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Wisconsin.
Survey of Milwaukee river.
For the survey of the mouth of Milwaukie river, on Lake Michigan, to determine the practicability of making a harbor by deepening the channel, four hundred dollars.

Reports upon surveys to contain estimates, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the reports upon all the aforesaid surveys shall contain a statement of all such facts within the knowledge of the engineers respectively making the surveys, as are or may be in any way materially connected with the proposed improvements, and also with estimates, in detail, of the sums of money necessary for such improvements, respectively.

Approved, July 4, 1836.

Statute Ⅰ.



July 4, 1836.

Chap. CCCLXIV.An Act to repeal so much of the act of March second, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as respects the issuing of certificates on the importation of wines.

Repeal of sec. 7, act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act of Congress, passed second March, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as requires that the surveyor of chief officers of inspection of any port, where wines may be landed, shall give to the proprietor, importer or consignee thereof, or of his or her agent, a certificate, as mentioned in the fortieth and forty-first sections of said act, is hereby repealed.

Approved, July 4, 1836.


RESOLUTIONS


Feb. 1, 1836.

No. 1. Resolution authorizing the President to furnish rations to certain inhabitants of Florida.

Rations from the public stores to be delivered, &c.Be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be authorized to cause rations to be delivered from the public stores to the unfortunate sufferers, who are unable to provide for themselves, and who have been driven from their homes by Indian depredations in Florida, until they can [be] re-established in their possessions, or so long as the President shall consider it necessary.

Approved, February 1, 1836.



Mar. 19, 1836.

No. 2. Resolution to establish certain post roads in Missouri and Arkansas.

Post roads to be established.Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby authorized to establish the following post roads; From Fort Towson, in the Territory of Arkansas, to Fort Gibson, and from Fort Gibson, by Fayette, in Arkansas Territory, Barry courthouse, Van Buren court-house, Jackson court-house, Fort Leavenworth, Liberty, in Clay county, Plattsburgh, in Clinton county, Fort Des Moines, to the town of Dubuque on the Mississippi river.

Approved, March 19, 1836.



May 9, 1836.

No. 3. Resolution to suspend the sale of a part of the public lands acquired by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek.

Reservations of lands to be withheld from public sale until 1st December, 1836.Be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands, acquired by the treaty concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians, at Dancing Rabbit creek, on the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, as has been conditionally, or otherwise located by the locating agent of the United States to persons claiming reservations under the fourteenth article of said treaty, be