BEING A CONTINUATION OF THE LAWS PUBLISHED UNDER THE INSPECTION OF JOSEPH STORY, ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. EDITED BY GEORGE SHARSWOOD. PHILADELPHIA: T. & J. W. JOHNSON, LAW BOOKSELLERS, No. 197 CHESTNUT STREET. 1848. L 9058 Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1848, By T. & J. W. JOHNSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 1837. OF THE UNITED STATES; Passed at the First Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of. Columbia, on Monday, the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven. Vice MARTIN VAN BUREN, President. RICHARD M. JOHNSON, CHAP. 1. An act to postpone the fourth installment of deposite with the § 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the transfer of the fourth installment of deposites directed to be made with the States, under the thirteenth section of the act of June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, be and the same is hereby postponed till the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine; Provided, That 1st Jan. 1839. the three first installments under the said act shall remain on deposite with the States, until otherwise directed by Congress. Approved, October 2d, 1837. CHAP. 2. An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury Notes. Postponed till Proviso. The President ry notes to be is § 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause Treasury notes for such to cause Treasu sum or sums as the exigencies of the Government may require, sued, for not exbut not exceeding, in the whole amount of notes issued, the sum ions of dollars, of ten millions of dollars, and of denominations not less than and not of less de ceeding ten mil fifty dollars for any one note, to be prepared, signed, and issued $50. nomination than in the manner hereinafter provided. |