seem best and proper, according to the population of the Territory; and may, for the purpose of more effectually equalizing said representation, increase the Senate to any number not exceeding fifteen in the whole.
Sessions limited to 75 days.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That no session of the Legislative Council in any year shall exceed the term of seventy-five days.
All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, repealed.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts heretofore passed in relation to the Legislative Council of Florida which are inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this act shall be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, July 7, 1838.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. CLXIX.—An Act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes.
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, 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-eight, viz:
Pay of officers, &c.For the pay of officers, cadets, and musicians, fifty-six thousand and twelve dollars;
Subsistence of officers, &c.For subsistence of officers and cadets, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars;
Forage.For forage of officers’ horses, one thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars;
Clothing of officers’ servants.For clothing of officers’ servants, three hundred and thirty dollars;
Expenses of board of visiters.For defraying the expenses of the board of visiters at West Point, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-four cents;
Fuel, forage, &c.For fuel, forage, stationery, printing, transportation and postage, fifteen thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars;
Repairs, &c.For repairs, improvements, and expenses of buildings, grounds, roads, wharves, boats and fences, seven thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents;
Pay of adjutant’s and Qr. Mr.’s clerks.For pay of adjutant’s and quartermaster’s clerks, nine hundred and fifty dollars;
Library.For increase and expenses of the library, eight hundred dollars;
Miscellaneous items, &c.For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents;
Building for recitation, &c.For the erection, as per plan, of a building for recitation and military exercises, in addition to amount heretofore appropriated, eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty cents;
A barn and stables.For the erection of a barn and public stables, one thousand dollars;
Compensation to professor of chemistry, &c.For compensation to the acting professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, at the Military Academy, three hundred dollars;
Printing, &c. the regulations.For printing and binding the regulations of the Military Academy, three hundred and sixty dollars;
Reconstruction of buildings for library, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty-six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the reconstruction of the buildings for the library, engineer, chemical and philosophical departments at the Military Academy at West Point, destroyed by fire in February last.
Compensation of custom-house officers for 1838.1840, ch. 99, § 7.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay to the collectors, deputy collectors, naval officers, surveyors, and their respective clerks, together with the weighers, gaugers, measurers, and markers, of the several ports of the United States, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as will give to the said officers, respectively, the same compensation in the year one thousand eight hundred
