Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-08-20
The Public Acts Of Congress-.
LIMIS OCUI.lS.

The Washington Correspondent of the N. Y. Ex-
PRESERVES the following daguerreoype details OF the
more important public acts that have been passed by
the recent Congress -
The Sub Treasury Bill goes into operation at once,
the payment of government dues excepted. Mark
that government officers it you would your bod
les from the States Prison.
The Bill reducing the duty on imports like many
other measures of the exciting Congress- speaks for
itself" The Secretary of the Treasury will be ar
raigned hereafter for his estimates and already he be-
gins to trembe in his shoes for the result The Chair
man Of the Finance Committee and OF the Committee
of Ways and Means, both throw the responsibility up
on the head of the Treasury, who in turn will throw it
upon Congress- for passing bill in many respects UNI
like the one that has become law.
The Naval, Army Pension, Post Office, and Civil
and Diplomatic Bills not distinguished by any pc
cuar features, beyond the appropriation, in the last
named BILL for the payment of the fourth and fifth in
staments are ten per cent upon the award, with eight
per cent interest from the time they were due, The
certificates of indemnity will be presented to the
Treasury of the United States and after receiving the
record of the amount Of payment, government scrip
bearing five per cent interest," and payable in five years.
will be issued
The Rank and File of the Nary has been increased
$500 men, during the session, and the rank and file
Of the .4ry $500, or 100 men more for each of the
companies The enlistment of the additional men of
ARMY Is lOT 1--WE YEARS. IHty dlC puiu ouI oCNCH
dollars month, and the volunteers who have been
called from home, no more than this sum. Members
of Congress- receiving their eight dollars day, and
their forty dollars for every hundred miles travel were
found putting their upon the record against
appropriation, for increase of pay, three dollars a
month.
The Naval Bill appropriates more money believe
than ever before.
One of the most popular acts of the session is thai
which passed the House of Representatives, in Janu
ary and the Senate few days after, compelling al
collectors and Custom House officers to pay over the
fees hitherto distributed among the several officers
into the Treasury of the United States. The SAME
act requires that an officer serving less than yea
shall be paid only for the time serving Hitherto thu
collector has secured his salary for the year from hi
fees and at once. Hereafter it will be paid quarterly
The Speaker, learn, upon his "sober, secont
thought did not sign either the Post Route bill o
the bill for the relief of Elijah White. Both therefore
fail to become laws. No appropriation was made 70
carrying into effect the Cherokee treaty, concluded Oh
Saturday, and for want of the $4,000 asked Their
will be difficulty in executing of the provision
of the treaty, as the money was needed at once.
The Fertilization bill passed by Congress il
MAY last when the issue of the Oregon controvers
was exceedingly doubtful. Under other circumstar
ces the bill would hardly have passed so promptly if
all. We refer to the appropriations for public work
east of the Potomac.
Another OF the DlllS passed, allows any WerCIa'
9ise imported from the British North American Pro
inces adjoining the United States, and duly entered
either of the ports of entry in the collection disrc
situated on the Northern, North Eastern, and Mort
Western frontiers Of the United States to be tran
ported by land or by water to any ports where me
chandse may be sent, under existing laws, for bene
Of drawback, and to be thence exported to any fore
country, that such expectation shall be made with
one year from date of Importation This is an impC
tant bill for the N Y. Canal
The Post Office law remains unaltered. The
preparation of 100000 for purchasing peace w
Mexico, voted by the House, with the provlso, Il
slavery should not be allowed in any territory procur
by means of this appropriation, was lost in the Sena