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 754 THIRTY—SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 79, 80. 1863. ¤¤¤1‘k¤l¤·l¤¤¤¤¤i¤ dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any G°°”g°°°w°' money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for reconstructing the bridges and market-house in Georgetown, built across the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and for raising the same so as to open a convenient outlet to the trade of the canal to the Potomac River, in place of that which has been interrupted by the occupation of the aqueduct connecting the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the Alexandria Canals, as a bridge for the transportation of supplies for the army of the United States across said river; said sum to be expended under the direction of the President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Minnesota to Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury pfgsgizgflffign otherwise appropriated, to pay to the Governor of the State of Minnesota, hostilities. or his duly authorized agent, the costs, charges, and expenses properly m- curred by said State in suppressing Indian hostilities within said State and upon its borders, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be settled upon proper vouchers to be filed and passed upon by the proper accounting officers of P*`°'i¤°· the treasury: Provided, That, in determining the claims to be allowed under this act, the same principles, rules, and regulations shall be observed by the accounting officers in auditing said expenses as have been applied to the claims allowed to states under the act approved July twenty-sev- 1861, ch. 21. enth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled “An act to indemnify the Am P- 276- States for expenses incurred by them in defence of the United States/’ Passports, to Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act approved Wlwm €"*“’°d· the eighteenth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, entitled “An $i3?·x?‘P%%£_ act, to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States," as prohibits the granting of passports to any other than citizens of the United States, shall be, and is hereby repealed, so far as that prohibition may embrace any class of persons liable to military duty by the laws of the United States. Consulate at Sue. 24. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United 3;jQi€;%?mb¤ States be, and he is hereby authorized, whenever in his judgment the tinged_ public interest may so require, to discontinue the consulate of the United Consul mC5m. States at Trinidad de Cuba, and to appoint at Cienfuegos, in that island, fu¢g¤S· a consul with the same salary and emoluments as those now allowed by law to the consul at Trinidad de Cuba. Judge Advocnte Sec. 25. And be it furthe? enacted, That every judgemdvocate of 2. YM? Svmvslf court-martial or court of inquiry hereafter to be constituted, shall have ° power to issue the like process to compel witnesses to appear and testify which courts of criminal jurisdiction within the state, territory, or district where such military courts shall be ordered to sit may lawfully issue. Approved, March 3, 1863. March 8, 1863, Cmtr. LXXX.— An Act jbr increasing the Revenue by Reservation and Sale if Ibwn "";“ Sites on Public Lands. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Town m,,,;,, States of America in Uongreas assemolcd, That it shall be the duty of be r¤¤¤rv¤d· the President of the United States to reserve from the public lands, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, town sites on the shores of harbors, at the Junction of rivers, important portages, or any natural or prospective centres of population. lgeservations Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That when, in the opinion of the §:mi§;’V°Y°d President, the public mterests require it, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to cause any of said reservations, or part thereof, to be surveyed into urban or suburban lots of suitable size, and to Hx by Vslnetobc appraisement. of disinterested persons their cash value, and to offer the =tUt>¤¤S¢cr¤p¤id<=X— be, and he is hereby directed, out of any money in the treasury not