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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Cii.3,4,5,6. 1842.

Statute II .Feb. 12, 1842.Obsolete.]

Appropriation.

To be expend-ed according tothe act of Feb.28, 1803, ch. 9.

Statute II .Feb. 12, 1842.[Obsolete.]

Revolutionary

pensions.

Invalid pen-sions.

Pensions towidows and or-phans.

1836, ch. 362.

1838, ch. 189.

Statute II .March 4, 1842.

Said lands tobe added to theHuntsville andCoosa districts.

Land office forthe Coosa dist.to be removed.

Statute II .March 19,1842.

Chap. III .—An Act making an appropriation for the relief and protection tf Ame-rican seamen in foreign countries.

Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteenthousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paidout of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the relief andprotection of American seamen in foreign countries; to be expendedunder the direction of the Secretary of State, in pursuance of the “ actsupplementary to the act concerning consuls and vice consuls, and forthe further protection of American seamen,” passed twenty-eighth Feb-ruary, eighteen hundred and three.

Approved, February 12, 1842.

Chap. IV. — An Act making appropriations for pensions in the year one thousandeight hundred and forty-two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Trea-sury not otherwise appropriated, to wit:

For revolutionary pensions, under the act of the eighteenth ofMarch, eighteen hundred and eighteen, in addition to a probable bal-ance at the end of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of onehundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dol-lars, eighty-eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars.

For invalid pensions, under various acts, two hundred thousand twohundred and seventy-five dollars.

For pensions to widows and orphans, per act of the fourth of July,eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in addition to a probable balance at theend of the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, of thirty-thousand dol-lars, two hundred forty-two thousand two hundred and forty dollars.

For five years pensions to widows, per act of seventh July, eighteenhundred and thirty-eight, two hundred thousand dollars.

Approved, February 12, 1842.

Chap. V. — An Act to provide for the early disposition of the lands lying in theSlate of Alabama, acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of twenty-ninth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part ofthe territory acquired from the Cherokee Indians by the treaty of NewEchota of twenty-ninth December, eighteen hundred and thirty-five,within the State of Alabama , which lies west of the line dividing rangestwo and three east of the basis meridian of Huntsville , shall be added toand form a part of said district; and all the territory acquired by thesaid treaty within the said State not attached to the Huntsville district,as above described, shall be annexed to and form a part of the Coosaland district, in said State.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land office for the Coosaland district, at present located at Mardisville, shall be removed to Le-banon in the county of De Kalb.

Approved, March 4, 1842.

Chap. VI. — An Act to authorize the Judge of the District Court for the EasternDistrict of Pennsylvania, to hold a special session if the said court.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Judge of the Dis-