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be the duty of the respective clerks of the said courts of the said Territory of Iowa, or their successors in office, with whom the records and proceedings of said cases may be found, upon application by any person or persons interested therein, to make and certify a full and complete copy of the records thereof, and transmit the same, together with all the original process, pleadings, and other papers filed in such case or cases, and which may be removed without mutilating the records of said courts, to the clerk of the said district court of the United States; and when the said records, papers, and proceedings shall be thus certified to the said last mentioned court, its jurisdiction shall be deemed as full and complete as that of the court in which the said case originated had been prior to the said admission of the State of Iowa, or as if the said case had been originally instituted in said district court of the United States.

Approved February 22, 1848.

CHAP. 13.-AN ACT to. provide additional quarters near to New Orleans, for United States soldiers and volunteers returned from or going to the seat of war in Mexico.

propriation con

of 2d March, 1847,

rary quarters for

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from the appropriation of five hundred thou- Part of an apsand dollars for providing for the comfort of discharged tained in the act soldiers who may be landed at New Orleans, or other places to be applied to within the United States, so disabled by disease, or by wounds providing temporeceived in the service, as to be unable to proceed to their soldiers at New homes, and for forwarding destitute soldiers to their homes," Orleans. contained in an act making appropriations for the support of the army, and of volunteers, for the year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and for other purposes, approved second March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to apply a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, to the erection, at or near the United States barracks below New Orleans, of a wooden hospital, commensurate with the probable wants of the service; also of temporary quarters for the accommodation of United States troops and volunteers during their proper detention at that post, when going to or returning from Mexico; and for the purchase of additional ground, if any shall be necessary to execute advantageously the objects herein specified.

Approved February 22, 1848.

CHAP. 14.-AN ACT to authorize the issuing of a register or enrolment to the schooner Robert Henry.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States of America in Congress asA register to be sembled, That there be issued, under the direction of the Sec

issued.

Proviso.

retary of the Treasury, a register or enrolment for the schooner Robert Henry, formerly a British vessel, but now owned by John P. Baldwin, a citizen of the State of Florida; and which said vessel, having been wrecked on the Florida reef, and condemned and sold, was purchased by him, and which he has caused to be repaired and refitted for sea again: Provided, It shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that the cost of repairing and refitting said schooner in the United States, after her purchase by the present owner, exceeds three-fourths of the original cost of building a vessel of the same tonnage in the United States. Approved February 22, 1848.

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tober,

1832,

in fee simple.

CHAP. 15.-AN ACT authorizing persons to whom reservations of land have been made under certain Indian treaties, to alienate the same in fee.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asReservees under sembled, That all the reservations to or for any person or perPottawato- sons named in the treaty of the twentieth day of October, 1832, to eighteen hundred and thirty-two, made at Camp Tippecanoe, hold their lands in the State of Indiana, between the United States by their commissioners, Jennings, Davis, and Crume, and the chiefs and headmen of the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians of the Prairie and Kankakee, shall be so construed and held to convey to and vest in said reservees, their heirs and assigns, forever, an estate in fee simple in and to the reservations so made, by said treaty, to or for said reservees respectively.

Reservees may sell and convey their reserves.

Proviso.

or

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said reservees, their heirs, may sell and convey all or any part of his, her, or their respective reserves; and such sale and conveyance shall vest in the purchaser, his or her heirs and assigns, such title as is described in such deed of conveyance, to such lands so sold and conveyed: Provided, That all deeds of conveyance made before the passage of this act shall stand upon the same footing as those made after the passage of this act, and the rights of the parties shall be the same in one case as in the other: Provided, 'That such deed of conveyance for any of valid unless ap- said lands made before or after the passage of this act, shall sident of the Uni- not be valid for such purpose until the same shall have been approved by the President of the United States. Approved March 9, 1848.

No deed to be

proved by the Pre

ted States.

CHAP. 16.—AN ACT granting the franking privilege to Louisa Catharine
Adams.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre

sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- Franking privisembled, That all letters and packets carried by post to and lege granted.

from Louisa Catharine Adams, widow of the late John Quincy

Adams, be conveyed free of postage during her natural life.
Approved March 9, 1848.

CHAP. 17.-AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An act in amendment of the acts respecting the judicial system of the United States."

A temporary

the

when a vacancy in vaça

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as clerk may be ap sembled, That in case of a vacancy in the office of the clerk pointed for circuit courts by of any circuit court of the United States in vacation, the judge the district judges of the district court in the district within which such vacancy occurs occurs may appoint a clerk, who shall hold said office until tion. the end of the next term of the circuit court for said district, unless the office is sooner filled by an appointment according to existing laws.

Approved March 9, 1848.

CHAP. 18.-AN ACT to make attachments which are made under process issuing from the courts of the United States conform to the laws regulating such attachments in the courts of the States.

Attachments is

courts of the Uni

same manner as

cess from the

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever, upon process instituted in any of suing from the the courts of the United States, property shall hereafter be at- ted States may be tached to satisfy such judgment as may be recovered by the dissolved in the plaintiff on such process, and any contingency occurs by those under prowhich, according to the laws of a State, such attachment State courts. would be dissolved upon like process pending in, or returnable to, the State courts, then such attachment or attachments made upon process issuing from, or pending in, the courts of the United States within such State shall be dissolved, the intent and meaning of this act being to place such attachments in the courts of the States and the United States upon the same footing: Provided, That nothing herein contained Proviso. shall interfere with any existing or future law giving priority in payments of debts to the United States.

Approved March 14, 1848.

in Michigan to be

the 3d Monday in

annually.

CHAP. 19.-AN ACT concerning the courts of the United States in and for the district of Michigan.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreThe courts of Sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asthe United States sembled, That the circuit and district courts of the United held at Detroit on States for the district of Michigan shall continue to be held June and 24 Mon- in the city of Detroit on the third Monday of June and the day in October, second Monday of October in every year, any provision in any act of Congress, heretofore passed, to the contrary notwithstanding; and that all writs, pleas, suits, recognizances, indictments, and all other proceedings, civil and criminal, shall be heard, tried, and proceeded with by the said courts in the same manner and at the same place as heretofore. Approved March 14, 1848.

Secretary of the

the Fourth Audi

CHAP. 20.-AN ACT for the relief of the administratrix of Elisha L. Keen, deceased.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enated by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asTreasury to pay sembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is her such sum as hereby, directed to pay, out of any money in the treasury not tor may decide to otherwise appropriated, to the administratrix of Elisha L. be justly due the deceased, not ex. Keen, such sums as the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury may ceeding $594. decide to be justly due said Keen, not exceeding the sum of five hundred and ninety-four dollars, being a balance alleged to be due said Keen, and credited on the books of the Fourth Auditor for advances to the United States in the years eighteen hundred and thirteen and eighteen hundred and fourteen. Approved March 14, 1848.

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be paid him in full

&c.

CHAP. 21.—AN ACT providing for the payment of the claim of Walter R.
Johnson against the United States.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as$611 31 cents to sembled, That there be paid to Walter R. Johnson, from any for his services, money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-one cents, which which will be in full for his services, and payments made by him, in researches and experiments on American coal, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy. Approved March 14, 1848.

CHAP. 22.-AN ACT for the relief of the heirs of John Paul Jones.

late Com. John

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounts of the late Commodore John Paul, Accounts of the Jones with the United States be referred to the Secretary of Paul Jones to be the Treasury, to adjust and pay, out of any money or stock adjusted. of the United States in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the principles of justice and equity, according to acts in similar cases and applicable thereto.

be paid to the le

tives of said Jones

his command.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of Prize money to the Treasury is hereby instructed to pay to the legal represent- gal representa atives of the said John Paul Jones, and the officers, seamen, tive of the officers and marines of the squadron under his command, being citi- and seamen under zens of the United States, or their representatives, out of any moneys or stock of the United States in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, their respective proportions of the value, as estimated by Benjamin Franklin, of three prizes captured by the squadron under the command of the said Jones, and delivered up to Great Britain by Denmark, in seventeen hundred and seventy-nine; to be apportioned on the basis of the distribution of a settlement made with the captors, for prizes cap. tured by the said squadron, and received from the court of France, and confirmed by Congress in seventeen hundred and eighty-seven; deducting, however, from the share of Captain Peter Landais the sum received by him or his legal representatives under an act of Congress approved the twenty-eighth of March, eighteen hundred and six: Provided, That in ascertaining the amount due the heirs of said Paul Jones, if any, no interest shall be allowed on such claim.

Approved March 21, 1848.

Deduction from tain Landais.

the share of Cap

Proviso.

CHAP. 23.-AN ACT further to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight.

[SEC. 1.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are here- Supply of defiby, appropriated to supply deficiencies in the appropriations ciencies. for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, namely:

Additional

For pay of one additional clerk in the office of the Fifth clerk of Fifth AuAuditor, rendered necessary by the increase of light-house ditor. business, at eight hundred dollars per annum, from the first of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety-four cents.

For extra clerk-hire for the settlement of the increase of business in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, occasioned by the Mexican war, six thousand dollars.

Extra clerk hire

in office of Secre

tary of Navy.

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