may be, and the same are hereby, placed at the disposal of " CHAP. 153.—AN ACT to change the time of holding the circuit and district courts in the State of Kentucky. Kentucky, chang [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- Time of holding sembled, That the spring terms of the district and circuit the circuit and courts of the United States in and for the district of Ken- the United States district courts of tucky shall hereafter commence on the third Monday in in the State of May, annually, and the fall terms of the same courts shall ed. hereafter commence on the third Monday in October, annually, and may continue in session at each term the number of juridical days now allowed by law; and all actions, suits, appeals, recognizances, processes, writs, and proceedings whatever, pending or which may be pending in said courts or returnable thereto, shall have day therein, and be heard, tried, proceeded with and decided in like manner as if the time of holding said courts or sessions had not been hereby altered. Approved August 11, 1848. CHAP. 154.—AN ACT to change the time of holding the terms of the circuit court of the United States in the district of Maine. the circuit court of Maine, chang [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the terms of the circuit court of the United Time of holding States for the district of Maine shall hereafter be held as fol- of the United lows, to wit: on the twenty-third day of April, and on the States for district twenty-third day of September, in each year, instead of the ed. time now by law appointed; and all actions, suits, appeals, recognizances, writs, processes, and other proceedings whatever, pending in said court or returnable thereto, shall have day, and be heard, tried, proceeded with, and decided accordingly: Provided, however, That when either of said days shall happen on Sunday, then the session of said court shall commence on the next day. Approved August 11, 1848. Proviso. Naval pensions and orphans, renewed. Proviso. Pensions to be tinue as widows. or marriage of CHAP. 155.-AN ACT renewing certain naval pensions and extending the benefits of existing laws, respecting naval pensions, to engineers, firemen, and coal-heavers in the navy, and to their widows. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress as of certain widows sembled, That all those widows and such child or children as are now receiving a pension under any of the laws of Congress passed prior to the first of August, eighteen hundred and forty-one, (excepting the law passed the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,) and those widows and children who have received pensions at any time within five years prior to the passage of this act, may and shall continue to receive the same amount as they have received under any special act, from the time such special act expired: Provided, Such act ceased on or after the first day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-five, or may hereafter terminate. And paid so long as all such pensions as are now in force, and such as are renew. such widows con- ed by this act, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, so long as the said widows shall live as widows; and in case of the death, before or In case of death after the passage of this act, of the widows, to the orphan widows, pensions child or children of the deceased parties, until they respectlively arrive at the age of sixteen years; and to the child or they arrive at 16 children of said widows in case of marriage by said widows, until said child or children shall respectively arrive at the age of sixteen years; and that the act approved thirtieth April, eighteen hundred and forty-four, shall not be so construed as to exclude officers, seamen, or marines from their pensions when disabled for sea service: Provided, That the whole amount received by the pensioner, including pay for his ser vice and pension, shall not exceed his lowest duty pay. That the orphan child or children of the deceased parties shall have a pension in case the widow has died after drawing a five years' pension, to commence at the time when the widow dies, and to continue until the child or children shall respectively reach the age of sixteen years; and that any casualty by which an officer, seaman, or marine has lost or may lose his life while in the line of his duty, shall be considered sufficient to entitle the widow, child or children to all the benefits of this act. to be paid to their children years of age. Proviso. Pension laws neers, firemen, children. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That engineers, firemen, extended to engi- and coal-heavers in the navy shall be entitled to pensions in and coal heavers the same manner as officers, seamen, and marines; and the in the navy, and their widows and Widows of engineers, coal-heavers, and firemen in the same manner as the widows of officers, seamen, and marines: Provided, That the pension of a chief engineer shall be the same as that of a lieutenant in the navy; and a pension of the widow of a chief engineer the same as that of the widow of a lieutenant in the navy; the pension of a first assistant engineer the same as that of a lieutenant of marines; and the pension of the widow of a first assistant engineer the same as that of the widow of a lieutenant of marines; the pension Rates of pen. sion. of a second or third assistant engineer the same as that of a Amount of pension not to ex SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the amount of pension in every case arising under this law not to exceed the ceed the half-pay half pay of the deceased officer, seaman, or marine, as it exist- of the deceased. ed in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, or such rate of pension as is allowed by this act. Approved August 11, 1848. CHAP. 156.-AN ACT to surrender to the State of Indiana the Cumberland road in said State. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the Cumberland road as lies within the State of Indiana, and all the interest of the United States in the same, together with all the timber, stone, and other materials belonging to the United States, and procured for the purpose of being used in the construction of said road, and all the rights and privileges of every kind belonging to the United States as connected with said road in said State, be, and the same are hereby, transferred and surrendered to the said State of Indiana. Approved August 11, 1848. CHAP. 157.-AN ACT for the relief of David N. Smith. A pension of $8 per month allow [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 authorized and directed to place the name of David N. Smith, of New York, on ed him. the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be paid at the rate of eight dollars per month during his life, to commence on the nineteenth day of January, eighteen hundred and forty seven. Approved August 11, 1848. granted for improvement panned for tended seven years. 134 CHAP. 158.-AN ACT for the relief of Oliver C. Harris. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as Letters patent sembled, That letters-patent granted to Oliver C. Harris on the in fifteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for his improvement in paint mills, or manner of grinding paints, indigo, &c., &c., be, and the same are hereby, extended for the term of seven years from and after the passage of this act; and the Commissioner of Patents is hereby directed to renew and extend said patent by making certificate thereon, or upon a certified copy thereof, of such extension; and the Commissioner is hereby directed to cause the same to be entered on record in the Patent Office, and the said patent so extended shall have the same effect in law as if originally granted for twenty-one years, in the form herein provided. Approved August 11, 1848. Certain bonds iron to be cancelled. CHAP. 159.-AN ACT for the relief of the Red River Railroad Company. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress asgiven by them for sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is duties on railroad hereby, authorized to cancel the several bonds given by the Red River Railroad Company for the duties on certain railroad bars of iron imported for the use of said company, and which bars were imported at New Orleans in the months of February and March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven; Judgments ob and he is hereby further authorized to enter the judgments said satisfied, which have been obtained by the United States against said company on their bonds, upon the defendants paying the costs of said suits: Provided, That it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the said railroad bars have been, and are now, permanently laid down upon the railroad of the aforesaid company. Approved August 11, 1848. tained against them on per month allowed him. CHAP. 160.-AN ACT for the relief of Samuel Cony. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA pension of $8 sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, directed to place on the pension roll the name of Samuel Cony, of Augusta, State of Maine, and to pay him a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, from the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty five, to continue during his natural life. Approved August 11, 1848. balance due on a [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- To be paid a sembled, That there be paid to Alborne Allen, out of any contract for huildmoney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ing a boat for the four hundred and thirty-two dollars, for the balance due on a contract for building a boat called the Eolus, on account of the government. Approved August 11, 1848. government. CHAP. 162.—AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Perry, a Choctaw Indian, or his assignees. a section of which treaty. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- Authorized to sembled, That in lieu of section thirty-five, of township locate one section twenty-five, range six east, to which Joseph Perry, a Choctaw of land in lieu of Indian, was entitled, and of which he was deprived by oper- he was deprived ation of the Chickasaw treaty of eighteen hundred and thirtyby the Chickasaw, four, and the action of the government of the United States, the said Joseph Perry or his assignees shall be entitled to locate one section of land, in quantities not less than one quarter section by the legal subdivisions, upon any of the public lands not otherwise appropriated, subject to private entry. Approved August 11, 1848. CHAP. 163.-AN ACT for the relief of the heirs and widow of François a tract of confirmed. land [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claim of the widow and heirs of François Their claim to Gramillion, to a tract of seventeen arpens front, by forty deep, in the parish of Avoyelles, Louisiana, be, and the same is hereby confirmed, according to a survey executed in Febru ary, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, by Kenneth McCrummen, deputy surveyor; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to order an official survey to be returned for the said claim, conforming as near as may be to a survey made in February, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, by Kenneth McCrummen, accompanying the petition for confirmation; and upon the return to the General Land Office of an official survey, properly executed and certified, a patent shall issue: Provided, That the confirmation and patent shall only operate as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall in no way prejudice any adverse rights which may exist to any part of the premises before such official survey shall be made. Approved August 11, 1848. |