lished by the United States, Edinburgh, London, French, and German pharmacopoeias and dispensatories," and thereby improper and unsafe for medical purposes, a return to that effect shall be made on the invoice, and they shall be detained in the custom-house, unless upon "a reexamination of a strictly analytical character," called for by the owner or consignee, the return shall be certified erroneous. This reexamination must be at the expense of the importer, and conducted by "some competent analytical chemist possessing the confidence of the medical profession, as well as of the colleges of medicine and pharmacy," (if there be any such college in the State,) selected by the collector, who shall report under oath. If he negative the examiner's report, the goods shall be admitted; if he do not, they shall be destroyed at the end of six months, and the importer charged with the storage, &c., or they may be reëxported within that time, bonds being given not to land them within the United States. A sworn examiner shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury, at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, and New Orleans, with the salary of $1,600 at New York, and $ 1,000 at the other ports. The examiners shall, if possible, be taken from the present custom-house officers; otherwise, the number shall, as soon as possible, be reduced, so that this act occasion no increase. June 26, 1848.

No. 46. An Act making appropriations for the payment of Revolutionary and other pensions of the United States for the year ending the 30th of June, 1849. See page 205. June 26, 1848.

No. 47. An Act to amend the Act, entitled "An Act for the regulation of seamen on board the public and private vessels of the United States," passed the 3d of March, 1813. The last clause of the 12th section of the act amended, "without being at any time during the said five years out of the territory of the United States," is repealed. June 26, 1848.

No. 48. An Act to regulate the exchange of certain documents and other publications of Congress. The Library Committee of Congress may appoint agents to effect exchanges, &c., of books and documents, and all books sent through such agents to any department of the United States, or of a State, or to the National Institute, or to West Point, are free of duty. $2,000 is appropriated for this purpose. June 26, 1848.

No. 49. An Act giving further time for satisfying claims for bounty lands, and for other purposes. Act of 2d Session, 29th Congress, ch. 69, approved July 27, 1842, and also two acts approved Jan. 27, 1835, and therein revived, are continued in force for five years from the passage of this act. June 26, 1848.

No. 50. An Act to amend the Act to provide for the transportation of the mail between the United States and foreign countries, and for other purposes. The Postmaster-General, by direction of the President, may lay the same rate of duty on all mailable matter leaving or reaching the United States in the vessels of any nation, as is laid on such matter when it reaches or leaves the ports of such nation in American ships. And power is given to the officers of the customs, &c., to open all parcels suspected of containing mailable matter, and to detain vessels until such parcels are delivered at the post-office. Open letters to the owners or consignees, touching the business of the vessel, are excepted; but all other letters, whether addressed to persons in or out of the United States, are included. A breach of these provisions, and the conveying of letters across the United States, received or to be transported in such vessel, is punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000. Contractors with the Postmaster-General under the act of March 3, 1845, or any other act by the provisions of which the United States may take the vessels at an appraised value, who refuse to name appraisers or to deliver the vessel, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $100,000, or to imprisonment not exceeding one year. The Postmaster-General may impose fines, not exceeding half the contract price for the trip, for any delay. Contracts to transport the mail to foreign countries are not assignable, and any such transfers, unless accepted by the Postmaster-General or the Secretary of the Navy before the passage of this act, are void. June 27, 1848.

No. 51. An Act to change the name of the steamboat "Charles Downing" to the Calhoun." June 28, 1848.

No. 52. An Act to authorize the issuing of a register to the schooner James. June 28, 1848.

No. 53. An Act concerning the taking of official oaths in the District of Columbia. All official oaths taken by officers of the United States may be administered and certified by any judge of the Circuit or Criminal Court of the District. June 28, 1848.

No. 54. An Act respecting certain surveys in the State of Florida. "The islands and keys and other lands in South Florida interspersed with water, which cannot conveniently be connected with the regular public surveys," and also the private claims in the State which have been confirmed, shall be surveyed. Before the islands are offered for sale, a board of engineers shall report whether any part should be reserved for the use of the United States. June 28, 1848.

No. 55. An Act for the relief of the bona fide settlers under the Acts for the armed occupation and settlement of a part of the Territory of Florida. If satisfactory proof be made to the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, that any person obtained a permit under the act of Aug. 4, 1842, and was an occupant under that act and the act of June 15, 1844, and that he actually settled and did not abandon voluntarily, such person shall be entitled to a grant and patent for the land so occupied and settled by him, if he have not received the land provided by the acts. When such lands are not subject to donation, he may locate his right on any vacant public lands in the same or any adjacent township. This act extends to the widow and heirs of any settler, according to section 5 of the above act. An agent shall forthwith proceed to Florida, to receive proofs, and make report to the Commissioner, who shall decide every claim within two months after the receipt of the report. Claims shall be barred, if not presented to the agent within four months after reasonable notice. July 1, 1848.

No. 56. An Act supplemental to the Act passed on the 9th day of July in the year 1846, entitled "An Act to retrocede the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, to the State of Virginia. All causes removed, at the time of the retrocession, from the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia to the Supreme Court of the United States, by writ of error or appeal, shall be determined therein; and the judgment, decree, or mandate shall be issued to the court now having cognizance of similar suits by the laws of Virginia. Provision is made for the transfer of papers, in certain cases, from the Circuit Court for the county of Washington, to the proper court in Virginia. July 5, 1848.

No. 57. An Act further to extend the time for locating Virginia military land-warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land-Office. The act of Aug. 19, 1841, as to all warrants issued prior to Aug. 10, 1840, is continued to Jan. 1, 1850. The same privilege is granted to holders of warrants issued since Aug. 10, 1840, on proof to the Secretary of the Treasury that the warrant was legally issued, and that he is justly entitled to it. July 5, 1848.

No. 58. An Act giving the consent of the government of the United States to the State of Texas, to extend her eastern boundary so as to include within her limits one half of Sabine Pass, Sabine Lake, and Sabine River, as far north as the thirty-second degree of north latitude. July 5, 1848.

No. 59. An Act to incorporate the Washington Gas-Light Company. July 8, 1848. No. 60. An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department, for the year ending the 30th of June, 1849. See page 205. July 10, 1848.

No. 61. An Act to extend the provisions of existing pension-laws to enlisted men of the ordnance corps of the United States army. July 10, 1848.

No. 62. An Act to reestablish the collection district of Brunswick, in the State of Georgia. July 10, 1848.

No. 63. An Act to extend an Act, entitled "An Act providing for the adjustment of all suspended preëmption land claims in the several States and Territories," approved 3d August, 1846. Continued to August 3, 1849. July 17, 1848.

No. 64. An Act to amend an Act approved the 24th of May, 1824, entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act approved on the 3d day of March, 1819, entitled' An Act providing for the correction of errors in making entries of land at the land-offices."" The clause providing that an application to correct an error of entry shall be made within six months after the date of the entry, is repealed. July 17, 1848.

No. 65. An Act to amend an Act, entitled "An Act supplemental to an Act, entitled 'An Act providing for the prosecution of the existing war between the United States and the republic of Mexico,'" and for other purposes. The proviso of section 1, act of June 18, 1846, that, on the conclusion of the war with Mexico, the number of major-generals shall be reduced to one, and of brigadiers to two, and that the President may select those to be retained, is repealed; but no vacancy in the grade of general officer shall be filled until the number is so reduced. The provision requiring the discharge, at the close of the war, of the additional officers of certain grades, is repealed; but no vacancy under these provisions shall be filled until further authority be given. All the officers of the old army ap. pointed to any of the additional regiments shall be restored to their former regiments or corps and rank, as additional officers of the respective grades to which they would have succeeded, and to which they shall now succeed, in virtue of their former commissions. Provided, That such officers shall be appointed by the President and Senate, and that the next vacancy happening in such grade of such regiment or corps to which they succeed shall not be filled. The officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates engaged ⚫ in actual service in the war with Mexico, and who served out the term, or have been or may be honorably discharged, - -and first, the widows, second, the children, third, the parents, and fourth, the brothers and sisters, of those who were killed in battle, or who died in service, or who, having been honorably discharged, have since died, or may hereafter die, without receiving the three months' pay herein provided for, shall be entitled to receive three months' extra pay. July 19, 1848.

No. 66. An Act making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year ending the 30th of June, 1849. See page 205. July 25, 1848.

No. 67. An Act amending the Act, entitled “An Act granting half-pay to widows or orphans, where their husbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of the United States," in cases of deceased officers and soldiers of the militia and volunteers, passed July 4th, 1836. The provisions of section first of the act shall be applicable to all widows and orphaus of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and soldiers of the army of the United States, who were in the army on March 1, 1846, or at any subsequent period during the Mexican war. All widows and orphans of officers, &c., whether of the regular army or of volunteers, who have died since April 1, 1846, or who may die during the war with Mexico, from wounds or from disease contracted while in the line of duty, shall be entitled to the same rate of pension as is provided for in the first section of the before-mentioned act. Provided, said death occur while said persons were in service and in the line of duty, or returning to their usual place of residence in the United States, after having received a discharge upon a surgeon's certificate. And provided further, That this act shall not be applicable to the widows and orphans of such officers, &c., as have not served in Mexico, or at posts or stations on the borders of Mexico, except where they have died while on their march to join the army in Mexico. July 15, 1848. No. 68. An Act to authorize the sale of a part of public reservation numbered thirteen, in the city of Washington, and for other purposes. This act provides for a burial-ground for members of Congress and the United States government. July 25, 1848.

No. 69. An Act to make Bangor a port of entry for ships or vessels coming from and beyond the Cape of Good Hope. July 25, 1848.

No. 70. An Act to revive an Act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war [with Great Britain] to surrender the bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof. Bounty lands in the State of Arkansas, unfit for cultivation, may be surrendered, and other lands selected, on proof, (1.) that they are unfit for cultivation, (2.) that they have not been disposed of or taken for debt, (3.) that the release and location be made within five years from the date of this act. July 25, 1848.

No. 71. An Act to confirm the location, and to grant a quarter-section of public lands for the county site of Hillsborough county, State of Florida. July 25, 1848.

No. 72. An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, for the year ending June 30th, 1849, and for other purposes. July 29, 1848.

No. 73. An Act for the payment of liquidated claims against Mexico. Claims against Mexico liquidated under the convention of April 11, 1839, and Jan. 30, 1843, and for which Treasury certificates have been issued, shall be paid on the surrender of certificates, at some day, not more than 90 days after the passage of this act, to be appointed, and after which interest shall cease. July 29, 1848.

No. 74. An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary army. Widows of officers, soldiers, musicians, marines, or Indian spies, who served in any recognized capacity in the Revolutionary war, shall be entitled to a pension, commencing March 4, 1848, and continuing during widowhood, equal to what their husbands' pensions would be, if living; but no widow now receiving a pension shall take any thing by this act, nor any widow married after Jan. 1, 1800. These pensions cannot be transferred or attached. July 29, 1848.

No. 75. An Act making appropriations for the naval service, for the year ending June 30, 1849. See page 205. The Secretary of the Navy is directed to report the number of persons flogged in the naval service in 1846 and 1847, and for every year thereafter, giving the name of the ship, the offence, the sentence, and the number of lashes. Some other⚫ provisions relative to the navy are interpolated into this act.

No. 76. An Act supplemental to an Act to confirm the survey and location of claims for lands in the State of Mississippi, east of the Pearl River and south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, approved March 3, 1845. Aug. 5, 1848.

No. 77. An Act to authorize the issuing of a register to the bark Mary Teressa. Aug. 7, 1848.

No. 78. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to license yachts, and for other purposes. Yachts used solely as pleasure vessels, designed as models of naval architecture, and now entitled to be enrolled as American vessels, may be licensed to proceed from port to port in the United States without entering or clearing. But they may not carry passengers for pay, or merchandise, and the owner shall give bond not to engage in unlawful trade, nor to violate the revenue laws. The yachts shall use a signal prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, and the models may be examined and copied by United States naval architects. Aug. 7, 1848.

No. 79. An Act to change the place of holding the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama, and for other purposes. See page 109. Aug. 7, 1848. No. 80. An Act to annex the town of Essex, in the State of Massachusetts, to the col lection district of Gloucester. Aug. 7, 1848.

No. 81. An Act to annex that part of the State of Indiana bordering on Lake Michi gan to the Chicago collection district. Aug. 7, 1848.

No. 82. An Act for the relief of certain Tennessee volunteers. Aug. 7, 1848. No. 83. An Act for the relief of those preemption claimants upon the Miami lands in Indiana, who by their services in the Mexican war are entitled to bounty land. Persons entit ed to warrants for 160 acres of land, on account of services in the Mexican war, who have also preemption rights to Miami lands, under Act of Aug. 3, 1846, may apply their warrants at the rate of $1.25 per acre, in payment for their Miami tract. But in no case shall the government refund any excess of the value of the warrant above that of the tract. Aug. 7, 1848.

No. 84. An Act to carry into effect certain provisions in the treaties between the United States and China and the Ottoman Porte, giving certain judicial powers to ministers and consuls of the United States in those countries. To give effect to the treaty of July 3, 1844, the Commissioner to China, and the consuls in the five ports, or the persons exer• cising their authority, have criminal jurisdiction, as in this act provided, over all citizens of the United States charged with offences committed in China, including Macao. The civil jurisdiction embraces all the cases provided for by the treaty, and these shall be tried, if of contract, at that one of the five ports where, or nearest which, the contract was made or was to be executed; and other cases shall be tried at that one of said ports at or nearest which the cause of action arose, or the damage was sustained. The United States statutes

shall be law, if applicable; if not applicable, the Common Law; and if defects still remain, the Commissioner shall make decrees with the force of law. The Commissioner, and as many of the five consuls as can be assembled, shall prescribe in writing the costs, fees, forms, rules of court, and every other needful regulation. If the consuls dissent, the Commissioner may still enforce the decree or rules till they are annulled by Congress; in any case, the rules, &c., with the opinions of the consuls, shall be immediately submitted to Congress. Every consul, upon facts known or believed by himself, or upon complaint or information, may, at his own port, issue a warrant of arrest against any United States citizen charged with an offence, — may arraign, try, and, upon conviction, sentence him, but always, except in capital cases, to fine or imprisonment, or both. In cases where the fine is within $100 and the imprisonment less than 60 days, his decision (except as hereafter stated) is final. He may also try cases where the fine does not exceed $ 500, or the imprisonment 90 days, subject to appeal to the Commissioner. Whenever he needs legal assistance, or wishes to inflict a severer penalty, he may summon not more than four (and in capital cases not fewer) citizens of the United States, competent and of good repute, to sit with him, and every one of them shall enter his judgment and opinion, but the consul shall decide. If they agree, the decision is final, except in capital cases; if not, the case shall be sent to the Commissioner. Every consul has civil jurisdiction within $500, and his decisions, if he choose, are final. But if he wish assistance, or the case is above $ 500, he may summon not less than two, nor more than three, United States citizens, and if they agree, the decision is final; if not, the associates shall enter their opinions, with their reasons, and an appeal to the Commissioner may be claimed. The evidence shall, in all cases, be taken down in court, and objections and rulings noted. The Commissioner may hear and finally determine all cases brought before him, both civil and criminal, and may prescribe the rules for granting new trials by himself or the consuls. Parties refusing to comply with the sentence may be committed. Murder, and rebellion with intent to subvert the Chinese government, are the only capital offences, and no one shall be convicted thereof unless the consul and his associates are unanimous, and the Commissioner approve the sentence. The criminal shall be executed upon the Commissioner's warrant, or he may be respited, or a pardon from the President applied for. Accounts shall be kept of the costs of court, and the fees (also to be accounted for) shall be applied thereto. The salary of the Commissioner and consuls is increased $ 1,000 respectively. All criminal cases, "not of a heinous character," may be settled by the parties with the consent of the Commissioner or consul. Provision is made for settlement by referees. The Chinese authorities may be called upon to assist in carrying out these powers. This act, mutatis mutandis, is made applicable to Turkey, under the treaty of May 7, 1830. Aug. 11, 1848.

No. 85. An Act for dividing the State of Georgia into two judicial districts, and organizing and establishing an additional District Court of the United States, with Circuit Court powers and jurisdiction. See pp. 105, 109. Aug. 11, 1848.

No. 86. An Act to authorize the State of Alabama to apply certain lands, heretofore granted to the State for internal improvements, for the use of schools in the valueless sixteenth sections in said State. Aug. 11, 1848.

No. 87. An Act to change the time of holding the Circuit and District Courts in the State of Kentucky. See pp. 105, 109. Aug. 11, 1848.

No. 38. An Act to change the time of holding the terms of the Circuit Court of the United States in the District of Maine. See page 104. Aug. 11, 1848.

No. 89. An Act renewing certain naval pensions, and extending the benefits of exist ing laws respecting naval pensions to engineers, firemen, and coal-heavers in the navy, and to their widows. Such widows and children as now receive a pension under any laws prior to Aug. 1, 1841, (except the law passed March 3, 1837,) and those who have received pensions at any time within five years prior to this act, shall continue to receive the same amount as they have received under any special act from the time such act expired. Provided, Such act ceased on or after Sept. 1, 1845, or may hereafter terminate. And all pensions now in force, and such as are renewed by this act, shall be paid so long as the said