the tract of land lying on the Coosa river, whereon the town of Jefferson is situated, in said county, containing one hundred and fifty acres, according to the survey of S. R. Russell, county surveyor for the seat of justice of said county, instead of the quarter section allowed by law for the same purpose; the commissioners of said county paying for the same minimum price as in other cases.
Approved, July 5, 1838.
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Chap. CLVIII.—An Act to modify the last clause of the fifth section of the deposite act of the twenty-third of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Act of June 23, 1836, ch. 115, last clause, modified as to issues of notes under five dollars. That the last clause of the fifth section of the act entitled “An act to regulate the deposites of the public money,” approved on the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, declaring that the notes or bills of no bank shall be received in payment of any debt due to the United States, which shall, after the fourth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, issue any note or bill of a less denomination than five dollars, shall be, and the same is hereby, so far modified as that the interdiction as to the reception of the bills and notes shall not continue against any bank which has, since the said fourth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, issued bills or notes of a less denomination than five dollars, or which shall issue any such bills or notes prior to the first day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, but that from and after the said last mentioned day, the bills or notes of no bank shall be received in payment of any debt due to the United States, which bank shall, after that date, issue, reissue, or pay out any bill or note of a denomination less than five dollars.
Approved, July 5, 1838.
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Chap. CLIX.—An Act to amend “An act authorizing the Secretary of War to establish a pension agency in the town of Decatur in the State of Alabama, and to provide for the payment of certain pensioners in the said town of Decatur.”
Act of June 27, 1834, ch. 91.
Sec. War empowered to remove pension agency at Decatur to Huntsville, Ala.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized, if in his opinion necessary, to remove and establish said pension agency in the town of Huntsville, Alabama; and, in the event of said removal, the pensioners described in said act shall be paid in Huntsville.
Approved, July 5, 1838.
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Chap. CLX.—An Act to authorize vessels bound for the ports of Mexico, and prevented from completing the voyages in consequence of the existing blockade of those ports, to enter and store their cargoes in the ports of the United States.
Proviso. That any vessel which may have been turned off from her port of destination in Mexico, by the blockading squadron, may land and store her cargo in any port of the United States into which she may first enter, to be kept under the custody of the custom-house, free form duty or any other charge except the usual storage: Provided, The said cargo be re-exported within twelve months from the time of its being so stored, and the provisions of the existing laws relating to the importation of goods, with the privilege of re-exportation without the payment of duty, or with the
