such certificates or warrants for lands; said scrip to bear an interest of six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, redeemable at the pleasure of the government. And that each private, non-commissioned officer, and musician, who shall have been received into the service of the United States, since the Non-commissioned officers, &c., under certain circumstances, to receive a warrant for 40 acres of land, or $25 in scrip.commencement of the war with Mexico, for less than twelve months, and shall have served for such term or until honorably discharged, shall be entitled to receive a warrant for forty acres of land, which may be subject to private entry, or twenty-five dollars in scrip, if preferred; and in the event of the death of such volunteer during his term of service, or after an honorable discharge, but before the passage of this act, then the warrant for such land or scrip, shall issue to the wife, child, or children, if there be any,·and, if none, then to the father, and, if there be no father, then to the mother of such deceased volunteer: Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall be construed to give bounty land to such volunteers as were accepted into service, and discharged without being marched to the seat of war.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be President to appoint four quartermasters and ten assistantslawful for the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint, from the officers of the army, four quartermasters of the rank of major, and ten assistant quartermasters with the rank of captain.
Approved, February 11, 1847.
Feb_ 15 1g4g_ CHA?. IX. —-An Act to change the Time of holding one of the Terms of the Cir-
- euit Court of the United States for the District of .N'm·t/1 Carolina.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ey' cixzfcginim the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the term the pgmict 0;- of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of North Iggthd C¤¤>li¤¤ Carolina now by law appointed to be held on the first Monday of mDecember, shall hereafter be held on the last Monday of November (instead of the tirst Monday of December) in each and every year, and all actions, suits, appeals, recognizances, writs, processes, and other proceedings whatever, pending in said court, or returnable thereto, shall have day, and be heard, tried, proceeded with, and decided accordingly. Approved, February 15, 1847. Crux-. XIII. - An Act making Ap ropriationsfor the Payment of revolutionary Feb, 20, ;g4,7_ and ol/ter Pensions of the UnitedpState.s, for the Year ending the thirtieth June, —-—-—-——- one thousand eight hundred and forty-sight. He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ry' the United States of America, in Gmgress assembled, That the following Appropriations. sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight. Reggllggnsry For revolutionary pensions, under the act of the eighteenth of P" ‘ March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, sixty-seven thousand two hundred dollars. _Inv•lid pen. For invalid pensions, under various acts, one hundred and sixty-Si!
¤°¤°~¤· thousand dollars.
