STATUTE III. March 3, 1843. Act of Jan. 18, 1837, ch. 5. 1842, ch. 185. Act of 18th Jan. 1837, continued for two years. Proviso. CHAP. CIII.—An Act further to continue in force the act for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Act of Aug.23, United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost in the military service of the United States," approved on the eighteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and which has been continued in force until the end of the present session of Congress, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for two years from and after the end of the present session of Congress: Provided, That at the end of the last aforesaid term of two years, all claims intended to be provided for by said act, shall be forever barred and irrecoverable before any tribunal whatever: Provided further, That in making proof of the loss of a horse, under the provisions of the aforesaid act, for want of forage, the additional proof of hard service connected therewith, shall not be construed to invalidate the proof of such loss by reason of the failure of the Government to furnish forage, the proof of want of forage being satisfactory. Proviso. APPROVED, March 3, 1843. RESOLUTIONS. Jan. 20, 1843. No. 1. Joint Resolution for the distribution of catalogues of the library of Con gress. Distribution. Feb. 18, 1843. Agencies to be established in Kentucky and Missouri. Proviso. Feb. 24, 1843. sixth census. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That of the copies of the Catalogue of the Library of Congress last published, now remaining on hand, there be distributed by the librarian one copy to each of the colleges and universities in the United States that has not already been furnished with the same and to each person entitled to the use of the library. APPROVED, January 20, 1843. No. 2. Joint Resolution to establish agencies for water-rotted hemp. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish an agency in the State of Kentucky, and an agency in the State of Missouri, for the inspection, test, and purchase of water-rotted hemp for the use of the American navy: Provided, That domestic hemp shall not cost more than foreign hemp of the same quality in the seaport towns of the United States. APPROVED, February 18, 1843. No. 3. A Resolution for the distribution of certain copies of the Census returns and of the Compendium of the Sixth Census. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Distribution of States of America in Congress assembled, That of the extra copies of the Census returns for eighteen hundred and forty, and of the Compendium of the said Census now remaining on hand, there be retained until further order two hundred copies of each; and that the residue of said Census returns and Compendium there be distributed, in the same manner as the laws of Congress are distributed, two hundred and fifty copies of each to the Secretary of State for his department and for distribution, in like manner by him, to ministers and diplomatic agents of this Go vernment and of foreign Governments, and to universities, colleges, and literary institutions now entitled to receive congressional documents, printed by order of either House, allowing one copy of each work to each; that the said Secretary in like manner distribute of said residue to the Library of Congress the same number of copies of each as it is entitled to receive of said congressional documents, and for the same purposes; to the library of the Senate three copies of each work; to the library of the House of Representatives three copies of each work; to every other department, bureau, public office or officer now entitled to receive congressional documents as aforesaid, one copy of each work, for preservation in such department, bureau or office; to every other person, body politic and functionary now entitled to receive congressional documents as aforesaid, one copy of each work; and that the said Secretary of State distribute the remaining copies of each work aforesaid to the several States, Territories, and District of Columbia in proportion to their respective population, in the same manner as the laws of Congress are apportioned and distributed; and that of the extra copies of each Census taken before eighteen hundred and forty, all over fifty copies (if so many remain on hand) be distributed to said States, Territories and District in like proportion and in like manner. APPROVED, February 24, 1843. No. 4. Joint Resolution directing certain papers relating to titles to land in Loui- March 3, 1843. siana, to be returned to the General Land Office. Certain papers to be returned to the General 1835. ch. 17, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, instructed to furuish to the Commissioner of the General land Land Office. office, the original reports from the several Land Offices in the State of Louisiana, made under the provisions of an act entitled "An act for the final adjustment of claims to land in the State of Louisiana," approved February sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five; also the title-papers and evidence relating to claims in said reports, confirmed by an act entitled "An act confirming certain land claims in Louisiana, approved July sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two: Proviso. Provided, That claimants shall be entitled to withdraw their original title-papers after fair copies shall have been taken by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. APPROVED, March 3, 1843. No. 5. Joint Resolution, in relation to certain property purchased for the United March 3, 1843. States in the city of Detroit. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have charge of the banking house, with the appurtenances, late of the Bank of Michigan, situate in the city of Detroit, in the State of Michigan, purchased for the United States by direction of the Solicitor of the Treasury; and he shall have power to set apart the said premises for the use of the courts of the United States, the officers of such courts, and the post office in the said city of Detroit, and for such other public uses as he may judge to be expedient and proper, until the further order of Congress in the premises. APPROVED, March 3, 1843. Banking house, &c. to be set apart for U.S. courts and post-office at Detroit. March 3, 1843. No. 6. Joint Resolution for continuing an additional clerk in the Second Auditor's Clerk author ized by act 26th March 3, 1843. Mode of issuing patents to the heirs of perBons entitled to bounty lands. office. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provision contained in the act of twenty-sixth August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, "legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without other authority of law, and for other purposes," for one additional clerk in the Second Auditor's office at one thousand dollars, be, and the same is, continued until the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. APPROVED, March 3, 1843. No. 7. Joint Resolution relating to patents for bounty lands. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where an officer or soldier of the revolutionary war, or a soldier of the last war, was entitled to bounty land, has died before obtaining a patent for the land, and where application is made by a part only of the heirs of such deceased officer or soldier for such bounty land, it shall be the duty of the proper officers of the War Department to issue the warrant or patent in the name of the heirs of such deceased officer or soldier, without specifying each; and the patent so issued in the name of the heirs, generally, shall inure to the benefit of the whole, in such portions as they are severally entitled to by the laws of descent in the State or Territory where the officer or soldier belonged at the time of his death. APPROVED, March 3, 1843. ACTS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 4th day of December, 1843, and ended the 17th day of June, 1844. JOHN TYLER, President of the United States. WILLIE P. MANGUM, President of the Senate, pro tempore. JOHN W. JONES, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. CHAP. I.- An Act to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the relief and protection of American seamen. Jan. 22, 1844. rican seamen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of forty Relief of Amethousand five hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury for the relief and protection of American seamen, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the act supplementary to the act concerning consuls and vice-consuls and for the further protection of American seamen, passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and three. APPROVED, January 22, 1844. 1803, ch. 9. STATUTE I. Feb. 16, 1844. To refund $1000 with interest from 31st CHAP. II. — An Act to refund the fine imposed on General Andrew Jackson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of one thousand dollars, paid by General Andrew Jackson, as a fine imposed on him at New Orleans, the thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini March 1815. one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be repaid to him, together with the interest, at the rate of six per centum a year since then, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, February 16, 1844. CHAP. III.—An Act to authorize the President of the United States to direct trans- STATUTE I. the transfer be made from any head or object of appropriation which may require another appropriation at any future time to supply the deficiency created by said transfer. APPROVED, February 23, 1844. March 4, 1844. CHAP. IV.-An Act changing the time of holding the courts at Clarksburg and at Wheeling, in the western district of Virginia, (a) and the circuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas. (b) To be held at Clarksburg, when. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district court of the United States, required by law to be holden at Clarksburg, in the western district of Virginia, shall hereafter commence its sessions on the last Mondays of March and of August of every year; and that the ses At Wheeling. sions of said court required by law to be held at Wheeling, within said district, shall hereafter commence on the Wednesdays after the first Mondays in April and September of every year, instead of the times now fixed by law for holding said courts, respectively; and that the cir cuit court of the United States for the district of Arkansas, shall hereof Arkansas, to after be held on the second Monday of April of each year, instead of the time now designated by law; and that all actions, suits, recognizances, processes, writs, and proceedings whatever, pending, or which may be pending, in said courts, respectively, or returnable thereto, shall have day therein, and be heard, tried, proceeded with, and decided, in like manner as if the time of holding said sessions had not been hereby Circuit court be held when. STATUTE I. Act of June 1, 1842, ch. 31. Act of 1st June 1842 repealed. altered. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act be in force from and after the passage thereof. APPROVED, March 4, 1844. March 26, 1844. CHAP. V.—An Act to repeal the act entitled "An act to amend the act of the tenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, entitled 'An act to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the district of Ohio."" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act to amend the act of the tenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, entitled 'An act to change the time of holding the cir cuit and district courts in the district of Ohio,'" approved June 1st, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That this act shall not take effect until from and after the next July term of said court at Cincinnati. APPROVED, March 26, 1844. Proviso. STATUTE I. April 2, 1844. How oath re quired by 3d CHAP. VII.—An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to establish branches of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the oath or affirmation required by the third section of an act passed March third, eighteen section of act of hundred and thirty-five, entitled "An act to establish branches of the Mint of the United States," may be taken before any judge of the supe rior court, or of any court of record, in the State where the branch of which the person taking said oath is an officer or clerk, is situated. APPROVED, April 2, 1844. 3d March 1835, ch. 39, may be taken. (a) See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 478. (b) Act of April 17, 1828, chap. 29. |