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Proviso.
The contractyear for carry-ing the mail toend on the 30thof June.
Act of July 2,1836, ch.270.
Evidence, ifsatisfactory, tobe received, al-though not con-forming to ex-isting rules.
Unexpendedbalance appro-priated to re-pairs.
TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS . Sess. I. Res. 4, 5,6. 1836.
withheld from public sale until the first day of December next: Pro-vided, That nothing herein contained, shall be taken or construed asindicating any intention on the part of Congress to confirm said claims.Approved, May 9, 1836.
No. 4. A Resolution to change the time of making contracts for the transportation of
the mail.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster Generalhe authorized, provided the same can be done at the present rates ofcompensation, to extend the term of the existing contracts for thetransportation of the mail, to the thirtieth day of June inclusive, nextsucceeding the thirty-first day of December, in each year in which saidcontracts expire, so that the contract year may, after the first day ofJanuary next, commence on the first day of July, instead of the firstday of January.
Approved, May 14, 1836.
No. 5. A Resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to receive additional evidencein support <f the claims of Massachusetts and other States of the United States , fordisbursements, services, $rc. during the late war.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War,in preparing his report pursuant to a resolve of the blouse of Repre-sentatives, agreed to on the twenty-fourth of February, eighteen hun-dred and thirty-two, be, and he hereby is, authorized, without regard toexisting rules and requirements, to receive such evidence as is on file,and any further proofs which may be offered tending to establish thevalidity of the claims of Massachusetts upon the United States , or anypart thereof, for services, disbursements, and expenditures during thelate war with Great Britain ; and in all cases where such evidence shallin his judgment prove the truth of the items of claim, or any partthereof, to act on the same in like manner as if the proof consisted ofsuch vouchers and evidence, as is required by existing rules and regu-lations touching the allowance of such claims : And that in the settle-ment of claims of other States upon the United States for services,disbursements, and expenditures during the late war with Great Britain ,the same kind of evidence, vouchers and proof shall be received as isherein provided for in relation to the claim of Massachusetts , the validityof which shall be, in like manner, determined and acted upon by theSecretary of War.
Approved, May 14, 1836.
No. G. A Resolution authorizing the repair of the bridge across the river Potomac ,
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretaryof the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to have all repairs madeto the bridge across the Potomac river , which have become necessaryfrom the late flood, and that the expenses of said repairs be paid out ofthe money heretofore appropriated for the erection of said bridge, andwhich is now in the Treasury, unexpended.
Approved, June 7, 1836.