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Territory of Wis

said district courts

and of suits pending in said courts respectively, attaching thereto all papers connected therewith, in all cases arising under the laws or constitution of the United States, or to which the United States shall be a party; and they shall forward the same to the clerk of said district court of the State of Wisconsin, who shall enter the same in his docket, and the said district court shall proceed therein to final judgment and execution, as if such suits or proceedings had originally been brought in said court.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of the preme court of supreme court of the Territory of Wisconsin shall deliver consin to deliver over to the clerks of said district court all records and papers over to clerks of in the office of the clerk of the said supreme court relating to certain records, proceedings in bankruptcy under the late bankrupt law of the United States. He shall also certify, under seal, and deliver to said clerk, all records of judgments and of proceedings in suits pending, and all papers connected therewith, in cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States.

&c.

Said State to

be entitled to

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That from and after the three representa fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and tives in Congress. until another census and apportionment shall be made, the State of Wisconsin shall be entitled to three representatives in the Congress of the United States.

Approved May 29, 1848.

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CHAP. 51.-AN ACT for the relief of John Mitchell.

[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, and he is hereby, required to place the name of John Mitchell on the roll of invalid pensions, and that he pay him semi-annually at the rate of ten dollars per month, for and during his natural life, commencing on the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.

Approved May 29, 1848.

Secretary

pension certifi

cate

month.

CHAP. 52.-AN ACT for the relief of Mary Brown, widow of Jacob Brown.

of [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre War to issue a sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asMary sembled, That the Secretary of War is hereby required to sion of $8 per issue a pension certificate to Mary Brown, of Clarksburgh, in the State of Massachusetts, aged seventy-four years, and was born before the close of the Revolution, and widow of Jacob Brown, senior, a revolutionary pensioner, deceased, granting to her a pension at the rate of eight dollars per month, commencing on the first day of January, one thousand eight

hundred and forty-seven, and continuing during her natural
life.
Approved May 29, 1848.

CHAP. 53.—AN ACT to provide for the purchase of the manuscript papers
of the late James Madison, former Pesident of the United States.
[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as-
sembled, That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars be, and
the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to purchase of Mrs. D. P.
Madison, widow of the late James Madison, formerly Presi.
dent of the United States, all the unpublished manuscript
papers of the said James Madison now belonging to and in
her possession; and upon delivery thereof to the Secretary of
State, with a proper conveyance of title to the United States,
the said sum of money, upon the certificate of the Secretary
of State of the delivery and conveyance of said papers, shall
be paid at the treasury, agreeably to the wishes of the said
Mrs. Madison, and in the manner following, namely: five
thousand dollars of said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars
to be paid to her; and the residue of twenty thousand to
James Buchanan, now Secretary of State, John Y. Mason,
Secretary of the Navy, and Richard Smith, esq., of Wash-
ington city, to be held, put out to interest, vested in stocks,
or otherwise managed and disposed of by them, or the sur-
vivor or survivors of them, as trustees for the said Mrs. Madi-
son, according to their best discretion and her best advan-
tage-the interest or profit arising from the said principal sum
to be paid over to her as the same accrues-the said principal
sum to be and remain inalienable during her lifetime, as a
permanent fund for her maintenance, but subject to be dis
posed of as she may please by her last will and testament.
Approved May 31, 1848.

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CHAP. 54-AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following suins be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Military Academy for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine:

For pay of officers, instructors, cadets, and musicians, seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars.

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For commutation of subsistence, five thousand six hundred and twenty-one dollars.

For forage for officers' horses, four thousand five hundred and twelve dollars.

For clothing for officers' servants, four hundred and twenty dollars.

For repairs and improvements; fuel and apparatus; forage for public horses and oxen; stationery, printing, and other incidental and contingent expenses, thirty thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars.

For the increase and expenses of the library, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For expenses of the board of visiters, two thousand dol

lars.

For barracks for cadets, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.

For expenses of the board of visiters, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and fortyeight, two thousand dollars.

Approved May 31, 1848.

Spanish and

American steam vesseis placed on

a footing of per fect reciprocity.

Higher duties

red to which may

CHAP. 55.—AN ACT concerning Spanish steam-vessels.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all laws now in force exacting higher duties on Spanish steam-vessels arriving in the United States than are exacted on steam-vessels of the United States arriving at Havana, or any other port in the island of Cuba, be sus pended, so as to place the said steam-vessels on a footing of perfect reciprocity, the suspension to continue so long as such reciprocity shall be thereby secured, or until otherwise provided for by law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any higher du than those refer ties than those before mentioned shall have been, or shall be, have been paid by paid by any Spanish steamer arriving in the United States be refunded. on or after the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to refund the same.

Spanish vessels, to

Approved May 31, 1848.

$1,174 to be paid

pensation

CHAP. 56.-AN ACT for the relief of Edward Bolon.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre him for expenses sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asincurred and comfor sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is keeping two pri hereby, authorized and directed to pay, or cause to be paid, to Edward Bolon, of Florida, or his legal representatives, eleven hundred and seventy-four dollars, as reimbursement of ex

soners of the United States.

penses and compensation for services in keeping two prisoners
of the United States, named Passmore, in the jail of Calhoun
county, Florida; the same to be paid out of any money in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved May 31, 1848.

CHAP. 57.-AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Brownell.

$53 63 to be al

lowed in the settlement of his ac

counts, for that sum paid by him for medical ser

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury are hereby directed to allow to Thomas Brownell, in the settlement of his accounts, the sum of fifty dollars and sixtythree cents, being the amount paid by him while in cominand of the naval station at Sacket's Harbor, for medical services rendered to the officers and seamen attached to that station. States. Approved May 31, 1848.

vices rendered to

officers and seamen of the United

CHAP. 58.-AN ACT for the relief of Samuel W. Bell, a native of the Chero

kee nation.

The Secretary

him the amount of

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War pay to Samuel W. Bell, of War to pay a native of the Cherokee nation of Indians, out of any money is expenses inin the treasury not otherwise appropriated, his expenses incurred in going curred in going to and returning from Florida, in the year from Florida in eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and such daily pay for 1837. the time he was engaged on such mission, up to the time of his return to the Cherokee nation, as was paid to Richard Fields for similar services.

Approved May 31, 1848.

to and returning

CHAP. 59.-AN ACT for the relief of Reynolds May.

Reynolds May

payment of a

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Reynolds May, of the State of Arkansas, be, released and dis and he hereby is, released and discharged from the payment charged from the of a judgment obtained against him by the United States in judgment obtainthe district court for the district of Arkansas, in the year eigh- the United States. teen hundred and forty-six, on his recognizance for five hundred dollars, and from the payment of all costs and expenses attending the same.

Approved May 31, 1848.

ed against him by

Provisions

of

extended so as to

penses heretofore

unteers prior to

CHAP. 60.-AN ACT to refund money for expenses incurred, subsistence or transportation furnished, for the use of volunteers during the present war, before being mustered into the service of the United States.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asjoint resolution sembled, That the provisions of the joint resolution approved of March 3, 1817, March third, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled "A embrace all ex- resolution to refund money to the States which have supplied incurred for vol volunteers and furnished them transportation during the their being mus. present war, before being mustered and received into the sertered into service. vice of the United States," be, and the same are hereby, extended, so as to embrace all cases of expenses heretofore incurred in organizing, subsisting, and transporting volunteers, previous to their being mustered and received into the service. of the United States for the present war, whether by States, counties, corporations, or individuals, either acting with or without the authority of any States: Provided, however, That proof shall be made, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War, of the amount thus expended, and that the same was necessary and proper for the troops aforesaid.

Proviso.

Appropriation.

Interest allowed in certain cases.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That an amount sufficient to refund said expenses so incurred be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in refunding moneys under this act, and the resolution which it amends, it shall be lawful to pay interest at the rate of six per centum per annum on all sums advance by States, corporations, or individuals, in all cases where the State, corporation, or individual paid or lost the interest, or is liable to pay it. Approved June 2, 1848.

Manner

in

tion of the act of

CHAP. 61. AN ACT in explanation of an act entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights."

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress aswhich the 5th sec- sembled, That the fifth section of the act entitled "An act to September, appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and 1841, "to appro to grant pre-emption rights," approved on the fourth day of ceeds of the sales September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, shall lands, &c., shall be so construed as to suspend only such portions of said act

4th

priate the pro

of the public

be construed.

as precede said fifth section, (relative to the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands,) that being hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of said fifth section of the act aforesaid.

Approved June 13, 1848.

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