TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 1,3,4,5. 1840.
409
RESOLUTIONS.
No. 1. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to continue certainclerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the authority given tothe Secretary of War by the sixteenth clause of the first section of theact entitled “ An act providing for the salaries of certain officers thereinnamed, and for other purposes,” dated the ninth day of May, one thou-sand eight hundred and thirty-six, to employ two clerks in the businessof reservations and grants under Indian treaties, be extended after theexpiration of the period for which that authority was granted for theterm of two years.
Approved, May 2, 1840.
No. 3. Jl Resolution concerning the statue of Washington, by Greenough.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of theNavy be authorized and instructed to take measures for the importationand erection of the statue of Washington, by Greenough.
Approved, May 27, 1840.
No. 4. Jl Resolution to authorize the President to dispose of certain presents fromthe Imaum of Muscat and the Emperor of Morocco .
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the President of theUnited States be, and he is hereby, authorized to dispose, in such timeand manner as he shall see fit, of all such of the presents to the Govern-ment of the United States as have been sent from the Imaum of Muscat or the Emperor of Morocco , and cannot conveniently be deposited orkept in the Department of State , and cause the proceeds thereof to beplaced in the Treasury of the United States .
Approved, July 20, 1840,
No. 5. Joint Resolution for the exchange of books and public documents for foreign
publications.
Be it resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the librarian,under the supervision of the Committee on the Library, be authorizedto exchange such duplicates as may be in the library for other booksor works.
Second. That he be authorized, in the same way, to exchange docu-ments.
Third. That hereafter, fifty additional copies of the documents,printed by order of either House , be printed and bound for the purposeof exchange in foreign countries.
Approved, July 20, 1840.
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May 2, 1840.
Authority con-tained in 16thclause 1st sec.act 9th May1836, ch. 60,extended fortwo years.
May 27, 1840.
Measures to betaken for its im-portation anderection.
July 20, 1840.
July 20, 1840.