whom the same was instituted, and all other proceedings had in relation thereto, in like manner as if such death or substitution had not occurred:Proviso. Provided, however, That such trustees, for the use of any religious congregation, shall not hereafter take or hold at any one time, any tract of land in the county exceeding in quantity fifty acres, or in any incorporated town exceeding three acres;Property only to be held for religious purposes. nor shall such real property be held by them for any other use than as a place of public worship, religious or other instruction, burial ground or residence of their minister.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
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Chap. CII.—An Act to continue the pensions of certain widows.
Act of March 3, 1843, ch. 102, granting pensions to widows, extended for 4 years from March 4, 1844.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act granting pensions to the widows of certain revolutionary soldiers, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, be and the same is hereby revived and extended from and during the term of four years from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, to have the same effect as if said act had been a grant of pensions for five years instead of one year from and after the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
Widows entitled to benefit of act of July 7, 1838, ch. 189, to have benefit of this.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That such widows as have been or shall be admitted by special acts of Congress to the benefit of the pension act, approved the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, or to the benefit of the act hereby revived and extended, shall be entitled and shall be admitted to the benefit of this act, subject, however, to the rules, limitations, and conditions in and by said acts prescribed.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CIII.—An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers,” passed thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
1834, ch. 161.
Courts of Arkansas to have jurisdiction over certain territory.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the courts of the United States in and for the district of Arkansas, be, and they hereby are, vested with the same power and jurisdiction, to hear, try, determine and punish all crimes committed within that Indian country designated in the twenty-fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and therein and thereby annexed to the Territory of Arkansas, as were vested in the courts of the United States for said Territory before the same became a State. And that for the sole purpose of carrying this act into effect, all that Indian country heretofore annexed by the said twenty-fourth section of the act aforesaid to the Territory of Arkansas, be and the same hereby is annexed to the State of Arkansas.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CIV.—An Act explanatory of the Treaty made with the Chippewa Indians at Saganaw, the twenty-third of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.
