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 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 83, S4. 1849. 351 laws, judgments, orders, decrees, journals, correspondence, or other public documents of any forexgn government or its agents, relating to the title to lands claimed by or under the United States, on the application of one of the head of one of the departments, the Solicitor of the Treasury, or the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to authenticate the same under his hand and sca], and certify thésame to be corrcctt and true copies of such laws, judgments, orders, decrees, journals, correspondence, or other public documents; and when the same shall be certified by an American minister or consul under his hand and seal of office, or by a judge of one of the United States courts under his hand and seal, to be true copies of the originals, the same shall be scaled up by him and returned to the Solicitor of the Treasury, who shall file the same in his office, and cause it to be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose. A copy of said laws, judgments, orders, decrees, journals, correspondence, or other public documents so Bled, or of the same so recorded in said book, may be read in evidence in all courts, where the title to land claimed by or under the United States may come into question, equally with the originals there0£ Ayrnovzn, March 2, 1849. Cnr. LXXXIII.—— An .4ct to provide for an Increase of the Medina18m}`, and Much Z 134% fur an additional Number of Clsaplains of the Army of the United States. —-—-———·——-· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 1$epe¤\<>f pw- United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of }ff;';9°§8‘§ gf section third of an act entitled "An Act to amend an act entitled An 104, Brkhibiliné Act supplemental to an act entitled an An Act providing for the prose- mg ll **3 0*::* cation of the existing war between the United States and the republic ,(::,§f:1s;;&— ° of Mexico, and for other purpose->s," approved July nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, as prevents the filling of vacancies in the medical department of the army until further authorized by law, bc, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the medical staff of the   Medical mil' army be increased by the addition of ten assistant surgeons, to be “‘°’°“"d‘ appointed as provided by existing laws, and the regulations made under them. S1-sc. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act Appmnrmeumt of eighteen hundred and thirtyeight be, and hereby arc, extended so 3** l $di**°¤°l· as to authorize the employment of ten additional chaplains, for military th:gzcd au` posts of the United States. 1838, ch. 162. S20. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and be is Judge advoqate hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, of *€'§t;;';7§.‘ to appoint a. suitable person as judge advocate for the army, to be taken ¤8lJ§0,md ’ from the captains in the army, who shall have the brevct rank, pay, and' emoluments of a major of cavalry, and that so much of the proviso to the third section of the act approved July nineteenth, eighteen hundred 1848, ch, 104, and forty-eight, as relates to officers of the Adjutant-Gc¤cmI’s department, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, March 2, 1849. CEA!. LXXXIV.—•-An Act for elaanging the Location of the Land Office in Une March 2, 1849, Chippewa Land District, and establishing an additional Land District in the State —— — — of Wisconsin. Bc it enacted by ilu Senate and House of Representatives of the z United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after U18 thirticth June next, the land 05cc for the sale of the public lands F]h;';‘}§Hg‘°.°° · .  _ I. YORK, 111 the Chnppewa land dm;-wt shall be removed from the Falls of St. xvgsccum, to bg