LIST OF THE PUBLIC ACTS OF CONGRESS.

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No. 9. Putnam's Ploughing and Dredging Machine . A resolution directing an examination of

Putnam's ploughing’ and dredging machine. March 3, 1845. 798

No. 10. Edition of the Laws of the United States . A resolution to authorize the Attorney Gene-ral to contract for copies of a proposed edition of the laws and treaties of the UnitedStates . March 3, 1845. 798

No. 11. Shawnee Indians. A joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to pay anybalance that may be due the Shawnee Indians who served in the Florida war. March 3,

1845. 800

No. 13. Reduction of Postage , <Sfc. Joint resolution to fix the time when the act to reduce therates of postage, to limit the use and correct the abu?e of the franking privilege, and for theprevention of frauds on the revenues of the Post-Office Department, passed at this session,shall go into effect. March 3, 1845... 800

No. 14. Defaults hy States in the Payment of Interest or Principal of Investments on Bonds held hy the United States . A joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury,whenever any State shall have been or may be in default for the payment of interest orprincipal on investments in its stocks or bonds held by the United States in trust, to retaincertain moneys to which such State is entitled for the purposes therein named. March3, 1845. 801

No. 15. Additional Inspectors at the Port of New Orleans. A resolution authorizing the em-ployment of additional Inspectors of the Customs at the port of New Orleans . March3,1845. 801

APPENDIX NO. 1.

Proclamation issued by the President of the United States under the act of June 1836, Chap. 86. 802

APPENDIX NO. 2.

An act further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company , passed

February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. 802