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686 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. H. Ch. 202, 203, 204. 1855. March 3, 1855- Cru:. CCII.—An Ad lo establish Columbus, in the State of Mississippi, C'/mtlcuzoaga, "‘*"""""‘·" in the State of Tennessee, and Hickman, in the State of Ifentucky, Ports <y`De{[very. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Columbm States of zimeriea in Congress assembled, T hat Columbus, in the Sum.; Lug, and 6],,,1,. of Mississippi, and within the collection district of hIobile,—ChnttanO0ga, mnooee, Tenn., in the State of Tennessee, and Hickman, in the State of Kentucky, and $2**% gxfggpm within the collection district of Mississippi, be, and hereby ere deelni-ed to oryekuvuy, be ports of delivery within their respective collection districts. And there shell be appointed a surveyor of customs, to reside at each of said Surveyors to ports, who shall perform the duties, and receive the compensation and bg ,._pP0;,m,d_ emoluments prescribed in the not of Congress, approved Merch the second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, being "An act allowing the duties on 1831, eh. 87. foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, _ Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez, to be secured and paid at c0g£’£'ugg‘d‘“' those plaees:" Provided, That whenever the amount of duties paid at any one of said ports, shell be less than the sum of ten thousand dollurs per year, the Secretary of the Treasury shall discontinue such port of delivery. Approved, March 3, 1855. MMO], 3, 1g5s_ Cmtr. COIII.——An Act tg/£r%Ze‘#4pca;r£;0np·d:E:jp;$S ithe United States Cburts in Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

 ”·° States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the In-

,terior is hereby authorized to contract with the public authorities of the city of Jackson, Mississippi, for the permanent use of rooms for the courts of the United States, in the new city hall now in process of construction in that city. And when the said secretary shall be satisfied that the apartments are suitable for the purpose, and have been properly secured to the government, he shall pay out of the treasury, any sum of money not exceeding twenty-thousand dollars, which he shall deem to be the value of such apartments. Armovmn, March 3, 1855. March 3, 1856. CIIAP, CCIV.—-An Act making Appropriations fer the Current and Contingent 1Cxpenses ············—··-—· of the Indian Department, and_)?21·_/ictjilling Treaty Stipulations with various Indian }'ribe}=,fo;,the year ending June thzrtielh, one thousand eiq/tt hundred anrlji/Z_y—sz'a:, and UT 0 (8i'lll1IOS15S. , Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Lhzited States of nimeried in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they nre hereby, nppropriuted, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, und fultilling treaty stipulations with the vnrious Indinn tribes. _For the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, viz :·-- Supcrlntendents. For the pny of superintendents of Indian e{’feirs, per acts of fif th 1850, 0h_ m June, eighteen hundred and fifty, twenty-seventh February, eighteen 1881, eh. 14. hundred und fifty-one, und third Merch, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, 1°°2· °h· “· twelve thousand five hundred dollars; itpggngi 15 For the puy of the several Indian agents, per acts of fifth June, lm: Ghj mj eighteen hundred and fifty, twenty-seventh February, eighteen hundred 1864, eh. 167, and fiiiy-one, and thirty-first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, forty- i 6- three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; For the pay of the several Indian agents, per act of thirty-first July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, und for nrrenrnges of pay to one in the State of New York, one nt Green Buy, Wisconsin, one for the Seminoles