patent ed to purchase authorized to purchase of Mrs. Ann Mix, widow of M. P. Mix, right of using Mix's late master commandant in the navy, the unlimited power to manger stopper. use a machine called a "manger stopper," in all ships of war or other vessels belonging to the United States: Provided, An assignment thereof can be obtained at a cost not exceeding three thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 8, 1846. CHAP. 170.-AN ACT to grant a certain quantity of land to aid in the imprevement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and to connect the same by a canal, in the Territory of Wisconsin. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asGrant of land sembled, That there be, and hereby is, granted to the State of proving the Fox Wisconsin, on the admission of such State into the Union, for and Wisconsin the purpose of improving the navigation of the Fox and Wiscon to aid in im rivers. said rivers and sin rivers, in the Territory of Wisconsin, and of constructing the canal to unite the said rivers at or near the portage, a quantity of land, equal to one half of three sections in width, on each side of the said Fox river, and the lakes through which it pas ses, from its mouth to the point where the portage canal shall enter the same, and on each side of the said canal from one stream to the other, reserving the alternate sections to the United States, to be selected under the direction of the governor of said State, and such selection to be approved by the President of the U. S. to use United States. The said rivers, when improved, and the said canal free from canal, when finished, shall be and forever remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United States, free from any toll or other charge whatever for the transportation of the mails, or for any property of the United States, or persons in their service passing upon or along the same: Provided, The said alternate sections, reserved to the United States, shall not be sold at a less rate than two dollars and fifty cents the acre: Provided, also, That no pre-emptive claim to the lands so reserved shall give the occupant, or any other person claiming through or under him, a right to said lands at any price less than the price fixed in this act, at the time of the settlement on said lands. toll. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the Territory of Wisconsin shall be admitted as a State into the Union, all the lands granted by this act shall be and become the prop erty of said State for the purpose contemplated in this act, and Legislature to no other: Provided, That the legislature of said State shall & fix the price agree to accept said grant upon the terms specified in this act; of the land at and shall have power to fix the price at which said lands shall $125 per acre. be sold, not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents the acre; accept the grant not less than and to adopt such kind and plan of improvement on said route as the said legislature shall from time to time determine for the best interest of said State. Provided, also, That the lands hereby granted shall not be conveyed or disposed of by said State, except as said improvements shall progress: that is, the said State may sell so much of said lands as shall produce the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and then the sales shall cease' until the governor of said State shall certify the fact to the President of the United States that one half of said sum has been expended upon said improvements, when the said State may sell and dispose of a quantity of said lands sufficient to reimburse the amount expended; and thus the sales shall progress as the proceeds thereof shall be expended, and the fact of such expenditure certified in the manner herein mentioned. act shall be SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said improve- Title of purcha ment shall be commenced within three years after the said sers under this State shall be admitted into the Union, and completed within valid. twenty years, or the United States shall be entitled to receive the amount for which any of said lands may have been sold by said State: Provided, That the title of purchasers under the sales made by the State, in pursuance of this act, shall be valid. Approved, August 8, 1846. CHAP. 171.-AN ACT to authorize the constituted authorities of the county of Polk, in the Territory of Iowa, to enter a quarter section of land for a seat of justice. Polk authorized [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the constituted authorities of the county of Polk, Authorities of in the Territory of Iowa, be, and are hereby, authorized to the county of enter, by legal subdivisions, the quarter section of land upon to enter quarter which Fort Des Moines, in the Territory of Iowa, is situated, upon which fort upon paying to the proper register and receiver therefor one Des Moines is dollar and a quarter per acre: Provided, That the seat of justice of said county is located on said tract of land. Approved, August 8, 1846. section of land situated. CHAP. 172.—AN ACT authorizing the inhabitants of township one, of range thirteen east, Seneca county, Ohio, to relinquish certain lands selected for schools, and to obtain others in lieu of them." [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, on the relinquishment to the United States by School trustees of township 1, the proper school trustees of township one, of range thirteen range 13 east, east, in Seneca county, Ohio, of all the right, title, and interest Seneca co.Ohio of the inhabitants of said township to the east half and north-relinquishing west quarter of section eight, in township ten south, of range celect others in nine east, containing four hundred and eighty acres, and Cedar lieu thereof. Point, on Cedar Island, in Lake Erie, containing thirty-four authorized in certain lands to acres and eighty-nine hundredths of an acre, heretofore selected for them as school lands, under the provisions of the act of twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty six, entitled "An act to appropriate lands for the support of schools in certain townships and fractional townships not heretofore provided for," the said school trustees be, and they are hereby, authorized to select and enter, free of cost, a quantity not exceeding five hundred and fourteen acres of the lands belonging to the United States within the limits of the late Wyandott cession, or of any of the land districts in the State of Ohio, in tracts conforming to the subdivisions into which the lands shall be represented on the plats of survey: Provided, That the selections hereby land on which authorized to be made shall not embrace lands upon which the the assessed im- assessed improvements of Indians have been made. Indians have SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when the lands here authorized to be selected or entered shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, they shall be held by the inhabitants of the township herein first designated, by the same tenure, and upon the same terms, for the support of schools in said township, as if they had been selected under the provisions of the before-recited act of twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six. Selections shall not embrace provements of been made. mochtee town Approved, August 8, 1846. CHAP. 173.-AN ACT authorizing the trustees of Tymochtee township, Wyandott county, Ohio, to select lands for schools, within the Wyandott cession. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asTrustees of Ty-sembled, That the school trustees of township one south, of ship authorized range fourteen east, in Wyandott county, Ohio, be, and hereby to select lands are, authorized to select and enter, free of cost, two hundred for schools in and twenty-five acres of land, within the Wyandott cession, or the Wyandott cession. of any other lands within the State of Ohio, belonging to the United States, in tracts conforming to the subdivisions into which the lands shall be represented on the plots of survey: Provided, The selections hereby authorized to be made shall not embrace lands upon which the assessed improvements of Indians have been made. To be held as if SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when the lands selected under hereby authorized to be selected and entered shall have been school law of May, 1826. approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, they shall be held by the inhabitants of the township herein designated by the same tenure, and upon the same terms, for the support of schools in said township, as if they had been selected under the provisions of the general school law of the twentieth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. Approved, August 8, 1846. CHAP. 174.—AN ACT to refund to certain persons an excess of duty exacted on the importation of foreign merchandise. exacted on im of mer chandise to be [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 hereby Excess of duty is, authorized and required to pay to Manice, Phelps, and Com-portations pany, and Manice, Gold, and Company, merchants of the city foreign of New York, any excess of duty paid by them to the collector refunded. of the port of New York, upon the importation of certain Thibet shawls, worsted Valencias, worsted and cotton erminetts, brochellas, pincettas, and cashmeretts, since the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty two, beyond what the same were legally chargeable with; and to pay to Halsted, Haines, and Company, merchants of the city of New York, any excess of duty paid by them in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-three, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, upon the importation of wove shirts, worsted cravats, and silk twists, beyond what the same were by law chargeable with an interest thereon from said time of payment; and also to pay to Edward Hardy, of the city of New York, any excess of duty paid by him on the importation, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, of wove shirts and drawers, worsted Guernsey frocks, and cotton and merino and worsted shirts and drawers, beyond what the same were chargeable with, and interest thereon from said time of payment; and also to pay to George Trull any excess of duty paid by him on the importation, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and eighteen hundred and forty, of wove shirts and drawers, beyond what was legally chargeable thereon, and interest on such ex-1 cess from said time of payment; and also to pay to Smith, Thurger, and Company, merchants of the city of New York, any excess of duty paid by them on the importation of jute grass, under the name of India matting, India weed, hemp carpeting, and jute carpeting, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, eighteen hundred and forty, and eighteen hundred and forty-one, beyond what the same were legally chargeable with, and interest on such excess; and also to pay to Jonathan Little, assignee of Whiley and Taylor, merchants of the city of New York, any excess of duty paid by them upon the importation of silk twist, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, beyond what the same was legally chargeable with; said several sums to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That, if either Provise. of the persons hereinbefore named is in any manner indebted to the United States, the sum so payable to such indebted person, or so much thereof as will be necessary, shall be retained in set off to such indebtedness. Appropriation. SEc. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to refund to the sev eral persons entitled thereto, such sums of money as have been illegally exacted by collectors of the customs, under the sanction of the Treasury Department, for duties on imported merchandise, since the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirtythree: Provided, That, before any such refunding, the Secretary shall be satisfied, by decisions of the courts of the United States upon the principle involved, that such duties were illegally exacted: And provided, also, That such decisions of the courts shall have been adopted or acquiesced in by the Treas ury Department as its rule of construction. Approved, August 8, 1846. ending June 30, CHAP. 175.-AN ACT making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government, for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other purposes. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congres asAppropriations sembled, That the following sums be, and hereby are, approfor the year priated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz: For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of the House of Representatives, and delegates, three hundred and seventy-one thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars. 1847. Congress-pay and mileage. Officers. Contingencies- House of Reps Library. For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Congress, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, one hundred and nine thousand dollars. For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, two hundred and sixteen thousand seven hundred and three dollars; including one hundred and forty-three thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars for printing for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Officers. For compensation of librarian, two assistant librarians, and messenger of the library, four thousand five hundred dollars; For contingent expenses of said library, eight hundred dol lars; Contingencies. Books. For purchase of books for said library, five thousand dollars; dollars. |