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 572 THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. RES. 48, 49, 50, 51, 52. 1867. proper accounting officers of the treasury,” be, and the same is hereby, re. · Accounts and peeled; and all such accounts and vouchers shall hereafter be sont to the g'°“‘€h""S °{ d‘*' bureau to which they pertain, and, after examination there, shall be passed ursing officers , to be mn; wm.-8. to the proper accounting officer of the treasury for settlement. APPROVED, March 2, 1867. March 2, 1867. [N0. 49.] A Resolution in Relation to National Banking Associations. Resolved by the Senate and House J Representatives of the United Excess of duty States of America, in Congress assembled, That in all cases where a Mid H ang ¤”·· national bank has paid or may pay in excess of what may be, or has E§!;°;,~us£,df'° been found due from said bank, on account of the duty required to be paid to the treasurer of the United States, the bank so having paid or paying such excess of duty may state an account therefor, which, on being certified by the treasurer of the United States, and found correct by the first comptroller of the treasury, shall be refunded in the ordinary manner by warrant on the treasury. APPROVED, March 2, 1867. March 2, 1867. [N0. 50.] Joint Resolution extending the Provisions of Section Two of cm Act entitled "An Act to extend the Jurisdiction of the Court J Claims, and to provide jiwr the Pay. § 2. ment of certain Demands _/or Qruzrtermasterf Stores and Subsxstence Supplies furnished Vol. xiii. p. 881. I? the Army of the United States," approved July fnurth, eighteen hundred and sixty- our. Be it resolbed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the provisions of section mpmims f°" °°" two of the above-entitled act be, and they are hereby, extended to cover n quarter-,. mmm- stoygg all cases where quartcrmnsters stores were actually furnished to the t0 b¤S€¤¤1<=d· forces under the command of Major-General Lewis Wallace, and duly rcoeipted for by persons acting under his authority, and whose authority shall be proven to the satisfaction of the accounting officers, during the Morgan raid through the States of Indiana and Ohio, in the summer of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and for the purpose of giving such receipts for property so applied, the said persons shall be held to be proper officers of the government. APPROVED, March 2, 1867. ar 2 1867. No. 51. A Resolution concemin the Ri ld o a artlw Su and ton o L; [ 1 an Interoceanic Ship Canal th1·{uglll7t&6sthmus of");/oden.C0nsl77Lcl f Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Uizited Authority for States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State be, gt;t£*?g°gmkG and is hereby, directed to take such steps as may be necessary to obtain $,,,,,,,1, of the from the United States of Colombia the authority for the United States Isthmus ¤t"_D¤· to make the necessary surveys at the Isthmus of Darien For a ship canal A su N(6;6, the terms upon which such right of way may be obtained by this govern- " ei P· - ment. APPROVED, March 2, 1867. Much 2_ Iggy_ [No. 52.]_ A Resolution thanking the Chambus of Senators and Deputies of Brazil for —-··—··········· their Resolutwns xy" Sorrow and Sympathy on the Death of President Lmeoln. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United A¤k¤<>W!¢<ig- States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress of the United 35E22d6E;;?' States has received with respect and gratitude the resolutions of sorrow bers,&c. of Bm- and sympathy which the Chambers of Senators and Deputies of Brazil gg ‘;,;:g;‘;‘;·°f have adopted on the death of President Lincoln, and hereby tenders to Président Lim those Chambers the thanks of the people of the United States. will- Sec. 2. And be it jltrther resolved, That it shall be the duty of the
 * l'i°' mp to connect the waters of the Atlantic and those of the Pacific ocean, and