572 TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 194. 1832
Pay of regis-ter and receiverto begin whensurveys are com-pleted.
Country ac-quired by Choc-taw treaty, at-tached to sepa-rate district.
proper plats of the surveys of said districts to be deposited in the landoffices intended for them respectively.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of theregisters and receivers, to be appointed for the land districts hereby esta-blished, shall not commence till after the surveys shall have been com-pleted.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all that portion of countryacquired by the treaty with the Choctaw nation of Indians, within thestate of Alabama , south of township nineteen, shall be offered for saleat the Saint Stephen’s land office, and the residue shall be attached tothe Tuscaloosa land district, and be offered for sale at that place.
Approved, July 10, 1832.
Statute I.July 10,1832.
Commissionersto close all theiraccounts of cer-tain funds, andpay the balanceto the Treasurerfor the use ofthe Secretary ofthe Navy , &c.
Moneys to beinvested.
Accounts to bekept of certainfunds, &c.
Chap. CXCIV .—An *Act for the regulation of the navy and privateer pension andnavy hospital funds, (a)
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America , in Congress assembled , That the commissioners of thenavy pension and navy hospital funds be, and they are hereby, directedto close all their accounts as trustees of said funds, and to pay over thebalance of cash in their hands, and to assign over and transfer all thecertificates of stock, and other property belonging to said funds, and tothe privateer pension fund, to the treasurer of the United States , for theuse of the Secretary of the Navy , for the payment of navy and privateerpensions, and for expenditures on account of navy hospitals, et cetera;and as soon as said assignment and transfer shall be made, the said com-missioners shall be, and they are hereby, released and discharged fromall further trust connected with said funds, and the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, constituted the trustee of said funds; and as such,it shall be his duty to receive applications for pensions, and to grant thesame according to the terms of the acts of Congress in such case madeand provided, and to direct and control the expenditures out of the navyhospital fund.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That the balance of cash now onhand, and all moneys that may hereafter arise to said pension funds fromstocks redeemed, or from any other source, shall be immediately invested,under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy , in the bank stock ofthe Bank of the United States; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to sell so much of the stock of the UnitedStates in said bank, at the par value thereof, as said navy pension fundswill pay for; and to receive said navy pension funds, in payment thereof;the said bank stock to be held in the name of the treasurer of the UnitedStates for the purposes aforesaid.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That the Secretary of the Navy be,and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause books to be opened,and regular accounts to be kept, showing the condition of the navy andprivateer pension funds, the receipts and expenditures thereof, the namesof the pensioners, and the dates and amount of their respective pensions,with a statement of the act or acts of Congress under which the same
(a) Acts relating to the navy pension fund
An act for the government of the navy of the United States , March 2, 1799, ch. 24, sec. 9, 10.
An act for the better government of the navy of the United States , April 23, 1800, ch. 33, sec. 9, 10.An act in relation to the navy pension fund, March 26, 1804, ch. 48.
An act providing navy pensions in certain cases, Jan. 20, 1813, ch. 10.
An act in addition to an act, entitled “ An act in relation to the navy pension fund,” April 16, 1816,ch. 56.
An act for the regulation of the navy and privateer pension fund and navy hospital fund, July 10,1832, ch. 194.
An act to continue the office of commissioner of pensions, and to transfer the business heretoforetransacted in the Navy Department to that office, March 4, 1840, ch. 4.
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