THIRTY—SEVEN'1`fI CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 91, 92, 93. 1862. 411 deemed incomplete for the want of a survey or patent when the land granted may be ascertained without a survey or patent. Approved, June 2, 1862. CHAP. XCI. —An Act to allow the State of California an additional Representative in June 2, 1882. the thirty-seventh Congress. "‘*""' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tlae United States of America in Congress assembled, That as the census has never ,_ O“ll§"`“l*’· *° been reliably taken in the State of California until the year eighteen Q:,;',;,iv;;°;l:PQ: hundred and sixty, and as it appears that the said State had sufficient thirty-seventh population to entitle her to three representatives in the thirty-seventh C°“g'°“‘ Congress, and as three representatives have been duly elected to the thirty-seventh Congress under the supposition that the said State was entitled to the same, as appears by the certificate of the Governor thereof, and as direct taxes have been apportioned to and paid by said State under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty, therefore the said State shall be allowed three representatives in the thirty-seventh Congress, and for that purpose the whole number of representatives is hereby increased one, until the beginning of the thirty-eighth Congress. Approved, June 2, 1862. Cnr. XCII.—An Act abolishing certain Collection Districts and reducing Compensa- June 2, 1862. tion of O_g‘Ecers of Customs in California. '“`*‘_-—-* Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the collection districts of _ Certain_colleo· Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento, Sonoma, San Joaquin, and San Pedro, g§;‘H$;g’°“ heretofore established by law, are hereby abolished, and the same attached to the collection district of San Francisco; and there shall be appointed, b6I§;gg?;';?,_t° in the usual manner, an inspector at each of the following places : Monterey, San Diego, Sacramento, Benicia, Stockton, San Pedro; and the salary of each of the said inspectors shall be one thousand dollars per sa sry. annum. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of Pay of officers July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the annual compensation of the g;;¥r;$;;’;“” collector of the customs for the district of San Francisco shall be six ` thousand dollars; of the naval officer, four thousand five hundred dollars; of the surveyor, four thousand dollaré; of the principal appraisers, twenty-five hundred dollars each; and of the assistant appraisers, two thousand dollars each; and the office of an additional appraiser general _OtHce of addito be employed on the Pacific coast, created by the act of Congress enti· g;;‘;‘};P§g:§:;_ tled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses ed_ of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen 1853, ch. 97. hundred and fifty-four," approved March third, eighteen hundred and fifty- Vol, X, P. 201, three, be and the same is hereby abolished. Approved, June 2, 1862. CHAI. XCHI. -—·An Act to prevent and punish Fraud on the Part of Officers intrusted June 2, 1882. with making of Contracts jbr the Government. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United °°°¤ 696* States <g` America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of rgonmm {0.bg the Secretary of War, of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Secre- ?;€3¤4:¤g1g¤r§;¤ tary of the Interior, immediately after the passage of this act, to cause tuinslommwith and require every contract made by them, severally, on behalf of the bids, proposals, Government, or by their officers under them appointed to make such con- &°· tracts, to be reduced to writing, and signedby the contracting parties with their names at the end thereof a copy of which shall be filed by the
