Page 752 752 No. 26. Convening an extraordinary session of the Senate on March 4th, 1865.. 753 No. 30. Declaring that the port of Key West is to remain open. April 11, 1865.. ........ No. 29. Declaring certain ports in States lately in rebellion to be closed, as the blockade has been relaxed. April 11, 1865... 753 754 754 1865.. 755 756 Offering rewards for the arrest of Jefferson Davis and others for conspiring to procure the murder of Abraham Lincoln. May 2, 1865... 756 No. 33. Postponing the day of mourning to 1st June. April 29, 1865... No. 35. Ordering the arrest of insurgent cruisers, and declaring that hospitalities shall be refused to the public vessels of those nations showing hospitalities to such cruisers. May 10, 1865... No. 36. Declaring ports formerly closed to be open; disallowing belligerent rights and removing certain restrictions on trade. May 22, 1865... No. 37. Granting pardon and amnesty, except, &c. May 29, 1865... No. 38. Reorganizing a Constitutional Government in North Carolina. May 29, 1865... 757 757 758 No. 45. No. 46. No. 47. No. 48. No. 50. Appointing 7th December a day of National thanksgiving. October 28, 1865....... 773 No. 51. Revoking the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, except in certain states and territories and in the District of Columbia. December 1, 1865... Removing restrictions on trade west of the Mississippi River. June 29, 1865.. 769 771 772 773 774 No. 52. Certifying that the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting slavery has been ratified by the Legislatures of the requisite number of States, and has become valid as a part of the Constitution. December 18, 1865.... 774 EXECUTIVE ORDERS. Respecting soldiers absent without leave. March 10, 1863............. 775 Offering rewards for the arrest of felons from foreign countries committing felonies in the United States. April 10, 1865.... 776 Removing all restrictions on trade. April 29, 1865. 776 Reestablishing the authority of the United States in Virginia. May 9, 1865... 777 Directing all claims for reward for the arrest of Booth and others, to be presented by January 1, 1866. November 24, 1865.... 778 PUBLIC ACTS OF THE THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventh day of December, A. D. 1863, and ended on Monday, the fourth day of July, A. D. 1864. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President. HANNIBAL HAMLIN, Vice-President and President of the Senate. DANIEL CLARK was elected President of the Senate, pro tempore, on the twenty-fifth day of April, and so acted until the end of the session. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. I. — An Act declaring the Assent of Congress to an Act of the Legislature of the Jan. 16, 1864. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of congress is hereby given to the operation of the eleventh section, chapter fifteen, Chicago may of the act of the general assembly of the State of Illinois, approved navigable waters erect piers in the February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An act of Lake Michito reduce the charter of the city of Chicago, and the several acts amenda- gan, to protect aqueduct-pipes. tory thereof, into one act, and to revise the same," — which section is as follows: "Said city shall have the power to extend aqueducts or inletpipes into Lake Michigan, so far as may be deemed necessary to insure a supply of pure water, and to erect a pier or piers in the navigable waters of said lake, for the making, preserving, and working of said pipes or aqueducts: Provided, That such piers shall be furnished with a beaconlight, which shall be lighted at all such seasons and hours as the light on lighted. the pier at the entrance of Chicago river." APPROVED, January 16, 1864. Piers to be · An Act to authorize the President to appoint a Second Assistant Secretary Jan. 19, 1864. of War. 1865, ch. 41. Post, p. 431. Second assist war authorized 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 appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the ant secretary of Senate, for the term of one year from the passage of this act, an officer for one year. in the War Department, to be called the Second Assistant Secretary of War, whose salary shall be three thousand dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as that of the Secretary of War, who shall perform all such duties in the office of the Secretary of War belonging to that department as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War, or as may be required by law. APPROVED, January 19, 1864. Salary, duties. CHAP. III.-An Act to provide for the Deficiency in the Appropriation for the Pay of Jan. 22, 1864. Officers and Men actually employed in the Western Department, or Department of Mis souri. Pub. Res. No. 46. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be and hereby is for pay, bounty, VOL. XIII. PUB.-1 &c., of men in ment. 1862, ch. 49, vol. xii. p. 374. Payment, to whom to be made. appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise approWestern depart-priated, the sum of seven hundred thousand six hundred and twelve dollars and thirteen cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry into effect the act approved March twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to secure to the officers and men actually employed in the Western department, or department of Missouri, their pay, bounty, and pension: Provided, however, That, in the payment of the money hereby appropriated, such payment shall be made directly to the officers or soldiers by whom the services were rendered, or to their personal representatives, or to their agents appointed by powers of attorney; and no assignment of any sum due to any officer or soldier shall be valid; such payments to be made by paymasters of the United States army: Provided When attorney further, however, That any person holding a power of attorney authorizmay receive it. ing the receipt by him of the amount to be paid to any officer or soldier may, upon making and filing an affidavit to the effect that he is acting in the premises purely as agent without personal interest, and that he will pay over the amount received either to the soldier or (in his absence) to his wife or children, for their benefit, be entitled to receive such amount. APPROVED, January 22, 1864. Assignments invalid. CHAP. IV. — An Act to amend the Law prescribing the Articles to be admitted into the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United an. 26, 1964. Terms of Federal circuit and West Tennessee. CHAP. V. An Act to change the Place of holding the Circuit and District Courts of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the circuit and district courts of the United States for the district of West Tennessee district courts in shall be holden at the city of Memphis in said district, on the first Monday in March and the first Monday in September of each year, and at no other place. And all process, civil and criminal, which may have been, or hereafter may be, issued, returnable to said courts at Jackson or Huntingdon, in said district, shall be returned to said courts, respectively, at the city of Memphis; and all books and records of every kind, pertaining to said courts, shall be transferred from the places where said courts have heretofore been held to the city of Memphis. Special terms. What notice to be given. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the judges of the United States circuit court and of the United States district court for the several districts of Tennessee, may, whenever in their opinion the public interests require it, appoint special terms of their respective courts at Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis, to be holden at such times as said judges, respectively, shall deem most conducive to the public good; notice of each special term appointed under the provisions of this act shall be published in at least one newspaper printed in the town or city in which a term is to be held, for four consecutive weeks. APPROVED, January 26, 1864. CHAP. VI. — An Act relating to the Admission of Patients to the Hospital for the Insane in the District of Columbia. Jan. 28, 1864. Transient insane may be present admitted to hos pital. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be authorized, in his discretion, during the existence of the war, to admit into the government hospital for the insane such transient insane persons as may be found in the District of Columbia without the means of self-support, to be there detained until they can be sent to their friends or proper places of residence under the direction of the said Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to provide therefor; the steps preliminary to their admission to be the same, except as to the affi- ceeding. davit of residence at the time they became insane, as are required in the case of indigent persons who became insane while residing in the district. APPROVED, January 28, 1864. CHAP. VII. — An Act making Appropriations for the Payment of Invalid and other Pensions of the United States, for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. Mode of pro Jan. 29, 1864. Appropriation Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not for pensions. otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five: For invalid pensions under various acts, one million dollars. For pensions to widows, mothers, children, and sisters, under the first section of the act of fourth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; act of July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; first section of the act of February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; June third, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight; and July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, two million two hundred thousand dollars. APPROVED, January 29, 1864. CHAP. VIII.-An Act authorizing the Holding of a special Session of the United States Invalid. Other pensions. 1836, ch. 362. 1848, ch. 108. 1853, ch. 85. 1862, ch. 166. 1853, ch. 41. Feb. 12, 1864. Post, p. 419. of the Federal district court in Indiana. What suits, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a special session of the Special session United States district court for the district of Indiana shall be holden at the usual place of holding said court on the second Tuesday in March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all suits and proceedings of a civil or criminal nature, now pending in, or returnable to said court, shall &c. to be there be proceeded in, heard, tried, and determined, by said court at said special session, in the same manner as at a regular term of said court, and the judge thereof is hereby empowered to order the empanelling of a petit jury for said session, but not a grand jury. And no case shall be considered which stands continued to the May term by order of the court. APPROVED, February 12, 1864. СНАР. ІХ. heard. Juries. An Act making an Appropriation for rebuilding the Stable at the President's. Feb. 13, 1864. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twelve thou- Appropriation sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is for a stable at hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to cause the stable at the President's to be rebuilt forthwith. APPROVED, February 13, 1864. the President's. |