...SIR : In conformity with the provisions of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1809, entitled "An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and A'avy Departments," and the act passed March 3, 1817, entitled "An act to provide for the prompt settlement...

...during the late war with Great Britain ;" a bill entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War,and Navy Departments;" a bill, entitled "An act freeing from postage all letters and packets to...

...Department, made in obedience to the first section of the act passed the 3d of March 1809, entitled "4n act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of ihe Treasury, War and Navy Departments;" and the report was read. Mr. SANFORD submitted the following...

...Secretary of War, transmitting a statement prepared in conformity with the fifth section of the "Act to amend the several acts for the establishment and...regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments," showing the expenditure of the moneys appropriated for the contingent expenses of the military establishment...

...authority vested in the President of the United States by the first section of the act, entitled "An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, miil Navy Departments, passed on the 3d day of March, 1809." This amendment was agreed to — veas...

...March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled "An act supplementary to an act, entitled 'An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War,and Navy Departments,'" shall not be so construed as to prevent the President from making transfers...

...January 2, 185Y. SIR : In conformity with the 5th section of the act of March 3, 1809, entitled "an act to amend the several acts for the establishment and...regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments," I have the honor to transmit herewith a statement of the expenditures during the year 1856, from the...

...first and fourth amendment of the Senate to the bill, entitled " An act further to amend the eeveral acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments, and making appropriations for the support of the Military Establishment and the Navy of the United...

...was illegal when made. The sixth section of the act of 1st May, 1820, entitled "An act in addition to the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments," 3d vol. US Statutes, p. 668, provides that no contract shall hereafter be made by the Secretary of...

...maintained, for the reasons following : Section five of the act of Congress of March 3, 1809, entitled "An :act further to amend the several acts for the establishment...regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments," provides "that all purchases and contracts for supplies or services, which are or may according to...