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TIIIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. I0, 12. 1848. 211 act passed the seventh day of June. eighteen hundred and thirty-two, 1**2: wlentitled "An Act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain w,:;ff,’;"Q,?’:_e,€:’,f surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," have died, or shall lutionary set. hereafter die, leaving a widow, whose marriage took place before the dimtirst day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, such widow shall be entitled to receive, for and during her natural life, from and after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, the annuity or pension which might have been allowed to her husband, in virtue of said act, if living at the time it was passed, under the same rules, regulations, and restrictions as are prescribed in the act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, entitled "An 1838, 6h_18g_ Act granting halilpay and pensions to certain widows:" Provided, That in the event of the marriage of such widow, said annuity or pen- P¢¤si§>9t¤ cr-Mc sion shall be discontinued. °n mm°g°‘ Sec. 2. And be itfurt/ter enacted, That such widows as have been This ast exadmitted by special acts of Congress to the benefit of the pension act, ;*,‘;g°dm*° approved the seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ers uby Pipecgai thirty-eight, or to the benefit of the act approved the seventeenth of Mw- June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, shall be entitled, and shall be admitted to the benefit of this act; subject, however, to the rules, limitations, and restrictions in and by said acts prescribed Approved, February 2, 1848. Cmtr. X.-An det to conjirm the Boundary Lino between Missouri and F,,b_ 15, g34g_ Arkansas. —;··-·· Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the dividing gongmmim, line between the States of Missouri and Arkansas, urveyed by com- ¤f¤¤ry¢y¤|`b¤¤¤- missioners appointed under authority of laws enacted by those States, and ratified as a common boundary by the act of the legislature of _ kansas. Arkansas, approved twenty-third December, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and of the legislature of Missouri, approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall be, and the same is hereby, approved and confirmed as the boundary between those States, and between the surveying and land districts bordering thereon; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to have the sur- Public Md veys of the public lands of the United States closed on the line so 3;:%* oy u:,'; surveyed as above mentioned : Provided, the expense thereof shall not line. exceed six dollars per mile, for every mile and part of a mile actually surveyed, or necessarily resurveyed in closing those surveys. Ai-rnovzn, February 15, 1848. Crnr. XII. —An Act supplementary to the Act eutilled “An Act to regulate the F¤b· 22, l848· Exercise of the Appellate Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in certain Cases, """'—""`_` and for other Purpose:." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all and singular 1847·_°l*· 17- the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to regulate the exercise of actP;‘;'fé,‘;E," g appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in certain cases, and for 17,,,,,,),,,,,,,,g api other purposes," approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred Peak *<>__*l¤¤ $¤· and forty-seven, to which this is a supplement so far as may be, shall $:3,% ('t°;“r;g,,°; be, and they hereby are, made applicable to all cases which were pend· fmmuie Supreme ing in the Supreme Court or other superior court of and for the late S?,;";;.;;;?" Territory of Iowa. at the time said Territory was admitted into the y Union as a State, and to all cases in which judgments or decrees have been rendered in said supreme or superior court of the said late Terri-