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TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Res. 10,11,12,14. 1844.
June 12,1844.
Treasurer’scertificates ofdeposites for thepurchase oflands under actof April 24,1820, ch. 51,when assigned,to be receivedin payment forpublic lands.
No. 10. A Resolution respecting receipts issued by the Treasurer of the UnitedStates , in payment for public lands.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That any certificates whichhave been issued by the Treasurer of the United States , in favor of in-dividuals who have deposited moneys at the Treasury in payment forlands intended by them to be purchased under the act of Congress , ap-proved April the twenty-fourth, in the year of our Lord one thousandeight hundred and twenty, entitled “ An act making further provisionfor the sale of the public lands,” and which certificates have been as-signed, may be received in payment for public lands purchased at publicsale or by private entry; and any receiver of public moneys who mayhave received such certificates in payment, as aforesaid, may be creditedwith the amount thereof, upon delivering them duly transferred to theTreasury.
Approved, June 12, 1S44,
June 12,1844. No. 11. A Resolution suspending the joint resolution providing for the printing ofadditional copies of the journals and public documents .
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedSuspended till States of America in Congress assembled, That the resolution <c pro-next session of viding for the printing of additional copies of the journals and publicAnte^ p. 717. documents,” shall be suspended and take effect only from the com-mencement of the next session of Congress -.
Approved, June 12, 1844.
June 12,1844.
No. 12. A Resolution to continue two clerks in the business of reservations andgrants under Indian treaties.
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 joint resolution, approved May eighteenth,one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, to continue for two yearsthe employment of two clerks in the business of reservations and grantsunder Indian treaties, is hereby extended and continued till otherwisedirected by Congress .
Approved, June 12, 1844.
June 15,1844.
PostmasterGen’l to makearrangementswith British go-vernment fortransmission ofthe mails be-tween Boston and Canada .
Arrangementsto be made fortransmission ofthe mail betw’nthe U. S. andEurope .
Ports of Bre-men, Havre,and others, tobe secured, &c.
No. 14. A Joint Resolution in relation to the transmission of the British mailbetween Boston and Canada , and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled , That the Postmaster Generalbe and he is hereby authorized to make such arrangements as may bedeemed expedient with the Post Office Department of the British go-vernment for the transmission of the British mail in its unbroken stateor condition between Boston and Canada .
Re it further resolved, That the Postmaster General be and he^shereby authorized to enter into such arrangement or arrangements withthe proper authorities in France and Germany , and the owners or agentsof vessels plying regularly between those countries and the United States ,whereby a safe and as near as possible a regular direct mail communi-cation, under official guaranty, between the United States and the con-tinent of Europe, viz.: the ports of Bremen in Germany and Havre inFrance , and such other principal ports on said continent as the Post-master General may deem most proper, shall be secured — so that theentire inland and foreign postage on letters and all other mail matter,