THIRTY·SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 59. 1853. 155 ments, duties, or other objects in California, from the commencement of the late war with Mexico, to the twelfth day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and the said Riley shall account for, settle, and Said Riley to pay mto the Treasury of the United States, for general purposes, any QW l“*° *1’° balance of moneys shown to be in his hands, upon such settlement; and bgxggnagg all papers, vouchers, and other documents connected with the levying hands. and collecting of any money as aforesaid, shall be filed with the accounts rendered for settlement by the said Riley. S20. 2. And be it further enacted, That in settling the accounts of said Riley as aforesaid, the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby authorized and required to credit him with any sum or sums Said Riley to of money paid or advanced by him for defraying the expenses of the l’° °u°w°dh“ Convention of California, called to frame a State Constitution, aud also Sggggsgstlgmuthe sum or sums of money advanced by him, for the relief of destitute stitntional con; overland emigrants to California, and such credits shall be allowed only z;:?:';;'; on the production of proper vouchers, in such form as may be approved ner or over-land by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States; and the said °migm’%“ md officers of the Treasury shall in said settlement further credit the said ;g€g°;;,lg§;h° Riley, with all sums of moneys expended by him for the support of the actual government of California after the ratification of the treaty of peace with Mexico and before the formation of the State Government, and which expenses may appear to have been proper and necessary, but not authorized by any law of the United States; Provided, That before Proviso. crediting him the said last mentioned expenditures, they shall be upproved by the President of the United States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That as a compensation for collect- comgeimatiou ing, safe-keeping, and disbursing the said moneys, the said Riley shall °f *°-ld *°Y· be allowed and credited on such settlement, one and a. half per cent. upon the moneys so raised and collected by him, and he shall be allowed no other or further compensation therefor. Szc. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury _ Suits against be, and he is hereby directed to cause proper defence to be made, at the :°·":£’°{’n;‘;, expense of the United States to any suit or suits, now pending, or that 0g5mg, by mln hereafter may be instituted against the said Riley, for any moneys raised in 03-lif¤r¤¤>· fo ma muecmi by him in cauroma, and to which this at is appiieimc. ’g;c“5{$;;jg*‘ by Approved, February 5, 1853. Sums. CHAP. LIX.·—·A.n Act Granting the Rzyht of Way and Making a Grant of Land to the Feb- 9, 1853- States of Arkansas and Missouri, t0Azd m the Coizstruozion ofaliailroad _/iam a ‘-·······*· point on the Mzlssisszppi, opposite the mouth of the Ohw Rwer, vw Little Bock, to the Texas Boundary near Fulton, in Arkcuwus, with Branches to Fart Smith and the Zlfsszlcsqzpi River. Be it enacted by the Senate and Muse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way through Grant of right the public lands be and the same is hereby granted to the States of of wayto A515- Arkansas and Missouri, for the construction of a railroad from a point on the Mississippi River, opposite the mouth of the Ohio, in the State mad, of Missouri, via Little Rock, to the Texas boundary line near Fulton, in Arkansas, with branches from Little Rock, in Arkansas, to the Mississippi River and to Fort Smith, in said State, with the right to take necessary materials of earth, stone, timber, etc., for the construction there~ of z Provided, That the right of way shall not exceed one hundred feet Extent of on each side of the length thereof, and a copy of the survey of said road, right. Copy or made under the direction of the Legislatures of the said States, shall be ;‘f;Xf’Yt° b° forwarded to the proper local land offices respectively, and to the General Land Office at Washington city, within ninety days after the completion of the same.
