44 New York, on the invalid pension roll, and that he be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month during his natural life, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty: Approved, August 16th, 1842. a bond, in which CHAP. 173.—AN ACT for the relief of the heirs and representatives of Thomas Atkinson, deceased. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the United States of America in Congress Released from assembled, That the heirs and legal representatives of the late the balance due on Thomas Atkinson, of Crawford county, in the State of PennT. Atkinson was sylvania, be, and they hereby are, released and discharged from one of the sureties, the balance due on the bond of the United States, in which the and from the judgment obtained said Thomas Atkinson was one of the sureties for Richard Bean, thereon, a collector of direct tax and internal duties of the United States, for the twenty-third Pennsylvania collection district, and from the judgment obtained by the United States thereon against the executors of the said Thomas Atkinson. Approved, August 16th, 1842. penses incurred by the Bank in receiving and sales of lands in cession, to be as to an amount not CHAP. 174.—AN ACT for the relief of the president, directors, and company of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Necessary ex- assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Agricultural Department be, and they are hereby, directed to ascertain what transmitting necessary expenses were incurred by the Agricultural Bank of the proceeds of the the State of Mississippi, in receiving the proceeds of the sales of the Chickasaw lands in the Chickasaw cession, in the States of Mississippi and certained, and cre- Alabama, and transmitting the same from Pontotoc, the place dit given therefor, at which they were received, to the said bank at Natchez, or to exceeding the in such points as were from time to time designated by the Secre due from said tary of the Treasury, under the authority given to the United States, in the last clause of the eleventh article of the treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw Indians, made on the twenty-fourth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four; and that a credit be allowed upon the debt now due from said bank, on account of the money thus received, for the amount which may be ascertained to have been thus expended, provided the said credit shall not exceed the interest due the United States on said debt. terest on the debt bank. Approved, August 16th, 1842. CHAP. 175.-AN ACT for the relief of Joseph F. Caldwell. to be audited and ed. Rate of compen [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Auditor of the Post Office Department be His accounts, for directed to audit and settle the accounts of J. F. Caldwell, for carrying the mail, carrying the mail from Lewisburg to Salt, White Sulphur, and settled. Sweet Springs, under his contract with the Department, dated in October, eighteen hundred and thirty; and for carrying the mail from Salt Sulphur Springs, by Red Sulphur Springs, Peterstown, Giles' Court-house, and Poplar Hill, to Newbern and back, under his contract with the Department of November twentieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two; and that in such settlement he allow to said Caldwell the rate of compensation sation to be allow stipulated for in his contracts with the Department for carrying the mail over said routes during the time specified, if in the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States, (which opinion the said Auditor shall first require of the said Attorney General,) the Postmaster General had not the right, under the terms of these contracts, to make the alterations in the mode of transporting said mails, which were ordered by the Department on the fourteenth November, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. And the proper officers shall thereupon pay to the said Caldwell whatever sum shall, upon such settlement of his accounts, appear to be justly due him, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 16th, 1842. Amount due to be paid. CHAP. 176.—AN ACT to compensate the township of Dublin, in Mercer county, Ohio, for the loss of school lands. Serip to be is tees of Dublin lands. for the of school [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 Treasury be, and he here- sued to the trus by is, authorized to issue to the trustees of Dublin township, township Mercer county, in the State of Ohio, land scrip to the amount loss of three hundred and eleven dollars and eight cents, in consideration of that part of section number sixteen reserved for the use of schools in said township, which, previous to the survey of said township, had been granted by Congress to Anthony Shane; and to the further amount of four hundred and twentysix dollars and sixty-two cents, in consideration of another part of said section number sixteen, which in like manner had been granted to Louis Godfroy, and of which parts of said section sixteen the said Shane and Godfroy, their heirs and assigns, have possession under the grants aforesaid, to the exclusion of the right to the said township therein; which said scrip shall be Scrip, how to be issued in the form and manner heretofore prescribed for the issued." granting of scrip for bounty land, and shall be of like effect in ship accept the tion of said lands, and cause a re lease to be execut ed therefor. Proviso: inhabi- the hands of the legal holder: Provided, however, That, before tants of said town- the issue and delivery of said scrip, the inhabitants of said townsame in satisfac- ship, at a legal meeting called for that purpose, shall vote to accept of the same in full satisfaction of their right and claim to the lands so granted, and in full compensation therefor, and shall authorize and cause to be executed to the United States, and filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and to his approval, a good and sufficient deed of quit claim, in release, in law and equity, of all claim, right, title, and interest in and to all those parts of said section sixteen, in said township, which are included in and conveyed by the grants aforesaid to said Anthony Shane and Louis Godfroy: And provided, furProviso describe ther, That if so ordered by said inhabitants, at such meeting, ing the deed ne- the execution and acknowledgment of such deed or conveyance, by a majority of said trustees, according to the laws of Ohio, shall be deemed and held a sufficient execution and acknowledgment thereof by said inhabitants. cessary. The scrip, or the chased therewith, use of schools. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the scrip so issued pur- and delivered by the said Secretary of the Treasury to said to be applied to the township of Dublin, or the lands or other things purchased therewith, shall be held and applied by said township to the use of schools, and to no other object or purpose, in the same manner as the said section sixteen, or the proceeds of the sales, or the rents and profits thereof, would be held and applied, had the said land not been granted to said Shane and Godfroy, but had been held and enjoyed as school lands, to the use of said township, by virtue of the original reservation therefor. Approved, August 16th, 1842. CHAP. 177.-AN ACT explanatory of an act entitled "An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district." [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Construction of assembled, That the first section of the act entitled "An act to the 1st section of constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic river, and Pawcatuck the act. . Said act to take river, a collection district," shall be construed in the same manner it would have been had the words " from and after the thirtieth day of Jnne next" been wholly omitted in said section. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid act, ffect from and as entitled "An act to constitute the ports of Stonington, Mystic August, river, and Pawcatuck river, a collection district," approved August third, eighteen hundred and forty-two, shall take effect in all its provisions, and be in force as hereby explained, from and after the said third day of August, eighteen hundred and forty er 3d 842. two. Approved, August 16th, 1842. CHAP. 178.—AN ACT authorizing the settlement and payment of certain claims of the State of Alabama. Secretary of War Alabama, how. [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 hereby is, directed to audit and adjust the claims of the State of Alabama, to audit and adunder such laws and regulations as have heretofore governed just the claims of the Department in auditing and allowing the claims of the States on the United States, for moneys advanced and paid by said State for subsistence, supplies, and services of local troops called into service by and under the authorities of said State, but not mustered into the service of the United States, and for provisions and forage furnished the friendly Indians during the Creek and Seminole hostilities, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-six and eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in all cases in which the payment was for subsistence, supplies, service, provisions, and forage, which would have been paid for under existing laws and regulations, if such troops had been been mustered into the service of the United States, and the provisions and forage had been furnished by an agent of the United States; and that the sum so found due to said State be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- to be paid. priated: Provided, That, in auditing and adjusting said claims, Proviso: authenduly authenticated copies of papers which have been lost or ticated copies of destroyed, upon due proof of such loss or destruction, shall be ted, on proof of received as evidence. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, required to report to the House of Representatives a schedule of such claims as may be presented for adjustment under this act, and not allowed, with the reasons for such disallowance, at the next session of Congress. Approved, August 16th, 1842. Sum found due lost papers, admit such loss. Report on claims presented, and not made to the House allowed, to be of Representa. tives. CHAP. 179.—AN ACT tɔ change the name of the port of entry on Lake Erie, known as Portland, to that of Sandusky. [SEC. 1.] 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 October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, ber, 1842, Portland the port of Portland on Lake Erie, in the district of Sandusky, dusky. in the State of Ohio, shall be called the port of Sandusky. Approved, August 16th, 1842. After 1st Octoto be called San CHAP. 180.-AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act supplementary to the act entitled 'An act to amend the judicial system of the United States.'" [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress What districts assembled, That the fourth circuit shall be composed of the dis shall compose the tricts of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia; 4th, 5th, and 6th circuits. Times of holding The fifth circuit shall be composed of the districts of Alabama and Louisiana; The sixth circuit shall be composed of the districts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The circuit courts in the district of Virginia shall be holden at circuit courts in Richmond on the first Monday in May and on the fourth MonVirginia, and day in November. North Carolina. Act to take ef next. The circuit courts in the district of North Carolina shall be holden on the fourth Monday of May and second Monday in December. This act shall not take effect until the first day of February, fect 1st February next, before which time the justices of the Supreme Court of Justices of the the United States, or a majority of them, shall allot the several Supreme Court to districts among the Justices of the said Court. allot the districts. Processes, &c., times of holding the courts. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the time of returnable at the holding any court, by this act has been changed, all processes, proceedings, and causes shall be returned and held to be continued to the said courts, at the times herein provided for their meeting, respectively. Approved, August 16th, 1842. Changes in the tems of other na CHAP. 181.-AN ACT requiring foreign regulations of commerce to be laid annually before Congress. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State commercial sys- to lay before Congress, annually, at the commencement of its tions to be com- session, in a compendious form, all such changes and modifications in the commercial systems of other nations, whether by treaties, duties on imports and exports, or other regulations, as shall have come to the knowledge of the Department. municated. Approved, August 16th, 1842. CHAP. 182.-AN ACT to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the "Dubuque claim" so called, in the Territory of Iowa. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re. presentatives of the United States of America in Congress Certain lands re-assembled, That the lands lying in the county of Dubuque, in the baque claim, de- Territory of Iowa, heretofore reserved for the Dubuque claim, so called, which have not been sold by the United States, by vir served for the Du clared to be public lands. |
