Chapter CCLXXVI. to establish a Land District in the State of Florida, to be called the District of Tampa
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Chap. CCLXXVI.— An Act to establish a Land District in the State of Florida, to be called the District of Tampa.Aug. 5, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That all that part of the land New land district established in Florida. in the established districts of Neumansville and St. Augustine in the State of Florida, lying south of the line dividing townships nineteen and twenty, south, be, and the same is hereby created a land district, to be called the District of Tampa, the office for which shall be at Tampa.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That this act shall take effect at the expiration of six months from the day of its passage. Approved, August 5, 1854. 591 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 1, 3, 4, 5. 1854. RESOLUTIONS. [No. 1]: of thanks to General John E. Wool. Resolution 1 1854-01-24 10 Stat. 591 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 1.] Joint Resolution of thanks to General John E. Wool.Jan. 24, 1854. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the thanks of Congress Thanks of Congress given to Gen. Wool. are due, and are hereby tendered, to Brevet Major-General John E. Wool, for his distinguished services in the late war with Mexico; and especially for the skill, enterprise, and courage which distinguished his conduct at the battle of Buena Vista.
Resolved, That the President be requested to cause a sword, with suitable Sword to be given to him. devices, to be presented to General Wool, as a testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of his gallant and judicious conduct on that memorable occasion. Resolved, That the President be requested to cause a copy of the foregoing resolutions to be transmitted to General Wool. Approved, January 24, 1854. [No. 3]: authorizing an Increase of the Force in the Office of the Superintendent of the Public Printing.
Resolution 3 1854-02-10 10 Stat. 591 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 3.] A Resolution authorizing an Increase of the Force in the Office of the Superintendent of the Public Printing.Feb. 10, 1854. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Superintendent of Superintendent of printing allowed two additional clerks. the Public Printing be, and he is hereby authorized to increase the force in his office by the appointment of two additional clerks, at the same salary per annum now allowed the clerks employed therein.
Approved, February 10, 1854. [No. 4]: for Supplying new Members of the Senate and House of Representatives with such Books of a public character as have been heretofore supplied. Resolution 4 1854-02-23 10 Stat. 591 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 4.] A Resolution for Supplying new Members of the Senate and House of Representatives with such Books of a public character as have been heretofore supplied.Feb. 23, 1854.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each of the new members Books for members of Congress. of the two houses of Congress be supplied with the same number and description of such books of a public character as were supplied to each member of the Senate or House of Representatives during the last Congress: *Provided,* They be furnished by the publishers at prices not exceeding those at which they have been heretofore supplied for the use of the members of either House.
Approved, February 23, 1854. [No. 5]: authorizing a Supplemental Contract for certain Marble for the Capitol extension. Resolution 5 1854-03-01 10 Stat. 591 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 5.] Joint Resolution authorizing a Supplemental Contract for certain Marble for the Capitol extension.March 1, 1854.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the Contracts for marble for Capitol extension. United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause a supplemental contract to be made with the contractors for marble for the Capitol extension, to procure the columns and ashlar in larger blocks than required by the specifications of their present contract. Approved, March 1, 1854. [No. 6]: accepting certain Volumes and Medals presented by her Britannic Majesty’s Government to the United States.
Resolution 6 1854-03-27 10 Stat. 592 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public 592 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 6, 7, 8, 10. 1854. [No. 6.] A Resolution accepting certain Volumes and Medals presented by her Britannic Majesty’s Government to the United States.March 27, 1854. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Government of the United States accept the presentation volumes and medals illustrative Certain books and medals accepted from Great Britain. of the Exhibition in London, in eighteen hundred and fifty-one, presented by her Britannic Majesty’s Government, in behalf of her Majesty’s Commissioners for the said exhibition, and that they be placed in the Library of Congress.
Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be communicated to the British Copy of this resolution to be communicated. Government in such manner as the President of the United States may see proper. Approved, March 27, 1854. [No. 7]: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury and Light-House Board to determine upon the Site, Plan and Mode of Constructing the Light-House on Cohasset Rocks, and for other purposes. Resolution 7 1854-03-27 10 Stat. 592 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 7.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury and Light-House Board to determine upon the Site, Plan and Mode of Constructing the Light-House on Cohasset Rocks, and for other purposes.March 27, 1854. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Light-House on Cohasset Rocks. Treasury and Light-House Board be, and hereby are, authorized to determine upon the site, plan and mode of constructing the light-house upon the Cohasset rocks, on the southerly side of the entrance into Boston harbor.
And so much of the act approved August thirty-one, eighteen 1852, ch. 112. hundred and fifty-two, and the act approved March third, eighteen 1853, ch. 140. hundred and fifty-three, relative to the rebuilding of the light-house, on Minot’s Ledge, as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Approved, March 27, 1854. [No. 8]: relative to Bids for Provisions, Clothing, and Small Stores for the use of the Navy. Resolution 8 1854-03-27 10 Stat. 592 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 8.] Joint Resolution relative to Bids for Provisions, Clothing, and Small Stores for the use of the Navy.March 27, 1854. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all bids for supplies of Provisions respecting bids for provisions, clothing, and small stores for the navy. provisions, clothing, and small stores for the use of the navy may be rejected, at the option of the department, if made by one who is not known as a manufacturer of, or regular dealer in, the article proposed to be furnished; which fact, or the reverse, must be distinctly stated in the bids offered; that the bids of all persons who may have failed to comply with the conditions of any contracts they may have previously entered into with the United States, shall, at the option of the department, be rejected; that if more than one bid be offered for the supply of an article on account of any one party either in his own name, or in the name of his partner, clerk, or any other person, the whole of such bids shall be rejected at the option of the department—and that copartners of any firm shall not be received as sureties for each other—and that whenever it may be deemed necessary for the interest of the government and the health of the crews of the United States vessels, to procure particular brands of flour, which are known to keep best on distant stations, the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, with the approbation of the Secretary Certain articles may be purchased in market overt. of the Navy be, and hereby is, authorized to procure the same on the best terms, in market overt.
Approved, March 27, 1854. [No. 10]: authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the Expenses of Codifying and Revising the Revenue Laws. Resolution 10 1854-04-06 10 Stat. 592 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 10.] A Resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the Expenses of Codifying and Revising the Revenue Laws.April 6, 1854.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, Codification of the revenue laws. appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri-593THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 11, 12, 13, 16. 1854.ated, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay for preparing a general revenue law in accordance with a resolution of the Senate passed in January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and the necessary expenses, and that the Secretary of the Treasury report to Congress at its meeting in December next, the items of such pay and expenditures.
Approved, April 6, 1854. [No. 11]: authorizing the Accounting Officers of the Treasury to Adjust the Expenses of a Board of Commissioners appointed by the Territorial Assembly of Oregon, to prepare a Code of Laws—also, to Adjust the Expense of Collecting and Printing certain Laws and Archives of the Territory of Oregon. Resolution 11 1854-05-03 10 Stat. 593 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 11.] A Joint Resolution authorizing the Accounting Officers of the Treasury to Adjust the Expenses of a Board of Commissioners appointed by the Territorial Assembly of Oregon, to prepare a Code of Laws—also, to Adjust the Expense of Collecting and Printing certain Laws and Archives of the Territory of Oregon.May 3, 1854. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of Payment of expenses of board to codify laws in Oregon. the treasury be authorized to adjust the expense of a board of commissioners appointed under “An” act of the legislative assembly of Oregon “to create a board of commissioners to prepare a code of laws for the Territory of Oregon,” which passed the House of Representatives on the eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and the Council, on the twelfth of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; and to adjust the expense incurred under another act of the said legislative assembly, entitled “An act to provide for the collection and publication of the laws and archives of Oregon,” which passed the Council on the twenty-second of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and the House of Representatives on the twenty-sixth of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and that the just and proper compensation and expense found to have been reasonably and necessarily incurred, be paid from the balance of appropriations “for compensation and mileage of the members of the Legislative Assembly, officers, clerks, and contingent expenses of the Assembly of Oregon,” now standing on the books of the treasury unexpended.
Approved, May 3, 1854. [No. 12]: for Extending an existing Contract for carrying the Mail in Alabama. Resolution 12 1854-05-03 10 Stat. 593 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 12.] A Resolution for Extending an existing Contract for carrying the Mail in Alabama.May 3, 1854. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster-General A certain mail contract in Alabama may be extended. be, and he hereby is, authorized to extend the existing contract for carrying the mail upon the route between Montgomery and Mobile, for four years from the time at which said contract would expire by its own limitation, if, in his opinion, the public interest and convenience will be promoted by such extension of said contract.
Approved, May 3, 1854. [No. 13]: directing the Connection of the Public Surveys in Alabama with the Boundary Line between the States of Alabama and Florida. Resolution 13 1854-06-29 10 Stat. 593 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 13.] Joint Resolution directing the Connection of the Public Surveys in Alabama with the Boundary Line between the States of Alabama and Florida.June 29, 1854.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the connection of the Connection of surveys in Alabama with her boundary with Florida. public surveys in Alabama, with the boundary line between the States of Alabama and Florida, shall be made under the direction of the General Land-Office, and that the same be executed as early as practicable. Approved, June 29, 1854. [No. 16]: explanatory of the Second Section of “A Resolution to Establish certain Post Routes,” approved July twelve, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Resolution 16 1854-07-17 10 Stat. 593 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 16.] Joint Resolution explanatory of the Second Section of “A Resolution to Establish certain Post Routes,” approved July twelve, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.July 17, 1854.*Ante,* p. 147. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of the 594THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 17, 18, 24. 1854. joint resolution to establish certain post-routes, approved July twelve, Compensation for carrying the mails on two routes in New York. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, be so construed as to authorize the Postmaster-General to pay a reasonable compensation to the persons carrying the mail from Valonia Springs, by the way of Ninevah and Coventry, to Oxford, and from Oxford, by the way of Coventryville, to South Bainbridge, in the State of New York, from the time the mail was directed to be carried on said routes, up to the time the first contracts went into operation thereon, exclusive of what has been paid under said resolution, and at the same rate.
Approved, July 17, 1854. [No. 17]: providing for the Distribution of the Works of Thomas Jefferson. Resolution 17 1854-07-20 10 Stat. 594 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 17.] A Resolution providing for the Distribution of the Works of Thomas Jefferson.July 20, 1854. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate Distribution of works of Thomas Jefferson. and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they hereby are directed to distribute, by mail or otherwise, the works now publishing by authority of Congress, known as the works of Thomas Jefferson, in the manner following, to wit:
To the President of the United States one copy; to the Libraries of the different Departments, of the Postmaster-General and the Attorney-General, one copy; to each member of the present Senate and House of Representatives, one copy; to the office of the Secretary of the Senate, five copies; to the Library of the House of Representatives, ten copies; to the Library of Congress, six copies; to the Libraries of the States and Territories of the Union, each one copy; to the Smithsonian Institution, the Military Academy, and the Naval School at Annapolis, each one copy; to the Joint Committee on the Library, for the purpose of international exchange, twelve copies ; to such colleges and literary and scientific institutions or associations as shall be designated by the present Committee on the Library, three hundred copies.
Approved, July 20, 1854. [No. 18]: to fix the Compensation of the Employees in the Legislative Department of the Government, and to prohibit the allowance of the usual extra compensation to such as receive the benefits hereof. Resolution 18 1854-07-20 10 Stat. 594 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 18.] Joint Resolution to fix the Compensation of the Employees in the Legislative Department of the Government, and to prohibit the allowance of the usual extra compensation to such as receive the benefits hereof.July 20, 1854.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers, clerks, messengers, and other employees in the Legislative Department of the Government, Compensation of employees in Congress. shall be paid an increased compensation of twenty per cent upon the compensation now received by them respectively ; and the messengers of the House of Representatives shall not receive less than is allowed to messengers of the Senate of the same class ; such increased compensation to commence from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three ; and that a sum sufficient to pay the same to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That no person whose compensation was increased by the act approved, April twenty-two, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, shall be benefited by 1854, ch. 52. this joint resolution: *And provided further,* That the usual extra compensation shall not hereafter be allowed to any person receiving the benefits of this joint resolution.
Approved, July 20, 1854. [No. 24]: directing the Presentation of a Medal to Commander Duncan N. Ingraham. Resolution 24 1854-08-04 10 Stat. 594 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 24.] A Joint Resolution directing the Presentation of a Medal to Commander Duncan N. Ingraham.Aug. 4, 1854. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United 595THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 25. 1854. States be, and he is hereby, requested to cause to be made a medal, with Medal to be presented to Capt. Ingraham. suitable devices, and presented to Commander Duncan N. Ingraham, of the navy of the United States, as a testimonial of the high sense entertained by Congress of his gallant and judicious conduct on the second of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, in extending protection to Martin Koszta, by rescuing him from illegal seizure and imprisonment on board the Austrian war-brig Hussar.
Approved, August 4, 1854. [No. 25]: making Appropriation for the Payment of those entitled to the Benefits of the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, passed August third, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, voting Extra Compensation to Pages, Folders, and others. Resolution 25 1854-08-05 10 Stat. 595 Little, Brown and Company. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
Digitization Vendor 2025-12-24 33 1 public [No. 25.] A Joint Resolution making Appropriation for the Payment of those entitled to the Benefits of the Resolution of the House of Representatives of the United States, passed August third, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, voting Extra Compensation to Pages, Folders, and others.Aug. 5, 1854. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation for persons employed in service of Congress. States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum appropriated by the House of Representatives on this day for the payment of its pages and employees, be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, August 5, 1854. 33 2 1854 1855 597 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of December,* 1854, *and ended on Saturday, the third day of March,* 1855. Franklin Pierce, President. Jesse D. Bright, President of the Senate, *pro tempore.* Linn Boyd, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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