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 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 6, 7, 8, 9. 1864. 3 CHAP. VL —An Act relating to the Admission of Patients to the Hospital jbr the Insane Jan. 28, 1864. in the District of Columbia. “———`“-" Be it enacted ly the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Thai: the Secretary of the In- _ Transient terior be authorized, in his discretion, during the existence of the present ;’5s;?&:i"g kgs war, to admit. into the government hospital for the insane such transient PML insane persons as may be found in the District of Columbia without the means of self-support, to be there detained until they can be sent to their friends or proper places of residence under the direction of the said Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to provide therefor; the Mode of prosteps preliminary to their admission to be the same, except as to the afi- °°°d"‘€· davit of residence at the time they became insane, as are required in the case of indigent persons who became insane while residing in the district. Approved, January 28, 1864. CHAP. V]'.`[.—An Act making Ap riations for the Payment of Invalid and other Jam 29,135;;, Pensions Jthe United States, for miogrear ending the thirtieth of June, ezzqhteen hundred i·····—· and si.rty;]'ive. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States <y"Amer1Zca in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and Appropriation the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not f°’ P°“"°“" otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five: — For invalid pensions under various acts, one million dollars. ]¤va];d_ For pensions to widows, mothers, children, and sisters, under the first other pensions_ section of the act of fourth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; act of 1836, Cb_ 36; July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-eight; first section of the 189, cb- 108- aet of February third, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; June third, eigh-  QR; é;; teen hundred and Htty-eight ; and July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and 1862; ch. 166. sixty-two, two million two hundred thousand dollars. APPROVED, January 29, 1864. Cun. VIH.—An Act authorizing the Holding of a special Session of the United States Feb. 12, 1864. District Court for the District of Indiana. ` Be it enacted by the Senate and House J Representatives of the United 7 States of America in Congress assembled, That a special session of the Special session United States district court for the district of Indiana shall be holden at gis: i‘;tF°d°‘£“P the usual place of holding said court on the second Tuesday in March, in yédduafour m the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. Sec. 2. And be it further ehacted, That all suits and proceedings of a What suits, civil or criminal nature, now pending in, or returnable to said court, shall &°· *° be d*°*'° be proceeded in, heard, tried, and determined, by said court at said spec- Mud` ial session, in the same manner as at a regular term of said court, and the judge thereof is hereby empowered to order the empanelling of a kms_ petit jury for said session, but not a grand jury. And no case shall be considered which stands eontinued to the May term by order of the court. Arpaovmo, February 12, 1864, Cru?. IX. —- An Act malcing an Appropriation for rebuilding the Stable at the Presidenfs. Feb, 13, ]3(4_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twelve thou- Appropyigtion sand dollars, or so much thereof as may 'be necessary, be and the same is for ¤ ¤f¤!>l¤ af hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap- nm Pr°s’d°"t " propriated, to enable the Commissioner of Public Buildings to cause the stable at the President’s to be rebuilt forthwith. Approved, February 13, 1§64.