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Trustees, &c. to have power

to commence

suits, &c., and

prosecute to final judgment and execution.

Proviso.

STATUTE I.

made over to said bank, or which would in any manner have become the property of said bank had the same continued in existence in any action, suit, judgment, or execution aforesaid or otherwise, shall enure to the trustee or trustees, assignee or assignees, receiver or receivers of said bank, if any shall be appointed by the stockholders or otherwise.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the trustee or trustees, assignee or assignees, receiver or receivers, who may be appointed to collect and receive the assets of any bank whose charter shall expire as aforesaid, and to adjust, settle, and liquidate, the debts due from said banks, shall have full power to commence and institute all necessary actions, suits, or other proceedings, in law or equity, in the name of said bank, and prosecute the same to final judgment and execution, Provided, That the Court in which such legal or equitable proceeding shall be commenced, shall first receive sufficient security for the costs which may be recovered by the opposite party.

APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

June 17, 1844. CHAP. XCIX.-An Act to enable the War Department to supply certain balances of appropriation, and for other purposes.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to direct the application of any balances now remaining in the treasury, or which may come into the treasury on the settlement of accounts under any of the specific heads of appropriation in the acts of the twelfth June eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and third March eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, to any arrearages chargeable to the general head of suppression of Indian hostilities.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the balances of appropriations made twenty-ninth April eighteen hundred and thirty-six, twelfth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and third March eighteen hundred and thirty-nine for suppression of Indian hostilities, which have been carried to the surplus fund, be and the same are hereby re-appropriated for the settlement of arrearages for suppression of Indian hostilities so far as the same may be necessary in the payment of accounts audited and passed for settlement by the accounting officers of the Treasury.

APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

CHAP. C.- ·An Act supplementary to an act entitled "An act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia," approved August first, eighteen hundred and forty-two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall hereafter be held to bail or imprisoned in any civil action in the District of Columbia, in any case where the debt or claim, exclusive of interest and costs, is less than fifty dollars, and in cases where he may have been, or shall hereafter be, held to bail under the act, to which this is a supplement; and that every person who at the time of the passage of this act, shall be held in prison or prison bounds, in any civil action, except in the cases hereinbefore mentioned, shall thereupon be immediately discharged: Provided, That if any plaintiff in any civil action after judgment shall have been obtained by him or her, shall make oath according to law, that the defendant or defendants has or have conveyed away, lessened, or disposed of his or their property, rights, or credits, or is, or are about to remove, or hath or have removed, his or their property from this District, as he or she believes,

with intent thereby to hinder or delay the recovery or payment of his
debts, the clerk of the court of the county in which such judgment shall
have been rendered, shall thereupon issue a capias ad satisfaciendum in
the same manner as though this act had not been passed: and upon the
arrest of any such defendant or defendants under such capias ad satis-
faciendum, he or they may be brought by habeas corpus before the
court of such county, if in term time, and before one of the judges
thereof in vacation, and may call upon the plaintiff or plaintiffs, to show
cause why he or they, the said defendant or defendants shall not be dis-
charged from said imprisonment; and upon such notice, either party
may demand a trial by jury; and thereupon the said court or judge
shall direct an issue or issues to be framed upon the affidavit so filed,
and shall cause a jury to be impannelled and sworn to try such issue or
issues, and if the finding of the jury upon such issue or issues shall be
for the plaintiff, such defendant or defendants shall be thereupon re-
manded to prison, and be dealt with as though this act had not been
passed: And provided further, that nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to authorize the custody or imprisonment of any female person
on civil process, nor to any non-resident for any debt contracted out of
the District of Columbia: Provided, That nothing contained in this
act shall prevent the execution of process already in the hands of the
marshal and not yet executed.
APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

Proviso.

Proviso.

STATUTE I.

CHAP. CI.-An Act concerning conveyances, or devises of places of public worship June 17, 1844. in the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when any lot, or part of a lot, tract, or parcel of land has been heretofore conveyed or devised, to one or more trustees, for the use and benefit of any religious congregation as a place of public worship, the same, and all buildings and other improvements thereupon, shall be held by such trustee or trustees (or their successors) for the purpose of the trust, and not otherwise.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any conveyance or devise has been heretofore, or shall hereafter be made, of such property for the use, and benefit, and purpose aforesaid, the same shall not be void or frustrated by reason of the want of trustees to take and hold the same in trust, but trustees may be appointed in the manner hereinafter directed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when such conveyance or devise has been heretofore, or shall hereafter be made, whether by the intervention of trustees, or not, the circuit court of the District of Columbia, sitting in the county where such property is, or may be situated, shall, on application of the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, on behalf of the authorized authorities of any such religious congregation, have full power and authority to appoint trustees, originally, when there are none, or to substitute others, from time to time, in cases of death, refusal, or neglect to act, removal from the county, or other inability to execute the trust beneficially and conveniently; and the legal title shall thereupon become exclusively vested in the whole number of the trustees and their successors.

All conveyanplaces of public ces, &c. of worship to be held by trustees

for the purpose of the trust.

Not to be void for want of trustees.

Circuit court

may appoint trustees, and legal titles to be in them and their successors.

Majority of acting trustees

may sue and be

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That a majority of the acting trustees for any such congregation may sue and be sued in their own names, in relation to the title, possession, or enjoyment of such pro- sued, &c. perty without abatement by the death of any of the trustees, or substitution of others; but the action or suit may, notwithstanding, be, prosecuted to its final termination in the names of the trustees by or against

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STATUTE I.

June 17, 1844.

1834, ch. 161.

Courts of Arkansas to have jurisdiction over

whom the same was instituted, and all other proceedings had in relation thereto, in like manner as if such death or substitution had not occurred: Provided, however, That such trustees, for the use of any religious congregation, shall not hereafter take or hold at any one time, any tract of land in the county exceeding in quantity fifty acres, or in any incorporated town exceeding three acres; nor shall such real property be held by them for any other use than as a place of public worship, religious or other instruction, burial ground or residence of their minister. APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

CHAP. CII.-An Act to continue the pensions of certain widows. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act granting pensions to the widows of certain revolutionary soldiers, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, be and the same is hereby revived and extended from and during the term of four years from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to have the same effect as if said act had been a grant of pensions for five years instead of one year from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty

three.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That such widows as have been or shall be admitted by special acts of Congress to the benefit of the pension act, approved the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, or to the benefit of the act hereby revived and extended, shall be entitled and shall be admitted to the benefit of this act, subject, however, to the rules, limitations, and conditions in and by said acts prescribed.

APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

CHAP. CIII.—An Act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” passed thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the courts of the United States in and for the district of Arkansas, be, and they hereby certain territory. are, vested with the same power and jurisdiction, to hear, try, determine and punish all crimes committed within that Indian country designated in the twenty-fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and therein and thereby annexed to the Territory of Arkansas, as were vested in the courts of the United States for said Territory before the act into effect, all that said And that for the sole purpose of carrying this twenty-fourth section of the act aforesaid to the Territory of Arkansas, be and the same hereby is annexed to the State of Arkansas. APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

STATUTE I.

June 17, 1844.

1st and 2d articles of treaty

same became a State.

CHAP. CIV.—An Act explanatory of the Treaty made with the Chippewa Indians at Saganaw, the twenty-third of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first and second articles in the treaty made with the Chippewa Indians on the twentyof Jan. 23,1838, third of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, shall be so construed as to prevent the sales of land ceded by said treaty for a less sum than two dollars and fifty cents per acre from and after the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three; and that

with Chippewas

how to be construed.

the minimum price of said lands, from and after that day, shall be two
dollars and fifty cents per acre.
APPROVED, June 17, 1844.

CHAP. CV.—An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five, and for other purposes.

STATUTE I.

June 17, 1844.

Appropria

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following tions. sums be, and hereby are, appropriated to the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-five; to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, namely:

For compensation and mileage of Senators and members of the House Congress. of Representatives, and Delegates, three hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred dollars;

For compensation of the officers and clerks of both Houses of Congress, twenty-nine thousand and ten dollars and fifty cents;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the Senate, sixty thousand dollars;

For stationery, fuel, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars; Provided, That no part of the sums appropriated for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them; nor as payment or compensation to any clerk, messenger, or other attendant of the said two Houses, or either of them, unless such clerk, messenger, or other attendant, be so employed by a resolution or order of one of said Houses. And provided, also, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be directed, in the future disbursements of the public moneys for the use of their respective bodies, to confine their purchases exclusively to articles the growth and manufacture of the United States, provided the same can be procured of such growth and manufacture, of suitable quality and at reasonable prices upon as good terms as to quality and price as can be obtained of foreign growth and manufacture.

Library of Congress.-For compensation of librarian, and two assistant librarians, and messenger of the library, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of said library, six hundred dollars; for purchase of books for said library, two thousand five hundred dollars; for purchase of law books for said library, one thousand dollars; Executive. For compensation of the President of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For repairs of the capitol, attending furnaces and water-closets, lamplighting, oil, laborers on the capitol grounds, tools, keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at the western gates, and topdressing for plants, for trees and plants, repairs of public stable, pumps, flagging, enclosures, extra labor in removing snow, &c., for taking down and rebuilding four chimneys on the capitol, for one bulk-head containing sixty-four lights, baize doors, &c., complete, for one large fan-light and frame, ten feet by five feet, containing thirty-seven lights, and for three additional lamps for the capitol, and alteration in water-works, and for fish, nine thousand and eighty-four dollars.

For repairs to windows, glass, and glazing, heretofore done by John
Purdy, one hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents.
For digging out the crypt, excavating and making sufficient drains,
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Officers of the Senate and H. of Reps. Contingent expenses of the Senate. Contingent expenses of the House of Reps.

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Library of Congress. Librarian, &c. Contingent expenses. books.

Purchase of

Law books. Executive. President of United States.

Capitol, grounds, &c.

Repairs to windows, &c., by

Purdy. Digging out crypt, &c.

President's house, &c.

Gardener. Repairing iron pipes, &c.

Repairing figure in tympanum of capitol. Removing Persico's statues, &c.

Painting, &c. in post-office.

State Depart

ment.

Secretary, &c. Contingent expenses, inclu

paving points and whitewashing lower story under the north wing of the capitol, cutting out additional windows for drying and improving the Supreme Court room and passages, constructing a fuel vault pursuant to the proposition of John Skirving, under date June third, eighteen hundred and forty-four, seventeen hundred and fifty dollars.

For repairs of the President's house, gardeners' salary, laborers, cartage, tools, manure and straw for top-dressing, for repairs of copper roof, new floor in basement story, chimney tops, trees for fountain square and Pennsylvania Avenue, and for repairs of fence at Lafayette square, fountain square, and President's garden, three thousand one hundred and seventy-seven dollars;

For salary of the public gardener, twelve hundred dollars;

For repairing damage done to iron pipes by freshet and fixing jet d'eau, one thousand eight hundred dollars;

For repairing the figure in the tympanum of the capitol, two hundred dollars;

For removing Persico's statues from the Navy Yard to the capitol, preparing the pedestal, erecting the statues and enclosing the same with an iron railing, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;

For painting, glazing, and whitewashing in the post office, three hundred and eighty-six dollars.

Department of State. For compensation of the Secretary of State, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his department, twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

For the incidental and contingent expenses of said department, viz: For publishing the laws, and packing and distributing the laws and ding printing of documents, including proof-reading, labor, boxes, and transportation,

laws, &c.

N. E. executive building. Contingent expenses.

Treasury Department.

Secretary, &c.

First Comptroller, &c.

Second Comp. troller, &c.

1st Auditor, &c.

2d Auditor, &c.

3d Auditor, &c.

4th Auditor, &c.

nine thousand dollars;

For stationery, blank books, and binding, two thousand dollars;

For labor, and attendance, twelve hundred dollars;

For furniture, fixtures, repairs, painting, and glazing, twelve hundred dollars;

For extra clerk hire and copying, two thousand dollars;

For printing, letter-press and copperplate, and advertising, one thousand dollars;

For newspapers, two hundred dollars;

For books and maps, one thousand dollars;

For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of the northeast executive building, viz :
For labor, one thousand dollars;

For fuel and light, twelve hundred dollars;

For miscellaneous items, eleven hundred dollars.

Treasury Department.-For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, twenty-six thousand and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the First Comptroller, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messengers, in his office, twenty-two thousand six hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Second Comptroller, and the clerks and messenger in his office, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the First Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Second Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, twenty thousand nine hundred dollars.

For compensation of the Third Auditor, and the clerks, messenger, and assistant messenger, in his office, thirty-five thousand and fifty dollars.

For compensation of the Fourth Auditor, and the clerks and messenger in his office, eighteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

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