TVVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 97. 1846. 71 horses and oxen, stationery, printing, and other incidental and con- °°¤*l“S°¤* °¤· tingent expenses, twenty thousand dollars. · P°"s€S' For completing the barracks for cadets, fifteen thousand dollars. Barracks. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be authorized to appoint a board of visitors, to attend the annual examination Board of vista of the Military Academy, whose duty it shall be to report to the Sec- **:1* *° b°°PP°l“‘· rotary of War, for the information of Congress, at the commence- ° ' ment of the next succeeding session, the actual state of the discipline, instruction, police administration, fiscal affairs, and other concerns, of the institution: Provided, That the whole number of visitors each year shall not exceed the half of the number of States in the Union; and that they shall be selected, alternately, from every second State, How selected. each member being a bond fda resident citizen of the State fiom which he shall be appointed; that not less than six members shall be taken fiom among officers actually serving in the militia; and that a second member shall not be taken from any Congressional district, until every other district in the State shall have supplied a member : Provided, further, That no compensation shall be made to said mem- Compensation. bers beyond the payment of their expenses for board and lodging while at the Military Academy, and an allowance not to exceed eight cents per mile, for travelling by the shortest mail route fiom their respective homes to the Academy, and back to their homes. And the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to defray the M,,,,,,,,,;.;;.,,,, expenses of said board of visitors, at the next annual examination. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the teacher of drawing, Certain teachand the nrst teacher of French, at the Military Academy, shall here- °” *° be P'°l°“‘ after be, respectively, professor of drawing, and rrofessor of the sm` French language. Approved, August 8, 1846. Cru!. XCVII. —-An Act supplementary to the Acidpassed on the twentieth Day of AUS; Br 1846- February, cigbzeen hundred and forty-six, enzitl **./En: ficc to enlarge tire P0zo· ers of the several Orphan! Courts held in and for the Dzstrzct of Columbia." ante, P. ° ‘ ' Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every o han, or other infant, to whom the orphans’ Courts of the District olfPCol- O,,,},,,, ,,;,;;,;,,3,, umbia are authorized and empowered by the act to which this act is my ¤ql¤¤¢ s¤¤r— supplementary, or by any other law in force in the said district, or in dc;';"' °"“’° either county thereof, to appoint a guardian, shall be entitled, on arriving at the age of fourteen years, or at any age between fourteen and twenty-one years, notwithstanding any appointment of guardian before made by such courts, or either of them, to elect a guardian for himself or herself: Provided, The Orphans' Court within whose Samson who jurisdiction may be the person and residence of such orphan, or any subject to the property, real, personal, or mixed, to which such orphan is entitled, °P5*;"'°-l °f tl"! or where a guardian had been duly appointed before, the court by °° which said former guardian had been appointed, approve the character and competency of the person so elected guardian: And provided, such Orphans' Court shall and may require of the guardian, so _ elected, such security, and exercise towards him all such jurisdiction .?°°“,;’*Y ‘° l’° and powers for compelling the faithful administration of his trust, $° y gum` as are provided in the said act, or any other law in force as aforesaid, in the cases of guardians appointed by the said court; and if the said court, in the due exercise of such, its jurisdiction and powers, shall see tit to supersede and remove such guardian, or if such guar- Supercedure. dian die, or become incompetent during the minority of such orphan, the said court shall forthwith cite such orphan to appear and make a new election of guardian, which such orphan may do under the same
