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work, and disburse the money, giving bond and security as he shall direct, and receiving such compensation as in his opinion shall be equitable and just, not exceeding to each that heretofore allowed by law to the superintendent of the Cumberland road in the state of Ohio.

Cumberland road.
Appropriation.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, granted, for claims due and remaining unpaid at the treasury, on account of the Cumberland road, east of Wheeling, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

I approve this bill, and ask a reference to my communication to Congress of this date, in relation thereto.

ANDREW JACKSON

Approved, May 31, 1830.

Statute Ⅰ.



May 31, 1830.

Chap. CCXXXIII.An Act making additional appropriations for pay of the marine corps.[1]

Marine corps.
Appropriations.
Resolution of May 29, 1830.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay the extra emoluments directed to be paid to the officers of the marine corps by a joint resolution, approved the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

Approved, May 31, 1830.

Statute Ⅰ.



May 31, 1830.

Chap. CCXXXIV.An Act to authorize the payment of the claim of the state of Massachusetts, for certain services of her militia during the late war.

Claims to be settled.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury, under the superintendence of the Secretary of War, be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to audit and settle the claims of the state of Massachusetts against the United States for the services of her militia during the late war, in the following cases: First, where the militia of the said state were called out to repel actual invasion, or under a well-founded apprehension of invasion:Proviso. Provided, their numbers were not in undue proportion to the exigency: Second, where they were called out by the authority of the state, and afterwards recognised by the federal government; and Thirdly, where they were called out by, and served under, the requisition of the President of the United States, or by any officer thereof.

Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of four hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-six cents, if so much be necessary, be applied to the foregoing purposes, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, May 31, 1830.

Statute Ⅰ.



May 31, 1830.

Chap. CCXXXV.An Act for the relief of sundry citizens of the United States, who have lost property by the depredations of certain Indian tribes.

Certain claims to be settled, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims of certain citizens of the United States, named in the Senate document at the first session of the nineteenth Congress, number fifty-five, for depredations committed on their property by the Indian tribes therein mentioned, and the claim of James and Jesse Morrison, and the claim of Burd and

  1. See notes of acts passed relating to the marine corps, vol. i. p. 594.