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Chap. XXIII.—An Act to establish certain post roads.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The post roads established, designated. That the following be established post roads: From Rome, in Georgia, to Commerce, in the State of Mississippi, and also to Memphis in the State of Tennessee, namely, from Rome, through Warrenton, Decatur and Tuscumbia, in Alabama and Jacinto, in Mississippi, to Ripley, in said State, as a common point, and from said point through Holly Springs and Hernando, to Commerce, and from Ripley through La Grange, in Tennessee, to Memphis, in said State.
Approved, April 14, 1842.
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Chap. XXIV.—An Act to provide for the allowance of invalid pensions to certain Cherokee warriors, under the provisions of the fourteenth article of the treaty of eighteen hundred and thirty-five.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Certain cherokee warriors to be allowed pensions. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, required to place on the pension roll such warriors of the Cherokee Nation, as were engaged on the side of the United States in the late war with Great Britain and the Southern Indians, and who were wounded in such service, at the same rates of pension as are allowed by law to the officers and soldiers of the regular army of the United States, under such rules and regulations as to the proof of disability as the Secretary of War shall prescribe: which pensions shall commence from the period of disability.
Approved, April 14, 1842.
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Chap. XXV.—An Act relative to the act entitled “An act granting lands to certain exiles from Poland,” approved, thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four.
Act of June 30, 1834, ch. 247.
Acts now in force for the sale of the public lands, &c. extended to certain lands selected under the act granting lands to Polish exiles.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the acts in force for the sale of the public lands, and granting pre-emption rights to actual settlers, be, and the same are hereby, declared to extend to, and include, the lands selected in townships forty-four, forty-five, and forty-six, north of the base line, range one east, of the third principal meridian, lying in the State of Illinois, by Lewis Clopicki, under color of the act entitled, “An act granting lands to certain exiles from Poland.” The said selections not having been made in pursuance of the provisions of said act, which act is hereby declared to be in full force, for the benefit of said Polish exiles.
Approved, April 14, 1842.
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Chap. XXVI.—An Act for the extension of the loan of eighteen hundred and forty-one, and for an addition of five millions of dollars thereto; and for allowing interest on Treasury notes due.
1842, ch. 287.
Time for obtaining the loan extended.
Act of July 21, 1841, ch. 3.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time limited by the first section of the act of Congress, entitled “An act authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum of twelve millions of dollars,” approved July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-one, for obtaining said loan, shall be, and the same is hereby, extended for one year from the passage of this act.
