in the state, for the purposes of locating and fixing the seat of justice in said county, a tract not exceeding one hundred acres of the tract of land, sitaute in said county, and granted to said state, for the use thereof, by the act of the eighteenth of April, eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitledAct of April 1818, ch. 67. “An act to enable the people of the Illinois territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states,” any restriction in said act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, May 20, 1826.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXXVI.—An Act to enable the President to hold treaties with certain Indian tribes.
Appropriation to defray the expenses of holding treaties with the Miami and Potawatomi Indians, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, shall be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to defray the expense of holding treaties with the Miami and Potawatami tribes of Indians, and any other tribes claiming lands in the state of Indiana.
Approved, May 20, 1826.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXXVII.—An Act allowing fees to the district attorney of Missouri.
A fee of six dollars to be allowed to the attorney for the district of Missouri.
Proviso.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed to the attorney of the United States, for the district of Missouri, a fee of six dollars in each case now pending, or hereafter to be by him prosecuted on behalf of the United States, to be paid by the unsuccessful party, in addition to the salary and compensation allowed by law: Provided, That the fees herein provided for shall not be taxed on any suit now commenced, or to be commenced, or any petition filed, or to be filed, in relation to the confirmation of land claims, in Missouri, under the provisions of the act of the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
250 dollars to be allowed and paid him, from the treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, as a compensation to the said district attorney, in all cases in which he has already prosecuted suits, for the United States, to judgment, he shall receive the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be paid to him by the proper officer of the Treasury Department.
Approved, May 20, 1826.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CXXVIII.—An Act supplementary to “An act providing for the disposition of three several tracts of land in Tuscarawas county, in the state of Ohio, and for other purposes,” passed the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 174.
The provisions of the act to be carried into effect.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to adopt such measures as, in his judgment, the interests of the United States, and the parties concerned, may require, for the purpose of carrying into full and complete effect the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, and the intentions of Congress, as expressed in the act.
