post-road, and so continue until other provision shall be made by law for the accomodation thereof with the mail.
Certain documents may be transmitted by Secretary of State free of postage.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State be, and is hereby authorized to transmit by the mail, free of postage, one copy of the documents hereafter mentioned, being on subjects of a general nature, and which may be ordered to be printed by either house of Congress, namely, of communications with the accompanying documents, made by the President of the United States, or either house thereof; of reports made by Secretary of State, by the Secretary of Treasury, by the Secretary of War, by the Secretary of the Navy, by the Postmaster General, by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, to Congress, or either house thereof, in pursuance or any law or resolution of either house: affirmative reports on subjects of a general nature made to Congress, or either house thereof, by any committee respectively: for each of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and of the District Courts, and of the territories of the United States, to any post-office within the United States, they may respectively designate.
Approved, April 18, 1814.
Statute II.
Chap. LXXVIII.—An Act to provide for the collection and preservation of such flags, standards, and colours as shall have been or may hereafter be taken by the land and naval forces of the United States, from their enemies.
Made the duty of the Secretaries of War and Navy Departments to collect at the seat of government captured, &c. &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretaries of the War and Navy Departments be, and they are hereby directed to cause to be collected and transmitted to them, at the seat of government of the United States, all such flags, standards, and colours as shall have been or may hereafter be taken by the army and navy of the United States, from their enemies.
To be displayed in some public place, designated by the President.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the flags, standards, and colours of the description aforesaid, which are now in the possession of the departments aforesaid, and such as may be hereafter transmitted to them be, with all convenient despatch, delivered to the President of the United States, for the purpose of being, under his direction, preserved and displayed in such public place as he shall deem proper.
Appropriation.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the above purposes, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 18, 1814.
Statute II.
[Repealed.]
Chap. LXXIX.—An Act to lessen the compensation for marshals, clerks and attorneys in the cases therein mentioned.
Act of Feb. 28, 1799, ch. 19.
Act of March 8, 1824, ch. 26.
Certain marshals, attorneys and clerks no longer to have a daily allowance for attending courts.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of June next, there shall not be allowed or paid to either the Marshal or Attorney of the Districts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, the southern district of New York, or Pennsylvania, nor to the Clerk of the District and Circuit Court of the United States, in either of said districts, any daily compensation for attending on the said courts, and that the Clerks of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States shall be entitled to one half of one per centum and no more on money deposited in any court, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
