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 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. 01119,120. 1848. 265 continue annually .thereaB;er said payment of interest at the rate albresaid. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That whenever, hereafter, any ivmmver any individual or individuals of said Cherokee Indians shall desire to j1'!*lFs*d‘;“' f.' ll; remove and join the tribe west of the Mississippi, then the Secretary tlxczigg ws;- of War shall be authorized to withdraw from the fund set apart as rr;<9··e-j¢¤{¤¤‘•¤¤ aforesaid the sum ol"fil`ty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, and the ,;:,2 interest due and unpaid thereon, and apply the same, or such part to be wnlmrawn thereof as shall be necessary, to the removal and subsistence of such gm. "¥’Pl‘$*l mfg individual or individuals, and pay the remainder, if any, or the whole, if the said Indians or any of them shall prefer to remove themselves, to such individuals or heads of families upon their removal west of the Mississippi : Provided, That the amount herein required to be funded Pmmo. for the benefit of the said Cherokees in North Carolina, and the amount required to be paid them, shall be charged to the general Cherokee fund, under the treaty of New Echota, and shall be reimbursed therel`rom. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, Secretary_ of and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a commissioner to issue the ¥l;l;°"‘*** ¢ · as . . . _ _ si cr to ‘ certificates contemplated m the mstructione of that department tcussue certain eer- General William B. Mitohell, dated April thirtieth, eighteen hundred *E6¤¤*¢S i¤_ ¤'¤l¤~ and forty, in relation to the claims of certain citizens against the   °l;ll?:c;g Ottowas, Chippewas, and Pottawatomies, and the Pottnwatomics of against alle Ono- Indiana, and the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated QQ?  {01* said pu1’pOS€. mics. Arvnoven, July 29, 1848. Curr. CXIX.-—An Act for the Payment of liquidated Claims against Mexico. July 29, 134.5 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represcntatives of the lbzited States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary payment of of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay, out of any °l*{L¤¤ alreadx limoney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the claimants, or   Przliilgsé their legal representatives, the amount now due by reason of the claims for. already liquidated, and decided against the Mexican republic, under the conventions between that republic and the United States, severally concluded on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty- nine, and the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and forty- three, and for which certificates have been issued by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That, l>€l`01’G such payment, the said claim- _ Pr<>\‘is<>; certiants, or their legal representatives, shall surrender and deliver up the Q;:;°“ dh°‘{g certificates issued to them, respectively, from the Treasury Depart- claimants m be ment of the United States, under the provisions of the act of Con- d°“'°'°** uP- gress of the first of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one. 18-I-1,ch. 14. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all interest shall cease from \Vhen interest the day of payment, which shall be notified by the Secretary of the °hall°°**$€· Treasury, not exceeding ninety days from the passage of this act. Armcvzn, July 29, 1848. Cuar. CXX.-An Jkt for the Relief of certein surviving Widows of Ojiccrs July 2Q, 1848. and Soldiers of the Revoluttonary Army. ————· Be it enacted by tlw Senate and House of Rqzresenmtives of the United States of America in C'0ngrcSS assembled, That the widows of C¤'“l¤ ‘”fid°W¤ · ~ · - · · of rcvclutmna all officers, r10n-cqmmlSSl0D€d 0mO€T$; YYIUSICIKDS, $0ld|€l'$, NHUDBTS, OY qqicapg and S3 marines, and Indian spies, who shall have served in the Continental di¤r¤,&c., to be line, State troops, volunteers, militia, or in the naval service, in the :;;:‘l°‘;,P° aclés:] revolutionary war with Great Britain, shall be entitled to a pension mgm.; to um Vox.. IX. Puu.—34