ALL PUBLIC TREATIES MADE AND RATIFIED SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE PUBLICATION OF
THE LAWS OF THE PRECEDING SESSION, AND ALL PROCLAMATIONS BY THE
PRESIDENT, PROMULGATED WITHIN THE SAME PERIOD, THAT AF-

FECT ANY LAW OR TREATY OF THE UNITED STATES,

ACTS OF THE THIRTY-FIRST 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 THIRD DAY

OF DECEMBER, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE.

ZACHARY TAYLOR, President. MILLARD FILLMORE, Vice President. HOWELL

CоBB, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

CHAP. 1.-AN ACT to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages

to Sarah Polk:

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

resentatives of the United States of America in Congress as-

sembled, That all letters and packages to and from Sarah

Polk, relict of the late James K. Polk, shall be received and Sarah Polk, relict

conveyed by post, free of postage for and during her life.

HOWELL COBB,

Franking privi-
lege granted to

of the late James
K. Polk.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

MILLARD FILLMORE,

President of the Senate.

Z. TAYLOR.

Approved January 10, 1850.

1850.

CHAP. 2.-AN ACT to enable the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Georgetown in the District of Columbia to hold certain property
for the purposes therein recited.

The trustees of

D. C., enabled to

on

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

resentatives of the United States of America in Congress as-

sembled, That the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church the M. E. Church

of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, be and they are of Georgetown,

hereby, enabled to hold the property on Montgomery street in hold the property

said town, now used and occupied by the religious congrega- street, for religi

tion, of which they are the regularly appointed Trustees, for ous purposes.

the purposes and to the intents expressed in the conveyance

from the heirs of Anthony Holmead, deceased, to the said

Trustees, bearing date the seventh day of November, in the

year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and recorded in Liber