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 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cx. 66, 67. 1846. 41 and reasonable, and which shall, in all respects, be supported by the most satisfactory vouchers: Pr0vi1Ied,_f}¢rtIzcr, That no account shall Prcviso. be allowed, except for objects authorized in the instructions to the commissioners: Provided, however, That bills or drafts, heretofore drawn and negotiated by said commissioners, or either of them, on the commissioner of Indian affairs, in pursuance of instructions and authority given to them, shall be paid out of said appropriation, h0ld~ ing said commissioners to a due accountability for the amount of proceeds of said bills or drafts. For fulfilling treaty with the Kansas pumgging mm). Indians, viz.: Interest on two hundred thousand dollars at live per will? the K¤¤¤=¤ cent., in lieu of investment per second article of treaty of fourteenth I°d`°"S’ &°° July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, ten thousand dollars; for defray- ing the necessary expenses of negotiating the treaty, payment to the missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for improvements, erection of a mill, and for provisions per same article and treaty, two thousand dollars; for expenses of surveying the western line of lands ceded, and marking the same, per third article of the same treaty, one thousand dollars. Approved, July 23, 1846. CHAP. LXVI. -./91: Ad in Relation to the Payment of Claims. July *29, 1846. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the _ United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever a bC€g:‘m_‘;;‘;§ claim on the United States aforesaid shall hereafter have been allowed rgbé paid to any by a. resolution or act of Congress, and thereby directed to be paid, °*l*¤* P¢*'S°¤ °¤ the money shall not, nor shall any part thereof, be paid to any person gfE;g;t;h°°mtg$ or persons other than the claimant or claimants, his or their executor exeeuzomladminor executors, administrator or administrators, unless such person or :‘;]‘;g’§é3’:tQ;{_ persons shall produce to the proper disbursing officer a warrant of ,,0,5, attorney executed by such claimant or claimants, executor or executors, administrator or administrators, after the enactment of the reso- Iution or act allowing the claim; and every such warrant of attorney fR$¤¤ shall refer to such resolution or act, and expressly recite the amount Qm;‘;f'°“‘ °F ‘°‘ allowed thereby, and shall be attested by two competent witnesses, and be acknowledged by the person or persons executing it, before an E0 bs ¤;*¢¤¢¢<i cfncer having authority to take the acknowledgment of deeds, who :3%, ”° “°"l` shall certify such acknowledgment; and it shall appear by such certificate that such officer, at the time of the making of such acknowledgment, read and fully explained such warrant of attorney to the person or persons acknowledging the same. Avrnoven, July 29, 1846. Gun. LXV11. - An .d»:Lfm-um- to extend the Time for Locating Virginia military July, 29, 1g4g_ Land Warrants, and returning Surveys thereon io zhe General Land Office. -——--—-- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled Act or 1841, "An act further to extend the Time for locating Virginia military Land 9** 69, (mj l<><>?¥· Warrants, and returning Surveys thereon to the General Land Office," {gil, lg,`,!,? 2:; approved August nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty—cne, as to all r¤¤¤, &c., c:· warrants issued prior to the tenth day of August, eighteen hundred zfdfgwm J"' and forty, and no others, be, and the same is hereby, revived and ’ ` continued in force until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-eight. Approved, July 29, 1846. Vox,. IX. Pur:.-6