The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-14
OEFICIAL.

lating tho Post-0fce Department" approved March
third eighteen hundred and sxtythree shall be
srued repeal modify the second section of the
act entitled An act making for the service
of the Post0ice Department during the fiscal year end
ing the thrtieh of june eighteen hundred and sixty
one for the delivery of letters aud other mail matter
from postoces where the system of free delivery by
carriers has not been established: Prorided nevertheless,
and Is hereby further enacted That the system of free
delivery shall be established in every place containing
population Of fifty thousand within the delivery Of the
office thereof and at such other places the Postmaster
General in his judgment shall direct And procided,
raer That the prepayment postage on dropstters in
all places where free delivery not established shall be
one cent only.
SEC. TO- And be it further enacted, That no obscene
book, pamphlet picture print or other publication OF
vulgar and indecent character shall be admitted into the
mails of the United States any person or persons who
shall deposit to be deposited in any posoce or
branch posoce Of the United States for mailing or for
delivery an obscene book, pamphlet picture, print or
other publication knowing the same to be OF vulgar and
indecent character shall be deemed guilty of msde-
meanor and being duly convicted thereof shall for every
such offence be fined not more than five hundred dollars
imprisoned not more than year. or both according
to the circumstances and aggravations of the offence
Approved, March 3, 1855.
AN ACT to establish Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen
and Refugees. .
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives
ofhe United States Of America in Congress assembled,
That there hereby established in the War Department
to continue during the present of rebellion and for
one year thereafter bureau of refugees freedmen and
abandoned lands to which shall be committed herein
after provided the supervision and management of all
abandoned lands and the control Of all subjects relating
to refugees and freedmen from rebel states from any
district OF country within the territory embraced in the
operations OF the army under such rules and regulations
may be prescribed the head of the bureau and ap
proved by the President The said bureau shall be under
the management and control of commissioner to be APP
pointed by the President by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate whose compensation shall be three
thousand dollars per annu and such number of clerks
as may be assigned to him by the Secretary of War;
exceeding chief clerk Of tho fourth class two of
the third class and five OF the first class And the
missioner and all persons appointed under this act shall
before entering upon their duties take the oath of office
prescribed in an act entitled AN prescribe an oath
OF oice and for other purposes approved July second
eighteen hundred and sxty-two and the commissioner
and the chief clerk SHALL before entering unpon their
duties give bonds to the treasurer of tho United States
the former in the sum of fifty thousand dollars and the
latter in the sum of ten thousand dollars conditioned for
The faithful discharge of their duties respectively with
securities to DO approved sufficient by the Attorney
General, which bonds shall be filed in the office of the
first comptroller of the treasury be by him put in suit
for the benefit ofany injured party upon any breach of
the conditions thereof
Sec. q And be hicr enacted, That the Secretary Of
War may direct such issues of provisions clothing and
fuel as he may deem needfu for the immediate and tenn
porary shelter and supply eff destitute and suffering
refugees and freedmen and their wives and children under
such rules and regulations as he may direct.
SEC. D. And be further enacted, That the President
may by and with the advice and of the Senate
appoint an assistant commissioner for each of the states
declared to be in insurecon exceeding ten in num-
ber who SHALL under the direction of the commissioner
a,d IN the execution Of the provisions of this act and he
Nle sum of twenty thousand dollars in the form and
nNner prescribed in the first section of this act Each
OF said shall receive an annual salary of
two thousand five hundred dollars in full compensation
for all his services And any military officer may be de-
tailed and assigned to duty under this act without in
crease of allowances The Commissioner shall be-
fore the of each regular session of con-
ges make full report OF his proceedings with exhibits of
the state OF his accounts to the President who shall
muicate the same to congress, and shall also make
special reports whenever required do by the Pres
dent or either house of congress and the assistant COM
shall make quarterly reports Of their proceed
lngs TO the commissioner and also such other special
reports as from time to time may be required.
SEC. 4. 4nd be further enacted That the commits
oner under the direction the President shall have
authority to set apart for the Of loyal refugees and
freedmen, such tracts Of land within the nsurrestionary
states as shall have been abandoned to which the
United States shall have acquired title by conscaon or
sale, or otherwise and to every male citizen whether
refugee or freedman aforesaid there shall be assigned
not more than forty acres of such land the person to
whom 1t was so assigned shall be in the use and
enjoyment OF the land for the term of three years at an
annual rent not exceeding six per centu upon the value
such and as was appraised by the state authorities
ID the year eighteen hundred and sixty for the purpose
OF taxation and in such appraisal can be found
then the rental shall be based upon the estimated yaiue
OF the land In said year. to be ascertaned in such
us the commissioner may by regulation prescribe At the
END OF SAID term or any time during said term the occu
pants OF any parcels 80 assigned may purchase the land
and receive such title thereto as the United States can
convey upon paying therefor the yaue of the land as
asceraned and fixed for the purpose of determining the
annual rent aforesaid.
parts Of acts inconsistent with the provisions Of this act
are hereby repealed. 't..
Approved, March g. 1865.
Asylum for the Relief of the totally disabled Officers
and Men of the Volunteer Forces of the United
States ~" 'A'e'
Be ii enacted By the Senate and House of Rspyesentot;re.
of the United States of america in C5norsss assembled
That Uly ses s. Grant, David G. Fsrragut Hannibal
Andrew johnson, Salmon P. Chase Edwin NJ
William I. Sherman, John A. Andrew Andrew G. Curtin
Oliver p Morton, Benjamin 4. Butler George G. Meade
John Brough NahanclP Banks, Joseph Hooker, Samuel
r. Curtis Richard J. Oglesby, David Tod, Henry Ward
Beecher, Ambrose H. Burnside John A. Logan Daniel s.
Dickinson, William A. Buckingham Carl Schurz Oliver
o. Howard, Hamilton Fish, Frank sge Francis Way.
land Austin Blair, Thomas c. Fletcher Robert Breckin
ridge Lowell H. Rousseau Horace Greedy George H. Stu
art Joseph Henry John @. Barnard, Henry J. Raymond
William MILAN b. Astor James Gordon Bennett II. W. Halleek,
lerrtt Smith, Reuben H. Fenton Beamy Storer George
Meivane aainsha A. Grow, Henry W. Bellows j. 8.
Washburn, Jr, Ichabod Goodwin Frederick smyth John
Goodrich, Charles Henry Davis William Cafiin, j. WI
icy Edmands, Amos A. Lawrence Edward 8. Tobey, |
Charles @. Greene j. NJ. s. Williams George g. Stan
nard, Henry NJ Rice, Greenville NJ Dodge Morton MIMI
chael, Thomas Webster, james NJ. scovel Nathaniel D.
Baker, Richard J. Field, Henry G. Carey John W For
ney, Bishop NJ. Simpson, G. s. Griffith william Henry
manning, James L. Yeatman Dwight Durkeo A. 4 |
Barnnbas Hobbs, Montgomery Blair Joseph R.
Lee, Edward Solomon Thomas G. Bryan b. D. French |
samuel j. Crawford. James 4. Pratt Alfred H. Terry
Edward Tompkins, Moses f. 0de and their successors
July chosen, are hereby constituted and created a body
corporate in the District of Columbia ''''
SEC And De Further enacted, That the said cor
poraton hereby constituted shall consist of one bundled
Members They shall have power to fill all vacancies
eated by DEATH resignation otherwise and 10 make
'ylaws rules and regnlaons Provided, That such by
avs rules and regulations repugnant to the con-
titution or laws Of the United States. WV
SEC. s. And be Il further enacted, That the business of