and the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, three hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
Invalid pensioners.
Pensions to widows and orphans under act July 4th, 1836, ch. 362.
Pensions to widows under act July 7th, 1838, ch. 189.
Half-pay pensions payable through office Third Auditor.For the invalid pensioners, under various laws, three hundred thousand six hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixty-three cents;
For pensions to widows and orphans under the act of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, four hundred and ninety thousand and eighty-four dollars and fifty-two cents;
For five years’ pensions to widows, per act seventh July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, one million three hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars:
For half-pay pensions, payable through the office of the Third Auditor, ten thousand dollars.
Approved, February 13, 1839.
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Chap. XXVI.—An Act to repeal the proviso to the second section of an act approved the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, which authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claims of the United States against certain banks.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The 2d section act 3d March 1837, ch. 35, repealed, &c. That the proviso to the second section of “An act to authorize the proper officers of the Treasury Department to credit the account of the Treasurer of the United States with the amount of unavailable funds standing to his debit on the books of the Treasury, to transfer the amount of the debit of banks and individuals indebted for the same, and to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise and settle said claims,” approved 3d of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, which prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from compromising the claims of the United States against the Alleghany Bank of Pennsylvania, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and that the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to compromise and settle the claim of the United States against said bank.
Approved, February 16, 1839.
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Chap. XXVII.—An Act to amend “An act to reorganize the district courts of the United States in the State of Mississippi,” approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.[1]
Act of June 18, 1838, ch. 115.
The court of the N. dist. of Mississippi shall have jurisdiction, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the court of the northern district of Mississippi, besides the ordinary jurisdiction of a district court, shall have jurisdiction of all causes, except appeals and writs of error, cognizable by law in a circuit court, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That defendants residing in said northern district shall not be sued in the circuit court held at Jackson, except in the cases and in the mode prescribed by the fourth section of the act to which this is an amendment.
Appeals and writs of error shall be to supreme court U. S.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all appeals and writs of error from the decisions of the said district court, when exercising the powers of a circuit court, shall be directly to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same manner and under the same limitations and restrictions that they are now allowed by law from the circuit court.
The marshal for the several districts of Mississippi, in addition to the sale days now allowed by law, authorized to sell property on certain other days.Proviso.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Marshal of the several districts in the State of Mississippi, in addition to the several sale days now allowed by law, may be authorized to sell property at the court-house of each county on Monday of each week, and on the first and second
