witnesses. Where more than one person is interested in the same warrant, the scrip may be apportioned, and if an infant or feme covert is entitled to any scrip, the guardian or husband may receive, sell, or locate the same. This shall be a full and final adjustment of all bounty land claims to the officers and soldiers, seamen and marines, of the State of Virginia, for services in the war of the Revolution. And the State of Virginia shall, by a proper act of her Legislature, relinquish all claim to the lands in the Virginia military land district in Ohio. August 31, 1852. No. 65. Ch. CXV. An Act to constitute Alton, in the State of Illinois, a Port of Delivery. Alton and Galena in Illinois, Burlington in Iowa, and Knoxville in Tennessee, are made ports of delivery, and annexed to the collection district of New Orleans. Port Jefferson, on the north side of Long Island, is made a port of delivery, and annexed to the New York collection district, but all duties shall be paid at New York before cargoes can be discharged in Port Jefferson. August 31, 1852. IX. PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS. No. 1. A Resolution of Welcome to Louis Kossuth. That Congress, in the name and behalf of the people of the United States, give to Louis Kossuth a cordial welcome to the Capitol of the country; and that a copy of this resolution be transmitted him by the President of the United States. December 15, 1851. No. 2. A Joint Resolution, providing for the Printing of Additional Copies of the Journals and Public Documents. 100 additional copies to be printed. December 23, 1851. No. 3. A Joint Resolution to authorize the Postmaster-General to legalize certain Contracts for the Transportation of the Mail in California and Oregon. January 13, 1852. No. 4. A Joint Resolution providing for the Binding of certain Documents. Additional copies of executive documents- being not less than 250 pages. shall be bound at a cost of not less than 124 cents per volume. January 27, 1852. No. 5. A Resolution extending the Time of the Commission under the Convention with Brazil. Time extended four months from March 1, 1852. February 27, 1852. No. 6. A Joint Resolution approving and confirming an Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon, entitled “ An Act to provide for the Selection of Places for Location and Erection of the Public Buildings of the Territory of Oregon,” and for other Purposes. May 4, 1852. No. 7. A Resolution to authorize the Continuance of the Work upon the two Wings of the Capitol. April 14, 1852. No. 8. A Resolution authorizing the Purchase of the Ninth Volume of the Laws of the United States. May 10, 1852. No. 9. A Joint Resolution changing the Name of St. Peter's River, in Minesota Territory. The name is changed to Minesota. June 19, 1852. No. 10. A Joint Resolution accepting from Guiseppe Fagnani a Portrait of Henry Clay, and ordering it to be placed in the Library of Congress. July 3, 1852. No. 11. A Resolution to establish certain Post-Routes. July 12, 1852. No. 12. A Joint Resolution providing for the Distribution of the Laws of Congress, and the Debates thereon. "With a view to the cheap circulation of the laws of Congress and the debates contributing to the true interpretation thereof, and to make free the communication between the representative and constituent bodies, Resolved, That after the present session of Congress, the Congressional Globe and Appendix, containing the laws and the debates thereon, shall pass free through the mails, so long as the same shall be published by order of Congress; but nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the circulation of the Daily Globe free of postage." August 6, 1852. No. 13. A Resolution relating to the Printing of Congress during the Recess. August 31, 1852. X. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE. 1. Statement of Duties, Revenues, and Public Expenditures during the Fiscal Years ending June 30, 1850, and June 30, 1851. [From Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury, Dec. 17, 1850, and Dec. 26, 1851.] The receipts into the Treasury were as fol lows: From customs, viz. : 66 During the first quarter, ending 66 Year ending Year ending June 30, 1851. Sept. 30, $11,643,680.54 14,764,043.05 1,859,894.25 2,352,305.30 1,847,218.33 943,106.65 Salaries of Chargés d'Affaires, 70,146.02 69,292.30 Salary of Minister Resident to Turkey,. 7,500.00 4,500.00 Outfits of Ministers and Chargés d'Affaires, 128,500.00 57,500.00 Salary of Dragoman to Turkey and contingencies, Contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, 31,852.28 17,009.66 Renewal of diplomat. intercourse with Mexico, 3,432.48 Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, 40,441.03 31,640.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 Year ending. June 30, 1850. Support of lunatics of the Dist. of Columbia, Repayment of debt of cities of Dist. of Col., $9,452.82 20,000.00 Year ending June 30, 1851. $9,169.75 15,000.00 Five per cent. to Wisconsin, Two per cent. to Alabama, 45,006.09 Maine, under treaty stipulations, 3,440.05 Debentures, drawbacks, bounties, &c., Excess of deposits for unascertained duties repaid, Debentures and other charges (customs), Debentures and other charges (lands), Relief of the cities of the Dist. of Columbia, 50,311.15 46,600.72 Payment of horses, &c., lost, Refunding duties paid by colleges, &c., 270.10 Refunding duties per act May 8, 1846, Refunding duties on foreign merchandise per act Aug. 8, 1846, Refunding duties collected in Mexico, Tonnage duties on Spanish vessels refunded, Certain duties refunded, . 9,517.76 Refunding duties collected by act Aug.30,1842, Refunding duties on sugar and molasses, 439,588.28 Refunding duties on cathedral and church bell, Discriminating tonnage, act Aug. 3, 1846, Repayment for lands erroneously sold, Refunding purchase-money for land sold in the Greensburg district, Louisiana, 4,401.35 Results and acct. of the Exploring Expedition, Printing and publishing manuscript papers of efferson, 6,000.00 Purchase of manuscript papers of Hamilton, Printing and publishing 20,000.00 66 66 6,000.00 Smithsonian Institution, act of Aug. 10, 1846, Expenses of mineral land service, Salaries of assistant treasurers and clerks, 23,285.63 22,937.59 |