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TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS .
SEss.I.
Rzs.1,9,4,5. . 1840.
409
RESOLUTIONS.
of Wen to continue
e certain May 2, 1840
.
7 the CJvmmiauoner of Indian Fairs.
Resolved by the Senate £ and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the authority given to Authority con
No. 1 . Joint Resolution authorizing the" Secret
clerks employed in the office
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. 8. A Resolution concerning the statue of Washington, by Greenough.
wined in 16th
acs Masy~"
3sned 60,
two yes.
May 27, 1840.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
Measures to be
for its im .
Navy be authorized and instructed to take measures for the importation taken
portation and
and erection of the statue of Washington, by Greenough .
erection .
APPROVED, May 27, 1840
.
No. 4.4 Resolution to authorize the President to dispose certain presents from
the Imaum of Muscat and the Emperor I'Morocco.
Representatives
Resolved by the Senate and House of
of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the
July 20, 1840.
Such as cannot
United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to dispose, in such time conveniently be
deposited
in the
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 Saltobetdis
£ the Emperor of Morocco, and cannot conveniently be deposited or Posed of, &o.
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 a
e~books end public d eumeotsforforeign July 20, left
.
ans
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the librarian, Exchange of
under the supervision of the Committee on the Library, be sin thorized ddi licates in the
to exchange such duplicates as may be in the library for other books fed' y author .
£ works .
Second . That he be authorized, in the same way, to exchange docu . Ofdocnments.
ments.
Third. That hereafter, fifty additional copies of the documents, Documents to
rint for
printed by order of either House, be printed and bound for the purpose
eebecnangei£
of exchange in foreign countries.
APPROVED, July 20, 1840.
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