Contingent expenses to be allowed by Secretary of War.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the allowance made to the quartermaster general and commissary general respectively, in and by the act hereby amended, it shall and may be lawful for the Secretary for the department of War, for the time being, to allow to them respectively, such sums as in his opinion shall have been actually and necessarily expended in their several departments for office rent, fuel, candles and extra clerk hire.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the quartermaster general, the deputy quartermasters, and the assistant deputy quartermasters, shall, before they or either of them enter upon the duties of their appointment respectively, enter into bond with sufficient security, to be approved of by the Secretary at War, conditioned for the faithful expenditure of all public monies, and accounting for all public property, which may come to their hands, respectively; and the quartermaster general shall not be liable for any money or property that may come into the hands of the subordinate officers of his department.
Act of March 28, 1812, ch. 46.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sixth section of the act hereby amended be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, May 22, 1812.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XCIII.—An Act supplementary to an act entituled “An act for the admission of the state of Louisiana into the Union, and to extend the laws of the United States to the said state.”
Act of April 8, 1812, ch. 50.
Judicial proceedings transferred, &c.
Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 38.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all causes, actions, indictments, libels, pleas, processes and proceedings whatsoever, returnable, commenced, depending or in any manner existing in the district court established in the territory of Orleans, in and by the act, entituled “An act erecting Louisiana into two territories and providing for the temporary government thereof,” be, and the same are hereby transferred to the district court established by the act to which this is a supplement, and may be proceeded in, shall exist and have like incidents and effects as if they had been originated and been proceeded in in the court established by the act to which this is a supplement.
Dockets, records, &c. transferred.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the dockets, books, records, papers and seal, belonging to the said district court of the Orleans territory, shall be transferred to, and become the dockets, books, records, and papers of the district court of the Louisiana district.
Eighth section, &c. of act of March 26, 1804, ch. 38, repealed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the eighth section of the act aforesaid, entituled “An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof,” and also, all acts within the purview of this act, and the one to which this is a supplement, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved, May 22, 1812.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XCV.—An Act providing for the government of the territory of Missouri.[1]
Louisiana to be called Missouri.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory heretofore called Louisiana shall hereafter be called Missouri, and that the temporary government of the territory of Missouri shall be organized and administered in the manner herein after prescribed.
- ↑ An act to alter certain parts of the act providing for the government of the territory of Missouri, April 29, 1816, chap. 155.An act further to regulate the territories of the United States, and their electing delegates to Congress, March 3, 1817, chap. 42.
