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joint resolution, approved the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, authorizing the President of the United States to employ a skilful assistant in the corps of engineers, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Approved, July 3, 1832.



July 14, 1832.

IX. Resolution in relation to the execution of an act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.

Act of June 7, 1832, ch. 126.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in the execution of the act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, approved June seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, the time of imprisonment as a prisoner of war, shall be taken and computed as a part of the period of service.

Approved, July 14, 1832.



July 14, 1832.

X. Resolution directing the transmission of the fifth census by mail.

Documents of fifth census free of postage.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the document containing the fifth census be transmitted free of postage, by mail, to members of Congress and other persons entitled to receive the same.

Approved, July 14, 1832.



July 14, 1832.

XI. Resolution respecting the Biennial Register.

List of printers of laws of the United States, &c., with the compensation allowed, to be published in the Biennial Register.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in addition to the matter heretofore contained in the Biennial Reigster, published by direction of a joint resolution passed on the twenty-seventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, there shall be included a correct list in the next Register, of all printers of the laws of the United States subsequent to the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to the thirtieth September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, with the compensation allowed to each; and of all printers within the period aforesaid, in any way employed by Congress, or by any department or officer of the government, with the compensation allowed to each, designating the department or officer causing the printing to be executed; and that said RegisterStatement of allowances made to mail contractors. shall contain a correct statement of all allowances made by the Postmaster General within the period last aforesaid, to each contractor on contracts for carrying the mail, discriminating the sum paid as stipulated by the original contract, and the sum as additional allowance. And to enable the Secretary of State to comply with this resolution,Lists to be sent to the State Department. the several heads of the departments, and officers directing or incurring the expense, or making the allowances mentioned, shall cause the lists, and the matter hereby required to be added, to be lodged in the office of the Department of State, as is directed in other cases by the resolution of April twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

List of officers of United States Bank and its branches.Resolved, That said Register shall contain a correct list of the presidents, cashiers, and directors of the bank of the United States and its branches, in office on the thirtieth of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-three: which list shall be transmitted by the president of said bank to the Secretary of State by the first Monday of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Resolved, That all Biennial Registers, under the said resolution of April twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall hereafter be compiled and published conformably to the principles therein and hereby established.

Approved, July 14, 1832.