contract made with the Common Council of the said city of Alexandria, as aforesaid, to vend or sell tickets, or parts of tickets, or shares, in any lottery or lotteries, authorized by the Legislature of any State or Territory within the United States, or any foreign Government.
Approved, August 31, 1842.
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]Obsolete.]
Chap. CCLXXXIII.—An Act to provide for purchasing materials and for the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation. That the sum of seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purpose of furnishing raw materials for manufacture and for the support of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the board of inspectors of said penitentiary, and to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, August 31, 1842.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. CCLXXXVI.—An Act to reorganize the Navy Department of the United States.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Act of 7th Feb. 1815, ch. 35, repealed. That the act approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An act to alter and amend the several acts establishing a Navy Department, by adding thereto a Board of Commissioners,” be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Bureaus to be attached to the Navy Department.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be attached to the Navy Department the following bureaus, to wit:
- 1. A bureau of Navy Yards and Docks.
- 2. A bureau of Construction, Equipment and Repairs.
- 3. A bureau of Provisions and Clothing.
- 4. A bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography.
- 5. A bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Chiefs of bureaus to be appointed, how.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint, from the captains in the naval service, a chief for each of the bureaus of Navy Yards and Docks, and of Ordnance and Hydrography, who shall each receive a salary of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, in lieu of all other compensation whatever, in the naval service; and shall, in like manner, appoint a chief of the bureau of Construction, Equipment, and Repairs, who shall be a skilful naval constructor, and shall appoint a chief of the bureau of Provisions and Clothing, who shall each receive for his services three thousand dollars per annum; and shall in like manner appoint from the surgeons of the navy a chief of the bureau of Medicine and Surgery, who shall receive for his services two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. Navy to appoint clerks for theSec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy shall appoint the following clerks, to wit:
Office of the Secretary of the Navy.For the office of the Secretary of the Navy, a chief clerk, who shall receive for his services two thousand dollars per annum; one registering clerk, who shall receive for his services one thousand four hundred dollars per annum; three recording clerks, who shall receive for their services each one thousand dollars per annum; one principal corresponding clerk, who shall receive for his services one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and two assistant corresponding clerks, who shall receive for their services each twelve hundred dollars per annum; one- ↑ Notes of the acts relating to the navy of the United States, vol. 2, 699.
