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to audit the same, and allow whatever shall be found justly due thereon.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay to the said marshal, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, such sum as the said accounting officer shall allow.

, September 1, 1841.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized upon the presentation of certified copies of such awards as have been or shall be made, in pursuance of the Convention with the Republic of Mexico, concluded at Washington, the eleventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, in favor of citizens of the United States, to issue certificates to the persons authorized to receive the sums so awarded their legal representatives and assigns in the manner directed by the seventh section of the act of Congress entitled “,” such certificates to be in such form and for such portions of the sums awarded as may be convenient for the claimants and to be subject to the deductions provided for by the tenth section of said act, Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to give any rights to the claimants that are not conferred by said convention, and the ; and that the substance of this proviso be inserted in the certificates that may be issued.

, September 1, 1841.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the marshals of the respective States and Territories, who have not, before the passage of this act, completed their enumerations, and made their returns, under the acts hereby amended, to proceed personally and by their assistants to complete such enumerations, and make such returns under the said acts; and the said assistants shall be allowed until the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, to complete their enumerations, and make their returns to the marshals, and the said marshals shall be allowed to make their returns to the Secretary of State at any time before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such marshals and assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid, unless their returns shall be made within the time prescribed in this act: And provided further, That no person be included in the returns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitants of the district for which such returns shall be made on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty; and the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be printed twenty thousand copies of the compendium or abridgment of the Sixth Census, by counties and principal towns, together with the tables of apportionment as prepared at the Department of State, for the use of Congress.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State is