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THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 94, 98. 1848. 245 land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land ginia military OBice," approved August nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty-one, lg'? mv;‘;‘;'5‘:$ and as to all warrants issued prior to the tenth day of August, eighteen qggriluuqd in hundred and forty, and no others, be, and the same is hereby, revived f<>¤=¤l¤;¤gl0 JM- and continued in force until the 'drst day of January, eighteen hundred WQYS {0 wagrms 3i1d lilly. issued prior to Sec. 2. And be it flzrther enacted, That the same right and privilege A“g“" 1°¤ 184°‘ is hereby also extended for the same time to all such warrants as have #1* °h‘ mb issued subsequent to said tenth day of August, A. D. eighteen hundred s(,{?,,;°,?S m0;`;,; and forty: Provided, That before the location thereof, it shall be wimaproviso. shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that such warrant was issued justly and legally, and that the person who received said warrant was legally entitled to the same. Approved, July 5. 1848. Cru?. XCIV. — .911. .Tct giving the Consent of the Government of the United States July 5, 1848. to the State of Texas to extend her eastern Boundary. sa as to include within her -——····—····· Limits one half of Sabine Pass, Sabine Lake, and Sabina River, as far north as the thirty-second Degree of North Latitude. Be it enacted by the Smale and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Congress 'fhelegislsture consents that the legislature of the State of Texas may extend her °f'§°;”$ “‘“Y "" eastern boundary so as to include within her limits one half of Sabine ;%:,nd;;_8amm Pass, one half of, Sabine Lake, also one half of Sabine River, from its mouth as far north as the thirty-second degree of north latitude. Approved, July 5, 1848. Cmm. XCVIH.—An det making dppropriatians for the Service of the Post- July 10, 1848. Ojicc Department for the Year ending the thirtiet/1 af June, eighteen hundred ····‘ ’ _‘ and forty-nina. Be it enacted by the Senate and House tf Rqresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the ser- Anmopramoas, vice of the Post·OiHce Department, for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in c0¤form·· 1836 ch 270 ity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, ’' namely: For the transportation of the mails within the United States, two Tr-zrnsportarion million Your hundred and nlnety—6ve thousand seven hundred dollars; °f“‘°‘l· For transportation of the mails between Charleston, South Carolina, Trqnspormion and Havana, by way of Key West, calling at Savannah, under the ;’£i;‘;‘lbY “°““" contract made with M. C. Mordecai, fifty thousand dollars. And for ` transportation of the mail by said line, or by other steamers, to such other places on the coast of Florida as the Postmaster-General may deem practicable and expedient, Eve thousand dollars; For transportation by steamships between New York and Bremen, according to the contract with Edward Mills, authorized by the “Act to provide for the transportation of the mail between the United States and foreign countries," approved March third, eighteen hundred and _ forty-ive, four hundred thousand dollars; 1M'°*°h‘ G9' For compensation to postmasters, one million seventy-five thousand C°mP°¤¤¤*i°¤ dollars ; to postmasters. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, twenty-five thousand dollars; Sl*lP;¤l€¤mb<>¤*» For wra in a er i hteen thousand dollars· andway 1mm' pp g p ’ g ’ Wrapping pa- For office furmture, (m the offices of postmasters,) three thousand per. dollars r omce rumamm.