4 May 1858 1. 11 Stat. 272. Vermont. 1. Spring terms of the circuit and district courts. I. CIRCUIT AND DISTRICT COURTS. 1. The circuit court of the United States now directed to be holden at Windsor, in and for the district of Vermont, on the twenty-first day of May, shall, after the first day of Spring terms of July next, be holden on the fourth Tuesday of July annually at said place; and the district court of the United States, within and for said district, instead of the twentyseventh day of May, shall, after the first day of July next, be holden on the Monday next after the fourth Tuesday in July annually. the circuit and district courts. 11 July 1862 21. 12 Stat. 537. Virginia. 1. Deputy collector to be appointed at Chincoteague Island. I. COLLECTION DISTRICTS. 1. That the secretary of the treasury be and he is hereby authorized to appoint, according to law, a deputy collector of customs to reside on Chincoteague Island, in the Deputy collector state of Virginia, and to exercise such powers, under the revenue laws, as he the secreat Chincoteague Island. tary of the treasury may prescribe; the compensation of the said deputy collector to be the legal fees on the business he may transact, and no more. 1. Assistant secretary. Salary. 2. Additional assistant secretaries. War Department. 3. Transportation of troops to be under the control of the sec retary. 3 August 1861 21. 12 Stat. 287. Assistant secre tary. Salary. 22 Jan. 1862 21. 12 Stat. 332. 4. Additional clerks, &c. 5. Settlement of accounts of company officers. 1. That the president be and he is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, an officer in the war department, to be called the assistant secretary of war, whose salary shall be three thousand dollars per annum, payable in the same manner as that of the secretary of war, who shall perform all such duties in the office of the secretary of war, belonging to that department, as shall be prescribed by the secretary of war, or as may be required by law. 2. That the president be and he is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, two additional assistant secretaries of war, whose Additional assist salary shall cach be three thousand dollars per annum, who shall perform all such duties in the office of the secretary of war, belonging to that department, as shall be prescribed by the secretary of war, or as may be required by law. The offices of these additional secretaries to continue for one year. ant secretaries. 31 Jan. 1862 ? 4. 12 Stat. 334. Transportation of troops, &c., to 3. The transportation of troops, munitions of war, equipments, military property and stores, throughout the United States, shall be under the immediate control and supervision of the secretary of war, and such agents as he may appoint; and all rules, regube under the con- lations, articles, usages and laws in conflict with this provision are hereby annulled. 4. There shall be added to the clerical and other force in the office of the quarter7 Feb. 1863 21. master-general, to be appointed by the secretary of war, four clerks of class four, and 12 Stat. 641. ninety clerks of class one; also thirty copyists and six laborers, at an annual comnenAdditional clerks sation of six hundred dollars each. trol of the secretary. &c. Ibid. § 2. counts of compa 5. In settling the accounts of the commanding officer of a company for clothing and other military supplies, the affidavit of any such officer may be received to show the Settlement of ac- loss of vouchers or company books, or any matter or circumstance tending to prove that any apparent deficiency was occasioned by unavoidable accident, or lost in actual service, without any fault on his part, or that the whole or any part of such clothing and supplies had been properly and legally used and appropriated; and such affidavit may be considered as evidence to establish the facts set forth, with or without other evidence, ny officers. WAR DEPARTMENT.-WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 1407 as may seem to the secretary of war just and proper under the circumstances of the 1 February 18C3 case. 12 Stat. 656. 6. That the president be and he is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the 20 Feb. 1863 23. advice and consent of the senate, an officer in the war department, to be called the solicitor of the war department, at an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars. Solicitor of the war department. 1. The district court in and for the several districts in the territory of Washington, shall be held at such times and places in said districts (not exceeding three places in each district), as the legislative assembly of said territory shall by law determine: Provided, That until said legislative assembly shall otherwise provide, said courts shall be held as now provided by law. II. LAND OFFICES. 9 Feb. 18C3 1. 12 Stat. 649. Terms of the dis trict court. 12 Stat. 16. Columbia River strict district estab 2. When in the opinion of the president it may be expedient, all the public lands in 16 May 1860 2 1. the territory of Washington to which the Indian title shall have been extinguished or may hereafter be extinguished, lying east and south of the following boundaries, shall constitute a new land district to be called the "Columbia River District," viz.: Beginning on the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions, and on the summit of the Cascade Mountains at the nearest range line to the east line of range twelve, thence south on the nearest range lines on the summit of said mountains to the line dividing townships ten and eleven north, thence west to the line dividing ranges six and seven west, thence north on said line to the third standard parallel, thence west to "Shoal Water Bay," thence with the Shoal Water Bay, including any islands therein, to the Pacific; the western boundary of said district above the line dividing ranges ten and eleven, and on the summit of the Cascade Mountains, to be adjusted by the department of the interior as near the points before given as is consistent with the lines of the public surveys; and the president shall be authorized hereafter Powers of the from time to time, as circumstances may require, to adjust the boundaries of the land president. districts in said territory, and remove the offices when the same shall be expedient. Ibid. 22. 3. That the president be and he is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, or during the recess thereof, and until the end of the Register and renext session after such appointment, a register and receiver for said district, who shall ceiver to be appointed. be required to reside at the site of the land office, be subject to the same laws, and entitled to the same compensation as is or may hereafter be prescribed by law in relation to the existing land office and officers in said territory. III. COLLECTION DISTRICTS. 12 Stat. 432. 4. That from and after the first day of October 1862, the port of Port Townsend, in 19 June 1862 ? 1. the district of Puget Sound, in Washington territory, is hereby abolished as a port of entry; and that Port Angelos be and is hereby established as the port of entry and Port Angelos to delivery for the said district from and after the said date. 21 be the port of entry. 31 Dec. 1862 21. 12 Stat. 633. Boundaries of West Virginia. Admitted into the Union. West Virginia. 1. Boundaries of West Virginia. Admitted into the Union. 2. On condition of the abolition of slavery. 1. Whereas the people inhabiting that portion of Virginia known as West Virginia did, by a convention assembled in the city of Wheeling on the 26th of November 1861, frame for themselves a constitution with a view of becoming a separate and independent state; and whereas at a general election held in the counties composing the territory aforesaid on the third day of May last, the said constitution was approved and adopted by the qualified voters of the proposed state; and whereas the legislature of Virginia, by an act passed on the 13th day of May 1862, did give its consent to the formation of a new state within the jurisdiction of the said state of Virginia, to be known by the name of West Virginia, and to embrace the following named counties, to wit: Hancock, Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Tyler, Pleasants, Ritchie, Doddridge, Harrison, Wood, Jackson, Wirt, Roane, Calhoun, Gilmer, Barbour, Tucker, Lewis, Braxton, Upshur, Randolph, Mason, Putnam, Kanawha, Clay, Nicholas, Cabell, Wayne, Boone, Logan, Wyoming, Mercer, McDowell, Webster, Pocahontas, Fayette, Raleigh, Greenbrier, Monroe, Pendleton, Hardy, Hampshire and Morgan; and whereas both the convention and the legislature aforesaid have requested that the new state should be admitted into the Union, and the constitution aforesaid being republican in form, congress doth hereby consent that the said forty-eight counties may be formed into a separate and independent state. Therefore, Be it enacted, That the state of West Virginia be and is hereby declared to be one of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and until the next general census shall be entitled to three members in the house of representatives of the United States: Provided always, That this act shall not take effect until after the proclamation of the president of the United States hereinafter provided for. 2. It being represented to congress that since the convention of the 26th of November 1861, that framed and proposed the constitution for the said state of West Virginia, the the abolition of people thereof have expressed a wish to change the seventh section of the eleventh slavery. article of said constitution by striking out the same and inserting the following in its place, viz.: "The children of slaves born within the limits of this state after the fourth day of July 1863, shall be free; and that all slaves within the said state who shall, at the time aforesaid, be under the age of ten years, shall be free when they arrive at the age of twenty-one years; and all slaves over ten and under twenty-one years shall be free when they arrive at the age of twenty-five years; and no slave shall be permitted to come into the state for permanent residence therein:" Therefore, Be it further enacted, That whenever the people of West Virginia shall, through their said convention, and by a vote to be taken at an election to be held within the limits of the said state, at such time as the convention may provide, make and ratify the change aforesaid, and properly certify the same under the hand of the president of the convention, it shall be lawful for the president of the United States to issue his proclamation stating the fact, and thereupon this act shall take effect and be in force from and after sixty days from the date of said proclamation. Ibid. 2. On condition of 2 March 1863 21. 12 Stat. 699. cuit court. Wisconsin. 1. Terms of the circuit court. I. CIRCUIT COURT. 1. Instead of the times heretofore fixed by law, the circuit court of the United States for the district of Wisconsin (after the January term 1863) shall be held as follows: At Ternis of the cir- Milwaukee on the third Monday in April and first Monday in July, and at Madison on the second Monday in November; and all writs, suits, pleas, recognisances, indictments or other proceedings, civil or criminal, issued, commenced or pending in said court, shall be returnable to, be entered and have day in court, and be heard and tried according to the provisions of this act. Duties on imported, 1203, 24; 1206, 28; 1213, 48; 1215, 48. Judges and clerks of court of claims may take, 1158, % 4. ACTIONS. Where transitory actions to be brought, 1259, 14; 1315, 8 1. Where local actions to be brought in respect to land, &c., in different districts, 1315, ? 2. Number of pamphlet laws to be delivered to executive departments, 1087, % 1. Punishment of agents bringing property from insurrectionary districts, 1239, 51. AIDS-DE-CAMP. To major-generals, 1094, 3. To brigadier-generals, 1094, 3. To commanders of corps, 1095, 13. To general officers of volunteers, 1108, 133. ALABAMA. Terms of northern district, 1089, ¿ 1-2. In the fifth judicial circuit, 1137, ? 1. Selma annexed to district of Mobile, 1088, 8 3. Direct taxes, 1330, 1. ALIENS. Aliens honorably discharged from the military service, to be naturalized on proof of one year's ALIMONY. When to be granted in divorce, in the District of Columbia, 1178. When to be granted pendente lite, 1178, 8 50. When to be forfeited, &c., 1178, 51. ALLOTMENTS. To families of volunteers, 1109, 142. Commissioners to be appointed, 1109, 147. Payment to be made on allotments, 1109, & 147. Commissioners to receive no compensation, 1109, 148. AMBASSADORS AND PUBLIC MINISTERS. Commissioners to Hayti and Liberia, 1090, § 3. To whom passports to be granted, 1090, % 4. Judicial powers in China, Japan and Siam, 1148-52, 23-29. In Persia, 1152, 23. Copy to be transmitted to general land office, 1135, 17. And to attorney-general, 1135, § 17. If concealed, search-warrant to issue, 1135, 18. Punishment for abstracting, mutilating or concealing such records, 1135, 19. Punishment for interpolating false records, 1135, ARIZONA. Boundaries of, 1091, 2 1. 20. Penalty for purchasing arms, &c., from soldiers, 1107, 123; 1187, 1, 3. |