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 THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 26. 1858. 269 accommodation of the United States courts, upon the terms agreed on by the Secretary of the Interior and the proprietors thereof, in addition to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars appropriated by the act of third 185,, ch 108 • · u · • I ° 7 March, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, for the erection of 2, building t 10, for said purpose, five thousand dollars. Am, p- 229- Sec. 2. And be iijicrtker enacted, That the sum of one million four Deiicieney) in hundred and sixty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars ‘g’§(“s8°fut’_°s* be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in mem P the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Oiiice Department for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. Sico. 3. And be it further enacted, That the accounting officers of the Clerk of House treasury be authorized and directed to allow credit to the clerk of the l:ithb&w;f§‘g;;€ House of Representatives for such payments out of its contingent Fund as mmm, have been or may be made under allowances authorized by the House of Representatives during the last Congress : Provided, That said allowances Proviso. shall have been duly approved by the committee on accounts. And be it further provided, That the said allowances be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SBC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, whenever hereafter contracts Secretaéy of shall be made by the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy by 3gE;r2““l1;f&¥t;2 virtue of the sixth section of the act approved the first of May, eighteen to Cgngrgsg 1,-G8. hundred and twenty, entitled “An act in addition to the several acts for SOM for m¤ki¤¤ the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy De-  °°”` partments," he shall, if Congress be in session at the time, promptly 1820, eh_ 5g,§4;_ report to both Houses thereof the reasons for making such contract, stat- V I  568 ing fully all the facts and circumstances which, in his judgment, rendered °m` D` ` such contract necessary; if Congress be not in session at the time of making such contract, he shall, at the commencement of their next session, make such report to both Houses, and no such contracts shall be made hereafter, except in cases of pressing exigency. APPROVED, May 4, 1858. CHA?. XXVI.-An Act jbr the Admission of the State of Kansas into the Union. May 4, I65g_ Whereas, the people of the Territory of Kansas did, by a convention `_— of delegates assembled at Lecompton on the seventh day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, for that purpose, form for Pm, p· 29*% themselves a. constitution and State government, which constitution is l,mmubl°_ republican; and whereas, at the same time and place, said convention did adopt an ordinance, which said ordinance asserts that Kansas, when admitted as zi State, will have an undoubted right to tax the lands within hor limits belonging to the United States, and proposes to relinquish said asserted right if certain conditions set forth in said ordinance be accepted and agreed to by the Congress of the United States; and whereas the said constitution and ordinance have been presented to Congress by order 0f said convention, and admission of said Territory into the Union thereon as a State requested ; and whereas said ordinance is not acceptable to Congress, and it is desirable to ascertain whether the people of Kansas concur in the changes in said ordinance, hereinafter stated, and desire admission into the Union as a State as herein proposed: Therefore, Be it enacted {qq the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States ey" America in Congress assembled, That the State of Kansas be, Kansas who and is hereby, admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the origi- admitted upon nal States, in all respects whatever, but upon this fundamental condition °°¤dm°°‘ precedent, namely: That the question of admission with the following proposition, in lieu of the ordinance framed at Lecompton, be submitted to a vote of the people of Kansae, and assented to by them or a. majority Question of8d_ 0f the voters voting at an election to be held for that purpose, namely: mission with