the act of twenty-third August, eighteen hundred and forty-two, the accounting officers be directed to discharge the claims for said supplies, in the following order, to wit: First, the amounts due to individual claimants, and secondly, those due to the Territory of Florida: Provided, That the whole amount of supplies paid for shall not exceed the quantity of each description to which the said troops were entitled by existing laws.
Approved, April 30, 1844.
No. 5. Joint Resolution providing for the printing of additional copies of the journals and public documents.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Additional copies of journals and documents to be printed, &c.
Post, p. 718. That there shall hereafter be printed fifty copies of the public journals and documents of the Senate, and one hundred copies of the public journals and documents of the House of Representatives, in addition to the number now required by law to be printed; and that fifty copies of said journals and documents, in addition to the number now deposited with the Secretary of State, shall hereafter be annually delivered to that officer for distribution according to law; and the residue of said journals and documents shall be deposited in the Library of Congress.
Approved, April 30, 1844.
No. 6. Joint Resolution in relation to certain property purchased for the use of the United States at the port of Bath, in the State of Maine.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. Treas. to have charge of a lot sold as the property of the Bath Bank, and bought in by the United States. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have charge of a certain lot, with the buildings thereon and appurtenances, late the property of the President, Directors and Company of the Bath Bank, in the town of Bath, in the State of Maine, taken in execution at the suit of the United States, sold and bought in by the United States, some years since; and he shall have power to set apart the said premises for the use of a custom-house and such other public uses as he may judge to be expedient and proper, until the further order of Congress in the matter.
Approved, May 23, 1844.
No. 9. Resolution authorizing the corporation of Baltimore to use a building of the United States at Lazaretto Point.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Corporate authorities of Baltimore may use the building at Lazaretto Point, &c.
Proviso. That the mayor and city council of Balitmore be and they are herby authorized to use, as often as may be found necessary, the public building at Lazaretto Point, near the harbor of the port of Baltimore, for the reception and accommodation of such passengers in ships or vessels arriving at the port as may from time to time be reported in an unhealthful state: Provided, That in such use of said building by the city of Baltimore, the same shall not interfere with or obstruct the occupation thereof in the manner and for the purposes required by the Government:Proviso. And provided, further, That the said occupation of said building by the city of Baltimore, shall be discontinued or suspended upon the requisition of the Secretary of the Treasury, whenever he shall deem it necessary for the use of the Government.
