RESOLUTIONS.
No. 1. Joint Resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to continue certain clerks employed in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Post, p. 583.
Authority contained in 16th clause 1st sec. act 9th May 1836, ch. 60, extended for two years. That the authority given to the Secretary of War by the sixteenth clause of the first section of the act entitled “An act providing for the salaries of certain officers therein named, and for other purposes,” dated the ninth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, to employ two clerks in the business of reservations and grants under Indian treaties, be extended after the expiration of the period for which that authority was granted for the term of two years.
Approved, May 2, 1840.
No. 3. A Resolution concerning the statue of Washington, by Greenough.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Measures to be taken for its importation and erection. That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized and instructed to take measures for the importation and erection of the statue of Washington, by Greenough.
Approved, May 27, 1840.
No. 4. A Resolution to authorize the President to dispose of certain presents from the Imaum of Muscat and the Emperor of Morocco.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Such as cannot be conveniently be deposited in the Department of State to be disposed of, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to dispose, in such time and manner as he shall see fit, of all such of the presents to the Government of the United States as have been sent from the Imaum of Muscat or the Emperor of Morocco, and cannot conveniently be deposited or kept in the Department of State, and cause the proceeds thereof to be placed in the Treasury of the United States.
Approved, July 20, 1840.
No. 5. Joint Resolution for the exchange of books and public documents for foreign publications.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Exchange of duplicated in the Library authorized. That the librarian, under the supervision of the Committee on the Library, be authorized to exchange such duplicates as may be in the library for other books or works.
Of documents.Second. That he be authorized, in the same way, to exchange documents.
Documents to be printed for exchange.Third. That hereafter, fifty additional copies of the documents, printed by order of either House, be printed and bound for the purpose of exchange in foreign countries.
Approved, July 20, 1840.