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 THIRTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 203, 204, 205. 1860. 91 inal warrant, in whose ever hands it may be, shall be deemed and held to b Ol€(”g*‘*‘·¤* *° be null and void, and the assignment thereof; if any there be, fraudulent; Bpggljt 11:},0 and no potent shall ever issue for any land located therewith, unless such issue unless, &o. ` presumption of fraud in the assignment be removed by due proof that the same was executed by the warrantee in good faith and for a valuable consideration. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Secretary of the Inte- Svqrwry of rior shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to prescribe such g’;;';°;u”;:Y&°_ rules and regulations for carrying this act into efect as he may deem nec- ’ essary and proper m order to protect the government agamst 1mpos1tion Pumshmcutfcr and fraud by persons clzuming the benefit of this act; and ; and all laws ram gwggyiug and parts of laws for the punishment of false swearing and frauds against ¤¤d¤1‘ this ML the United States are hereby made applicable to false swearing and fraud under this act. APPROVED, June 23, 1860. CHAP. CCIV. An Act to authorize .M2taries Public in t}1eDistri¢t of Columbia to take Jung gg jg6g_ Acknowledgments of Deeds of Cmzveyance of real and personal Estate therein. -—·-·—L——‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Notaries Public States of America in Congress assembled, That all the powers conferred ln Dg§¤‘i<=* °ftg§* upon a justice or justices of the peace in the District of Columbia by the alggnézviggggrmeuz existing laws, in the acknowledgment of deeds for the conveyance of real of deedsor personal estate, may hereafter be exercised by any notary·publio duly m$;;_°§· g2g7H' appointed within said District of Columbia, and when certified under the` ` hand and official seal of such notary-public, shall have the same force and effect as if taken or made by or before a justice or justices of the peace of said District. Approved, June 23, 1860. Crux-. CCV.-An Act making Appropriations for the Legislative, Executive, and Ju- Julie 23, 1860- dicial Expenses of Government for the Har ending Zhe thirtielh of June, eighteen hum 7“—`_'— dred and sixty-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not Appropriation. otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, namely: Le_qislati·ve.———For compensation and mileage of senators, one hundred Pay &c.<>f and eighty-nine thousand one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty- S°“”‘°°”· eight cents. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others re· f°£6°*?;_m &°· eeiving an annual salary in the service of the Senate, viz.: Secretary of ° m the Senate, three thousand six hundred dollars; officer charged with disbursements of the Senate, four hundred and eighty dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal clerk and principal executive clerk in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each ; eight clerks in office of the Secretary of the Senate, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars each; keeper of the stationery, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars ; two messengers, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; one page at five hundred dollars; Sergeant-at-arms and Doorkeeper, two thousand dollars; Assistant Doorkeeper, one thousand seven hundred dollars; Postmaster to the Senate, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Assistant Postmaster and muil·carrier, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; two mail boys, at nine hundred dollars each; superintendent of the document room, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of tho