THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59. 1854. 277 the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-five: For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, eighty-eight Onicerspay.
- thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars;
For commutation of subsistence, two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars; For forage for officers’ horses, nine hundred and sixty dollars;
3 For general repairs and improvements of academic buildings, barracks, Repairs, mess—rooms, officers’ quarters, stables, roads, fences, parade and drill A grounds, miscellaneous and incidental expenses, fuel, forage, and depart- ` ments of instruction, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-five ‘ dollars; For gradual increase and expense of library, one thousand dollars; For expenses of the Board of Visitors, three thousand dollars; For forage for artillery and cavalry horses, eight thousand six hundred . and forty dollars ; For replacing dead and worn out cavalry and artillery horses, one » thousand dollars ; For enlarging and improving hospital of cadets, six thousand five hundred dollars ; For cavalry exercise hall, twenty thousand dollars; _ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of Master pay of gtyasm of the Sword be twelve hundred dollars per annum. of Sword. . Approved, May 10, 1854. CHAP. LIX.-An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas. May 30, 1854. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United . States of America in Oongrees assembled, That all that part of the terri- vJ§;;‘g§€“;grg° tory of the United States included within the following limits, except Territory of Nesuch portions thereof as are hereinafter expressly exempted from the £{'_”ik*:1€*t“· operations of this act, to wit: beginning at a point in the Missouri River is 8 ' where the fortieth parallel of north latitude crosses the same; thence west on said parallel to the east boundary of the Territory of Utah, on _ the summit of the Rocky Mountains; thence on said summit northward B°""d*m°S' to the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude; thence east on said parallel Admm da to the western boundary of the territory of Minnesota; thence south- smc O, gm;: ward on said boundary to the Missouri River; thence down the main with or without channel of said river to the place of beginning, be, and the same is here- Qgagixig Egg"` by, created into a temporary government by the name of the Territory of Territory, or to . Nebraska; and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, emwh L>Qm<>¤ ff or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or ¥;Q£O?;;`:,_°1 without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their served. admission: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to inhibit the government of the United States from dividing said Proviso. Territory into two or more Territories, in such manner and at such times as Congress shall deem convenient and proper, or from attaching any portion of said Territory to any other State or Territory of the United _ States: Provided further, That nothing in this act contained shall be di§;§?)§SSg§dI¤· construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to Tumor not the Indians in said Territory, so long as such rights shall remain uncx— impaircdl tinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory; but all such territory shall be United _States excepted out of the boundaries, and constitute no part of the Territory ;31’€";1:g;;’g;ig’** of ‘Ncbraska, until said tribe shall signify their assent to the President 0,,,,, md 1,,.y 0f the United States to be included within the said Territory of Nebras— dimmka, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States to
