1838.

of the land offices

to

said receipts or

rest in and to said receipts or certificates for valuable consideration to said Ellis, supposing the same to be assignable; and whereas, the said section of the act aforesaid is so construed by the Treasury Department that the said receipts or certificates are not available to said Ellis under said assignment.

Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Repre The receivers sentatives, That the several receivers of the land offices be aureceive the thorized and required to receive the said receipts or certificates certificates when from the said Vespasian Ellis, in payment for any lands which endorsed by the said Ellis may locate, and which are liable to private entry, or Genl. Land Off from the assignee or assignees of said Ellis when endorsed by in payment for the Commissioner of the General Land Office as hereinafter directed, for any such lands they may locate, in the same manner as though said receipts or certificates had been originally as signable.

lands.

Com'r. Gen'l. Land Off to en

ceipts or certifi

And be it further resolved, That the Commissioner of the dorse on said re- General Land Office be directed to endorse upon the said recates that they ceipts or certificates that the same are receivable as aforesaid, receivable, from said Vespasian Ellis, or from his assignee or assignees, Approved, May 18th, 1838.

are

&c.

to be made be

[No. 4.] A RESOLUTION relating to the public revenue and dues to the Go

vernment.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, No difference That it shall not be lawful for the Secretary of the Trea tween the differ-sury to make or to continue in force, any general order, which ent branches of shall create any difference between the different branches of to the money of revenue, as to the money or medium of payment, in which debts or dues, accruing to the United States, may be paid.

the revenue, as

payment.

Approved, May 31st, 1835.

Congress dissent

and disaffirm the

lative Council of

poratingtheState

[No. 5.] RESOLUTION to disapprove and disaffirm an act of the Legislative Council of the Wisconsin Territory chartering a bank.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from, disapprove, Congress do, hereby, dissent from, disapprove, and disaffirm act of the Legis- the act of the Legislative Council of Wisconsin, entitled “An Wisconsin, incor- act to incorporate the stockholders of the State Bank of Wis Bank of Wiscon- consin at Prairie du Chien," a copy of which said act has, during the present session of Congress, been presented for its action, and for confirmation or disapproval; and the said act of the Legislative Council of the said Territory is hereby declared to be null and void, and to have no force or effect, whatsoever as a law of the said Territory.

sin.

Approved, June 12th, 1838.

[No. 6.] JOINT RESOLUTION in favor of the authorities of the city of Sa- 1838. vannah, in the State of Georgia.

rities of Savan

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authorities of the city of Savannah, in the State of Georgia, The city authobe, and they are hereby, authorized to reopen Reynolds and nah authorized to Wright streets, where they were closed by the works of Fort reopen Reynolds Wayne; and, also, to continue Bay street through the lands streets and to conbelonging to the United States in said city, and which form the site of Fort Wayne. Approved, June 18th, 1838.

and Wright

tinue Bay street.

[No. 7.] A RESOLUTION for the benefit of the widows of certain revolutionary officers and soldiers.

July 1836, extend

whose husbands

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the benefits of the third section of an act entitled "An act The benefits of granting half pay to widows or orphans where their husbands 3d Sec. act 4th and fathers have died of wounds received in the military ser- ed to widows vice of the United States in certain cases, and for other pur- have died,orshall poses," approved the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and sege of said act. thirty-six, shall not be withheld from any widow whose husband has died since the passage of the said act, or who shall hereafter die, if said widow shall otherwise be entitled to the same. Approved, July 7th, 1838.

die since the pas

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APPENDIX.

1838.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMEINCA.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, a convention between the Government of the United States of America, and the Government of the Republic of Texas, to terminate the reclamations of the former Government, for the capture, seizure, and detention of the brigs, Pocket, and Durango, and for injuries suffered by American citizens on board the Pocket, was concluded and signed at Houston, on the eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, which convention is word for word, as follows:

Convention with Texas, con

11th, 1838.

Convention between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Texas, to ter- cluded." minate the reclamations of the former Government, for the capture, seizure, and detention of the brigs, Pocket, and Durango, and for injuries suffered by American citizens on board the Pocket.

April

A. La Branche,

and R. A. Irion.

Alcée La Branche, Chargé d'Affairs of the United States of Negotiated by America, near the Republic of Texas, acting on behalf of the said United States of America, and R. A. Irion, Secretary of State of the Republic of Texas, acting on behalf of the said Republic, have agreed to the following articles.

to pay $11,750 to

mations in the

rango, and as an

ART. 1. The Government of the Republic of Texas, with Texas agrees a view to satisfy the aforesaid reclamations for the capture, satisfy the reclaseizure, and confiscation of the two vessels aforementioned, as cases of the Brigs well as for indemnity to American citizens who have suffered Pocket, and Duinjuries from the said Government of Texas, or its officers, indemnity for in juries suffered by obliges itself to pay the sum of eleven thousand seven hundred Am. citizens. and fifty dollars, ($11,750,) to the Government of the United States of America, to be distributed amongst the claimants by the said Government of the United States of America.

gold or silver,

after the

ex

ratifications of

ART. 2. The sum of eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty To be paid in dollars, (11,750,) agreed on in the first article shall be paid in with six per cent. gold or silver, with interest at six per cent. one year after the interest,one year exchange of the ratifications of this convention. The said pay-change of the ment shall be made at the seat of Government of the Republic this convention. of Texas, into the hands of such person or persons as shall be to be made, &c. duly authorized by the Government of the United States of America to receive the same.

Payment, where

1838.

ART. 3. The present convention shall be ratified, and the rati

To be ratified, fications thereof shall be exchanged in the city of Washington. of three months from this date, or sooner, if pos

and the ratifica

tions exchanged in the
at Washington, sible.
in three months.

Ratifications

exchanged on

1838.

space

In faith whereof, the parties above named have respectively subscribed these articles, and thereto affixed their seals.

Done at the city of Houston, on the eleventh day of the month of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. ALCEE LA BRANCHE R. A. IRION.

[L. S.] [L. S.] And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on the 6th July, both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were er changed at Washington, on the sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, by John Forsyth, Secretary of State of the United States, and Fairfax Catlett, Chargé d'Af faires of the Republic of Texas accredited to the Government of the United States, on the part of their respective Gover

ments.

Now, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN THAT I, MARTIN VAN BUREN, President of the United States, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and [L. S.] thirty eight, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-third.

By the President:

JOHN FORSYTH,

Secretary of State.

M. VAN BUREN.