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UNITED STATES,

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the 4th day of December, 1843, and ended the 17th day of June, 1844.

John Tyler, President of the United States; Willie P. Mangum, President of the Senate, pro tempore. John W. Jones, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE Ⅰ.

Jan. 22, 1844.

[Obsolete.]

Chapter I.—An Act to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, for the relief and protection of American seamen.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Relief of American seamen. That the sum of forty thousand five hundred 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, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the act supplementary to the act concerning consuls and vice-consuls and for the further protection of American seamen,1803, ch. 9. passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and three.

Approved, January 22, 1844.

Statute Ⅰ.

Feb. 16, 1844.

[Obsolete.]

Chap. II.—An Act to refund the fine imposed on General Andrew Jackson.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,To refund $1000 with interest from 31st March 1815. That the sum of one thousand dollars, paid by General Andrew Jackson, as a fine imposed on him at New Orleans, the thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, be repaid to him, together with the interest, at the rate of six per centum a year since then, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, February 16, 1844.

Statute Ⅰ.

Feb. 23, 1844.

Chap. III.—An Act to authorize the President of the United States to direct transfers of appropriation in the naval service, under certain circumstances.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Unexpended balances to be transferred for the increase, &c. of the navy. That upon the application of the Secretary of the Navy, the President of the United States shall have authority to direct the transfer from unexpended balances of appropriations for the Naval Service, of the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as the public service may require during the present fiscal year to the appropriation for “the increase, repairs, armament, and equipment of the Navy, and wear and tear of vessels in commission.”Not to be transferred if wanted for original purposes, &c. But no part of said sum shall be transferred from any unexpended balance which may be necessary for the purposes for which the appropriation was originally made; nor from any unexpended balances of appropriations for the respective Navy Yards and Docks. Nor shall