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make the payment hereby appropriated out of
pe the the Of act BY
any Of the said officers shall full REIMBURSEMENT and
all from hs
ment aud to any position in the navy Of the United States
Approved, March 8, 1857
Chap CxI-An Act for the relief of certain actual Set
Graduasion within tho limits of the Choctaw Cesson Of
eighteen hundred and thirty at less Rate than the true
graduated Prize under the to graduate and reduce
tvators approved the fourth of August eighteen hum
dred and fifty -four, and for other Purposes.
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States Of America in Congress assembled
That who have entered in good
faith lands subject to graduation within the limits OF the
Choctaw Of eighteen hundred and thirty before the
correct graduation lists had been received at the local land
who settled upon and improved the lands entered, who
entered the for the benefit of adjoining farm, and
who continue occupy the shall be entitled provd
ed the entries regular in all other repects to receive
patents for the lands entered settled upon and occupied
without any additional payment being required of them
the Office dated the wenty-third of January
and the seventh of April eighteen hundred and ffty-sx,
any law the contrary Notwithstanding: Provided. That
proof shall be required which is not necessary to carry
into effect the provisions Of this act
Sec q And be it further enacted, That the act of May
nineteen thousand eight hundred and hfywo entl
tied IAN act to authorize the legislature of the State of
Mississippi to sell the lands heretofore appropriated for the
of schools in that State and to r and approve the
sales already be $" construed as to apply to lands
sssissippi.
Approved March 8, 1857.
p5;ation Of the United States Mail, BY Ocean Steamers
and otherwise, during the fiscal year ending the thrteth
of June, eighteen hundred and ffty.eght.
Belt enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
That the following be and the hereby appr
praed to be paid out of money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated for the year ending the hreth of
june eighteen hundred and fftyeight
For transportation of the mails from New York to Lv
epoo and back three hundred and forysix thousand five
For transportation of the mails from New York to New
Orleans Charleston Savan ah Havana. and Chagres, and
For transportation of the mails from Panama Cafor
MIA and Oregon and back three hundred and
thousand three hundred and fifty dollars
Sec 9 And be it further enacted That the following
sums BE- and the hereby appropriated for the
vice of the Department for the ending the
h,rteh of June thousand eight hundred and fifty
eight out of in the treasury arising from the
revenues of sad department. in conformity to the act OF
For transportation the mails between Charleston and
Havana, sum exceeding fifty thousand dollars.
For transportation of the mails the Is,hmus of
Panama. one hundred and thrty-fve thousand dollars.
Approved March B. 1857.
Chap CXIv-An Act amend IN Act entitled :" An Act
and for the Collection afe-seeping Transfer and Dis.
bursemeht of the Public Revenue.
BE enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America Congress assembled
That The act to provide for the better organization of the
treasury and for the cect"n safe keeping transfer and
disbursement of the public revenue approved August sxih
eighteen hundred and fortysix be and the hereby
amended that each and every d>bursng officer agent
of the United States. having any money of the United
States entrusted him for disbursement shall be and he
is hereby required deposit the wi the Treasurer
of the United States with of the assistant
public Repositories and draw for the
only in favor of the persons to whom payment is to be
made in pursuance Of law and except when
payments be made in under twenty dollars, in
which such discussing agent check in his
name. stating that It is to pay small claims.
Soc Andb / fnrt acttd he of
the United States assistant and public deposita
Ees shall safe keep all moneys tsps,ed BY any dsbnrs
deposited BY receiver collector other
person which shall be the moneys of due owing the
OF the crime of embczzcmen Of said moneys, and subject
to the provided for embezzemen in the act to
which this is amendment
Sec. g. And be further enacted That it shall be the
duty Of each and person who shall have moneys #
to the treasurer the assistant treasurer public de-
posary of the United States and take his receipt for the
same in duplicate and forward one Of them forthwith to
the Secretary of the Treasury, aud for failure make
such deposit when required by the Secretary Of the Treas
ury other department the accounting officers of
the treasury the person so failing shall be held guilty Of
the crime of embezzlemen and subject to the punishment
for that offence provided in the act to which this is
Approved March g. 1857
Chap CXvAn Act to extend the Provisions of the Act
entitled An Act in Addition to certain Acts granting
Bounty Land TO certain Officers and Soldiers who have
been engaged in the Military Services of the United
States the Officers and Soldiers of Major David ai-
leys Battalion of Cook county (Illinois> Volunteers
Be enacted by the Senate and House Representatives
of the United States of America Congress assembled
Tha, all those officers and soldiers of Major David Baeys
battalion of Cook county lin"is volunteers stationed at
Fort Dearborn, in the Black Hawk of eighteen hum
bred and hrtytwn vino have received for
buny land for services in said shall be entitled
ceive certificate warrant from the Department of the
Interior for hundred and sixty of land upon max
ing proof either by record evidence such pa evidence
@ % sd w for the !" eas
the provisions a" this act to extend to the widows and mi
children Of said officers and soldiers who have died or
may die before receiving such warrant or certificate.
Approved, March 3, 1851.
Chap. CXvI-An Act in Addition to Act more effect
ual,y provide far the Punishment of certain Crimes
against the United States, and for f. other Purposes.
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
Of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That person or persons upon the high seas or any
pT the of the United States and
of the jurisdiction of particular State shall unaw-
fully and wuly but without malice III STRIKE
ing, stabing, wounng shooting such person shall af
forwards die land within or without the United States
every person offending his her counsenrs aders and
abetors shalt be deemed guilty of the crime of mansaug-
ter: and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as is
Sec And be il further enacted, That if any person up
on the high seas, of the or in any river
haven creek basin bay, within the admiralty ursdic-
tom Of the United States OF the Jurisdiction of any
artcuar State shall attempt to commit the crime Of muir
another person. By not constituting the Of
fence of an assault with dangerous weapon such offender
tS or %b"u hard for period
ing three years. and fine not exceeding one thousand dol
And be it further enacted That the crime of
slaughter provided for by this act, and all other acts
or without hard labor period not exceeding three
years. fine not exceeding thousand dollars at the
Sec And be it further enacted That all acts and parts
of acts with the provisions OF this ACT al
h1e y 6 s
the time Of the passage OF TINS act put al such acs