AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person after the date of this act shall be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, or at any time after the fourth of March next shall be admitted to the bar of any circuit or district court of the United States, or of the Court of Claims, as an attorney or counsellor of such court, or shall be allowed to appear and be heard in any such court, by virtue of any previous admission, or any special power of attorney, unless he shall have first taken and subscribed the oath prescribed in "An act to prescribe an oath of office, and for other purposes," approved July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, according to the forms and in the manner in the said act provided; which said oath so taken and subscribed shall be preserved among the files of such court; and any person who shall falsely take the said oath shall be guilty of perjury, and, on conviction, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of perjury, and the additional pains and penalties in the said act provided. Approved January 24, 1865. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide ways and means for the support of the government, and for other purposes," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in lieu of any bonds authorized to be issued by the first section of the act entitled "An act to provide ways and means for the support of the government," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, that may remain unsold at the date of this act, the Secretary of the Treasury may issue, under the authority of said act, treasury notes of the description and character authorized by the second section of said act: Provided, That the whole amount of bonds authorized as aforesaid, and treasury notes issued and to be issued in lieu thereof, shall not exceed the sum of four hundred millions of dollars; and such treasury notes may be disposed of for lawful money, or for any other treasury notes or certificates of indebtedness or certificates of deposit issued under any previous act of Congress; and such notes shall be exempt from taxation by or under State or municipal authority. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any bonds known as five-twenties, issued under the act of twenty-fifth February, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, remaining unsold to an amount not exceeding four millions of dollars, may be disposed of by the Secretary of the Treasury in the United States, or, if he shall find it expedient, in Europe, at any time, on such terms as he may deem most advisable: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to give any authority for the issue of any legal-tender notes, in any form, beyond the balance unissued of the amount authorized by the second section of the act to which this is an amendment. Approved January 28, 1865. AN ACT making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department during the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six : For transportation of the mails, (inland,) seven million eight hundred thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars. For compensation to postmasters, three million one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For clerks for post offices, one million three hundred thousand dollars. For twine, seventeen thousand dollars. For office stamps, six thousand dollars. For letter balances, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to blank agents and assistants, seven thousand dollars. For advertising, sixty-eight thousand dollars. For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For mail depredations and special agents, seventy thousand dollars. For mail-bags, sixty thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, eight thousand dollars. For payment of balances due to foreign countries, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For miscellaneous payments, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 66 AN ACT to amend the charter of the "Washington Gas-light Company." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the acts of June twentyfive, eighteen hundred and sixty, and July eleven, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, as relate to the price of gas furnished by the "Washington Gas-light Company," be, and the same are hereby, repealed; and the act incorporating the Washington Gas-light Company" is hereby so amended as to prohibit the said company from receiving, on and after the first day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, for the benefit of its stockholders, a greater price for gas than forty cents per hundred cubic feet, subject to a discount of ten per centum on all bills for gas furnished to the general government, and five per centum on all bills for gas furnished to other consumers, if paid at the office of the company within seven days from the rendition thereof. Approved January 30, 1865. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company in the District of Columbia," approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section seventeen of the act to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company of the District of Columbia, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to extend the time for the completion of their railroad line, except that part thereof between Seventeenth street and the Capitol, for one year from the passage of this act: Provided, however, That the line from Seventeenth street and the Capitol be completed, equipped, and running within thirty days from the passage of this act. Approved January 30, 1865. AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to amend and extend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company," approved March 2, 1838. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act to amend and extend the charter of the Franklin Insurance Company, passed on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, extended and continued in force for the period of twenty years from the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, the time at which such amendatory act expired; and that all proceedings had by the said Franklin Insurance Company, and all legal rights accrued or acquired, and all legal obligations entered into by said company, between the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and the date of this act, be, and the same are hereby, made valid for all legal purposes. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Franklin Insurance Company are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock to an amount not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Approved January 30, 1865. AN ACT for the relief of certain friendly Indians of the Sioux nation in Minnesota. Whereas certain Indians of the Sioux nation did, during the outbreak in Minnesota in 1862, at the risk of their lives, aid in saving many white men, women, and children from being massacred, and, in consequence of such action, were compelled to abandon their homes and property, and are now entirely destitute of the means of support: Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized and requested to cause an examination to be made in relation to all the facts pertaining to the action of the said Indians, and to make such provision for their welfare as their necessities and future protection may require. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; one-third of said sum to be paid and expended for the benefit of Am-pe-tu-to-ke-cha, or John Other-day, and the remainder for the benefit of such other Indians as shall appear specially entitled thereto, for their friendly, extraordinary and gallant services in rescuing white settlers from massacre in Minnesota: Provided, That not more than the sum of five hundred dollars shall be expended for any one Indian, except the chief above mentioned; and that the Secretary of the Interior shall report to the next Congress the names of the Indians for whose benefit the same shall be expended, and the amount expended for each. Approved February 9, 1865. AN ACT to extend to certain persons in the employ of the government the benefits of the Asylum for the Insane in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, during the continuance of the rebellion, civilians employed in the service of the United States in the Quartermaster's Department and Subsistence Department of the army, who may be, or may hereafter become insane while in such employment, shall be admitted, on the order of the Secretary of War, the same as persons belonging to the army and navy to the benefits of the Asylum for the Insane in the District of Columbia, as provided in such other cases by the fourth section of the "Act to organize an institution for the insane of the army and navy, and of the District of Columbia in said District," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-five. Approved February 9, 1865. AN ACT to provide for acting assistant treasurers or depositaries of the United States in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in case of the sickness or unavoidable absence of any assistant treasurer or depositary of the United States from his office, he may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, authorize the chief clerk, or some other clerk employed therein, to act in his place, and to discharge all the duties required by law of such assistant treasurer or depositary: Provided, That the official bond given by the principal of the office shall be held to cover and apply to the acts of the person appointed in his place, in such cases: And provided further, That such acting officer shall, for the time being, be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for the official misconduct, in like cases, of the assistant treasurer or depositary respectively for whom he shall act. Approved February 13, 1865. AN ACT to incorporate the National Union Insurance Company of Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That James Harper, Thomas Patton, C. H. Moody, John W. Magill, John M. Reilly, B. F. Guy, Valentine Blanchard, Thomas J. Fisher, Hudson Taylor, Augustus F. Perry, D. Walker, James Montgomery, Joseph J. May, or any five of them, be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of a company to be denominated "The National Union Insurance Company of Washington," who shall open a book for that purpose in the city of Washington, at the time and place to be by them designated, of which they shall give ten days' notice in two or more of the daily papers of said city, and shall keep the same open until twenty thousand shares of fifty dollars a share each shall have been subscribed; and any person of lawful age, and a citizen of the United States, shall be permitted to subscribe upon paying five dollars on each share at the time of subscribing. And it shall be lawful for the said corporation to have a common seal, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and have and exercise all the rights, privileges, and immunities for the purposes of the corporation hereby created." SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the affairs of the company shall be managed by nine directors, to be elected annually by ballot on the second Mon day of July by the stockholders or by their legally empowered agents; and each share of stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote; the election to be held at the office of the company at a general meeting of the stockholders convened for that purpose, by ten days' public notice in two or more of the daily papers of the city of Washington: Provided, That the first election for directors shall be held pursuant to ten days' notice given in one or more of the daily papers of the city of Washington by the persons named in the first section of this act, or any five of them, who shall designate the time when and the place where said election shall be held; and the stockholders shall then and there elect nine directors to serve until the next ensuing election as provided for in this act. And at the first ensuing meeting of the directors after every election, they shall appoint one of their number as president, who, together with themselves, shall hold office until the next ensuing election, as herein provided for; and five members of said board shall compose a quorum. And in case that an election for directors should not be made when, pursuant to this act, it should have been made, the company for that cause shall not be dissolved; and it shall be lawful,. within forty days thereafter, to hold and make an election for directors in such manner as the by-laws of the company may prescribe, and the president and directors for the time being shall be continued in office until such election take place. And in the event of death, resignation, or removal of any director from office, his place for the remainder of his term may be filled by the president and directors for the time being, in such manner as the by-laws may prescribe. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the president and directors shall have power to appoint a secretary and such other officers, agents, and clerks as may to them appear proper, to fix their compensation and pay the same. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock shall be called in, and paid in such instalments and proportions, and at such times and place, as the president and directors for the time being may require and designate, who shall give fifteen days' notice thereof in two or more daily papers of the city of Washington. And if any stockholder, subscriber, their assignee or transferee, shall refuse or neglect to pay such proportion or instalment, at the time and place appointed, such stockholder, subscriber, transferee, or assignee shall, at the option of the president and directors, forfeit to the use of the company all his, her, or their right, title, and interest in and to every share on which such instalment has not been duly made; [paid?] and fresh subscriptions may be opened for the same, in such manner as the by-laws may prescribe, or the president and directors may, at their option, commence suit for the same and recover against the holder of said stock for the amount of the instalment or proportion so unpaid: Provided, That no stockholder or subscriber shall be permitted to vote at any election for directors, or at any general or special meeting of the company, on whose shares any instalments or arrearages may be due more than fifteen days previous thereto. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the president and directors for the time being shall have power to ordain, establish, and put in execution such rules, regulations, ordinances, and by-laws as they may deem essential for the well-government of the institution, not contrary to the laws and Constitution of the United States, or of this act, and generally to do and perform all acts, matters, and things which a corporation may or can lawfully do. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the president and directors are hereby empowered and fully authorized, on behalf of the company, to make insurance against losses by fire on any house, building, tenement, manufactories, mills, or other buildings; on goods, wares, chattels, and effects of all kinds therein, or otherwise; upon grain, produce, and implements, and upon vessels building on the stocks, in port or at moorings; and, generally, upon all and every sort and description of property, of whatever kind soever, on land or water; and to make, execute, perfect, and conclude so many contracts, bargains, |