single pieces-namely, in the double eagle, the eagle, and the half eagle, one half of a grain, and in the quarter eagle, and gold dollar, one quarter of a grain; and that, in weighing a large number of pieces together, when delivered from the chief coiner to the treasurer, and from the treasurer to the depositors, the deviation from the standard weight shall not exceed three pennyweights in one thousand double eagles; two penny. weights in one thousand eagles; one and one-half pennyweights in one thousand half eagles; one pennyweight in one thousand quarter eagles; and one half of a pennyweight in one thousand gold dollars. Approved March 3, 1849. CHAP. 110.-AN ACT requiring all moneys receivable from customs and from all other sources to be paid immediately into the treasury without abatement or reduction, and for other purposes. The gross amount of all for the use of the [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, the gross amount of all duties received from customs, from the sales of public lands, and from moneys received all miscellaneous sources, for the use of the United States, United States, to shall be paid by the officer or agent receiving the same into be paid into the the treasury of the United States at as early a day as practica- deduction. ble, without any abatement or deduction on account of salary, fees, costs, charges, expenses, or claim of any description whatever: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be con Proviso. strued to alter the existing laws regulating the collection of the revenues of the Post Office Department. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much money Treasury without drawbacks. as may be necessary for the payment of debentures or draw- Appropriations backs, bounties and allowances, which are or may be autho- for debentures or rized and payable after the day aforesaid, be and the same are hereby appropriated for that purpose out of any money in the treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of that department, according to the laws authorizing said debentures or drawbacks, bounties, and allowances: Provided, Proviso. That the collectors of the customs shall be the disbursing agents to pay the aforesaid debentures, drawbacks, bounties, and allowances; and that all debenture certificates issued according to law shall be received in payment of duties at the customhouse where the same has been issued, the laws regulating drawbacks having been complied with, mit to Congress SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty Secr'y of the of the Secretary of the Treasury to submit to Congress, at the Treasury to subcommencement of the next regular session, estimates of appro- estimates of appriations which may be required to provide for the expenses of cessary to procollecting the revenue from customs, and also from the public vide for expenses lands, for the second half of the next fiscal year, and separate revenue, &c. propriations ne of collecting the collecting the revenues. estimates for the said purpose for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and fifty, and similar estimates from year to year thereafter. Appropriations SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much money for expenses of as may be necessary to pay the expenses of collections referred to in the next preceding section, including the first half of the next fiscal year, and until specific appropriations for the objects shall be made by Congress, be and the same are hereby ap propriated, out of any money in the treasury, to be expended after the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, under the direction of the Secretary thereof, conformably to Proviso-ex law and regulation: Provided, That the expenses of collecting penses of collect the revenue from customs shall not thereafter exceed the sum of one million five hundred and sixty thousand dollars per annum, together with such sums as under the law are paid into the treasury for drayage, cartage, labor, and storage, and in porportion for a less time. ing revenue lim ited. Goods subject to duty to be de house, &c. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the posited in thirtieth day of June next all imports subject to duty, and public ware- whereon the duties are not paid when assessed, shall be deposited in the public warehouse, from whence they may be taken out for immediate exportation under the provisions of that act, at any time within two years, and on payment of the duties may be withdrawn for consumption within the United States at any time within one year; but no goods subject to duty shall be hereafter entered for drawback, or exported for drawback, after they are withdrawn from the custody of the officers of the customs: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained is intended to modify the laws relating to export of goods to Canada or Chihuahua, if the goods when entered for export are immediately taken out of the United States, nor is it intended hereby to modify the laws in relation to pickled fish or ⚫ refined sugar. Proviso. Treasury to re ors, &c., bonds. new the Treasury to Solicitor of the SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Solicitor of the quire from col- Treasury, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasu lectors, survey-ry, shall require from all collectors, and surveyors acting as collectors, new bonds with sufficient sureties, for such sum and in such form as shall be prescribed by said Secretary. The said new bonds to be taken before the day fixed for this act to take Secretary of effect. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, make annual at the commencement of each session of Congress, to report to penses of cus- each house a statement or statements, presenting the amount of money expended at each custom-house in the United States, employed during the fiscal year next preceding, and also the number of persons employed, and the occupation and salary of each person at each of the said custom-houses during the period aforesaid. statements of ex tom-houses and number of per sons in them. Approved March 3, 1849. CHAP. 111.-AN ACT to extend the provisions of all laws now in force relating to the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, and the regulation thereof. 0 to carriage of pas chant vessels ex [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre Provisions sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as laws in relation sembled, That all vessels bound from any port in the United sengers in merStates to any port or place in the Pacific ocean, or on its tribu- tended. taries, or from any such port or place to any port in the United States on the Atlantic, or its tributaries, shall be subject to the provisions of all the laws now in force relating to the carriage of passengers in merchant vessels, sailing to and from foreign countries, and the regulation thereof; except the fourth section of the "Act to provide for the ventilation of passenger vessels, and for other purposes," approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, relating to provisions, water, and fuel; but the owners and masters of all such vessels shall in all cases furnish to each passenger the daily supply of water therein mentioned, and they shall furnish, or cause the passengers to furnish for themselves, a sufficient supply of good and wholesome food; and in case they shall fail so to do, or shall provide unwholesome or unsuitable provisions, they shall be subject to the penalty provided in said fourth section in case the passengers are put on short allowance of water or provisions. Number of passengers allowed on vessels pass the tropics. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled "An act to regulate the carriage of passengers in merchant ves sels," approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ing in and through forty-seven, shall be so amended as that a vessel passing into or through the topics shall be allowed to carry the same number of passengers as vessels that do not enter the tropics. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect on and after the fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred shall take effect. and forty-nine. Approved March 3, 1849. When this act CHAP. 112.-AN ACT to extend the revenue laws of the United States over the territory and waters of Upper California, and to create a collection district therein. tended over Up [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- Revenue_laws sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- of the U. S. exsembled, That the revenue laws of the United States be, and per California, are hereby, extended to and over the main land and waters of all that portion of territory ceded to the United States by the "treaty of peace, friendship, and limits, between the United States of America and the Mexican republic," concluded on the second day of February, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight, heretofore designated and known as Upper California. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the ports, harbays, rivers, and waters of the main land of the territory of Upper California shall constitute a collection district by the Collection dis trict of U. Cali fornia established established at San pointed. Port of entry name of Upper California; and a port of entry shall be, and is Francisco, & col- hereby, established for said district at San Francisco, on the lector to be ap- bay of San Francisco, and a collector of customs shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to reside at said port of entry. Ports of delivery. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That ports of delivery shall be, and are hereby, established in the collection district aforesaid, at San Diego, Monterey, and at some convenient point within the territory of the United States, to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury, as near as may be to the junction of the rivers Gila and Colorado, at the head of the Gulf of California; and the collector of the said district of California is point three depu hereby authorized to appoint, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, three deputy collectors, to be stationed at the ports of delivery aforesaid. Collector to ap ty collectors. Compensation SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the collector of said of collector and district shall be allowed a compensation of fifteen hundred doldeputy collectors. lars per annum and the fees and commissions allowed by law; and the said deputy collectors shall each be allowed a compensation of one thousand [dollars] per annum and the fees and commissions allowed by law. How violation SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That, until otherwise of revenue laws provided by law, all violations of the revenue laws of the Uniof California shall ted States, committed within the district of Upper California, within the district be prosecuted. When this act shall take effect. shall be prosecuted in the district court of Louisiana or the supreme court of Oregon, which courts shall have original jurisdiction, and may take cognizance of all cases arising under the revenue laws in the said district of Upper California, and shall proceed therein in the same manner and with the like effect as if such cases had arisen within the district or territory where the prosecution shall be brought. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the tenth day of March next. Approved March 3, 1849. Owners of cer French claims CHAP. 113.-AN ACT to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That each and every owner of a Spanish or French Lain Spanish or land claim, or any part thereof, in the State of Arkansas, which authorized to en- was submitted for adjudication to the superior court of the late ter the lands cov- Territory of Arkansas, and by that court confirmed, being a bona fide subsequent purchaser for a valuable consideration, is hereby authorized to enter, within one year from the passage of this act, the land covered by said claim, or less quantity thereof, to be embraced in any legal subdivision, at the minimum price, under such regulations as the Commissioner of the ered by said claims. General Land Office shall prescribe: Provided, however, That the owner aforesaid shall be an occupant or cultivator of said land. After two years reserved from sale may be SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That after the lapse of two years from the approval of this act, the sale of the lands lands embraced by the decrees of the superior court of Arkansas, sold. which were on bills of review reversed, and which the President was, by the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-two, required to reserve from sale, which may then remain the property of the United States, shall no longer be reserved from sale Dy the President of the United States, and that the same may be brought into market under the existing laws. Approved March 3, 1849. CHAP. 114.-AN ACT for the better organization of the district court of the [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the more convenient transaction of business State of Louis tricts. 1: dis in the courts of the United States within the State of Louisi- iana divided into ana, the said State shall be, and the same is hereby, divided two judicial disinto two judicial districts, in the manner following, to wit: the parishes of Sabine, Desoto, Caddo, Natchitoches, Bossier, Rapides, Claiborne, Jackson, Catahoula, Caldwell, Ouachita, Western Union, Morehouse, Franklin, Carroll, Madison, Tensas, Con- trict. cordia, St Landry, Avoyelles, Calcasieu, St. Mary, St. Martin, Vermillion, and Lafayette, shall compose one district, to be called the western district of Louisiana; and all the remaining part of the said State shall compose another district, to be called the eastern district of Louisiana; and all criminal actions or Eastern district. civil suits, either in law or equity, which have arisen in the western district, or against persons residing therein, or concern. ing lands situated therein, together with all process, writs, recognisances, and records, belonging thereto, shall be transferred to the western district; and all civil suits hereafter instituted against persons residing in said western district, or suits concerning lands situated in the same, in the courts of the United States, shall be in said district; and there shall be held annually in said district one stated session of the court at each of the following places, to wit: at Opelousas, on the first Monday in Places at which August, for the parishes of St. Landry, Calcasieu, St. Mary, Geld annually for St. Martin, Vermillion, and Lafayette; at Alexandria, on the western district. first Monday in September, for the parishes of Rapides, Avoyelles, and Natchitoches; at Shreveport, on the first Monday in October, for the parishes of Caddo, Sabine, Desoto, Bossier, and Claiborne; at Monroe, on the first Monday in November, for the parishes of Ouachita, Jackson, Union, Morehouse, Franklin, Catahoula, Carroll, Madison, Tensas, and Concordia; and a person learned in the law, residing in said western courts shall be |