employ a clerk in addition to those authorised by law, at the sum clerk to navy of nine hundred dollars.

board.

That the surveyor general of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, be Surveyor gen. authorised to employ two clerks at a sum not exceeding twentyof Ohio, &c. to three hundred dollars, and that he be allowed the further sum of tional clerks. employ addi four thousand dollars for additional clerk hire.

of Illinois to

That the surveyor general of Illinois and Missouri be authorised Surveyor gen. to employ clerks at a sum not exceeding three thousand eight employ, &c. hundred and twenty dollars.

That the surveyor general of Arkansas be allowed the sum of two thousand eight hundred dollars, for clerk hire in his office. That the surveyor of Louisiana be allowed the sum of twenty five hundred dollars for clerk hire in his office.

That the surveyor general of Mississippi be allowed the sum of five thousand dollars for clerk hire in his office.

That the surveyor general of Alabama be allowed the sum two thousand dollars for clerk hire in his office.

of

of

$2,800 to sur.

gen. of Ark. for clerk hire. $2,500 to sur.

Lou. for do.

$5,000 to sur.

gen. of Miss. for do $2,000 to sur.

gen. of Ala. for do.

$3,500 to sur. gen. of Flor. for clerks.

Clerks to be employed in

dep't of war.

That the surveyor general of Florida be allowed the sum three thousand five hundred dollars for clerks in his office. That the secretary of war be, and he is hereby authorised to employ, for the discharge of the various duties of the department, the following clerks and messengers; one clerk at sixteen hundred dollars, and one clerk at fourteen hundred dollars; to be employed in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties: Provided, That the said clerks shall not be employed Proviso. for a longer term than four years. Three clerks for the pension Clerks in the office at one thousand dollars each, to be continued only during pension office. the present year.

In the quar

general's

Six clerks and one messenger, in the quartermaster general's ter-master office, whose compensation shall be as follows; one clerk at sixteen hundred dollars, one clerk at twelve hundred dollars, four office. clerks at one thousand dollars each, and one messenger at five hundred dollars, one clerk for the ordnance office at twelve hundred dollars, and four clerks at one thousand dollars each. One clerk for the adjutant general's office at twelve hundred dollars, and three clerks at one thousand dollars each. One clerk in the engineer office at twelve hundred dollars, and one clerk at one thousand dollars. One clerk in the commanding general's office at one thousand dollars. Six clerks and one messenger in the emigrating Indian Bureau attached to the subsistence department, whose compensation shall be as follows: one clerk at sixteen hundred dollars, one clerk at fourteen hundred dollars, one clerk at twelve hundred dollars, three clerks at one thousand dollars each, and one messenger at five hundred dollars; Provided, That' the authority claimed under the acts approved March twentyeight, eighteen hundred and twelve, and May twenty-second eighteen hundred and twelve, or by any other act for the employment of non-commissioned officers, or the appointment of extra clerks in any of the offices of the war department be, and the same are hereby repealed: Provided however, That where express appropriations are made by law, for the employment of clerks, such employment shall not be deemed to be extra, within the meaning of the above act.

Clerk in topographical bu

reau.

Supt. of Indian Affairs,

St. Louis, to employ two clerks.

Supt. south of Missouri to employ one.

Act of Jan. 1828, not to

apply to pen

sions.

For one clerk in the topographical bureau, one thousand dollars.

That the superintendent of Indian Affairs at St. Louis be authorised to employ two clerks in his office, and no more, one of which shall receive a compensation of one thousand, and the other of eight hundred dollars.

That the superintendent of Indian Affairs south of the Missouri river be authorised to employ one clerk in his office who shall receive a compensation of one thousand dollars.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the salaries provided for in this act, and payable for the year eighteen hundred and thirtysix, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, May 9th, 1836.]

CHAP. 76. An act to give effect to patents for public lands issued in the names of deceased persons.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That in all cases where patents for public lands have been or may hereafter be issued, in pursuance of any law of the United States, to a person who had died, or who shall hereafter die, before the date of such patent, the title to the land designated therein shall enure to, and become vested in, the heirs, devisees, or assignees of such deceased patentee, as if the patent had issued to the deceased person during life; and the provisions of this act shall be construed to extend to patents for lands within the Virginia Military District in the state of Ohio. [Approved, May 20th, 1836.]

CHAP. 77. An act explanatory of the act entitled "An act to prevent defalcations on the part of the disbursing agents of the government, and for other purposes."

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, the act entitled "An act to prevent defalcations on the part of the disbursing agents of the government, and for other purposes," approved the twenty-fifth of Act of 1828, January, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, shall not be construed to authorise the pension of any pensioner of the United States to be withheld. [Approved, May 20th, 1836.]

c. 2, ante p.

2103.

CHAP. 79. An act for the relief of the several corporate cities of the
District of Columbia.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby, authorised and directed to assume, on behalf of the United States, and discharge, to the holders of the evidences of debt contracted and entered into between the cities of Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown, and certain individuals in Holland, negotiated by Richard Rush, Esquire, on behalf of said corporate bodies, the entire obligation of paying said debts, with the accruing interest thereon, together with the interest now due and remaining unpaid, according to the terms of said contract.

§2. And be it further enacted, That before the said secretary of the treasury, shall execute the duties prescribed by the first section of this act, the said corporate authorities of said cities shall deposite in the hands of the said secretary of the treasury, the

stock in the said Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, held by them respectively; and the said secretary of the treasury may, at such time within ten years, as may be most favorable for the sale of said stock, dispose thereof at public sale, and reimburse to the United States such sums as may have been paid under the provisions of this act; and if any surplus remain after said reimbursement, he shall pay over said surplus to said cities, in proportion to the amount of stock now held by them respectively. [Approved, May 20th, 1836.]

CHAP. 80. An act authorising the President of the United States to accept the service of volunteers, and to raise an additional regiment of dragoons or mounted riflemen.

may accept

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States President be, and he hereby is authorised to accept volunteers who may the services of offer their services either as infantry or cavalry not exceeding 10,000 volunten thousand men, to serve six or twelve months after they shall teers, &c. have arrived at the place of rendezvous, unless sooner discharged; and the said volunteers shall furnish their own clothes, and, if cavalry, their own horses, and when mustered into service, shall be armed and equipped at the expense of the United States.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the said volunteers shall To do milita be liable to be called upon to do military duty only in cases of ry duty, &c. Indian hostilities, or to repel invasions, whenever the President shall judge proper, and when called into actual service and while remaining therein, shall be subject to the rules and articles of war, and shall be in all respects, except as to clothing, placed on the same footing with similar corps of the United States army, and in lieu of clothing every non-commissioned officer and private, in any company, who may thus offer themselves, shall be entitled, when called into actual service, to receive in money a sum equal to the cost of the clothing of a non-commissioned officer or private (as the case may be) in the regular troops of the United States.

nics, &c.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That the said volunteers so To be receiv offering their services, shall be accepted by the President in ed in compa companies, battalions, squadrons, regiments, brigades, or divisions, whose officers shall be appointed in the manner prescribed by law in the several states and territories, to which such companies, battalions, squadrons, regiments, brigades, or divisions, shall respectively belong: Provided, That, where any company, bat- Proviso. talion, squadron, regiment, brigade, or division, of militia, already organized, shall tender their voluntary service to the United States, such company, battalion, squadron, regiment, brigade, or division, shall continue to be commanded by the officers holding commissions in the same, at the time of such tender; and any vacancy thereafter occurring shall be filled in the mode pointed out by law in the state or territory wherein the said company, battalion, squadron, regiment, brigade or division, shall have been originally

raised.

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United To be organStates be, and he is hereby authorised to organise companies, so tendering their services, into battalions or squadrons, battalions or

ised by the President.

To be entitled
to benefits,
&c.

A regiment of dragoons to

squadrons into regiments, regiments into brigades, and brigades into divisions, as soon as the number of volunteers shall render such organization in his judgment expedient; and the President shall, if necessary, apportion the staff, field and general officers among the respective states or territories from which the volunteers shall tender their services, as he may deem proper; but, until called into actual service, such companies, battalions, squadrons, regiments, brigades or divisions shall not be considered as exempt from the performance of militia duty as if required by law, in like manner as before the passage of this act.

§ 5. And be it further enacted, That the volunteers who may be received into the service of the United States, by virtue of the provisions of this act, shall be entitled to all the benefits which may be conferred on persons wounded in the service of the United States.

§ 6. And be it further enacted, That there shall be raised and be organised. organised under the direction of the President of the United States, one additional regiment of dragoons or mounted riflemen, to be composed of the same number and rank of the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, composing the regiment of dragoons now in the service of the United States, who shall receive the same pay and allowances, be subject to the same rules and regulations, and be engaged for the like term, and upon the same conditions, in all respects whatever as are stipulated for the said regiment of dragoons now in service.

President

§ 7. And be it further enacted, That the President of the may disband. United States may disband the said regiment, whenever in his opinion, the public interest no longer requires their services; and $300,000 ap that the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, required to carry propriated. into effect the provisions of this act is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Act to remain

§ 8. And be it further enacted, That so much of this act as in force two relates to volunteers shall be in force for two years from and after the passage of this act, and no longer. [Approved, May 23d, 1836.]

years.

A pension

agency to be established at Wheeling.

Proviso.

CHAP. 85. An act to provide for the payment of certain pensioners in the States of Virginia and Ohio.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of war be, and he hereby is, authorised and empowered to establish a pension agency at the city of Wheeling in the state of Virginia, for the payment of pensioners of the United States, resident in the counties of Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Tyler, Wood, Lewis, Harrison, Randolph, Preston, and Monongalia, in Virginia, and Belmont, Jefferson, Guernsey, Harrison, and Monroe, in the state of Ohio: Provided, That the establishment of such agency can be made and continued without charge to the United States.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury be, and hereby is, authorised to make the necessary arrangement for the payment of said pensioners.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-six. [Approved, June 7th, 1836.]

CHAP. 86. An act to extend the western boundary of the State of
Missouri, to the Missouri river.

§1. Be it enacted, &c. That when the Indian title to all the
lands lying between the state of Missouri, and the Missouri river
shall be extinguished, the jurisdiction over said land shall be hereby
ceded to the state of Missouri, and the western boundary of said
state shall be then extended to the Missouri river, reserving to the
United States the original right of soil in said lands, and of dis-
posing of the same: Provided, That this act shall not take effect Proviso.
until the President shall by proclamation, declare that the Indian
title to said lands has been extinguished; nor shall it take effect
until the state of Missouri shall have assented to the provisions of
this act. [Approved, June 7th, 1836.]

CHAP. 87. An act to carry into effect a convention between the

United States and Spain.

sioner, secre

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States, A commisby and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint tary, and one commissioner, whose duty it shall be to receive and examine clerk to be ap all claims which may be presented to him under the convention pointed. for the settlement of claims between the United States of America, and her Catholic Majesty the Queen of Spain, concluded at Madrid, on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, which are provided for by the said convention, according to the provisions of the same, and the principles of justice, equity and the law of nations. The said commissioner shall have a secretary, versed in the Spanish and French languages, and a clerk, both to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; and the commissioner, secretary, and clerk, shall, before they enter on the duties of their offices, take oath well and faithfully to perform the duties thereof.

rules and re

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioner Commissionshall be, and he is hereby, authorised to make all needful rules er to make and regulations, not contravening the laws of the land, the provi- gulations. sions of this act, or the provisions of the said convention, for carrying his said commission into full and complete effect.

the

Washington.

§3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner, so to Commissionbe appointed, shall attend at the city of Washington, and his er to attend at salary shall begin to be allowed within thirty days after his city of appointment; and within twelve months from the time of his attendance as aforesaid, he shall terminate his duties. And the secretary of state is required, as soon as the said commissioner shall be appointed, to give notice of his attendance at Washington as aforesaid, and to be published in two newspapers in the city of Washington, and in such other newspapers as he may think proper.

be delivered to him.

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That all records, documents, or Records and other papers, which now are in, or hereafter, during the continu- documents to ance of this commission, may come into the possession of the department of state, in relation to such claim, shall be delivered to the commissioner aforesaid.