The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-24


neva Genoa Gibraltar Glasgow Goderich, Gutenberg,
Guaymas Halifax, Hamburg Havre, Honolulu Hong
Kong Jerusalem Kanagawa Kingston Kingston In Cam
Leeds Ieghor Ieipsic Lisbon Liverpool London, Lyons
Macao, Maag. Malta, Manchester Manzanillo, Maracaibo
Matanzas, hIarselles, Maurtus, Melbourne, Messina
Moscow, Munich Nagasaki Nantes Naples Nassau (West
Indes Newcastle Nice, Odessa, Oporto Palermo, Panama.
paramatilo Paris Pernambuco Pctou Ponce Port Mahon
Prescott Prince Edward Island Quebec, Reve Rio de
Janerio Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San JUAN porto
Rico santander Santiago de Cuba Santos Port sarnia,
Scio, Singapore, Smyrna Southampton Stockholm Saint
John, (Newfoundland,) Saint John New brunswick
Saint Petersburg Saint Pierre Martinique Saint Thomas
stutgardt swatow, Saint Helena Tabasco Tampco Tan
ger TehaunteIec, Toronto Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba,
Trinidad Tripoli Tunis Turks Island Valparaiso yaen-
cia Venice, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich.
". COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
scHEDuLEB
AMOR River, Antigua, Baizo, QHonduras) Gaboon,
Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo ST. Mare
v. CoNsULATEs.
| SCHEDULED
Barbadoes Batavia Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien Cape
Town. Cartbegena, Ceyon Cobjs Cyprus Falkland Is
Mexico, Monteydeo Omas Payta Paso del Norte Pireus
Rio Grande sabanilIa Saint Catherine Santa Cruz West
Talcahuano, Tumbez, Zanzibar.
VI, COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
| SCHEDULED.
Apia, Saint Paul de Loando lLoanda including loss by
exchange thereon four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
For Interpreters to the consrates in China including
dollars.
For expenses incurred under instructions from the secrc
tary OF State in bringing home from foreign countries per-
sons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto
| twenty thousand dollars.
For salaries of the marshas for the consular courts in
Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey including loss by ex-
| change thereon nine thousand dollars
For rent Of prisons for American cOnvicts in Japan,
China siam and Turkey and for wages of the keepers
the same nine thousand dollars.
| For salaries OF commissioners and cOnsusrpnpra1 to
ayti and Liberia eleven thousand five hundred dollars
For expenses under the act Of Congress to carry into e
feet the treaty between the United States and her Britannia
Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade
seventeen thousand dollars.
For expenses under the act to encourage immigration
twenty-five thousand dollars
For expenses under the neutrality act twenty thousand
dollars.
For expenses of the commission to run and mark the
boundary Line between the United States and the British
possessions bounding Washington Territory thirteen
| thousand two hundred and fifty dollars
| Approved January "a, 1865.
AN ACT to provide for advance of Rank Officers the
Navy and Marine Corps for distinguished Merit.
BE enacted BY he Senate and House of Representatives
fhe United States Of aericd in Cbgress assembled That
any officer of the navy marine corps by and with the
exceeding thirty numbers in rank, for having exhibited
eminent conspicuous conduct baco extraordinary
heroisn
Sec And be IL further enacted That any officer of the
navy marine corps, either of volunteers otherwise
who shall be nominated to higher grade by the proyi
sons Of the first section of this act Of that Of section
nine OF act entitled An to establish and ea,alze
grades of line officers of the United States navy" APP
proved July sixteenth eighteen hundred and sixtytwo
shall be promoted notwithstanding the number Of said
grade may be full but further promotions shall take
place in that grade except for like cause until the number
is reduced to that provided Wy law.
sEc.a And be it further enacted That all acts, or part
acts which inconsistent with the provisions of THU
: ! act, are hereby repealed.
4 Approved, January o. 1865.
AN Afr sunnlementarv tn an Act entIta An Act IN nra
scribe an oath of Office and for other Purposes" up
= proved July two, eighteen hundred and sxty-two.
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of Representative
ofe United States of America in Congress assembled Tha
no person. after tho date Of this act shall be admitted
the bar of the supreme court OF the United States
any time after the fourth Of March next shall be admtte
to the bar of any circuit district of the Unite
States of the court OF claims attorney counsel
or Of such court, shall DO allowed to appear and
son any special power of attorney unless he shall hav
first taken and subscribed the oath prescribed San
prescribe an oath of Office and for other purposes ar
proved July two eighteen hundred and sxtywo accord
ing to the forms and in the manner in the said act pro
vded which said oath taken and subscribed shall b.
preserved among the es of such court and any perso
who shall falsely take the said oath shall be guilty per
jury and conviction, shall be liable to the pains
penalties of perjury and the additional pains and penal
, ties in the said act provided
Approved january "a, 1865,
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An Act to provide way
and means for the support of the Government, and o
other purposes" approved June thirtish, Fighter
hundred and sixtyfour
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative
of The United States Of America in Congress assembled
That in lieu Ofany bonds authorized to be issued by tn
first section of the act entitled san act to provide way
and means for the support of the government approves
June thiret eighteen hundred and your that MAJ
remain unold at the date Of this act the Secretary Of tn
Treasury may issue, under the authority of said act
y notes OF the description and character authorized b.
the second section OF said act: Provided, That tn
whole amount of bonds authorized aforesaid and
sury issued and to be issued in lieu thereof shall
pnnr hmm M cnf
such treasury notes may be disposed Of for lawful money
for any other treasury notes or certificates Of indebted
certificates of deposit issued under previous
Congress- and such notes shall be exempt from taxation
by or under State or municipal authority.
SEC q And be 1t further enacted That any bonds know
fvetwentie issued under the act of wentyith Feb
ruary eighteen hundred and sxtytwo remaining unso
to an amount not exceeding four millions of dollars ma
disposed of by the Secretary Of the Treasury in tn
Untod States or If he shall find it expedient In EIrcpe
at any time on such terms he may deem most advsa
BILE Provided That this act shall not be construed
to give any authority for the issue Of any legal tende
notes. in any FORM beyond the balance unssued of tn
amount authorized by the second section of the Il
= | which this Is an amendment.
= Approved, January Is, 1855.
AN making appropriations for the service of the Post
Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thir
0 tieth of june, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Be IL enacted by The Senate and Houss Of Representative
cfhe United States Of America IN Congress assembled
That the following sums be- and the same hereby ap
proprated for the service Of the Postce Department
for the year ending June thrtieth eighteen hundred and
sxysix out of any moneys In the treasury arising from
the Of the said Department in conformity to the
Of the second Of July, eighteen hundred and thirty
six
For transportation of the mails nand) seven million
eight hundred thousand dollars,
For ship, steamboat and way letters eight thousand
dollars.
For compensation to postmasers three million one hun
drcd and seventy five thousand dollars.
For clerks for postofces, million three hundred
thousand dollars.
For payment to lettercaiers four hundred thousand
| dollars.
For wrapping paper seventy-fve thousand dollars.
For twine seventeen thousand dollars.
For office stamps, six thousand dollars
For letter balances two thousand five hundred dollars
For compensation to blank agents and assistants
thousand dollars.
For office furniture, two thousand dollars.
| For advertising, sixty-eght thousand dollars,
~ posage stamps and stamped envelopes, two hun
dred and nifty thousand dollars.
For mail depredatons and special agents seventy thos
and dollars.
For mail-hags, sixty thousand dollars
ror mai locks and Keys, eight thousand dollars
for payment OF balances due foreign countries, three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
=, fer miseeihneous payments, two hundred and fifty
For foreign mail transportation, two hundred and fifty
| thousand dollars > "
Approved, January rs, 1865
AN ACT to amend the Charter Of the "washington Gas
Light Company"
BE enacted by he Senate and House of Representatives
We on'ted Mates Of America in Cbngress assembled,
nat so mucn OF the acts of June twenty-five eighteen
sunareu ana sixty, and July eleven, eighteen hun
aieu anu sxtytwo as relate to the price of gas fur
a,s ms oy Inc Wsshngon GasLght Company" be- and