Boston. Boston. For additional amount for joiners' shop, additional amount Navy Yards. for coal-house, extension of shear wharf, railroad tracks, and repairs of all kinds, one hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred dollars. New York. For dredging channels; quay-wall at saw-mills; new foundery; improvements on cob dock; improvements to dry dock; machineshop extension; improvements of dry dock; 'quay-wall at new derrick; iron-plating shop; receiving store; iron fence in front of officers' houses; repairs of all kinds; machinery for iron-clad building; machinery for pattern, boiler, and machine-shop; machinery for new foundery; machinery for machine-shop extension; machinery for smithery, joiner, and oakum shops; one six-ton, one four-ton, and one two-ton hammer, six hundred and sixty-nine thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars. New York. Philadelphia. For repairs of dry dock, pitch-house, dredging; repairs Philadelphia. of damage to store by fire, and for repairs of all kinds and for the pur chase of two lots adjoining navy yard, Philadelphia, extending from Front Street to the commissioners' line in the Delaware river, at a price not exceeding ninety thousand dollars two hundred and fourteen thousand Bine hundred and forty-five dollars. Washington. Washington, District of Columbia. - For extension of copper rollingmill; machinery and tools; storehouse for provisions and clothing; dredging channels; repairs of all kinds, and rail tracks in yard, 'one hundred and forty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars. Norfolk. For repairs of victualling-house, boat-shed, blacksmith-shop, Norfolk. and tools; wharves, foundery, officers' quarters, boiler-shop, repairs of dry dock, engine-house, mast-house, and sail-loft; saw-mill and machinery; offices and storehouse and repairs of all kinds, two hundred and twentythree thousand four hundred and thirty-three dollars. Pensacola. For repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand dollars. Mare Island. For continuation of grading and paving, ten thousand dollars; scows, lighter, and stages; foundery and machinery for same; machinery for saw-mill; continuing coal-shed and wharf; continuing seawall; steam hammer and tools for smithery; rigging and sail-loft; repairs of all kinds; excess of expenditure on wharf; guard-house; machinery for machine-shop, and gas-works, two hundred and twenty-four thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars. HOSPITALS. Boston. For remodelling old section of the hospital; heating and cooking and laundry apparatus; brick wall and iron gateways on Broadway; and repairs of building and improvement of grounds, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. New York. For repairs and improvements of buildings and grounds, increase of apparatus in the laboratory, and repairs to heating-apparatus, nine thousand dollars. Pensacola. Mare Island. Hospitals. New York. Norfolk. For general improvement and repairs of building, ground, Norfolk. and wharves, five thousand dollars. Pensacola. For completion of extension of building, thirty thousand dollars. Memphis. For improvements and repairs of hospitals, seven thousand dollars. New Orleans. For improvements and repairs of hospital, five thousand dollars. Pensacola. Memphis. New Orleans. Mare Island, California. - For completion of hospital, seventy-five Mare Island. thousand dollars. MAGAZINES. Magazines. Portsmouth. For howitzer and gun-equipment shed; machinery for Portsmouth. Hospitals. Boston. New York. Philadelphia. Washington. Mare Island. Miscellaneous. Civil establishments at Navy Yards. Salary of constructing engineer at Mare Island. Naval Academy. Proviso. Key West. Naval observatory. Nautical Alma nac. ordnance building, and for fitting and furnishing new wing of ordnance building; grading grounds for repairs of ordnance buildings and railways, twenty thousand and fifty dollars. Boston. For repairs of magazine and shell-houses at Chelsea, and powder-boat; repairs of ordnance store, shell-houses, and gun and shot parks; tools for gun-carriage shop; and for completing ordnance store, sixty-three thousand four hundred and thirty-nine dollars. New York. - For machinery for repairing small arms; repairs to wharves and track on Ellis' island; sea-wall on north side of Ellis' island; repairs on magazine at Ellis' island; dredging at Ellis' island; and for repairs of all kinds, forty-two thousand dollars. Philadelphia. For repairs and alterations of ordnance storehouse and office; machinery and tools in ordnance workshops; and for magazine, wharf-buildings, and grounds, eight thousand one hundred and sixtythree dollars. Washington. For repairs and improvements of the magazine, ordnance buildings, and grounds of the ordnance yard; erecting temporary sheds; additional ordnance machinery; and for continuing the new ordnance foundery, sixty-nine thousand dollars. Mare Island, California. For two small magazines at north end of the yard; enlargement of shell-house; preparing gun park; building skids and shot beds; machinery and tools for ordnance shop; and for repairs on magazine buildings and pile wharf, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. MISCELLANEOUS. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments of the several navy yards and stations, one hundred and twentyfive thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars; and the annual salary of the constructing engineer at Mare Island, California, shall be three thousand two hundred dollars, after the close of the present fiscal year. For expenses of professors, watchmen, and others, and contingencies of the United States Naval Academy, one hundred and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty-five cents: Provided, That no money appropriated for the support of the naval academy shall be applied to the support of any midshipmen hereafter appointed not in strict conformance with the provisions of the law for appointing midshipmen to the naval academy. For constructing coal-wharf at Key West, Florida, thirty-two thousand dollars. For altering coal-depot to storehouse at Key West, Florida, eighteen thousand dollars. For constructing railroad from naval wharf to coal-yards at Key West, Florida, ten thousand dollars. For the pay of mileage of visitors to the naval academy, two thousand dollars. NAVAL OBSERVATORY. For pay of assistant astronomer, three aids, and clerk, eight thousand dollars, and four thousand dollars thereof shall be equally divided among the three aids as their salary. For wages of instrument maker, watchman, porter, and laborers; keeping grounds in order, and repairs to buildings and enclosures; fuel, lights, office furniture, and stationery; and for freight, transportation, postage, and incidental expenses, twelve thousand dollars. For preparing for publication the American Nautical Almanac, twentyfive thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Naval asylum NAVAL ASYLUM, PHILADELPHIA. For furniture and repairs of same; house-cleaning and whitewashing; repairs to furnaces, grates, and ranges; gas and water rent; for hospital, and repairs of all kinds, five thousand two hundred dollars. Beneficiaries. Gratuities and medals. For the purchase and preparation of a site for a cemetery for the navy Cemetery. and marine corps, near Philadelphia, fifteen thousand dollars. For support of beneficiaries, thirty-two thousand dollars. For gratuities and medals of honor, five thousand dollars. For bounties for destruction of enemies' vessels, as per "act of July seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for the better government of the navy," two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of photographer, for ordnance bureau, three hundred dollars. For compensation of petty officers, seamen, and others of the crew of the United States steamer Monitor, lost at sea December thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, three thousand dollars. For compensation of petty officers, seamen, and others of the crew of the United States steamer Cairo, lost in Yazoo river December twelve, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, out of the appropriation of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a floating dry dock at navy yard, New York, provided for by the act making appropriations for the naval service of the United States, approved third March, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to construct one or two dry docks, as he may deem expedient, at New York and Philadelphia, at two hundred and sixty thousand dollars each, and to expend the balance of said appropriation, if it shall be necessary, to enlarge the sectional docks to a capacity to receive the large vessels now building. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be added three professors to the number of professors of mathematics now authorized by law, who shall be appointed and commissioned as now provided by law, and who shall be a professor of ethics and English studies, a professor of Spanish, and a professor of drawing, at the naval academy. Destruction of vessels. 4. Vol. xii. p. 606. Pay of officers, &c., of the Moni tor; the Cairo. Two dry docks authorized. Application of former appropriation. 1863, ch. 118, Vol. xii. p. 817. Additional pro fessors at the naval academy. Naval academy to be re turned to An SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the United States naval academy shall be returned to and established at the naval academy grounds in Annapolis, in the state of Maryland, before the commencement napolis. of the academic year eighteen hundred and sixty-five. APPROVED, May 21, 1864. CHAP. XCIV. -An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to enable the People of Nevada to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of such State into the Union on an equal Footing with the original States. May 21, 1864. 1864, ch. 36, § 5. Ante, p. 31. Constitution of Nevada to be submitted to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the fifth section of the act to which this act is an amendment as provides by ordnance for submitting the Constitution to the people of said state, for their popular vote on ratification or rejection, at an election to be held on the second Tuesday the first Wednesday of Sepof October, be so amended as to read "on the first Wednesday of September. tember," and that the election for the purposes aforesaid be held on that day instead of the second Tuesday of October. APPROVED, May 21, 1864. CHAP. XCV. — An Act to provide a temporary Government for the Territory of Mon tana. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of May 26, 1864. Territory of Montana established. Boundaries. Territory may be divided, boundaries changed, &c. Rights of Indians preserved. Executive. of office, power, &c.; the territory of the United States included within the limits, to wit: Commencing at a point formed by the intersection of the twenty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington with the forty-fifth degree of north latitude; thence due west on said forty-fifth degree of latitude to a point formed by its intersection with the thirty-fourth degree of longitude west from Washington; thence due south along said thirty-fourth degree of longitude to its intersection with the forty-fourth degree and thirty minutes of north latitude; thenee due west along said forty-fourth degree and thirty minutes of north latitude to a point formed by its intersection with the crest of the Rocky Mountains; thence following the crest of the Rocky Mountains northward till its intersection with the Bitter Root Mountains; thence northward along the crest of said Bitter Root Mountains to its intersection with the thirty-ninth degree of longitude west from Washington; thence along said thirty-ninth degree of longitude northward to the boundary line of the British possessions; thence eastward along said boundary line to the twenty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington; thence southward along said twenty-seventh degree of longitude to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, created into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Montana: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to inhibit the government of the United States from dividing said territory or changing its boundaries in such manner and at such time as congress shall deem convenient and proper, or from attaching any portion of said territory to any other state or territory of the United States: Provided, further, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said territory so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribes, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any state or territory; but all such territory shall be excepted out of the boundaries, and constitute no part of the Territory of Montana, until said tribe shall signify their assent to the President of the United States to be included within said territory, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States to make any regulations respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights, by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent for the government to make if this act had never passed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the executive power and auGovernor, term thority in and over said Territory of Montana shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States. The governor shall reside within said territory, and shall be commander-in-chief of the militia and superintendent of Indian affairs thereof. He may grant pardons and respites for offences against the laws of said territory, and reprieve for offences against the laws of the United States until the decision of the President of the United States can be made known thereon; he shall commission all officers who shall be appointed to office under the laws of the said territory, and shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. to be superintendent of Indian affairs. Secretary, residence, powers, and duties. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a secretary of said territory, who shall reside therein and hold his office for four years, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States; he shall record and preserve all laws and proceedings of the legislative assembly hereinafter constituted, and all the acts and proceedings of the governor in his executive department; he shall transmit one copy of the laws and journals of the legislative assembly within thirty days after the end of each session, and one copy of the executive proceedings and official correspondence semi-annually, on the first days of January and July in each year, to the President of the United States, and two copies of the laws to the president of the senate and to the speaker of the house of representatives, for the use of congress. And in case of the death, removal, resignation, or absence of the governor from the territory, the secretary shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to execute and perform all the powers and duties of the governor during such vacancy or absence, or until another governor shall be duly appointed and qualified to fill such vacancy. Secretary, when to act as governor. Legislative Assembly. Residence of members. First census. First election. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the legislative power and authority of said territory shall be vested in the governor and a legisla- power. tive assembly. The legislative assembly shall consist of a council and house of representatives. The council shall consist of seven members, Council, numhaving the qualifications of voters, as hereinafter prescribed, whose term ber and qualificaof service shall continue two years. The house of representatives shall, and term, &c. tion of members, at its first session, consist of thirteen members, possessing the same qual- House of repifications as prescribed for the members of the council, and whose term resentatives, of service shall continue one year. The number of representatives may &c. number, term, be increased by the legislative assembly, from time to time, to twentysix, in proportion to the increase of qualified voters; and the council, in like manner, to thirteen. An apportionment shall be made, as nearly Apportionequal as practicable, among the several counties or districts for the elec- ment. tion of the council and representatives, giving to each section of the territory representation in the ratio of its qualified voters as nearly as may be. And the members of the council and of the house of representatives shall reside in, and be inhabitants of, the district or county or counties for which they may be elected respectively. Previous to the first election the governor shall cause a census or enumeration of the inhabitants and qualified voters of the several counties and districts of the territory to be taken by such persons and in such mode as the governor shall designate and appoint, and the person so appointed shall receive a reasonable compensation therefor. And the first election shall be held at such time and places, and be conducted in such manner, both as to the persons who shall superintend such election and the returns thereof, as the governor shall appoint and direct; and he shall at the same time declare the number of members of the council and house of representatives to which each of the counties or districts shall be entitled under this act. The persons having the highest number of legal votes in each of said council districts, respectively, for members of the council, shall be declared by the governor to be duly elected to the council; and the persons having the highest number of legal votes for the house of representatives in each of said representative districts, respectively, shall be declared by the governor to be duly elected members of said house: Provided, That in case two or more persons voted for shall have an equal number of votes, and in case a vacancy shall otherwise occur in either branch of the when ordered. legislative assembly, the governor shall order a new election. And the persons thus elected to the legislative assembly shall meet at such place and on such day as the governor shall appoint; but thereafter the First meeting time, place, and manner of holding and conducting all elections by the of legislative people, and the apportioning the representation in the several counties. or districts to the council and house of representatives, according to the number of qualified voters, shall be prescribed by law, as well as the day of the commencement of the regular sessions of the legislative assembly Provided, That no session in any one year shall exceed the term of forty Length of sesdays, except the first session, which may continue sixty days. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all citizens of the United States, and those who have declared their intentions to become such, and who are otherwise described and qualified under the fifth section of the act of congress providing for a temporary government for the territory of Idaho, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall Plurality of votes to elect. New election. assembly. Subsequent meetings. sions. Voters at first electicn. 1863. b. 117. § 5. Vol. xi. r. 10. |