ACTS

PASSED AT

THE FIRST SESSION

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TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

CITY OF WASHINGTON:
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ACTS

PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION

OF THE

TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES.

ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

1836.

OF

THE UNITED STATES;

PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION, WHICH WAS BEGU'N AND

HELD AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, IN THE TERRITORY

OF COLUMBIA, ON MONDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF DECEMBER,

ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE.

Andrew Jackson, President. Martin Van Buren, Vice President, and President

of ihe Senale. Jaines K. Polk, Speaker of the House of Representa:ives.

CHAP. 1 An ACT making an appropriation for repressing hostilities

commenced by the Seminole Indians.

Sec. 1.) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-

sentativesof the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars be $120,000. gpmpito

.

and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the

Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses

attending the suppression of hostilities with the Seminole Indians

in Florida, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary

of War

, conformably to the provisions of the act of April fifth,

eighteen hundred and thirty-two, making appropriations for the

support of the army.

JAMES K. POLK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

M. VAN BUREN,

l'ice President of the United States, and

President of the Senate.

Approved 14th of January, 1836.

ANDREW JACKSON.

CHAP. 2 An ACT to authorize the allowance of certain charges in the

accounts of the American consul at London.

(Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-

talites of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury be, and
he same hereby are, authorized and directed in settling the

bizonynts of the American consul at London, to continue Allowance is

tt allowance for clerk hire, office rent, stationery, fuel, and is continued.

bilir miscellaneous expenses from the first day of April, in the

Fear see thousand eight hundred and thirty-five and until

otherwise provided for by law, in like manner as the same

have bezelotore usually been allowed, in settling the accounts