or either of them, on the commissioner of Indian affairs, in pursuance of instructions and authority given to them, shall be paid out of said appropriation, holding said commissioners to a due accountability for the amount or proceeds of said bills or drafts. For fulfilling treaty with the Kansas Indians-viz: in-Fulfilling treaty terest on two hundred thousand dollars at five per cent., in fieu with the Kansas Indians, &c. of investment per second article of treaty of fourteenth July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, ten thousand dollars; for defraying the necessary expenses of negotiating the treaty, pay.' ment to the missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for improvements, erection of a mill, and for provisions per same article and treaty, two thousand dollars; for expenses of surveying the western line of lands ceded, and marking the same, per third article of the same treaty, one thousand dollars. Approved, July 23, 1846..

CHAP. 66,—AN ACT in relation to the payment of claims.

than the claim

istrators,er duly

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever a claim on the United States afore- Claims allowed said shall hereafter have been allowed by a resolution or act of by Congress not to be paid to Cougress, and thereby directed to be paid, the money shall not, any other pernor shall any part thereof, be paid to any person or persons son or persons other than the claimant or claimants, his or their executor or ants, their exeexecntors, administrator or administrators, unless such person cutors, adminor persons shall produce to the proper disbursing officer a war- constituted atrant of attorney executed by such claimant or claimants, execu- torneys. tor or executors, administrator or administrators, after the enactment of the resolution or act allowing the claim; and every Requisite form such warrant of attorney shall refer to such resolution or act, of warrant of and expressly recite the amount allowed thereby, and shall be attested by two competent witnesses, and be acknowledged by the person or persons executing it, before an officer having au thority to take the acknowledgment of deeds, who shall certify: such acknowldgement; and it shall appear by such certificate that such officer, at the time of the making of such acknowledgment, read and fully explained, such warrant of attorney to the person or persons acknowledging, the same. Approved, July 29, 1846.

attorney.

CHAP. 67.-AN ACT further to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office. [SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled "An act further to extend the Act of August time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning 19, 1844, for lecating Virginia surveys thereon to the General Land Office," approved August military land

- extended to lat

warrants, &c. nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty-one, as to all warrants isJanuary, 1848. sued prior to the tenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty, and no others, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

Approved, July 29, 1846.

Preamble.

CHAP. 68-AN ACT giving the assent of Congress to a change of the compact entered into between the United States and the State of Arkansas, on her admission into the Union.

Whereas the Congress of the United States, by an act supplementary to an act for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the same, and for other purposes, approved June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in the fifth proposition made to the State of Arkansas, and which was subsequently accepted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, provided that the two entire townships of land located by virtue of an act of Congress entitled "An act concerning a seminary of learning in the Territory of Arkansas," approved the second day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, which, by the first recited act of Congress, were vested in and confirmed to the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, to be appropriated solely to the use and support of a university in said State: And whereas the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas have, by their resolution, approved December eighteen, eighteen hundred and forty-four, asked for a modi fication of said compact to authorize said General Assembly to appropriate said seventy-two sections of land to common: school purposes: Therefore, ...

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asAssent of Con- sembled, That the assent of Congress be, and is hereby, given gress given to a change of the to the change in said compact asked for by the said General comp ict so as to Assembly, so as to authorize and empower the General Assemauthorize the appropriation of bly of the State of Arkansas, and they are hereby authorized 72 sections of and empowered, to appropriate said seventy-two sections of land land for school for the use and benefit of common schools in said State, or in purposes, &c. any other mode the said General Assembly may deem proper, for the promotion of education in said State.

Approved, July 29, 1846.

CHAP. 69.-AN ACT for the relief of Abraham B. Fannin,

[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 is

be audited and

hereby, authorized to settle, upon principles of justice and His accounts to equity, the accounts of Abraham B. Fannin, formerly collector settled. of the customs for the district of Savannah, in the State of Georgia: Provided, That the credits which may be given in such settlement on account of expenses incurred by and allowed to him per annum as collector aforesaid, shall not exceed the expenses incurred by and allowed per annum to his succes. sor in said office, nor make any balance due from or payable by the United States to said Fannin.

Approved, July 29, 1846.

CHAP. 70-AN ACT for the relief of Amos Kendall.

for counsel fees and other ex

tled.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the First Auditor and Comptroller of the Treas. His accounts ury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to settle the account of Amos Kendall, late Postmaster General of the penses to be au United States, for such counsel fees as said Amos Kendall has dited and set paid, or bound himself to pay, and all other necessary and usual expenses incurred, and not repaid by the plaintiffs, by reason of the suit instituted against him by William B. Stokes and others, in the circuit court of the District of Columbia, and decided in his favor by the Supreme Court of the United States at January term, eighteen hundred and forty-five; and that the Sec- To be paid the retary of Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed amount found to pay, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, whatever sums of money may be allowed to him. by said accounting, officers pursuant to the provisions of this

to be due him.

CHAP. 71-AN ACT for the relief of Mrs. Pike, widow of the late General

Pike.

To be paid

two exploring

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of three thousand dollars, out of any $3,000 for two moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the years service of same is hereby appropriated, to be paid to Mrs. Zebulon Mont. her husband in gomery Pike, widow of the late General Pike, for compensa- expeditions. tion for two years' extraordinary services in two exploring expeditions by the said General (then lieutenant) Pike to the sources of the Mississippi, in eighteen hundred and five and eighteen hundred and six, and to the sources of the Arkansas and Great Platte, and through New Mexico, in eighteen hundred and six and eighteen hundred and seven. Approved, July 29, 1846.

per month allowed.

CHAP. 72.—AN ACT for the relief of Nathaniel Phillips.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA pension of $4 sembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, directed to place the name of Nathaniel Phillips on the roll of invalid pensioners, and that he be paid, during his natural life, a pension at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

Approved, July 29, 1846.

CHAP. 73.-AN ACT for the relief of Harriet L. Catching.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asReleased from sembled, That Harriet L. Catching be, and she is hereby, rea judgment ob leased from the payment of a judgment obtained against her tained against her by the Uni- by the United States in the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of Mississippi, on the sixteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine: Provided, She pay all costs of said suit.

ted States.

Approved, July 29, 1846.

Schedules classifying amount of duties to be levied.

CHAP. 74. AN ACT reducing the duty 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 from and after the first day of December next, in lieu of the duties heretofore imposed by law on the articles hereinafter mentioned, and on such as may now be exempt from duty, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, on the goods, wares, and merchandise herein enumerated and provided for, imported from foreign countries, the following rates of duty that is to say:

a

On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule A, duty of one hundred per centum ad valorem.

On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule B, a duty of forty per centum ad valorem.

On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule C, a duty of thirty per centum ad valorem.

On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule D, a duty of twenty five per centum ad valorem.

On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule E, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem.

On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule F, a duty of fifteen per centum ad valorem.

On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule G, a duty of ten per centum ad valorem.

On goods, wares, and merchandise mentioned in schedule H, a duty of five per centum ad valorem.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Schedule I dufirst day of December next, the goods, wares, and merchandise ly free. mentioned in schedule I shall be exempt from duty.

tations not spe

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the 20 per cent dufirst day of December next, there shall be levied, collected, and ty on all imporpaid on all goods, wares, and merchandise imported from foreign cially provided countries, and not specially provided for in this act, a duty of for. twenty per centum ad valorem.

weighed, guag.

Drawback in

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all cases in which Goods to be the invoice or entry shall not contain the weight or quantity or ed, or measured measure of goods, wares, or merchandise now weighed or meas in certain casce. ured or gauged, the same shall be weighed, gauged, or measured at the expense of the owner, agent, or consignee. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of December next, in lieu of the bounty heretofore authorized by law to be paid on the exportation of pickled fish of the fisheries of the United States, there shall be allowed, on the exportation thereof, if cured with foreign salt, a drawback equal in amount to the duty paid on the salt, and no more, to be ascertained under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

lieu of bounty on pickled fish.

Goods, &c. im.

ported after the passage of this

be subject to no higher

duties

than if imported after that day.

Sec. 12 of act of Aug. 30, 1842, modified.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all goods, wares, and merchandise imported after the passage of this act and act and in store which may be in the public stores on the second day of Decem- on 2d Dec. to ber next, shall be subject to no other duty upon the entry thereof than if the same were imported respectively after that day. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the twelfth section of the act entitled "An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes," approved August thirty, eighteen. hundred and forty-two, shall be, and the same is hereby, so "See vol. 10, p. far modified, that all goods imported from this side the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn may remain in the public stores for the space of one year instead of the term of sixty days prescribed in the said section; and that all goods imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn may remain in the public stores one year instead of the term of ninety days prescribed in the said section.

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addition in en

cases.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful Owners & confor the owner, consignee, or agent of imports which have been signees of imactually purchased, on entry of the same, to make such addi-ports may make tion in the entry to the cost or value given in the invoice, as in try in certain his opinion may raise the same to the true market value of such imports in the principal markets of the country whence the importation shall have been made, or in which the goods imported shall have been originally manufactured or produced, as the ease may be; and to add thereto all costs and charges which under existing laws, would form part of the true value at the port where the same may be entered, upon which the duties