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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 14 STAT. · July 28, 1866 · Chapter CCCXII

Chapter CCCXII. *to prevent Officers of the Navy from being deprived of their regular Promotion on Account of Wounds received in Battle, and for other Purposes.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Physical disqualificatio

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CHAP. CCCXII.— An Act *to prevent Officers of the Navy from being deprived of their regular Promotion on Account of Wounds received in Battle, and for other Purposes.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Physical disqualification of officers of navy, occasioned by wounds received in line of duty, and not incapacitating them, not to prevent promotion on active list. That the provision of section four of the “Act to amend an act entitled an act to establish and equalize the grade of line officers of the United States navy,” approved July sixteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, requiring that no officer in the naval service shall be promoted to a higher grade upon the active list until he has been examined by a board of naval surgeons and pronounced physically qualified to perform all his duties at sea, shall not be construed to apply to and exclude from the promotion to which he would otherwise THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 312. 1866. 345 be regularly entitled any officer in whose case such medical board shall1864, ch. 63, § 4. Vol. xiii. p. 53. report that his physical disqualification was occasioned by wounds received in the line of his duty, and that such wounds do not incapacitate him for other duties in the grade to which he shall be promoted. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted, *That the rate of pay of officers ofPay of navy officers on retired list and not on duty, &c. the navy on the retired list and not on duty, nor retired on furlough pay, in cases where such rate of pay has not heretofore been fixed by law, shall be one half of the pay to which such officers would be entitled if on duty at sea.
And the pay of clerks of navy yards, of clerks to commandantsPay of clerks of navy yards, &c. increased twenty-five per cent. of navy yards, and of clerks to naval storekeepers, is hereby increased twenty-five per cent upon their present salaries, from the commencement of the present fiscal year. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted, *That the proper accounting officersDisbursing officers of the navy and marine corps to be allowed credits for such losses of property as shall, &c. of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized in the settlement of the accounts of the disbursing officers of the navy and marine corps to allow, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, such credits for losses of property and funds as have occurred during the late rebellion and as shall occur hereafter, and which shall appear to them by such vouchers and testimony as they shall require to have been occasioned by accidental circumstances, or a condition of things over which such officers had no control and for which they are not justly responsible.
Approved, July 28, 1866. THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 1, 2, 3. 1866. 347 RESOLUTIONS. No. 1: authorizing the President to divert certain Funds heretofore appropriated, and cause the same to be used, for immediate Subsistence and Clothing, &c., for destitute Indians and Indian Tribes. Resolution 1 1865-12-21 14 Stat. 347 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 1.] A Resolution authorizing the President to divert certain Funds heretofore appropriated, and cause the same to be used, for immediate Subsistence and Clothing, &c., for destitute Indians and Indian Tribes. December 21, 1865. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the President of theSubsistence and clothing for destitute Indians, &c. United States be and he hereby is authorized to cause to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the immediate subsistence and clothing of destitute Indians and Indian tribes within the southern superintendency, and for agricultural implements and seeds for the same, a sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars of the unexpended balance in the treasury of appropriations heretofore made “to enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the act of third of March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and any other acts now1819, ch. 101.
Vol. iii. p. 532.Provisos. in force for the suppression of the slave-trade”: *Provided,* That the accounts of such expenditure shall be laid before Congress during its present session: *And provided also,* That all articles to be furnished to said destitute Indians and Indian tribes shall be delivered to them on or before the first day of July next. Approved, December 21, 1865. No. 2: for increasing the Bond of the Superintendent of public Printing. Resolution 2 1866-01-12 14 Stat. 347 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 2.] A Resolution for increasing the Bond of the Superintendent of public Printing. January 12, 1866. Whereas the amount of money which can be advanced to the superintendentPreamble. of public printing under existing law is not sufficient to enableSee 1867, ch. 59.*Post*, p. 398. him to meet the current expenditures of his office: Therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the said superintendent beBond of Superintendent of Public Printing. requested to furnish a new bond, in the penal sum of eighty thousand dollars.
Approved, January 12, 1866. No. 3: in Relation to the Industrial Exposition at Paris, France. Resolution 3 1866-01-15 14 Stat. 347 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 3.] Joint Resolution in Relation to the Industrial Exposition at Paris, France. January 15, 1866. Whereas the United States have been invited by the government ofSee *Post*, pp. 362, 563Preamble.
France to take part in a universal exposition of the productions of agriculture, manufactures, and the fine arts, to be held in Paris, France, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven: *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Industrial Exposition at Paris, France.Acts of Secretary of State approved. That said invitation is accepted. Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved, *That the proceedings heretofore adopted by the Secretary of State in relation to the said exposition, as set forth in his report and accompanying documents concerning that subject, transmitted to both houses of Congress with the President’s message of the eleventh instant, are approved.
Sec. 3. *And be it further resolved, *That the general agent for the saidGeneral agent at New York exposition at New York be authorized to employ such clerks as may be 348 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 3, 4, 5, 6. 1860. may appoint clerks;necessary to enable him to fulfil the requirements of the regulations of the imperial commission, not to exceed four in number, one of whom shall their pay.receive compensation at the rate of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, one at sixteen hundred dollars, and two at fourteen hundred dollars.
Sec. 4. Secretary of State to make general regulations. *And be it further resolved, *That the Secretary of State be, and is hereby, authorized and requested to prescribe such general regulations concerning the conduct of the business relating to the part to be taken by the United States in the exposition as may be proper. Approved, January 15, 1866. No. 4: granting certain public Property to the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home of Iowa. Resolution 4 1866-01-22 14 Stat. 348 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 4.] Joint Resolution granting certain public Property to the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home of Iowa. January 22, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Gift to Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home of Iowa. That the buildings, sheds, furniture, and other property, now at camp Kinsman, near Davenport, Scott county, Iowa, be, and the same are hereby, donated to the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home of Iowa.
Approved, January 22, 1866. No. 5: authorizing the Secretary of War to grant the Use of a Portion of Military Reserve on St. Clair River, in the State of Michigan, for Railroad Purposes. Resolution 5 1866-01-31 14 Stat. 348 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 5.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to grant the Use of a Portion of Military Reserve on St.
Clair River, in the State of Michigan, for Railroad Purposes. January 31, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Use of portion of military reserve on St. Clair river granted for horse railroad. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to grant to Guerdon O. Williams, of the city of Detroit, in the State of Michigan, and his associates, the use of so much of the military reserve on the St.
Clair river, in the State of Michigan, known as the site of Fort Gratiot, as is necessary for extending a horse railroad from Port Huron city to the depot of the Port Huron and Conditions.Detroit railroad, at such rental and upon such terms and conditions as to him may seem proper, reserving to the United States, however, the right of removing the rails, ties, and other parts of said road whenever the Secretary of War shall direct, without any claim or right for damages on the part of the said Williams and associates, or their legal representatives.
Approved, January 31, 1866. No. 6: directing the Distribution of the Writings of James Madison. Resolution 6 1866-02-07 14 Stat. 348 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 6.] A Resolution directing the Distribution of the Writings of James Madison. February 7, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Distribution of writings of James Madison.
That the joint committee on the Library be and they are hereby directed to distribute, by mail or otherwise, the five hundred copies of the writings of James Madison, published by authority of Congress under direction of said committee, 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 Attorney-General, one copy each; to each member of the present Senate and House of Representatives, one copy; to the library of Congress, ten copies; to the libraries of the several States and Territories of the Union, one copy each; to such public and college libraries as may be designated by the present joint committee on the Library, one hundred copies; the residue to be retained in the Department of the Interior for future distribution.
Approved, February 7, 1866. No. 7: extending the Time for the Completion of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. Resolution 7 1866-02-10 14 Stat. 349 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 7, 8, 9. 1866. 349 [No. 7.] A Resolution extending the Time for the Completion of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad.
February 10, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That in case the BurlingtonTime for completion of Burlington and Missouri River railroad extended. and Missouri River Railroad Company shall complete the section of twenty miles from the present terminus of its road by the first day of December, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the certificate of the governor shall be filed with the Secretary of the Interior of such completion, then the said company shall be entitled to its lands, due by reason of the completion of said section of twenty miles, as provided in section eight of the act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled1864, ch. 103, § 8.
Vol. xiii. p. 98 ‘An act making a grant of land to the State of Iowa, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State,’” and its rights shall be in all respects the same as if the same section should have been completed on the first day of July next. Approved, February 10, 1866. No. 8: tendering the Thanks of Congress to Vice-Admiral David G. Farragut, and to the Officers, petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines under his Command, for their Gallantry and good Conduct in the Action in Mobile Bay, on the 5th August, 1864.
Resolution 8 1866-02-10 14 Stat. 349 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 8.] A Resolution *tendering the Thanks of Congress to Vice-Admiral David G. Farragut, and to the Officers, petty Officers, Seamen, and Marines under his Command, for their Gallantry and good Conduct in the Action in Mobile Bay, on the* 5*th August,* 1864.
February 10, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the thanks of CongressThanks of Congress to Vice-Admiral Farragut, and those under his command. are eminently due and are hereby tendered to Vice-Admiral David G. Farragut, of the United States navy, and to the officers, petty officers, seamen, and marines under his command, for the unsurpassed gallantry and skill exhibited by them in the engagement in Mobile Bay, on the fifth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and for their long and faithful services and unwavering devotion to the cause of the country in the midst of the greatest difficulties and dangers.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved, *That the President of the UnitedPresident to communicate this resolution States be requested to communicate this resolution to Vice-Admiral Farragut, and that the Secretary of the Navy be requested to communicate the same to the officers, seamen, and marines of the navy by general order of his department. Approved, February 10, 1866. No. 9: for the Payment of Expenses incurred by the Joint Committee to inquire into the Condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America.
Resolution 9 1866-02-10 14 Stat. 349 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 9.] A Resolution for the Payment of Expenses incurred by the Joint Committee to inquire into the Condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America. February 10, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the sum of ten thousandAppropriation for expenses of Joint Committee upon the condition of the socalled confederate states. dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to pay the expenses of the joint committee of Congress appointed to inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called confederate states of America; and that the said sum shall be drawn from the treasury upon the order of the Secretary of the Senate, as the same shall be required from time to time by the committee having such investigation in charge; and any portion of the sum hereby appropriated that shall be allowed by the said joint committee to witnesses attending before it, or to persons employed in its service, for per diem, travelling or other necessary expenses, and paid by the Secretary of the Senate in pursuance of the order of the said joint committee, shall be accordingly credited and allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department.
Approved, February 10, 1866. No. 10: to encourage and facilitate Telegraphic Communication between the Western and Eastern Continents. Resolution 10 1866-02-26 14 Stat. 350 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public 350 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 10, 11, 12. 1866. [No. 10.] Joint Resolution to encourage and facilitate Telegraphic Communication between the Western and Eastern Continents.
February 26, 1866. Preamble.1864, ch. 199. Vol. xiii. p. 340.Whereas by an act entitled “An act to encourage and facilitate telegraphic communication between the eastern and western continents ” approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, it was provided, among other things, that the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to detail a vessel to assist in surveys and soundings, laying down sub-marine cable, transporting materials connected therewith, and generally afford such assistance as might be deemed best calculated to secure a successful promotion of the enterprise; and whereas the Emperor of Russia, for the purpose of co-operating with the government of the United States, under the act aforesaid, has ordered a steam corvette, the “Variag,” of two thousand one hundred and fifty-six tons burthen, seventeen guns, three hundred and six men, to assist in the achievement of said telegraph, and has placed the said steamer subject to the orders of said telegraph company; and whereas said telegraph company intend, the ensuing summer, to lay the sub-marine cable required at Behring’s Strait, said cable and the material for the entire line being now in transit, and the vessels of the company, seven in number, being ready at San Francisco and Vancouver for the expedition, and require immediate co-operation on the part of the United States, in conformity with said act:
Therefore, *Be it resolved in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * A steam vessel to be detailed to aid in laying the telegraph cable between the western and eastern continents. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and is hereby, authorized and required to detail one steam vessel from the squadron of the Pacific station, or elsewhere, to assist in making surveys and soundings in that part of the Pacific coast, both of America and Asia, where it is proposed to establish said telegraph, in laying the submerged cable, and generally to afford such assistance as may be best calculated to secure the success of the enterprise and to carry out the purposes of the act approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to encourage and facilitate telegraphic communication between the eastern and western continents,” so far as the same can be afforded without dismantling her, or destroying or impairing her efficiency as a vessel of war.
Approved, February 26, 1866. No. 11: providing for Expenses incurred in searching for missing Soldiers of the Army of the United States, and for the further Prosecution of the same. Resolution 11 1866-03-10 14 Stat. 350 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 11.] A Resolution providing for Expenses incurred in searching for missing Soldiers of the Army of the United States, and for the further Prosecution of the same.
March 10, 1866. Preamble.Whereas Miss Clara Barton has, during the late war of the rebellion, expended from her own resources large sums of money in endeavoring to discover missing soldiers of the armies of the United States, and in communicating intelligence to their relatives; Therefore— *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Appropriation to reimburse Miss Clara Barton. That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to reimburse Miss Clara Barton for the amount so expended by her, and to aid in the further prosecutionPrinting. of the search for missing soldiers; and the printing necessary in the furtherance of the said object shall hereafter be done by the public printer.
Approved, March 10, 1866. No. 12: giving the Consent of Congress to the Transfer of the Counties of Berkeley and Jefferson to the State of West Virginia. Resolution 12 1866-03-10 14 Stat. 350 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 12.] Joint Resolution giving the Consent of Congress to the Transfer of the Counties of Berkeley and Jefferson to the State of West Virginia.
March 10, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Transfer of Berkeley and Jefferson counties from Virginia to West Virginia. That Congress hereby recognizes the transfer of the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson from the State of Virginia to West Virginia; and consents thereto. Approved, March 10, 1866. No. 13: authorizing the Secretary of War , transfer to the National Home for Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans, of Washington City, certain Stores not needed for the Use of the Government.
Resolution 13 1866-03-10 14 Stat. 351 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 13, 14, 15, 16. 1866. 351 [No. 13.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War , transfer to the National Home for Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans, of Washington City, certain Stores not needed for the Use of the Government.
March 10, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of War be,Stores for the National Home for Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans. and he is hereby, authorized to deliver to the lady directors of the National Home for Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans, of Washington city, for the use and aid of that society in its benevolent objects, such blankets, bedding, and other furniture and articles as may be proper for their purposes, and as are now on hand in the stores of the surgeon-general’s department, and no longer needed for government account; the Secretary to determine, at his discretion, the specific amount and character of stores thus to be appropriated, and of which due account shall be taken.
Approved, March 10, 1866. No. 14: for the Relief of the Sufferers by the late Explosion at the United States Arsenal, in the District of Columbia. Resolution 14 1866-03-17 14 Stat. 351 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 14.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of the Sufferers by the late Explosion at the United States Arsenal, in the District of Columbia.
March 17, 1866. Whereas by the late explosion at the United States Arsenal, in thePreamble. District of Columbia, ten persons were killed, who were not enlisted men, but were employes of the government in said arsenal; and whereas those who were so killed left wives and children dependent upon them for support, most of whom are now in a destitute condition: Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Help to sufferers by the explosion of the United States arsenal in the District of Columbia.
That the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and placed by the Secretary of the Treasury in the hands of Col. Benton, commandant of said arsenal, to be distributed by him among the sufferers by the said explosion, according to the equity and necessities of their several cases; and that the said commandant report the details of said distribution to Congress, with the vouchers therefor.
Approved, March 17, 1866. No. 15: to change the Name of the Ship “Art Union ” to the Name “George M. Barnard.” Resolution 15 1866-03-22 14 Stat. 351 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 15.] Joint Resolution to change the Name of the Ship “Art Union ” to the Name “George M. Barnard.” March 22, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the TreasuryName of ship “Art Union” changed to “George M.
Barnard.” be, and hereby is, authorized to change the name of the ship “Art Union,” owned by the State of Massachusetts, and used as quarters for the nautical branch of the Reform School of said State, to the name “George M. Barnard,” and to grant said ship a register in the latter name. Approved, March 22, 1866. No. 16: authorizing the Secretaries of War and Navy to place Hulks and Vessels at the Disposal of Commissioners of Quarantine, or other proper Authorities at Ports of the United States, for one Year.
Resolution 16 1866-03-24 14 Stat. 351 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 16.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretaries of War and Navy to place Hulks and Vessels at the Disposal of Commissioners of Quarantine, or other proper Authorities at Ports of the United States, for one Year. March 24, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of WarUnited States vessels, &c. for use of commissioners of quarantine. and the Secretary of the Navy be, and they are hereby, respectively authorized, in their discretion, to place gratuitously at the disposal of the commissioners of quarantine, or the proper authorities of any of the ports of the United States, to be used by them temporarily for quarantine purposes, such vessels or hulks belonging to the United States as are not required for other uses of the national government, subject to such restrictions[Extended.
See *Post*, pp. 569, 570.] and regulations as the said Secretaries may respectively deem necessary to impose for the preservation thereof: *Provided,* That this resolution shall continue in force one year from its passage. Approved, March 24, 1866. No. 17: in Relation to the Publication of the Laws of the United States. Resolution 17 1866-03-31 14 Stat. 352 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public 352 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 17, 18, 19, 20. 1866. [No. 17.] A Resolution in Relation to the Publication of the Laws of the United States. March 31, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Publication of the Laws of the United States. That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby authorized and directed, to renew the contract of October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty, between the Department of State, and Little, Brown, and Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, for the annual publication of the Statutes at Large of the United States, until otherwise ordered by Congress, in conformity with the joint resolutions Vol. v. p. 799.Vol. ix. p. 564.approved respectively March third, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and September thirtieth [twenty-sixth], eighteen hundred and fifty: *Provided,* Time of delivery.That the time within which the annual edition of the laws is to be delivered at the Department of State be extended to seventy days after the adjournment Price.of each session of Congress : *And provided, further,* That the price shall not exceed the actual expenditures by Little, Brown, and Company, for composition, press-work, paper, binding, editing, and transportation, all of which shall be done at the lowest market-prices, the paper to be furnished at as low a price as is paid by the government for paper of the same quality, and five per cent commission thereon.
Approved, March 31, 1866. No. 18: in Relation to the Public Lands appertaining to the Armory at Springfield. Resolution 18 1866-04-04 14 Stat. 352 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 18.] Joint Resolution in Relation to the Public Lands appertaining to the Armory at Springfield. April 4, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Boundaries may be so altered as to allow the laying out, &c. of streets.Vol. v. p. 719.
That the first section of a joint resolution approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, entitled “A resolution relating to the public lands appertaining to the armories at Springfield and Harper’s Ferry,” is hereby revived, re-enacted, and continued in force. Approved, April 4, 1866. No. 19: for the Restoration of Commanders William Reynolds and Melanoton B. Woolsey, United States Navy, to the Active List from the Reserved List. Resolution 19 1866-04-05 14 Stat. 352 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 19.] A Resolution for the Restoration of Commanders William Reynolds and Melanoton B. Woolsey, United States Navy, to the Active List from the Reserved List. April 5, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Commanders Reynolds and Woolsey restored to the active list in the navy. That the President of the United States of America be authorized to nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint Commanders William Reynolds and Melancton B.
Woolsey to the active list of the navy. Approved, April 5, 1866. No. 20: giving Construction to the Law in Relation to Bounties payable to Soldiers discharged for Wounds. Resolution 20 1866-04-12 14 Stat. 352 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 20.] Joint Resolution giving Construction to the Law in Relation to Bounties payable to Soldiers discharged for Wounds.
April 12, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Construction of the words in the bounty act, “or in the line of duty.”1865, ch. 79, § 4.Vol. xiii. p. 488. That the true intent and meaning of the words “or in the line of duty,” used in the fourth section of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, entitled “An act to amend the several acts heretofore passed to provide for the enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,” requires that the benefit of the provision of said section shall be extended to any enlisted man or other person entitled by law to bounty who has been or may be discharged by reason of a wound received while actually in service under military orders, not at the time on furlough or leave of absence, nor engaged in any unlawful or unauthorized act or pursuit.
Approved, April 12, 1866. No. 21: respecting the Burial of Soldiers who died in the military Service of the United States during the Rebellion. Resolution 21 1866-04-13 14 Stat. 353 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 21, 24, 25, 26. 1866. 353 [No. 21.] A Resolution respecting the Burial of Soldiers who died in the military Service of the United States during the Rebellion.
April 13, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of War be,Burial of soldiers who died in the service of the United States during the rebellion. and lie is hereby, authorized and required to take immediate measures to preserve from desecration the graves of the soldiers of the United States who fell in battle or died of disease in the field and in hospital during the war of the rebellion; to secure suitable burial-places in which they may be properly interred; and to have the grounds enclosed, so that the resting-places of the honored dead may be kept sacred forever.
Approved, April 13, 1866. No. 24: protesting against Pardons by Foreign Governments of Persons convicted of infamous Offences, on Condition of Emigration to the United States. Resolution 24 1866-04-17 14 Stat. 353 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 24.] A Resolution protesting against Pardons by Foreign Governments of Persons convicted of infamous Offences, on Condition of Emigration to the United States.
April 17, 1866. Whereas it appears from official correspondence that the authoritiesPreamble. of Basleland, a canton in Switzerland, have recently undertaken to pardon a person convicted of murder on the condition that he would emigrate to America, meaning thereby the United States; and there is reason to believe that similar pardons of persons convicted of infamous offences have been granted in other countries: Now, therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Protest against pardons by foreign governments of convicts, on condition of emigration to the United States.
That the Congress of the United States protests against such acts as unfriendly and inconsistent with the comity of nations, and hereby requests the President of the United States to cause a copy of this protest to be communicated to the representatives of the United States in foreign countries, with instructions to present it to the governments where they arc accredited respectively, and to insist that no such acts shall, under any circumstances, be repeated. Approved, April 17, 1866.
No. 25: for the temporary Relief of destitute People in the District of Columbia. Resolution 25 1866-04-17 14 Stat. 353 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 25.] A Resolution for the temporary Relief of destitute People in the District of Columbia. April 17, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the sum of twenty-fiveTemporary relief of the destitute population in the District of Columbia. thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the temporary relief of the destitute population in the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Freedmen’s Bureau.
Approved, April 17, 1866. No. 26: appointing Managers for the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Resolution 26 1866-04-21 14 Stat. 353 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 26.] Joint Resolution appointing Managers for the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. April 21, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following persons be,Managers of National Asylum for disabled volunteer soldiers.1866, ch. 21, § 3.*Ante*, p. 10. and they are hereby, appointed managers of the National Asylum for disabled volunteer soldiers, under the provisions and conditions of the third section of the act approved March twenty-three, [one] eighteen hundred and sixty-six:
Richard J. Oglesby, of Illinois, Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, and Frederick Smyth, of New Hampshire, of the first class, to serve six years; Lewis B. Gunckel, of Ohio, Jay Cook, of Pennsylvania, and P. Joseph Osterhaus, of Missouri, of the second class, to serve four years; John H. Martindale, of New York, Horatio G. Stebbins, of California, and George H. Walker, of Wisconsin, of the third class, to serve two years. Approved, April 21, 1866. No. 27: expressive of the Thanks of Congress to Major-General Winfield S.
Hancock. Resolution 27 1866-04-21 14 Stat. 353 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public 354 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 27, 29, 31, 32. 1866. [No. 27.] Joint Resolution expressive of the Thanks of Congress to Major-General Winfield S. Hancock. April 21, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Thanks of Congress to Major-General Hancock.
That, in addition to the thanks heretofore voted by joint resolution, approved January twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to Major-General George G. Meade, Major-General Oliver O. Howard, and to the officers and soldiers of the army of the Potomac, for the skill and heroic valor which at Gettysburg repulsed, defeated, and drove back broken and dispirited the veteran army of the rebellion, the gratitude of the American people and the thanks of their representatives in Congress are likewise due, and are hereby tendered, to Major-General Winfield S.
Hancock, for his gallant, meritorious, and conspicuous share in that great and decisive victory. Approved, April 21, 1866. No. 29: or the Transfer of Funds appropriated for the Payment of Salaries in the Post Office Department to the General Salary Account of that Department. Resolution 29 1866-04-25 14 Stat. 354 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 29.] A Resolution or the Transfer of Funds appropriated for the Payment of Salaries in the Post Office Department to the General Salary Account of that Department. April 25, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled, * Transfer of appropriations for the Post Office Department. That the unexpended balance on the books of the Treasury Department, from the respective sums of money appropriated by different acts of Congress, for the salaries of Postmaster-General, assistant postmaster-general, clerks, temporary clerks, additional clerks, messengers, watchmen, laborers, and superintendent and clerks of the money order system, including the amounts appropriated for the payment of twenty per centum increase of certain salaries, (all of the same being appropriations made by Congress for the Post Office Department,) may be transferred on the books of the Treasury Department, from the respective headings under which they are now placed, to the credit of the Post Office Department, to the general salary account of funds placed Proviso.to the credit of the Post Office Department: *Provided,* That this joint resolution shall not be construed to increase the appropriations already made for the service of the Post Office Department.
Approved, April 25, 1866. No. 31: making Appropriations for the Expenses of collecting the Revenue from Customs. Resolution 31 1866-05-03 14 Stat. 354 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 31.] A Resolution making Appropriations for the Expenses of collecting the Revenue from Customs. May 3, 1866. *Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Appropriation for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs.
That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two millions one hundred thousand dollars for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs for each half-year from and after the last day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and in addition thereto such sums as may be received during said half-year from fines, penalties, and forfeitures connected with the customs, and from storage, 1858, ch. 160, § 1.
Vol. xi. p. 337.cartage, drayage, and labor; and the first section of an “Act making appropriations for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs,” approved June fourteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, be, and the same is, hereby repealed. Approved, May 3, 1866. No. 32: expressive of the Gratitude of the Nation to the Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen of the Unital States. Resolution 32 1866-05-03 14 Stat. 354 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 32.] A Resolution expressive of the Gratitude of the Nation to the Officers, Soldiers, and Seamen of the Unital States. May 3, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * The gratitude of the nation expressed by Congress to the That it is the duty and the privilege of Congress to express the gratitude of the nation to the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the United States, by whose valor and endurance, on the THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 32, 34, 35, 37. 1866. 355 land and on the sea, the rebellion has been crushed and its pride and itsofficer, soldiers, and seamen of the United States. power have been humbled, by whose fidelity to the cause of freedom the government of the people has been preserved and maintained, and by whose orderly return from the fire and blood of civil war to the peaceful pursuits of private life the exalting and ennobling influence of free institutions upon a nation has been so signally manifested to the world.
Approved, May 3, 1866. No. 34: extending the Time for the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division. Resolution 34 1866-05-07 14 Stat. 355 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 34.] Joint Resolution extending the Time for the Completion of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division.
May 7, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the time for the completion ofTime for completing the eastern division of the Union Pacific Railway extended.1862, ch. 120. Vol. xii. p. 480. 1865, ch. 216, § 5. Vol. xiii. p. 358. the first one hundred miles of railroad and telegraph line by the Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company, (since called the “Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division,”) mentioned in the tenth section of the charter of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, of July first, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, and in the fifth section of the amendment thereof, of July second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same is hereby, extended until the twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six; and that the time for completing each succeeding section of one hundred milesSucceeding sections. shall be reckoned from the said twenty-seventh day of June in said year.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved, *That the time for commencing andNorthern Pacific railroad. completing the Northern Pacific Railroad, and all its several sections, is extended for the term of two years. Approved, May 7, 1866. No. 35: to provide for the Exemption of Crude Petroleum from Internal Tax or Duty, and for other Purposes. Resolution 35 1866-05-09 14 Stat. 355 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 35.] Joint Resolution to provide for the Exemption of Crude Petroleum from Internal Tax or Duty, and for other Purposes. May 9, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That paraffine oil, not exceedingCrude petroleum, &c. to be exempt from internal tax. in specific gravity thirty-six degrees Baume’s hydrometer, the product of a residuum of distillation; crude petroleum; and crude oil, the product of the first and single distillation of coal, shale, asphaltum, peat, or other bituminous substances, shall, from and after the passage of this joint resolution, be exempt from internal tax or duty.
Approved, May 9, 1866. No. 37: relative to the attempted Assassination of the Emperor of Russia. Resolution 37 1866-05-16 14 Stat. 355 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 37.] Joint Resolution relative to the attempted Assassination of the Emperor of Russia. May 16, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Congress of the UnitedCongratulations of Congress that the Emperor of Russia escaped assassination.
States of America has learned with deep regret of the attempt made upon the life of the Emperor of Russia, by an enemy of emancipation. The Congress sends greeting to his Imperial Majesty, and to the Russian nation, and congratulates the twenty millions of serfs upon the providential escape from danger of the sovereign, to whose head and heart they owe the blessings of their freedom. Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved, *That the President of the UnitedPresident requested to forward copy States be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to the Emperor of Russia.
Approved, May 16, 1866. No. 38: relative to the Courts and Post Office of New York City. Resolution 38 1866-05-16 14 Stat. 356 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public 356 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 38, 39, 40, 41. 1866. [No. 38.] Joint Resolution relative to the Courts and Post Office of New York City.
May 16, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Commission to select site for post office and court house in New York city; That the mayor and postmaster of the city of New York, the district attorney for the United States at New York city, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, and Jackson S. Shultz, Charles H. Russell, and Moses Taylor, of New York city, be appointed a commission to select a proper site for a building for a post office and for the accommodation of the United States courts in the city of New York; and that they report to the Postmaster-General and the Secretary of the Interior, at their earliest convenience, the selection upon which they, or a majority of them, may agree, and the price at which such site can be purchased by the government for the purposes contemplated in this resolution, if a new site should to make report.be selected; and that if said report shall meet the approbation of the Postmaster-General and the Secretary of the Interior, they shall communicate the same, with such additional suggestions as they may think proper, to Congress.
Approved, May 16, 1866. No. 39: authorizing the Secretary of War to grant the Use of certain Lumber for the Fair for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home. Resolution 39 1866-05-16 14 Stat. 356 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 39.] A Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to grant the Use of certain Lumber for the Fair for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home.
May 16, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Lumber may be used for fair. That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to grant the use of lumber not demanded by the Department for immediate use, for the erection of temporary buildings in the city of Washington for the National Fair for the benefit of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home. Approved, May 16, 1866. No. 40: to extend the Time for the Construction of the first Section of the Western Pacific Railroad.
Resolution 40 1866-05-21 14 Stat. 356 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 40.] A Resolution to extend the Time for the Construction of the first Section of the Western Pacific Railroad. May 21, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Time for construction of first section of Western Pacific Railroad extended, upon conditions, &c.
That the time for the construction of the first twenty miles of the “Western Pacific railroad” be extended to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; but this extension is upon the condition to be accepted by said company, and notice of such acceptance to be given by them to the Secretary of the Interior, that the lands known as the lands of the ex-mission of San Jose as included in the map and survey thereof made October, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, by E.
H. Dyer, Deputy United States Surveyor, shall not be included in the grant heretofore made to the said Western Pacific Railroad Company. Approved, May 21, 1866. No. 41: to authorize certain Medals to be distributed to Veteran Soldiers free of Postage. Resolution 41 1866-05-26 14 Stat. 356 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 41.] A Resolution to authorize certain Medals to be distributed to Veteran Soldiers free of Postage.
May 21, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Certain medals to veteran soldiers to be free of postage. That the adjutant-general of the State of Ohio is hereby authorized to distribute through the mails free of postage, to veteran soldiers re-enlisted in Ohio, certain medals furnished by the general assembly of that State, and in such case the envelope enclosing the same shall be franked by such adjutant-general in the mode prescribed by the Postmaster-General.
Approved, May 26, 1866. No. 42: respecting Quarantine and Health Laius. Resolution 42 1866-05-26 14 Stat. 357 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 42, 43, 44, 45, 46. 1866. 357 [No. 42.] Joint Resolution respecting Quarantine and Health Laius. May 26, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theSecretary of Treasury may make quarantine regulations against cholera in aid of State authorities.
Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to make and carry into effect such orders and regulations of quarantine as, in his opinion, may be deemed necessary and proper, in aid of State or municipal authorities, to guard against the introduction of the cholera into the ports of the United States; and the Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized to direct the revenue officers and the officers commanding revenue cutters to aid in theRevenue officers and cutters. execution of such quarantine, and also in the execution of the health laws of the States respectively in such manner as may to him seem necessary.
And sucli an amount of money as may be necessary to carry into effectAppropriation.Authority, when to expire. this joint resolution is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; provided the authority hereby granted shall expire on the first Monday in January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Approved, May 26, 1866. No. 43: providing for the Acceptance of a Collection of Plants tendered to the United States by Frederick Pech.
Resolution 43 1866-05-26 14 Stat. 357 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 43.] A Resolution providing for the Acceptance of a Collection of Plants tendered to the United States by Frederick Pech. May 26, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the United States acceptCollection of plants, tendered by Frederick Pech, to be accepted.Appropriation. the collection of plants tendered by Frederick Pech by his memorial of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and that the same be deposited in the department of agriculture; and the sum of three hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the commissioner of agriculture to procure suitable cases for the protection of such plants.
Approved, May 26, 1866. No. 44: authorizing the Appointment of Examiners to examine a Site for a Fresh-Water Basin for Iron-Clad Vessels of the United States Navy. Resolution 44 1866-06-01 14 Stat. 357 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 44.] A Resolution authorizing the Appointment of Examiners to examine a Site for a Fresh-Water Basin for Iron-Clad Vessels of the United States Navy.
June 1, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the NavyBoard to examine site, near Portland, Maine, for fresh-water basin for ironclads.Report. be authorized and directed to appoint a board of examiners to examine a site at or near Portland, Maine, for a fresh-water basin for iron-clad vessels of the United States navy, and to ascertain the advantages and cost of said site, and report to this Congress during the present session.
Approved, June 1, 1866. No. 45: authorizing [the] Postmaster-General to pay additional Salary to Letter-Carriers in San Francisco. Resolution 45 1866-06-06 14 Stat. 357 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 45.] Joint Resolution authorizing [the] Postmaster-General to pay additional Salary to Letter-Carriers in San Francisco.
June 6, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Postmaster-GeneralAdditional salary to letter-carriers in San Francisco. be authorized to pay such additional salary to letter-carriers in San Francisco, above that provided by law, as may be necessary to secure competent persons for such service. Approved, June 6, 1866. No. 46: respecting Bounties to Colored Soldiers, and the Pensions, Bounties, and Allowances to their Heirs.
Resolution 46 1866-06-15 14 Stat. 357 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 46.] A Resolution respecting Bounties to Colored Soldiers, and the Pensions, Bounties, and Allowances to their Heirs. June 15, 1866.See *Post*, p. 367. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the omission in the muster-rollsPresumption to hold that a colored soldier of the voids free on or before April nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall not deprive any colored soldier of the bounty to 358 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 46, 47, 48. 1866. was a freeman at the time of enlistment, when nothing to the contrary appears.1864, ch. 124, § 4.Vol. xiii. p. 129.which he is entitled, and which is now or may hereafter be withheld by reason of such omission, but where nothing appears on the muster-roll or of record to show that a colored soldier was not a freeman at the date aforesaid, under the provision of the fourth section of the “Act making appropriations for the support of the army, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five,” the presumption shall be that the person was free at the time of his enlistment.
Sec. 2. What to be sufficient proof of marriage of colored soldier, to secure arrears of pay, &c. due at his death.Issue of such marriage to be lawful heirs. *And be it further resolved, *That in determining who is or was the wife, widow, or heirs of any colored soldier, evidence that he and the woman claimed to be his wife or widow were joined in marriage by some ceremony deemed by them obligatory, followed by their living together as husband and wife up to the time of enlistment, shall be deemed sufficient proof of such marriage for the purpose of securing any arrears of pay, pension or other allowances due any colored soldier at the time of his death; and the children born of any such marriage shall be held and taken to be the lawful children and heirs of such soldier.
Approved, June 15, 1866. No. 47: making an Appropriation to enable the President to negotiate Treaties with certain Indian Tribes. Resolution 47 1866-06-15 14 Stat. 358 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 47.] A Resolution making an Appropriation to enable the President to negotiate Treaties with certain Indian Tribes.
June 15, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Appropriation for negotiating treaties with certain Indian tribes. That one hundred and twenty-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents, 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 enable the President to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes of the Upper Missouri, and the Upper Platte rivers; said sum to be expended by the commissioner of Indian affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, June 15, 1866. No. 48: proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Resolution 48 1866-06-16 14 Stat. 358 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 48.] Joint Resolution proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. June 16, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* (two thirds of both Houses concurring.
) Proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States. That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of said legislatures, shall be valid as part of the Constitution, namely:— " Article XIV.Article xiv. Sec. 1. Who are citizens of the United States and of the States; their privileges and immunities. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Sec. 2. Apportionment of representatives. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.
But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a State, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which THIRTY-NINTH CONGUESS.
Sess. I. Res. 48, 49. 1866. 359 the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. Sec. 3. No person shall be a senator, or representative in Congress,Certain persons disqualified from holding office. or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
But Congress mayHow disability may be removed. by a vote of two thirds of each house remove such disability. Sec. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorizedThe validity of the public debt not to be questioned.Certain debts and obligations not to be assumed or paid. by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Sec. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation,This article may be enforced by legislation. the provisions of this article. SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives*. LA FAYETTE S. FOSTER, *President of the Senate pro tempore*. Attest: Edw. McPherson, *Clerk of the House of Representatives*. J. W. Forney, *Secretary of the Senate*, " Received at Department of State June 16, 1866, No. 49: relative to Appointments to the Military Academy of the United States.
Resolution 49 1866-06-16 14 Stat. 359 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 49.] Joint Resolution relative to Appointments to the Military Academy of the United States. June 16, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the age for the admission ofAge for admission of cadets to United States Military Academy. cadets to the United States Military Academy shall hereafter be between seventeen and twenty-two years; but any person who has served honorably and faithfully not less than one year as an officer or enlisted man in the army of the United States, either as a volunteer or in the regular service, in the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, and who possesses the other qualifications prescribed by law, shall be eligible to appointment up to the age of twenty-four years.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved, *That cadets at the Military AcademyCadets to be appointed one year in advance of their admission, except, &c.Pay to commence after admission.New requirements for admission. shall hereafter be appointed one year in advance of the time of their admission, except in cases where, by reason of death or other cause, a vacancy occurs which cannot be thus provided for by such appointment in advance; but no pay or allowance shall be made to any such appointee until he shall be regularly admitted on examination as now provided by law; nor shall this provision apply to appointments to be made in the present year.
And in addition to the requirements necessary for admission as provided by the third section of the “Act making further provisions for the corps of engineers,” approved April twenty-nine, eighteen1812, ch. 72. Vol. ii. p. 720. hundred and twelve, candidates shall be required to have a knowledge of the elements of English grammar, of descriptive geography, particularly of our own country, and of the history of the United States. Sec. 3. *And be it further resolved, *That, in all appointments of cadetsMode of appointments.[Repealed. 1867, ch. 170, § 3, *Post*, p. 487.] to the military academy after those who enter the present year, the person authorized to nominate shall nominate not less than five candidates for each vacancy, all of whom shall be actual residents of the Con- 360 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 49, 50, 51, 52, 53. 1866. gressional district, Territory, or District of Columbia, entitled to the appointment; and the selection of one shall be made from the candidates according to their respective merits and qualifications, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of War shall from time to time prescribe. Appointments at large.And in like manner the President of the United States shall be authorized hereafter to nominate fifty at large each year, instead of ten as now provided by law, who shall be examined under like regulations, and of whom the ten who may be reported as most meritorious and best qualified Proviso.shall be appointed: *Provided, however,* That not more than two of these shall be appointed in any year from one State.
Approved, June 16, 1866. No. 50: to extend to the Counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, of West Virginia, the Provisions of the Act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An Act to restrict the Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and to provide for the Payment of certain Demands for Quartermasters’ Stores and Subsistence Supplies furnished to the Army of the United States.” Resolution 50 1866-06-18 14 Stat. 360 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 50.] Joint Resolution to extend to the Counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, of West Virginia, the Provisions of the Act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An Act to restrict the Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and to provide for the Payment of certain Demands for Quartermasters’ Stores and Subsistence Supplies furnished to the Army of the United States.” June 18, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Provisions of act 1864, ch. 240, extended to Berkeley and Jefferson counties, West Virginia.
That the provisions of the act of Congress of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act to restrict the jurisdiction of the court of claims, and for other purposes,” be and the same are hereby construed to extend to the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, of the State of West Virginia. Approved, June 18, 1866. No. 51: making an Appropriation for the Repair of the Potomac Bridge. Resolution 51 1866-06-18 14 Stat. 360 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 51.] Joint Resolution making an Appropriation for the Repair of the Potomac Bridge. June 18, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Appropriation for repair of Potomac bridge. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the commissioner of public buildings to place the Potomac bridge in such repair as to render it permanently passable, the work to be done immediately after the approval of this joint resolution.
Approved, June 18, 1866. No. 52: to provide for the Payment of Bounty to certain Indian Regiments. Resolution 52 1866-06-18 14 Stat. 360 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 52.] A Resolution to provide for the Payment of Bounty to certain Indian Regiments. June 18, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Bounty to be paid to the enlisted men of certain Indian regiments.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid to the enlisted men of the first, second, and third Indian regiments the bounty of one hundred dollars, under the same regulations and restrictions as now determine the payment of bounty to other volunteers in the service of the United States. Approved, June 18, 1866. No. 53: explanatory of and in Addition to, the Act of May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An Act granting Lands to aid in the Construction of certain Railroads in Wisconsin.
” Resolution 53 1866-06-21 14 Stat. 360 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 53.] A Resolution explanatory of and in Addition to, the Act of May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An Act granting Lands to aid in the Construction of certain Railroads in Wisconsin.” June 21, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * The words “in a Northwestern direction,” how to be construed in authorizing the location of the road.
That the words “in a northwestern direction,” in the third section of the act entitled “An act granting lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads in the State of Wisconsin,” approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four shall, without forfeiture to said State, or its assigns, of any rights or benefits under said act, or exemption from any of the conditions or obligations imposed thereby, be construed to authorize the location of the line of said THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 54, 55, 57, 58. 1866. 361 road, in said third section provided for, along and upon the following route, that is to say: from the city of Portage, by the way of the city of Ripon, in the county of Fond du Lac, and the city of Berlin, in the county of Green Lake, to Steven’s Point, and thence to Bayfield, and thence to Superior, on Lake Superior. And the Legislature of the said State of Wisconsin, having, in and by an act entitled “An act to incorporateCongress assents to the location of the Portage and Superior Railroad Company; the Portage and Superior Railroad Company, and to execute the trust created by section three of the act of Congress entitled ‘An [Act] granting lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads in the State of Wisconsin,’ approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,” approved April—, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, authorized and required the said Portage and Superior Railroad Company to construct the line of road in the said third section of the said act of Congress provided for, upon and along the route hereinbefore set forth and described, the Congress of the United States hereby gives its assent to the route of the said railroad, as the same is hereinbefore described and set forth, and consentsand consents to the selection and application of the lands. to the selection and application of the lands granted to the State of Wisconsin by the third section of the said act of Congress hereinbefore mentioned, for and to the line of the said railroad, as the same is hereinbefore defined and described, in the same manner and with the same effect as if the said railroad was located and constructed in strict conformity with and upon the route prescribed in the said third section of the said act of Congress.
It being the intention of this resolution to give the assent of theIntention of this resolution. United States to the disposition made by the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin of the land grant herein referred to, and the change of route for the railroad in aid of which the same is granted, and not to make any other disposition, change, or alteration of the grant aforesaid. Approved, June 21, 1866. No. 55: for the Restoration of Lieutenant-Commander Richard L. Law, United States Navy, to the Active List from the Reserved List.
Resolution 55 1866-06-22 14 Stat. 361 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 55.] A Resolution for the Restoration of Lieutenant-Commander Richard L. Law, United States Navy, to the Active List from the Reserved List. June 22, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the President of theRichard L.
Law may be restored to active list of the navy. United States be authorized to nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint, Lieutenant-Commander Richard L. Law to the Active List of the Navy, and restore him to his original rank in the grade of lieutenant-commander. Approved, June 22, 1866. No. 57: to authorize the Distribution of Surplus Copies of the American State Papers in the Custody of the Secretary of the Interior. Resolution 57 1866-06-23 14 Stat. 361 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 57.] Joint Resolution to authorize the Distribution of Surplus Copies of the American State Papers in the Custody of the Secretary of the Interior. June 23, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the InteriorDistribution of surplus copies of American state papers. be, and he is hereby, directed to distribute by mail or otherwise four hundred copies of the American state papers, second series, in seventeen volumes, in the manner following, to wit:— To each member of the Senate and House of Representatives of the present Congress, one copy of each of said seventeen volumes; and to such public and college libraries as may be designated by the joint committee on the library, one copy each.
Approved, June 23, 1866. No. 58: to pay the State of Vermont the Sum expended for the Protection of the Frontier against the Invasion from Canada, in eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Resolution 58 1866-06-23 14 Stat. 361 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 58.] Joint Resolution to pay the State of Vermont the Sum expended for the Protection of the Frontier against the Invasion from Canada, in eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
June 23, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of the TreasuryVermont to be paid for expenses for defence and be, and hereby is, authorized to pay the State of Vermont any sum 362 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 58, 62, 63, 66. 1866. protection of frontier.that may be found due, after the same shall have been audited by the proper officers of the Treasury Department, expended by the State of Vermont for the defence and protection of the frontier from invasion from Proviso.Canada, in eighteen hundred and sixty-four: *Provided,* That the amount to be audited and paid shall not exceed the sum of sixteen thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-one cents.
Approved, June 23, 1866. No. 62: for the Construction of a Railroad Bridge across the Cuyahoga River, over and upon the Government Piers at Cleveland, Ohio. Resolution 62 1866-07-03 14 Stat. 362 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 62.] A Resolution for the Construction of a Railroad Bridge across the Cuyahoga River, over and upon the Government Piers at Cleveland, Ohio.
July 3, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * A swing bridge may be erected upon government piers across Cuyahoga river, at Cleveland, Ohio. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to permit the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company and the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad Company jointly, or either of said companies for their joint use or separate use, to erect a swing bridge over and upon the government piers, for the passage of cars across the Cuyahoga river at the city of Cleveland in the State of Ohio, upon such plan as shall hereafter be approved by the city council of said city of Cleveland and by the board of trade of the same city, subject, however, to such conditions, restrictions, and limitations as said Secretary of War may see fit to impose at any period of time, whether prior or subsequent to the erection of said bridge: *Provided,* [That] this resolution and all acts done under it shall be subject to the future action of Congress.
Approved, July 3, 1866. No. 63: to authorize the Hiring of a Building or Buildings for the temporary Accommodation of the Department of State. Resolution 63 1866-07-03 14 Stat. 362 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 63.] A Resolution to authorize the Hiring of a Building or Buildings for the temporary Accommodation of the Department of State.
July 3, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Buildings may be hired for the temporary use of Department of State. That the Secretary of State be authorized to hire a suitable building or buildings for the temporary accommodation of the Department of State, and that such sum of money, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, as may be necessary towards defraying the expense of such hiring, the transfer of the public archives, and the fitting up of the building or buildings, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 3, 1866. No. 66: to enable the People of the United States to participate in the Advantages of the Universal Exhibition at Paris, in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. Resolution 66 1866-07-05 14 Stat. 363 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 66.] Joint Resolution to enable the People of the United States to participate in the Advantages of the Universal Exhibition at Paris, in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
July 5, 1866.See *Ante*, p. 347.*Post*, p. 563. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Appropriation for participation in the Universal Exhibition at Paris. That, in order to enable the people of the United States to participate in the advantages of the universal exhibition of the productions of agriculture, manufactures, and the fine arts, to be held at Paris, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes severally specified, are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:— First.
Furniture and fixtures. To provide necessary furniture and fixtures for the proper exhibition of the productions of the United States, according to the plan of the imperial commissioners, in that part of the building exclusively assigned to the use of the United States, forty-eight thousand dollars. Secondly. Additional accommodations. To provide additional accommodations in the park, twenty-five thousand dollars. Thirdly. Principal agent. For the compensation of the principal agent of the exhibition in the United States, at the rate of two thousand dollars a year: *Pro-* THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 66, 67. 1866. 363 *vided,* That the period of such service shall not extend beyond sixty days after the close of the exhibition, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary. Fourthly. For office rent at New York, for fixtures, stationery, andOffice rent at New York, &c. advertising; for rent of storehouse for reception of articles and products; for expenses of shipping, including cartages, &c.; for freights on the articles to be exhibited from New York to France, and for compensation of four clerks, in conformity with the joint resolution approved on the fifteenth*Ante*, p. 347. of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for contingent expenses, the sum of thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary.
Fifthly. For expenses in receiving, bonding, storage, cartage, labor,Expenses at Havre and Paris and so forth, at Havre; for railway transportation from Havre to Paris; for labor in the palace; for sweeping and sprinkling compartments for seven months; for guards and keepers for seven months; for linguists (eight men) for seven months; for storing, packing-boxes, carting, and for material for repacking; for clerk-hire, stationery, rent, and contingent expenses, the sum of thirty-five thousand seven hundred and three dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary.
Sixthly. For the travelling expenses of ten professional and scientificExpenses of commissioners. commissioners, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, at the rate of one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars, it being understood that the President may appoint additionalAdditional commissioners. commissioners, not exceeding twenty in number, whose expenses shall not be paid; but no person interested, directly or indirectly, in anyWho shall not be commissioners. article exhibited shall be a commissioner; nor shall any member of Congress, or any person holding an appointment or office of honor or trust under the United States be appointed a commissioner, agent, or officer under this resolution.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved, *That the governors of the severalThe people of the States invited to take part in the exhibition. States be, and they are hereby, requested to invite the patriotic people of their respective States to assist in the proper representation of the handiwork of our artisans, and the prolific sources of material wealth with which our land is blessed, and to take such further measures as may be necessary to diffuse a knowledge of the proposed exhibition, and to secure to their respective States the advantages which it promises.
Sec. 3. *And be it further resolved, *That it shall be the duty of the saidDetailed statement to be made of expenditures hereby authorized. general agent at New York, and the said commissioner-general at Paris, to transmit to Congress, through the Department of State, a detailed statement of the manner in which such expenditures as are hereinbefore provide[d] for are made by them respectively. Approved, July 5, 1866. No. 67: declaratory of the Law of Bounty. Resolution 67 1866-07-13 14 Stat. 363 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 67.] Joint Resolution declaratory of the Law of Bounty. July 13, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That where any enlisted manEnlisted men detailed for special duty not thereby to be deprived of bounty. has been or may be detailed for duty as a clerk or for any other duty in any executive bureau, at headquarters or elsewhere, he shall not by such detail be deprived of any rights to bounties now due or hereafter to become due, but shall be as fully entitled thereto as though no such detail had been made.
Approved, July 13, 1866. No. 69: to authorize the President to place at the Disposal of the Authorities of Portland, Maine, Tents, Camp, and Hospital Furniture and Clothing, for the Use of Families rendered houseless by the late Fire. Resolution 69 1866-07-14 14 Stat. 364 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public 364 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 69, 73, 74. 1866. [No. 69.] A Resolution to authorize the President to place at the Disposal of the Authorities of Portland, Maine, Tents, Camp, and Hospital Furniture and Clothing, for the Use of Families rendered houseless by the late Fire. July 14, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Certain clothing, camp equipage, bedding, &c. to be placed at the disposal of the authorities of Portland, Maine.
That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to place at the disposal, without charge, of the city authorities of Portland, Maine, such clothing, condemned or ordered sold, and such surplus camp and garrison equipage, bedding, and hospital furniture, on hand, as can be spared by the army, for the use of families rendered houseless and destitute by the recent conflagration; and that it shall be the duty of the quartermaster’s department to deliver these articles at Portland, and to take a receipt for the same of the mayor of the said city, and to receive and properly dispose of the same when no longer needed.
Approved, July 14, 1866. No. 73: restoring Tennessee to her Relations to the Union. Resolution 73 1866-07-24 14 Stat. 364 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 73.] Joint Resolution restoring Tennessee to her Relations to the Union. July 24, 1866. Preamble.Whereas, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the government of the State of Tennessee was seized upon and taken possession of by persons in hostility to the United States, and the inhabitants of said State in pursuance of an act of Congress were declared to be in a state of insurrection against the United States; and whereas said State government can only be restored to its former political relations in the Union by the consent of the law-making power of the United States; and whereas the people of said State did, on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, by a large popular vote, adopt and ratify a constitution of government whereby slavery was abolished, and all ordinances and laws of secession and debts contracted under the same were declared void; and whereas a State government has been organized under said constitution which has ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishing slavery, also the amendment proposed by the thirty-ninth Congress, and has done other acts proclaiming and denoting loyalty:
Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Tennessee declared restored to the Union. That the State of Tennessee is hereby restored to her former proper, practical relations to the Union, and is again entitled to be represented by senators and representatives in Congress. Approved, July 24, 1866. No. 74: in Regard to Rations of Union Soldiers held as Prisoners of War. Resolution 74 1866-07-25 14 Stat. 364 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 74.] Joint Resolution in Regard to Rations of Union Soldiers held as Prisoners of War. July 25, 1866. Preamble.Whereas by general order of the war department of February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, rations to Union soldiers held as See 1867, ch. 145, § 3.*Post*, p. 422.prisoners of war in the rebel States, were commuted at a cost price during the period of their imprisonment; and whereas a large number of the said prisoners have been paid under said order, but many equally worthy with them and who have suffered in rebel prisons, have not been so paid:
Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Union soldiers, sailors, and marines held as prisoners in the rebel States, to be paid commutation of rations at cost prices.Proviso. That all United States soldiers, sailors and marines who were held as prisoners of war in the rebel States, shall be paid commutation of rations at cost prices during the period of their imprisonment: *Provided,* That no person who has sold or transferred any interest in the claim for said commutation, nor any purchaser or assignee of such claim or interest, shall be benefited by this resolution; and the amount of such commutation shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 25, 1866. No. 75: in Reference to the Dismal Swamp Canal Company. Resolution 75 1866-07-13 14 Stat. 365 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 75, 76, 77, 79. 1866. 365 [No. 75.] Joint Resolution in Reference to the Dismal Swamp Canal Company. July 25, 1866.
Whereas the United States are interested in the Dismal Swamp Canal,Preamble. connecting the inland waters of the Chesapeake with the sounds of North Carolina, by holding eight hundred shares of the stock of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company; and whereas the canal should be kept open as a navigable highway without further outlay on the part of the United States: Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * The stock of the United States in the Dismal Swamp Canal to be sold, and how.
That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to sell said stock at auction, or otherwise, in such manner as will best protect the interest of the United States in said canal, and will insure that the same will be kept open as such navigable highway, without further expense to the government: *Provided,*Proviso. That the instruments and papers effecting such sale, in the manner aforesaid, shall be approved by the Attorney-General before the delivery thereof.
Approved, July 25, 1866. No. 76: authorizing the Commissioner of Public Buildings to employ three additional Watchmen in the Smithsonian Grounds. Resolution 76 1866-07-25 14 Stat. 365 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 76.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Commissioner of Public Buildings to employ three additional Watchmen in the Smithsonian Grounds.
July 25, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the commissioner of publicAdditional watchmen for Smithsonian, grounds. buildings and grounds be, and the same is hereby, authorized to employ three additional watchmen for the Smithsonian grounds. Approved, July 25, 1866. No. 77: to authorize the Purchase for the Library of Congress of the Law Library of James L. Petigru, of South Carolina. Resolution 77 1866-07-25 14 Stat. 365 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 77.] A Resolution to authorize the Purchase for the Library of Congress of the Law Library of James L. Petigru, of South Carolina. July 25, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the joint committee on theLaw library of James Louis Petigru to be bought for the library of Congress.Appropriation. library be and they are hereby, authorized to purchase the law library belonging to the estate of the late James Louis Petigru, for the use of the library of Congress; and the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the purpose of this resolution, to be paid only to the use of the widow of the said Petigru.
Approved, July 25, 1866. No. 79: manifesting the Sense of Congress towards the Officers and Seamen of the Vessels, and others, engaged in the Rescue of the Officers and Soldiers of the Army, the Passengers, and the Officers and Crew of the Steamship San Francisco, from perishing with the Wreck of that Vessel. Resolution 79 1866-07-26 14 Stat. 365 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 79.] A Resolution manifesting the Sense of Congress towards the Officers and Seamen of the Vessels, and others, engaged in the Rescue of the Officers and Soldiers of the Army, the Passengers, and the Officers and Crew of the Steamship San Francisco, from perishing with the Wreck of that Vessel. July 26, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the President of the UnitedGold medals to be presented, as testimonials of national gratitude for the rescue of the passengers, officers, and men of the wrecked steamship San Francisco.
States be requested to procure three valuable gold medals, with suitable devices, one to be presented to Captain Creighton, of the ship Three Bells, of Glasgow; one to Captain Low, of the bark Kilby, of Boston; and one to Captain Stouffer, of the ship Antar[cjtic, as testimonials of national gratitude for their gallant conduct in rescuing about five hundred Americans from the wreck of the steamship San Francisco; and that the cost of the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved, *That the sum of seven thousandReward of $ 7500 to each master of the vessels participating in the rescue. five hundred dollars each is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the above-named captains respectively, as a reward of their humanity and heroism in the rescue of the sur- 366 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 79, 80, 81, 82. 1866. vivors of said wreck, and in case either of the said captains may have died, then the amount hereby appropriated shall be paid to the widow of said deceased captain respectively; if no widow surviving then to the respective child or children of such deceased captain; and in the event of their being no child or children of such deceased captain surviving, then the amount hereby appropriated shall be paid first to the father, or, if the father be not living, then to the mother of such deceased captain respectively.
Sec. 3. Reward of $ 500 to each mate, and $100 to each man and boy of said vessels. *And be it further resolved, *That there shall be paid to each mate of the three above-named vessels the sum of five hundred dollars, and to each man and boy the sum of one hundred dollars, and in case of the death of the respective mate or mates, or men and boys, that the said respective sums shall be paid in the same way and under the same conditions as the payment is to be made in case of the death of the respective captains.
Approved, July, 26, 1866. No. 80: to authorize the Use of certain Plates of the United States Exploring Expedition by the Navy Department. Resolution 80 1866-07-26 14 Stat. 366 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 80.] A Resolution to authorize the Use of certain Plates of the United States Exploring Expedition by the Navy Department.
July 26, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * The use of certain engraved plates of the United States Exploring Expedition to be granted to the Navy Department. That the joint committee on the library be authorized and instructed to grant to the navy department the use of such of the engraved plates of the United States Exploring Expedition under Captain Wilkes, now in charge of said committee, as may be desired for the purpose of printing a supply of charts for the use of said department.
Approved, July 26, 1866. No. 81: for the Benefit of the Illinois Soldiers’ College and Military Academy. Resolution 81 1866-07-26 14 Stat. 366 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 81.] A Resolution for the Benefit of the Illinois Soldiers’ College and Military Academy. July 26, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Cots and bedding for five hundred persons granted to the Illinois Soldiers’ College, &c. for use of free students therein, disabled by the war.
That the Secretary of War be authorized to transfer to the Illinois Soldiers’ College and Military Academy, from the surplus on hand and not needed for the public service, cots and bedding necessary to accommodate five hundred persons for the use of free students in said institution disabled by the war. Approved, July 26, 1866. No. 82: authorizing the Payment of certain Claims against the late Territory of Nevada. Resolution 82 1866-07-26 14 Stat. 366 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 82.] A Resolution authorizing the Payment of certain Claims against the late Territory of Nevada. July 26, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Payment of certain claims against the late Territory of Nevada That, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to settle and pay outstanding claims duly examined and allowed, and properly chargeable to the contingent expenses of the executive department of the Territory of Nevada, so much of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “compensation and mileage of members of the Legislative Assembly, &c., of the Territory of Nevada,” as may be found necessary for that purpose, be, and the same is hereby, transferred to the credit, of the fund for paying the contingent expenses of the executive department of that Territory, and that the proper accounting officers of the treasury are hereby authorized and directed, out of the said balance, hereby directed to be transferred, to pay the claims so adjusted and allowed.
Approved, July 26, 1866. No. 83: to provide for Codifying the Laws relating to the Customs. Resolution 83 1866-07-26 14 Stat. 367 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 83, 84, 85, 86. 1866. 367 [No. 83.] A Resolution to provide for Codifying the Laws relating to the Customs.
July 26, 1866.See *Post*, p. 567. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theA general customs revenue law to be prepared and submitted to Congress. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be prepared and submitted to Congress at its next session, under the direction of one member of the Senate and one member of the House of Representatives, each to be appointed by the presiding officer of the body to which he belongs, a general customs revenue law, designed to supersede all other laws on that subject, and embracing all necessary provisions for regulating the foreign and coasting trades, the assessment and collection of duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported from foreign countries, and other subject-matters immediately pertaining thereto; the expenses necessarily incurred in the preparation thereof to be paid from the appropriation for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs: *Provided,* That the said expenses shall not exce[e]d ten thousand dollars.
Approved, July 26, 1866. No. 84: providing for the Examination of the Accounts of the State of Massachusetts for Moneys expended during the Warfor Coast Defence. Resolution 84 1866-07-26 14 Stat. 367 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 84.] A Resolution providing for the Examination of the Accounts of the State of Massachusetts for Moneys expended during the Warfor Coast Defence.
July 26, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the President of theClaim of Massachusetts for expenses for coast defence to be examined. United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, two commissioners who shall examine into the claim of the State of Massachusetts for moneys expended for coast defence during the war, and shall make a full and complete report thereon to Congress at its next session.
Approved, July 26, 1866. No. 85: granting the Right of Way through Military Reserves to the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its Branches. Resolution 85 1866-07-26 14 Stat. 367 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 85.] A Resolution granting the Right of Way through Military Reserves to the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its Branches.
July 26, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That, subject to approval byRight of way granted to the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its branches through the military reserves.Grant for depot and other purposes. the President, the right of way, one hundred feet in width, is hereby granted to the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the companies constructing the branch roads connecting therewith, for the construction and operation of their roads over and upon all miltary reserves through which the same may pass; and the President is hereby authorized to set apart to the Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division, twenty acres of the Fort Riley military reservation, for depot and other purposes, in the bottom opposite “Riley City”; also fractional section “one” on the west side of said reservation, near Junction City, for the same purposes; andSuch portions of these reserves as are not needed for military purposes to be restored to public domain.Usefulness for military purposes not to be interfered with. also to restore, from time to time, to the public domain, any portion of said military reserve over which the Union Pacific railroad, or any of its branches, may pass, and which shall not be required for military purposes: *Provided,* That the President shall not permit the location of any such railroad or the diminution of any such reserve in any manner so as to impair its usefulness for military purposes, so long as it shall be required therefor.
Approved, July 26, 1866. No. 86: amendatory of a Joint Resolution entitled “A Resolution respecting Bounties to Colored Soldiers, and the Pensions, Bounties, and Allowances to their Heirs,” approved June 15, 1866. Resolution 86 1866-07-26 14 Stat. 367 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 86.] Joint Resolution *amendatory of a Joint Resolution entitled “A Resolution respecting Bounties to Colored Soldiers, and the Pensions, Bounties, and Allowances to their Heirs,” approved June* 15, 1866.
July 26, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the words “at the time ofThe words “at the time of his enlistment,” at bis enlistment,” at the end of section one of the “resolution respecting 368 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 86, 87. 1866. end of section one, stricken ont.bounties to colored soldiers, and the pensions, bounties, and allowances to their heirs,” approved June fifteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, be, and the same are hereby, stricken out.
Sec. 2. Agent or attorney making claim for bounty must file with each claim his oath that, &c. *And be it further resolved, *That whenever application shall be made by any claimant for bounty under the provisions of the joint resolution aforesaid, by or through any agent or attorney, such agent or attorney shall hereafter be required to file with each claim his oath or affirmation that he has no interest whatever in said bounty beyond the fees for collection of the same, which are hereby fixed and established as Fees of agents.follows, viz: for the preparation and prosecution of claims for, and the collection and remittance of, all sums not exceeding fifty dollars, the sum of five dollars; for all sums exceeding fifty and less than one hundred dollars, the sum of seven (dollars and fifty cents; and for all sums exceeding one hundred dollars, the sum of ten dollars; and said fees shall include all expenses incident to the collection of said claims, except the expense of the necessary affidavits and notarial or other acknowledgments, Penalty for charging more than legal fees.which shall be defrayed by the claimant; and any agent or attorney who shall charge, directly or indirectly, in any case, a greater sum for his services in preparing and prosecuting said claims and collecting and remitting the amount due, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding three thousand nor less than one thousand dollars, and shall be forever excluded from prosecuting military or naval claims against the government.
Sec. 3. If payments are made by check, &c. claimant how to establish his identity. *And be it further resolved, *That in case the payments shall be made in the form of a check, order, or draft upon any paymaster, national bank, or government depository, it shall be necessary for the claimant to establish, by the affidavits of two credible witnesses, that he is the identical person named therein; but in no case shall such checks, orders, or drafts be made negotiable until after such identification.
Sec. 4. Soldiers not to sell or assign, &c. discharges, &c.Such sales, &c. void. *And be it further resolved, *That it shall not be lawful for any soldier to transfer, assign, barter, or sell his discharge, for the purpose of transferring, assigning, bartering, or selling any interest in any bounty under the provisions of said resolution; and all such transfers, assignments, barters, or sales heretofore made are hereby declared null and void as to any rights intended so to be conveyed by any such soldier.
Approved, July 26, 1866. No. 87: for the Relief of certain Officers of the Army. Resolution 87 1866-07-26 14 Stat. 368 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 87.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of certain Officers of the Army. July 26, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Certain commissioned officers actually entering on duty, but not mustered in within &c. to have full pay from what date.
That in every case in which a commissioned officer actually entered on duty as such commissioned officer, but by reason of being killed in battle, capture by the enemy, or other cause beyond his control, and without fault or neglect of his own, was not mustered within a period of not less than thirty days, the pay department shall allow to such officer full pay and emoluments of his rank from the date on which such officer actually entered on such duty as aforesaid, deducting from the amount paid in accordance with this resolution all pay actually received by such officer for such period.
Sec. 2. Heirs, &c. of such officers to receive arrears of pay and pensions. *And be it further resolved, *That the heirs or legal representatives of any officer whose muster into service has been or shall be amended hereby, shall be entitled to receive the arrears of pay due such officer or the pension provided by law for the grade into which such officer is mustered under the provisions of the first section of this resolution. Approved, July 26, 1866. No. 90: to change the Place of holding the Terms of the Circuit Court for the District of West Virginia.
Resolution 90 1866-07-27 14 Stat. 369 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 90, 91, 92, 93. 1866. 369 [No. 90.] A Resolution to change the Place of holding the Terms of the Circuit Court for the District of West Virginia. July 27, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the terms of the circuitCircuit court for West Virginia to be held at Parkersburg, and not at Lewisburg. court for the district of West Virginia, heretofore held at Lewisburg, in the county of Greenbrier, shall be hereafter held at the city of Parkersburg, at the time now fixed by law.
Approved, July 27, 1866. No. 91: to provide for the Publication of the Official History of the Rebellion. Resolution 91 1866-07-27 14 Stat. 369 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 91.] A Resolution to provide for the Publication of the Official History of the Rebellion. July 27, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the joint resolution entitledProvision for printing official reports of the armies of the United States repealed.Vol. xiii. p. 406.Certain official documents to be arranged and prepared for publication.Plan and estimates of cost.Compensation of person doing the service.
“A resolution to provide for the printing of official reports of the armies of the United States,” approved May nineteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved, *That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to appoint a competent person to arrange and prepare for publication the official documents relating to the rebellion and the operations of the army of the United States, who shall prepare a plan for said publication and estimates of the cost thereof, to be submitted to Congress at its next session.
Sec. 3. *And be it further resolved, *That the person whose appointment is hereby authorized shall receive a compensation for his services not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid monthly by the Secretary by [of] the Treasury, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That said compensation shall notProviso. be paid for a longer period than two years from and after the passage of this resolution. Approved, July 27, 1866.
No. 92: for the temporary Relief of the Sufferers by the late Fire in Portland, in the State of Maine. Resolution 92 1866-07-27 14 Stat. 369 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 92.] A Resolution for the temporary Relief of the Sufferers by the late Fire in Portland, in the State of Maine. July 27, 1866. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the commissioner of internalCollection of certain internal revenue taxes in Portland, Maine, may be suspended. revenue is hereby authorized to suspend the collection of such taxes as may have been assessed, or as may have accrued prior to the fifth day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in the first collection district of the State of Maine, against any person residing or doing business and owning property in that portion of the city of Portland recently destroyed by fire, and who, in the opinion of said commissioner, has suffered material loss by such fire: *Provided,* That such suspension shallProviso. not be continued after the close of the next session of Congress.
Approved, July 27, 1866. No. 93: to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish to each State one Set of the Standard Weights and Measures of the Metric System. Resolution 93 1866-07-27 14 Stat. 369 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 93.] Joint Resolution to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish to each State one Set of the Standard Weights and Measures of the Metric System.
July 27, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of theA set of standard weights and measures of metric system to be furnished each State. Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to each State, to be delivered to the governor thereof, one set of the standard weights and measures of the metric system for the use of the States respectively. Approved, July 27, 1866.
No. 96: in Relation to the Use of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Fair Building, in Washington. Resolution 96 1866-07-28 14 Stat. 370 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public 370 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 96, 97, 98, 99. 1866. [No. 96.] Joint Resolution in Relation to the Use of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Fair Building, in Washington.
July 28, 1866. Preamble.Whereas the House has been informed that certain peaceable and law-abiding citizens, while assembled at and within the building recently erected in this city for the benefit of orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors of the United States, situate on the corner of Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, have been illegally and improperly dispersed by the mayor of this city, for the alleged reason that they belonged to a Fenian organization, and thus prevented from exercising their rights and privileges as citizens of the United States:
Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Certain citizens may be authorized to use a certain building in Washington for public meetings. That said citizens are hereby authorized, whenever permitted so to do by the Speaker of this House, or the President of the Senate, to use and to occupy said building for the purpose of holding meetings for any proper and lawful purpose, and particularly in reference to the liberation of Ireland.
Approved, July 28, 1866. No. 97: for the Relief of certain Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomie Indians. Resolution 97 1866-07-28 14 Stat. 370 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 97.] Joint Resolution for the Relief of certain Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomie Indians. July 28, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * The payment of $ 39,000 to be made to certain Michigan Indians.Vol. ix. p. 853.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Pottawatomie Indians of Michigan, in pursuance of an agreement and compromise made with the Pottawatomie nation of Indians so named and designated by the treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-six, with the United States, the sum of thirty-nine thousand dollars, in full of all claims in favor of said Michigan Indians either against the United States or said nation of Indians, past, present, or future, arising out of any Annuity now paid to be restored.treaty made with them or any band or confederation thereof, and the annuity now paid to them is to be restored, and paid to said nation for the future.
Said sum of thirty-nine thousand dollars is to be paid out of funds of said Indians, by the United States now held in trust for said nation, drawing interest at the rate of five per cent, which amount is hereby Payment to be made from what funds and how.appropriated, said payment to be made per capita direct to heads of families, adults, and guardians of minors, as is now required by law in reference to annuities, by the proper agent of the government. Approved, July 28, 1866.
No. 98: authorizing a Contract with Vinnie Ream for a Statue of Abraham Lincoln. Resolution 98 1866-07-28 14 Stat. 370 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 98.] Joint Resolution authorizing a Contract with Vinnie Ream for a Statue of Abraham Lincoln. July 28, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * A contract may be made with Miss Vinnie Ream for statue of President Lincoln.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to contract with Miss Vinnie Ream for a life-size model and statue of the late President Abraham Lincoln, to be executed by her at a price not exceeding ten thousand dollars; one half payable on completion of the model in plaster, and the remaining half on completion of the statue in marble to his Acceptance. Approved, July 28, 1866. No. 99: to extend the Provisions of the Act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, limiting the Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to the loyal Citizens of Tennessee.
Resolution 99 1866-07-28 14 Stat. 370 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 99.] Joint Resolution to extend the Provisions of the Act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, limiting the Jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to the loyal Citizens of Tennessee. July 28, 1866.1864, ch. 240.
Vol. xiii. p. 381. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Provisions of act 1864, ch. 240, extended to loyal That the provisions of the act of the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled “An act THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 99, 100, 101, 102. 1866. 371 to limit the jurisdiction of the court of claims,” is hereby extended to thecitizens of Tennessee. loyal citizens of the State of Tennessee.
Approved, July 28, 1866. No. 100: authorizing the Transmission through the Mails, free of Postage, of certain Certificates, by the Adjutant-General of New Jersey. Resolution 100 1866-07-28 14 Stat. 371 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 100.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Transmission through the Mails, free of Postage, of certain Certificates, by the Adjutant-General of New Jersey.
July 28, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the adjutant-general ofThe adjutant-general of New Jersey may send free by mail certificates of thanks awarded to the soldiers of that State. New Jersey be authorized to transmit through the mails, free of postage, certain certificates of thanks awarded by the legislature to the soldiers of that State, under such regulations as the postmaster-general may direct.
Approved, July 28, 1866. No. 101: authorizing the Secretary of War to settle with the Territory of Colorado for the Militia of said Territory employed in the Service of the United States in the Years eighteen hundred and sixty-four and eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Resolution 101 1866-07-28 14 Stat. 371 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 101.] Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to settle with the Territory of Colorado for the Militia of said Territory employed in the Service of the United States in the Years eighteen hundred and sixty-four and eighteen hundred and sixty-five. July 28, 1866. *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the Secretary of War beThe Territory of Colorado to be settled with for the services of its militia forces. authorized to settle with the proper authorities of the Territory of Colorado, for the services of the first regiment of Colorado mounted militia, called into the service of the United States on the requisition of Colonel Thomas Moonlight, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for the services of any other militia forces of the said Territory which were employed in the service of the United States on the call of the governor of the Territory in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-four, allowing in such settlement all amounts paid by the Territory to the said troops for pay, use of horses, clothing and other proper allowances during the time when they were so actually in service, and that he report the amountAmount found due to be reported to Congress. found to be justly due to said Territory on such account to Congress in December next.
Approved, July 28, 1866. No. 102: to prevent the further Enforcement of the Joint Resolution, (No. 77,) approved July 4, 1864, against Officers and Soldiers of the United States, who have been honorably discharged, so as to relieve them from the further Payment of the special Five Per Cent Income Tax imposed thereby. Resolution 102 1866-07-28 14 Stat. 371 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 2026-02-01 39 1 public [No. 102.] Joint Resolution to prevent the further Enforcement of the Joint Resolution, (No. 77,) approved July 4, 1864, against Officers and Soldiers of the United States, who have been honorably discharged, so as to relieve them from the further Payment of the special Five Per Cent Income Tax imposed thereby. July 28, 1866. Whereas by the Joint Resolution (No. 77) of Congress, approved JulyPreamble. fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, a special income tax of five per cent on all incomes exceeding six hundred dollars was directed to be assessed and collected and was enforced generally upon all citizens accessible to the revenue officers, but was not enforced against all our soldiers then in the field in the active service of the country; and whereas since the surrender of the insurrectionary armies, and the disbanding and return of the federal soldiers to their homes, said tax is being with manifest hardship assessed and collected of them in many parts of the country:
Therefore, *Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That said special tax, so imposed,Special income tax not to be further enforced against certain officers and soldiers. shall not be further enforced against officers or soldiers lately in the service of the United States, and who have been honorably discharged therefrom, and that the Secretary of the Treasury direct the proper observance of this resolution by all revenue officers.
Approved, July 28, 1866. 39 2 1866 1867 373 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE THIRTY-NINTH 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 third day of December, A. D.* 1866, *and ended on Monday the fourth day of March, A. D.* 1867. Andrew Johnson, President. La Fayette S. Foster, President of the Senate. Benjamin F. Wade was elected President of the Senate, *pro tempore*, on the fourth day of March, A.
D. 1867. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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