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4th sec. of the

act as requires

to select the lands granted for schools in

the Chickasaw purchase, repealed.

So much of the fourth section of the act entitled "An act to carry into effect, in the States of Alabama and Mississippi, the existing compacts with those the Sec. Treas. States with regard to the five per cent. fund and the school reservations," as purports to require that a quantity of land, equal to the one thirtysixth part of the lands lying within the State of Alabama, which were disposed of, or directed to be disposed of, in and by the treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw Indians, made and concluded at the city of Washington, on the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, shall be selected, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, within any land district in said State of Alabama, contiguous to said lands within said State so disposed of, &c., by the said Chickasaws, as aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as in any wise to affect the validity and binding force of any such selections as may heretofore have been made, in virtue of said fourth section, and sanctioned and accepted by the inhabitants of those surveyed townships, respectively, for whom they may have been made, as an equivalent and substitute for section number sixteen, within such surveyed township.

Proviso.

Governor of Alabama authorized to select

two years.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said lands, equal in quantity to one thirty-sixth part of the lands so, in virtue of said treaty, disposed the lands within of, &c., within said State of Alabama, (deducting therefrom such quantity, if any, as may have been selected, as aforesaid, under the authority of said fourth section, and accepted, as aforesaid, in lieu of said section number sixteen, by the inhabitants of the proper surveyed township,) may be selected, under the direction of the Governor of Alabama, at any time within two years from the passing of this act, in sections, halfsections, quarter-sections, or previously defined fractions, out of any of the surveyed public lands, within any of the land districts in the States of Alabama or Mississippi, subject to sale at private sale, and not in any wise encumbered by any prior claim, lien, or reservation, as the Governor of the said State of Alabama may direct. But the same selections, respectively, shall not be holden to have been perfected, until the same, as from time to time they shall have been made, shall have been reported to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, together with proofs, taken in such manner as the Legislature of the State of Alabama shall prescribe, of the assent of the inhabitants of the surveyed townships, respectively, for whose benefit the same may have been selected; and that the said inhabitants consent to and accept the same, in lieu of, and as a full equivalent for, the school section which, by the sixth section of the act entitled "An act to enable the people of the Alabama territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States," was guarantied to them.

What is requisite to perfect the selections.

1817, ch. 59.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when the land shall have been so as aforesaid selected and reported, and, as aforesaid, so accepted by said inhabitants of said surveyed township, respectively, the same shall vest in the State of Alabama, subject to the same disposition and uses, and shall be holden subject to the same conditions and terms, in all respects whatsoever, as, by the said sixth section of the act herein above referred to, were prescribed or intended in relation to sections number sixteen, within said State of Alabama. And it shall be competent for the said Governor of Alabama, as from time to time such selections may be made, and before they are perfected as aforesaid, to give notice thereof to the register of the proper land office of the land district in which such selection may be made, in such form as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe; and, thereupon, the land so selected shall, during such convenient time as such Com

missioner of the General Land Office may prescribe, be considered, for the time being, as withdrawn from sale, and not subject to entry. APPROVED, February 26, 1845.

CHAP. XXVI.—An Act to amend the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third section of the act entitled "An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five," approved June seventeen, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, shall not be understood or construed to apply to the claim of an officer employed on a foreign station who would be entitled, under the provisions of previous acts of Congress, to receive the pay of a higher grade, while temporarily performing the duties of such higher grade, until information of the passage of the said act shall have been received on board of the vessel to which such officer was or is attached. APPROVED, February 26, 1845.

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CHAP. XXVIII.-An Act to authorize a relocation of land warrants number three, Feb. 26, 1845. four, and five, granted by Congress to General Lafayette.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the legal holders or assignees of land warrants numbered three, four, and five, granted by the act of Congress of twenty-seventh March, one thousand eight hundred and four, to General Lafayette, and located at Point Coupee, in the State of Louisiana, in three adjoining surveys of one thousand acres each, and which locations are shown to have been made in material conflict with several older and better grants, shall, upon exhibiting to the register and receiver of any land office within the State of Louisiana, his or their evidence of right to the warrants above described, be permitted, under the same rules and restrictions of the original law under which said locations were authorized, to enter and locate a like quantity of land on any of the unappropriated public lands in the State of Louisiana: Provided, That, before any such register and receiver shall issue to such holders or assignees any certificate of relocation, the holders or assignees shall deposite a copy of their deraignment of title from General Lafayette, and a release of title to the lands located at Point Coupee. APPROVED, February 26, 1845.

Act of March

27, 1804, ch. 61, sele

Holders of the

warrants authorized to enter other lands, &c.

Proviso.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. XXXV.—An Act to change the time for holding the Circuit and Criminal March 1, 1845. Courts in the county of Washington.

Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Circuit Court of the United States for the county of Washington, District of Columbia, shall hereafter be held on the third Monday of October of each year, instead of the fourth Monday of November designated by law.

Time of holding fall term of circuit court changed.

Times of hold

court now fixed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That hereafter there shall be but three terms of the criminal court for Washington county, in the District ing criminal of Columbia, instead of the four terms of said court now fixed by law; and that said three terms hereafter shall commence and be held on the first Monday in March, the third Monday in June, and the first Monday

in December, in each and every year. All process whatsoever in the Process return

said criminal court now issued or which may be issued in the county of Washington, in said District, returnable to the days now fixed by law VOL. V.-92

able on days now fixed.

STATUTE II.

March 1, 1845.

Vessels may, after proceeding to Lafayette, make report and entry at New Orleans.

for said county, shall be returnable and returned on the days for holding said criminal court, prescribed by this statute.

APPROVED, March 1, 1845.

CHAP. XXXVI. — An Act in alteration of an act entitled "An act to establish a port of delivery at the city of Lafayette, in the State of Louisiana." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all vessels bound to the city of Lafayette, in the State of Louisiana, may, after proceed ing thereto, and making report and entry at the port of New Orleans, within the time limited by law, be permitted to unlade their cargoes at said Lafayette, under the rules and regulations prescribed by law, and such further regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary. And so much of the first section of the act entitled "An act to establish a port of delivery at the city of Lafayette, in the State of Louisiana," approved June twelve, one thousand eight hundred and 12, 1844, ch. 46. forty-four, as is inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed. APPROVED, March 1, 1845.

Act of June

STATUTE II.

March 1, 1845. CHAP. XXXVII. — An Act making appropriations for the payment of navy per sions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of navy pensions for the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six. To pay invalid pensions, forty thousand dollars;

Invalid pensions.

Privateer pen

sions.

Widows' pen

sions.

Deficiency in widows' pen

sions.

Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 134.

STATUTE II.

To pay the privateer pensions, three thousand dollars;
To pay widows' pensions, twelve thousand dollars;

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for paying widows' pensions under the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, six

thousand dollars.

APPROVED, March 1, 1845.

March 1, 1845. CHAP. XXXVIII.

to be sold.

An Act to authorize the sale of two Arabian horses, received as a present by the Consul of the United States at Zanzibar, from the Imaum of

Muscat.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Horses, when States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause the two horses received as a present by the Consul of the United States at Zanzibar, from the Imaum of Muscat, to be sold in Washington city by public auction, on the last Saturday of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and to cause the proceeds thereof to be placed in the Treasury of the United States.

STATUTE II.

APPROVED, March 1, 1845.

March 1, 1845. CHAP. XXXIX.—An Act to change the time of holding the Federal courts in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Circuit and dis- United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act the fall sessions of the circuit and district courts of the said United States for the district of Kentucky, heretofore commenced and held on the third Monday in November, annually, shall in

trict courts in Kentucky.

Circuit courts

in N. Carolina.

S. Carolina.

Georgia.

Southern dis

stead thereof be commenced and held the second Monday in November, annually. That the circuit courts of the United States for the district of North Carolina shall he held at Raleigh on the Monday preceding the first Monday in December, and after the year eighteen hundred and forty-five on the second Monday in March. That the spring term of said court shall be held in and for the district of South Carolina at Charleston, on the Wednesday preceding the fourth Monday in March, after the ensuing term shall have been held at the time now appointed by law. That the spring term of said court shall be held in [and] for the district of Georgia at Savannah, on the second Monday in April after the ensuing term shall have been held at the time now appointed by law. That the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of Alabama, shall commence its spring term at Mobile, on the trict of Alasecond Monday of April in each and every year after the ensuing spring term of said court shall have been held at the time now appointed by law. And the circuit court for the district of Louisiana shall commence its spring term at New Orleans on the fourth Monday of April in each and every year, after the ensuing spring term of said court shall have been held at the time now appointed by law. And all actions, suits, Process reappeals, recognizances, processes, writs and proceedings whatever, pending, or which may be pending in said courts, 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 courts or sessions had not been hereby altered.

APPROVED, March 1, 1845.

CHAP. XLI.-An Act renewing certain naval pensions for the term of five years. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pensions for the period of five years, which have been heretofore granted out of the naval pension fund, to the widows of officers, seamen, and marines, who have been killed or died by reason of a wound received in the line of their duty, or who have died by reason of disease contracted, or of a casualty, by drowning or otherwise, or of injury received while in the line of their duty, and which pensions have ceased in consequence of the expiration of the period for which they were originally granted, or for which they were subsequently renewed, shall be continued for another period of five years, to such of the said widows as have remained unmarried; to commence from the day on which such pensions, respectively, terminated; and to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That every pension hereby renewed shall cease on the death or intermarriage of the widow to whom the same is hereby granted.

APPROVED, March 3, 1845.

CHAP. XLII.-An Act to grant certain lands to the State of Indiana, the better to enable the said State to extend and complete the Wabash and Erie canal from Terre Haute to the Ohio river.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, granted to the State of Indiana, for the purpose of aiding said State in extending and completing the Wabash and Erie canal from Terre Haute, in the county of Vigo, in said State, to the Ohio river, at Evansville, in said State, as the course thereof has been established and surveyed by the authority of said State, one moiety of the public lands, (remaining unsold, and not otherwise disposed of, encumbered or appropriated,) in a strip five miles in width on each side of said canal; to

bama.

Louisiana.

turnable, how.

STATUTE II. March 3, 1845.

Pensions heretofore granted to widows continued.

Proviso.

STATUTE II.

March 3, 1845.

Act of Feb. 27, 1841, ch. 12.

Lands granted on the canal.

Lands reserved.

Chart of the

canal to be reported to Gen'l Land Office.

Lands granted in Vincennes district.

Their selection.

Lands selected to be reported to the register.

Disposal of the lands granted by 1st and 2d sections of this

act.

be selected by an agent or agents to be appointed by the Governor of said State, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States; reserving to the United States each alternate section, (or other proper subdivision of said land,) from one end of said canal to the other; and before the selection, to be made as aforesaid by such agent or agents, shall be deemed to have been made and perfected, a chart or charts, showing the courses and distances and points of termination of said canal, shall be reported, or caused to be reported by the Governor of Indiana, or by some person or persons by him appointed to the Commissioner of the General Land Office.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned, there be, and hereby is, granted to the said State, in addition to the grant hereinbefore provided for, one moiety of all the other lands in the Vincennes land district, in said State, and which remain, as aforesaid, unsold, and not otherwise disposed of, encumbered or appropriated, to be selected under the authority and by the direction of the Governor of said State: Provided, That, in the selection of the lands by this section provided for, no lands shall be comprehended which, in and by the first section of this act, are (in alternate sections or other proper subdivisions) directed to be reserved as aforesaid; and the lands so selected shall be reported, or caused to be reported, by the Governor of said State, to the register of the land office at Vincennes, before such selection shall be deemed to be made and completed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the lands, by the first and second sections of this act granted as aforesaid, shall, after the selections thereof shall have been made and completed as aforesaid, be subject to be disposed of by the General Assembly of said State, for the purpose aforesaid, and no other; and the President shall direct the further sales of the public lands, in the Vincennes land district aforesaid, to be suspended until the Governor of said State shall have caused the district suspend- selections aforesaid to be made and perfected as aforesaid, and shall have notified the Secretary of the Treasury thereof: Provided, That such suspension shall not continue longer than twelve months from and after the passing of this act.

Sale of lands in Vincennes

ed.

U. S. to have

free.

Canal to be completed in 15 years, or land

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said canal when comuse of the canal pleted, shall be and forever remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free from any toll or other charge whatever, for any property of the United States, or persons in their service, passing through or along the same; and shall be completed within fifteen years from and after the passing of this act, or the State shall be holden to pay to the United States the amount of the price or prices for to revert to the which any and all of said land which may have been disposed of by said State may have sold; and such of said lands as may not have been thus disposed of shall, from and after said fifteen years, if said canal should not then have been completed, revert to and again become the property of the United States: Provided always, That it shall not be competent for the said General Assembly to dispose of said lands, or any of them, at a price lower than, for the time being, shall be the minimum price of other public lands.

United States.

Price of the lands limited.

STATUTE II.

APPROVED, March 3, 1845.

March 3, 1845. CHAP. XLIII.—An Act to reduce the rates of postage, to limit the use and correct the abuse of the franking privilege, and for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the Post Office Department.

After 1st July next, members of Congress

may, during recess, receive letters free.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the first day of July next, members of Congress and delegates from Territories, may receive letters, not exceeding two ounces in weight, free of post

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