THIRTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 71, 72, 73. 42} u. port of the United States, via Canada, if the said produce was actually in transitu and detained by ice when the recent reciprocity treaty with Canada expired. Approved, May 2, 1866. CHAP. LXXII. —-An Act to provide for the beuer Organization of the Pay Depaumm May 3, 1866. VW N¤¤y· see cu. m. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United goféglpzogf States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the pas- the navy. sage of this act, the active list of the pay corps of the navy shall consist of eighty paymasters, forty passed assistant paymasters, and thirty assistant A ointment paymasteis. Paymasters shall be regularly promoted and commissioned of pI,§m,m,,rs_ from passed assistant paymasters, and passed assistant paymasters from passed assistant assistant paymasters, and all passed assistant paymasters authorized by p“Ym”°°'°*&°' this act to be appointed who have not heretofbre been appointed and commissioned as assistant paymasters and all assistant paymasters hereby authorized to be appointed shall be selected from those who have served as acting assistant paymasters for the term of one year, and who were eligible to appointment in the grade of assistant paymasters when they were appointed acting assistant paymasters, as aforesaid ; subject, however, to such E¤¤¤i¤¤fi<>¤=· examinations as are required by law, and such as may be established by the Secretary of the Navy. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That passed assistant paymasters fB';g;d°°d IP; shall give bonds for the faithful performance of their duties in the sum g,,tpPaym&S°:°§;§_ of fifteen thousand dollars, and that their annual pay shall be, at sea, fifteen hundred dollars; on other duty, fourteen hundred dollars; on leave or waiting orders, twelve hundred dollars. APPROVED, May 3, 1866. CHAP. LXXIII. -An Act concerning the Boundaries of the State ofNevad4. May 5, 18“_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Boundaries of States of America in Congress assembled, That, as provided for and con- N°"d“·
ented to in the constitution of the State of Nevada, all that territory and
tract of land adjoining the present eastern boundary of the State of Nevada, and lying between the thirty-seventh and the forty-second degrees of north latitude and west of the thirty-seventh degree of longitude west of Washington, is hereby added to and made a part of the State of Nevada. SEO. 2. And be it further enacted, That there is hereby added to and made a part of the State of Nevada all that extent of territory lying within the following boundaries, to wit: Commencing on the thirty-seventh degree of north latitude, at the thirty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington ; and running thence south on said degree of longitude to the middle of the river Colorado of the West; thence down the middle of said river to the eastern boundary of the State of California; thence northwesterly along said boundary of California to the thirty- seventh degree of north latitude; and thence east along said degree of latitude to the point of beginning: Provided, That the territory mentioned in this section shall not become a part of the State of Nevada until said State shall, through its legislature, consent thereto: And provided fur- State togive ther, That all possessory rights acquired by citizens of the United States its ¤5$<=¤¤· to mining claims, discovered, located, and originally recorded in eompli- _P<>ssessory _ ance with the rules and regulations adopted by miners in the Pah-Rana- Q§?nE‘SQ‘; $$55 gat and other mining districts in the Territory incorporated by the valid. provisions of this act- into the State of Nevada shall remain as valid subsisting mining claims; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as granting a title in fee to any mineral lands held by possessory titles in Title in reeuot the mining States and Territories. B*‘“¤*°d• Approved, May 5, 1866.
