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mentioned, said parent or guardian shall be allowed pay therefor on making satisfactory proof as in other cases, and the further proof that he is entitled thereto by having furnished the same.

Persons other than minors to be paid for property risked by them which has been lost.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That in all instances where any person other than a minor has been or shall be engaged in the military service aforesaid, and has been or shall be provided with a horse or equipments, or with military accoutrements by any person, the owner thereof, who has risked or shall take the risk of such horse, equipments, or military accoutrements on himself, and the same has been or shall be lost, captured, destroyed, or abandoned in the manner before mentioned, such owner shall be allowed pay therefor, on making satisfactory proof as in other cases, and the further proof that he is entitled thereto, by having furnished the same, and having taken the risk on himself.

Acts of 19 February, 1833, ch. 33; and 30 June, 1834, ch. 153, repealed.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the act passed on the nineteenth of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled “An act for the payment of horses and arms lost in the military service of the United States against the Indians on the frontier of Illinois and Michigan Territory,” and an act passed on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, entitled “An act to provide for the payment of claims for property lost, captured or destroyed by the enemy, while in the military service of the United States, during the late war with the Indians on the frontier of Illinois and Michigan territory,” be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Limitation of act.Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be and remain in force until the close of the next session of Congress.

Approved, January 18, 1837.

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Jan. 26, 1837.

Chap. VI.An Act to admit the State of Michigan into the Union, upon an equal footing with the original States.

Act of June 15, 1836, ch. 99.
Act of June 23, 1836, ch. 121.
Post, pp. 288, 414, 648.
Whereas, in pursuance of an act of Congress of June the fifteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act to establish the northern boundary of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed,” a convention of delegates, elected by the people of the said State of Michigan, for the sole purpose of giving their assent to the boundaries of the said State of Michigan as described, declared, and established, in and by the said act, did, on the fifteenth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, assent to the provisions of said act, therefore:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Michigan shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted intoAdmitted into the Union. the Union on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever.

Entitled to a deposit of the surplus revenue.
Act of June 23, 1836, ch. 115.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, in carrying into effect the thirteenth and fourteenth sections of the act of the twenty-third of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act to regulate the deposites of the public money,” shall consider the State of Michigan as being one of the United States.

Approved, January 18, 1837.

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Jan. 31, 1837.

Chap. IX.An Act to authorize certain rail-roads companies to construct rail-roads through the public lands in the Territory of Florida.

East Florida Rail-road Company authorized to locate and construct a rail-road, commencing on the St. John’s river, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the East Florida Rail-road Company, a corporation established by an act of the Governor