the most convenient and suitable direction, to Tallahassee, or the waters of St. Mark's river or bay, on the Gulf of Mexico, or to any other point east of or between the St. Mark's and Appalachicola rivers, which may be selected by said company. Territory, or for the Legislature of the State of Florida hereafter, to provide by law for the construction of railroads from the Appalachicola river, or from any other point, to cross or intersect the abovementioned railroad, from the Georgia State line to the Gulf of Mexico. between Tallahassee and St. Mark's. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said com- Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said East pany is further authorized, wherever the said route shall Florida Railroad Company be, and they are hereby, authopass over the public lands of the United States, to locate therized to cross the railroad proposed to be made at any point same thereon, eighty feet wide; which said location, if made according to the true intent and meaning of this act, shall be enjoyed by said company so long as they maintain the said road for the public accommodation. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said company shall have the right to take from the said public lands, timber, stone, and earth, whenever it may be convenient for the construction of any part of said way running through the same; also, to deposite and leave such materials upon such lands, whenever it may be necessary; also, to cut drains, where necessary, through the same; and during the period of the construction of said way, to occupy said lands along said route, doing as little injury thereto as may be. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, to entitle the said company to the enjoyment of the privileges herein provided for, they shall comply with the following conditions, to wit: First, They shall cause the said route, whenever it passes over the public lands, to be surveyed, and the loca tion of the way to be accurately delineated in their proper connexion, and a map thereof, and a copy of the locations, to be returned and deposited in the General Land Office, within six months from the date of the final location of said road. Second, They shall cause permanent monuments to be erected along said route, conforming to such locations and maps, defining the lunits of the way. Third, Wherever the said railway shall intersect a highway or travelled way on the public lands, that way or ways shall be left unobstructed. Fourth, Wherever it shall cross a stream or low grounds, such provision shall be made for draining off the water as to leave the said public lands uninjured by said railway. Fifth, They shall complete the said way within the time provided for in the act of incorporation. Sixth, Said location of said way shall be considered and treated as open way, and be kept up as such, and the lands abutting thereon shall be considered as abutting upon a public way. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sections and quarter sections of public lands over which the said road may pass, shall be reserved by the United States for two years after the final location of the said way; and to this end the said company shall, as soon as they have resolved to survey or examine any route, give notice to the register of the land district in which the lands may be over which they intend to pass; and when the final location is made, a further notice of that fact shall be given, in like manner, of the lands over which it actually passes, which said lastmentioned lands shall be reserved as aforesaid from sale: Provided, That neither the said company nor any other person shall be authorized to settle on the said reserved sections or quarter sections; and no person so settling shall acquire thereby a pre-emptive right or claim to the said reserved lands, or to any part thereof; and if said company shall fail to give prompt and seasonable notice in both the above cases, they shall forfeit their privileges under this act. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the time for making the surveys and commencing the work, as prescribed in the said act of incorporation, be, and the same is hereby, extended for one year after the passage of this act. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor and Legislative Council of the said Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the Territory or State of Florida shall, at the end of twenty years, have the privilege of taking one-fourth of the stock at par, by paying to the company the interest on the investment. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, inconsistent with the foregoing provisions, be, and the same are hereby, annulled. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Pensacola and Perdido Railroad Company, organized under acts of the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, and of the State of Alabama, be, and they are hereby, authorized to make a railroad from Pensacola to the waters of Mobile bay or river; and also, that the Brunswick and Florida Railroad Company, incorporated by an act of the Legislature of Georgia, be, and they are hereby authorized to extend their railroad from the Georgia line to the city of Tallahassee, and thence to the river Appalachicola, or St. George's sound, upon the same conditions and limitations contained in the foregoing provisions of this act. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Lake Winnico and St. Joseph's Canal and Railroad Company, organized under acts of the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, be, and they are hereby, authorized to locate and construct a railroad from the city of St. Joseph's to the city of Tallahassee, in said Territory, upon the same conditions and limitations contained in the foregoing provisions of this act; and in the construction of said road, may cross, or intersect, and form a junction with, any other railroad which may be made west of the city of Tallahassee. Approved January 31, 1837. AN ACT for the relief of Andrew Knox. Be it enacted, &c., That Andrew Knox, of Washington county, in the State of Mississippi, be, and he is hereby, authorized and permitted to purchase, upon the payment of the minimum price to the receiver of the proper land district, section sixteen, in township fourteen, range nine west, in the Choctaw district, in said State, the purchase of which section heretofore was prevented by the illegal numbering of the sections in said township. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be selected and reserved for the use of schools within the said township numbered fourteen, in lieu of the aforesaid section, a section of land in equal extent in said Choctaw land district. Approved February 3, 1837. AN ACT for the relief of John E. Wool. Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the thirteenth section of the act of June- thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, entitled "An act to provide for the organization of the department of Indian affairs," as prescribes "that all merchandise required by any Indian treaty for the Indians payable after making such treaty, shall be purchased under the direction of the Secretary of War, upon proposals to be received to be based on notices previously to be given," be dispensed with so far as it may affect the purchases made by Brigadier General J. E. Wool under the eighteenth article of the treaty with the Cherokee Indians of December twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and Laws of the United States. AN ACT to change the name of the collection district of Dighton, in the State of Massachusetts, to Fall River, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the first day of April next, the said district, now known and called by the name of the Dighton district, shall be called the district of Fall River, and as such shall be made a port of entry for vessels arriving from the Cape of Good Hope, and from places beyond the same, any law now in force to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved February 13, 1837. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States," passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. Be it enacted, &c., That the officers of the branch mint at New Orleans shall be one superintendent, one treasurer, one assayer, one melter and refiner, and one coiner; and that the officers of the branch mints at Charlotte and Dahlonega, severally, shall be one superintendent, who shall also perform the duties of treasurer; one assayer, who shall also perform the duties of melter and refiner; and one coiner; and the annual salaries of said officers shall be as follows: for the branch at New Orleans, to the superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; to the treasurer, the assayer, the melter and refiner, and the coiner, each two thousand dollars; for the branches at Charlotte and at Dahlenoga, to the superintendent two thousand dollars, and to the assayer and the coiner, each fifteen hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act entitled 66 An act to establish branches of the mint of the United States," approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved February 13, 1837. AN ACT to suspend certain provisoes of "An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two. Be it enacted, &c., That the provisoes of the tenth and twelfth clauses of the second section of the act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports, passed July the fourteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby, suspended until the close of the next session of Congress. Approved March 1, 1837. [24th CoNG. 2d SESS. dred and two, entitled "An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers," or by any subsequent acts of Congress, concerning crimes, offences, or misdemeanors, which may be committed against the laws of the United States in any town, settlement, or territory belonging to any Indian tribe in amity with the United States, of which any other district court of the United States may have jurisdiction. Approved March 1, 1837. AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and for other purposes. Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven; that is to say: For the pay of the army, one million ninety thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars. For the subsistence of officers, three hundred and thirtytwo thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars. For forage of officers' horses, seventy thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars. For clothing for officers' servants, twenty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers, thirty thousand dollars. For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, nine hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars, including the sum of three hundred and five thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars for the subsistence of the volunteers and militia called out for preventing or suppressing Indian hostilities. For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equippage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, two hundred and six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars. For the medical and hospital department, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For the regular supplies furnished by the quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationary, and printing, two hundred and eight thousand dollars. For barracks, quarters, store-houses, embracing the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals at the several posts; the erection of temporary cantonments at such posts as shall be occupied during the year, and of gun-houses for the protection of the cannon at the forts on the seaboard, the purchase of the necessary tools and materials for the objects wanted, and of the authorized furniture for the barrack-rooms; rent of quarters for officers; of barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation; of store-houses for the safe-keeping of subsistence, clothing, &c., and of grounds for summer cantonments, encampments, and military practice, ninety-five thousand dollars. For the allowance made to officers for the transportation of their baggage, when travelling on duty, without troops, the sum of fifty thousand dollars. For the transportation of troops and supplies, viz. transportation of the army, including the baggage of troops when moving either by land or water; freight and ferriage; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purpose of transportation, or for the use of garrison; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction of the district court of teamsters; transportation of funds for the pay departof the United States for the district of Arkansas. ment; expense of sailing a public transport between the Be it enacted, &c., That the district court of the United posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at States for the district of Arkansas shall have the same ju- such posts as, from their situation, require it; the transrisdiction and power, in all respects whatever, that was portation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to given to the several district courts of the United States by the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of an act of Congress approved March thirtieth, eighteen hun-purchase, and the points of delivery under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance from the foundries and arsenals to the fortification and frontier posts, and of lead from the Western mines to the several arsenals, the sum of one hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars. For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's department, consisting of postage on public letters and packets; expenses of courts-martial and courts of inquiry, including the compensation of judge advocates, members and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers, under an act of Congress of the second of March, eighteen hundred and nine teen; expenses of expresses from the frontier posts, of the necessary articles for the interment of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compensation to clerks in the offices of quartermasters and assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties cannot be performed without such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantled works, and in the performance of other duties; purchase of horses to mount the second regiment of dragoons, and expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments of dragoons complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be lost and become unfit for service; and the erection of additional stables, one hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars. For contimgencies of the army, three thousand dollars. For two months' extra pay to re-enlisted soldiers, and for contingent expenses of the recruiting service, thirty-four thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars. For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, one thousand dollars. For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the armament of the fortifications, two hundred thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, one hundred and twenty-three thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars. For arsenals, three hundred and seventy-three thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars. For the purchase of percussion cannon locks, fifteen thousand dollars. For the manufacture of elevating machines for barbette and casemate carriages, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the manufacture of sponges for field and battery cannon, one thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For the rifle factory at the Harper's Ferry armory, eight thousand five hundred and sixty-nine dollars. For completing the barracks at Baton Rouge, being an amount expended out of the general appropriation for the quartermaster's department, to enable the accounting officers to close the accounts, twenty-three thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and five cents. For completing the wharf at Fort Monroe, Virginia, five hundred dollars. For the purchase of ten thousand copper rifle flasks, seventeen thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums of money be paid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the requisition of the Secretary of War, and, so far as shall be necessary, the same | shall be expended for the following purposes, to wit: For the pay, travelling, clothing for six months, and other legal expenses of the Tennessee volunteers, mustered into the service of the United States under the requisition of General Gaines, under date of April eight, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the proclamation of Governor Cannon of twenty-eighth of the same month, and approved by the Secretary of War on the rinth of May, by direction of the President of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That such of said volunteers as volunteered under the proclamation of Governor Cannon of the sixth of June or twentieth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. six, and were mustered into the service of the United States, and are entitled to clothing under the act of May twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, shall not be paid for clothing out of the aforesaid appropriation. For pay, travelling, clothing, and other legal expenses of the Tennesse volunteers, mustered into the service of the United States, under the order of the Secretary of War of May twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and Governor Cannon's proclamation of June sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, ninetyfive thousand dollars. For pay, travelling, clothing, and other legal expenses of the Tennessee volunteers, mustered into the service of the United States under General Gaines's requisition, under date of June twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and Governor Cannon's proclamation of July twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirtysix, thirty-five thousand three hundred and ten dollars. For the liabilities incurred by Governor Cannon in raising money, so far as said money has been properly expended in the service of the United States on account of the aforesaid volunteers, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For pay due the executive staff of the Governor of Tennessee, while actually engaged in obtaining, organizing, mustering, or marching volunteers, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, to the places of their rendezvous, or taking returns of said volunteers, three thousand dollars. Sec. 3. And be further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to cause to be paid to the volunteers and militia of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, including the companies in Mississippi, mustered into the service, who were duly called into service, and whose service was accepted by the Executives of the States respectively, during the summer of the year For constructing a river wall, making embankment to one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, under requisithe same, arching, stone-walling, repairing the embank- tions from the Secretary of War, or from generals comment of the new canal, and for completing the tilt-ham-manding the troops of the United States, and who were mer-shop at Harper's Ferry, fifty three thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars. For a magazine at the arsenal at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, five thousand dollars. For the purchase of land, building a brick warehouse and wharf, and making a turnpike road to the river at the arsenal at Mount Vernon, Alabama, in addition to former appropriations for these objects, six thousand six hundred dollars. For enlarging the site at the arsenal at Frankford, Pennsylvania, one thousand dollars. For a blacksmith's shop, a reservoir, and a gun-carriage house at Watertown, Massachusetts, twenty-three thousand one hundred dollars. discharged before marching, the amount of one month's pay, with all the allowances to which they would have been entitled if they had been in actual service during the period of one month; and that the same be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That eleven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated for paying the rifle rangers, Coosada volunteers, and the independent blues, under the command of Major Holt, and for the payment of Major Holt and battalion staff, or so much of said sum as may be necessary for those purposes, be appropriated and paid on the presentation of the rolls of said companies and battalion staff to the Paymaster Gen Laws of the United States. eral, with evidence of the time they were in the service against the Creek Indians in the months of May and June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for arming and equipping the militia of the United States, in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for that purpose. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That, for paying the claims of the State of Connecticut for the services of her militia during the late war, to be audited and settled by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, under the superintendence of the Secretary of War, in the following cases: first, where the militia of the said State were called out to repel actual invasion, or under a wellfounded apprehension of invasion; provided their numbers were not in undue proportion to the exigency; secondly, where they were called out by the authority of the State, and afterwards recognised by the Federal Government; and thirdly, where they were called out by, and served under, the requisition of the President of the United States, or of any officer thereof, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, if so much be necessary for that purpose, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That, to pay all the claims of North Carolina for the services of her militia during the late war with Great Britain, in the cases enumerated in the act approved the thirty-first May, eighteen hundred and thirty, entitled "An act to authorize the payment of the claims of the State of Massachusetts for certain services of her militia during the late war," and also the claims of said State for disbursements in the purchase of munitions or other supplies on account of the war, and expended therein, the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated. Approved March 1, 1837. AN ACT to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, to wit: For pay of the officers, cadets, and musicians, fiftysix thousand and twelve dollars; For subsistence of officers and cadets, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars; For forage of officers' horses, one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars; For clothing of officers' servants, three hundred and thirty dollars; For defraying the expenses of the Board of Visiters at West Point, two thousand and seven dollars and eightyfour cents; [24th CoNG. 2d SESS. For incidental expenses of the department of artillery, three hundred dollars; For increase and expenses of the library, six hundred dollars; For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents; For completing the chapel, one thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-five cents; For the erection of a suitable building to contain the public stores, one thousand five hundred dollars; For the preparation of a yard and construction of permanent shops suitable for carpenters, painters, blacksmiths, &c. and for the safe keeping of implements and materials, eight thousand dollars; For the erection, as per plan, of a building for recitation and military exercises, in addition to amount heretofore appropriated, thirty thousand dollars; For the erection of new barracks for the Military Academy department, to consist of eight buildings, at five hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars; For grading the grounds about the exercise ball, and removing temporary buildings, three hundred and fifty dollars; For compensation to the acting professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, at the Military Academy, between the first of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and the first of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, at twenty-five dollars per month, three hundred dollars; For a painting-room for the professor of drawing, eight hundred dollars. Approved March 2, 1837. AN ACT respecting discriminating duties upon Dutch and Belgian vessels and their cargoes. Be it enacted, &c., That the same duties shall be levied and collected in the ports of the United States, on Belgian vessels and their cargoes, which are now levied and collected on Dutch vessels and their cargoes; but nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the President of the United States from enforcing, whensoever he may deem proper, both against Dutch and Belgian vessels, or either of them, and their cargoes, the provisions of the third section of the act entitled "An act concerning discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts," approved the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four. Approved March 2, 1837. AN ACT making an additional appropriation for the suppression of Indian hostilities for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-s -seven. Be it enacted, &c., That the further sum of two millions of dollars shall be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray any expenses which have been, or may be incurred, in preventing or suppressing the hostilities of any In For fuel, stationary, printing, transportation, and post-dians; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary age, eight thousand dollars; of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the 19th of March and the 2d of July last, and of the acts therein referred to. For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharves, boats, and fences, ten thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twenty-five cents; For pay of adjutants' and quartermasters' clerks, nine hundred and fifty dollars; For philosophical apparatus, and repairs of the same, three hundred dollars; For models for the department of engineering, three hundred dollars; For models for the drawing department, apparatus and contingencies of the department of chemistry, and instruments and repairs for the mathematical department, eight hundred and fifty dollars; VOL. XIII-b Approved March 2, 1837. AN ACT to provide for the enlistment of boys for the naval service, and to extend the term of the enlistment of seamen. Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be lawful to enlist boys for the navy, with the consent of their parents or guardians, not being under thirteen nor over eighteen years of age, to serve until they shall arrive at the age of twenty-one years; and it shall be lawful to enlist other persons for the navy, to serve for a period not exceeding five years, unless sooner discharged by direction of the President of the United States; 24th Cova. 2d SESS.] Laws of the United States. and so much of an act entitled "An act to amend the act entitled 'An act to amend the act authorizing the employment of an additional naval force,' approved the fifteenth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, as is inconEistent with the provisions of this act, shall be, and is hereby, repealed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the time of service of any person enlisted for the navy shall expire, while he is on board any of the public vessels of the United States employed on foreign service, it shall be the duty of the commanding officer of the fleet, squadron, or vessel in which such person may be, to send him to the United States in some public or other vessel, unless his detention shall be essential to the public interests, in which case the said officer may detain him until the vessel in which he shall be serving shall return to the United States; and it shall be the duty of said officer immediately to make report to the Navy Department of such detention and the causes thereof. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That such persons as may be detained after the expiration of their enlistment, under the next preceding section of this act, shall be subject, in all respects, to the laws and regulations for the government of the navy, until their return to the United States; and all such persons as shall be so detained, and all such as shall voluntarily re-enlist, to serve until the return of the vessel in which they shall be serving, and their regular discharge therefrom in the United States, shall, while so detained, and while so serving under their re-enlistment, receive an addition of one-fourth to their former pay. Approved March 2, 1837. AN ACT to extend for a longer period the several acts now in force for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States. Be it enacted, &c., That the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States," passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and an act in addition thereto, passed on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and an act to revive and amend the said acts, passed on the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, be, and the same are hereby, extended and continued in force for three years, from and after the passage of this act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the said several acts shall apply to cases of insolvency which shall have occurred on or before the first day of January last. Approved March 2, 1837. AN ACT to incorporate the Howard Institution of the city of Washington. Be it enacted, &c., That William W. Seaton, Archibald Henderson, Matthew St. Clair Clarke, William A. Bradley, John Coyle, George Gillis, N. B. Van Zandt, Richmond Johnson, John Nourse, Michael Nourse, B. F. Rittenhouse, Lewis H. Machen, Rezin Orme, Peter W. Gallaudet, Jacob Gideon, George Stettinius, William C. Orme, John P. Ingle, William Brent, John G. Whitwell, John Shackford, C. T. Coote, Thomas Blagden, Griffith Coombe, William Speiden, William Doughty, Marmaduke Dove, and G. D. Hanson, and all other persons who have con tributed to the fund of the Howard Institution of the city of Washington, each in a subscription of an annual sum of at least one dollar, and all who may hereafter contribute to the said funds in a like annual subscription of a sum not less than one dollar, shall be, and are hereby, made, constituted, and declared to be, a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance forever under the name, style, and title, of the Howard Institution of the city of Washington. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the lands, tenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chattels, that may hereafter be given, granted, sold, devised, or bequeathed to the said Howard Institution, be, and they are hereby, vested in and confirmed to the said corporation; and that they may purchase, take, receive, and enjoy, any lands, tenements, rents, annuities, rights, or privileges, or any goods, chattels, or other effects of what kind or nature soever, which shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, bequeathed, or devised, unto the said institution, or unto any trustee for the use of the said institution, by any person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, capable of making such grant, and to dispose of the same for the benefit of said corporation: Provided, The amount of property held by said institution shall, at no time, exceed the amount of twenty thousand dollars. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation, by the name and style aforesaid, be, and shall be hereafter capable, in law and equity, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in as effectual manner as other persons or corporations can sue or be sued. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That such persons as shall be officers of the said Howard Institution at the time of the passing of this act, shall be continued to be such until the first Tuesday in October next, on which day such of the persons hereby incorporated as shall then, or within a year preceding that day, contribute one dollar to the support of the said institution, and be or become a subscriber of one dollar or more per annum towards the same, and shall assemble at the house now belonging to the said institution at such hour as shall be directed by the board, shall proceed to elect a president, a first and second vice president, a treasurer and secretary, and twenty-four managers-four from each ward of the city of Washington, for the term of one year, who shall constitute the board of managers of the said Howard Institution of the city of Washington; and in like manner, on the first Tuesday of October in each year thereafter, the like officers shall be elected for the same term of one year, at such hour and place as shall have been previously designated by the board of managers, of which time and place at least two days' notice shall be given by publication in some newspaper printed in the city of Washington; and if, from any cause, an election shall not be held on the day of the month herein appointed, then an election may be held on any other day, of which the like notice shall be given, and those persons in office shall so continue until their successors shall be elected; and at all such elections, every contributor of not less than one dollar, in the manner as aforementioned, shall be entitled to one vote; but those who contribute, by a yearly subscription, a larger sum, shall be entitled to a greater number of votes, to be regulated by the by-laws of the board; and any vacancies which may occur in the board by resig nation, death, removal, or otherwise, shall be supplied by the board of managers in such manner as the by-laws of the board may direct. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the object of the said Howard Institution of the city of Washington shall be to afford relief to the indigent females of the city of Washington, by providing work for those who may desire it, and by procuring for them fuel and other necessaries of life on the most reasonable terms, and to adopt such other |