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Chap. III.—An Act making an appropriation for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation. That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries;To be expended according to the act of Feb. 28, 1803, ch. 9. to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the “act supplementary concerning consuls and vice consuls, and for the further protection of American seamen,” passed twenty-eighth February, eighteen hundred and three.
Approved, February 12, 1842.
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Chap. IV.—An Act making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to wit:
Revolutionary pensions.For revolutionary pensions, under the act of the eighteenth of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, in addition to a probable balance at the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of one hundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars, eighty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars.
Invalid pensions.For invalid pensions, under various acts, two hundred thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Pensions to widows and orphans.
1836, ch. 362.For pensions to widows and orphans, per act of the fourth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in addition to a probable balance at the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of thirty-thousand dollars, two hundred and forty-two thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
1838, ch. 189.For five years pensions to widows, per act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, two hundred thousand dollars.
Approved, February 12, 1842.
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Chap. V.—An Act to provide for the early disposition of the lands lying in the State of Alabama, acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of twenty-ninth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Said lands to be added to the Huntsville and Coosa districts. That all that part of the territory acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of New Echota of twenty-ninth December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, within the State of Alabama, which lies west of the line dividing ranges two and three east of the basis meridian of Huntsville, shall be added to and form a part of said district; and all the territory acquired by the said treaty within the said State not attached to the Huntsville district, as above described, shall be annexed to and form a part of the Coosa land district, in said State.
Land office for the Coosa dist. to be removed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land office for the Coosa land district, at present located at Mardisville, shall be removed to Lebanon in the county of De Kalb.
Approved, March 4, 1842.
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Chap. VI.—An Act to authorize the Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to hold a special session of the said court.
