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PUBLIC, XLIII.-An Act making an appropriation for the completion of the Public Buildings in the Territory of Minnesota.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the continuation of the public buildings in the Territory of Minnesota, one half of said sum to be applied to the completion of the capitol at St. Paul, and the remainder to the completion of the prison buildings at Stillwater, in said Territory, to be expended under the direction of the legislative authority thereof: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize any further expenditure by said territorial authority for the purposes aforesaid than is provided for in this act.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XLIV.-An Act to extend Preemption Rights

to certain Lands therein mentioned.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the preemption laws of the United States, as they now exist, be and they are hereby extended over the alternate reserved sections of public lands along the lines of all the railroads in the United States, wherever public lands have been or may be granted by acts of Congress; and that it shall be the privilege of the persons residing on any of said reserved lands to pay for the same in soldiers' bounty land warrants, estimated at a dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, or in gold and silver, or both together, in preference to any other person, and at any time before the same shall be offered for sale at auction: Provided, That no person shall be entitled to the benefit of this act who has not settled and improved, or shall not settle and improve, such lands prior to the final allotment of the alternate sections to such railroads by the General Land Office: And provided further, That the price to be paid, shall, in all cases, be two dollars and fifty cents per acre, or such other minimum price as is now fixed by law, or may be fixed, upon lands hereafter granted, and no one person shall have the right to preemption to more than one hundred and sixty acres: And provided further, That any settler who has settled, or may hereafter settle, on lands heretofore reserved on account of claims under French, Spanish, or other grants, which have been or shall be hereafter declared by the Supreme Court of the United States to be invalid, shall be entitled to all the rights of preemption granted by this act and the act of fourth of September, eighteen hundred and fortyone, entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of the public lands and to grant preemption rights, after the land shall have been released from reservation, in the same manner as if no reservation existed.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XLV.-An act authorizing Changes in the location of Land Offices.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be and he is hereby authorized to change the location of the land offices in the several land districts established by law, and to establish the same from time to time at such point in the district as he may deem expedient. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XLVI.-An Act to provide for the Survey of the Public Lands in California, the Granting of Preemption Rights therein, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the surveyor general for the district or State of California, who is now, or may hereafter be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall keep his office at such place as the President, in view of the public convenience, shall from time to time direct; and the surveyor general, if he has not already done so, and his successors in office, before entering upon duty, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before a judge of a United States court, or other competent officer, to support the

Laws of the United States.

Constitution of the United States, and faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and give bond in the same amount as the other surveyors general, the penalty thereof to be increased whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall deem proper. He shall be entitled to receive a salary at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, payable quarter-yearly, to commence from the time of entering into bond.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed for clerk hire in the office of the surveyor general, the sum of eleven thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That the salary of no clerk shall exceed the sum of twenty five hundred dollars per annum, and for office rent, fuel, and other incidental expenses of his office, such sums as shall be found necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to cause an official seal to be prepared for the office of the said surveyor general; and any copy of or extracts from the plats, field notes, and other attested as such, by the said seal, and the signarecords and documents on file in his office, when ture of the surveyor general, shall in all judicial matters, have the same force and effect as the originals.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said surveyor general shall have the same power and authority, and perform the same duties respecting California, as by laws appertain to and are required the public lands and private claims in the State of of the surveyor general in Louisiana, except so far as the same may be modified by this act. He shall engage a sufficient number of skillful surveyors as his deputies, whom he shall cause to survey, measure, and mark base and meridian lines through such points, and perpetuated by such monuments, and such other correction, parallels and meridians as may be prescribed, and also to survey and establish the other lines of the public lands. He after they have been confirmed, so far as may be shall also cause all private claims to be surveyed necessary to complete the surveys of the public lands; and in the location and survey of them, he shall have the same power and authority as are conferred on the land officers of Louisiana by the hundred and thirty-one, creating the office of the sixth section of the act of third of March, eighteen surveyor general for that State; and for surveying the base and meridian lines, and private claims, and meandering navigable waters, the deputy surveyor shall be allowed not exceeding sixteen dollars per mile; and for surveying the other lines of the public lands, there shall be paid not exceeding an average of twelve dollars per mile: Provided, veyed when the lands are mineral or are deemed That none other than township lines shall be sur

unfit for cultivation; and no allowance shall be made for such lines as are not actually run and marked in the field, and were actually necessary to be

run.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, it shall be advisable, he is hereby authorized to direct such surveys after what is known as the geodetic Secretary of the Interior, a departure from the recmethod. And whenever, in the opinion of the tangular mode of surveying and subdividing the public lands would promote the public interests, he may direct such change to be made in the mode of surveying and designating the said lands as he may deem proper, with reference to the existence of mountains, mineral deposits, and the adProvided, That such lands shall not be surveyed vantages derived from timber and water privileges: into less than one hundred and sixty acres, or subdivided into less than forty acres.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register of the land office and receiver of public moneys for the State of California, at such time as, in his judgment, the public interest may demand, with a. salary each of three thousand dollars per annum, payable quarter yearly; and the land office shall be located at such place as the President, in view of the public convenience, shall from time to time direct; and previously to entering on the duties of their offices, they each shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, before one of the judges of

the United States courts, or other competent of ficer, to support the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective offices, and shall give bond in the same amount as other registers and receivers of the public land offices; and their general duties and responsibilities shall be the same as other officers of like character: Provided however, That at such time or times as in his judgment the public interest may so imperatively require, and in the absence of any further and special legislation of Congress on the subject, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to divide the State of California into two or three separate and distinct land districts, as circumstances shall determine to be necessary, embracing, respectively, the upper and lower, or the upper, middle, and lower portions of the State; and he shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or during the recess of Congress when necessary, a register of the land office and receiver of public moneys for each of such land districts; and the land offices for the same respectively shall be located at, and be removed from time to time to, such places as the President shall deem most suitable for public convenience.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all the public lands in the State of California, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, with the exception of sections sixteen and thirty-six, which shall be and hereby are granted to the State for the purposes of public schools in each township, and with the exception of lands appropriated under the authority of this act or reserved by competent authority, and excepting also the lands claimed under any foreign grant or title and the mineral lands, shall be subject to the preemption laws of fourth September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, with all the exceptions, conditions, and limitations therein, except as is herein otherwise provided; and shall, after the plats thereof are returned to the office of the register, be offered for sale, after six months' public notice in the State of the time and place of sale under the laws, rules, and regulations now governing such sales, or such as may be hereafter prescribed: Provided, That where unsurveyed lands are claimed by preemption, the usual notice of such claim shall be filed within three months after the return of the plats of surveys to the land offices, and proof and payment shall be made prior to the day appointed by the President's proclamation for the commencement of the sale including such lands, the entry of such claims to be made by legal subdivisions, according to the United States survey, and in the most compact form: And provided further, That the fact of persons having heretofore had the benefit of said act of the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, shall interpose no bar to their obtaining the benefit of this act; and all of said lands that shall remain unsold after having been proclaimed and offered, shall be subject to entry at private sale as other public land, and at the same minimum price per acre; and the register and receiver shall not be entitled to any percentage or fees, except for deciding preemption cases, when each of them shall not be allowed the same fees as are paid to other like officers; but the receiver shall be entitled to his actual necessary expenses going and returning in making his deposits: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize any settlement to be made on any public lands not surveyed unless the same be made within one year from the passage of this act; nor shall any right of such settlers be recognized by virtue of any settlement or improvement made of such unsurveyed lands subject to that day: And provided further, That this act shall not be construed to authorize any settlement to be made on any tract of land in the occupation or possession of any Indian tribe, or to grant any preëmption right to the same.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That where any settlement, by the erection of a dwelling house or the cultivation of any portion of the land, shall be made upon the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections, before the same shall be surveyed, or where such sections may be reserved for public uses or taken by private claims, other lands shall be selected by the proper authorities of the State in lieu thereof, agreeably to the provisions of the act of Congress approved on the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain

engaged in such special service, he or they shall only receive his necessary expenses in addition to his regular salary.

townships and fractional townships, not before the work in progress, then he shall be and hereby provided for," and which shall be subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior. And no such examination; and the actual and necessary person shall make a settlement or location upon expenses of such person shall be allowed and paid any tract or parcel of land selected for a military for that service, and five dollars per day during the post, or within one mile of such posts, or on any examination in the field: Provided, That such exother lands reserved by competent authority; nor amination shall not be protracted beyond thirty shall any person obtain the benefits of this act by days, and in no case longer than is actually necesa settlement or location on mineral lands. sary; and when a surveyor general, or any person SEC. S. And be it further enacted, That the pub-employed in his office at a regular salary, shall be lic lands, not being mineral lands, occupied as towns or villages, shall not be subdivided, or subject to sale, or to be appropriated by settlers, under the provisions of this act; but the whole of such lands, whether settled upon before or after the survey of the same, shall be subject to the provisions of the act entitled "An act for the relief of the citizens of towns upon the lands of the United States, under certain circumstances,' approved May twenty-third, eighteen hundred and fortyfour, except such towns as are located on or near mineral lands, the inhabitants of which shall have the right of occupation and cultivation only until such time as Congress shall dispose of the same; nor shall any lands specially reserved for public uses be appropriated under the provisions of this

act.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That whenever the public surveys, or any portion of them, author. ized by this act, or by the act approved September twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An act to create the office of surveyor general of the public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey and to make donations to settlers of the said public lands," are so required to be made, as to render it expedient to make compensation for the surveying thereof by the day, instead of by the mile, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to make such fair and reasonable allowance as, in his judgment, shall be necessary to insure the accurate and faithful execution of the work.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That, except where the President of the United States shall see

cause otherwise to determine, each officer to be appointed in virtue of this act, and also every other like officer of the United States, may continue in the uninterrupted discharge of his regular official duties, and is hereby authorized accordingly so to act, after the day of expiration of his official commission, and until a new commission shall be is

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be provided for the office of the surveyor general of Oregon a seal, with such device as shall be deemed suitable, and copies of any papers on file in his office which may be authenticated by him under said seal, shall be evidence in all cases in which the originals would be evidence; and from and after the passage of this act the salary of said surveyor shall be three thousand five hundred dollars per annum.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the quantity of two entire townships, or seventy-two sections, shall be, and the same is hereby, granted to the State of California, for the use of a seminary of learning, said lands to be selected by the Governor of the State, or any person he may designate for that purpose, in legal subdivisions of not less than a quarter section of any of the unsold, unoccupied, and unappropriated public lands therein, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and to be disposed of as the Legislature shall direct: Provided, however, That no mineral lands, or lands reserved for any public purpose whatever, or lands to which any settler may be entitled under the provisions of this act, shall be subject to such selection.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and is hereby, granted to the State of California the quantity of ten entire sections of land, for the purpose of erecting the public buildings of that State, said lands to be selected by the Governor, or any person he may designate, legal subdivisions of not less than a quarter section of any of the unsold, unoccupied, and unappropriated public lands in that State, and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, however, That none of said selections shall be made of mineral lands or lands reserved for any public purpose whatever, or lands to which any settler may be entitled under the provisions of this act. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

Roads, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following be established as post roads, namely:

In Maine.-From Bristol, via Newcastle, to Pemaquid.

From Waldoboro', via South Waldoboro' and Friendship, to Cushing, in Lincoln county.

From Dexter, via West Dover, Dover South Mills, and Dover to Foxcroft.

From Presque Isle to Number Eleven, Range Five, (Aroostook.)

sued to him for the same office, or otherwise, until the day when a successor shall enter upon the duties of such office; and the existing official bond of any such officer so acting, shall be deemed and held to be good and sufficient, and in force until the date of the approval of a new bond to be given PUBLIC, XLVII.-An Act to Establish certain Post by him if recommissioned, or otherwise, for the additional time wherein he may so continue officially to act, pursuant to authority hereof. And the provision as to bonds to be given by deputy surveyors for the faithful execution of their duties, in a penalty of double the estimated amount of money accruing to them under their surveying contracts, as required by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, entitled "An act to create the office of surveyor general of the public lands for the State of Louisiana," referred to in the third section of this act, shall be and the same is hereby made applicable to public surveys in the State of California; and the sufficiency of the sureties to all such bonds shall be approved and certified by the proper surveyor general; and the same provision is hereby extended to all other branches of the public surveying service elsewhere; and all such bonds heretofore required of deputy surveyors, according to usage in the surveying service, shall be deemed and held to be of the same validity as if the same had been required by law. And it is hereby made the duty of each of the respective surveyors general of the public lands of the United States, so far as is compatible with the desk duties of his office, occasionally to inspect the surveying operations while in progress in the field, sufficiently to satisfy himself from actual inspection, of the fidelity of the execution of the work according to contract, and the actual and necessary expenses incurred by him while so engaged, shall be allowed; and where it is incompatible with his other duties, for a surveyor general to devote the nece ssary to make a personal inspection of

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From the depôt of the Atlantic and Saint Lawrence Railroad, in Oxford, via Otisfield and Casco, to Naples.

From Waterboro' Centre, via Limerick and Limington, to Standish.

From Brooks, via Monroe, Ellingwood Corner, in Frankfort, and Hampden, to Bangor.

In New Hampshire.-From the Station House at Berlin Falls, passing up the Androscoggin river, via Berlin, Milan, Dummer, and Cambridge, to Errol, in Coos county.

From Portsmouth, via Rye, to Rye Beach.

In Massachusetts.-From Chester Village, Hampden county, via Ringville, to Worthington, in Hampshire county.

From Great Barrington to Alford, in Berkshire county.

From Great Barrington, via Forth Egremont, to Alford, in Bershire county.

Franklin, East Franklin, West Berkshire, to Richford.

From Waterford to Littleton, New Hampshire. From Stevens's Village to Lower Waterford. From Barnet to Waterford Lower Village. From Barton, by Barton Landing, down the Barton river, to West Derby, thence along the west shore of Lake Memphremagog, to the Canada line.

In Rhode Island.-From Pawtuxet, to Warwick Neck.

In Connecticut. From Southbridge, Massachusetts, to Stafford depôt, in Connecticut.

From Rockville, via Tolland, West Willington, Willington Centre, Moose Meadow, Westford, North Ashford, West Woodstock, Village Corners, Dudley, to Webster, Massachusetts.

From Voluntown Centre, to the Sterling post office, in the centre of Sterling.

In New York.From Little Falls, via Salisbury Four Corners, to Graysville, in Herkimer county.

From Rough and Ready, via West Union, Joshua Slater's, in Troupsburg, and Brookfield post office, to Westfield post office, in Tioga county, Pennsylvania.

From Naples, Ontario county, via Riker Hollow to Prattsburg, in Steuben county.

From Poughkeepsie, via La Grangeville, Crouse's Store, in Union Vale, and Wait's Tavern, to South Dover.

From Three Mile Bay to Point Peninsula, Jefferson county.

From Panama, via Steadman's and Mayville, to Westfield, in Chautauque county.

From Owego, via Tioga and Barton, to Waverly, in Tioga county.

From Silver Creek, via Forestville and Charlotte Centre, to Gerry, in Chautauque county.

From Clayville, in Oneida county, via Babcock Hill, to West Winfield, in Herkimer county. From Little Falls to Graysville.

In New Jersey.-From Hope to Columbia.

In Pennsylvania.-From Spring House Tavern to Sumneytown, in Montgomery county.

From Franklin, in Venango county, through Cranberry and Pinegrove townships, via Clinton Furnace post office, to Tylersburg, in Clarion county.

From Agnew's Mills to Cass, in Venango county.

From Pittsburg, via Etna, Dorseyville, Porter's Store, Carnahan's and Norris's and Riddle's, to Saxonburg, in Butler county.

From Safe Harbor, in Lancaster county, to Mastic Forge.

From Shippensville, Clarion county, via Emlenton, to Butler, Butler county.

From Shippensville, Clarion county, via Eden, Jefferson, Lamartine, Agnew's Mills, Emlenton, and North Hope, to Butler, in Butler county.

From Slate Lick, via Worthington, Armstrong county, to Cowansville.

From Warren, via Frewsburg, Jamestown, and Delanti, New York, to Dunkirk, New York.

From Robisonville, Pennsylvania, to Cumberland, Maryland.

From the borough of Indiana to Smicksburg, Indiana county.

From Norristown, Montgomery county, via Fairview Village, Perkiomen Bridge, Schwenck's Store, Pennsburg, Hereford, Lionville, Macungie, and Trixenstown, to Foglesville, in Lehigh county.

From Hanover, via McSherrytown and Bunoughystown, to Gettysburg.

From Slate Lick, Armstrong county, to White's Eddy, on the Alleghany river.

From Bristol, Bucks county, via Fallsington and Centreville, to Yardleyville, in same county. From Elkland, Tioga county, via Farmington, to Crooked Creek.

From Mansfield to Wellsburg, Tioga county. The Cleveland, Painesville, and Ashtabula railroad, in the State of Ohio, and, in continuation, that division of the railroad of the Franklin Canal Company which extends from the city of Erie, State of Pennsylvania, to the west line of the said State, be, and the same is hereby, declared a post

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The Safe Harbor route, in the county of Lancaster, State of Pennsylvania, be, and the same is hereby, extended, by the way of Liberty Square post office, to Buck post office, in said county.

In Virginia. From Princeton to Wytheville, in Wythe county.

From New Castle to the Tavern House of James Scott, in Craig county.

From Logan Court-house, via Guyan river, to Guyandotte, in Cabell county.

From Kent & McConkey's store, in Montgomery county, up the south fork of Roanoke river, via Burnett's Springs, to Simpson's, in Floyd

county.

From Mercer Court-house to Princeton. From West Union, via Roash's and Letart's Falls, to Moore's Mills, in Jackson county.

From Luray to Valleysburg, in Page county. From New Creek Depôt, on the Ohio and Baltimore railroad, via Greenland, to Petersburg.

From Aldie to Snickersville, in Loudoun county. From Upshur Court-house, via Beechtown, French Creek, Walkerville, Cunningham's, thence to Alexander Skinner's, on Oil Creek, down Oil Creek to the Little Kanawha river, to Gilmer Court-house.

From Sistersville, via Middlebourne and Shirley, to New Salem.

From Putnam Court-house, via Hurricane Bridge and Sycamore Grove, to intersect the route from Kanawha Court-house to Wayne Court

house.

From Gordonsville, via the turnpike road and Madison Court-house, to New Market, in Shenandoah county.

From Capon Bridge to Hook's Mills. From Kilmarnock to White Stone, in Lancaster county.

From Mud Bridge, in Cabell county, to Boon County Court-house.

In Maryland.-From Cumberland, via Pleasant Grove, Flint Stone, Elbensville, to Robisonville, Pennsylvania.

From Addison, in the State of Pennsylvania, via Shelbysport and Accident, to Oakland, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.

In North Carolina.-From Gourd Vine, via Morgan's Mills and Love's Level, to Clear Creek post office, in Cabarras county.

From Gilchrist's Bridge to Blue's Bridge, Richmond county.

From Albemarle to Swift Island post office, Montgomery county.

From Greensboro' to Madison, in the county of Rockingham.

In South Carolina.—From Little River, Horry district, to Whitesville, in North Carolina.

From Conwaysboro', via Lake Swamp and Floyd's Mills to Fair Bluff, Columbus county, North Carolina.

From Lynche's Lake, in Williamsburgh district, to Baker's, near Lynchburg, in Sumter district.

In Georgia.-From Thomasville, via Eastwood, to Micosukee, Florida.

From Thomasville to Bainbridge, in Decatur county.

From Thomasville, via Monticello and Ancilla, in Jefferson county; Jennings, Jasper, and White Springs, in Hamilton county, to Alligator, in Columbia county; then connecting with the route already established between Tallahasse and Jacksonville.

From Ellejay, Gilmer county, via David Westfield's, to Cleveland, in Bradley county, Tennes

see.

From Eatonton to Monticello.

From Monticello to Indian Springs.

From Blairsville, in the county of Union, via Young Cane, Stock Hill, Tekenetly, Carticay, (at William Fatham's,) and Falling Rock, intersecting with route number three thousand three hundred and fifty-three.

From Butler, in Taylor county, via Wilcher's Mills, in Tazewell, to Buena Vista, in Marion county.

From Rome to Centre, the county seat of Cherokee county, Alabama, along the road commonly called the river or Bluff road, via Thomas's and Carroll's Mills, to Oseola post office, Howell's

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store, and Centre, in lieu of the present mail route from Cedar Bluff to Cave Spring, Georgia.

In Alabama. From Fayette Court-house, via James Middleton's and Joel Hawkin's, to Mos

cow.

From Troy, Pike county, via Elbar and Old Town, Coffee county, to Geneva.

From Eufaula, via Otho, to Franklin. In Mississippi.-From Union Church to Pine Grove, in Franklin county.

From Aberdeen, via Houston, Greensboro', Kilmichael, Ceralvo, Shongalo, Benton, and Franklin, to Yazoo City.

From Ripley to Moor's Cross Roads, Tennes

see.

From Pontotoc, via New Albany and Ripley, to La Grange, in Tennessee.

From Pontotoc, via Ripley, to La Grange, Ten

nessee.

From Aberdeen to Yazoo City.

From Fulton to Thomson's store, in Itawamba county, via the Cross Roads and Maxcy's Mill, to Fulton.

In Louisiana. From mouth of Red river, via Cheneyville, Hineston, Huddleston, and Burr's Ferry, to Huntsville, Texas.

In Ohio.-From Wooster, via Cooper, Cedar Valley, Congress, West Salem, Albionville, Homerville, Spencer, Penfield, and La Grange, to Elyria.

From Elyria, via Laporte, Grafton Station, Grafton, Litchfield, Chatam Centre, Lodi, and Burbank, to Wooster.

From Wooster, via Ashland, to Mansfield, From Wooster, via Robinson's Wollen Factory, Uniontown, and Lafayette, to Savannah, in Ashland county.

From Canton, via North Industry, Sparta, Sandyville, Zoar, and Canal Dover, to New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county.

From Mount Gilead, via Barne's Corners, Harmony township, to Sparta.

From Stratsburg, via Frieburg, to Paris.

From Barlow's Cross Roads, via Belpre and Veto Post Office, to Centre Belpre, in Washington county.

From Canaansville, to North Union Office, Washington county.

From Marysville, via Mount Victory, Kenton, and Mount Washington, down Eagle creek, to Findlay, Hancock county.

From Lavona, via Lena, German Centre, in Fulton county, Lockport, and Pulaski, to Bryan, in Williams county.

From Lancaster, via Clearport and Middlefork, to Perry, in Hocking county.

From Eagle, in Hancock county, to Lima, in Allen county.

From Newark, via Thornville, Somerset, and Maxville, in Perry county; Logan and Plymouth, in Hoking county; McArthur and Charleston, in Vinton county; Berlin and Jackson, in Jackson county; and Sciotoville to Portsmouth, in Scioto county.

From Ripley, in Brown county, via Decatur, Eckmansville, and North Liberty, in Adams county, to Youngstown.

In Kentucky. From Paris to Flat Rock, in Bourbon county.

From Star Furnance, via Amanda, Bellefonte, and Buena Vista, to Ironton, Lawrence county, Ohio.

From Grayson, via Buffalo Furnace, Laurel Furnace, and Raccoon Furnace, to Greenupsburg.

In Tennessee.-From Jones's Cross Roads to New Canton, Hawkins county.

From Centerville, via Beardown creek, Macedonia, and McCoy's, to Butt's Landing, Perry county.

From Jonesboro,' via Buffalo Ridge, to Gott's Cross Roads, in Sullivan county.

From Shady to Elizabethton, in Carter county. From Lexington, via W. H. Lessenberry's, David T. Spain's, South Carrol, Lavinia, Hope Hill, and Bluff Springs, to Trenton, in Gibson county.

From Knoxville, by the most direct and practicable route, in the judgment of the Postmaster General, to Danville, Kentucky.

From Knoxville, via Marysville, Montvale Springs, to Anderson Court-house, South Carolina.

From Knoxville, via Lyon's Store, Calloway's, and Gallagher's, to Kingston.

From Jasper to the point where the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad crosses the Tennessee. From Sweetwater to Madisonville.

In Indiana. From Poland to Reelsville, in Putnam county.

From Freeport, via Nicholas Kerns's and L. J. Reeves's, to Pleasant View, in Shelby county.

From Bowling Green to Brazil, in Clay county. From Wabash, via Somerset, Xenia, and Jerome, to Tipton, in Tipton county.

From Midway, on the Indianapolis and Lafay ette railroad, via Jefferson and Frankfort, Michigan Town.

From Point commerce, via Middleburg, to Bowling Green.

In Illinois. From Murphysborough, via Carbondale, to Marion, in Williamson county.

From Pittsfield, via Griggsville, to Naples, Scott county.

In Missouri.-From Bloomington to Edina, in Knox county.

From Spanish Prairie to Iberia, in Miller county.

From Linneus to Kirksville, in Adair county.
From Linneus to Trenton.

From Richmond, via Kingston, to Gallatin, Daviess county.

From Hillsboro' via Morse's Mills, to Grubville, Jefferson county.

In Arkansas.-From Carrollton to Rock Bridge, in Missouri.

From Dover, via Borland, to Yellville.

From Yellville, Marion county, eastwardly, via William S. Jones's, at Bennett's river, Fulton river, at Albin Gordon's Ferry. county, crossing the Big North Fork of White

From Hurricane post office, via James Brunton's, to Dover, a distance of about eighteen miles.

From Danville to Felix Grundy Gaines's. From Little Rock, via Springfield, to Clinton. From Fulton, in Hempstead county, to Rocky Comfort, in Sevier county.

From Rock Port to Lost Creek.

From Danville, via William Park's, in Yell county, and Milton Gilbreath's, to Felix Grundy Gaines's.

From Van Buren, via Joseph Brant's, in Crawford county, and Lee C. Blackamore's, to Fayetteville.

From Murfreesboro' to Adams," in Ohachola county.

In Michigan.-From Manchester to Chelsea, in Wastenaw county.

From Manchester to Grass Lake. From Bronson's Prairie to Orland, Steuben county, Indiana.

In Florida. From Madison Court-house to

Clay's Landing.

From Pensacola to the navy-yard.

From Oglethorpe, via Cuthbert, Blakely, in Georgia, Woodville, in Alabama, to Marianna, distance about one hundred and twenty miles.

From Monticello to Thomasville, Georgia.
From Tampa to Old Tampa Bay.

From Madison Court-house, via Charles Mills, Charles Ferry, and New Boston, by the most direct route, to Clay's Landing.

From Appalachicola, Florida, to Bainbridge, in Georgia.

From Pensacola, via Escambia, to Belleville, Alabama.

From Tampa, via Thomas P. Kennedy's store, via Jacob Summerlin's store, to Fort Mellon. From Tampa to Old Fort Mellon.

From Fort Dade to Springfield, on to Bay Fort. In Texas.-From Brenham, via Long Point and Cameron, to Caldwell, in Burleson county.

From Rock Island, in Austin county, to Brenham, in Washington county.

From Coffeeville to Hopewell.

From Sherman to Washita, in Grason county. From Centreville to Corsicana.

From Swartwout to Cold Springs.

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From Wheelock, via Marling, to Waco Village.

From the mouth of Red river, in Louisiana, to Huntsville, Texas.

From Marshall to Waco Village.

From Marshall, Harrison county, via Henderson, in Rush, Tyler, in Smith county, Canton, in Vansant county, Cedar Grove, in Kaufman county, Millwood, in Colvin county, via McKenny, to Sherman, in Grayson county.

From Palestine, in Anderson county, to Athens, in Henderson county, via Kaufman, in Kaufman county, to Millwood, in Collin county, thence through the Scarcy's Settlement to Bonham, in Fanning county.

From Houston, via Oyeta Creek, to Big Creek. From Montgomery, the county seat of Montgomery, via Cold Spring, in Polk county, via Danville and Sparta, in Walker county, to Mont

gomery.

From Georgetown, in Williamson, to "Gabriel Knob," a new post office now established in said county, to Hamilton, in Burnett county.

From Shreeveport, Louisiana, to Austin. From Washington, via Caldwell, to Cameron, in Cameron county.

From Frontera to San Francisco, in California. From Matagorda, via Brazoria, Cedar Lake, and Sugar Land post office, back to Matagorda.

In Iowa. From Newton, via Timber Creek, to Marietta, Marshall county.

From Columbus city, in Louisa county, to Yatton, in Washington county,

From Sabula, via Sterling, to Maquoketa, in Jackson county.

From West Union, in Fayette county, via Clermont, to McGregor's Landing, in Clayton county. From Monona, via Smithfield and Russville, to Lansing.

From Monona to Columbus.

From Prarie du Chien, via Paint Rock, Rossville, and Smith's Mill, to Moneek.

From Copper Harbor to Ontonagon, Lake Superior.

From Drakesville, via Unionville, Chariton, Douglas, and Lewis to Kane,

From Marietta to the county seat of Hardin county.

From Colesburg, via Yankee Settlement, Strawberry Point, and Westfield, to West Union.

From New London, in Henry county, via Pleasant Grove, Dodgeville, Yellow Springs, and Kossuth, to Hickory Point, in Des Moines county.

From Fort Madison, via Denmark, Parrish, Danville, Pleasant Grove township, in Des Moines county, to Rising Sun, Louisa county.

From Independence to Cedar Falls.
From Boonsboro' to Dakotah.

From Monona, via Hardin and Makee, to Lansing.

From Fort Des Moines, via Lewis, to Council Bluff.

From Hawk Eye, via Black Eye, to Muscatine.

From Muscatine to Columbus City. From Delhi, via Quasqueton, to Fort Des Moines.

From Delhi, via Independence, to Cedar Rapids. From Delhi, via Coldsburg, to Garnaville." From Delhi, via Hartwick and Erin, to Quasqueton.

From Iowa City, via Old Man's Creek and Millersburgh, to Montezuma.

From Sabula, via Maquoketa and Thomas Greene's, in Jones county, to Anamosa. From Dubuque, via Benton and Shulsburgh, to Janesville, Wisconsin.

From Dubuque to Dyerville.

In Wisconsin.-From Lancaster, via Bee Town and Charlotte, in Grant county, to Wyocena. From Highland, via Richland City and Sextonville, to Richland Centre, in Richland county.

From Potosi, via Rockville, Ellenboro', Clifton, Mifflin, and Linden, to Mineral Point, in Iowa county.

From Warsaw to Shawno, on Wolf river. From Prairie du Chien, via Lacosse, Lewis's Mills, Douglass's Mills, Eau Gallet's Mills, Rush River Settlement, Prescott, and Point Douglas, to Saint Paul's, Minnesota Territory.

From Cassville, via Beertown, Lancaster, New

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California, and Mifflin, to Mineral Point, in Iowa county.

From La Crosse, in the county of La Crosse, to Onalaska.

From Prairie du Chien, via Boydstown, Richland Creek, and Richmond, to Muscoda.

From Portage city, in Columbia county, via Beaver Creek, Crooked Lake, Buena Vista, and Plover, to Stevens's Point, in Portage county.

In Oregon Territory.-From Salem, via Doke's Ferry, to Lafayette.

The mail route from Panama to Astoria is hereby extended to Fort Stilacoom and Olympias, on Puget's Sound.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Postmaster General be authorized and required to establish a mail between Bainbridge and Appalachicola.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all railroads and parts of railroads which are now or hereafter may be in operation be, and the same are hereby, declared to be post roads; and the Postmaster General may contract for carrying the mails thereon according to existing laws.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow the postmaster at Richmond, Virginia, and the postmaster at Cleveland, Ohio, the same commission on all mailable matter distributed at their respective offices as is allowed by law to the postmasters of the other distributing offices; such allowance to date from the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That hereafter, as the office of Assistant Postmaster General, or either of them, shall be vacated, the appointment of his successor shall be made by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of April next, in place of the compensation now allowed deputy postmasters, the Postmaster General be, and is hereby, authorized to allow them commissions at the following rates on the postage collected at their respective offices, in each quarter of the year, and in due proportion for any period less than a quarter, viz: on any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, fifty per cent.; but any postmaster, at whose office the mail is to arrive regularly between the hours of nine o'clock at night and five o'clock in the morning, may be allowed sixty per cent. on the first hundred dollars; on every sum over and above one hundred dollars, but not exceeding four hundred dollars, forty per cent.; on every sum over and above four hundred dollars, but not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars, thirty-five per cent.; on every sum exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars, fifteen per cent. And on the amount of postage on letters and packages received at a distributing office for distribution may be allowed ten per cent. Every postmaster whose compensation shall not exceed five hundred dollars in one quarter, shall be allowed one cent for every free letter delivered out of his office, excepting such as are for the postmaster himself. But the special allowance now made by law to the postmaster at New Orleans and Washington city shall not otherwise be either increased or diminished. Each postmaster who shall be required to keep a register of the arrival and departure of the mails shall be allowed ten cents for each monthly return which he makes to the Postmaster General. Each postmaster may be allowed two mills for delivery from his office to a subscriber of each newspaper not chargeable with postage: Provided, That the commissions and allowances hereby authorized shall be subject to the provisions of the forty-first section of the act entitled "An act to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulating the Post Office Department," approved March the third, eighteen hundred and twenty-five.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall forge or counterfeit any postage stamp printed or impressed upon any letter envel ope authorized by the eighth section of an act entitled "An act to establish certain post roads, and for other purposes," approved August thirty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, or by any other act, or who shall counterfeit any die, plate, or engraving therefor, or who shall make or print, or

knowingly use or sell, or have in his possession with intent to use or sell, any such false, forged, or counterfeited die, plate, engraving, or stamped envelope, or who shall make or knowingly use or sell or have in his possession with intent to use or sell, any paper bearing the water mark of such letter envelopes, or any fraudulent imitation thereof, or who shall make or print, or authorize or procure to be made or printed, any stamped or printed letter envelope of the kind provided by the Postmaster General under the authority aforesaid, without the especial direction of the Post Office Department, or who, after such letter envelopes have been prepared or printed, shall, with intent to defraud the revenues of the Post Office Department, deliver any such letter envelopes to any person or persons other than such as shall be authorized to receive the same by instrument of writing, duly executed under the hand of the Postmaster General and the seal of the Post Office Department, shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of felony, and be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every postmaster to cause to be defaced, in such manner as the Postmaster General may direct, all letter envelopes with postage stamps thereon which may be deposited in his office for conveyance in the mail; and if any postmaster sending such envelopes in the mail shall omit to deface the same, it shall be the duty of the postmaster to whose office such envelopes shall be sent for delivery to deface them, and report the delinquent postmaster to the Postmaster General. And if any person shall use, or attempt to use, for the conveyance of any letter or other mailable matter or thing, over any post road of the United States, either by mail or otherwise, any such stamped letter envelope which has been before used for a like purpose, such person shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, to be recovered, in the name of the United States, in any court having competent jurisdiction.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XLVIII.-An Act to authorize the Correction of Erroneous Locations of Military Bounty Land Warrants by Actual Settlers on the Public Lands in certain cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That where an actual settler on the public lands has sought or shall hereafter attempt to locate the land settled on and improved by him, with a military bounty land warrant, and where, from any cause, an error has occurred in making relinquish the land so erroneously located, and to such location, said settler shall be authorized to locate such warrant upon the land so settled upon and improved by him, if the same shall then be vacant, and if not, upon any other vacant land, in making proof of those facts to the satisfaction of the land officers, according to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and subject to his final adjudication.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act of third March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, "providing for the correction of errors in making entries of land at the land offices," and of the act of twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, supplementary nineteen, shall be, and the same are hereby, made to said act of third March, eighteen hundred and applicable to errors in the location of land war

rants.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, XLIX.-An Act to provide for Additional Clerks, and extend the Sessions of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico shall hereafter have authority to employ one person as a translator and interpreter, and two clerks in addition to the number they are now authorized to employ for each House during their session; and that the accounts and charges for said translator and inter

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preter and clerks shall be audited and settled in the same manner and upon the same principle as is provided by law for auditing and settling the accounts and charges of other and similar officers and attendants of said Assembly.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That of the four clerks to be employed in each House of said Assembly, two shall be qualified to write in the Spanish and two in the English language.

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be held and concluded prior to the first Monday of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, LII.-An Act to revive and continue in force for a limited time the provisions of an act relative to Suspended Entries of Public Land.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Legislative Assembly shall hereafter be authorized to continue their sessions for a term not exceeding sixty instead of forty days, as heretofore provided.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That said Legislature of New Mexico shall cause to be allowed the commissioners heretofore appointed to draft a code of laws such compensation as may be just and reasonable, and which, when so allowed, shall be paid out of the funds appropriated to defray the expenses of said Territory. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, L.-An Act to Appropriate Lands for the Support of Schools in certain Townships and fractional Townships in the Territory of Minnesota, not before provided for.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in those townships and fractional townships in the Territory of Minnesota where sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six, or either of them, directed to be reserved for school purposes by the eighteenth section of the act approved third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An act to establish the Territorial Government of Minnesota," shall be found fractionally in quantity, and in those or fractional townships where no section sixteen or thirty-six shall be found therein, there shall be reserved and appropriated other land for such school purposes, to make up, in the first case, the deficiency in the quantity of said fractional sections sixteen and thirty-six, or either of them, and to give, in the second case, an equivalent for the loss of either or both said sections: Provided, That the mode and manner of selection and approval in both cases, and the quantity selected in the second case, shall be in accordance with the principles settled by the act approved twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships not before provided for."

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC, LI.-An Act authorizing the Governor of the Territory of New Mexico to call an Extra Session of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, should the same be deemed necessary and expedient. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent atives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Governor of the Territory of New Mexico, should he deem the same necessary and expedient, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to call one extra session of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, not to exceed ninety days in duration, anything to the contrary notwithstanding which may be contained in the act approved September ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An act proposing to the State of Texas the establishment of her northern and western boundaries, the relinquishment by said State of all territory claimed by her exterior to said boundaries, and of all her claims upon the United States, and to establish a Territorial Government for New Mexico:" Provided, Said extra session shall not be held during the sitting of any regular session of said Legislative Assembly: And provided further, That said extra session shall

in the several States and Territories," be and the same are hereby revived and continued in force for the term of ten years from the date hereof, and those provisions are hereby declared applicable as well to cases which were inadvertently omitted to be acted on under said act, as to those of a like character and description which have arisen between the date of said act and the present time, and shall be regarded as applying to locations by bounty land warrants, as well as to ordinary entries or sales.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases were patents have been issued on entries which were entitled to be confirmed under said act, such patents may be surrendered, and the || officers at the time of such surrender, who by said act are constituted the board of adjudication; are hereby authorized and empowered to confirm such entries; and upon the cancelling of the outstanding patent, the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to issue a new patent, on such confirmation, to the persons who made such entries, to their heirs or to their assigns. APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three," and also for the paper to be furnished and used by him until the Superintendent of the Public Printing shall commence furnishing and delivering to him paper to be used for the public printing, be settled and paid as the accounts of the Public Printer have been settled and paid, under the said sixth section of said act, and as is provided for in said sixth section.

APPROVED, December 23, 1852.

[No. 3.]-A Resolution explanatory of the Act appropriating Money for the Removal of the Raft of Red River.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers," approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, as relates to Red River, be so construed as to authorize the Secretary of War to award the contract for the removal of obstructions to the navigation of said river occasioned by the raft, to the person or persons who, for the amount of the appropriation, will agree to remove said obstructions, and keep said navigation free from the same for the longest period of time; said contract to be awarded after reasonable public notice.

APPROVED, January 7, 1853.

[No. 4.]-A Resolution in relation to the Census Returns from the State of California.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be required to append the census returns of the State of California, made by that State, to the report PUBLIC, LIII.-An Act authorizing the Sale of certain thereof, now in course of preparation at the Census

Reserved Lands in Alabama.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lands lying in Clarke county, in the State of Alabama, which have been reserved from sale as cedar lands, under and by virtue of "An act making reservation of certain public lands to supply timber for naval purposes," approved March first, eighteen hundred and seventeen, shall hereafter be liable to be sold in the same manner and under the same provisions and restrictions as other public lands of the United States.

APPROVED, March 3, 1853.

PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS.

[No. 1.]-A Resolution Explanatory of an Act supplementary to an Act approved the twenty-third day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third section of an act entifor the taking of the seventh and subsequent centled "An act supplementary to an act providing suses of the United States, and to fix the number of the members of the House of Representatives, and provide for their future apportionment among the several States," approved twenty-third May, eighteen hundred and fifty, be so construed that no allowance as compensation be made to any person for constructive or any other services rendered as Secretary to the Census Board after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty. APPROVED, December 23, 1852.

[No. 2.]--Joint Resolution authorizing the settlement of the Account of the Public Printer, for paper used by him since the first of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.

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APPROVED, January 7, 1853.

[No. 5.]—A Resolution allowing in certain cases to the owners of Steamers further time to make the necessary preparations to bring their vessels within the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to provide for the better Security of the Lives of Passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam, and for other purposes,"" approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any inspector of steamers, appointed under the act aforesaid, if not furnished seasonably with the necessary means of discharging his duty, or who shall be satisfied when an enrolled, licensed, or registered steamer is inspected by him, and found deficient in the requirements made by said act, that such omissions are not occasioned by any fault or neglect of the owner or master, he may grant, upon application therefor, or of his own accord, such further reasonable time after said act goes into effect, as he may deem sufficient with due diligence to make all necessary preparations to make any such vessel, her machinery and equipment, conform to the provisions of said act: Provided, The time so allowed shall in no case exceed ninety days after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.

SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That no such vessel so allowed further time for preparation, shall be liable to seizure or to any penalty under said act during the time specified, for any deficiency intended to be covered by the extension of time granted by such inspector.

APPROVED, January 7, 1853.

[No. 6.]-A Resolution for the Appointment of Regents in the Smithsonian Institution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancies in the Board of ReResolved by the Senate and House of Represent-gents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class atives of the United States of America in Congress "be filled by assembled, That the accounts of the Public Printer, for paper furnished and used by him since the expiration of the time specified in the sixth section of the "Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of

"other than members of Congress,' the appointment of Alexander Dallas Bache, a member of the National Institute, and resident in the City of Washington, and John MacPherson Berrien, of the State of Georgia. APPROVED, January 13, 1853.