Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-02
OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the Second Session of the Ihirty-Sevent
Congress.

to AID IN the construction OF railroad and
telegraph line from the Missouri river to
the Pacific ocean, and to secure to the gov
eminent the use of the same for postal, mill
itary, and other purposes" approved July
2, 1862.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled that the first meet
ing of the commissioners named in the act en-
titled can act to aid in the construction of a
railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri
river to the Pacific ocean, and to secure to
the government the use of the same for postal,
military, and other purposes, approved July
second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of
the five commissioners directed by said act to
be appointed by the secretary of the interior,
shall be held at Bryan hall, in the city of Chi
cago, in the state of Illinois, on the first Tues
day of September next at II o'clock at noon
A notice of said meeting, to be signed by at
leastten ofthe commissioners namedin said act
shall be published at least once week during
the six successive weeks commencing on the
twelfth of July, one thousand eight hundred
and siXty-two, in one daily paper in each of
the cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, and no
other notice of said meeting shall be requisite.
Approved, July II, 1862.
PUBLIC-No. 1877.
AN ACT supplementary to the "Act for the
release of certain persons held to service
or labor in the District of Columbia" APP
proved April sixteen, eighteen hundred and
siXty-two.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
lea i congress assembled, that the oath or af-
irmation required by the second section of
the act entitled ''An act for the release of
certain persons held to service or labor in the
the District of Columbia" to verify the state
ments or petitions i'll writing filed before the
commissioners, under the act aforesaid, of
persons holding claim to service or labor
against persons of African descent, freed and
discharged therefrom, under the act aforesaid,
may in all cases in which the persons holding
claims, as aforesaid, are infants or minors, be
made by the guardian, or by any other per-
son, whether separately or jointly, having the
custody, management, or control by law of
the person and property of such infants or
minors and that in all cases in which the per-
sons holding claims as aforesaid are non-resi-
dents of the District of Columbia, or resident
absentees; and in all cares in which the state
ments or petitions, required as aforesaid, of
| persons in the military or naval service Of the
| United States, shall have been or may be
| hereafter verified before any commander of
any military post, or of any officer having
separate command of any military force in the
field, or before any captain, commander or
lieutenant commanding in the navy, the same
shall be received and deemed valid, to all in
tents and purposes, as fully as if the veritica-
ton had been or were made before any officer
competent by law to take and administer oaths
and affirmations Provided, that the commits
sioners shall be satisfied that, at the time OF
the verifcation aforesaid, the person making
the same was employed in the military or ma
val service Of the United States within the u-
risdiction of a rebelous state or territory, and
unable to make the oath or affirmation requir-
ed, as aforesaid, before any officer authorized
by law to take or administer the same, hold
ing allegiance to the United States.
Sect. 2. And be it further enacted, that if
| any person having claim to the service or la
| Dor of any person or persons in the District
| of Columbia by reason of African descent
shall neglect or refuse to file with the clerk of
the circuit court of the District of Columbia
the statement in writing or schedule provided
in the ninth section of the act approved April
sixteen, eighteen hundred and siXty-two, to
| which that is supplementary, then it shall be
| lawful for the person or persons whose servi-
ces are claimed as aforesaid to file such state
ment in writing or schedule setting forth the
! particular facts mentioned in said ninth sec
ton; and the said clerk shall receive and re-
cord the same as provided in said section on
! receiving fifty cents each therefor.
Sect. B. And be it further enacted, THAT
whenever the facts set forth in the said state
ment Or schedule shall be found by the COM
missioners to be true, the said clerk and his
successors in office shall prepare, sign, and
deliver certificates, as prescribed in the tenth
section of the act to which this act is supple
mentary, to such person or persons as shall
file their statements in pursuance of the fore
going section, in all respects the same as if
such statements were filed by the person hay
ing claim to their service or labor.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that all
persons held to service or labor under the
laws of any state, and who at any time since
the sixteenth day of April, ammo Domini eight
cen hundred and sixty-two, by the consent of
the person to whom such service or labor is
claimed to be owing, have been actually en-
ployed within the District of Columbia, or
who shall hereafter be thus employed, are
hereby declared free, and forever released
from such servitude, any thing in the laws of
the United States or Of any state to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
Sect 5. And be it further enacted that in
all judicial proceedings in the district of Col
umbia there shall be no exclusion of any wit
ness on account of color.
Approved, July u, 1862.
PUBLIC-No. 12S.
AN ACT relating to trust funds of several In
dian tribes invested by the government in
certain state bonds distracted from the GUS
tody of the late secretary of the interior.
BE it enacted by the senate and house of
Representatives of the United States Of Amer
lea in Congress assembled, that the secretary
of the treasury be and hereby is directed to
cause to be entered upon the proper books of
his department the following credits to the In
dian tribes herein named, to wit: 70 the Del
awares, the sum of four hundred and twenty
three thousand nine hundred and ninety dol
lars and twenty-siX cents to the lOwas, the
sum of sxty-six thousand seven hundred and
thirty-fve dollars; and to the confederate
banda of Kaskaskias, Peoras, Piankeshaws,
and Weas, the sum of one hundred and sixty
nine thousand six hundred and eighty-siX dol
lars and seventy-fve cents which said
amounts are for and in place of the same
amounts heretofore invested by the govern
ment under treaty stpulations with said tribes
in the bonds ofthe states of Missouri, Tennes-
nessee, and North Carolina, which were stol-
en- while in the custody of Jacob Thompson,
late secretary of the interior, in whose de-
partment they had been deposited for safe
keeping.
Sect g And be it further enacted, that said
entries shall be and remain evidence that the
United States holds the said several sums
named in trust for said tribes respectively, and
the treasurer of the United States is hereby
authorized and directed to pay to said tribes,
respectively, on acquisitions by the secretary
,F tI,o intorior intprpst on thp sums credited