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572 ’I WENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. I94. 1832 proper plats of the surveys of said districts to be deposited in the land offices intended for them respectively. _ Pay of regis- Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the colnpellsahon of the 2g' :‘;di;°°;;;';" registers and receivers, to be appointed for the land districts hereby esta- ,,,,,,6yE ,,,,,,0,,: blishgd, shall not commence till after the surveys shall have been completed. p etc . _ _ _Country ae- Sec. 6. And be it further emzcind, That all that portion of country g':°€r;$°l";‘;_' acquired by the treaty with the Choctaw nation of Indians, within the tacked my,;,,,,,,. state of Alabama, south of township mneteen, shall be offered for sale rate district. at the Saint SLephen’s land office, and the residue shall be attached to the Tuscaloosa land district, and be olfered for sale at that place. Avmovmn, July 10, 1832. S·r.u·vrn I. July 10, 1832, CHAP. CXCIV.—.£ln Aczfar the rgulation of the navy and privateer pension and ‘""‘*‘·*·‘···· navy haspitalfwxds. (a) Commissioners Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives :y" the United ’·°°l°“‘i **11,}***** States of America, in Congress assembled, That the commissioners of the

£°;°`;·3,:{:, ii; navy pension and navy hospital funds be, and they are hereby, directed

pay the balance to close all their accounts as trustees of said funds, and to pay over the

9 th;T*¤¤¤¤*¤*{ balance of cash in their hands, and to assign over and transfer all the

tg; gcgrclziygr certificates of stock, and other property belonging to ·snid funds, and to the Navy, Bae. the pnvateer pension fund, tlcé the treasurer of the Ufnited States, for the use of the Secretary of the avy, for the payment o navy and privateer pensions, and for expenditures on account of navy hospitals, et cetera; Release ofeom- and as soon as said assignment and transfer shall be made, the said com- ¤*•i¤Si¤¤¢*¤- missioners shall be, and they are hereby, released and discharged from Secretary of all further trust connected with said funds, and the Secretary of the Navy the NNY ¤¤¤d<·= be, and he is hereby, constituted the trustee of said funds; and as such, trujigications it shall be his duty to receive applications for pensions, and to grant the For pensions. same according to the terms of the acts of Congress m such case made and provided, and to direct and control the expenditures out of the navy hospital fund. Moneys m be Sec. 2. And be itjbrlher enacted, That the balance of cash now on invested- hand, and all moneys that may hereafter arise to said pension funds from stocks redeemed, or from any other source, shall be immediately invested, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, in the bank stock of Secretary or the Bank of the United States; and that the Secretary of the Treasury the ’1`r¢¤¤¤¤·y to be, and hereby is, authorized to sell so much of the stock of the United

2ei?:°l;;v;“d States in said bank, at the par value thereof, as said navy pension funds

1,,,,,,;,,,, yuudsin will pay for; and to receive saicl navy pension funds, in payment thereof; payment- the said bank stock to be held m the name of the treasurer of the United States for the purposes aforesaid. Accounts to be Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be,

5:;:8 °£:""’·’° and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause books to be opened,

’and regular accounts to be kept, showing the condition of the navy and private:-er pension funds, the receipts and expenditures thereof, the names of the pensioners, and the dates and amount of their respective pensions, with a statement of the act or acts of Congress under which the same (a) Acts relating to the navy pension fund :— _— .A.n act for the government of the navy of the United States, March 2, 1799, ch. 24, scc. 9, IO. An act for the better Spvemment of e navy of the United States, April 23, 1800, ch. 33, sec. 9, 10. An act in relation to e navy pension fund, March 26, 1804, ch. 48. An act providing navy pensions in certain cases, J an. 20, 1813, ch. 10. lA§6act in addition to an act, entitled "An act in relation to the navy pension fund,” April 16, 1816, e i. . 8An agi: fog the regulation of the navy and privateer pension fund and navy hospital fund, July 10, 1 32 c .1 4. All act to continue the office of commissioner of pensions, and to transfer the business heretofore transacted in the Navy Department to that ollioe, March 4, 1840, ch. 4.