Chapter CCXXIX. to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of the city of Washington over the Potomac bridge

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Chap. CCXXIX.— An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of the city of Washington over the Potomac bridge. March 3, 1839. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Bounds extended. Corporation empowered to adopt rules, &c. That the bounds of the county of Washington, and of the corporation of the city of Washington, be, and the same are hereby, extended so far as to comprehend the causeway and bridge lately constructed from the said city across the river Potomac, to the opposite shore: and the said corporation areTWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

Sess. III. Res. 1, 2, 3. 1839.365 hereby empowered to adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary for the safety and security of property and of the persons passing the said causeway and bridge. Approved, March 3, 1839. RESOLUTIONS No. 1: authorizing an examination and payment of the claims of the workmen upon the public buildings. Resolution 1 5 Stat. 365 January 18, 1839 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

Digitization Vendor 2025-11-29 25 3 5 public No. 1. Resolution authorizing an examination and payment of the claims of the workmen upon the public buildings. Jan. 18, 1839. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stales of America in Congress assembled*, That the commissioners appointedThe commissioners appointed to superintend the construction of the new Treasury building, shall examine the claims of the workmen to indemnity, &c. by the President of the United States to superintend the prosecution of the work in the construction of the new Treasury building, be, and they are hereby, authorized to examine the claims of the workmen to indemnity for the loss of their time during the suspension of the work upon said building, by order of the President of the United States, pending the question before Congress upon the bill reported by the Committee on Public Buildings, providing for the removal of the walls of the Treasury building, and for the erection of a fire-proof building for the Post Office Department and that the said commissioners allow to such of said workmen, respectively, as were suspended from labor, during the pendency of said bill, with the encouragement and under an authorized assurance that, upon the decision thereof, their labor would again be required by the Government, and who, intermediately, had no opportunity of obtaining employment in the city of Washington, such reasonable indemnity for loss of wages for labor, during the suspension of the work, as, under the circumstances of their respective cases, justice and equity may require, not exceeding, however, in any case, the average rate of the earnings of such workmen in the employment of the Government for a like preceding period of time.

Sec. 2. *And be it further resolved*, That the Commissioner of PublicCommissioner of public buildings to pay such sums, &c. Buildings be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to the workmen respectively such sums of money as the commissioners aforesaid shall allow and certify pursuant to the foregoing resolution, out of any money in his hands appropriated by law to the construction of the new Treasury building. Approved, January 18, 1839. No. 2: for the purchase of the island at the confluence of the St.

Peters and Mississippi rivers. Resolution 2 5 Stat. 365 February 13, 1839 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-29 25 3 5 public No. 2. A Resolution for the purchase of the island at the confluence of the St. Peters and Mississippi rivers. Feb. 13, 1839. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of WarSec.

War to contract for the purchase, &c. be, and he is hereby, authorized to contract with J. B. and J. Ferribault, for the purchase of the island at the confluence of the St. Peters and Mississippi rivers, and to report his proceedings to Congress, subject to their approbation or rejection. Approved, February 13, 1839. No. 3: directing the manner in which certain laws of the District of Columbia shall be executed. Resolution 3 5 Stat. 365 February 16, 1839 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

Digitization Vendor 2025-11-29 25 3 5 public No. 3. A Resolution directing the manner in which certain laws of the District of Columbia shall be executed. Feb. 16, 1839. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The acts of Maryland for securing land titles to vacant land, shall be executed, &c. by the Secretary of the Treasury, &c. That the acts of the State of Maryland for securing titles to vacant land, which were continued in force by the act of Congress of the twenty-seven; h of February, eighteen hundred and one, in that part of the District of Columbia which was ceded to the United States by that State, and which have heretofore been inoperative for the want of appropriate officers or authority in the366TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

Sess. III. Res. 4, 9. 1839. 1801, ch. 15.said District for their due execution, shall hereafter be executed, as regards lands in the county of Washington and without the limits of the city of Washington, by the Secretary of the Treasury through the General Land Office, where applications shall be made for warrants, which warrants shall be directed to the surveyor for the county of Washington; who shall make return to the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and payment for said land, according to the said laws of Maryland, shall be made to the Treasurer of the United States, whose certificate of such payment shall be presented to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, who shall thereupon issue in the usual form of patents for lands by the United States, a patent for such land to the person entitled thereto; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall make such regulations as he may deem necessary, and shall designate the officers Proviso.who shall carry the said acts into effect: *Provided*, That any land which may have been ceded to, or acquired by the United States for public purposes shall not be affected by such acts.

Approved, February 16, 1839. No. 4: authorizing certain certificates of deposite to be cancelled and reissued. Resolution 4 5 Stat. 366 February 28, 1839 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-29 25 3 5 public No. 4. A Resolution authorizing certain certificates of deposite to be cancelled and reissued.

Feb. 28, 1839. Preamble.Whereas sundry persons have deposited sums of money in the Treasury of the United States, under the provisions of the second section of the act making further provision for the sale of the public lands, approved twenty-fourth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty, and received certificates 1820, ch. 51.therefor, and, supposing the same to be assignable, have assigned the same, for a valuable consideration, to other persons; and whereas the said section is so construed by the Treasury Department, that such receipts or certificates are not available to the assignees; be it, therefore, *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Treasurer of the Certificates, on presentation, to be cancelled, and new ones issued.United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, on the presentation of any such certificate by an assignee or bona fide holder thereof, to allow said assignee or holder to surrender the same to be cancelled, and to issue a new certificate in the name of said assignee or holder, in lieu of the one so surrendered; which new certificate shall be received in payment for public lands, in the same manner as the original would have been had it not been transferred by the person who made the deposite; but the certificates to be issued under this resolution shall not be assignable.

Approved, February 28, 1839.. No. 9: to authorize the purchase of an island in the river Delaware, called the Pea Patch, and for other purposes. Resolution 9 5 Stat. 366 March 3, 1839 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-29 25 3 5 public No. 9. A Resolution to authorize the purchase of an island in the river Delaware, called the Pea Patch, and for other purposes.

March 3, 1839. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Sec. War to take measures to try the title of the U. S. to Pea Patch island—how. That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized and required to take all necessary measures to try the title of the United States to the island in the Delaware commonly called the Pea Patch, by submitting all the questions growing out of the conflicting claims of the United States and the individual claimants, to the courts of law; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction If not io the U.

S., authorized to purchase—how.of the said Secretary, that the title is not vested in the United States, and that the possession thereof is indispensable to the public interests, he is hereby authorized to purchase the same from the legal owner or owners thereof, either by appraisement or such other manner as he may deem most expedient; subject to the approval of Congress. Approved, March 3, 1839 26 26 1 1840 ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS of the 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 2d day of December, 1839, and ended the 21st day of July, 1840.* Martin Van Buren, President.

Richard M. Johnson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Robert M. T. Hunter, Speaker of the House of Representatives, STATUTE I.

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