the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the navy pensions, which will become due on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

lids.

To pay the invalids now on the rolls, (and those who may be added Pay of invaduring the first half year of one thousand eight hundred and forty-three,) on the said first day of July, twenty thousand dollars; and on the [said] first day of January, twenty thousand dollars.

To pay widows' pensions under the act of June thirty, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, (including not only those who are now on the rolls, but those who may be added for the first half year of one thousand eight hundred and forty-three,) on the said first day of July, three thousand dollars; and on the said first day of January, three thousand dollars.

To pay the claims of widows and orphans, under the act of March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, on the said first day of July, eight thousand dollars; and on the said first day of January, eight thousand dollars.

APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

Widows' pen

sions under act

of June 30, 1834, ch. 134.

Claims of widows and or

phans under the act of March 3,

1837.

STATUTE III.

CHAP. LXXVII.—An Act to set aside certain reservations of lands, on account of March 3, 1843. live oak in the southeastern district of Louisiana.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the reservations made by the United States in eighteen hundred and thirty-two, of lands situate in township thirteen, range twelve east; township fourteen, ranges twelve and thirteen east; township fifteen, range thirteen east; township sixteen, range sixteen east; and township seventeen, range sixteen east, in the southeastern district of Louisiana, on account of the live oak supposed to grow thereon, be set aside and annulled; and that any persons entitled to pre-emption under the existing laws, within the limits of the said townships, be admitted to make their proofs and complete their titles, in the same manner as if the reservations for live oak had not been made.

APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

CHAP. LXXVIII.—An act authorizing the sale of lands, with the improvements thereon erected by the United States, for the use of their agents, teachers, farmers, mechanics, and other persons employed amongst the Indians.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be sold all such dwellinghouses, churches, school-houses, workshops, and other buildings belonging to the United States, as have been, or hereafter shall be, erected for the use of their agents, teachers, farmers, mechanics, and other persons employed amongst the Indians, when the lands on which the same are erected shall have become the property of the United States, and are no longer necessary for the purposes aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be sold, at his discretion, with each of such buildings mentioned in the preceding section of this act, a quantity of land not exceeding one section; and on the payment of the consideration agreed for, into the treasury of the United States by the purchaser, the said Secretary shall make, execute, and deliver, to the said purchaser, a title in fee simple for such lands and tenements. APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

Act of March 2, 1833, ch. 67, sec. 3. Certain reservations of lands

for live oak set

aside.

Right of preemption to said lands admitted.

STATUTE III.

March 3, 1843.

Sale of build

ings erected by U. S. for their among Indians, agents, &c. authorized.

Sale of land authorized with each building.

STATUTE III.

March 3, 1843. CHAP. LXXIX.—An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act to extend the collection district of Wiscasset."

Act of 31st Aug. 1842, ch. 281, repealed.

STATUTE III.

March 3, 1843. [Obsolete.]

Appropriations.

Fulfilment of

Indian treaties.

Holding treaty with the Sioux.

Removal of the

New York Indians, &c.

Current expen

ses of the Indian Department.

Subsistence of Choctaw claimants and their witnesses.

1842, ch. 187.

Removal of the Choctaws.

Chippewa treaty.

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 extend the collection district of Wiscasset," passed August thirtyfirst, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

CHAP. LXXX.-An Act making appropriations for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, for the half calendar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, and for other purposes.

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 they are hereby, appropriated, for the half calendar year beginning on the first day of January, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, for the purpose of fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:

For the fulfilment of the treaties with various Indian tribes, for the said half calendar year, seven hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and eight dollars; and for the said fiscal year seven hundred and forty-nine thousand and sixty-five dollars.

For the payment of three drafts, drawn on the department by Governor Doty, for goods, provisions, and presents, procured and delivered by him to the Sioux Indians, while holding the treaty with them in one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and which treaty was rejected by the Senate, at its late session, for said half calendar year, thirteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty-nine cents.

For the removal to the west of the Mississippi, of two hundred and fifty of the New York Indians of the Seneca, Cayuga, and Onondaga tribes, and for fulfilling other treaty stipulations with them: Provided, That so many are willing to emigrate, for the said half calendar year, twenty thousand four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents. For current expenses of the Indian Department, for the said half calendar year, fifty-three thousand five hundred dollars, and including four hundred and fifty dollars paid by order of General Z. Taylor, for two white boys ransomed from the Camanche Indians; and for the said fiscal year, ninety-three thousand three hundred dollars.

For subsistence of the Choctaw claimants and their Indian witnesses during their attendance at the sittings of the commissioners appointed under the "Act to provide for the satisfaction of claims arising under the fourteenth and nineteenth articles of the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek, concluded in September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the removal of the Choctaws to the west of the Mississippi, sixtyseven thousand four hundred and ninety dollars.

For carrying into effect the treaty with the Chippewa Indians, concluded October fourth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, fiftyone thousand dollars.

Sac and Fox

For carrying into effect the treaty with the Sac and Fox Indians, concluded October eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, two treaty. hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-four cents.

with the Kan

zas, &c.

For defraying the expenses of a negotiation with the Kanzas Indians, Negotiation or other tribes on the waters of the Missouri river, for the purpose of obtaining a tract of land for the permanent and perpetual residence of the Sacs and Foxes, as stipulated in the second article of the treaty ratified February fifteenth eighteen hundred and forty-three, fifteen hundred dollars. And the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to pay out of the fund appropriated for "blacksmith's establishments," &c., by the act of the third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, the accounts due for blacksmith's work performed in pursuance of the treaty with the Six Nations, the sum of three thousand eight hundred and seventythree dollars and seven cents.

Blacksmiths' work under

treaty with the Six Nations.

1839, ch. 71.

Contracts with

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, to satisfy contracts entered into in the month of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, the Creeks. by Major General Thomas S. Jesup, then commanding the army in Alabama, with the Creek tribe of Indians, the sum of twelve thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated, to be paid under the instructions of the Secretary of War to the Creek chiefs, Hopoethle Yoholo, Little Doctor, Mad Blue, Tuckebatchee Micco, Jim Boy, and Salka Hadjo, for the benefit of the said chiefs, and that portion of their subchiefs and warriors who served in Florida.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of settling and closing the accounts of disbursing agents in the Indian department, which were unsettled on the first day of January last, the President of the United States is hereby authorized to direct transfers to be made from such balances of moneys heretofore appropriated to carry into effect certain Indian treaties, or for any other object of expenditure connected with Indian relations, as may be no longer required for the several objects for which they were originally made, to the credit of any other head of Indian expenditure, under which balances accruing previous to the above date, remain due: Provided, That no such transfer shall be made unless it satisfactorily appear that the balances from which such transfers are authorized to be made are not necessary for the specific purpose of their original appropriation.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of settling and closing the accounts in the office of the Second Comptroller, for the expenditure of sums appropriated by an act approved June twelfth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled "An act making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for arrearages for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven," and also by an act approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled "An act making appropriations for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for the year eigh teen hundred and thirty-nine," the President of the United States is hereby authorized to direct transfers to be made from any balances remaining under any of the specific heads of appropriation in said acts, which are not necessary for the purposes of their original appropriation, to any other head of appropriation contained in said acts, under which a deficiency may exist.

APPROVED, March 3, 1943.

Settling acc'ts of disbursing agents in Indian Department.

Settling acc'ts in 2d Comptrolexpenditure of appropriations for preventing Ind'n hostilities. Act of June 12, 1838, ch. 97. 3, 1839, ch. 93.

ler's office for

and suppressing

Act of March

3 B

STATUTE III.

March 3, 1843. CHAP. LXXXI.—An Act authorizing the reissue of treasury notes and for other purposes. (a)

[Obsolete.] Act of Aug 31, 1842, ch. 287. Reissue of treasury notes authorized.

Payment of

sury notes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when any outstanding treasury notes, issued in pursuance of the act of thirty-first August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, entitled "An act to limit the sale of public stock to par, and to authorize the issue of treasury notes, in lieu thereof, to a certain amount," or any previous act of Congress, shall, after the passage of this act, he redeemed at any time before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fortyfour, the Secretary of the Treasury, should the wants of the public service require, may cause other notes, to the same amount, to be issued in place of such as may be redeemed, under the limitations and other provisions of the respective acts by which said notes were originally authorized and issued.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, after maturity of the treainterest on treasury notes issued under the said act of thirty-first August, or of this act, interest may be paid thereon, in the same manner as on treasury notes authorized previous to the fifteenth April last, under the ninth section of the act approved on that day, entitled "An act for the extension of the loan of one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and for an addition of five millions of dollars thereto, and for allowing interest on treasury notes due."

1842, ch. 26.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of issuing the treasury notes in the manner authorized by the first section of this act, the President, if in his opinion it shall be for the interest of the United States so to do, may cause any of said notes now outstanding, to be redeemed and cancelled as they become due, if the Secretary of the Treasury cannot redeem them out of the funds in the treasury, by an issue of stock of the United States, for the amount thus redeemed, in the same form, for the same time, and under the same restrictions, limitations, and provisions, as are contained in an act approved April fifteen, eighteen hundred and forty-two, entitled "An act for the extension of the loan of eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for an addition of five million of dollars thereto, and for allowing interest on treasury notes due," except that no commissions shall be allowed or paid for the negotiation of such business; and except also that said stock so to be issued, shall be redeemable at a period not longer than ten years from the issue thereof.

APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

CHAP. LXXXII.

-An Act to repeal the bankrupt act. 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 establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved on the nineteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-one, be, and the same hereby is, repealed: Provided, That this act shall not affect any case or proceeding in bankruptcy commenced before the passage of this act, or any pains, penalties, or forfeitures, incurred under the said act; but every such proceeding may be continued to its final consummation in like manner as if this act had not been passed.

APPROVED, March 3, 1843.

(a) Notes of the acts which have been passed authorizing the issuing of treasury notes, vol. 2, 766.

STATUTE III.

CHAP. LXXXIII.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the March 3, 1843 half calendar year beginning the first day of January and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Appropriasums be, and are hereby, appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for the naval service for the half calendar year beginning on the first day of January and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and for the fiscal year beginning on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fortythree, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.

For pay of commission, warrant, and petty officers and seamen, including the engineer corps of the navy, for the said half calendar year, one million four hundred and ninety-six thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty cents; and for the said fiscal year, two million seven hundred and fifteen thousand eight hundred and eight dollars. For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments of the several yards, for the said half calendar year, thirtysix thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars; and for the said fiscal year, seventy-three thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For provisions for the navy, including transportation, cooperage, and other expenses, for the said half calendar year, three hundred and sixtytwo thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; and for the said fiscal year, six hundred and twenty-three thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars.

tions.

Pay of officers cluding engi neers.

and seamen, in

Pay of super

intendents, &c.

at yards.

Provisions.

For clothing for the navy, including transportation and every other Clothing. expense, to be reimbursed out of the sales of the clothing for the said half calendar year, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

Surgeons' necessaries, &c.

For surgeons' necessaries, and appliances for the sick and hurt of the naval service, including the marine corps, for the said half calendar year, fifty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, and for the said fiscal year, forty-two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars, and for arrearages of preceding years, under this head, fifty thousand dollars. For the increase, repair, armament, and equipment of the navy, and Repairs, &c. wear and tear of vessels in commission, for the said half calendar year, five hundred thousand dollars; and for the said fiscal year, one million dollars.

For the support of Africans recaptured on the coast of Africa or elsewhere, and returned to Africa by the armed vessels of the United States, five thousand dollars.

year,

For improvements and necessary repairs of the navy-yards, namely: For Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the said half calendar fifteen thousand five hundred and ten dollars and forty cents; and for the said fiscal year, twenty-four thousand nine hundred dollars and seventy-six cents;

Recaptured Africans.

Navy yards at Portsmouth.

For Charlestown, Massachusetts, for the said half calendar year, Charlestown. twenty thousand nine hundred and ninety-two dollars and seventy-cents; and for the said fiscal year, thirty-four thousand three hundred and

seventy-nine dollars;

For Brooklyn, New York, for the said half calendar year, sixteen Brooklyn. thousand dollars; and for the said fiscal year, twenty-five thousand four hundred dollars: And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to cause an examination to be made of the expediency, practicability and probable expense of constructing a dry-dock in the harbor of New York upon the plan of using as an elevating power, the water of the