That the accounts for these claims shall be examined and audited at the Treasury, as in other cases.
Militia and volunteers regularly discharged, to be paid.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be authorized to cause the militia called out to defend East Florida, by Generals Clinch and Hernandez, or by the Governor in Middle and West Florida, and such other militia and volunteers as have been received and mustered into the service of the United States and regularly discharged, to be paid in like manner with the volunteers and militia ordered into service under orders from the War Department.
Approved, May 28, 1836.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LXXXV.—An Act to provide for the payment of certain pensioners in the States of Virginia and Ohio.
A pension agency to be established at Wheeling.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to establish a pension agency at the city of Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, for the payment of pensioners of the United States resident in the counties of Brooke, Ohio, Marshall, Tyler, Wood, Lewis, Harrison, Randolph, Preston, and Monongalia, in Virginia, and Belmont, Jefferson, Guernsey, Harrison, and Monroe, in the State of Ohio:Proviso. Provided, That the establishment of such agency can be made and continued without charge to the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to make the necessary arrangement for the payment of said pensioners.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the first day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.
Approved, June 7, 1836.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LXXXVI.—An Act to extend the western boundary of the State of Missouri to the Missouri river.
The western boundary of the State extended.
Act of March 6, 1820, ch. 22, sec. 2.
See Proclamation, Appendix No. 1.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That when the Indian title to all the lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river shall be extinguished, the jurisdiction over said lands shall be hereby ceded to the State of Missouri, and the western boundary of said State shall be then extended to the Missouri river, reserving to the Untied States the original right of soil in said lands, and of disposing of the same: Provided, That this act shall not take effect until the President shall by proclamation, declare that the Indian title to said lands has been extinguished; nor shall it take effect until the State of Missouri shall have assented to the provisions of this act.
Approved, June 7, 1836.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LXXXVII.—An Act to carry into effect a convention between the United States and Spain.
A commissioner, secretary, and clerk to be appointed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint one commissioner, whose duty it shall be to receive and examine all claims which may be presented to him under the convention for the settlement of claims between the United States of America, and her Catholic Majesty the Queen of Spain, concluded at Madrid on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, which are provided for by the said convention, according to the
