The true Democrat., 1857-05-19

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled .' An act to es- tahli,h Court for the Investigation of Claims ag ln7t the United States, approved February 24th, 1855.
 Be it enacted etc. That any two of the Judges of the Court of Claims. authorized by the act to which this is an amendment approved the 24th day of February. 1855 shall constitute quorum and may hold cout for the transaction of business. and the court may appoint commissioners to take testimony in he manner prescribed in the said act
 ,. That assistant solicitor shall he appointed by the President by and with he advice and consent ot he Senate whose duty it shall be to ad the soli .itor in the performance of the duties mentioned in he said act and shall take an oath to support the Constitution of he United States and discharge faith uv the duties Of his office. and he shall receive alarv of $500 per annum and shall hold his office pr a period of four unless sooner removed by the Pr silent. And the solicitor of the United States menti' ned in the act to which h- is amendment. shall have power and he is authorized t0 employ Il deputy who shall receive salary of S2 800 per rvm and whose duty it shall be to aid the said soli c.nr in the performance of the du ics mentioned in si act in Such way the said solicitor shall direct
 3 That he clerk of the said urt shall be and he i- hereby authorized to dshurSe under the dircc ton of tl. said court. the contingent fund which may hereafter be appropriated from time to time for the rI-. If the said court: Pyorfded he hall irst give bond in such an amount and in such form and with such -ecurtv as shall be approved bv the Secretary If the Treasury: 4nd DJori3ed further. That his
  of the treasury in the same way the accounts of 'ther lisbursing agents of the government now ~eft'ea. And from and after the lst day of April. lS56 the salary of the said clerk shall he S80oA per anrrm and the salary of the assistant clerk shall be S2 uhn per annnm.
 APPROVED. August 6, 1858.
 AN ACT to alter and amend '' An act acttoappropriate Money to remove Obstructons in tine Savannah River below the City of Savannah in the State of Cporoia n apnrOyed March 3d. 1855.
 Be it enacted etc That the balance of the mex rended appropriation made by the act of 3a March 1855 for removing certain obstrurtionS in the Sa vannah rivern may he and is hereby authorized t. he applied under the direction of the Secretary of War t, remove the bars. shoals. banks and oherim- pedients in said river caused by said obsrucons as nroroSed in the project of the commissioners approv- ed by the War Deparmentin in February, 1858. APPROVED August '. lS56
 | AN ACT granting Public Lands an al'ernaia Sec
 tinns to the State of Mississippi to aid in the Con
 sructon of Railroads in said State, and for othe, | purposes.
 Be it enacted. etc.. That there be and is hereby granted to the State of Mississippi for the purpose o aiding in the construction of railroads from Jackson tC the line between the State of Mississippi snd the State of Alnhama: from Tuscaloosa to the Mobile railroad within Mississippi: and from Brandon 10 the Gulf o1 Mexico every alternate section of land designated by even numers: for six sections in width on each side ot each of sald roads but m case IL shall appear that the United States have. when the lines or routes of said roads defnately fixed sold any sections any parts thereof granted aforesaid or that the right of preemption has attached to the same, then it shall be lawful for any agent agents. to be ap- pointed by the of said State select sub feet to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior from the lands of the United States nearest to the tiers of sections above specified much land in al ternate sections parts of sections shall he to suh lands as the United States shall have sold ol otherwise appropriated to which the right of pre- empton has attached aforesaid; which lands thus selected in lieu of those sold and to which pre- emp