from Canton in the state of Ohio, to some suitable place within the district for which it was established.
By whom public sales of public lands in the district west of Pearl river are to be conducted.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the public sales of the public lands, in the district east of Pearl river, in the Mississippi territory, and also in the district of Kaskaskia, in the Illinois territory, be conducted under the superintendence of the register and receiver of public monies for the said districts, who are hereby authorized and empowered to superintend the same, in their respective districts, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; and they shall receive the compensation provided by law for the superintendence of public sales in the districts aforesaid.
Tracts of land not paid for to be again offered for sale at the courts of the county.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any tract of the public lands, which has been sold or may hereafter be sold, in any state or territory, wherein a land-office is or may be established, and on which complete payment has not or may not have been made, within the time prescribed by law for completing the same, and the tract having been advertised for sale agreeably to law, it shall be lawful to offer the same for sale at public vendue, at the time and place of the sitting of the court, for the county in which the land-office is kept for the district to which the tract belongs, whether the court shall be denominated a court of quarter sessions, or by whatever other designation it may be known.
Approved, February 25, 1811.
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Chap. XXVI.—An Act establishing Navy Hospitals.
Secretaries of Navy, Treasury and War made a board of commissioners.
Act of 1799, ch. 36.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the money hereafter collected by virtue of the act, entituled “An act in addition to An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen,” shall be paid to the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War, for the time being, who are hereby appointed a board of commissioners, by the name and style of Commissioners of Navy Hospitals, which, together with the sum of fifty thousand dollars hereby appropriated out of the unexpended balance of the marine hospital fund, to be paid to the commissioners aforesaid, shall constitute a fund for navy hospitals.
Fines to be paid to them.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all fines imposed on navy officers, seamen and marines, shall be paid to the commissioners of navy hospitals.
Commissioners to procure sites, at suitable places, for navy hospitals.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners of navy hospitals be and they are hereby authorized and required to procure at a suitable place or places proper sites for navy hospitals, and if the necessary buildings are not procured with the site, to cause such to be erected, having due regard to economy, and giving preference to such plans as with most convenience and least cost will admit of subsequent additions, as the funds will permit and circumstances require; and the commissioners are required at one of the establishments, to provide a permanent asylum for disabled and decrepid navy officers, seamen and marines.
Secretary of Navy to prepare necessary rules for the government of the hospitals.
Allowance from the wages and pensions of invalids to be paid to commissioners.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized and required to prepare the necessary rules and regulations for the government of the institution, and report the same to the next session of Congress.
