ACTS AND RESQLUTIONS

PASSED AT

THE FIRST SESSION

OF

THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES;

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

ALL PUBLIC TREATIES MADE AND RATIFIED SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE PUBLICATION OF
THE LAWS OF THE PRECEDING SESSION, AND ALL PROCLAMATIONS BY THE PRESI-
DENT, PROMULGATED WITHIN THE SAME PERIOD, THAT AFFECT ANY LAW
OR TREATY OF THE UNITED STATES.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

WASHINGTON:

RITCHIE & HEISS, PRINTERS.
1848.

ACTS OF THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF

WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ON MONDAY THE SIXTH DAY OF

DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVEN.

1848.

JAMES K. POLK, President. GEORGE M. DALLAS, Vice President. ROBERT

C. WINTHROP, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHAP. 1-AN ACT making an appropriation to supply, in part, a deficiency

in the appropriations for subsistence in kind of the army and volunteers du-

ring the year ending the 30th June, 1848.

appropriations for

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-

sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as-

sembled, That the sum of one million of dollars be, and the supply of defi-

same is hereby, appropriated to supply, in part, a deficiency ciencies in former

in the appropriations for the subsistence in kind of the army subsistence

and volunteers during the year ending the thirtieth of June,

one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, to be paid out of

any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

ROBT. C. WINTHROP,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

G. M. DALLAS,

President of the Senate.

kind.

in

Approved January 4, 1848.

JAMES K. POLK.

CHAP. 2.-AN ACT to authorize the issuing of a register to the barque Canton.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-

sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as-

sembled, That there be issued, under the direction of the A register to be

Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the barque Canton,

formerly a Haytien vessel, but now owned by William T.

Sayward, J. R. Kimball, and H. C. Lowell, citizens of the

State of Maine; and which said vessel, having been wrecked

and condemned on one of the Muscle Ridge islands, was pur-

chased by them, and which they have caused to be repaired

and refitted for sea again: Provided, It shall be proved to the Proviso..