Pennsylvania. Vermont. From Saegersville, via Germanville and Oswaldville, to Jacksonville. From Catasaqua, via Saples, Goods, South Whitehall, Trextertown, and Albert's Station, to Rittenhouse Gap. From Orwigsburg, in Schuylkill County, via Ringgold and Mountain Post Office, to Steinsville, in Lehigh County. VERMONT. From East Barnard to South Royalton. WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Washington Territory. From Dalles, via Simcone, to Sharps. West Virginia. WEST VIRGINIA. Wisconsin. March 30, 1868. 1817, ch. 45. Vol. iii. p. 366. Heads of de From Bulltown, via mouth of Oil Creek, to Glenville. From Weston, via Beall's Mills and Batton's Mills, to mouth of Sand From Holly Meadows, via Black Fork, Pleasant Run, and Taylor's Mill, to New Interest. WISCONSIN. From Menomonee, via Washburn Farm and Pine Creek, to John Quarter's Camp, in section twenty-eight, township thirty-four, range twelve east. From Neilsville, via Hunsicker's to John Graves'. From Neilsville to Graves' Mills. From Menomonee, via Sheridan, to John Quarter's. From Chilton, via Rantoul and Brillion, to Wrightstown. From Westfield to Harrisville. From Monroe, via Twin Grove and Duncanon, in Illinois, to Da kota. From Excelsior, via Brady's to Sylvanus. From Lone Rock to Ironton. From West Lima to West Branch. From Cassville, via North Andover, to Bloomington. From Rolling Ground to Sugar Grove. From Grovesville, via Rantoul and Potter's Mills, to Kasson Port. CHAP. XXXVI. — An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the prompt Settlement of public Accounts," approved March three, eighteen hundred and seventeen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of March partments not to three, eighteen hundred and seventeen, entitled "An act to provide for modify balances the prompt settlement of public accounts," shall not be construed to certified to them by, &c. authorize the heads of departments to change or modify the balances that may be certified to them by the commissioner of customs or the comptroller of the treasury, but that such balances, when stated by the auditor and properly certified by the comptroller as provided by that act, shall be taken and considered as final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the government, and be subject to revision only by Congress or the proper courts: Provided, That the head of the proper department, before signing a warrant for any balance certified to him by a comptroller, may submit to such comptroller any facts in his judgment affecting the correctness of such balance, but the decision of the comptroller thereon shall be final and conclusive as hereinbefore provided. APPROVED, March 30, 1868. Proviso CHAP. XXXVII.- An Act making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office March 30, 1868. Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty nine. 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 for the service of the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: For inland mail transportation, including pay of route agents, postal clerks, and mail messengers, ten million five hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars. For foreign mail transportation, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars, under the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and five, entitled "An act relating to the postal laws." Appropriation for post-office department. 1836, ch. 270. Vol. v. p. 80. Inland mails. Foreign mails. sixty-1865, ch. 89. Vol. xiii. p. 504. Ship, &c. letters. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars. thousand dollars. For clerks for post-offices, two million dollars. For payments to letter-carriers, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For wrapping paper, seventy thousand dollars. For twine, fifteen thousand dollars. For letter balances, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to blank agents and assistants, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For office furniture, three thousand dollars. clerks, and letter carriers. Proviso. For advertising, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this Advertising. sum shall be paid to any papers published in the District of Columbia except for advertising mail routes in Virginia and Maryland. For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, four hundred and fifty Postage thousand dollars. For mail depredations and special agents, one hundred thousand dollars. For mail bags and mail-bag catchers, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For mail locks, keys, and stamps, thirty thousand dollars. stamps and envelopes. Special agents. Mail bags, locks, and keys. For payment of balances to foreign countries, three hundred and fifty Foreign balthousand dollars. For miscellaneous payments, including allowances to postmasters for rent, light, fuel, fixtures, stationery, envelopes, and so forth, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. ances. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums, or so much Steamship thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated service. for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: For steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, five hundred thousand dollars. For steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Japan and China. Brazil. For steamship service between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, seventy-five thousand dollars. Sandwich For preparing and publishing post-route maps, twenty thousand dol- Post-route lars. Islands. maps. ficient. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the revenues of the Post-Appropriation Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations of this if revenue is deact, then the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Department for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. APPROVED, March 30, 1868. March 30, 1868. CHAP. XXXVIII. - An Act making Appropriations for the consular and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred ana sixty-nine, and for other Purposes. Consular and diplomatic appropriation. missioners. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unitea 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 objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, namely: Envoys, min- For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of isters, and com- the United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Republic of Mexico, China, Italy, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Greece, Ecuador, United States of Columbia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, Paraguay, Japan, and Salvador, three hundred and one thousand dollars. Secretaries of legation and assistants. Interpreters. Contingent expenses. Consulates in For salaries of secretaries of legation, as follows: At London and Paris, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each. At Saint Petersburg, Madrid, Berlin, Florence, Vienna, and Mexico, eighteen hundred dollars each. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, three thousand dollars. For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars. For salary of the interpreter to the legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That this sum shall be expended for purposes of foreign intercourse only. For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely: inTurkish domin- terpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, and Beirut, two thousand five hundred dollars. ions. American sea men. 1803, ch. 9. 1811, ch. 28. Vol. ii. pp. 203, 651. Rescuing sea men. Blank books, For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, per acts of February eighteen, [twenty-eight] eighteen hundred and three, and February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and eleven, two hundred thousand dollars. For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crew[s] of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens of the United States from shipwreck, five thousand dollars. For the purchase of blank books, stationery, book-cases, arms of the stationery, &c. United States, seals, presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages, and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, including loss by exchange, thirty thousand dollars. Office rent. For office rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon, forty-five thousand dollars. For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, namely: I. CONSULATES-GENERAL. SCHEDULE B. Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai. II. CONSULATES. Acapulco, Aix-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. Balize, (Honduras,) Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo. SCHEDULE C. Aux Cayes, Bahia, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthagena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Guaymas, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Piræus, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, Saint Catharine, Santa Cruz, (West Indies,) Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Spezzia, Stettin, Tabasco, Tahita, [Tahiti,] Talcahuano, Tumbez, Venice, Zanzibar. V. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE C. established. Moneys in ex Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loando, [Loanda,] includ- Salary of coning loss by exchange thereon, four hundred thousand dollars, and the sul at Guaymas salary of the consul at Guaymas shall be one thousand dollars per annum: Provided, That all moneys received for fees at any vice-consu- cess of $1,000 lates or consular agencies of the United States, beyond the sum of one received by conthousand dollars in any one year, and all moneys received by any consul suls, &c. from vice-consuls, or consul-general from consular agencies or vice-consulates in excess of &c. to be paid one thousand dollars in the agregate from all such agencies or vice-con- into treasury. vice-consulate not to exceed $500 a year. the expenses sulates, shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury of the United Expenses of States, and no greater sum than five hundred dollars shall be allowed for of any vice-consulate or consular agency for any one year : Provided, That hereafter the compensation of consuls whose annual salaPay of certain aries do not, under existing law, exceed one thousand five hundred dolconsuls. lars, and the fees collected at the consulates where they are located and paid into the treasury of the United States amount to three thousand dollars, shall be two thousand dollars per annum. Interpreters. Persons charged with crime. Marshals for consular courts. Salaries of For interpreters to the consulates in China, including loss by exchange thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses incurred, under instructions from the Secretary of State, in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, including that at Nagasaki, and in China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, nine thousand dollars. For the salaries of the consuls at Osaca and Yeddo, Japan, whose certain consuls salaries are hereby fixed at three thousand dollars each, six thousand in Japan. Prisons. Hayti and Liberia. Suppression of slave-trade. 1862, ch. 140. Vol. xii. p. 581. 1818, ch. 88. Vol. iii. p. 447. Scheldt dues. dollars. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand dollars. For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general to Hayti and Liberia, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses under the act of Congress to carry into effect the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses under the neutrality act, twenty thousand dollars. For the payment of the fourth annual instalment of the proportion contributed by the United States towards the capitalization of the Vol. xiii. p. 649. Scheldt dues, to fulfil the stipulations contained in the fourth article of the convention between the United States and Belgium of the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the sum of fifty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars in coin, and such further sum as may be necessary to carry out the stipulation of the convention providing for payment of interest on the said sum and on the portion of the principal remaining unpaid. Officers of ar- SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any officer of the army or navy my or navy of the United States who shall, after the passage of this act, accept or holding any diplomatic office to hold any appointment in the diplomatic or consular service of the governbe considered as ment, shall be considered as having resigned his said office, and the place having resigned, held by him in the military or naval service shall be deemed and taken to be vacant, and shall be filled in the same manner as if the said officer had resigned the same. &c. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no diplomatic or consular officer shall receive salary for the time during which he may be absent from his post by leave or otherwise, if such absence shall exceed sixty days in any one year. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled "An act to encourage immigration," approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. APPROVED, March 30, 1868. March 81, 1868. CHAP. XLI. Certain manufactures exempted from internal tax. ·An Act to exempt certain Manufactures from internal Tax, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections ninety-four and ninety-five of the act entitled "An act to provide internal revenue to sup |