Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-01-20


JANIS X. Polk, President. CseRon. M.
Dallas, Vice President. JoEs w.
Davis, Speaker Of the Ho5ss
Of Representatives. ::
CHAP. l79.-AN ACT authorizingA the pay
ment of certain claims of the State of labama.
SEC. /. Be it enacted by the Senate snc House
of Representatives of the United Estates OF
America in Congress assembled, Thse there be
paid to the State Of Alabama, out of apy' money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropzia the
sum of thirteen thousand four hunGre1 ard fifty
Ave dollars and thirty-two cents, fsr moneys
paid BY the said State for subsistence. supplies
and services of her local troops, .nd.fo: provi.
sions and forage furnished the friend " Indian.
during the Greek and Seminole hostiEies, in the
years eighteen hundred and thirty-sis and eigh.
teen hundred and thirty-seven.
Approved, August 10, lS46.
CHAP. ls0.-AN ACT to provide r. the pay.
ment Of the evidences of public d:bt, in GER
tain cases.
SEc. !. Be it enacted BY the Senatetns. House
Of Representatives of the United States o. Amer
ca in Congress assembled, That Wherever il
shall appear, to the satisfaction Of the Secretary
of the Treasury, upon due proof taken in the
manner hereinafter directed, that any treasury
note which has been, before the PASSAGE Of this
act, received or redeemed by any authorized
officer Of the government has been subsequently,
purloined or stolen, and put into circulation,
without having upon it any evidence er Isarks Of
having been cancelled, and has been received by
any person institution, for full consideration,
in the usual course of business, without notice
or knowledge Of the same having bees redeemed
or received IS aforesaid, or having sbeen can
celled, or having been purloinec Or stolen as
aforesaid, and without any circumstances exist
ing to create suspicion of the good taitb or due
caution with which the same may have been re-
eeived by such person or institution, NE shall be-
and hereby is, authorized to cause ths amount Of
such note to be paid to the innocent holder
thereof, out Of any money in the treasury moi
otherwise appropriated: Provided That the
facts upon which any such payIne<t shall be
made shall be proved by the oath oriafSmation
of credible witness or witnesses. t;.ke4 before
any judge of the United States, or She, highest
court Of record, or of the presiding isdgs Of any
court exercising unlimited j,,risdiafie:, IN a.
mount, in any State, Territory, or Gstfact, and
Of the taking of which testimony due aot.ce shall
previously be given to the district attorney Of
the United States for the district in which sacf
testimony is taken, who shall be al l.er.y to ap.
all which evidence shall be TRANSMITTED to the
Secretary Of the Treasury, and preserved in hi;
department; and all wilful false swearing, upor
such examination, shall be and hereby i; deciar.
ed to be, perjury, and liable to the our:ishmen,
for that offence prescribed by the Jaws of the
United States: And provided further. That a
statement of all treasury notes PAID uader the
provisions Of this act, within the preceding year.
shall be submitted to Congress with thu annual
report of the Secretary of the Treasury in rela-
ton to the finances.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when
any officer or agent of the United States, duly
authorized to receive, redeem, or cancel any
treasury notes issued by authority of raw, has
received, shall receive, or has paid, ,or shall
pay, any II easury note which had been previous
fy received or redeemed by any officer Or agent
having authority to receive or redeem such note,
and which had subsequently thereto been pur-
Joined and put into circulation, the Secretary of
tbs Treasury, upon full and satisfactory proof
that the same had been received o. paid in good
faith, and in the exercise of ordinary pIldunce,
may allow credit for the amount Of sEch note
to the officer or agent so receiving or pacing the
same; and all credits which have, before the
passage Of this act, been allowed in such cases,
and under such circumstances, are hereby sane
toned.
SEC. 8. And be it further acted, That all
acts and parts of acts heretofore enacted. which
are supplied by this act, so far as the same may
not have been acted on are hereby repeated, and
50 far as they may have been acted on, they are
ratified and confirmed.
Approved, August 10, 1916.
mo. 1.]-JOINT RESOLUTION for.the adj
mission of the State Of Texas into the, Union.
Whereas the Congress Of the United: States,
BY a joint resolution approved March tae first,
eighteen hundred and forty-6ve, did consent that
the territory properly included within, ard right
fully belonging to, the republic of Texas, might
be erected into new State, to be called the State
Of Texas, with a republican form Of govern
ment, to be adopted by the people Of said Re-
public, by deputies in convention assembled:
with the consent Of the existing government, in
the States Of Union; which consent of Congress
was given upon certain conditions specified in
the FIRST and second sections Of said joint res
olution; and whereas the people Of che said
republic Of Texas, by deputies in convection as
sembled, with the consent Of the existing gov
eminent, did adopt constitution, and erect .
new State with republican form Of government,
and, in the name Of the people Of Texas. and by
their authority, did ordain and declare that they
assented to and accepted the proposals, condi-
tons. and guarantees contained 10 said srst and
se.ono SeCJOn Of sdlo resOtuuOn: ana whereas Inc
said constitution, with the proper evidence of its
adoption BY the people Of the republic OF. Texas,
has been transmitted to the President of the Uni
ted States and laid before Congress, in conform
!ty 70 the provisions Of said joiat resolution.
therefore,
Resolved BY the Senate and House Of. Repre-
sentatives Of the United States Of America in |
Congress assembled, That the State OF Texas
shall be one, and il hereby declaredto be one, Of
the United States Of America, and admitted into
the Union on an equal footing with the original
States in al respects whichever.
SEc. 2 And be it further resolved. That I'M.
u the representatives in Congress shall be ap-
pointed, according to an actual enumeration
the inhabitants Of the United States, the State
Texas shall be entitled to choose tws. repre-
sentatives.
Approved, December %, 1876.
mo. 2.]-JOINT RESOLUTION relative to
the printing and distribution Of the annual es-
Inmates.
Resolved BY the Senate and House of Repre-.
'assftvSs of the United States Of America in