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the sum of five thousand dollars, with lawful interest from the pay him $5000, with interest, first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, out of for a draft any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, being drawn by Jas. the amount of a draft drawn by James Reeside on the Post cepted by the Office Department, dated the eighteenth day of April, eighteen treasurer of the hundred and thirty-five, payable on the first day of January, partment, &e. eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and accepted by the Treasurer of the Post Office Department; which said draft was endorsed by said Abraham Horbach, at the instance of the said James Reeside, and the amount drawn from the Bank of Philadelphia, and at maturity said draft was protested for non-payment, and said Horbach became liable to pay, in consequence of his endorsement, and did pay, the full amount of said draft. Approved, August 10, 1846.

CHAP. 184 AN ACT for the relief of Henry Etting.

in settlement of

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and Allowed $2,606 hereby are, directed, in settling the accounts of Henry Etting, his accounts. as purser in the United States Navy, to allow him the sum of two thousand six hundred and six dollars, being a portion of the amount expended by him in prosecuting a suit against the Commercial Bank of New Orleans, to recover public money's deposited therein.

Approved, August 10, 1846.

CHAP. 185-AN ACT for the relief of Richard Kidd and Benjamin Kidd.

[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 hereby is, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treas ury not otherwise appropriated, to Joshua Coit, of the city of New York, attorney of Richard Kidd and Benjamin Kidd, the balance remaining unpaid, and interest thereon, of a judgment recovered by said Richard Kidd and Benjamin Kidd, in the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, against Samuel Swartwout, late collector of the port of New York, for the recovery of duties illegally exacted on the importation of certain wheat and flour of American growth or origin, in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-six and eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, a part of which judgment has been heretofore paid.

Approved, August 10, 1846.

Secretary of their attorney a balance due on

a judgment.

CHAP. 186.-AN ACT for the relief of James Erwin, of Arkansas, and others.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representaties of the United States of America in Congress as Secretary of sembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, dito allow & pay rected to investigate, audit, allow, and pay, out of any money him for losses in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to James Irwin, of sustained on a Arkansas, a fair and full remuneration for the actual losses he

War authorized

contract.

and pay him &

losses sustained

sustained in consequence of a contract he made with the United States in September, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to supply provisions and transportation for the use of the Creek Indians expected to emigrate from the eastern to the western side of the Mississippi river, but who did not emigrate.

Also to allow SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the heirs of D. War be, and he is hereby, directed to investigate, audit, allow Greathouse for and pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise apon a contract. propriated, to James Erwin, and to the heirs or legal represen tatives of Daniel Greathouse, deceased, a full and fair remuneration for the actual losses sustained in consequence of a contract made by said Erwin and said Daniel Greathouse, in his lifetime, and the United States, in December, eighteen hundred thirty-five, to supply provisions and transportation for the use of the Seminole Indians expected to emigrate from the eastern to the western side of the Mississippi river, but who failed to emigrate, Provided, The amount allowed as damages in consequence of the non-use of the provisions furnished, shall not exceed the difference between their cost at the place or places where they were to have been delivered, and the amount for which they were afterwards sold.

Proviso.

Approved, August 10, 1846.

certain and pay

tractors, &c.

for extra work

CHAP. 187.-AN ACT for the relief of John Jones, surviving partner of John
Jones and Charles Souder.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Secretary to as. sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is the amount of hereby, directed to ascertain the actual amount of damages susdamages sus-tained by John Jones and Charles Souder, contractors with tained as con- others for constructing a stone wall and embankment around also the amount the Peapatch island, in the State of Delaware, in the year and materials in eighteen hundred and thirty, caused by the storm and overflow constructing of that island on the twenty-ninth of November of that year, Pea Patch Is to which the works of the constructors of said wall and embankment were exposed by the failure on the part of the United States to furnish stone sufficient to construct said wall within the time limited in said contract; as well as the amount of extra work done and materials furnished and used, or conveyed time doite and to the place of construction by them, in repairing said damages or building said wall and embankment, upon such evidence as

wall around

land.

is usually received by the accounting officers of the departments in similar cases.

extra work and by John

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary Also, amount of be, and he is hereby, directed to ascertain the amount of extra materials furwork done and materials furnished by John Jones,but not paid for, nished be paid in constructing a cistern or other works on the said island in the him. years eighteen hundred and twenty-nine and eighteen hundred and thirty, and pay to the said John Jones, surviving partner of J. Jones and C. Souder, such sum or sums of money as Indemnity to be made on equitwill afford him such indemnity for said losses, damages, and able principles. extra work, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as it may appear that they upon principles of law and equity were justly entitled to.

Approved, August 10, 1846.

CHAP. 188.-AN ACT for the relief of Alexis Ayot.

Pension of $10

[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, au- per month althorized and required to place the name of Alexis Ayot on the lowed. list of invalid pensioners, and to pay him at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twenty-fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-four.

Approved, August 10, 1846.

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RESOLUTIONS.

Preamble.

[No. 1.]-JOINT RESOLUTION for the admission of the State of Texas into the Union.

Whereas the Congress of the United States, by a joint resolution approved March the first, eighteen hundred and forty five, did consent that the territory properly included within, and rightfully belonging to, the republic of Texas, might be erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of government, to be adopted by the people of said republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, in order that the same might be admitted as one of the States of the Union; which consent of Congress was given upon certain conditions specified in the first and second sections of said joint resolution; and whereas the people of the said republic of Texas, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing government, did adopt a constitution, and erect a new State with a republican form of government, and, in the name of the people of Texas, and by their authority, did ordain and declare that they assented to and accepted the proposals, conditions, and guarantees contained in said first and second section of said resolution and whereas the said constitution, with the proper evidence of its adoption by the people of the republic of Texas, has been transmitted to the President of the United States and laid before Congress, in conformity to the provisions of said joint resolution: therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Texas admitted United States of America in Congress assembled, That the into the Union. State of Texas shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects what

sentatives.

ever.

To be entitled SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That until the represento two Repretatives in Congress shall be apportioned according to an actual enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, the State of Texas shall be entitled to choose two representatives. Approved, December 29, 1845.

[No. 2]-JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the printing and distribution of the annual estimates.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Estimates of ap- United States of America in Congress assembled, That it propriations to be printed. shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the

estimates of appropriations which he is by law required to prepare and submit to Congress to be printed, and copies of the same to be delivered to the clerk of the House of Representatives, in time for distribution at the commencement of each session; and that the clerk distribute the said estimates in the manner in which documents printed by Congress are directed to be distributed.

Approved January 7, 1846.

[No. 3.]-A RESOLUTION to authorize the transmission and presentation of books to the minister of justice of France in exchange for books received from him.

ries of reports

transmit

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of Librarian of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress authothe librarian of Congress be, and he hereby is, authorized and rized to procure directed to procure a complete series of reports of all the deci-a complete sesions of the Supreme Court of the United States, and of the of Sup. Court circuit and district courts thereof, which have been heretofore and Circuit and District Courts, published; as also a complete copy of the public statutes at large and of the United States, now being edited by Richard Peters, esq them to Minisby authority of Congress, the whole to be uniformly bound and France. lettered; and to cause the same, under the direction of the chief justice of the said Supreme Court, to be transmitted and presented to the minister of justice of France, in return and exchange for works of French law heretofore presented by the minister to the Supreme Court aforesaid.

ter of Justice of

SEC. 2. And be it further resolved, That for the purpose Appropriation. aforesaid there be appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Approved, March 4, 1846.

[No. 4.]—JOINT RESOLUTION concerning the Oregon Territory.

Whereas by the convention concluded the twentieth day of Preamble. October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, between the United States of America and the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the period of ten years, and afterwards indefinitely extended and continued in force by another convention of the same parties concluded the sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, it was agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony or Rocky mountains, now commonly called the Oregon territory, should, together with its harbors, bays and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be "free and open" to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two powers, but without prejudice to any claim which

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