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Act of 1827,

c. 208, vol. 3, p. 2062.

Lands grant

CHAP. 386. An act, to amend an act, entitled "An act to grant a quantity of land to the state of Illinois, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Illinois river with those of Lake Michigan," and to allow further time to the state of Ohio for commencing the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the lands granted to the state of ed to Illinois. Illinois by the act to which this is an amendment, may be used and disposed of by said state, for the purpose of making a rail road instead of a canal as in said act contemplated; and that the time for commencing and completing said canal or rail road, which ever the state of Illinois may choose to make, be and is extended five years: Provided, That if a rail road is made in place of a canal, the state of Illinois shall be subject to the same duties and obligations, and the government of the United States shall be entitled to, and have the same privileges on said rail road, which they would have had through the canal, if it had have been opened.

Ohio canal.

Act of 1828, c. 110, p. 2141.

Land to be
Surveyed.

Compensation.

Commrs. authorised to suspend im

&c.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the further time of five years be allowed the state of Ohio to commence the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, in addition to the time now allowed therefor by law. [Approved, March 2, 1833.]

CHAP. 388. An act, to authorise the President of the United States to cause the public surveys to be connected with the line of demarcation between the state of Indiana and Illinois.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and hereby is authorised and required to cause the public lands lying along the line demarcation between the state of Indiana and Illinois, as established by the joint sanction of those States, to be surveyed in connection with said line on either side thereof.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury be, and hereby is, authorised to allow for the service to be performed under this act, such further compensation, in addition to [the] regular price now authorised by law, as to him shall appear to be just and reasonable, to be paid out of the regular appropriation for surveying public lands north-west of the Ohio river. [Approved, March 2, 1833.]

CHAP. 389. An act further to extend the powers of the board of canal commissioners for the improvement of the Tennessee river, in the state of Alabama.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the commissioners appointed by the state of Alabama to superintend the improvement of the provement of, Tennessee river, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby authorised to suspend the improvement of so much of said river as is below Florence, in said state, and every other part of the same, until the canal, and other improvements, between Lamb's ferry and Campbell's ferry shall have been completed; any thing in the act entitled "An act to grant cerc. 75, ante, p. tain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state of Alabama for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee,

Act of 1828,

2130.

Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers," approved twentythird of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to the contrary notwithstanding. [Approved, March 2, 1833.]

CHAP. 390. An act prescribing the mode by which patents for public lands shall be signed and executed.

§ 1 Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be lawful for the President Secretaryt be appointed. of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a secretary, with a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the President, to sign in his name, and for him, all patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States.

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and no longer. [Approved, March 2, 1833.]

CHAP. 391. An act to revive the act entitled "An act supplementary

to the several laws for the sale of public lands."

Act of 1832, c. 65, ante, p.

2262.

entries by,

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That in all cases in which persons Settlers prior were settlers or occupants of the public land prior to the first to May 1, day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and 1832, &c. were authorised to enter under the provisions of the act, entitled "An act supplementary to the several laws for the sale of public lands," approved April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and were prevented from making their entries, in who were consequence of the public surveys not having been made and prevented returned, or where the land was not attached to any land dis- from making trict, or where the same has been reserved from sale in conse- &c. quence of a disputed boundary between two states, or between a state and territory, the said occupants shall be permitted to enter May enter the said lands on the same conditions, in every respect, as were within 1 year after, &c. prescribed in said act, within one year after the surveys are made, or the land attached to a land district, or the boundary line established; and if the land shall be proclaimed for sale before the expiration of one year as aforesaid, then the said settlers or occupants shall be permitted to enter before the sale thereof. [Approved, March 2, 1833.]

CHAP. 392. An act to establish a town at St. Marks, in Florida. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorised to cause so much of the public lands at or near St. Marks, in the territory of Florida, as he may deem proper, to be laid off into town lots, not to contain more than one-quarter of an acre each, and into streets, avenues, and out lots, and public squares, for the use of the town; and, whenever the survey of the same shall be completed, it shall be the duty of the surveyor for the territory of Florida, to cause two plats thereof to be made out, on which the town and out lots shall respectively be designated by progressive numbers; one of which shall be transmitted, with a copy of the field notes, to the commis

Lands to be

laid off into town lots, &c.

Plan.

lots.

sioner of the general land office, and the other to the register of the land office for the proper district: Provided, That the President may adopt, if he shall approve, such plans as may have been already reported to the general land office.

Public sale of § 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid town and out lots at said site, with the exception of such of them as the President may reserve for fortifications, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register and receiver of the proper land office, at such times and places as the President shall, by public proclamation, designate for that purPrivate entry. posc: and all lots remaining unsold at the closing of the public sales shall be subject to entry at private sale at the proper land Prices limit. office: Provided, That no town lot shall be sold for less than

ed.

Improve

ments to be valued and paid for.

Payment on day of sale,

&c.

twenty-five dollars, nor any out lot for less than at the rate of twenty-five dollars per acre; and they shall, in every other respect, be sold on the same terms and conditions as are provided for the disposal of the other public lands of the United States.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That previous to offering the aforesaid town and out lots at public sale, the President of the United States shall cause the value of any improvements which may have been made thereon to be ascertained in such manner as he may prescribe for that purpose; and the purchaser at public sale of any lot upon which there are such improvements, other than the owner thereof, shall, in addition to the sum to be paid to the United States, be, and hereby is, required to pay to the owner of the improvements, the value of them as thus ascertained; and, if payment therefor shall not be made upon the day on which the same was purchased, the lot shall be again offered at public sale on the next day of sale, and such person shall not be capable of becoming the purchaser of that or of any other lot offered at that public sale: Provided, That, if any lot so offered and bid off on the last day of the public sale shall not be thus paid for, the same may be entered at private sale, upon paying to the United States the sum at which it was bid off, and to the owner of the improvements the previously ascertained value thereof: And provided, Lots not to be further, That the President be not authorised to offer any part of said town lots for sale, till he shall be satisfied that the site proposed for said town is not included within the limits of any conflicting Spanish title, which may not be released, or decided to be invalid. [Approved, March 2, 1833.]

offered for

sale, until, &c.

Further appropriation of land.

Act of 1830, c. 216, ante, p. 2214.

CHAP, 393. An act granting an additional quantity of land for-the location of revolutionary bounty land warrants.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the further quantity of two hundred thousand acres of land be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army during the revolutionary war," approved the thirtieth May, one thousand c. 204, ante, eight hundred and thirty, and the act, entitled "An act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war," approved the thirteenth July, one

Act of 1832, p. 2314.

1833.

CHAP. 393-395.

of it.

thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; which said appropria- Application
tions shall be applied in the manner provided by the said acts, to
the unsatisfied warrants, whether original or duplicate, which
have been or may be issued as therein directed, to the officers

and soldiers, and others, as described in said acts: Provided, Proviso.
That the said certificates of scrip shall be receivable in payment
of any of the public lands liable to sale at private entry. [Ap-
proved, March 2, 1833.]

CHAP. 394. An act to extend the provisions of the act of the third Act of 1807,
March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled "An act to c. 101, vol. 2,
prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, p. 1064.
until authorised by law.'

March 3,

&c.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all offences prescribed in the act, Offences de. entitled "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands fined in act ceded to the United States until authorised by law," approved the 1807, third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven," when committed upon public lands not situated within any state, or organised territorial government, shall be cognisable in the Dis- cognisable, in trict Court of the United States held in the state nearest where the said offence may have been committed: and the offenders, upon conviction, shall be punished accordingly. And the said court shall also have jurisdiction to hear and determine all suits or prosecutions, instituted for the recovery of all fines and penalties imposed by the said act.

ed from Sac

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Offences lands acquir President of the United States, to direct the Indian agents at committed on Prairie Du Chien, and Rock Island, or either of them, when offences against the said act shall be committed on lands recently and Fox acquired by treaty from the Sac and Fox Indians, to execute and Indians. perform all the duties required by the said act to be performed by the marshals, in such mode as to give full effect to the said act, in and over the lands acquired as aforesaid. [Approved, March 2, 1833.]

CHAP. 395. An act to carry into effect the convention between the United States and his Majesty the King of the two Sicilies, concluded at Naples on the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

m'rs created.

Duties.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States, Board of con by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint three commissioners, who shall form a board, whose duty it shall be to receive and examine all claims which may be presented to them under the convention between the United States and the King of the two Sicilies, of the fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, which are provided for by the said convention, according to the provisions of the same, and the principles of justice, equity, and the law of nations. The said board shall have a secretary, versed in the French and Italian Secretary and languages, and a clerk, both to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate: And the missioners, secretary and clerk, shall, before they enter on the VOL. IV.

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clerk.

Oath.

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Rules and regulations.

Board to meet within ten days after exchange of ratification,

duties of their offices, take oath well and faithfully to perform the duties thereof.

§2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, shall be, and they are hereby, authorised to make all needful rules and regulations, not contravening the laws of the land, the provisions of this act, or the provisions of the said convention for carrying their said commission into full and complete effect.

§3. And be it further enacted, That the members of the board so constituted shall meet at the city of Washington, and their salaries shall begin to be allowed within thirty days after the exchange of the ratifications of the convention shall have been &c.-Notice proclaimed by the President of the United States; and, within of meeting. one year from the time of said meeting, they shall terminate their duties. And the secretary of state is required, as soon as the said proclamation of the President shall have been made, to give notice of the said meeting; to be published in two newspapers in Washington, and in such other papers as he may think proper. §4. And be it further enacted, That all records, documents, or to be delivered other papers, which now are in, or hereafter during the continuance of this commission may come into the possession of the department of state, in relation to such claims, shall be delivered to the commission aforesaid.

Records, &c.

to Board.

Compensation.

Contingent

expenses.

Appropriation.

Awards to be reported.

of moneys

recored.

§ 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the respective officers, for whose appointment provision is made by this act, shall not exceed the following sums, namely: to each of the said commissioners, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum; to the secretary of the board, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, and to the clerk, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. And the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorised to make such provision for the contingent expenses of the said commission, as shall appear to him reasonable and proper; and the said salaries and expenses shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

§6. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall report to the secretary of state a list of all the several awards made by them; a certified copy thereof shall be by him transmitted to the secretary of the treasury, who shall thereupon Distribution distribute in rateable proportions, among the persons in whose favour the awards shall have been made, such moneys as may have been received into the treasury in virtue of this act, according to the proportions which their respective awards shall bear to the whole amount then received, first deducting such sums of money as may be due the United States from said persons in whose favour said awards shall be made; and shall cause certificates to be issued by the secretary of the treasury, in such form as he may prescribe, showing the proportion to which each may be entitled of the amount that may thereafter be received; and Payments to on the presentation of the said certificates at the treasury, as the net proceeds of the general instalments, payable by the Neapolitan government, shall have been received, such proportions thereof shall be paid to the legal holders of the said certificates. Instalments § 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

Certificates.

holders.

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