilled Spirits and Tobacco, and for other Purposes," approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United After Feb. 1, States of America in Congress assembled, That the seventy-eighth section of "An act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and for other purposes," approved July twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, &c. unless, &c. be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words "first day of January," wherever they occur in said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "fifteenth day of February."

APPROVED, December 22, 1868.

January 8, 1869. CHAP. VII.

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An Act authorizing the Admission in Evidence of Copies of certain Papers,
Documents, and Entries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That copies of all official papers and documents belonging to and filed or remaining in the office of any consul, vice-consul, or commercial agent of the United States, and of all official entries in the books or records of any such office, shall, when certified under the hand and official seal of the proper consul, vice-consul, or commercial agent, be admissible in evidence in all the courts of the United States.

APPROVED, January 8, 1869.

CHAP. IX.

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An Act to repeal certain Provisions of Section six of an Act entitled "An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the Year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section six of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, so far as the same is applicable to the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana, is hereby repealed. APPROVED, January 14, 1869.

CHAP. XIII. — An Act amendatory of an Act entitled "An Act relating to Habeas Corpus Jan. 22, 1869. and regulating judicial Proceedings in certain Cases."

1863, ch. 81. Vol. xii. p. 755.

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extended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of an act Provisions reentitled "An act relating to habeas corpus and regulating judicial moval of causes proceedings in certain cases," approved March third, eighteen hundred from State to and sixty-three, so far as the same relate to the removal of causes from federal courts, the State to the federal courts, be, and the same [are] is hereby, declared to extend to any suit or action at law, or prosecution, civil or criminal, which has been or shall be commenced in any State court against the owner or owners of any ship or vessel, or of any railway, or of any line of transportation, firm, or corporation engaged in business as common carriers of goods, wares, or merchandise, for any loss or damage which may have happened to any goods, wares, or merchandise whatever, which shall have been delivered to any such owner or owners of any ship or vessel, or any railway, or of any line of transportation, firm, or corporation, engaged in business as common carriers, where such loss or damage shall have been occasioned by the acts of those engaged in hostility to the government of the United States during the late rebellion, or where such loss or damage shall have been occasioned by any of the forces of the United States, or by any officer in command of such forces: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to affect any contract of insurance for war risks which may have been made with reference to any goods, wares, or merchandise, which shall have been so destroyed. APPROVED, January 22, 1869.

CHAP. XV. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to prescribe the Mode of obtaining Evidence in Cases of contested Elections,” approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

Contracts of insurance for war risks not affected.

Jan. 23, 1869. 1851, ch. 11, § 3. Vol. ix. p. 568.

may

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Registers in States of America in Congress assembled, That any register in bankruptcy notaries public, bankruptcy or or notary public, resident in a congressional district the right to represent residents, &c. which is contested, is hereby authorized to take the testimony and to per- take eviform any of the other acts which a judge of any court of the United dece, &c. in States is authorized to do by the third section of an act entitled "An act ed elections. to prescribe the mode of obtaining evidence in cases of contested elections," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. APPROVED, January 23, 1869.

CHAP. XVI.- An Act in Relation to the Appointment of Midshipmen from the lately reconstructed States.

cases of contest

Jan. 30, 1869.

to the United

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy Appointment be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to make the appointment of of midshipmen midshipmen to the United States Naval Academy, on or before the fourth States Naval day of March next, from any State in which the election of members of Academy. the House of Representatives to the Forty-first Congress does not by law take place previous to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty. nine, upon the nomination of the members of the House of Representatives from such States in the present Congress: Provided, That no such appointment shall be made from any State not by law entitled to the appointment of midshipmen in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. APPROVED, January 30, 1869.

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Feb. 2, 1869.

CHAP. XIX.

tion.

An Act making Appropriations for the Support of the Military Academy for the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Military Acad- States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and emy appropria- the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and seventy: For additional pay of officers, and for pay of instructors, cadets, and structors, cadets, musicians, one hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-eight cents.

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Subsistence.

Current, &c.

expenses.

Library.

Board of visitors.

Artillery and cavalry horses. Repairs, furniture, &c.

Feb. 2, 1869.

Pensions appropriation.

Invalia. Revolutionary, pension agents and expenses of agencies.

1818, ch. 19.

1828, ch. 53. 1832, ch. 126. 1836, ch. 362.

For commutation of officers' subsistence, six thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars.

For pay in lieu of clothing to officers' servants, one hundred and fiftysix dollars.

For current and ordinary expenses, sixty-one thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.

For increase and expenses of library, two thousand dollars.
For expenses of board of visitors, two thousand dollars.

For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, four thousand dollars.
For horses for artillery and cavalry practice, two thousand dollars.
For repairs of officers' quarters, three thousand dollars.
For furniture for cadets' hospital, five hundred dollars.

For gas pipes, gasometers, and retorts, six hundred dollars.

For materials for quarters for subaltern officers, three thousand dollars.

For purchase of fuel for cadets' mess-hall, two thousand dollars.

For furniture for soldiers' hospital, one hundred dollars.

For reflooring academic building and barracks, one thousand dollars.
For repairing roads, five hundred dollars.

For contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, one thousand dollars.

APPROVED, February 2, 1869.

CHAP. XX. An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States for the Year ending June, thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy:

For invalid pensions under various acts, nine million dollars.

For pensions of widows, children, mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters of soldiers, as provided for by acts of March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen; May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and twentyeight; June seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight; March third, eighteen hundred and forty-three; June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-four; February second, July twentyfirst, and July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; February 1844, ch. 102. third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; June third, eighteen hundred 1848, ch. 8, 108, and fifty-eight; and July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, with its supplementary acts, and under various special acts, and for compensation to pension agents and expenses of agencies, ten million dollars.

1838, ch. 189.

1843, ch. 102.

120.

1853, ch. 41. 1858, ch. 85. 1862, ch. 166. 1864, ch. 247.

1865, ch. 84.

1866, ch. 106.

1868, ch. 264.

Navy pensions.

For navy pensions to invalids, widows, and children, and other relatives of the officers and men of the navy dying in the line of duty, now provided by law, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. APPROVED, February 2, 1869.

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