Chapter CCX. for the Relief of John Lorimer Graham, late Postmaster in the City of New York
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Chap. CCX.— An Act for the Relief of John Lorimer Graham, late Postmaster in the City of New York. Aug. 14, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, John L. Graham to be credited an amount equal to the debit for his disbursements from the post-office fund in leasing ground and buildings, &c., for the post-office at New York. That the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post-Office Department credit the account of John Lorimer Graham, late postmaster in the city of New York, with a sum equal to the debit, for his disbursements from the post-office fund, in leasing ground and buildings, and fitting the same for the principal branch post-office in that city, under the direction of Charles A.
Wickliffe, late Postmaster-General. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the Postmaster-General$2704 31 to be paid him out of the post-office fund for that sum overpaid by him. pay to the said John Lorimer Graham the sum of two thousand seven hundred and four dollars and thirty-one cents, the said Graham having overpaid that amount at said date. Approved, August 14, 1848. 746 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 3, 9. 1848. RESOLUTIONS. No. 3: for the Relief of Betsey McIntosh.
Private Resolution 3 9 Stat. 746 1848-03-14 Charles C. Little and James Brown 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 2025-12-15 30 1 9 private [No. 3.]— A Resolution for the Relief of Betsey McIntosh. March 14, 1848. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Betsey McIntosh the amount of a certificate issued by the Late board of Cherokee commissioners in her favor.
That, agreeably to a joint resolution of the fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, “for the relief of certain Indian claimants under the Cherokee treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five – thirty-six,” the Secretary of the Treasury pay, or cause to be paid, the amount of certificate issued by the late board of Cherokee commissioners under the seventeenth article of said treaty, in favor of Betsey McIntosh, to the said Betsey McIntosh, out of any unexpended appropriation heretofore made tinder an act approved the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An Act making further appropriations for carrying into effect certain Indian treaties.
” Approved, March 14, 1848. No. 9: providing for Payment of the Regiment of Texas Mounted Troops called into the Service of the United States, under the Requisition of Colonel Curtis, in the Year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other Purposes. Private Resolution 9 9 Stat. 746 1848-06-16 Charles C. Little and James Brown 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 2025-12-15 30 1 9 private [No. 9.]— Joint Resolution providing for Payment of the Regiment of Texas Mounted Troops called into the Service of the United States, under the Requisition of Colonel Curtis, in the Year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and for other Purposes. June 16, 1848. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Certain Texas mounted troops mustered into service for six months in 1847, and discharged before joining the army, to receive the pay and allowances of mounted men from the time they arrived at San Antonio till mustered out of service or disbanded.
That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be paid, out of any unexpended appropriations for the prosecution of the war between the United States of America and the republic of Mexico, the regiment of Texas mounted troops which was mustered into the service of the United States for six months, under the requisition of Colonel Curtis, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and discharged before joining the army, the pay and allowances of mounted men, from the time the several companies thereof arrived at San Antonio, the place of rendezvous, until they were mustered out of service, and the usual pay and travelling allowances from the time they left their homes until they reached San Antonio, and from the places where they were mustered out of service until they reached their homes; and the companies of Captains Smith and Hill, until they refused to be mustered out of service, or were disbanded by their respective captains;
To be paid also for horses lost by them for want of forage.Proviso.1847, ch. 39.and also that he cause to be paid to the said regiment the full value of all horses which he shall be satisfied were lost by them for want of forage, during the periods herein specified: *Provided*, That nothing in the act approved second March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, entitled “An Act to amend an act to provide for the payment of horses and other property lost and destroyed in the military service of the United States,” approved eighteenth January, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall be construed to revive the proviso to the second section of 1844, ch. 73.the act approved the fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, entitled “An Act making an appropriation for the payment of horses All horses belonging to volunteers, which werelost by the Missouri volunteers in the Florida war:” *Provided, also*, That all horses belonging to volunteers, which were lost in the Gulf ofTHIRTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 10, 11, 14, 27. 1848.747 Mexico, since the thirteenth May, eighteen hundred and forty-six, bythrown overboard in the Gulf of Mexico since 13th May, 1846, also to be paid for. being thrown overboard or otherwise, shall be paid for in the same manner as is provided for the payment of other lost horses in this act. Approved, June 16, 1848. No. 10: in Favor of David Shaw and Solomon T. Corser. Private Resolution 10 9 Stat. 747 1848-06-26 Charles C. Little and James Brown 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 2025-12-15 30 1 9 private [No. 10.]— A Resolution in Favor of David Shaw and Solomon T. Corser. June 26, 1848. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The Postmaster-General to examine their claim for extra mail service.The amount ascertained to be due them, if any, to be paid out of the revenues of the Post-Office Department.Proviso, that no greater sum be allowed than $3000. That the Postmaster-General be, and hereby is, authorized and required to examine the claim of David Shaw and Solomon T.
Corser, contractors for carrying the mail on route number four, from Portland to Augusta, in Maine, and ascertain whether any sum of money is justly and equitably due them for any more expensive service performed by them on said route than was required or contemplated by their contract; and if it shall be found that any sum of money is due them as aforesaid, then that he ascertain the amount thereof, and pay the same out of the revenues of the Post-Office Department: *Provided*, That in no event shall a greater sum than three thousand dollars be allowed and paid on the claim aforesaid.
Approved, June 26, 1848. No. 11: to explain an Act passed, twenty-fourth June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled “An Act for the Relief of W. B. Slaughter, late Secretary of the Territory of Wisconsin.” Private Resolution 11 9 Stat. 747 1848-06-28 Charles C. Little and James Brown 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 2025-12-15 30 1 9 private [No. 11.]— A Resolution to explain an Act passed, twenty-fourth June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled “An Act for the Relief of W.
B. Slaughter, late Secretary of the Territory of Wisconsin.” June 28, 1848.1848, ch. 69. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The words “late Secretary of the Treasury of Wisconsin,” in the act for his relief, to be taken to mean “late Secretary of the Territory of Wisconsin.” That the words “late Secretary of the Treasury of Wisconsin,” where the same occur in the act entitled “An Act for the relief of W.
B. Slaughter, late Secretary of the Territory of Wisconsin,” approved June twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be taken to mean, “late Secretary of the Territory of Wisconsin;” and that the said act be construed and executed accordingly. Approved, June 28, 1848. No. 14: in Relation to the naval Pension of John McGarr. Private Resolution 14 9 Stat. 747 1848-07-05 Charles C. Little and James Brown 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 2025-12-15 30 1 9 private [No. 14.]— A Resolution in Relation to the naval Pension of John McGarr. July 5, 1848. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Catharine McGarr to be paid the amount of pension which shall appear on the books to be due her husband, and not called for by him. That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay to Catharine McGarr, wife of John McGarr, a naval pensioner, the amount of pension which shall appear on the books to be due to him, and not called for by him or any one duly authorized by him.
Approved, July 5, 1848. No. 27: authorizing the Submission of certain Claims to Arbitration. Private Resolution 27 9 Stat. 747 1848-08-11 Charles C. Little and James Brown 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 2025-12-15 30 1 9 private [No. 27.]— A Resolution authorizing the Submission of certain Claims to Arbitration. Aug. 11, 1848. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, The claim of the Catholic Congregation of St.
Augustine, Florida, and Benedict Madeore, vicar-general of Florida, to certain property specified in their memorial, to be submitted to arbitration. That the Solicitor of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the approval of the Secretaries of the Treasury and War Departments, to submit the differences between the United States of the one part, and the Catholic Congregation of St. Augustine, Florida, and Benedict Madeore, vicar-general of the Catholic Church of Florida, of the other part, as to certain property specified in the memorials to Congress of the claimants, at this session, to arbitration, and to agree, for the748THIRTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Res. 28. 1848. United States, to such impartial and disinterested citizen learned in the law as said Solicitor and said parties may select, to decide said differences on such terms and conditions, and in such mode, manner, and form, as may be deemed just and proper by said Solicitor and said parties, to be set forth in such submission; and that said Solicitor be directed to defend the rights and interests of the United States before such arbitrator, and to obtain from Havana, or elsewhere, such papers as may be necessary therefor, the decision of said arbitrator to be made before or during the next session of Congress, and, with the evidence on which the same is founded, to be laid before Congress at its next session, for its approval and ratification thereof, or dissent therefrom, and for its further action.
Approved, August 11, 1848. No. 28: for the Relief of H. B. Gaither. Private Resolution 28 9 Stat. 748 1848-08-14 Charles C. Little and James Brown 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 2025-12-15 30 1 9 private [No. 28.]— A Resolution for the Relief of H. B. Gaither. Aug. 14, 1848. *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, $240 to be paid to H.
B. Gaither for taking charge of and keeping certain books relating to the payment of the Cherokees in 1841. That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to pay to H. B. Gaither the sum of two hundred and forty dollars, for taking charge of and keeping certain books relating to the payment of the Cherokees, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, under an implied contract with William Armstrong, agent for said Indians; and that said sum be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, August 14, 1848. 30 2 1848 1849 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second Session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the 4th Day of December, 1848, and ended Saturday, March 3, 1849.* James K. Polk, President; George M. Dallas, Vice-President, and President of the Senate; David R. Atchison, President of the Senate pro tempore on and after March 2, 1849; Robert C. Winthrop, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Chapter I: for the Relief of the Heirs of Jean F. Perry, Josiah Bleakley, Nicholas Jarrot, and Robert Morrison. Chapter I 9 Stat. 749 1848-12-21 Charles C. Little and James Brown 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 2025-12-15 30 2 9 private Chapter I.— An Act for the Relief of the Heirs of Jean F. Perry, Josiah Bleakley, Nicholas Jarrot, and Robert Morrison.
Dec. 21, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Certificates of confirmation on certain land claims to be issued to J. F. Perry and others. That the register of the land office at Kaskaskia be required to issue certificates of confirmation on the several claims to lands confirmed to the said Jean F. Perry, Josiah Bleakley, Nicholas Jarrot, and Robert Morrison, by the governors of the north-western or Indiana Territories, upon those claims where such certificates have not heretofore issued, which certificates shall be issued to the heirs of the said persons, and shall not exceed in the whole four thousand six hundred acres of land.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That such certificates may beWhere to be located. located in legal subdivisions upon any land subject to private entry in any land office in Illinois, established for the sale of the public lands agreeably to the provisions of the act entitled “An Act confirming1814, ch. 61. certain claims to land in the Illinois Territory, and providing for their location,” approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fourteen, and patents shall be issued therefor agreeably to said act.Patents to issue.
Approved, December 21, 1848.
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