TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.I.Ch.19,20,21,22. 1841.
461
of the twenty-seventh of May, eighteen hundred and forty, any thingdesignating a particular spot contained in the act of fourteenth of July,eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to the contrary notwithstanding.Approved, September 9, 1841.
Chap. XIX. — An Act authorizing the transmission of letters and packets to andfrom Mrs. Harrison, free of postage.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That all letters and packets,carried by post to and from Mrs. Harrison, relict of the late WilliamHenry Harrison , be conveyed tree of postage during her natural life.Approved, September 9, 1841.
Chap. XX.- in Act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uni-ted States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fourhundred and ninety-seven thousand, six hundred and fifty-seven dollars,be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Trea-sury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Post Office Departmentto meet its engagements and pay its debts, and of which sum fifteenthousand dollars are hereby appropriated to enable the Auditor of saidDepartment to purchase account-books for his office, and to bring uparrears of its business: Provided, That in virtue hereof no clerk shallbe employed for a longer period than one year; to be accounted for inthe manner prescribed in the second section of the “ Act to change theorganization of the Post Office Department, and to provide more effec-tually for the settlement of the accounts thereof,” passed July second,eighteen hundred and thirty-six: Provided, That the money hereby ap-propriated shall be accounted for by the Post Office Department here-after, when the condition of its funds shall permit; to be refunded intothe Treasury, or deducted from any sums which the Post Office Depart-ment may heretofore have paid into the Treasury.
Approved, September 9, 1841.
Chap. XXI .—An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnanceand ordnance stores, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of sixhundred thousand dollars be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury nototherwise appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing ordnance andordnance stores, for the use of the Navy of the United States .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy ishereby authorized to apply a part of the sum herein and hereby appro-priated, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to the purpose of makingexperiments to test the value of improvements in ordnance, in the con-struction of steamers, and other vessels of war, and in other mattersconnected with the naval service and the national defence; and also tothe purpose of defraying any charges left unpaid on account of experi-ments of the like character heretofore made by authority of law.
Approved, September 11, 1841.
Chap. XXII .—An Act making appropriations for outfits and salaries of diplomaticagents, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,
2 o 2
Act of July 14,1832, ch. 224.
Statute I.Sept. 9,1841.
Franking priv-ilege granted toMrs. Harrison.
Act of March3, 1845, ch. 43,sec. 23.
Statute I.Sept. 9, 1841.
[Obsolete.]Appropriationto pay debts,&c.
Proviso.
1836, ch. 270.
Proviso.
Statute I.Sept. 11,1841.
[Obsolete.]
Appropriationto purchase ord-nance and ord-nance stores.
Statute 1 .Sept. 11,1841.
[Obsolete.]