the register and receiver of the land office at Little Rock sold to him through mistake, and upon which he made valuable improvements, but which lands were subsequently sold and patented by the United States to James Brown, three hundred and twenty acres of the unappropriated and unimproved lands of the United States in the Helena land district in the State of Arkansas. Approved, April 14th, 1842. CHAP. 17.-AN CT for the relief of James H. Relfe. His accounts for expenses incurred order from the settled. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, directed to audit and in executing an settle the account of James H. Relfe, United States marshal War Department for the district of Missouri, for the expenses incurred by him to be audited and in the execution of the order of the twentieth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, from the War Department, by which the marshal of said district was directed to remove certain intruders from the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Missouri; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay to the said Relfe the amount which shall be found due him for such expenses, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not exceeding in amount such expenses not two hundred dollars. Approved, April 14th, 1842. To be paid for exceeding $200. CHAP. 18.-AN ACT for the relief of John S. Billings. His pension increased to $8 per [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pension allowed to John S. Billings, an invalid pensioner, be increased to eight dollars per month, from month. the last day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirtyseven, and to continue during his natural life. Approved, April 14th, 1842. CHAP. 19.-AN ACT to extend the time for selling the lands granted to the incorporated Kentucky Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb. [SEC: 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the further time of five years, from and after An extension o the time heretofore allowed, be, and the same is hereby, allow years allowed. ed and permitted the trustees of the Centre College of Ken located in Arkan tucky, who are also trustees of the Kentucky Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb, to sell the lands heretofore granted said trustees, for the use and benefit of said Asylum, by an act Proviso: the land of Congress heretofore passed: Provided, That if that portion sas to revert to the of the said township of land which has been located in the United States, if State of Arkansas be not sold within two years from the fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the same shall revert to the United States, and be subject to be disposed of by the President of the United States as other public lands, any act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. not sold in 2 years. Approved, April 14th, 1842. District Court at circuit. CHAP. 20.-AN ACT to amend the several acts establishing a district court of the United States at Jackson, in the District of West Tennessee. [SEC. 1.] 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 at JackJackson attached son, in the District of West Tennessee, shall in future be atto the 8th judicial tached to, and form a part of, the eighth judicial circuit of the United States, with all the powers and jurisdiction of the circuit court held at Nashville, in the middle district of Tennessee. And it shall be the duty of the associate justice of the Suof supreme court preme Court of the United States assigned to hold the court for said circuit, to for the eighth circuit to attend the fall term of said court at hold fall term. Jackson, and hold the same; and when he does so, then he Its powers and jurisdiction. Associate justice fall terms at either When he holds may dispense with his attendance at the fall term of the court Jackson or Knox- at Knoxville, in the district of East Tennessee; or when ville, he need not said judge holds the fall term at Knoxville, then he may disattend at the other. pense with holding the corresponding fall term at Jackson. Said judge may Proviso: he may And said circuit judge may elect which court he will hold, at elect which court discretion, in the exercise of which he shall be governed by he will hold. the nature and importance of the business: Provided, Said attend at any time circuit judge may attend at Knoxville and Jackson at any of during the term. their fall term; And provided also, That in the absence of of circuit said circuit judge at any term of either of said courts, the disjudge district judge trict judge shall hold the same, and may exercise all the powers and jurisdiction conferred on the circuit court when held by the circuit judge. Proviso in ab sence shall hold court. Appeals to lie the circuit court. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That appeals shall lie from the district to from the district court at Jackson, to the circuit court, in the same manner that they lie from the district to the circuit court at Nashville. ing fall terms of SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fall terms of Times of hold- the district and circuit courts at Jackson, shall in future be held district and circuit on the second Monday of October in each year; that the fall of Kentucky, and terms of the district and circuit courts of Kentucky be in future courts at Jackson, at Knoxville. held on the third Monday of November in each year; and that the fall terms of the circuit and district courts at Knoxville, be held on the first Monday of November, in each year. Approved, April 14th, 1842. CHAP. 21.-AN ACT to confirm certain entries of lands in the State of ed. Entries of lands [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the entries of the following described tracts of land permitted to be made by the register and receiver at described confirmOuachita, in the land district north of Red river, in the State of Louisiana, to wit: Lot number five, of section thirty-eight, and lots numbers one, two, five, and six, of section forty-five, and lots numbers three, and four, of section forty-five, and lots numbers three, four, and five, of section forty-six, and lots numbers two, three, six, seven, eleven, twelve, thirteen, and fourteen, of section forty-eight, all said lots being in township number thirteen, of range number twelve east, in the said land district north of Red river, in the State of Louisiana, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed and declared to be good and valid; and patents shall issue thereon as in other cases of good and valid entries, and certificates of purchase, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, April 14th, 1842. Patents to be is sued. CHAP. 22.-AN ACT authorizing the construction of a war-steamer for harbor defence. to contract with a war steamer. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted 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 here- Secretary of the by authorized to enter into contract with Robert L. Stevens Navy authorized for the construction of a war steamer, shot and shell proof, to R. L. Stevens for be built principally of iron, upon the plan of the said Stevens · Provided, The whole cost, including the hull, armament, en- Proviso; not to gines, boilers, and equipment in all respects complete for service, cost of the Misshall not exceed the average cost of the steamers Missouri and souri and MissisMississippi. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, towards carrying this law into effect. Approved, April 14th, 1842. exceed the average sippi. CHAP. 23.-AN ACT to establish certain post roads. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following be established as post roads: The post roads From Rome, in Georgia, to Commerce, in the State of Missis- established desig sippi, and also to Memphis in the State of Tennessee, namely, from Rome, through Warrenton, Decatur and Tuscumbia, in nated. Alabama, and Jacinto, in Mississippi, to Ripley, in said State, as a common point, and from said point through Holly Springs and Hernando, to Commerce, and from Ripley through La Grange, in Tennessee, to Memphis, in said State. Approved, April 14th, 1842. allowed pensions CHAP. 24.-AN ACT to provide for the allowance of invalid pensions to certain Cherokee warriors, under the provisions of the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five. [SEC. 1.] 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 hereby is, Certain Chero- required to place on the pension roll such warriors of the Chero kee warriors to be kee Nation, as were engaged on the side of the United States at the same rate in the late war with Great Britain and the Southern Indians, as officers and sol- and who were wounded in such service, at the same rates of pension as are allowed by law to the officers and soldiers of the... regular army of the United States, under such rules and regulations as to the proof of disability as the Secretary of War shall prescribe which pensions shall commence from the period of disability. diers of the regular army. Approved, April 14th, 1842. force for the sale and granting pre CHAP. 25.-AN ACT relative to the act entitled, "An act granting lands to certain exiles from Poland," approved, thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the acts now in force for the sale of the pubThe acts now in lic lands, and granting pre-emption rights to actual settlers, be, of the public lands and the same are hereby, declared to extend to, and include, emption rights to the lands selected in townships forty-four, forty-five, and fortyactual settlers, ex- six, north of the base line, range one east, of the third princilands selected un- pal meridian, lying in the State of Illinois, by Lewis Clopicki, ing lands to Polish under color of the act entitled, "An act granting lands to certain exiles from Poland." The said selections not having been made in pursuance of the provisions of said act, which act is hereby declared to be in full force, for the benefit of said Polish exiles. tended to certain der the act grant exiles. Approved, April 14th, 1842. Time for obtain CHAP. 26-AN ACT for the extension of the loan of eighteen hundred and te forty-one, and for an addition of five millions of dollars thereto; and for al lowing interest on Treasury notes due. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Res ing the loan ex- presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time limited by the first section of the act tended. 1 of Congress, entitled "An act authorizing a loan not exceed- SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, so much of said Loan reimburs- of the Treasury, after six months' notice, or at any time not ex- cates. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the certificates here- Form of certifiafter to be issued for said loan may, when required, be in such form as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury so that the stock may be transferable by delivery of the certificate, Stock, how transinstead of being assignable on the books of the Treasury. ferable. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of Stock to be disthe Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to dispose of the posed of, how. stock hereafter to be issued, or any part thereof, at its par value, but no part thereof shall be disposed of under par until the same has been advertised a reasonable time, and proposals for subscription to said loan invited. And the said Secretary is hereby authorized to accept such proposals, if he deem it for the interest of the United States so to do, as shall offer the highest price for said stock or any part thereof; or to appoint an agent or agents as provided in the third section of the act approved July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-one, before recited, to negotiate the same: Provided, That no stock shall be disposed of at a lower rate than the highest price offered in said proposals. from duties pledg the redemption of SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the moneys arising Moneys arising from duties on goods, wares, and merchandise, which may be ed for the payment imported into the United States, or so much thereof as shall of the interest and be equal to the payment, from time to time, of the interest, and the stock. to the ultimate redemption of the principal of the said stock, be, and the same are hereby, pledged for the payment and redemption of the stock hereafter to be issued under and by virtue of this act and the said act of July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-one, hereby amended; and so much thereof as may be necessary to I ay the interest on said stock, and redeem the same when due, is hereby appropriated to that object, to be first applied by the Secretary of the Treasury to such payments and redemption. made to Congress &c. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Report to be duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to report to Congress, at of the amount of the commencement of the next session, the amount of money money borrowed, borrowed under this act and the act hereby amended, and of whom and upon what terms it shall have been obtained, with an abstract or brief statement of all the proposals submitted for the same, distinguishing between those accepted and those rejected; and a detailed statement of the expense of making such loans. |