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SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That the librarian of One complete Congress deliver one copy of the works of the Exploring Expe- works to be predition, as they shall be completed, to the Secretary of State, ernment of Ecuato be presented by him to the Government of Ecuador. Approved March 2, 1849.

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[No. 12.]—A RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish arms and ammunition to persons emigrating to the Territories of Oregon, California, and New Mexico.

of War to furnish

grants to Califor

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the The Secretary Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, at his dis- arms and ammucretion, and having due regard to the necessities of the public nition to emiservice, to furnish to such persons as may apply for the same, nia and who design to emigrate to the Territories either of Oregon, California, or New Mexico, such arms and ammunition, from the army stores, as they may require to arm themselves for such expedition Provided, That the arms and ammunition so furnished shall not exceed a supply sufficient to arm and equip each person of such expedition: And provided, further, That before the same are delivered, the actual cost to the Government of such arms and ammunition shall first be paid to the United States; and that the Secretary of War shall be satisfied that the persons so applying really and bona fide design them for the use aforesaid.

Approved March 2, 1849.

Provisoes

No. 13.—A RESOLUTION to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to make an equitable settlement with the sureties of Robert T. Lytle, late Surveyor General of the district of Ohio.

Treasury to make

sureties of R. T.

Lytle, &c.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to an equitable setmake an equitable settlement with the sureties of Robert T. tlement with the Lytle, late Surveyor General of the district of Ohio, as he shall, under the circumstances, deem just, and on their paying such sum as after said settlement may be due to discharge said sureties from further liability, or on securing to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury such balance, to give such further time for the payment of the same as he may deem advisable.

Approved March 2, 1849.

considered satis

widows

[No. 14.]-JOINT RESOLUTION relative to evidence in applications for persions by widows of deceased soldiers, under the act of July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in What shall be all applications for pensions by the widows of deceased soldiers, factory evidence under the act of July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fortyin applications by eight, the returns on the rolls of the disease of which the solfor pensions. dier died, and the official opinion of the Surgeon General founded thereon, that from the nature of the disease it was contracted while the soldier was in the line of his duty, shall be considered satisfactory evidence thereof without the proof now required at the Pension office; and that it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Pensions, in all cases of application for pensions under said act, to apply to the proper officers for said evidence, without requiring the applicant to furnish the same. Approved March 3, 1849.

Further time

tary of Treasury

[No. 15.]-JOINT RESOLUTION granting to the Secretary of the Treasury further time to make the report concerning the sale and entry of certain lands in Cincinnati.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the granted to Secre- Secretary of the Treasury have until the next session of Conto make report gress to make the report required of him by the joint resolution concerning sales to prohibit the sale at private entry of certain lands in Cincineinnati. nati, Ohio, approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven

of lands at Cin

Senate & House

tives for 1,000

of Debates, &c.,

ized.

Approved March 3, 1849.

[No. 16.]-JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives to subscribe for a thousand copies of a further publication of the debates and proceedings of Congress, and for other

purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Subscription on Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Reprethe part of the sentatives are hereby authorized to subscribe, under the direcof Representation of the Joint Library Committee, on behalf of Congress, copies of Journal for one thousand copies of the debates and proceedings of Con from 1st to 4th gress, from the termination of the first Congress, where the Congress author- present publication stops, until the end of the fourth Congress, the same having been compiled and ready for the press; and Joint Commit- that the Joint Library Committee be directed to examine any tee on the Libra- further compilation of such debates and proceedings from the the propriety of end of the fourth Congress until the commencement of the subscription for Register of Debates, already published, from eighteen hundred said Debates, &c. of and twenty-four; and that such committee report, from time to time, upon the propriety of subscribing for such continuation; and that one copy of such debates and proceedings be furnished

ry to report on

making a further

continuation

each member of the present Congress, and the residue be deposited in the library of Congress, subject to the further order of Congress.

Approved March 3, 1849.

[No. 17.]-JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of pursers in the navy, as to expenditures made in pursuance of orders during the war with Mexico, and for other purposes.

Accounting of

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed fee to credit to credit pureers of the navy with payments made by them for pursers for certain payments carrying on hostilities against Mexico, during the late war with made during the that Republic, whether the expenditures were made on land or water: Provided, That said payment shall have been made under orders of the naval officer in command, and approved by the Secretary of the Navy: And provided, That satisfactory vouchers are produced to establish such payments.

Mexican war.

Provisoes.

Disbursements made by order of

commanding of

ficers of the navy

credited.

SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That every disbursement of public moneys, or disposal of public stores, made by order of any commanding officer of the navy, which shall be to be allowed and objected to by the accounting officers of the Treasury in the settlement of the accounts of any disbursing officer, shall, nevertheless, be allowed to such disbursing officer, and the commanding officer, by whose order such disbursement or disposal was made, shall be held accountable for the same: Pro- Proviso. vided, That satisfactory evidence of such order, and of the payment of public moneys or disposal of public stores under the same, shall be produced.

Approved March 3, 1849.

[No. 18.]-A RESOLUTION to fix the meaning of the second section of an act for changing the location of the land office in the Chippewa land district, and establishing an additional land district in the State of Wisconsin. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the word "territory," in the second section of the act entitled "An The word "teract for changing the location of the land office in the Chippewa herein referred land district, and establishing an additional land district in the be State of Wisconsin," approved at the present session of Con- mean "State." gress, be construed to be and mean "State." Approved March 3, 1849.

[No. 19.]—JOINT RESOLUTION for the purchase of copies of the General Navy Register and Laws.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

ritory" in the act

con

strued so as to

United States of America in Congress assembled, That that the Purchase of a Secretary of the Navy be instructed to purchase and pay, out sufficient numof the contingent fund of his department, for a sufficient number of the Geneber of copies of Mechlin and Winder's General Navy Register authorized.

ral Navy Register

and Laws, to supply one copy to each commissioned officer now in the naval service; and that the work be distributed to Proviso as to such officers: Provided, however, That the cost shall not exceed three dollars per copy. Approved March 3, 1849.

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for the printing

be audited and passed upon.

[No. 20.]—A RESOLUTION relative to the public printing. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the How accounts Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House, and the of Congress shall clerk of the Joint Committee on Printing, jointly be, and they hereby are, authorized and empowered to examine, audit, and pass upon all accounts for printing, to make a pro rata reduction in the compensation allowed, or to refuse the work altogether, should it be inferior to the standard, and in all things to possess the same power over the public printing as is conferred upon the Joint Committee on Printing by the joint resolution approved August 3, 1846: Provided, That the authority hereby conferred shall only be exercised during the next recess of Congress, and shall cease at the commencement of the next session of Congress.

Proviso.

Approved March 3, 1849.

[No. 21.]—A RESOLUTION respecting the claims of A. S. & A. W. Benson. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and is hereby, authorized to to be adjusted adjust and settle, upon principles of equity and justice, the and settled upon' principles of jus- claims of A. S. & A. W. Benson, arising out of contracts made ce and equity. with the Navy Department for the transportation of naval stores to the Pacific.

Their accounts

Approved March 3, 1849.

for carrying the

from 15th Aug.,

[No. 22.]— JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of George R. Smith. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General pay to George R. Smith, of Missouri,

To be paid $780 the sum of seven hundred and eighty dollars as full compensamail on routes tion for carrying the mail, once per week oftener than originally 4665 and 4670, contracted by him, on routes forty-six hundred and sixty-five 1844, to 1st July, and forty-six hundred and seventy, from the fifteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-four, until the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

1846.

Approved March 3, 1849.

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APPENDIX.

TREATIES.

POSTAL CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN,

CONCLUDED DECEMBER 15, 1848.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a convention between the United States of America and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was concluded and signed at London, on the fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, which convention is, word for word, as follows:

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The United States of America and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, being desirous to promote the friendly relations existing between their respective citizens and subjects, by placing the communications by post between the territories of the United States and those of her Britannic Majesty upon a more liberal and advantageous footing, have resolved to conclude a convention for this purpose, and have named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

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The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, George Bancroft, a citizen Negotiators. of the United States, their envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to her Britannic Majesty:

And her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the right honorable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a peer of Ireland, a member of her Britannic Majesty's most honorable Privy Council, a member of Parliament, Knight Grand Cross of the most honorable Order of the Bath, and her Britannic Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs:

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles:

ARTICLE I.

on letters con

There shall be charged upon all letters not exceeding half Rate of postage an ounce in weight, conveyed either by United States or by veyed either by British packets, between a port in the United States and a port British packow.

United States or

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