Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-05-16
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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
pa.,.a 1T ~. third .sssso. Of the 7%irto's 00"grss'
canp M the Instruction of The Deaf and Dumb and the
Blind. s.,.,., .,d uo,sa If Representa-
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HE'D That byron Sunderland. G. Mcclure VIII Wi,m
and gssscn If Ken
dali and william Stickney Of the county o. s
such be @ nsf nd Dumb
md The blind are hereby created body polite ana cor
norate under the Of the "Coumb'" lns%!ao" os
The Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the 10
nerpea succession and be capable to take h9o ana
en;ov lands tenements heredtamens and personal prop
r n nse common SEAL and the same to alter al p,enS
prov;ded That no real personal property shall De
hold nv sad corporation except such as may be
to- the maintenance and efficient management oi s~ ~
So And be it further enacted That the Institution
sbnIl he managed as provided for in its present Consu
tion and such additional "s IS S;c;snt contr.
time be found necessary but as soon as snmcen ~.
buttons shall have been paid in to authorize an
cordng to the provisions OF sad te General
meeting TO the contributors fol- the election OF M
the officers elected such general meeting shall n1o 'he
Offices for one year and until their shall De
cd as in said Constitution provded Provided, That sao
Constitution be altered III the manner tneren W.
ed but not in such as tn violate the
any law of the United States or OF the p'S''''' u
Sec g. And be it further enacted, That it shall De ,h'
duty of
the cities of Washington and Georgetown and OF the coun
ty of Washington to ascertain the names and residences"
all Deaf and Dumb and Blind persons wn ,eaehabi.
ape and also who of them are in INDECENT crc9msnSes
and report the same the President OF the lnso'oo
Ser A. And be i: further enacted That whenever the
Secretary of the Interior shall be satisfied by evidence pro-
duced by the President of the Institution hereby
ated that any Deaf and Dumb Blind person OF 'eea
HE NOE nroperly belonging this District Is IN indee'
and cannot command the means to secure an
education it shall his duty to author the sld person
to enter said Institution for instruction. ana 10 pay m
his maintenance and tuition therein at the rate OF
dred and fifty dollars annum for such Deal ana III,
pup and at the of hundred and nifty dollars per
annum Cor such Blind pupil payable quarterly out Oh Inc
Treasury Of the United States.
Sec And be it further enacted That it shall be law.
m for said Institution to receive and instruct Deaf and
Dumb and Blind persons from of the States and Terri
tories the United States such terms as may be agreed
upon themselves their parents guardians or ustees
and the proper authorities of said Institution
Sec g. And be further enacted, That it shall he the
duty of the President and directors of said Institution to
report to the Secretary of the Interior the condition of said
Institution the first day of July in each year. embracing
in said report the number Of pupils of each description re-
ceved and discharged during the preceding and the
number remaining in the Instuon also the branches OF
knowledge and industry taught and the progress made
therein also statement showing the receipts OF the In
sttuton and from what sources and Its disbursements and
Approved, February ls, 1887.
Chap Ian Act for the Construction of Wagon Road
from Fort kearney via the South Pass OF the Rocky
Mountains
Portion of the State of California and for other Pur
Be enacted by the Senate House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled
That the Of three hundred thousand dollars or Sc
much thereof may be necessary, be and the same IS
hereby appropriated of the treasury not
otherwise appropriated the construction of wagon
rnad from Fort kearnev the Territory of Nebraska, via
the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains TO the eastern
boundary of the State of California Honey Lake. to
be expended under the direction of the Secretary Of the
INTERIOR pursuant contracts TO be made by hm-sad
road to connect with and form extension of the road
already authorized from Fort Rdgey to the aforesaid South
Pass.
Sec 2 And be it further enacted That the of two
hundred thousand dollars much thereof may be
necessary be and the is hereby appropriated out of
any in the treasury not otherwise appropriated
the construction of wagon road from FL Pa, the Rio
Grande Fort Yuma the mouth CT The ella River to
be expended under the direction of the Secretary Of the
Interior pursuant to contracts to be made BY him.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That of fifty
thousand dollars be- and the same is hereby appropriated
out of the not otherwise appropri
6ance the Territory New Mexco the Colorado Rv-
er, the mouth Of the Mohava River.
Approved February II, 1857.
Chap Lv-An Act the Pay of the Officers Of
the Armt.
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled
That from and after the commencement Of the present ifs
cal the of each commissioned officer of the army
including military storekeepers shall be increased twenty
dollars per month, aud that the Communication price IF Of
fcers subsistence shall be thirty cents per ration.
War be authorized the recommendation of the council
of administration to exteud the additional pro-
vded to serving chapain post of the
army.
Approved, February 81, 1857.
Chap LvI-An Act relating to Foreign Coins and to the
Coinage of Cents at the Mint of the United States
enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives
of the United States America in Congress assembled
That the pieces commonly known the quarter eighth
sixteenth of the Spanish pillar dollar and Of the Mexican
dollar shall be receivable al the treasury of the United
andrfa ~.
and land Offices the rates Of valuation uiowng-,hat
is to the fourth of dollar piece of reals
twenty cents the eighth Of dollar, piece of real
at ten CENTS and the sixteenth of dollar half real
five cents.
Sec And be it further enacted That the said coins
when received shall again be paid put in
culation. but shall be reconed the mint And it shall
be the duty Of the drecIot of the mint with the
OF the Secretary OF the Treasury to prescribe such
tions may be necessary and proper, secure the
transmission to the n. for reconage and the
distribution of the proceeds thereof when deemed expe
dent and to prescribe such forms of account as NAV
appropriate and applicable to tine circumstances Provided
button and of reconage shall be charged against the
count of silver profit and loss and the profits if any
shall be paid from time to time into the treasury of h
Sec 8. And be it further enacted That all former act
authorizing the currency of foreign gold silver coins
hereby repealed but it shall be the duty Of drec
tor of the mint to assays to be made from
time Of such foreign coins as may be known com
merce to determine their average weight fneness ant
value and to embrace in his annual report statement
tie results thereof
Sec AMI be It further enacted, That from and afte
passage of this act the standard weight of the cen
coined at the mint shall be seveny-two grains three
twenteths Of one ounce troy, with greater deviation
than fo grams in each piece and said shall be
posed OF ccnum of copper and twelve De
centum of Nickel Of such shape device may be e
director OF the MINT with the pprobat on of tn
Secretary Of the Treasury and the the half cen
shall cease.
Sec g. And be it further enacted That the treasurer
the mint under the instruction Of the Secretary of tn
Treasury, SHALL from time to time, purchase from the bu
lion fund of the mint the materials tor the
operative officers of the mint to be manufactured and
turned COIN And the laws in force relating the
and the coinage of the precious metals and in regard
the sale and distribution of the copper COINS SHALL
applicable be extended to the coinage herein provide
ior Provided That the net profits of said coinage