sent over sea from and to the United States, to and from any part of France and of the States comprehended within the German Customs Union, and of those countries on the continent, between which and France and of the said German States there exists a continued arrangement of the like kind, may be paid at the place where they are respectively mailed or received.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
No. 15. A Resolution for the relief of certain claimants under the Cherokee treaty of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Certificates issued or allowed by commissioners under Cherokee treaty, to be paid. That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to pay, or cause to be paid, the several sums found due to claimants under the Cherokee treaty of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, upon the certificates issued by the board of commissioners appointed in pursuance of the seventeenth article of said treaty, out of the unexpended balance of appropriations made for the payment of such claims, upon the presentation of said certificates.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
No. 16. A Joint Resolution authorizing the transfer of certain clerks in the Treasury Department.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. of Treas. may transfer three clerks to arrange statistical information, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby authorized to transfer from any office or offices of the Treasury Department from which their services may, in his opinion, be dispensed with, three or more clerks to be employed under his direction in collecting, arranging and classifying such statistical information as may be procured, showing or tending to show each year the condition of the agriculture, manufactures, domestic trade, currency and banks of the several States and Territories of the United States.Clerks to receive same pay as before. The clerks which may be transferred and employed under this authority shall receive the same salaries as at present―and a report containing the results of the information obtained upon the before mentioned subjects, shall be annually made to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the first Monday of January.
Approved, June 15, 1844.
No. 17. A Resolution relating to the public lands appertaining to the armories at Springfield and Harper’s Ferry.
