town lots and out lots, shall remain open at Wooster, for seven days and no longer. The quarter sections and fractional quarter sections, shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre; the in lots for less than twenty dollars each, nor any out lot for less than at the rate of five dollars per acre; and shall, in every other respect, be sold on the same terms and conditions as have been, or may be, by law, provided for the lands sold north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. All the lands other than the reserved sections and those excepted as above mentioned, remaining unsold at the closing of the public sales, may be mentioned, remaining unsold at the closing of the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale by the register of the land office, at Wooster, agreeable [to] the provisions of this act, and in the same manner, under the same regulations and conditions as are, or may be provided by law, for the sale of the lands of the United States, north of the Ohio river, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. And patents shall be obtained for all lands granted or sold within the said cession, in the same manner, and on the same terms, as are or may be provided by law for land sold in the state of Ohio. The superintendents for the public sales, directed by this section, shall receive four dollars each, for each day’s attendance on the said sales.
Approved, April 27, 1816.
Statute I.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CXXXV.—An Act concerning the annual sum appropriated for arming and equipping the militia.
Annual appropriation for the militia.
Act of April 23, 1808, ch. 55.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the annual sum of two hundred thousand dollars, as appropriated for the purpose of providing arms and military equipments for the militia, either by purchase or manufacture, according to the act of the twenty-third of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, entitled “An act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States,” shall be paid, for each year, respectively, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum appropriated, to be paid as aforesaid, shall be applied for the purpose, and according to the intention specified in said act, without being liable at any time to be carried to the account of the surplus fund. And nothing in the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, entitled1809, March 3, ch. 28. “An act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the treasury, war and navy departments,” shall be construed to authorize the transferring of the sum annually appropriated as aforesaid, or any portion thereof, to any other branch of expenditure.
Approved, April 29, 1816.
Statute I.
[Repealed.]
Chap. CXXXVII.—An Act for reducing the duties on licenses to retailers of wines, spirituous liquors, and foreign merchandise.
Reduction of duties.
Act of Dec. 23, 1814, ch. 16.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirty-first day of December next, the additional duties laid on licenses to retailers of wines, spirituous liquors and foreign merchandise, by the third section of the act, entitled “An act to provide additional revenues for defraying the expenses of government and maintaining the public credit, by laying duties on sales at auction, and on licenses to retail wines, spirituous liquors and foreign merchandise, and for increasing the rates of postage,” passed on the twenty-third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, shall cease and determine, and in case of
