unmanufactured Russia hemp, $40 per ton; on Manilla and other hemps of India. $25; on lead, in pigs or bars, $1 50 per 100 lbs.; in sheets, $2 25 per 100 lbs.; on white lead, dry or ground in oil, and red lead, $2 25 per 100 lbs.; on salt, in sacks, 18 cts. per 100 lbs., and in bulk, 12 cts. per 100 lbs.; on soda ash, ct. per lb.; on bicarbonate of soda, 1 ct.; on sal soda, ct.; on caustic soda, 1 ct; on chloride of lime, 80 cts. per 100 lbs. ; on saltpetre, crude, 1 ct. per lb.; refined, or partially refined, 2 cts.; spirits of turpentine, 10 cts. per gall.; on oil of cloves, 70 cts. per lb.; on brandy, $1 25 per gall.; on spirits distilled from grain, or other materials, 50 cts. per gall.; on gum copal and other gums or resinous substances used for the same or similar purposes as gum copal, 10 cts. per lb. per cent. on the amount of all drawbacks, so allowed, shall be retained for the use of the United States by the collectors paying such drawbacks, respectively. SEC. 5. All goods, wares and merchandise, actually on shipboard and bound to the United States, and all goods, wares and merchandise, on deposit in warehouses or public stores at the date of the passage of this act, shall be subject to pay such duties as provided by law before and at the time of the passage of this act: Provided, That all goods deposited in public store or bonded warehouse after this act takes effect and goes into operation, if designed for consumption in the United States, must be withdrawn therefrom, or the duties thereon paid in three months after the same are deposited, and goods designed for exportation and consumpSEC. 2. From and after the day and year tion in foreign countries may be withdrawn by aforesaid, there shall be levied on the importa- the owner at any time before the expiration of tion of the articles hereinafter mentioned, the 8 years after the same are deposited, such following duties: On arrow root, 20 per cent. goods, if not withdrawn in 3 years, to be regardad val.; on ginger, preserved or pickled, 80 per ed as abandoned to the government, and sold cent.; on limes, lemons, oranges, bananas under such regulations as the Secretary of the and plantains, 20 per cent.; on Peruvian bark, Treasury may prescribe. and the proceeds paid 15; on quinine, 80; on rags, of whatever mate- into the Treasury: Provided, That merchanrial, 10; on gunpowder. 80; on feathers and dise upon which the owner may have neglected downs, 80; on hides, 10; on sole and bend to pay duties within 8 months from the time of leather, 80; on I[n]dia rubber, raw or unmanu- its deposit may be withdrawn and entered for factured, 10; on I[n]dia rubber shoes and boots, consumption at any time within 2 years of the 30; on ivory, unmanufactured, and on veget- time of its deposit upon the payment of the able ivory, 10; on wines of all kinds, 50; on legal duties, with an addition of 25 per cent. silk in the gum, not more advanced in the man- thereto: Provided, also, That merchandise ufacture than single tram and thrown or organ-upon which duties have been paid, if exported zine, 25; on all silks valued at not over $1 per square yard, 80; on all silks valued over $1 per square yard, 40; on all silk velvets or velvets of which silk is the component material of chief value, valued at $3 per square yard, or under, 80; valued at over $8 per square yard, 40; on floss silks, 80; on silk ribbons, galloons, braids, fringes, laces, tassels, buttons, buttoncloths, trimmings, and on silk twist, twist composed of mohair and silk, sewing silk in gum or purified, and all other manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be the component material of chief value, not otherwise provided for, 40 per cent. to a foreign country within 8 years, shall be entitled to return duties, proper evidence of such merchandise having been landed abroad to be furnished to the collector by the importer, 1 per cent. of said duties to be retained by the gov ernment. SEC. 6. The act entitled "An act to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1861, be, and the same is hereby amended, as follows-that is to say, First, in section six, article first, after the words "in cordials and," strike out "liquors," and insert SEC. 8. All articles, goods, wares and merchan-"liqueurs;" Second, in the same section, after dise, imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope in foreign vessels not entitled by reciprocal treaties to be exempt from discriminating duties, tonnage and other charges, and all other articles, goods, wares and merchandise not imported direct from the place of their growth or production, or in foreign vessels, entitled by reciprocal treaties to be exempt from discriminating duties, tonnage and other charges, shall be subject to pay, in addition to the duties imposed by this act, ten per cent. ad val.; Provided, That this rule shall not apply to goods, wares and merchandise imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope in American vessels. the word "represent," insert "Provided, also, That no lower rate or amount of duty shall be levied, collected and paid on brandy, spirits, and all other spirituous beverages than that now fixed by law for the description of first proof, but shall be increased in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of first proof;" Third, in section seven, clause fifth, the words "on screws, washed or plated, and all other screws, of iron or any other metal," shall be stricken out, and the words "on screws of any other metal than iron," shall be inserted; Fourth, section twelve, article first, after the words eighteen cents," where they first SEC. 4. From and after the passage of this occur, insert" or less;" Fifth, section thirteen, act, there shall be allowed on all articles wholly article second, after the word "manufacturer," manufactured of materials imported, on which insert" except hosiery;" Sixth, in the same duties have been paid when exported, a draw-section, article third strike out "wool," wherback, equal in amount to the duty paid on such materials and no more, to be ascertained under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That 10 | ever it occurs, and insert in each place "worsted;" Seventh, in section fourteen, article first, after the words "ten per centum," insert "ad valorem;" Eighth, in section fifteen, before the word " yarns "insert "hemp;" in the same section, after the word "sheetings," insert "of flax or hemp ;" and strike out "jute goods," and in lieu thereof insert "jute yarns;" Ninth, in section twenty-two, strike out the words "unwrought clay, three dollars per ton;" Tenth, in section nineteen, strike out "compositions of glass or paste, not set, intended for use by jewellers;" Eleventh, in section twenty-two, strike out "compositions of glass or paste, when set;" Twelfth, in section twenty-three, article sheathing metal, strike out "yard" and insert "foot." SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts repugnant to the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed; Provided, That the existing laws shall extend to, and be in force for, the collection of the duties imposed by this act, for the prosecution and punishment of all of fences, and for the recovery, collection, distribution and remission of all fines, penalties and forfeitures, as fully and effectually as if every regulation, penalty, forfeiture, provision, clause, matter and thing to that effect in the existing laws contained, had been inserted in and reenacted by this act. SEO. 8. A direct tax of $20,000,000 be and is hereby annually laid upon the United States, and the same shall be and is hereby apportioned to the States, respectively, in manner following: State of Maine, $420,826; New Hampshire, $218,406%; Vermont, $211,068; Massachusetts, $824,581 Rhode Island, $116,963; Connecticut, $308,214; New York, $2,608,918%; New Jersey, $450,184; Pennsylvania, $1,946,719%; Delaware, $74,683; Maryland, $436,823 Virginia, $937,550%; N. Carolina, $576,194% S. Carolina, $363,570%; Georgia, $584,867 Alabama, $529,313; Mississippi, $413,084% Louisiana, $385,886%; Ohio, $1,567,089% Kentucky, $713,695%; Tennessee, $669,498 Indiana, $904,875%; Illinois, $1,146,551%; Missouri, $761,127%; Kansas, $71,743%; Arkansas, $261,886; Michigan, $501,763%; Florida, $77,522%; Texas, $355,106%; Iowa, $452,088; Wisconsin, $519,688%; California, $254,588%; Minnesota, $108,524; Oregon, $35,140%; Territory of New Mexico, $62,648; Territory of Utah, $26,982; Territory of Washington, $7,755%; Territory of Nebraska, $19,312; Territory of Nevada, $4,592%; Territory of Colorado, $22,905%; Territory of Dakota, $3,241%; District of Columbia, $49,437%. XXXVI. CONGRESS. TERRITORIES.-Three Territories were organized during the second session of the XXXVIth Congress, viz: Colorado, Dakota and Nevada. The Territory of Dakota includes the territory within the boundaries commencing at a point in the main channel of the Red River of the North, where the 49th degree of north latitude crosses the same-thence up the main channel of said river, along the boundary of the State of Minnesota to Big Stone Lakethence along the boundary line of Minnesota to the Iowa line-thence along the boundary line of Iowa to the point of intersection between the Big Sioux and Missouri Rivers-thence up the Missouri River, and along the boundary line of the Territory of Nebraska, to the mouth of the Niobrara or Running Water River-thence up the middle of the main channel of said river, to the mouth of the Keha Paha or Turtle Hill River-thence up said river to the 43d parallel of north latitude-thence due west to the present boundary of the Territory of Washington-thence along the boundary of Washington Territory, to the 49th degree of north latitude-thence east to the place of beginning. follows: Beginning at the point of intersection The Territory of Nevada is bounded as of the 42d degree of north latitude with the 39th degree of long. west from Washington-thence south to the northern boundary of New Mexico-thence west to the dividing ridge separating the waters of Carson Valley from those ing ridge northwardly to the 41st degree of north latitude-thence due north to the southern boundary of the State of Oregon-thence due east to the place of beginning. A portion of this territory is included within the limits of the State of California, and requires the assent of that State before it can become actually a portion of the Territory of Nevada. that flow into the Pacific-thence on said divid There is nothing peculiar about the several acts organizing these Territories, except that they are silent on the subject of slavery. Admission of Kansas.-This Territory was admitted as a State, with one representative and two senators, and to include all the territory included within boundaries beginning at a point on the western boundary of Missouri where the 89th parallel of north latitude crosses the same-thence west on said parallel to the 25th meridian of longitude west from Washington-thence north on said meridian to the 40th parallel of latitude-thence east on said parallel to the western boundary of Missouri-thence south by that boundary to the place of beginning. To Authorize a Loan.-This bill authorizes the President to borrow, on the credit of the U. S., $25,000,000, and to issue a six per cent. stock therefor, to be redeemed within ten or twenty years at the option of the Government. The act appropriates $20,000 for the purpose of carrying out its provisions. The Territory of Colorado comprises the territory within the following limits, viz: Commencing on the 37th parallel of north latitude, To Authorize the Issue of Treasury Notes. where the 25th meridian of longitude, west-Authorizes the issue of $10,000,000 treasury from Washington, crosses the same-thence notes to bear 6 per cent. interest, and to be north to the 41st parallel of north latitude- redeemable within one year. They may be thence west to the 32d meridian of longitude-used in payment of Government indebtedness, thence south to the northern line of New Mex- and shall be receivable for Government dues. ico-thence along the 87th parallel of north Notes may be issued in place of those relatitude, to the place of beginning. deemed, the issue never to exceed $10,000,000. Invalid Pensions.-The act providing for this expenditure appropriates $1,082,000. Military Academy. The appropriations for the West Point Military Academy were $185,697. Suppression of Indian Hostilities.—The act to reimburse Oregon and Washington Territory for expenses of suppressing Indian hostilities, appropriates $2,801,000 and authorizes the issue of 6 per cent. U. S. bonds in payment thereof. Another act provides for the payment to California of $400,000 for the suppression of Indian hostilities, and $58,512 to the Territory of Utah for a similar purpose. Navy Appropriations.-The act making appropriations for the Navy for 1861-2 appropri ates for Pay of officers and men.... Total... 2,580,000 For repair and equipment of vessels Marine corps, navy yards, hospi- For 7 steam screw sloops of war... Total........ $402,800 ......... 872,869 900,000 .1,015,158 .$8,520,322 899,000 Indian Appropriations.-The Indian ap- 2,595,847 For current and contingent expenses $12,755,774 Relief of Am. seamen abroad.. Total...... 200,000 .$1,084,526 Army Appropriations.-The regular army appropriation bill for the year 1861-2 provides as follows: Pay of the army. Commutation of officers' subsistence. Transportation of the army, etc. $186,850 .2,524,141 Total Indian appropriations ..$2,710,991 chambers of Congress jointly Resolved, That Amendment of the Constitution.-The two the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legisla tures, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution, viz. : "ART. 13. No amendment shall be made to $3,604,648 the Constitution which will authorize or give to 1,012,451 Congress the power to abolish or interfere, 2,121,964 within any State, with the domestic institutions 660,016 thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." APPROVED, March 2, 1861. 1,701,000 4,120,870 .$15,452,949 XXXVII. CONGRESS. SPECIAL SESSION. $10,040,284 To Remit Duties on Arms imported by 2,700,000 States.--Authorizes the Secretary of the Trea1,045,517 sury to remit and refund duties on arms imported 841,000 by loyal States for the use of troops engaged in suppressing the rebellion. 5,391,000 To provide for the Payment of the Militia and Volunteers.-Appropriates $5,760,000 for Total.. .$20,017,801 payment of volunteers called into service of the Deficiencies.-The act to supply deficiencies U. S., being an additional amount required for for the service of the year ending June 30, 1861, the year ending June 30, 1861. appropriates revenue For the suppression of the Slave Trade $900,000 For carrying ocean mails to California Total.. This act authorizes the President to collect duTo provide for the Collection of Duties,etc.487,000 ties at ports of delivery when it is found imprac350,000 ticable to collect at ports of entry in the same 567,455 collection district, and when duties cannot be collected at any port of entry or delivery in any district by reason of the rebellion, the President may establish custom houses for the collection of the revenue, at any point in such district, either on land or at sea, and employ military force if $2,254,455 Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Expenses.-The appropriations for these purposes for the year ending June 30, 1862, are necessary for the collection of such revenue. In case it is found impossible to collect revenue by any of these means, then the President may declare the ports closed, and give notice of such action by proclamation. The President may also declare the inhabitants of a State or part of a State to be in insurrection against the United States, and thereupon all commercial intercourse between such rebel and loyal citizens shall cease and become illegal. The act further provides for the forfeiture of vessels owned by rebels. Assistant Paymasters in the Navy.-Establishes the grade of Assistant Paymaster in the Navy, and authorizes the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint such Assistant Paymasters as may be required by the service, not exceeding 36 in number. To authorize a National Loan.-This bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow, on the credit of the U. S., within 12 months from the passage of this act, a sum not exceeding $250,000,000, for which he is authorized to issue coupon bonds, or registered bonds, or Treasury notes, in such proportions of each as he may deem advisable, the bonds to bear interest not exceeding 7 per cent., with twenty years to run, and the Treasury notes of denominations not less than $50, to bear 7 8-10 per cent. interest, redeemable in three years. The Secretary of the Treasury is also authorized to issue in exchange for coin, or in payment of Government indebtedness, Treasury notes of smaller denominations and redeemable on demand-the demand notes not to exceed $50,000,000 in circulation. The act provides that no portion of this loan shall be taken at less than par. One hundred millions may be negotiated in foreign countries. The bil appropriates $200,000 for expenses in carrying the act into effect. Regular supplies of Quartermaster's Incidental expenses of do. Mileage and transportation of officers.... Transportation of army and of supplies.. Arrearages for 1861-pay of officers Charter and purchase of vessels for Total... $358,000 8,969,849 An Act to authorize the Employment of 478,818 Volunteers to aid in enforcing the Laws and 2,507,000 protecting Public Property.-Whereas, cer55,000,000 tain of the forts, arsenals, custom houses, navy 2,493,497 yards, and other property of the United States have been seized, and other violations of law 23,084,284 have been committed and are threatened by organized bodies of men in several of the States, 14,265,059 and a conspiracy has been entered into to over7,666,666 throw the Government of the United States: Therefore, 10,514,500 Be it enacted, etc., That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept the ser500,000 vices of volunteers, either as cavalry, infantry, or artillery, in such numbers, not exceeding five 16,220,954 hundred thousand, as he may deem necessary, 1,000,000 for the purpose of repelling invasion, suppressing insurrection, enforcing the laws, and pre1,500,000 serving and protecting the public property: Provided, That the services of the volunteers 18,416,487 shall be for such time as the President may direct, not exceeding three years nor less than Carried forward.... $152,974,564 six months, and they shall be disbanded at the For gunboats on Western rivers Hire of quarters for troops, of storehouses, etc... Clothing, camp and garrison equipage.... end of the war. And all provisions of law ap-requisite for the said volunteers; but, in cases plicable to three years' volunteers shall apply where the State authorities refuse or omit to to two years' vclunteers, and to all volunteers furnish volunteers at the call or on the proclawho have been, or may be accepted into the mation of the President, and volunteers from service of the United States, for a period not such States offer their services under such call less than six months, in the same manner as if or proclamation, the President shall have power such volunteers were specially named. Before to accept such services, and to commission the receiving into service any number of volunteers proper field, staff, and company officers. exceeding those now called for and accepted, SEC. 5. The officers, non-commissioned officers the President shall, from time to time, issue his and privates, organized as above set forth, shall, proclamation, stating the number desired, either in all respects, be placed on the footing, as to as cavalry, infantry, or artillery, and the States pay and allowances, of similar corps of the refrom which they are to be furnished, having re-gular army: Provided, That the allowances ference, in any such requisition, to the number then in service from the several States, and to the exigencies of the service at the time, and equalizing, as far as practicable, the number furnished by the several States, according to federal population. SEC 2. The said volunteers shall be subject to the rules and regulations governing the army of the United States, and that they shall be formed, by the President, into regiments of infantry, with the exception of such numbers for cavalry and artillery, as he may direct, not to exceed the proportion of one company of each of those arms to every regiment of infantry, and to be organized as in the regular service. Each regiment of infantry shall have one colonel, one lieutenant-colonei, one major, one adjutant (a lieutenant), one quartermaster (a lieutenant), one surgeon and one assistant surgeon, one sergeant-major, one regimental quartermaster-sergeant, one regimental commissarysergeant, one hospital steward, two principal musicians, and twenty-four musicians for a band, and shall be composed of ten companies, each company to consist of one captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one first sergeant, four sergeants, eight corporals, two musicians, one wagoner, and from sixty-four to eighty-two privates. of non-commissioned officers and privates for clothing, when not furnished in kind, shall be three dollars and fifty cents per month, and that each company officer, non-commissioned officer, private, musician, and artificer of cavalry shall furnish his own horse and horse equipments, and shall receive forty cents per day for their use and risk, except that in case the horse shall become disabled, or shall die, the allowance shall cease until the disability be removed or another horse be supplied. Every volunteer non-commissioned officer, private, musician, and artificer, who enters the service of the United States under this act, shall be paid at the rate of fifty cents in lieu of subsistence, and if a cavalry volunteer, twenty-five cents additional, in lieu of forage, for every twenty miles of travel from his place of enrollment to the place of muster-the distance to be measured by the shortest usually travelled route; and when honorably discharged an allowance at the same rate, from the place of his discharge to his place of enrollment, and, in addition thereto, if he shall have served for a period of two years, or during the war, if sooner ended, the sum of one hundred dollars: Provided, That such of the companies of cavalry herein provided for, as may require it, may be furnished with horses and horse equipments in the same manner as in the United States army. SEC. 3. These forces, when accepted as herein authorized, shall be organized into divisions SEC. 6. Any volunteer who may be received of three or more brigades each; and each di- into the service of the United States under this vision shall have a major-general, three aids-act, and who may be wounded or otherwise disde-camp, and one assistant adjutant general abled in the service, shall be entitled to the bewith the rank of major. Each brigade shall benefits which have been or may be conferred on composed of four or more regiments and shall persons disabled in the regular service, and the have one brigadier-general, two aids-de-camp, widow, if there be one, and if not, the legal one assistant adjutant-general with the rank of heirs of such as die, or may be killed in service, captain, one surgeon, one assistant quarter-in addition to ali arrears of pay and allowances, master, and one commissary of subsistence. shall receive the sum of one hundred dollars. neer soldiers; and the remaining half those of privates of engineer soldiers of the first class; and the leaders of band shall receive the same pay and emoluments as second lieutenants of infantry. SEC. 4. The President shall be authorized to SEC. 7. The bands of the regiments of infantry appoint, by and with the advice and consent of and of the regiments of cavalry shall be paid the Senate, for the command of the forces pro- as follows: one-fourth of each shall receive the vided for in this act, a number of major-gene- pay and allowances of sergeants of engineer rals, not exceeding six, and a number of briga-soldiers; one-fourth those of corporals of engi dier-generals, not exceeding eighteen, and the other division and brigade officers required for the organization of these forces, except the aids-de-camp, who shall be selected by their respective generals from the officers of the army or volunteer cerps: Provided, That the President may select the major-generals and brigadier-generals provided for in this act, from the line or staff of the regular army, and the officers so selected shall be permitted to retain their rank therein. The Governors of the States furnishing volunteers under this act, shall commission the field, staff, and company officers SEC. 8. The wagoners and saddlers shall receive the pay and allowances of corporals of cavalry. The regimental commissary-sergeant shall receive the pay and allowances of regimental sergeant-major, and the regimental quartermaster-sergeant shall receive the pay and allowances of a sergeant of cavalry. SEC. 9. There shall be allowed to each regi |