ACTS AND RESQLUTIONS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES; WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING ALL PUBLIC TREATIES MADE AND RATIFIED SUBSEQUENTLY TO THE PUBLICATION OF PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. WASHINGTON: RITCHIE & HEISS, PRINTERS. ACTS OF THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ON MONDAY THE SIXTH DAY OF CHAP. 1-AN ACT making an appropriation to supply, in part, a deficiency in the appropriations for subsistence in kind of the army and volunteers du- [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- sembled, That the sum of one million of dollars be, and the supply of defi- same is hereby, appropriated to supply, in part, a deficiency ciencies in former in the appropriations for the subsistence in kind of the army subsistence and volunteers during the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, to be paid out of ROBT. C. WINTHROP, Speaker of the House of Representatives. G. M. DALLAS, President of the Senate. kind. Approved January 4, 1848. JAMES K. POLK. CHAP. 2.-AN ACT to authorize the issuing of a register to the barque Canton. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- sembled, That there be issued, under the direction of the A register to be Secretary of the Treasury, a register for the barque Canton, formerly a Haytien vessel, but now owned by William T. Sayward, J. R. Kimball, and H. C. Lowell, citizens of the State of Maine; and which said vessel, having been wrecked and condemned on one of the Muscle Ridge islands, was pur- chased by them, and which they have caused to be repaired and refitted for sea again: Provided, It shall be proved to the Proviso.. |