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TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 23, 25. 1840.

1836, ch. 270.

Transporta-

tion.

Compensationof postmasters.

Ship letters,&c.

Wrapping pa-per.

Office furni-ture.

Advertising.

Mail bags.

Blanks.

Mail locks,&c.

Mail depreda-tions, &c.

Clerks.

Miscellaneous.

Power of Pre-sident and P.M.Gen. to transferfunds from oneappropriation toanother.

Statute I.May 8,1840.

Term of U. S.Dist. Court forwestern dist. ofPennsylvania ,altered.

Act of July 27,1842, ch. 68.

Process.

Statute I.May 27, 1840.

Act of 22dMay 1826, ch.147, revived andcontinued forfive years.

Act of Jan. 27,1835, ch. 6.

dred and thirty-six, five millions one hundred and twenty-six thousanddollars, viz :

For transportation of the mail, three millions five hundred and twentythousand dollars;

For compensation of Postmasters , one million and ninety-seven thou-sand dollars;

For ship, steamboat, and way letters, forty-three thousand dollars;

For wrapping-paper, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For office furniture, five thousand dollars;

For advertising, thirty-six thousand dollars;

For mail-bags, forty-six thousand dollars;

For blanks, thirty-three thousand dollars;

For mail locks, keys, and stamps, twelve thousand dollars;

For mail depredations, and special agents, twenty-two thousand dol-lars ;

For clerks for offices, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars;

For miscellaneous, sixty-seven thousand dollars: Provided, That thePresident and the Postmaster General shall have the same power totransfer funds from one to another head of appropriation, between theforegoing appropriations, made for the service of the General Post Of-fice, as the President and any other head of an Executive Departmentnow have to transfer funds appropriated under one head to the serviceof another, in any other branch of the public service.

Approved, May 8, 1840.

Chap. XXIII .—An Act for altering the time of holding the District Court of theUnited States for the TUesiern District of Pennsylvania, at Williamsport .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the term of the DistrictCourt of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania,which is now directed by law to be holden at Williamsport , in thecounty of Lycoming on the first Mondays of June and October in eachyear, shall be hereafter holden on the third Mondays of June and Octo-ber in each year.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the first session of the Dis-trict Court to be held at Williamsport after the passage of this act shallbe on the third Monday of June one thousand eight hundred and forty.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all process which may haveissued, or which may hereafter issue at Williamsport returnable to Juneterm, as heretofore established, shall be held returnable, and be return-ed, to the terms as changed by this act.

Approved, May 8, 1840.

Chap. XXV. — An Act to revive an act authorizing certain soldiers in the late warto surrender the bounty lands drawn by them and to locate others in lieu there-of, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the act of thetwenty-second of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, en-titled “ An act authorizing certain soldiers in the late war to surrenderthe bounty lands drawn by them, and to locate others in lieu thereof,”be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the termof five years; and the provisions of the above recited act shall be, andare hereby, extended to those having like claims in the States of Illinois and Missouri .

Approved, May 27, 1840.