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 TWENTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 35. 1846. 35 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of seventy-five _$75·00°i9*`°*°°l¤ .housand dollars, heretofore paid to the President of the United States ;l;:°°°%;°r gg: under the treaty made with the Seneca Indians of New York, in the York to be canyear eighteen hundred and forty-two, for the benefit of said Indians, §§£,‘;‘Q,"“‘;,S;:g and the stock in which the same may have been invested, shall be, for the credit of and the same is hereby taken absolutely to the use of the United ¤°l°U¤d*°¤“· States, in accordance with the prayer of said Indians; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cancel the said stock, and place upon the books of his department the amount of seventy- five thousand dollars to the credit of said Indians, upon which sum interest shall thereafter be paid to them, at the rate of five per centum 5 per een:. iu. per annum: Provided, That any interest which may be due and *¤¤‘¤¤¤¤¤ be wid unpaid on said stock, at the time of its cancellation, shall be forthwith m°m' paid to them. Sec. 3. And be itfurtlter enacted, That the President of the United President to States be, and he is hereby, authorized to receive from the Ontario {§;‘;""i,g‘;’;" Bank of New York any stock of the public debt of the United States, U. S. ameri and or moneys which the said bank may hold in trust for the said Senecas, t['*°';_Y had iP{h** whenever the said Indians, or other persons whose consent may be gi,,,,,,!;' 87,,1 tg necessary, shall in proper form authorize the transfer; and to cause cancel it, and to the stock to be cancelled, and the amount thereof, and of any moneys l’;“’{:em:,;‘5;Q“:} which he may receive, to be deposited in the treasury to the credit of me said Indians. said Indians, upon which amount interest shall thereafter be paid to them at the rate of five per centum per annum, until Congress may te; if °,;*l· *93 direct the principal in this and the preceding section to be paid to u,,,,;_ ° Pm the Indians. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, swam,, 0;- and he is hereby, required to ascertain what annuities or moneys *2***0 ¤S¤¢{l§i¤ have been wrongfully withholden from the said Senecas by the late l,`],,.:: sub-agent of the United States, and so lost to them; and to that end held from md the said Secretary is authorized, if in his judgment it shall be neces- §ff1;;’2v'·°&'€k° sary or expedient so to do, to issue a commission or commissions to " ' some discreet person or persons, to be selected by him, to take testi·· mony in the premises, and to report the same to Congress; and, to S500 ¤PP¤>FYi— defray any expenses which may be incurred in the execution of the gidnclggfrg QX provisions of this section, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars pauses. is hereby appropriated. Approved, June 27, 1846. Can. XXXV.—-An Act to retrocede the County of fluandria, in the District of July 9, lS46· Cotumbta, to the State of Virginia. -—·—·-——-· Whereas, no more territory ought to be held under the exclusive Prwnblelegislation given to Congress over the District which is the seat of the General Government than may be necessary and proper for the purposes of such a seat; and whereas, experience hath shown that the portion of the District of Columbia ceded to the United States by the State of Virginia has not been, nor is ever likely to be, necessary for that purpose; and whereas, the State of Virginia, by an act passed on the third day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled "An act accepting by the State of Virginia the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, when the same shall be receded by the Congress of the United States," hath signined her willingness to take back the said territory ceded as aforesaid: Thereforc— [de it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the cmmQ1°:;;'£,';d_ United States of Amenea in Congress assembled, That, with the assent ca to {mgm;.