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of the Post Office Department for the year ending on the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, out of any moneys in the Treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the, viz:

For transportation of the mail, three million and fifty thousand dollars;

For compensation to postmasters, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars;

For ship, steamboat, and way letters, twelve thousand dollars;

For wrapping paper, sixteen thousand dollars;

For office furniture, (for the offices of postmasters,) four thousand dollars;

For advertising, thirty thousand dollars;

For mail bags, sixteen thousand dollars;

For blanks, twenty-two thousand dollars;

For mail locks, keys, and stamps, six thousand dollars;

For mail depredations and special agents, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, however, That no greater sum shall be paid to any mail agent of any description than one thousand dollars per annum, and no greater sum for all his travelling and incidental expenses, than at the rate of two dollars for each day he shall be actually employed in the capacity of mail agent;

For clerks for offices, (for the offices of postmasters,) two hundred thousand dollars;

For miscellaneous, fifty-five thousand dollars.

, March 3, 1845.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in all computations of the value of foreign moneys of account at the custom-houses of the United States, the florin of Austria shall be deemed and taken to be at the value of forty-eight cents; and all former laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

, March 3, 1845.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all surveys and plats of confirmed claims and settlement rights for lands situate in the State of Mississippi, east of Pearl river, and south of thirty-first degree of north latitude, which had been made and returned to the surveyor general’s office south of Tennessee on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, shall be, and are hereby, confirmed, as actually surveyed on the ground; and the said surveyor general is hereby authorized and directed, on the request of any party interested in any such claim, to certify the return and plat of such actual survey, so remaining in his office, to the register and receiver for lands in the Augusta district, in said State, who are hereby directed to receive and regard said surveys, plats, and location of the claims they represent, as correctly made; and the said register and receiver shall thereupon issue, in the name of the confirmee of the claim a patent certificate for each claim; which certificate, being first duly recorded in the said register’s office, shall be delivered to such person as is entitled to