original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States. Approved May 17, 1848. CHAP. 46.-AN ACT for the relief of William P. Brady. A pension of $10 per month al [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of William P. lowed. Brady, of the State of Pennsylvania, on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be allowed a pension of ten dollars a month from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to continue during his natural life. Approved May 17, 1848. CHAP. 47.—AN ACT to provide additional examiners in the Patent Office, and for other purposes. * See vol. 9, p. Two additional ers and two addi appointed. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be appointed, in the manner provided in the second section of the act entitled "An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts heretofore made for that purpose," approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two principal exami- 545 ners, and two assistant examiners, in addition to the number principal examinof examiners now employed in the Patent Office; and that tional assistant hereafter each of the principal examiners employed in the examiners to be Patent Office shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five Salaries. hundred dollars, and each of the assistant examiners an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars: Provided, That the power to extend patents, now vested in the board composed of the Secretary of State, Commissioner of Patents, and Solicitor of the Treasury, by the eighteenth section of the act approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, respecting the Patent Office, shall hereafter be vested solely in the Commissioner of Patents; and when an application is made to him for the extension of a patent according to said eighteenth section, and sixty days' notice given thereof, he shall refer the case to the principal examiner having charge of the class of inventions to which said case belongs, who shall make a full report to said Commissioner of the said case, and particularly whether the invention or improvement, secured in the patent, was new and patentable when patented; and thereupon the said Commissioner shall grant or refuse the extension of said patent, upon the same principles and rules that have governed said board; but no patent shall be extended for a longer term than seven years. Power to extend patents to be vest ed solely in the Commissioner. Fees for recording assignments, &c. Two additional copying clerks to be appointed. Annual reports of the Patent Of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That hereafter the Com-missioner of Patents shall require a fee of one dollar for recording any assignment, grant, or conveyance, of the whole or any part of the interest in letters patent, or power of attorney, or license to make or use the things patented, when such instrument shall not exceed three hundred words; the sum of two dollars when it shall exceed three hundred, and shall not exceed one thousand words; and the sum of three dollars when it shall exceed one thousand words; which fees shall in all cases be paid in advance. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed in manner aforesaid two clerks, to be employed in copying and recording, and in other services, in the Patent Office, who shall each be paid a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner fice may be sent of Patents is hereby authorized to send by mail, free of postby mail free of age, the annual reports of the Patent Office, in the same postage. manner in which he is empowered to send letters and packages relating to the business of the Patent Office. Approved May 27, 1848. in the coasting during the voy. CHAP. 48.-AN ACT extending privileges to American vessels engaged in a certain mentioned trade, and for other purposes. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asSteamships or sembled, That it shall hereafter be lawful for any steamship. other registered vessels engaged or other vessel, on being duly registered in pursuance of the trade may touch laws of the United States, to engage in trade between one at. foreign ports port in the United States and one or more ports within the same, with the privilege of touching at one or more foreign ports during the voyage, and land and take in thereat merchandise, passengers and their baggage, and letters, and mails: Proviso. Such Provided, That all such vessels shall be furnished by the vessels to be fur- collectors of the ports at which they shall take in their cargoes fied manifests, &c. in the United States, with certified manifests, setting forth the age. nished with certi particulars of the cargoes, the marks, number of packages, by whom shipped, to whom consigned, at what port to be delivered; designating such goods as are entitled to drawback, or to the privilege of being placed in warehouse; and the masters of all such vessels shall, on their arrival at any port of the United States from any foreign port at which such vessel may have touched, as herein provided, conform to the laws providing for the delivery of manifests, of cargo and passengers taken on board at such foreign port, and all other laws regulating the report and entry of vessels from foreign ports, and be subject to all the penalties therein prescribed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all vessels, and their cargoes, engaged in the trade referred to in this act, shall become subject to the provisions of existing collection and revenue laws on arrival in any port in the United States: Provided, That any foreign goods, wares, or merchandise, taken in at one port of the United States, to be conveyed in said vessels to any other port within the same, either under the provisions of the warehousing act of sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, or under the laws regulating the transportation coastwise of goods entitled to drawback, as well as any goods, wares, or merchandise not entitled to drawback, but on which the import duties chargeable by law shall have been duly paid, shall not become subject to any import duty by reason of the vessel in which they may arrive having touched at a foreign port during the voyage, in pursuance of the privilege given in this act. Approved May 27, 1848. CHAP. 49.-AN ACT explanatory of the act entitled "An act to raise, for a limited time, an additional military force, and for other proposes," approved eleventh February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the term "relatives," as used in the ninth section of the act entitled "An act to raise, for a limited time, an additional military force, and for other purposes," approved eleventh February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall be considered as extending to the brothers and sisters of those persons whose services, under that act, may have entitled them to the land therein provided: the order or priority of right, however, shall remain as declared in that act; and those failing, the right shall accrue, fourthly, to the brother or sister, or in equal proportions to the brothers and sisters of the deceased, as the case may be. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the benefits of the said act of eleventh February, eighteen hundred and fortyseven, shall not be construed as forfeited by the privates and non-commissioned officers who have been, or may be, promoted to the grade of commissioned officer during their service in Mexico, and who shall have subsequently fulfilled the condition of their engagements: Provided, Such promotion shall have been made subsequent to the original organization of the company, corps, or regiment to which such privates and non-commissioned officers may have belonged. Approved May 27, 1848. consin admitted into the Union. CHAP. 50.-AN ACT for the admission of the State of Wisconsin into the Whereas the people of the Territory of Wisconsin did, on the first day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, by a convention of delegates called and assembled for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and State govern. ment, which said constitution is republican, and said conven. tion having asked the admission of said Territory into the Union as a State, on an equal footing with the original States : [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as State of Wis sembled, That the State of Wisconsin be, and is hereby, admitted to be one of the United States of America, and is hereby admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the origi nal States, in all respects whatever, with the boundaries prescribed by the act of Congress, approved August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "An act to enable the people of Wisconsin Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union." Boundaries. Assent of Con certain resolu State held for tution, and cer gress herein re ed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the assent of Con. given to gress is hereby given to the first, second, fourth, and fifth retions of the con- solutions adopted by said convention, and appended to said vention of said constitution: and the acts of Congress referred to in the said forming a consti- resolutions are hereby amended, so that the lands granted by tain acts of Con- the provisions of the several acts referred to in the said first ferred to amend and fourth resolutions, and the proceeds of said lands, and the five per centum of the nett proceeds of the public lands therein mentioned, shall be held and disposed of by said State, in the manner and for the purposes recommended by said convention; and so that, also, the lands reserved to the United States by the provisions of the act entitled "An act to grant a quantity of land to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and to connect the same by a canal in the Territory of Wisconsin ;" and, also, the even numbered sections reserved by the provisions of the act entitled "An act to grant a quantity of land to the Territory of Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of lake Michigan with those of Rock river," shall be offered for sale at the same minimum price, and subject to the same rights of pre-emption, as other public lands of the United States: Provided, however, That no person shall be entitled to a pre-emption by reason of the settlement and culti vation of any quarter section or other sub-division of said even numbered sections, which tract, before the commencement of such settlement, shall have been claimed by any other person cultivating and improving the same in good faith, and which shall have continued to be claimed, cultivated, and improved in like good faith by such person, his representatives or assigns, until the sale of said tract, and of which said prior claim, cultivation, and improvement, the person so claiming pre Proviso. emption shall have had notice at the time of his entry and settlement; neither shall any pre-emption be allowed to any tract, to the injury of any person, or of the representatives or assigns of any person, claiming and occupying the same or any part thereof in good faith, in his or her right, at the passage of this act, and owning valuable cultivation or improvements thereon, which cultivation or improvements shall have been assigned by the person so claiming pre-emption, or if commenced subsequently to the entry and settlement of such person, shall have been made with his consent or acquiescence. And provided further, That the liabilities incurred by the territorial government of Wisconsin, under the act entitled "An act to grant a quantity of land to the Territory of Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of lake Michigan with those of Rock river," herein before referred to, shall be paid and discharged by the State of Wisconsin. of certain tracts at certifi cates of the excess shall be received United States. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the purchasers of Purchasers any tract of the said even numbered sections mentioned in $2 50 per acre to the preceding section, and sold since the reservation thereof receive at the minimum price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, amount of 31 25 shall be entitled to receive from the Commissioner of the Gen- per acre, which eral Land Office a certificate of the quantity of land so pur- in payment of the chased, and of the amount of the excess paid therefor over public lands of the and above the value of said land, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; which certificate, to the amount of such excess, shall be receivable from the holder thereof, or his assigns, in like manner as so much money, in payment of the public lands of the United States. That, in the event of the death of any such purchaser before the issuing of such certificate, the same shall be issued in favor of the lawful representatives of such purchaser. Terms of the U. S. district court for district of Wis consin. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the judge of the district court for the district of Wisconsin shall hold a term of said court in each year at the seat of government, to commence on the first Monday of July, and another term of said court in each year at Milwaukie, to commence on the first Monday of January. He shall also have power to hold special terms for the trial of causes, and for the determination of all suits or proceedings in said courts, at either of the aforesaid places, at his discretion, as the nature and amount of the business may require. The said court shall be open at all times for the purpose of hearing and deciding and admiralty ju cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, so far as the risdiction. same can be done without a jury. The records and papers of said court may be kept at either of the places herein designated for the holding of said court, as the judge in his dis- Clerks of the cretion shall direct. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the clerks of the district courts of the Territory of Wisconsin shall, before their term of office expires, certify under seal, and transmit to the clerk of said court, all records of all unsatisfied judgments Said court to have maritime district courts of the Territory of Wiscousin shall certify and trans mit to clerk of the the district of district court of Iowa all records, |