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June 12, 1844. No. 10. A Resolution respecting receipts issued by the Treasurer of the United States, in payment for public lands.

Treasurer's certificates of

deposites for the purchase of lands under act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51, when assigned, to be received

in payment for public lands.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any certificates which have been issued by the Treasurer of the United States, in favor of individuals who have deposited moneys at the Treasury in payment for lands intended by them to be purchased under the act of Congress, approved April the twenty-fourth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of the public lands," and which certificates have been assigned, may be received in payment for public lands purchased at public sale or by private entry; and any receiver of public moneys who may have received such certificates in payment, as aforesaid, may be credited with the amount thereof, upon delivering them duly transferred to the Treasury.

APPROVED, June 12, 1844.

June 12, 1844. No. 11. A Resolution suspending the joint resolution providing for the printing of additional copies of the journals and public documents.

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Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the resolution "providing for the printing of additional copies of the journals and public documents," shall be suspended and take effect only from the commencement of the next session of Congress,

APPROVED, June 12, 1844.

June 12, 1844. No. 12. A Resolution to continue two clerks in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties.

Continued till

otherwise directed by Congress.

Ante, p. 583.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authority given to the Secretary of War by the joint resolution, approved May eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, to continue for two years the employment of two clerks in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties, is hereby extended and continued till otherwise directed by Congress.

APPROVED, June 12, 1844.

June 15, 1844. No. 14. A Joint Resolution in relation to the transmission of the British mail between Boston and Canada, and for other purposes.

Postmaster

Gen'l to make

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be and he is hereby authorized to make such arrangements as may be with British go- deemed expedient with the Post Office Department of the British go vernment for the transmission of the British mail in its unbroken state or condition between Boston and Canada.

arrangements

vernment for

transmission of the mails between Boston and Canada.

Arrangements to be made for

transmission of the mail betw'n

the U. S. and Europe.

Ports of Bremen, Havre, and others, to

be secured, &c.

Be it further resolved, That the Postmaster General be and he is hereby authorized to enter into such arrangement or arrangements with the proper authorities in France and Germany, and the owners or agents of vessels plying regularly between those countries and the United States, whereby a safe and as near as possible a regular direct mail communication, under official guaranty, between the United States and the continent of Europe, viz.: the ports of Bremen in Germany and Havre in France, and such other principal ports on said continent as the Postmaster General may deem most proper, shall be secured so that the entire inland and foreign postage on letters and all other mail matter,

sent over sea from and to the United States, to and from any part of France and of the States comprehended within the German Customs Union, and of those countries on the continent, between which and France and of the said German States there exists a continued arrangement of the like kind, may be paid at the place where they are respectively mailed or received.

APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

No. 15. A Resolution for the relief of certain claimants under the Cherokee treaty June 15, 1844. of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay, or cause to be paid, the several sums found due to claimants under the Cherokee treaty of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, upon the certificates issued by the board of commissioners appointed in pursuance of the seventeenth article of said treaty, out of the unexpended balance of appropriations made for the payment of such claims, upon the presentation of said certificates. APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

No. 16. A Joint Resolution authorizing the transfer of certain clerks in the Treasury Department.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby authorized to transfer from any office or offices of the Treasury Department from which their services may, in his opinion, be dispensed with, three or more clerks to be employed under his direction in collecting, arranging and classifying such statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show each year the condition of the agriculture, manufactures, domestic trade, currency and banks of the several States and Territories of the United States. The clerks which may be transferred and employed under this authority shall receive the same salaries as at present-and a report containing the results of the information obtained upon the before mentioned subjects, shall be annually made to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the first Monday of January.

APPROVED, June 15, 1844.

No. 17. A Resolution relating to the public lands appertaining to the armories at
Spring field and Harper's Ferry.

Resolved 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 alter, establish and settle the boundary lines between the United States' lands at the Springfield armory and the contiguous lands belonging to the town of Springfield in the State of Massachusetts, and to individual citizens, in such a way as may be best calculated to allow the laying out and altering of streets and highways for the mutual convenience and advantage of all parties; and for this purpose he is further authorized to exchange and convey, and to receive from the corporate authorities of Springfield, or to and from individual proprietors, such fractional parts of land as may be necessary for the accommodation and convenience of the town of Springfield in running its public streets and highways, and of the armory in securing the safety of, and free access to its workshops, arsenals, and other public buildings; and to grant on the part of the United States, and receive from the corporative authorities of Springfield, or from individual proprie

Certificates issued or allowed

by commissioners under Cherokee treaty, to be paid.

June 15, 1844.

Sec. of Treas. may transfer three clerks to

arrange statistical information, &c.

Clerks to re

ceive same pay as before.

June 17, 1844.

Sec. of War

may alter the boundaries, so as to allow the

laying out, &c. of streets.

May exchange, convey, or rethat purpose. ceive land for

Authorized to ratify the exchange made

family of land at Harper's Ferry.

tors, deeds and titles for the lands so exchanged and disposed of to establish convenient boundaries.

SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to ratify and confirm an with the Wager exchange of land at Harper's Ferry, in the State of Virginia, which has been made between the United States and the Wager family for the purpose of securing a more convenient access to the workshops of the United States armory at that place, and to give and receive deeds to and from the persons lawfully holding the land thus obtained from the United States, and the legal owners of the land, the occupancy of which was transferred to the United States in exchange therefor. APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

June 17, 1844. No. 18. Joint Resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to the British authori ties at Gibraltar, and the commander, officers, and crew of her Britannic Majesty's ship Malabar.

President to

communicate to them the high sense of Congress of their zeal displayed

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the British Government, in such manner as he may deem proper, the high sense entertained by Congress of the generous zeal displayed by the British authorities at Gibraltar, and the commander, officers and crew of her Britannic Maon the burning, jesty's ship Malabar, in endeavoring to save from destruction the American steam frigate Missouri, and in preserving the lives of her officers and crew, as well as of the kindness and hospitality which characterized their treatment of the ship's company of that vessel, after her unfortunate destruction by fire.

of the Missouri.

APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH 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 2d day of December, 1844, and ended the 3d day of March, 1845.

JOHN TYLER, President of the United States. WILLIE P. MANGUM, President of the Senate, pro tempore. JOHN W. JONES, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE II.

CHAP. L-An Act to establish a uniform time for holding elections for electors of
President and Vice President in all the States of the Union.(a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the electors of President and Vice President shall be appointed in each State on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November of the year in which they are to be appointed: Provided, That each State may by law provide for the filling of any vacancy or vacancies which may occur in its college of electors when such college meets to give its electoral vote: And provided, also, when any State shall have held an election for the purpose of choosing electors, and shall fail to make a choice on the day aforesaid, then the electors may be appointed on a subsequent day in such manner as the State shall by law provide.

APPROVED, January 23, 1845.

CHAP. II.-An Act to correct a clerical error in the act supplementary to an act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia, and to amend the title thereof.

Jan. 23, 1845.

Election day

fixed.

Vacancies.

In case of no election.

STATUTE II. Feb. 4, 1845.

Correction of the error. Act of June

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 supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia,' approved June seven- 17, 1844, ch. teenth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, be corrected, so as to insert, between the words "and" and "in," in the sixth line, the words "in cases where the principal of the debt exceeds that amount, no person shall be imprisoned as aforesaid, except".

100.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the title of the said act be Title amended. amended by adding the words: "and to abolish imprisonment for debt

in the District of Columbia, except in cases of fraud."

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in the said act pass

(a) Election of President and Vice President of the United States:

Constitution of the United States, art. 2, sec. 1, vol. 1, 15, 16. Twelfth amendment to the constitution of the United States, vol. 1, 22.

An act relative to the election of a President and Vice President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President in case of vacancies in the office of both President and Vice President; March 1. 1792, chap. 8.

An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act relative to the election of a President and Vice President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President, in case of vacancies in the office of both President and Vice President; March 26, 1804, chap. 50. 3L

VOL. V.-91

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STATUTE II. Feb. 13, 1845.

Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 44, repealed.

Actions or suits pending,

&c. to be transferred to Dist. Court at New Orleans.

1845, ch. 19.

One term to

for the business of the western district.

ed the seventeenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, or in this act, shall be so construed as to extend to any suit or action brought by the corporate authorities of either of the cities of the said District to recover a penalty imposed by any ordinance or by law of such corporation for an infraction of its by-laws and ordinances.

APPROVED, February 4, 1845.

CHAP. IV. - An Act confirming and assenting to an act of the Legislature of Vir ginia, entitled “An act further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of the Legislature of Virginia, entitled "An act further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company," which was passed on the twentieth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, be, and the same is hereby, ratified, confirmed, and assented to: Provided, That this assent and confirmation shall not be so construed as to bind the United States beyond their interest in the stock in said company, nor as either affirming or denying the validity of the rights or liens of the State of Maryland referred to in the third section of the said act of Virginia: Provided, also, That nothing herein contained shall be held or construed to impair the rights of any individual or corporation derived from the original act of incorporation of the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

APPROVED, February 7, 1845.

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CHAP. V. An Act to repeal "An act for the better organization of the district court of the United States within the State of Louisiana," and for other purposes. (a)

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 for the better organization of the district court of the United States within the State of Louisiana," approved on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all criminal actions or civil suits which have arisen in the district court of the United States for the western district of the State of Louisiana, and which are now pending therein, together with all process, writs, recognizances, and records, belonging thereto, shall be transferred to New Orleans, and there disposed of by the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana, as suits are disposed of originating in the eastern district of said State.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the district court of the be held annually United States for the State of Louisiana shall hold one term of said court in each and every year, in the city of New Orleans, which shall commence on the first Monday of January, and continue unless the business shall be disposed of, for the trial of all criminal actions and civil suits which have arisen, or which may hereafter arise, within the present limits of the said western district of the State of Louisiana. APPROVED, February 13, 1845.

STATUTE II. Feb. 20, 1845.

CHAP. XIII. — An Act for the purchase of certain copies of the History of Oregon.
California, and the other Territories on the Northwest coast of America.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary

(a) Notes of the acts relating to the District Court of Louisiana, vol. 3, 774.

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