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Power and ju SEC 2. And be it further enacted, That the power and at end of two jurisdiction given by this act, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall cease and determine, at the expiration of Commissioners two years from the passage thereof; and such Commissioner to report list of be, and he is hereby, directed to report to Congress at the first adjudications to Congress. session after the said adjudications shall have been made, a list of the same, and under such classes as he may deem necessary, and of the principles upon which such class was determined. Decisions to be SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Commisinto sioner shall arrange his decisions into two classes: the first class to embrace all such cases of equity as may be finally confirmed by the board aforesaid, and the second class to embrace all such cases as the board reject and decide to be invalid.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for all lands covfor lands in the ered by entries or sales which are placed in the first class, lands in second patents shall issue to the claimants; and all lands embraced by class to revert entries or sales placed in the second class shall ipso facto revert to the U. S. to, and become part of, the public domain.

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Commissioner SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may to order into be lawful for the Commissioner of the General Land Office to order into market, after due notice, without the formality and expense of a proclamation of the President, all lands of the second class, though heretofore unproclaimed and unoffered, and such other isolated or disconnected tracts or parcels of unoffered lands, which, in his judgment, it would be proper to expose to sale in like manner: Provided, That public notice of at least thirty days shall be given by the land officers of the district in which such lands may be situated, pursuant to the directions of the Commissioner aforesaid.

Approved, August 3d, 1846.

CHAP. 79-AN ACT for the relief of the legal representatives of Pierre Menard, Josiah T Betts, Jacob Feaman, and Edmund Roberts, of the State of Illinois, sureties of Felix St. Vrain, late Indian agent, deceased.

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now deceased, the sum of four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents, being the amount of salary of said St. Vrain. remaining unpaid at the time of his death, and the sum of two hundred dollars, paid by him to Mr. Farnham to hand: to gunsmith and blacksmith, and for which his account was never credited, with six per cent. interest per annum from the thirteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine, being the time when the execution against the sureties of said St. Vrain was satisfied; the said sums and interest to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not o.her

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wise appropropriated; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to pay the said sums of money and interest to the above-named persons, in the same proportions and amounts as they severally paid towards the satisfaction and discharge of said judgment, to be ascertained by him in such manner as he may direct.

Approved, August 3, 1846.

CHAP. 80.-AN ACT for the relief of John Keith, of New York.

[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 directed to place the To be placed on name of John Keith, of Madison county, New York, on the the Revolutionary pension roll roll of revolutionary pensioners, under the act of the seventh of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and allow him a pension for six months service, as a private, in pursuance of said act.

Approved, August 3, 1846.

CHAP. 81.-AN ACT for the relief of John Chasseaud, the consul of the
United States for Syria and Palestine.

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[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, That it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Amount due for Treasury of the United States to pay to John Chasseaud, con- salary to sul of the United States for Syria and Palestine, whatever' amount there may be due said Chasseaud for salary while acting as consul aforesaid, and which the Secretary of the Treasury has no authority in law to pay, in consequence of a failure on the part of said Chasseaud to furnish the Department of State with the bond and two sureties required by law, although he performed the duties of consul, and was recognised as such by the Government of the United States. Approved, August 3, 1846.

CHAP. 82.-AN ACT to define the boundaries of the State of Iowa, and to repeal so much of the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, as relates to the boundaries of Iowa.

[SEC. 1.]. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following shall be, and they are hereby de- Boundaries de clared to be, the boundaries of the State of Iowa, in lieu of clared. those prescribed by the second section of the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, entitled "An act for the admission of the States of Iowa and Florida into the Union,"

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viz: Beginning in the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river, at a point due east of the middle of the mouth of the main channel of the Des Moines river; thence, up the middle of the main channel of the said Des Moines river, to a point on said river where the northern boundary line of the State of Missouri, as established by the constitution of that State, adopted June twelfth, eighteen hundred and twenty, crosses the said middle of the main channel of the said Des Moines river; thence, westwardly, along the said northern boundary line of the State of Missouri, as established at the time aforesaid, until an extension of said line intersect the middle of the main channel of the Missouri river; thence, up the middle of the main channel of the said Missouri river, to a point opposite the middle of the main channel of the Big Sioux river, according to Nicollet's map; thence, up the main channel of the said Big Sioux river, according to said map, until it is intersected by the parallel of forty-three degrees and thirty min utes north latitude; thence east, along said parallel of fortythree degrees and thirty minutes, until said parallel intersect the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river; thence, down the middle of the main channel of said Mississippi river, to the place of beginning.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the question which controversy be: has heretofore been the subject-matter of controversy and disand Iowa refer- pute between the State of Missouri and the Territory of Iowa, preme Court. respecting the precise location of the northern boundary line of the State of Missouri, shall be, and the same is hereby, referred to the Supreme Court of the United States for adjudication and settlement, in accordance with the act of the Legislature of Missouri, approved March twenty-five, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and the memorial of the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Iowa, approved January seventeen, eighteen hundred and forty-six, by which both parties have agreed to "the commencement and speedy determination of such suit as may be necessary to procure a final decision by the Supreme Court of the United States upon the true location Supreme Court of the northern boundary of that State ;" and the said Supreme power and au- Court is hereby invested with all the power and authority nethority necessa-cessary to the performance of the duty imposed by this section. To be entitled SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, until the next to 2 representa-census and apportionment shall be made, the State of Iowa shall be entitled to two Representatives in the House of Representatives of the United States.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the much of the act act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, enas is inconsis. titled "An act for the admission of the States of Iowa and tent herewith. Florida into the Union,"* relating to the said State of Iowa, as *See vol. 10, p. is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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Approved, August 4, 1846.

CHAP. 83.-AN ACT for the relief of James Low.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as sembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of James Low on the pension roll of invalid pensioners, at the rate of six dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

Approved, August 4, 1846.

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CHAP. 84.-AN ACT to establish a warehousing system, and to amend an act entitled "An act to provide revehue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes." [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the twelfth section of the act entitled "An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify exist- 1842, amended. ing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved the thirtieth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, is hereby amended so as hereafter to read as "See vol. 10, p. follows: [SEC 12.] And be it further enacted, That, on and Duties to be after the day this act goes into operation, the duties on all import- paid in cash. ed goods, wares, or merchandise shall be paid in cash: Provided, That in all cases of failure or neglect to pay the duties within the period allowed by law to the importer to make entry thereof, or whenever the owner, importer, or consignee shall make entry for warehousing the same, in writing, in such form and supported by such proof as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the said goods, wares, or merchandise shall be taken possession of by the collector, and deposited in the public stores, or in other stores to be agreed on by the collector or chief revenue officer of the port and the importer, owner, or consignee, the said stores to be secured in the manner provided for by the first section of the act of the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act providing for the deposite of wines and distilled spirits in public warehouses, and for other purposes,"* there to be kept with due *See vol. 6, p. and reasonable care, at the charge and risk of the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, and subject at all times to their order, upon payment of the proper duties and expenses, to be ascertained on due entry thereof for warehousing, and to be secured by a bond of the owner, importer, or consignee, with surety or sureties, to the satisfaction of the collector, in double the amount of the said duties, and in such form as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That no merchandise shall be withdrawn from any warehouse in which it may be deposited, in a less quantity than in an entire package, bale,

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cask, or box, unless in bulk; nor shall merchandise so imported in bulk be delivered, except in the whole quantity of each parcel, or in a quantity not less than one ton weight, unless Collector to per. by special authority of the Secretary of the Treasury. And mit goods to be in case the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of any goods shipped for reexportation in on which the duties have not been paid, shall give to the colcertain cases. lector satisfactory security that the said goods shall be landed

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out of the jurisdiction of the United States, in the manner now required by existing laws relating to exportations for the benefit of drawback, the collector and naval officer, if any, on an entry to re-export the same, shall, upon payment of the appropriate expenses, permit the said goods, under the inspection of the proper officers, to be shipped without the payment of any Goods remain duties thereon. And in case any goods, wares, or merchandise, yond one year deposited as aforesaid, shall remain in public store beyond one to be appraised year, without payment of the duties and charges thereon, then said goods, wares, or merchandise shall be appraised by the appraisers of the United States, if there be any at such port, and if none, then by two merchants to be designated and sworn by the collector for that purpose, and sold by the collector at public auction, on due public notice thereof being first given, in the manner and for the time to be prescribed by a general reguTreasury De-lation of the Treasury Department; and at said public sale, partment to pre- distinct printed catalogues descriptive of said goods, with the scribe regulations, &c. for appraised value affixed thereto, shall be distributed among the such sales. persons present at said sale; and a reasonable opportunity shall be given before such sale, to persons desirous of purchasing, to Proceeds, after inspect the quality of such goods; and the proceeds of said sales, deducting charges, to be paid after deducting the usual rate of storage at the port in question, over to the with all other charges and expenses, including duties, shall be paid over to the owner, importer, consignee, or agent, and proper receipts taken for the same: Provided, That the overplus, if any there be, of the proceeds of such sales, after the payment of storage, charges, expenses, and duties as aforesaid, remaining unclaimed for the space of ten days after such sales, shall be paid by the collector into the Treasury of the United States; and the said collector shall transmit to the Treasury Department, with the said overplus, a copy of the inventory, appraisement, and account of sales, specifying the marks, numbers, and descriptions of the packages sold, their contents, and appraised value, the name of the vessel and master in which, and of the port or place whence they were imported, and the time when, and the name of the person or persons to whom said goods were consigned in the manifest, and the duties and charges to which the several consignments were respectively subject; and the receipt or certificate of the collector shall exonerate the master or person having charge or command of any ship or vessel, in which said goods, wares, or merchandise were imported, from all claim of the owner or owners thereof, who shall, nevertheless, on due proof of their interest, be entitled to receive from the treasury the amount of any overplus paid into the same under the pro

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