Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-02

wise appropriated, to defray any expenses
which have been or may be incurred, in pre-.
venting or SURPRISING the hostilties of any
Indians: to be expended under the direction
of the Secretary Of War, conformably to the
acts Of Congress of the nineteenth of March
eighteen hundred and thirty-s.x, and of the Sc
cond of July eighteen hundred and thirty-six,
and Of the acts therein referred to.
APPROVED, October 10th, 1887.
[PUBIlc.---No. 81
AN ACT authorizing a further postponement of
payment upon duty bonds.
Be n,enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
prtsentatiues Of the United States of .fmerica,
IN Congress assembled, That the Secretary of
tle Treasury be; and he hereby is, authorized
10 grant such further extension of credit upon
all bonds for duties now outstanding as shall
make the whole extension Of credit upon each
bond nine months from the time when the orr.
ginal bond became due and payable; making
the extension in each case to depend upon the
same conditions as to additional security, the
payment Of interest. and other terms, which
have been prescribed by the Treasury Depart-
partment, TO the extension Of revenue bonds
since May last: Propided, That nothing here
in contained shall be construed TO include any
existing bonds where the parties to the same
have not, since the bonds became payable,
given additional security, or made part pay !.
ment, and are by the proper officers Of the Go
vernment, considered insolvent, or unsafe Sc
curities for the payment OF their bonds.
SEC. Q. md be it farther enacted, That a
credit Of three and six months shall be allow
ed on the duty on all merchandise which shall
have been or may be imported on or before the
first day Of November next, upon which the
duties are payable in equal instruments, in
cash, and that the bonds received for such du-
ties shall be payable, bearing interest at the
rate Of six per cent. per annum, and shall be in
the form and upon the conditions prescribed
by existing laws and by this act.
SEC. 3. andb be II further enacted, That where
the security in any bond which has been, or
may hereafter be postponed, is entirely salts
factory, the principal or sureties in the same
shall not be disabled from being in the mean
time, till the period Of postponement provided
for by this act expires, received as principal
or sureties in other bonds for duties, notwi,,-
standing the bond first given may not have
been actually paid, discharged, or extended
before or on the day it fell due: Provided,
That such principal and sureties shall be found,
in all other respects, safe and satisfactory Sc
curity for the funds to which they may be pro-
posed as parties. a
SEC. a. And be il further enacted, That the
operation Of all prior laws, and parts Of laws,
so far as inconsistent with this act, be suspen-
ded in the particulars in which they may con-
fict with, or differ from, its provisions, until
this act shall cease by its own limitations.
APPRoyED, October 10th, 1887.
TPUBIic.---No. g..
AN ACT for adjusting the remaining claims OH
the late deposte banks.
BE II enacted BY he Senate and Ho,sc Of Re-
presentation Of the United States Of .dn,erica, IN
Cbngress .Assen,bled, That the Secretary Of the
Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to
continue to withdraw the public moneys now
remaining in any Of the former depositc banks,
in manner as gradual and convenient to the
institutions as shall be consistent with the pc.
cuniary wants Of the Government, and the safe
" of the funds thus to be drawn; and that no
further interest than that required by the depo.
site act Of the twenty third Of June, one thous-
and eight hundred and thirty-six, under which
NOSE deposites were made, shall be demanded
Of any bank which has met, and shall hereaf
ter meet, the acquisitions of the Department.
This provision shall also extend TO such pub.
lie moneys as may remain in any of the said
banks, whether standing TO the credit of the
Treasurer Of the United States, or Of any dis
bursting or other public officer Of the Govern
ment.
SEC. 2. Indie it further enacted, That ii
case Of neglect OF refusal by any Of the sale
banks TO comply with the acquisitions Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury, as he shall make
them, in conformity with the first section o
this act, suits shall be instituted, where tina
has not already been done, to recover. the a
mounts due TO the United States, unless thu
defaulting bank shall forthwith cause to be ex
ecuted and delivered TO the Secretary Of the
Treasury, a bond, with security TO be appro
we'd by the Solicitor Of the Treasury, to pay t.
the United States the whole moneys due from
it in three instalments: The first to be paid
on the first day Of July next, the second or
the first day Of January, eighteen hundred and
thifty-nine, and the remaining instalment on
tho FIRST day Of July, eighteen hundred and
thirty-nine; and the default mentioned in tins
act on which interest is to commence at the
rate Of six per cent. shall be understood TO DC
the neglect OF omission of said banks, or any
Of them, to answer the drafts OF acquisitions
Of the Secretary Of the Treasury, made on them
according 70 the provisions OF the FIRST section
Of this act; and interest thereon at the rate O
six per centum per annum, from the time o
default, together with any damages which ma,
lhsvs accrued 70 thu Upit{d States from pro