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goods or merchandise imported into the United States, and exported
from said port of Lafayette, under the regulations aforesaid, shall be
entitled to the benefit of drawback of the duties, upon exportation to
any foreign port or place, under the same provisions, regulations, restric-
tions, and limitations, as if the said goods, wares, and merchandise had
been exported directly from New Orleans.
APPROVED, June 12, 1844.

Goods, &c. entitled to

drawback.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. XLVII.-An Act relating to the unlading of foreign merchandise on the June 12, 1844. right bank of the river Mississippi, opposite New Orleans.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, to permit salt imported from foreign places to be unladen on the right bank of the river Mississippi opposite the city of New Orleans, at any point on said right bank between the upper and lower corporate limits of the municipalities of said city. APPROVED, June 12, 1844.

CHAP. XLIX.—An Act for repairing the roof of the court-house in Alexandria. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for covering the roof of the United States court-house in Alexandria, District of Columbia, with tin; and that the same shall be expended, or so much of it as may be necessary, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Buildings, who is authorized to contract for the same.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioner of the Public Buildings is hereby authorized and instructed to dispose of the zinc with which the court-house in Alexandria is at present covered; and to use the proceeds in part payment of the new covering. APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

Salt from fo

reign ports may the right bank of the Mississippi, opposite New Orleans.

be unladen on

STATUTE I. June 15, 1844.

Appropriation roof of the court for covering the house with tin.

The zinc at

present on it to be disposed of.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. L. — An Act granting a section of land for the improvement of Grant river June 15, 1844. at the town of Potosi, in Wisconsin Territory.

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 Territory of Wisconsin, section number thirtyfour, in township number three north, in range number three west, of the fourth principal meridian in the said Territory, for the purpose of improving Grant river, known as the Grant Slue, at the town of Potosi, in the said Territory, and for no other use or purpose whatever: and the said land shall be surveyed, and divided into lots, and shall be sold and disposed of in such manner, and under such regulations and restrictions, as the Legislature of the said Territory shall establish: Provided, That in disposing of the same, pre-emption rights shall be granted to actual settlers and occupants residing on said lots, at the time of the passage of this act, according to the provisions and restrictions in the next section provided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Surveyor General of Wisconsin and Iowa, shall appoint three disinterested commissioners, whose duty it shall be to view and examine all the lots which are actually occupied and improved, and assess the true value of said lots, without taking into the estimation, any of the improvements on the same; and the occupants of said lots, by paying, within one year from the passage

One section of land granted to be divided into

lots and disposed of.

Proviso.

Commission

ers to be appointed to value occupied lots,

&c.

Proviso.

Further proviso.

Proviso.

STATUTE I.

June 15, 1844.

tion districts

abolished, and annexed to other districts.

Proviso.

of this act, the assessed value as aforesaid of their respective lots, shall be entitled to the right of pre-emption as aforesaid; and upon the failure of any, or all said occupants to do so, the said lot or lots to the extent of such failure, shall be sold as other lots in said town: Provided, That the said occupants may at any time before said lots are sold, pay the assessed value and thereby save their right of pre-emption aforesaid: And provided further, That the said commissioners aforesaid shall, before they enter upon their duties as such, be sworn faithfully to discharge their duties according to the provisions of this act; and they shall receive a compensation for their services to be prescribed by the Legislature of said Territory: Provided, That the whole compensation to said commissioners shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars.

APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

CHAP. LI.—An Act relating to certain collection districts, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Certain collec- United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, the districts of Ipswich, Massachusetts, St. Mary's, and Snow Hill, Maryland, Folly Landing and East River, Virginia, and Sunbury, Hardwick, and Brunswick, Georgia, shall be and hereby are, abolished as separate collection districts, and shall hereafter be annexed to other districts, as follows, that is to say: Ipswich, to the district of Newburyport; St. Mary's, Maryland, to Annapolis; Snow Hill, to Vienna; Folly Landing, to Cherrystone; East River, to Yorktown; Sunbury and Hardwick to Savannah; and Brunswick, to St. Mary's, Georgia: Provided, That the following places shall be, and are hereby, constituted ports of delivery, at each or any of which the President of the United States is authorized (if deemed necessary for the public interests) to appoint surveyors of the customs, to wit: At Ipswich, Massachusetts; St. Mary's and Snow Hill, Maryland; Sunbury, Hardwick, and Brunswick, Georgia; at or near Folly Landing, East River, Virginia: And provided, That the following mentioned ports of delivery are hereby discontinued, and the office of surveyor established at said ports, respectively, is hereby abolished, to wit: Chester and Nanjemoy, Maryland; South Quay, Virginia; Hertford, Murfreesborough, and Swansborough, North Carolina: And provided, also, That the office of assistant collector, to reside at the town of Jersey, in the State of New Jersey, authorized by the act approved March two, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, is hereby abolished.

Proviso.

Proviso.

1811, ch. 33. Shieldsbo

rough, Miss., to be a port of entry, and Pearlington not.

Proviso.

To be called the district of New Orleans.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, the town of Shieldsborough, on the bay of St. Louis, in the State of Mississippi, shall be the port of entry for the district of Pearl River, and the collector of said district shall reside at said Shieldsborough; and the present port of entry at Pearlington, in said district, shall cease to be the port of entry: Provided, That Pearlington for said district, shall be, and hereby is, constituted a port of delivery.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the name of the district hereinafter mentioned shall be changed, and bear the following name, that is to say, Mississippi to be called the district of New Orleans. APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. LII.—An Act to establish a navy yard and depot at or adjacent to the city June 15, 1844. of Memphis, on the Mississippi river, in the State of Tennessee. (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 be, and he is hereby, authorized to select and purchase a site for a navy yard and depot at the city of Memphis, in the State of Tennessee, and to erect such buildings and make such improvements thereon as may be necessary for the construction and repair, and for the accommodation and supply, of vessels of war of the United States; and that the President be authorized and empowered to purchase any water rights which may be required to propel the machinery appertaining to said navy yard, or which may be useful in the operations of said navy yard; and that he be further empowered to receive any donations of lands, water rights, or rights of way, which the authorities of the city of Memphis, or any other body corporate, or any person or persons, may deem proper to make or grant to the Government of the United States; and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be appropriated to the objects aforesaid, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

CHAP. LIII. - -An Act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen and marines of the United States schooner Grampus, and for other pur

poses.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of fixing the time at which shall commence the pensions, under the existing laws, of the widows of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were lost in the United States schooner Grampus, as well as the time to which the pay of said officers, seamen, and marines, shall be allowed, the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, shall be deemed and taken to be the day on which the said schooner Grampus foundered at sea; and that, for the like purposes, the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, shall be deemed and taken to be the day on which the United States schooner Sea Gull was lost in like manner.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any of the said officers, seamen, or marines, shall have left no widow, or having left a widow she shall have died before the passage of this act, and there shall be living at the date of the passage of this act, a child or children of said officers, seamen, or marines, under sixteen years of age, such child or children shall be entitled to the same pension to which the widow, had there been one as aforesaid, would have been entitled, for the like period of five years; but in case of the death or intermarriage of the widow before the expiration of the said term of five years, the said pension for the remainder of the said term, shall go to the child or children of the said deceased officer, seamen, or marine: Provided, That such pension shall cease upon the death of such child or children.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and hereby are, authorized and directed to settle the accounts of James S. Thacher, late purser in the navy, who was lost in said schooner Grampus, with all his accounts, and vouchers for expenditures and payments made by him, and with all the money,

President to select and pur

chase a site, erect buildings,

&c.

Appropriation.

STATUTE I.

June 15, 1844.

For fixing time of pensions, &c.

March 20,

sidered the day the Grampus foundered; and May 1, 1839, as the day on which the Sea

1843, to be con

Gull was lost.

If there is no

widow, but chil

dren under 16, they are to have the pension.

n case of death or marriage of widow, pension to go to children.

Proviso.

J.S.Thacher's

accounts to be settled, &c.

(a) An act authorizing an examination and survey of the harbor of Memphis, in Tennessee; March 3, 1843, chap. 93.

A resolution to suspend a part of the third section of the joint resolution of 11th Sept. 1841. relating to armories; Feb. 13, 1845.

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stores and supplies procured for the use of said vessel, and to allow him a credit for whatever sum appears to be due from him on the books of the department.

APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

CHAP. LIV.-An Act to repeal an act entitled "An act directing the survey of the northern line of the reservation for the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox tribes of Indians, by the treaty of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four,” approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.

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 directing the survey of the northern line of the reservation for the half-breeds of the Sac and Fox tribes of Indians, by the treaty of August, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four," approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the northern line of said reservation, as run and marked by Jenifer S. Sprigg, in the years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two and one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, under contract with William Clark, superintendent of Indian affairs, be, and the same is hereby, ratified, approved, and estab lished, as the correct northern boundary of said reservation. APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

June 15, 1844. CHAP. LV.-An Act to authorize the selection of certain school lands in the Territories of Florida, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

When a 16th

section is included in a private claim, lands

adjacent may be selected in lieu.

Proviso.

STATUTE I.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That wherever the sixteenth sections in said Territories, either in whole or in part, are now, or may hereafter be, included in private claims held by titles confirmed or legally decided to be valid and sufficient, other lands equivalent thereto, within any land district in said Territories most adjacent to said lands so taken up by private claims, "which have been offered at public sale, and remain unsold," may be selected in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: and the lands so selected shall be entered in the office of the register of the land district in which they may lie, and be by such register reported to the Commissioner of the General Land Office as school lands selected under this act: Provided-That, before making any entry of such other lands, the case shall be made out to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of said district, agreeably to rules to be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the purpose of showing that the sixteenth section, or part thereof, has been included in the manner above mentioned.

APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

June 15, 1844. CHAP. LVI.—An Act granting to the county of Dubuque, certain lots of ground in the town of Dubuque.

Two half lots granted to the

town.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following described pieces or parcels of land are hereby granted and given to the county of Dubuque, in the Territory of Iowa, to wit: Two lots and a half lying and being situate in the town of Dubuque, on the northwest corner of Seventh and Locust streets, in said county, being the same land upon which the old county jail now stands, and is designated ment plat of said town as public square.”

on the Govern

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the county commissioners of the county of Dubuque be, and they are hereby authorized and em

Two lots may

powered to make sale, or otherwise dispose of the lots of land described in the first section of this act, in such manner as will best subserve the be disposed of interests of said county. APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

by the county commissioners.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. LVII.—An Act to confirm to the city of Fernandina in Florida, certain June 15, 1844. lots reserved for public use by the Spanish Government.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That lots, numbers five and seven of block number two, in the plan of the city of Fernandina, be and are hereby confirmed and relinquished to the corporate authorities of the said city for such uses as were designed by the Spanish Government in the original plan of the said city: Provided, That before the issue of patents for the same, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the President of the United States, that the said lots were intended to be reserved in the plan of said city, for a public use. APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

CHAP. LVIII. —An Act making appropriations for the payment of nuvy pensions for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen 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 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 thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-five: To pay invalid pensions, forty thousand dollars;

To pay widows' pensions, under the act of thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, six thousand dollars;

To pay widows' and orphans' pensions, under the act of third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, sixteen thousand dollars. For payment of invalid pensioners, heretofore paid from the privateer pension fund, their several pensions to commence from the time they were stopped in consequence of the exhaustion of said fund, eighteen thousand dollars;

For payment of pensions to the widows and orphans of those persons who were lost in the United States' schooner Sea Gull and in the United States' schooner Grampus, agreeably to the provisions of an act passed at the present session entitled "An act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the officers, seamen and marines of the United States' schooner Grampus," ten thousand dollars.

APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

CHAP. LIX.—An Act to test the utility of the sub-marine telescope. 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 authorized and directed to institute such experiments under the superintendence of competent and trustworthy persons, as will fully test the utility of the sub-marine telescope invented by Mrs. Sarah P. Mather, and ascertain its value, if any, to the public service; and the expenses of which shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That said expenses shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars.

APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

Two lots granted for purposes designed by Spanish government.

Proviso.

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