expenses of further negotiations with the two former tribes, viz. the Sac and Fox, and Winnebagoes, six thousand two hundred dollars.
Expenses of treating with the Camanches, &c.
Proviso.For this sum, in addition to the appropriation per act of eighteen hundred and thirty-five, for the expenses of treating with the Camanches and other wild tribes of the Western tribes, eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-five cents: Provided, That no part of the money appropriated by this act, shall be applied to the payment of any salary or other compensation to, or on account of, any officer or office, unless the same has been created by law or treaties, or is specifically provided for in the appropriations in this act:Further proviso. Provided, further, That the commissioners appointed to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes shall not be allowed more than ten cents per mile for travelling on the most direct route to and from his residence to the place of making the treaties, and eight dollars per day while engaged in making said treaties.
Approved, July 17, 1842.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. LXVI.—An Act to regulate the value to be affixed to the pound sterling by the Treasury Department.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all payments by or to the Treasury,The pound sterling to be computed at $4.84. whether made here or in foreign countries, where it becomes necessary to compute the value of the pound sterling, it shall be deemed equal to four dollars and eighty-four cents, and the same rule shall be applied in appraising merchandise imported where the value is by the invoice in pounds sterling.
Acts, &c. inconsistent herewith, repealed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with these provisions, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved, July 27, 1842.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXVII.—An Act making an appropriation for the repair of the custom-house in Providence.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Expense of repairs limited. That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to cause the custom-house at the port of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, to be repaired, at an expense not exceeding one thousand dollars; and that the sum of one thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated therefor.
Approved, July 27, 1842.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. LXVIII.—An Act to amend “An act for altering the time of holding the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania at Williamsport,” approved May eighth, eighteen hundred and forty.
Act of May 8, 1840, ch. 23.
Time of holding the October term changed to the first Monday in October.
Process, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the October term of the district court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, which is now directed to be holden at Williamsport, in Lycoming county, on the third Monday of October in each year, shall hereafter commence and be holden on the first Monday of October in each and every year; and all process, pleadings, motions, suits, and business heretofore begun, pending and undetermined, or which may hereafter be commenced or instituted, prior to the next October term, shall be held returnable and be returned to the first Monday of October next.
