Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-07-21
[BY AUTHORITY
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the First Session Of tile 7AirtyFSfh Ongres


Passed at the First Session Of the 7airtyFfh Ongress.
For the purchase of breech loading crbnes of the best
model be selected and approved by board of ordnance
officers, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the alteration Of old to make them breech
loading upon model to be selected and approved BY
Board of ordnance officers twenty-five thousand dollars;
Provided That any portion Of said not exceeding five
thousand dollars may be expended under the direction of
the Secretary of War; and his discretion in applying
the old arms recent improvement in the mode Of
For the Allegheny arsenal, thryve thousand hun
bred dollars.
For Kennebec arsenal eleven thousand six hundred dol
lars two thousand dollars of which be used in bring
ing upon the arsenal grounds and with leave to extend
For St. Lou S arsenal, thirty-one thousand dollars.
For Washington arsenal, nine thousand three hundred
and seven-nne dollars.
For an additional timber and carriage storehouse at the
North Carolina arsenal, twenty five thousand dollars
For Watervliet arsenal, thirty thousand dollars.
For repairs and preservation Of the Pupic buildings
senals, twenty thousand dollars
For continuing the construction of the arsenal in Caor
mia, one hundred thousand dollars.
For contingencies of arsenals, ten thousand dollars
For repairing the arsenal and two eighteen pound gun
carriages at Stoningon Connecticut seven hundred and
and and at
hundred and twenty-seven dollars.
For repairs and improvements and new machinery at
Harpers Perry hundred and thousand nine hun
For surveys for military defences, geographical explo
atons and reconnossances for military purposes, and
For purchase and repairs of instruments fifteen thousand
For continuing the survey of the northern and north
western lakes, including Lake SUPERIOR seventyve thou
For printing charts of lake surveys ten thousand dol
lars
To enable the Secretary of War to employ temporary
clerks in the Office Of the Quartenaser General bounty
land service, five thousand dollars.
the support of four companies of volunteers muster
re <ho IT,
Utah Territory, in October November, and December,
eighteen hundred and fifty hundred and seventy
three thousand four hundred and dollars and
eighty cents
For continuing the construction of the following works
For at Hog Island LEDGE in Portland Harbor, Maine,
forty thousand dollars
Fort Richmond, Staten Island, New York Harbor, New
York seventy-hve thousand dollars.
Fort Delaware, Delaware river Delaware, seventy-fve
Fort Carroll, Sellers Point flats, Baltimore Harbor,
Maryland. seventy -fve dollars.
For Taylor Key West Florida seventy-fve thousand
Fort Jefferson Garden Key, Tortugas Florida hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars:
Fort Point, San Francisco, California, hundred and
twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent of forcatons rvation of
thirty thousand dollars.
For construction OF permanent platforms for modern
of large cabre in existing Notifications of important
harbors, thirty thousand dollars
For the payment of claims fvoraby reported upon by
the the board I'd, Of officers pn,sd under the sxh Sec
dred and fywo in their final reported to Congress dated
April nineteenth eighteen hundred and ffyfve.
thousand eight hundred and seventytwo dollars and fifty
two and one third cents.
For the construction Of bridges and the improvement of
the crossings of streams the road from Fort Smith
Arkansas, to Albuquerque New Mexico fifty thousand
dollars and that the of hundred thousand dollars
treasury not otherwise appropriated to be expended in
completing connected sections of the road extending from
Albuquerque in the Territory of New Mexico, westward,
the route to the Colorado river the thirty
fifth parallel of north latitude
an
ready expended in the payment of Florida volunteers cal
led into service by authority of the War Department. may
be applied by the accounting officers of the Treasury to
the settlement of the accounts Of Paynasters by whom
Sec Ind be 1T further enacted That shall be lawful
for any officer of the army to administer the
services of civil magistrate authorized to administer the
same cannot be obtained
Sec T. Ind be it further enacted That there be appropri-
ated out of any money in the Treasury ap
Of the Bherngs Strait and North Pacific Exploring and
Surveying Expe on uuder the contro and direction of
the Secretary Of the Navy but not for printing the same
six Thousand seven hundred dollars
SEC. And turter enacted, That the eleventh
ton of the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty
entitled An act making provision for additional
deprves suffers in the army Of their to lien upon
upon any Fart of the pay Of the soldiers or to at
tel, be and the same is hereby repealed:
SEC g. Ard further snaeed That all the existing
laws parts OF laws which authorize the sale Of military
site which may become useless for military purposes
be and the hereby repealed and said lands shall
not be subject to sale presumption under any of the
Of the United States: P'ocided further, That the provi
sons Of the act Of August eighteenth eighteen hundred
and ysx, relative the State of
| Florida shall continue in force.
Approved, June H. 1858.
Public-No. $751;
AN ACT in relation to courts and the holding of the
terms thereof in the several Territories in the United
Stites
Be enacted By the Senate and House of Representatives.
Of the United Suites Of Anaeria in Congress assembled That
the judges of the court of each Territory of the
United States are hereby authorized to hold court within
their respective districts the counties Wherein by the
laws Of said Territories have been be sab
shed for the purpose of hearing and determining all mat
tiers and those in which the United States
party roridd That the expenses thereof shall be pad
by the Territory by the counties in which such
may be held and the United States shall in be
| chargeable Herewith.
| Approved, June IA. 1855. .....
| Public No. 50.
AN ACT making appropriations for the service of the Post
Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thir-
tieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty .nine ~
Be It enacted che Senate and House Of Representation
eMe United States of Anerioa in Congress assembled That