Legislative council not to appropriate more than copy to the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States, to be laid before Congress, and the amount appropriated by the said legislative council, shall $7,000 annu- not exceed, annually, the sum of seven thousand dollars, including ally. their pay, mileage, printing, and incidental expenses. An act relating to Supe rior court approved. 21st Sec. of act of Febru. ary 15th, 1834, annul led. Act of May 29, 1830, re vived, and extended to those who settled on and cultivated land in 1833. Act of 1830, c. 209, ante, p. 2212. Choice of quarter sec § 5. And be it further enacted, That an act entitled "An act to alter and fix permanently the sessions of the superior court of the district of East Florida," be, and the same is hereby, approved. § 6. And be it further enacted, That the twenty-first section of an act entitled "An act in addition to the several acts now in force, 'regulating judicial proceedings," passed February fifteen, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, be, and the same is hereby, annulled. [Approved, June 18, 1834.] CHAP. 54. An act to revive the act entitled "An act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the public lands," approved May twentynine, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. §1. Be it enacted, &c. That every settler or occupant of the public lands, prior to the passage of this act, who is now in possession, and cultivated any part thereof, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges provided by the act entitled "An act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the public lands," approved, May twenty-nine, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and the said act is hereby revived and shall continue in force two years from the passage of this act, and no longer. § 2. And be it further enacted, That where a person inhabits tions allowed. One quarter-section and cultivates another, he shall be permitted to enter the one or the other at his discretion: Provided, Such occupant shall designate within six months from the passage of this act, the quarter-section of which he claims the pre-emption under the same. Persons set lands prior to 1829, may enter a quar ter section at § 3. And be it further enacted, That all persons residing on the tled on public public lands, and cultivating the same, prior to the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and who were deprived of the advantages of the law passed on the twenty-ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty, by the constructions placed on said law by the secretary of the treasury, be, and they are hereby authorised to enter at the minimum price of the government, one quarter-section of the public lands, within said land district. [Approved, June 19, 1834.] the minimum price. Pensions giv. en under the 4, 1814, and April 16, 1818, to be CHAP. 55. An act further to extend the term of certain pensions chargeable on the privateer pension fund. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the pensions of all widows who acts of March now are or have been heretofore in the receipt thereof, under the provision of the act entitled "An act giving pensions to the orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private continued for armed vessels of the United States," passed the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and the act entitled "An act in addition to an act giving pensions to the c. 79, vol. 2, orphans and widows of persons slain in the public or private five years longer. *Act of 1814, p. 1399. 1834. CHAP. 55-58. 1673. armed vessels of the United States," passed the sixteenth day of Act of 1818, April, one thousand, eight hundred and eighteen, or either of said c. 60, vol. 3, p. acts, so far as regards persons receiving pensions from the fund arising from captures and salvage made by the private armed vessels of the United States, be, and the same are hereby, continued, under the restrictions and regulations in the said acts contained, for and during the additional term of five years from and after the period of the expiration of the said pensions, respectively: Provided, however, That the said pensions shall be Proviso. paid from the proceeds of the Privateer Pension Fund, and without recourse to the United States, for any deficiency which may hereafter arise thereon, if any such there be: And provided fur- Further prother, That no such pension shall be paid to any widow after her viso. intermarriage, had or to be had. [Approved, June 19th, 1834.] CHAP. 56. An act to grant to the State of Ohio certain lands for the support of schools in the Connecticut Western-Reserve. Western Re to be reserved § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States Land equal to be, and he is hereby, authorised and required to reserve from sale, 1-36th of out of any public lands that have been heretofore offered at public serve, includ sale, and that remain unsold in the state of Ohio, a quantity of ing that hereland, which, together with the lands heretofore granted for the sup- tofore granted port of schools in the Connecticut Western Reserve, in said state, from sale, and shall be equal to one thirty-sixth part of said Western Reserve; to vest in the which said quantity of land may be reserved in sections, or half sec- state. tions or quarter sections; and, when so reserved, the same shall vest in the said state of Ohio, for the support of schools in the said Western Reserve, and be holden by the same tenure, and upon the same terms and conditions, in all respects, as the said state now holds, or may hold, the lands heretofore granted for the support of schools in the said Western Reserve. Approved, June 19th, 1834.] CHAT. 57. An act to extend the time allowed for the discharge of the duties of the Commission for carrying into effect the Convention with France. years from § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That so much of an act entitled "An Commission act to carry into effect the Convention between the United States extended to 3 and his Majesty the King of the French, concluded at Paris on first Monday the fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-one," approv- in August, ed July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as limits 1832. the duration of the Commission created by the said act to two * Act of 1832, years, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that a period of c. 19, ante p. three years, commencing on the first Monday of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be allowed for the discharge of the duties prescribed by the said act. [Approved, June 1834.] 2311. CHAP. 58. An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to car- Act of 1832, ry into effect the convention between the United States and his Ma- c. 295, ante p. jesty the King of the Two Sicilies, concluded at Naples on the 2363. fourteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the further time of six months, in Six months to addition to the time specified in the act to which this is a supple- be added to VOL. IV. 35 the time al- ment, be, and hereby is, allowed to the commissioners appointed lowed by the by the President to execute and complete the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of the aforesaid act, approved on the second day of March, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirtythree. [Approved, June 19, 1834.] 2d, 1833. $200,000 for continuing the road i the State of Ohio. the State of CHAP. 68. An act for the continuation and repair of the Cumberland § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the Cumberland Road in the state of Ohio; also that the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars be, $150,000 for and the same is hereby, appropriated, for continuing the Cumberthe same in land road in the state of Indiana; and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be appropriated for continuing said road in the state of Illinois; which sums shall be paid out of any money $100,000 for not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and making roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states. Indiana. the same in the State of Illinois. Officer of en. §2. And be it further enacted, That an officer of the corps of gineer Corp engineers, to be selected by the department of war, shall be to superintend it in In- charged with disbursements of the moneys appropriated for the diana and Illi- construction of the Cumberland road through the states of Indi nois. Proviso. $300,000 to fect an act of ana and Illinois; and that said officer shall have under the direction of the engineer department, a general control over the operations of the said road, and over all persons employed thereon: Provided, That no percentage shall be allowed to such officer for disbursing moneys appropriated for the construction of said road. §3. And be it further enacted, That for the entire completion carry into ef- of repairs of the Cumberland road, east of the Ohio river, and Pennsylvania other needful improvements on said road, to carry into effect the of the fourth provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, of April,1831; entitled "An act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road," passed the fourth day of April, one thousand eight ryland, of the hundred and thirty-one; and of an act of the General Assembly of 1832; and an the state of Maryland, entitled, " An act for the preservation and act of Virginia, of Febru- repair of that part of the United States road, within the limits of ary 7th, 1832, the state of Maryland," passed the twenty-third day of January, an act of Ma The road to one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two'; also, an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An act concerning the Cumberland road," passed February the seventh, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; the sum of three hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the secretary of war: the money to be drawn out of the treasury in such sums, and at such times as may be required for the performance of the work. § 4. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the sum by this be surrender- act appropriated, or so much thereof as is necessary, shall be expended in the repair of said road, agreeably to the provisions of this act, the same shall be surrendered to the states respectively, through which said road passes: and the United States ed to the States thro' which it pas Bes. shall not thereafter be subject to any expense for repairing said CHAP. 71. An act regulating the value of certain Foreign Silver § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That from and after the passage of this Certain silver act, the following silver coins shall be of the legal value, and coin to pass by tale. shall pass current as money within the United States, by tale, for the payment of all debts and demands, at the rate of one hundred cents the dollar, that is to say, the dollars of Mexico, Peru, Chili, and Central America, of not less weight than four hundred and fifteen grains each, and those re-stamped in Brazil of the like weight, of not less fineness than ten ounces, fifteen pennyweights of pure silver, in the troy pound of twelve ounces of standard silver; and the five franc pieces of France, when of not less fineness than ten ounces and sixteen pennyweights in twelve ounces troy weight of standard silver, and weighing not less than three hundred and eighty-four grains each at the rate of ninety-three cents each. be made at § 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Assays of secretary of the treasury to cause assays of the aforesaid silver such coin to coins, made current by this act, to be had at the Mint of the the mint every United States at least once in every year, and to make report of year. the result thereof to Congress. [Approved, June 25th, 1834.]、 CHAP. 72. An act to change the boundary between the southeastern and western land district in the Territory of Michigan, and for other purposes. J and others of § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all public lands of the United Certain lands States within the limits of the counties of Calhoun and Branch, in shall form part the Territory of Michigan, which are now subject to sale at the of the western land office at Monroe, shall, from and after the passage of this the southeastact, be set off to, and form a part of, the western land district in ern land dissaid territory and all that part of said territory lying east of trict. the aforesaid counties, and south of the base line and west of the principal meridian, and also, all the country east of the principal meridian, and south of the line between townships numbered three and four south, except so much thereof as lies north of the river Huron of Lake Erie, shall continue to belong to, and form a part of, the southeastern land district in said territory, the land office for which is now located at Monroe, but shall be subject to be removed from time to time, to such place as the President of the United States may order and direct. [Approved, June 25th, 1834.] CHAP. 76. An act to create additional land districts in the States of Illinois and Missouri, and in the territory north of the State of Illinois. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all that tract of country lying Four new north of the dividing line between townships number twelve land distri ts. and thirteen, north of the base line running through the military bounty lands, and that tract of country lying north of the dividing line between townships number thirty and thirty-one, north of the old base line included in the state of Illinois, and all Place for offi. ces to be designated by the President. that tract of country lying north of the state of Illinois, west of Lake Michigan, and south and southeast of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers of Green Bay, in the present Territory of Michigan, be laid off into four new land districts, to be divided and designated as follows, to wit: That tract lying within the state of Illinois, as above described, shall be divided by a north and south line, drawn between the range of townships number three and four, east of the third principal meridian, and that on the west side of said line shall be called the northwest, and that on the east, the northeast land district of the state of Illinois; and all that tract north of the state of Illinois, west of Lake Michigan, south and southeast of the Wisconson and Fox rivers, included in the present Territory of Michigan, shall be divided by a north and south line, drawn from the northern boundary of Illinois, along the range of township line next west of Fort Winnebago, to the Wisconsin river, and be called, the one on the west side, the Wisconsin, and that on the east side, the Green Bay land districts of the Territory of Michigan; which two districts shall embrace the country north of said rivers, when the Indian title shall become extinguished, and the Green Bay district may be divided so as to form two districts, when the President shall deem it proper. § 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be established in each of the said land districts, one land office, at such time and place, as the President may designate, to be removed whenever he may deem it expedient for the public convenience. § 3. And be it further enacted, That the president, by and with Registers and receivers to be the consent of the senate, so soon as a sufficient number of appointed. townships are surveyed, and returns thereof made to the General Land Office, to authorise the commencement of the sales in either of said districts, to appoint one register, and one receiver for each land office, so established, who shall reside at the place designated for the land office, and give security, and discharge all duties, pertaining to such office as prescribed by law. Land to be re § 4. And be it further enacted, That the President shall be served for mi- authorised, so soon as the survey shall have been completed, to litary posts. cause to be offered for sale, in the manner prescribed by law, all the lands lying in said land districts, at the land offices in the respective districts in which the land so offered is embraced, reserving only section sixteen in each township, the tract reserved for the village of Galena, such other tracts as have been granted to individuals and the state of Illinois, and such reservations as the President shall deem necessary to retain for military posts, any law of Congress heretofore existing to the contrary notwithstanding. § 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the public lands of the United States, in the state of Missouri, as lies west of the range line between ranges ten and eleven west of the fifth principal meridian, and south of the line dividing townships, numbers forty and forty-one north of the base line, shall form a new land district, to be called the southwestern land district; and for the sale of the public lands within the district aforesaid, there shall be a land office established at such place within said district as the President of the United States may designate. § 6. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register |