of the twenty-seventh of May, eighteen hundred and forty, any thing designating a particular spot contained in the act of fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, September 9, 1841.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XIX.—An Act authorizing the transmission of letters and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison, free of postage.
Franking privilege granted to Mrs. Harrison.
Act of March 3, 1843, ch. 43, sec. 23.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all letters and packets, carried by post to and from Mrs. Harrison, relict of late William Henry Harrison, be conveyed free of postage during her natural life.
Approved, September 9, 1841.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XX.—An Act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation to pay debts, &c. That the sum of four hundred and ninety-seven thousand, six hundred and fifty-seven dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Post Office Department to meet its engagements and pay its debts, and of which sum fifteen thousand dollars are hereby appropriated to enable the Auditor of said Department to purchase account-books for his office, and to bring up arrears of its business:Proviso.
1836, ch. 270. Provided, That in virtue hereon no clerk shall be employed for a longer period than one year; to be accounted for in the manner prescribed in the second section of the “Act to change the organization of the Post Office Department, and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof,” passed July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six:Proviso. Provided, That the money hereby appropriated shall be accounted for by the Post Office Department hereafter, when the condition of its funds shall permit; to be refunded into the Treasury, or deducted from any sums which the Post Office Department may heretofore have paid into the Treasury.
Approved, September 9, 1841.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXI.—An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation to purchase ordnance and ordnance stores. That the sum of six hundred thousand dollars be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing ordnance and ordnance stores, for the use of the Navy of the United States.
Sec. Navy to make certain experiments.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to apply a part of the sum herein and hereby appropriated, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, to the purpose of making experiments to test the value of improvements in ordnance, in the construction of steamers, and other vessels of war, and in other matters connected with the naval service and the national defence; and also to the purpose of defraying any charges left unpaid on account of experiments of the like character heretofore made by authority of law.
Approved, September 9, 1841.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXII.—An Act making appropriations for outfits and salaries of diplomatic agents, and for other purposes.
