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and the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, threehundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
For the invalid pensioners, under various laws, three hundred thou-sand six hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixty-three cents:
For pensions to widows and orphans under the act of the fourth ofJuly, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, four hundred and ninetythousand and eighty-four dollars and fifty-two cents :
For five years’pensions to widows, per act seventh July, one thousandeight hundred and thirty-eight, one million three hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars:
For half-pay pensions, payable through the office of the Third Audi-tor, ten thousand dollars.
Approved, February 13, 1839.
Chap. XXYI. —An Act to repeal the proviso to the second section of an act approvedthe third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, which authorized theSecretary of the Treasury to compromise the claims of the United States againstcertain banks .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso tothe second section of “ An act to authorize the proper officers of theTreasury Department to credit the account of the Treasurer of theUnited States with the amount of unavailable funds standing to his debiton the books of the Treasury , to transfer the amount to the debit ofbanks and individuals indebted for the same, and to authorize the Secre-tary of the Treasury to compromise and settle said claims,” approved3d of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, which prohibits theSecretary of the Treasury from compromising the claims of the UnitedStates against the Alleghany Bank of Pennsylvania, be, and the sameis hereby repealed; and that the Secretary of the Treasury is herebyauthorized to compromise and settle the claim of the United States against said bank.
Approved, February 16, 1839.
Ciiap. XXVII .—in Act to amend 11 An act to reorganize the district courts of theUnited States in the State of Mississippi ,” approved June eighteenth, eighteenhundred and thirty-eight, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the court ofthe northern district of Mississippi , besides the ordinary jurisdiction ofa district court, shall have jurisdiction of all causes, except appeals andwrits of error, cognizable by law in a circuit court, and shall proceedtherein in the same manner as a circuit court.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That defendants residing in saidnorthern district shall not be sued in the circuit court held at Jackson,except in the cases and in the mode prescribed by the fourth section ofthe act to which this is an amendment.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all appeals and writs of errorfrom the decisions of the said district court, when exercising the pow-ers of a circuit court, shall be directly to the Supreme Court of theUnited States , in the same manner and under the same limitations andrestrictions that they are now allowed by law from the circuit court.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Marshal of the several dis-tricts in the State of Mississippi , in addition to the several sale days nowallowed by law, may be authorized to sell property at the court-houseof each county on Monday of each week, and on the first and second
Invalid pen-sioners.
Pensions towidows and or-phans under actJuly 4th, 1836,ch. 362.
Pensions towidows underact July 7th,1838, ch. 189.
Half-pay pen-sions payablethrough officeThird Auditor.
Statute III.
Feb. 16, 1839.
The 2d sectionact 3d March,1837, ch.35,re-pealed, &.C.