346 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55, 61. 1849. Arre¤¤g<¤s. For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred 51°°°‘ and fifteen, under the act of the first of May, one thousand eight him. dred and twenty, in addition to an unexpended balance remaining in the treasury of two thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-nine cents, payable through the Third Auditor’s office, one thousand dollars. Deputies or Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any agent for clerks Qi agents paying pensions shall have a deputy Ol' clerk, authorized by law, said gggngaygg pig; deputy or clerk shall have like power to administer oaths or aifirma. minister oaths. tions as said agent may have; and all oaths and afiirmations taken before said clerk or deputy, shall be of like obligation, and subject to like penalties for false swearing or affirmation, as if taken before the pension agent himseli APr1>.ovi~;D, February 19, 1849. Feb. 19, 1849. CIIAP. LV. -.811. Ac! to relinquish the rzversianary Interest of the United State: """"""""" in a certain Indian Reservation in the State of Alabama. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the _ Rcversivvury United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right, §}"°‘§s°,n°;_ title, and interest, which might accrue or revert, or has accrued or tain ti-act ofland reverted, to the United States, to a certain reservation confirmed to the gjggggashgeejg heirs of William Jones, deceased, by the certificate from the United and games Dau. States, bearing date the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hunier dred and twenty, being known and described as fractional section sixteen, and the south-east and southwest quarters of section nine, in township six, and range five, under a treaty made and concluded at Fort Jackson, on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and lying in the State of Alabama, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished and vested in Stephen Steele and James Daniel, respectively, according to the extent of their several interests therein · P¥¤ViS¤· Provided, however, (and this relinquishment is made upon the condition,) that the said Steele and Daniel, or either of them, have fairly, and in good faith, and for a valuable and adequate consideration, purchased of the said heirs, by authentic and valid deeds, their respective rights in and to the said reservations: And provided, further, That no sale or conveyance of said reservation, or any part thereof, by the said reservees, or either of them, shall be deemed regular or valid, nor shall this act have efect, until the President of the United States, or some officer to be by him designated, shall have approved such conveyance, and endorsed his approval thereon. Approved, February 19, 1849. Feb. 22, 1849. C1-ur. LXI. -.8n Jctfar authenticating certain Records. }S49, an sz_ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it may and Manner in shall be lawful for the keepers or persons having the custody of laws, gxés &f‘;j“ judgments, orders, decrees, journals, correspondence, or other public bg augnenuimsg documents, of any foreign government or its agents, relating to the 3:gc¤’¢¤<l i¤ Wi- title to lands claimed by or under the United States, on the application °' of the head of any one of the departments, the Solicitor of the Treas- [TNS mum ury, or the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to authenticate is sxpiruma by the same under his hand and sea.], and eertity the same to be correct gg? ':);t18*9é52=)hj and true copies of such laws, judgments, orders, decrees, journals. P ’P'correspondence, or other public documents, and when the same shall be certified by such minister, consul, or judge, mentioned in the first
