The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-01-29

aay a~aaaetIEs GAat6ssFi and tho sua
CT VI hundred aud any thousand
dollars IS hereby appropriated for
salaries and miscellaneous and %cOntin-
gent expenses of the patent office,
and for Withdrawals, and for monies
moneys paid by mistake, to be dis
bursed under the direction of the
Secretary of the Interior. And IL
shall be the duty Of the commissioner
of patents to communicate to Con-
gress at the commencement Of every
December session a full and detailed
| account of moneys received for duties
on patents and for copies Of records
and drawings, and all other moneys
received by virtue of said office; and
of all moneys expended by him under
and by virtue of this provision for
said contingent and miscellaneous
expenses, aud for salaries, and the
names of the persons to whom such
salaries T paid, and the amount
thereof paid to each.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That the city of Georgetown, the city
of Washington. and the levy court Of
the county of Washington, District of
Columbia, be, and they are hereby,
~ AANCA ~ lCfJ duu COllGGL u EDC-
cial a on the taxable property with
in their respective jurisdictions, for
the erection of schOol-houses and the
support of public schools. not exceed
ing fifty cents ON each hundred dollars
for any one year, to be assessed and
collected as other taxes.
SEC. 8. And be it further enacted.
That all the laws and parts of laws
that regulate the prices of labor in
the government printing Office be, aud
the same are hereby repealed; and it
shall be the duty Of the congressional
printer to contract with the persons
In that employment at such prices as
are for the interest Of the govern
ment. and are just to those employed.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted,
That for the purpose Of executing
the fourth article of the treaty of
Washington, concluded on the ninth
day of August, eighteen hundred
and fOrty-two, the Secretary of the
Treasuryi is hereby authorized aud di-
Tected to pay to the State of Maine
for ninety one thousand one hundred
and twenty-five acres of land as
signed by said State to settlers under
said article, a sum equal to one dol
lar and twenty five cents per acre, and
to the Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts for twenty-six thousand one
hundred and fifty acres of land a
sum equal to one dollar and twenty
five cents per acre: Provided, That
before said sums are paid the States
Of Maine and Massachusetts, shall
agree with the United States that the
settlers upon their public lands in
the late disputed territory in Maine
entitled to be quoted in their posses
sion, as aseertained by commissions
heretofore instituted by said States,
shall have been or shall be quoted
by a release Of the title of the said
States.
SEC. IL. And be it further enacted,
That the Secretary of the Interior, in
his discretion, is authorized to expend
the appropriation heretofore made for
the purpose Of erecting a ~penitentiary
for the Territory of Colorado, on the
site belonging to and provided by the
said Territory for the purpose: Pro
Uided, That no part of this property
shall be sold or transferred without
the consent Of the United States first
had and received.
Approved, July 20, 1868.