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This resolution

to remain in

force 7 years.

found of suitable quality, and can be used beneficially to the service, having regard to the cost, strength, and durability of the article; and for that purpose shall cause purchases of such hemp to be made in the different hemp-growing regions of the Union.

SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That this joint resolution shall be and remain in force for the period of seven years from the passing thereof.

APPROVED, September 11, 1841.

Sept. 11, 1841. No. 6. A Joint Resolution making it the duty of the Attorney General to examine into the titles of the lands or sites for the purpose of erecting thereon armories and other public works and buildings, and for other purposes.

Attorney Gen. to make the examination, and report to the President.

Title-papers to be furnished to the Attorney General.

Public money not to be expended on any site hereafter purchased, until, &c.

District Attor

assistance.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United States to examine into the titles of all the lands or sites which have been purchased by the United States, for the purpose of erecting thereon armories, arsenals, forts, fortifications, navy yards, custom-houses, light-houses, or other public buildings of any kind whatever, and report his opinion as to the validity of the title in each case, to the President of the United States.

2. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of all the officers of the United States having any of the title-papers to the property aforesaid in their possession, to furnish them forthwith to the Attorney General, to aid him in the investigation aforesaid.

3. Resolved, That no public money shall be expended upon any site or land hereafter to be purchased by the United States for the purposes aforesaid, until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of the validity of the title, and also the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the land or site may be shall be given to said purchaser.

4. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the District Attorneys of neys to furnish the United States, upon the application of the Attorney General, to furnish any assistance or information in their power in relation to the titles of the public property aforesaid lying within their respective districts.

Secretaries of the Executive Departments to procure addi

tional evidence.

To apply to the State Legislatures for jurissaid lands, &c.

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5. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Secretaries of the Executive Departments, upon the application of the Attorney General, to procure any additional evidence of title which he may deem necessary, and which may not be in the possession of the officers of Government; the expense of procuring which to be paid out of the appropriations made for the contingencies of the Departments respectively.

6. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Secretaries of the Executive Departments, respectively, under whose direction any lands for the purposes aforesaid may have been purchased, and over which the United States do not possess jurisdiction, to apply to the Legislatures of the States in which the lands are situated, for a cession of jurisdiction, and in case of refusal, to report the same to Congress at the commencement of the next session thereafter.

APPROVED, September 11, 1841.

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of
Washington, in the district of Columbia, on Monday, the 6th day
of December, 1841, and ended the 31st day of August, 1842.

JOHN TYLER, President of the United States. SAMUEL L. SOUTHARD,
President of the Senate, pro tempore. JOHN WHITE, Speaker of the
House of Representatives.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. I. — An Act making appropriations, in part, for the civil department, for Dec. 22, 1841. the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

[Obsolete.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following For Congress. sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz:

For pay and mileage of members of Congress and delegates, four hundred thousand dollars;

For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the sums appropriated for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress, shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them. APPROVED, December 22, 1841.

CHAP. II.-An Act to authorize an issue of Treasury notes. (a) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause Treasury notes to be issued for such sum or sums as the exigencies of the Government may require, and in place of such of the same as may be redeemed to cause others to be issued, but not exceeding the sum of five millions of dollars of this emission outstanding at any one time, and to be issued under the limitations and other provisions contained in the act entitled "An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes," approved the twelfth of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, except that the authority hereby given to issue Treasury notes shall expire at the end of one year from the passage of this act. APPROVED, January 31, 1842.

Pay and mileage.

Officers and

clerks.

Expenses of

Senate.

Expenses of H. of Reps.

Proviso.

STATUTE II.

Jan. 31, 1842. [Obsolete.] An emission of not exceeding any one time $5,000,000 at outstanding, authorized. To be issued under the provisions of the act of 12th October

1837, ch. 2.

(a) See notes of the acts which have been passed relative to the issuing and reimbursement of treasury notes, vol. 2, 766.

2 P

(469)

STATUTE II.

Feb. 12, 1842.
Obsolete.]

CHAP. III.—An Act making an appropriation for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Appropriation. States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteen thousand 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 in foreign countries; 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 twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and three.

To be expend ed according to the act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 9.

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March 4, 1842.

Said lands to

be added to the Huntsville and

APPROVED, February 12, 1842.

CHAP. IV.—An Act making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.

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, to wit:

For revolutionary pensions, under the act of the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, in addition to a probable balance at the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of one hundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars, eighty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars.

For invalid pensions, under various acts, two hundred thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For pensions to widows and orphans, per act of the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in addition to a probable balance at the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of thirty-thousand dollars, two hundred forty-two thousand two hundred and forty dollars.

For five years pensions to widows, per act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, two hundred thousand dollars.

APPROVED, February 12, 1842.

CHAP. V. — An Act to provide for the early disposition of the lands lying in the State of Alabama, acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of twentyninth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of the territory acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of New Coosa districts. Echota of twenty-ninth December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, within the State of Alabama, which lies west of the line dividing ranges two and three east of the basis meridian of Huntsville, shall be added to and form a part of said district; and all the territory acquired by the said treaty within the said State not attached to the Huntsville district, as above described, shall be annexed to and form a part of the Coosa land district, in said State.

Land office for the Coosa dist. to be removed.

STATUTE II.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land office for the Coosa land district, at present located at Mardisville, shall be removed to Lebanon in the county of De Kalb.

APPROVED, March 4, 1842.

March 19, 1842. CHAP. VI.-An Act to authorize the Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to hold a special session of the said court.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Judge of the Dis

authorized.

trict Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania be, and he is hereby, Special session authorized to hold a special session of the said court at a time to be by him designated, in lieu of the regular session which was appointed by law to be begun and held on the third Monday of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, but was prevented by a vacancy in the office of district judge; and the marshal, clerk, and all other officers of the said court are hereby enjoined and required to make all needful arrangements for carrying into effect the provisions of this act. APPROVED, March 19, 1842.

CHAP. VII. — An Act supplementary to an act entitled "An act to amend the act
approved May thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred, entitled An act to amend
an act entitled an act to establish the judicial courts of the United States."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the judges of
the courts of the United States in the State of Pennsylvania be, and
they hereby are, authorized to appoint, when they deem it necessary,
one or more commissioners in the different cities and counties, or any
of them, of the districts in which their courts are held, who shall have
power, by virtue of such appointment, to select from the taxable citizens
residing within the limits of the said counties and cities, a number (to
be designated from time to time by the said judges) of sober, judicious,
and intelligent persons, to serve as jurors in the said courts; and the
commissioners so appointed shall return the names by them selected to
the marshal of the proper district; whereupon, the said courts shall, by
due appointments, rules and regulations, conform the further designa-
tion and the empannelling of juries in substance to the laws and usages
which may be in force in such State.
APPROVED, March 19, 1842.

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CHAP. VIII.-An Act to authorize the Governors of the States of Illinois, Arkansas March 19, 1842. and Missouri to cause to be selected the lands therein mentioned.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the eighth section of the act entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emptions," approved September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, as provides that the selections of the grants of land made to the several States, therein mentioned, for the purposes of internal improvement, shall be made, respectively, in such manner as the Legislatures thereof shall direct, is so far modified as to authorize the Governors of the States of Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri to cause the selections to be made for those States without the necessity of convening the Legislatures thereof for that purpose. APPROVED, March 19, 1842.

The 8th sec. of act 4th Sept. 1841, ch. 16.

modified.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. XX.—An Act to amend the several acts establishing a district court of the April 14, 1812. United States at Jackson, in the District of West Tennessee. (a)

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 Jackson, in the District of West Tennessee, shall in future be attached 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 TennesAnd it shall be the duty of the associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States assigned to hold the court for the eighth cir

see.

(a) Acts relating to the District Courts in Tennessee, vol. 2, 273.

Dist. Court at Jackson attach

ed to the 8th judicial circuit."

Its powers and jurisdiction. Associate justice of supreme circuit, to hold fall term.

court for said

Proviso.
Proviso.

Appeals to lie from the district

to the circuit court.

Times of hold

ing fall terms

at Jackson and

Knoxville.

District and

cuit to attend the fall term of said court at Jackson, and hold the same; and when he does so, then he may dispense with his attendance at the fall term of the court at Knoxville, in the district of East Tennessee; or when said judge holds the fall term at Knoxville, then he may dispense with holding the corresponding fall term at Jackson. And said circuit judge may elect which court he will hold, at discretion, in the exercise of which he shall be governed by the nature and importance of the business: Provided, Said circuit judge may attend at Knoxville and Jackson at any of their fall terms; And provided also, That in the absence of said circuit judge at any term of either of said courts, the district judge shall hold the same, and may exercise all the powers and jurisdiction conferred on the circuit court when held by the circuit judge. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That appeals shall lie 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.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fall terms of the district and circuit courts at Jackson, shall in future be held on the second Monday of October in each year; that the fall terms of the district and circuit courts of Kentucky be in future held on the third Monday of circuit courts of November in each year; and that the fall terms of the circuit and disKentucky. trict courts at Knoxville, be held on the first Monday of November, in each year.

Vol. 3, 742.

STATUTE II.

APPROVED, April 14, 1842.

April 14, 1842. CHAP. XXI.—An Act to confirm certain entries of lands in the State of Louisiana, and to authorize the issuing of patents for the same.

described con

firmed.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Entries of lands 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 Ouachita, 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.

Patents to be issued.

STATUTE II. April 14, 1842.

Sec. Navy authorized to contract with R. L.

Stevens for a war steamer. Proviso.

APPROVED, April 14, 1842.

CHAP. XXII.—An Act authorizing the construction of a war-steamer for harbor defence.

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 hereby authorized to enter into contract with Robert L. Stevens for the construction of a war-steamer, shot and shell proof, to be built principally of iron, upon the plan of the said Stevens: Provided, The whole cost, including the hull, armament, engines, boilers, and equipment in all respects complete for service, shall not exceed the average cost of the steamers Missouri and Mississippi.

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 14, 1842.

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