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IPUBLIC-No. 53,1

AN ACT making appropriations for the consular
and diplomatic expenses of the government for
the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hun
drcd and sxty-eight, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted 6y tile Senate and House Of Repre-
Senatircs Of tile United States Of Aae1ica in Con-
greSS assembled, That the following sums be, and
the same are hereby, appropriated, out OF any
money in the Tresury not otherwise appropriated
for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal
year ending the thirticth of June, eighteen hun
dred and sixty eight, namely:
For salaries OF cnvoys extraordinary, ministers,
and commissioners of the United States at Great
Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Austria,
Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland,
Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, New Granada, Boli-
via, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua,
Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica Honduras Argen-
tine Confederation, Paraguay, Japan, and Saliva
dor, three hundred and one thousand dollars:
PioUiIed, That no money shall be paid to the pre-
sent minister resident at Portugal out of any fund
whatever; and this provision shall continue in
force until repealed by Congress. And no money
hereby or otherwise appropriated shall be paid
for the support of an American legation at Rome,
from and after the thirtieth day of june eighteen
hundred and siXty-seven.
For salaries of secretaries of legation, thirty
thousand dollars.
For salaries of assistant secretaries of lega-
tion at London and Paris, three thousand dollars.
For salary of the Interpreter to the legation to
China, five thousand dollars.
For salary of the secretary OF legation to Tur-
key, acting as interpreter, three thousand doll
lars.
For salary of the interpreter to the legation to
Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions
abroad, fifty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses offoreign intercourse
sixty-fve thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary
powers, three thousand dollars.
, For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish
dominions, namely: Interpreters, guards, and
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TPUBLIC-No, 45.1

AN ACT granting lands to the State of Oregon
to aid in the construction of military wagon
road from Dallea City, on the Columbia river
to Fort Boise, on the Snake river
Be IL enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
scutatves Of the United States Of Aaerica in Con-
g1cSS assembled, That there be, and hereby is,
granted to the State of Oregon, to aid in the con-
structlon OF military wagon road from Dalles
City, on the Columbia river, by way of Camp
Watson, Canon City, and Mormon or Humboldt
Basin to point Oh Snake river opposite Fort
Boise, in Idaho Territory alternate sections of
public lands, designated by odd numbers, to the
extent of three sections in width on each side of
said road: Proeided, That the lands hereby grant
ed shall be exclusively applied to the construc-
ton of said road and to no other purpose; and
shall be disposed of only as the work progresses:
And dprovided FURTHER That any and all lands here
toforc reserved to the United States, or otherwise
appropriated by act of Congress other compe-
tent authority, be, and the same are hereby, re
served from the operation of this act, except
far as it may be necessary to locate the route of
said road through the same, in which the
right of way to the width of one hundred feet is
granted Ind p1Ovided further, That the grant
hereby made shall not embrace any mineral lands
of the United states.
SEC 2. A,.d be it further enacted, That the lands
hereby granted to said State shall be disposed of
by the legislature thereof, for the purpose afore
said and for no other; and the said road shall be
and remain public highway for the use of the
government of the United States, free from tolls
or other charges upon the transportation of any
property, troops, or mails of the United States
SEC 3. Aad be Htartter enacted, That said road
snail be constructed with such width, graduation,
and bridges as to permit of its regular use as a
wagon road and in such other special manner as
the State of Oregon may prescribe.
SEC 4 And be it further enacted, That the State
OF oregon is authorized to locate and use in the
construction of said road an additional amount of
public lands, not previously reserved to the Uni
ted States nor otherwise disposed of and not ex
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IPUBLIC-56]
AN ACT for the relief of certain drafted men.

Ur cert!tn I1len.
Whereas certain persons drafted into military
service under the calls of the United States made
Februarv first eighteen hundrrd and siytyfour
and March fourteenth eirbtecn hundred and 81 -
ty-four paid the sum Of three hundred dollars
each, being the amount of communication fixed for
such service under the fifth section of the amen
datory enrolment act of February twentv-fourth.
eighteen hundred and sixty-four. and the same
call of December nineteenth, eighteen hundred
and siXty-four (being within one year of the pre-
vious draft and before the filling of the ouotas
assigned under the two calls first named aboyel
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[PUBLIC-No. 51.1

[PUBLIc-No. ST.
AN ACT to amend the act entitled " An act furth-
er to provide for the safety of the lives of pas
sengers on board of vessels propelled in whole
or or in part by steam, to regulate the salaries
of steamboat inspectors and for other pur-
poses," approved July 25, 1866, twenty-five,
eighteen hundred and sixty-sx
Be II enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-.
sentatiues Of the United States Of America in Con-
gress assembled, That section nine of the act en-
titled " An act to amend the act entitled An act
further to provide for the safety of the lives Of
passengers on board ofvessels propelled in whole
or i'll part by steam to regulate the salaries of
steamboat inspectors, and for other purposes"'
approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and
siXty-six, be and the same is hereby amended as
follows:
SEC 9. Andbe it further enacted, That all
vessels navigating the bags [bays, inlets, rivers
harbors, and other waters of the UnitedStates,
except vessels subject to the jurisdiction of q
foreign power and engaged in foreign trade and
not owned in whole or part by a citizen of the
United StBtes, shall be subject to the navigation
laws of the United States and all vessels pro-
PEELED in whole or in part by steam, and naviga-
ting aforesaid, shall also be subject to all rules
and regulations consistent Herewith, established
for the government of steam vessels IN passing
as provided in the twenty ninth section of and act
relating to steam vessels, approved the thirtieth
day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two-
And every sea-going vessel now subject or here
by made subject to the navigation laws of the
Ohiteu otat's, anu 10 the rules ana regulations
aforesaid, shall, when nnder way, except upon
the high seas, be under the control and direction
of pilots licensed by the inspectors of steam ves
sels vessels of other countries and public ves-
sells of the United States only excepted hopidtd
hoaoeyer, That nothing in this act, in the act of
which it is amendatory. shall be construed to an
nul or affect any regulation established by the
existing law of any State requiring vessels enter
ing or leaving port in such State TO take pilot
duly licensed or authorized by the laws of such
State, or of State situate upon the waters of the
same port.
ApnrOyed February 25 1864
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PuBLIC-No. 10.l

AN ACT to declare valid and conclusive certain
proclamations of the President, and acts done
in pursuance thereof, or of his orders, in the
suppression of the late rebellion against the
United States.
Be it resolyed by the Senate and HOnse Of Repre-
sentdtiles OF tie United States Of 4merica ia Con-
q,ess assembled That all acts, proclamations and
orders of the President of the United States, or
acts done by his authority approval after the
fourth of March, ammo Domini eighteen hundred
and sixty-one, and before the first day of July,
ammo Domni eighteen hundred and s1xty-sly, re-
specting martial law, military trials by courts
nlartiaS or military commissions, or the arrest,
Imprisonment and trial of persons charged with
participation in the late rebellion against the
United States. or aidcrs and abctters thereof,
or as guilty of any dsloyal practice in aid there
Of or of any violation OF the laws or usages OF
war, or of affording aid and comfort to rebels
sganst the authority of the United States and
all proceedings and acts done or had by courts
martial ur military commissions, or arrests and
lmprisonments made i'll the premises by any per-
son or by the authority of the orders or procla-
nations of the President, made as aforesaid, or
in aid thereof, are hereby approved in all re-
spects, legalzed and made valid, to the same eX-
tent and with the same effect as If said orders
and proclamatons had been issued and made,
and said arrests, imprisonments. proceedings
and acts had been done under the previous eN
press authority and direction of the Congress of
the United States, and in pursuance of a law
thereof previously enacted and expressly author
iZing and directing the same to be done. And no
civil court of the United States, of any State,
or of the District of Columbia, or of any District
or Territory of the United States, shall have or
take jurisdiction of, or in any manner reverse
any of the proceedings had or acts done as
aforesaid, nor shall any person be held to an
swer in any of said courts for any act done or
omitted to be done in pursuance or in aid of
any said proclamations or orders, or by authori-
ty with the approval of the President within
the period aforesaid, and respecting any of the
matters aforesaid; and all officers other per-
in the service of the United States, who
acted in aid thereof, acting in the premises shall
be held prima face to have been authorized by
the President; and all acts and parts o! acts here
tofore passed, inconsistent with the provisions
of this act, are hereby repealed.
Approved, March 2, 1867.
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TPUBLIC-No. 5S.1

AN ACT to quiet title to land in the town of
Santa Clara and Petaluma, in the State of Coli
ifornia
Be it enacted By the Senate and House of Repre-
se,statiyes Of the United States of america in Con-
gress assembled That all the right and title OF the
United States to the land situated within the cor
the acts of the legslaturet of that State incorpo
rating said towns, be, the same are hereby relin-
quished and granted to the corporate authorities
of said towns and their successors, in trust, tor
and with authority to convey so much OF said
land as is in the bona tide occupancy of parties
upon the passage of this act, P'ovided, That this
grant shall not extend to any reservation of the
United States, nor prejudice any valid adverse
right or claim, nor preclude judicial examina-
ton and adjustment thereof.
Approved, March l, 1867.
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TPUBLIo-No. 49,
tPUBLIC-No. 4S. sssF
AN ACT to change certain collection districts In
Maryland and Virginia.

AN ACT to change certain collection districts in
Maryland and Virginia.
Be it resolved 6y the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentdtives Of the United States Of AnleTtca in Com
gress assembled, That the districts of Oxford and
Vienna, in the State of Maryland, be, and the
same are hereby abolished, and the Office of Col
lector of both of said districts is hereby discon.
tnued.
SEC. 2. And be ii further enacted, That the dis
trict of Oxford, in said State, shall be annexed
to the district of Baltimore; and all that part Of
the district of Vienna, in said State bordering on
the sea coust and all the waters which flow into
the sea or bays on the east side Of said district
of Vienna, be, and the same are hereby, annexed
to the district of Cherry, in the State Of
Virginia; and that all the residue of said district
of Vienna be, and the same is hereby made new
district, to be called the Eastern district, and
that the collector of said eastern district shall
ceive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars,
and shall reside at Crisfeld. which shall be the
port of Entry for said new district.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the off,
ces of surveyor at Snow Hill, and of deputy col
lector at Annamassett and Deaps Island, be, and
the same is hereby discontinued.
, SEC. 4. And te It further enacted, That all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with this act arc
hereby repealed.
Approved, February Is, 1867.
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APRIL 16, 1867.
Official.

For additional appropriations, for which esti-
mates were not made last year:
For enlarging cadet laundry, five thousand dol
lars.
For furniture for soldiers hospital, one hum
dred dollars.
For increasing the supply of water replacing
mains, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars.
For ice-house and additional store and servants
rooms, seven thousand five hundred dollars
For tire-proof building for public Offices fifteen
thousand dollars.
For breast-high wall of water battery, five thou
sand dollars.
For permanent derrick on the wharf two thou
sand five hundred dollars.
SEC. 2. And be ii further enacted, That the
cadets of the Military Academy be entitled to the
ration now received by the acting midshipmen at
the Naval Academy, commencing at the date of
the approval of the law authorizing the same
SEC. 3. Aatd be it further enacted That hereafter
the assistant professor Spanish shall receive the
same pay and emoluments allowed to other assis-
tant professors of the academy.
Sec. s. Aged be it further enacted, That no part
of the moneys appropriated by this any other
act shall be applied to the pay subsistence of
any cadet from any State declared to be in rebel
lion against the Government of the United States,
appointed after the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and sixtyseven, until such State shall
have been restored to its original relations to the
Union.
Approved, February 49, 1867.
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ccedng ten miles in distance from it, equal to
the amount reserved from the operation of this
act in the first section of the same, to be select
ed in alternate odd sections provided in Sec
tions first of this act.
hereby granted to said State shall be disposed of
only in the following manner, that is to say:
when the governor Of said State shall certify to
the Secretary of the Interior that ten continuous
miles of said road are completed, then quantity
of the land hereby granted, not to extend thirty
sections, may be sold, and so on from time to
time until said road shall be completed and if
said;road is not completed within five years, no
further sales shall be made, and the lands re-
naming unsold shall revert to the United States.
SEC. e. And be it fitrt1tef enacted, That the Uni
ted States surveyorgeneral for the district of Or
egon shall cause said lands so granted to be sur
veyed at the earliest practicable period after said
State shall have enacted the necessary legislation
to carry this act into effect.
Approved, February 25, 1867
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TPUBLIC REsoLUTIoN-No. Al

AN ACT TO amend section twelve, chapter two
hundred and ninety-nine, of the laws of the
first session of the thirty-ninth Congress.
Be 1t endctcd By the Senate and House Of Reprcsen-
tatiges Of the United States Of 4ncrca in Congress
assembled That the last clause of section twelve,
of chapter two hundred and ninety-nine, of the
laws of first session thirty ninth Congress, ap-
proved July twenty eighth, eighteen hundred and
sixty six, is hereby amended by repeating all af-
ter and including the words "until otherwise pro-
vided by law" so as to place the judge advocates
thereby authorized to be retained in service up
the same footing in respect to tenure Of office
and otherwise as other officers of the army of the
United States.
Approved, February 25, 1867
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TPUBLlC-No. 4.

AN ACT to amend the twenty-first section of an
act entitled IAN act further to prevent SNUG
Cling and for other purposes" approved July
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sxty-six.
BE enacted 6y the Senate and House Of Represe,,-
tatUes Of tie United States Of 4nercd, Ia Congress
tied ''An act to prevent smuggling and for other
purposes" approved July eighteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-siy, be amended by adding to
said section, twentyone the following proviso
"PUricie3, That this section shall not apply, or
be held to apply, to any case where the said tow
ing in whole or in part is within or upon foreign
waters" Ind POrided, That any Foreign Rail
road Company or corporation, whose road enters
the United States by means of Ferry or Tug
boat, may own such boat, and it shall be subject
to no other or different restrictions or regula
tions in such employment, than if owned by a
citizen of the United States"
Approved, February 25, 1867.
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[PUBLIC-No. 4S.1

AN ACT to amend an act granting the right of
way over the military reserve at Fort Gratiot
Michigan.
BE it eaacte By the Senate and House Of Represe,s-
tatires 0He Unite States Of Anaerica III Congress
assemble, That the act entitled can act granting
the right of way over and depot grounds upon,
the military reserve at Fort Grafton, in the State
OF Michigan" passed February the eighth, eigh-
teen hundred and fftynine be- and the same is
hereby, amended by inserting in the last proviso,
after the word "wood," the words cor fire.
proof" so that the same shall read, "that all
buildings to be erected upon said reservation
shall be wood or tire-proof'
Approved, February 25, 1867.
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Sec. 2. And belt further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury, should it at any time
port of entry in the district of Beaufort from
Beaufort to Morehead city and that all acts and
parts OF acts conflicting with the provisions of
this act be, and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved, February 25, 1867.
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ANDREW JOHNSON, President. LA AFAYETTE
S. FOSTER, President OF the Senate
SCHUYLER CoLFAx, Speaker Of the House
of Representatives.
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The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-10
FENIAN NEWS.
Good News from Paris.


We have received the following letter from w R. Roberts,
Esq., President of the Fenian Brotherhood We are douby
graed the results of his visit Europe We know that
when he started his antcpaons of bringing order out of the
chaos into which bgers and traitors had precpaed affairs
in Ireland, anything but sangine And free to
confess that shared in his doubts We almost salts
fed that brothers in Ireland welded to
woS that it useless appeal to their matters
of prncpe but truly glad to acknowledge error
and find that there here, the organization is safe
The leaders have fallen, but the people solid ever
The leaders but ivy cnging the Irish oak
ing their life and strength from the and giving strength
in return Let have leaders to draw the blood of
the people
Let the shmen of America act this matter of union as
brothers have done in Ireland fall into line under the
banner of national Ireland and own down all ctionists
who have power for good and only distract the people
Come together and if there any correct let
them be corrected legally and by the representatives of our
organization individuals amount to nothing unless speak
ing in the of organization In addition to uniting
brothers the Irish question, happy be in
position them that the matter of whether those
cergymen who denounce Fenianism gby speaking
authortavely not will be taken up in earnest We
believe that will have authority say that denuncia-
on things of the past and that green jackets are not
banned by the Church, they by England and her TOOLS
,,.,,. - PARIS, July 7th, 1867.
Ihave only afew before write
and convey the glorious that revolutionary organic
aons at both sides of the Atlantic WISELY FULLY AND
THOROUGHLY Ibeieve have accomplished greatest
work of life freedom of Ireland
Fraternaly yours
WILLIAM r. ROBERTS,
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New Circle Formed at Lakawanna, Pa.

LAKAwANNA LUzERNE Co., PA, July 22d, 1867
To the Editors of The Irish Republic.
GENTLEMEN beg to inform you that grand mass meet
ing was held on last Saturday evening" July 20h in the
Lakawanna schoohouse No g. for the purpose of organizing
Circle of the Fenan Brotherhood. most appropriate
and truly impressive address delivered by Mr. F. r.
Butler of Scranton The speakers stand was decorated with
the starry banner together with the glorious emblem of the
Green lsle the sunbr The young and gifted spoke
for hour and half mpressng the minds of his
countrymen their imperative duty support no political
candidate for Office but those who hate tyranny and oppres
son and love justice and liberty During one part of the
oraon the audience almost moved tears for the sor
rows of Ireland by the pahos of the delivery and at the
concuson the enthusiasm of the hearers was aroused to the
most intense excitement by the speaker calling on them to
raise their hands to heaven and by the Eternal that
Ireland must and shall be Free They did SO unanimously
The secretary of the meeting Mr. A. OBoyle school teacher
at Lakawanna also delivered stirring appeal which helped
to knde the fires of patriotism after which several young
and salwart enrolled their the Fenian roll
In my next will give you the of the officers of the
Circle.
have the honor to remain, gentlemen,
Your obeden servant,
ANTHONY CLARK, President