6020 dollars, appropriated for the objects, out of postages.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be, and there is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of the moneys arising from the postage of letters and packets, such sum as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, not exceeding six thousand and twenty dollars.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
Statute Ⅰ.
[Expired.]
Chap. CXXXIV.—An Act to increase the number of clerks in the Department of War.
The Secretary of War authorized to employ six additional clerks.
6000 dollars appropriated for their compensation.
This act in force for a year.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Department of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to employ six additional clerks in his Department; and that the sum of six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, for their compensation; to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. This act to continue in force for one year, and no longer.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXXXV.—An Act granting to the state of Ohio the right of pre-emption to certain quarter sections of land.
Right of pre-emption at minimum price, to one quarter section, in the centre of each county, in the purchase by the Indian treaty of St. Mary’s granted to Ohio, for a seat of justice.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the state of Ohio, at the minimum price for which the public lands are sold, the right of pre-emption to one quarter section, in or near the centre of each county, included in the purchase recently made of the Indians, by the treaty concluded at St. Mary’s, on the twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for the establishment of a seat of justice in the said counties: Provided, The purchase be made before the commencement of the public sales: And provided also, That the proceeds of the sale of each quarter section, which may be made under the authority of the state of Ohio, shall be appropriated for the purpose of erecting public buildings in said counties, respectively, after deducting therefrom the sums originally paid by the state aforesaid: And provided further, That the seat of justice for said counties, respectively, shall be fixed on the lands so selected.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXXXVI.—An Act to amend “An act making reservation of certain public lands for naval purposes,” passed first March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.
Act of 1st March, 1817, ch. 22.
Power of the Secretary of the Navy to appoint agents and surveyor, repealed.
Duties to be performed by surveyors of public lands.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, so much of the first section of the act of Congress passed on the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, entitled “An act making reservation of certain public lands for naval purposes,” as empowers the Secretary of the Navy to appoint an agent or agents and surveyor, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and the duties and the services required by said section be performed in future by such surveyors of public lands as may be designated by the President of the United States.
Approved, May 15, 1820.
