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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of 1836. War be, and he is hereby authorized to allow and pay to David $2,327 12 to be Brearly, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise ap- Brearly. propriated, the amount charged to his account and accounted for by him on a draft drawn by him on the War Department, on the twenty-sixth January, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, for the sum of two thousand three hundred twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents, for provisions purchased for and applied to the use of certain emigrating Creek Indians.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of Secretary of War War be and he is hereby authorized and directed to invest, in a funde. manner which shall be, in his judgment, most safe and beneficial for the fund, the sum of thirty-three thousand nine hundred and twelve dollars and forty cents, being money in the Treasury as the proceeds of lands purchased from the Seneca Indians of Sandusky by a treaty concluded on the twenty-eighth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, from the Senecas and Shawaneese by a treaty concluded on the twentieth of July eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and from the Shawanese, by a treaty concluded on the eighth of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and upon which sum the United States are, by supulations in the said treaties, bound to pay to the said Indians an annual interest at the rate of five per centum per annum; Provided. That the said Secretary shall make no investment Proviso of the said sum, or any portion of it, at a lower rate of interest than five per centum per annum.

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Agent at Michilmackinac.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be compe- President may astent for the President to assign to the Indian Agent at Michil- ties to the Indian mackinac, in addition to his proper duties, the duties of Superintendent of Indian Affairs for all that district of country heretofore constituting the Territory of Michigan and lying east of the Line established as the eastern boundary of the Territory of Wisconsin, by the act of Congress of the twentieth April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; Provided, however, That no additional Proviso. compensation or einolument shall be granted on account of the said duties; and the President may require the said agent to reside at such place as he may think fit, within the said district. Approved, June 14th, 1836.

CHAP 89. An ACT to establish an arsenal of construction in the State of
North Carolina.

chase of a site and for building.

[SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of forty-five thousand dollars be, and the same is $15,000 for purhereby appropriated. from any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, towards the purchase of a site and the building of an arsenal of deposite and general construction, near the town of Fayetteville, in the State of North Carolina.

Approved, June 14th, 1836.

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CHAP. 90. An ACT for the relief of John Pierce and Daniel Van Voorhis.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, $66 25 to be paid That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to John Pierce and Daniel Van Voorhis sixty-six dollars and twenty-five cents, for thirty pairs of brass butts furnished at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, of an extra quality, not enumerated in their contract. Approved, June 14th, 1836.

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CHAP. 91. An ACT for the relief of Jesse Smith and others.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Secretary of the That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to apply on the tigate and settle judgments and notes mentioned in schedules A and B, that accompany the report of N. S. Benton, the United States attorney for the northern district of New York, dated December third, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and addressed to the Solicitor of the Treasury, the official notes, due bills, drafts, or accountable receipts given by Thomas Tupper, late assistant deputy quartermaster general, held and possessed by the persons against whom judgments have been recovered, as mentioned in schedule A, and held and possessed by the persons mentioned in schedule A, and held and possessed by the persons mentioned in schedule B, against whom the United States hold notes given for property purchased at Sackett's Harbor, provided said Secretary shall be satisfied that said notes, due bills, drafts, or accountable receipts, were given for work and labor done and performed in the erection of barracks at Sackett's Harbor, or for materials furnished for that object, or for other expenditures in the Quartermaster's Department, and remain unpaid. And the said Secretary is authorized to investigate the consideration of said notes, due bills, drafts, or accountable receipts, so given by said Tupper, if he shall deem such investigation necessary to protect the United States against imposition and fraud, giving to the party interested reasonable notice of the time and place for taking testimony. If the sums found due to each person, respectively, be equal to, or greater than the judgment or judgments recovered against him without cost, then such judgment or judgments is to be discharged by the Secretary, in a case where said due bills were purchased after suit was commenced; and in such case the costs against the defendants shall be considered and taken, in settling said judgment, as a part thereof. And if the sum found due to any person mentioned in schedule B, on notes, due bills, drafts, or accountable receipts given by the said Tupper as aforesaid, be equal to, or greater than such indebtedness to the United States, then the said Secretary is directed to cancel the said debt to the United States, by applying thereto the sum so found due: Provided, That no such application shall be made in any case where the applicant purchased the due bills, drafts, notes, or accounta

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ble receipts, signed by said Tupper as aforesaid, after suit was commenced, until said applicant shall have paid the costs when suit is commenced. And in all instances where the United States have charged interest on the debt due to the United States, interest is to be computed on the claims of such person for a corresponding period.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary be directed to make the like credit upon a judgment, or note, against a surety, as he shall make on a judgment, or note, against the proper principal.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the judgments re- Judgments covered remain uncollected for one year, to enable the claimants uncollected to obtain the benefit of this act, and that the suits be continued for that period, for the like purpose: Provided, The sureties file Proviso. their written consent to said indulgence with the Solicitor of the Treasury within one month after the approval of this act by the President. Approved, June 14th, 1836.

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CHAP. 92. An ACT for the relief of Henry Darling.

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[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, autho- 8248 75 to be paid rized and directed to pay to Henry Darling, of Bucksport, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents, being the moiety of a forfeiture on a license bond recovered from said Darling as a surety of John Phillips, and paid into the Treasury of the United States.

Approved, June 14th, 1836.

CHAP. 93. An ACT for the relief of Joseph Gresham.

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[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to Joseph Gresham, $105 to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated one hundred and five dollars, being the forfeiture retained on a contract made between the United States and William Foushce, which was assigned to John Head, the said John Head having drawn an order in favor of the said Joseph Gresham, covering the amount contained in this act; and when the aforesaid sum is paid, the proper accounting officers are directed to charge the same, to balance the account of the said John Head.

Approved, 14th of June, 1836.

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CHAP. 94. An ACT for the relief of the legal representative of Thomas
Haliday, deceased.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, $62 35 to be paid That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money in the

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Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the legal representative of Thomas Haliday, deceased, the sum of sixty-two dollars and thirty-five cents, for that amount expended in the public service, under an order from the commandant of the marine corps in Washington, in looking after public property stolen from the marine quartermaster in the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, and while attending court, under like order, on the trial of a person apprehended for secreting said property.

Approved, 14th June, 1836.

CHAP. 95. An ACT for the relief of William Woodward and William Mitchell.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 830 to be paid to That the Secretary of the Treasury pay, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, thirty dollars to William Woodward and William Mitchell, being money paid for a patent which they do not wish should issue. Approved, 14th June, 1836.

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CHAP. 95. An ACT for the relief of Samuel W. Ruff

[SEC. 1] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, His account That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and be audited and they are hereby, authorized to audit and settle the account of Samuel W. Ruff, a surgeon in the navy of the United States, and to allow him the pay and emoluments of a surgeon, in lieu of the pay and emoluments of an assistant surgeon, from the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, up to the time of his appointment as surgeon in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and that the amount due to the said Samuel W. Ruff, upon such settlement and allowance, be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, June 14th, 1836.

CHAP. 97. An ACT repealing the fourteenth section of the "Actto incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States," approved, April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixteen.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourteenth section of the act entitled "An act to incor

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porate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States, approved
April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixteen, shall be, and the same
is hereby, repealed.
Approved, June 15th, 1836.

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CHAP. 98. An ACT to divide the Green Bay land district in Michigan, and for other purposes.

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[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the country on the western shore of Lake Michigan, em Division braced within the limits of the Green Bay land district, as established by the act of Congress, of the twenty-sixth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, shall be, and is hereby, divided by a line commencing on the western boundary of said district, and running thence, east, between townships ten and eleven north, to the line between ranges seventeen and eighteen, east ; thence north, between said ranges of townships, to the line between townships twelve and thirteen north; thence east, between said townships twelve and thirteen, to Lake Michigan; and all the country bounded north by the division line here described, south by the base line, east by Lake Michigan, and west by the division line between ranges eight and nine east, shall constitute a separate district, and be called the Milwalky land district.

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SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That two additional Tw districts shall be, and are hereby established in the peninsula of ladicts to Michigan, one to be called the Grand river, and the other the Saginaw, land district, the former of which shall be bounded as follows, to wit: beginning at the shore of Lake Michigan, on the line between townships three and four north, and running east on said line to the line between ranges number six and seven west of the principal meridian; thence, on said range line south, to the base line of the public surveys; thence, on said base line east, to the principal meridian line; thence north, on said meridian, to the north boundary of township ten north; thence west, on the line between townships ten and eleven north, to the western boundary of range two west; and thence north, following the line between ranges two and three west, so as to include all that portion of the peninsula of Michigan lying west of said line. The Saginaw district shall embrace all the tract of country bounded on the west by the Grand river district aforesaid; on the south, by the division line, between townships number five and six, north of the base line; on the east by the division line, between ranges eleven and twelve, east of the principal meridian; and on the north and northeast by Saginaw bay and Lake Huron.

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SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That for each of all Register and rethe aforesaid districts there shall be appointed a register and pointed in each. receiver, who shall reside and superintend the sales of the public lands at such place, in each respective district, as the President of the United States may designate. They shall give security in the same manner and in the same sums, and their compensa

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