RESOLUTIONS.
[Obsolete.]
No. 2. Joint Resolution on the subject of printing the tables of the sixth census.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Payment for the printing of the compendium suspended. That the payment of the money heretofore appropriated by Congress, to pay the expenses of the sixth census, be so far suspended, as that no money shall be paid for the printing of the compendium or abridgement of the sixth census by counties and principal towns, together with the tables of apportionment, as prepared at the Department of State for the use of Congress, until the further order of Congress.
Approved, April 14, 1842.
No. 3. A Resolution further to provide for the distribution of the printed returned of the sixth census, and other documents connected with the same, the printing of which has been heretofore directed by law.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The other census documents to be distributed in the manner specified by resolution of 1st Sept. 1841.
Ante, p. 467.
Proviso. That the statistics, including the census of pensioners, and the compendium or abridgement of the sixth census of the United States, heretofore required by law to be printed under the direction of the Secretary of State, shall be distributed and disposed of by the Secretary in the manner and in the proportions specified in the joint resolution of Congress passed the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one: Provided, always, That seventeen thousand copies of the said compendium or abridgement shall be distributed among the States, Territories, and persons entitled to distribution under the said resolution, and in the proportions therein specified, and that the remaining copies of the said statistics and compendium be placed in the Library of Congress for future distribution.
Approved, April 15, 1842.
No. 4. Joint Resolution to continue two clerks in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties.
Ante, p. 409.
Period for which they were authorized extended for two years.
Post, p. 718.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authority given to the Secretary of War by the joint resolution, approved second May, one thousand eight hundred and forty, to continue the employment of two clerks in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties, be extended, after the expiration of the period for which that authority was granted, for the term of two years.
Approved, May 18, 1842.
No. 5. A Resolution to authorize the extension of the contract for carrying the mail on the route between Mobile and New Orleans.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Postmaster General authorized to extend the existing contract for three years. That the Postmaster General be, and he hereby is, authorized to extend the existing contract for carrying the mail upon the steamboat route between Mobile and New Orleans for three years from the time at which said contract would expire by its own limitations, if, in his opinion, the public interest and convenience will be promoted by such extension of said contract.
Approved, June 1, 1842.