officers of the customs seizing goods, &c., for a violation of the revenue laws of the United States, shall apply to the officers and agents making seizures by virtue of this act." One half of the penalties recovered under this act are to go to the officers seizing, and the other half, to the Post-Office Department. The mails of Canada, or of any other country adjoining the United States, may be transported at its expense over any portion of the territory of the United States, from one point in the country to which such mails belong to any other point in the same, upon obtaining the same privileges for the transportation of the mails of the United States through the country to which such privileges shall be granted. But such privileges may at any time be annulled by the President, or by joint resolution of the two houses of Congress, after the expiration of one month next succeeding the day on which the notice of the act of the President or of the joint resolution of the two houses shall be given to the chief executive officer or head of the Post-Office Department of the country whose privilege is to be thereby annulled. Every mail of any country having the privilege as above shall, while in the United States, be deemed a mail of the United States, so far as to make any act or offence in respect thereto, which would be punishable under the existing laws of the United States, in case the same had been a mail of the United States, an offence of the same grade, and punishable in the same mannner, as though the said mails were those of the United States; and in any indictment for such act or offence, the said mails or any part thereof may be alleged to be, and on the trial of any such indictment they shall be, deemed and held to be mails or parts of mails of the United States. The Postmaster-General may supply all persons applying and paying therefor, suitable letter-envelopes, with such water-marks or other guards against counterfeits as he may deem expedient, and with one or more suitable postage-stamps, with such device and of such denominations and value as he may direct, printed or impressed thereon, which envelopes shall be sold at the cost of procuring and furnishing the same, as near as may be, with the addition of the value or denomination of the postage-stamps thereon, and letters, when inclosed in such envelope, with postage-stamps printed or impressed thereon, shall pass in the mails as prepaid letters; and all letters inclosed in such envelopes as shall be so provided by the Postmaster-General, and with postage-stamps thereon, may be sent, conveyed, and delivered otherwise than by post or mail, notwithstanding any prohibition thereof under any existing law; Provided, That the said envelope shall be duly sealed, or otherwise firmly and securely closed, so that such letter cannot be taken therefrom without tearing or destroying such envelope, and the same duly directed and addressed; and the date of such letter, or of the receipt or transmission thereof, to be written or stamped or otherwise appear on such envelope. Certain compensation in addition to legal commissions may be allowed postmasters in offices established since July 1, 1850, or those whose commissions, in consequence of increased labor and business at their offices shall have equalled or exceeded the commission allowed at such offices for the year ending June 30, 1851, so that their pay may be equal to that of other postmasters in the same section of the country performing similar labor. All fines and penalties belonging to the government, imposed and collected for violations of any Post-Office law, shall be paid into the treasury to the credit of the Post-Office Department. The Postmaster-General shall issue proposals and contract for the transportation of a daily mail between Louisville and Cairo, St. Louis and Cairo, Cairo and Memphis, and Memphis and New Orleans, and to supply such intermediate points as he may order from time to time, on suitable and safe steamboats. August 31, 1852. No. 64. Ch. CXIV. An Act making further Provision for the Satisfaction of Virginia Land Warrants. All such outstanding unsatisfied warrants issued or allowed prior to May 1, 1852, for Revolutionary services, may be surrendered to the Secretary of the Interior, and if he is satisfied that the warrant was justly issued for such services, he shall issue land scrip therefor at the rate of $1.25 per acre for each acre in the original warrant, which scrip shall be received in payment for public lands, but for not less than a legal subdivision subject to private entry, and shall be assignable by indorsement if attested by two witnesses. Where more than one person is interested in the same warrant, the scrip may be apportioned, and if an infant or feme covert is entitled to any scrip, the guardian or husband may receive, sell, or locate the same. This shall be a full and final adjustment of all bounty land claims to the officers and soldiers, seamen and marines, of the State of Virginia, for services in the war of the Revolution. And the State of Virginia shall, by a proper act of her Legislature, relinquish all claim to the lands in the Virginia military land district in Ohio. August 31, 1852. No. 65. Ch. CXV. An Act to constitute Alton, in the State of Illinois, a Port of Delivery. Alton and Galena in Illinois, Burlington in Iowa, and Knoxville in Tennessee, are made ports of delivery, and annexed to the collection district of New Orleans. Port Jefferson, on the north side of Long Island, is made a port of delivery, and annexed to the New York collection district, but all duties shall be paid at New York before cargoes can be discharged in Port Jefferson. August 31, 1852. IX. PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS. No. 1. A Resolution of Welcome to Louis Kossuth. That Congress, in the name and behalf of the people of the United States, give to Louis Kossuth a cordial welcome to the Capitol of the country; and that a copy of this resolution be transmitted him by the President of the United States. December 15, 1851. No. 2. A Joint Resolution, providing for the Printing of Additional Copies of the Journals and Public Documents. 100 additional copies to be printed. December 23, 1851. No. 3. A Joint Resolution to authorize the Postmaster-General to legalize certain Contracts for the Transportation of the Mail in California and Oregon. January 13, 1852. No. 4. A Joint Resolution providing for the Binding of certain Documents. Additional copies of executive documents - being not less than 250 pages shall be bound at a cost of not less than 12 cents per volume. January 27, 1852. No. 5. A Resolution extending the Time of the Commission under the Convention with Brazil. Time extended four months from March 1, 1852. February 27, 1852. No. 6. A Joint Resolution approving and confirming an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon, entitled “ An Act to provide for the Selection of Places for Location and Erection of the Public Buildings of the Territory of Oregon," and for other Purposes. May 4, 1852. No. 7. A Resolution to authorize the Continuance of the Work upon the two Wings of the Capitol. April 14, 1852. No. 8. A Resolution authorizing the Purchase of the Ninth Volume of the Laws of the United States. May 10, 1852. No. 9. A Joint Resolution changing the Name of St. Peter's River, in Minesota Territory. The name is changed to Minesota. June 19, 1852. No. 10. A Joint Resolution accepting from Guiseppe Fagnani a Portrait of Henry Clay, and ordering it to be placed in the Library of Congress. July 3, 1852. No. 11. A Resolution to establish certain Post-Routes. July 12, 1852. No. 12. A Joint Resolution providing for the Distribution of the Laws of Congress, and the Debates thereon. "With a view to the cheap circulation of the laws of Congress and the debates contributing to the true interpretation thereof, and to make free the communication between the representative and constituent bodies, Resolved, That after the present session of Congress, the Congressional Globe and Appendix, containing the laws and the debates thereon, shall pass free through the mails, so long as the same shall be published by order of Congress; but nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the circulation of the Daily Globe free of postage." August 6, 1852. No. 13. A Resolution relating to the Printing of Congress during the Recess. August 31, 1852. X. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. 1. Statement of Duties, Revenues, and Public Expenditures during the Fiscal Years ending June 30, 1850, and June 30, 1851. [From Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, Dec. 17, 1850, and Dec. 26, 1851.] The receipts into the Treasury were as fol lows: Year ending Year ending June 30, 1851.. Sept. 30, $11,643,680.54 14,764,043.05 Dec. 31, 7,207,385.87 8,361,563.77 Mar. 31, 11,489,912.36 14,448,679.17 June 30, 9,327,707.65 11,443,281.93 39,668,686.42 49,017,567.92 1,859,894.25 2,352,305.30 1,847,218.33 943,106.65 43,375,798.90 52,312,979.87 2,184,964.28 6,604,544.49 45,560,763.18 Total receipts, exclusive of loans, &c., Stock issued in funding Treasury-notes under act of July 22, 1846, Stock issued in funding Treasury-notes under act of Jan. 28, 1847, Stock issued in funding Treasury-notes under acts prior to July 22, 1846, 399,050.00 83,500.00 3,557,700.00 5,700.00 4,045,950.00 49,606,713.18 58,917,524.36 1,127,309.92 1,274,348.58 1,120,663.02 1,209,039.23 635,982.38 772,248.33 51,408.13 102,899.35 Governments in the Territories, Surveyors and their clerks, Officers of the Mint and branches, Commissioner of the Public Buildings, Secretary to sign patents for public lands, Total civil list, Foreign Intercourse. Salaries of Ministers, Salaries of Secretaries of Legation, 60,650.57 66,280.69 43,300.00 50,300 00 1,956.05 1,933.33 1,500.00 1,499.73 Salaries of Chargés d'Affaires, 70,146.02 69,292.30 Salary of Minister Resident to Turkey, Outfits of Ministers and Chargés d'Affaires, Contingent expenses of all the missions abroad. Salary of Dragoman to Turkey and contingencies, Renewal of diplomat. intercourse with Mexico, Support of lunatics of the Dist. of Columbia, Repayment of debt of cities of Dist. of Col., Five per cent. to Wisconsin, Two per cent. to Alabama, 45,006.09 Maine, under treaty stipulations, 3,440.05 Debentures, drawbacks, bounties, &c., Excess of deposits for unascertained duties repaid, Debentures and other charges (customs), Debentures and other charges (lands), Relief of the cities of the Dist. of Columbia, Payment of horses, &c., lost, Refunding duties paid by colleges, &c., 270.10 Refunding duties per act May 8, 1846, Refunding duties on foreign merchandise per act Aug. 8, 1846, Refunding duties collected in Mexico, Tonnage duties on Spanish vessels refunded, Certain duties refunded, 9,517.76 Refunding duties collected by act Aug.30,1842, Refunding duties on sugar and molasses, 439,588.28 Refunding duties on cathedral and church bell, Refunding purchase-money for land sold in the Greensburg district, Louisiana, 4,401.35 Results and acct. of the Exploring Expedition, Printing and publishing manuscript papers of 6,000.00 Purchase of manuscript papers of Hamilton, 20,000.00 66 66 6,000.00 Smithsonian Institution, act of Aug. 10, 1846, Expenses of mineral land service, Salaries of assistant treasurers and clerks, Building and equipping six revenue-cutters, Historical paintings for the Capitol, 2,000.00 Pay to each designated depositary (per cent), Buildings and Library for Territory of Oregon, 8,000.00 3,000.00 |