[No. 25.] A Resolution requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office to transfer March 3, 1869. certain Money.

Appropriation Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unitea for collecting States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of the statistics of general land office be, and is hereby, authorized to transfer to the Treasury Department the twenty-five hundred dollars appropriated "for mines and mincollecting statistics of mines and mining," by act of Congress approved ing to be transJuly twenty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and that the Secretary ury Department, of the Treasury be required to disburse the same as provided for in said &c.

act.

APPROVED, March 3, 1869.

ferred to Treas

1868, ch. 177.

Ante, p. 115.

[No. 26.] Joint Resolution donating condemned Cannon and Muskets for the McPherson March 3, 1869. Monument.

Condemned Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United cannon, muskets, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to furnish to the McPherson Monument &c. given to Association, of Clyde, Ohio, four pieces of condemned iron cannon, four the McPherson pieces of condemned brass cannon, twenty-five cannon-balls, and one thousand condemned muskets, with bayonets to be placed about the

monument.

APPROVED, March 3, 1869.

Monument Association, Clyde, O.

[No. 27.] A Resolution extending the Time for the Completion of the first twenty Miles March 3, 1869. of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad.

road extended.

Time for comResolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United pleting first secStates of America in Congress assembled, That in case the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company shall complete the first section of twenty miles tion of the Cairo of said road by the twenty-eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and and Fulton railseventy, and the Secretary of the Interior shall be satisfied of such com- 1866, ch. 300, § 2. pletion, then the said company shall be entitled to its lands in all respects Vol. 'xiv. p. 339. and to the same extent as it would have been had said twenty miles been completed by the twenty-eighth of July, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, as provided by law relating to said railroad company approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. APPROVED, March 3, 1869.

Louis Agassiz reappointed a

[No. 28.] A Resolution reappointing Louis Agassiz a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. March 3, 1869. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Louis Agassiz, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, be, and he is hereby, reappointed a regent of the regent of the Smithsonian Institution to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of Smithsonian his present term.

APPROVED, March 3, 1869.

Institution.

[No. 29.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit the Duty on March 3, 1869. certain Meridian Circles.

Customs duty on certain me

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to remit the duties on a meridian ridian circles circle, imported for the observatory at Cambridge, in the State of Massa- remitted. chusetts, and a meridian circle imported for the observatory connected with the Chicago University, at Chicago, in the State of Illinois.

APPROVED, March 3, 1869.

PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTIETH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the First Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of March, A. D. 1867; was adjourned on Saturday, the thirtieth day of March, A. D. 1867, to meet on Wednesday, the third day of July, A. D. 1867; met on the said third day of July, and continued in session until Saturday, the twentieth day of said July, on which day it adjourned to meet on Thursday, the twenty-first day of November, A. D. 1867; met on the said twenty-first day of November, and ended the second day of December, A. D. 1867.

ANDREW JOHNSON, President. BENJAMIN F. WADE, President of the Senate. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHAP. XIX. - An Act for the Relief of John Perry.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act supplementary to the several acts relating to pensions, approved June six, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, shall apply to John Perry, of Illinois, a pensioner, by virtue of a special act approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

APPROVED, March 29, 1867.

CHAP. XXV. — An Act for the Relief of Richard Busteed, Jr.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be paid to Richard Busteed, Jr., late captain of Battery C, Chicago Light Artillery, the sum of twelve hundred and forty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents, being the pension of a captain from the seventh day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the date of his honorable discharge from the service, until the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, the date from which a pension has been granted him. APPROVED, March 30, 1867.

March 29, 1867.

John Perry to

have the benefit of the provisions of pension act. 1866, ch. 106.

Vol. xiv. p. 56 1859, ch. 102. Vol. xi. p. 570.

March 30, 1867.

Payment to Richard Bus

teed, Jr.

CHAP. XXVI. - An Act supplementary to an Act for the Relief of Hiram Paulding, March 30, 1867. Rear-Admiral of the United States Navy.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be appropriated, out Appropriation to pay claim of of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum Rear-Admiral to pay the claim of Rear-Admiral Hiram Paulding, as provided for by an act of Congress at the last session, the said sum not to exceed three thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars and ninety-two cents. APPROVED, March 30, 1867.

Hiram Paulding. 1867, ch. 109. Vcl. xiv. p.

626.

July 19, 1867. CHAP. XXXI. — An Act for the Relief of Malinda Harmon, of the County of Greene, and State of Tennessee, Widow of Jacob Harmon.

Repeal of act of 1867, chap. 21, granting a

pension to Matil

da Harmon.

Vol. xiv. p. 617. Pension to Malinda Harmon.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled, "An Act for the relief of Matilda Harmon, of the County of Greene, and State of Tennessee, widow of Jacob Harmon," approved January thirty-one, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to place the name of Malinda Harmon, of the County of Greene, and State of Tennessee, widow of Jacob Harmon, on the pension roll, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and to continue during her widowhood.

APPROVED, July 19, 1867.

RESOLUTIONS.

[No. 35.] Joint Resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to suspend the Execution March 30, 1867. of a Law passed by the Thirty-Ninth Congress for the Relief of the Heirs of John E. Bouligny.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be directed to suspend the execution of the act entitled "An act for the relief of the heirs of John E. Bouligny," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, until the further order of Congress. APPROVED, March 30, 1867.

Act for the relief of the heirs

of John E. Bouligny suspended. 1867, ch. 208. Vol. xiv. p. 635.

[No. 36.] Joint Resolution to authorize the Payment of Rev. C. B. Boynton, as Chaplain of March 30, 1867. the House of Representatives of the Fortieth Congress.

thorized to

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Rev. Charles B. Boyn- Rev. Charles ton is authorized to draw the amount appropriated by an act entitled "An B. Boynton auact making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial ex- draw the amount penses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, appropriated to eighteen hundred and sixty-eight," to the payment of the chaplain of the House for the fortieth Congress. APPROVED, March 30, 1867.

the payment of

chaplain of the House by the act of 1967, ch. 166, Vol. xiv. p.

442.

March 30, 1867.

[No 37.] Joint Resolution relative to the iron-clad Monitor " Camanche." Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and hereby Donahue, Ryis, appropriated for the purpose of paying Donahue, Ryan, and Secor, an, and Secor, to for losses sustained by them in the construction of the monitor "Ca- in constructing manche," the sum of one hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars; the monitor and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay the same Appropriation. out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED, March 30, 1867.

be paid for losses

"Camanche."