to some convenient point on the Ohio river, agreeably to the second article of a treaty made and concluded near the mouth of the Mississinowa, upon the Wabash, in the state of Indiana, the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, between the commissioners on the part of the United States, and the chiefs and warriors of the Potawatamie tribe of Indians; and the said general assembly are hereby authorized to apply the strip of land and the sections of land, by said article ceded to the United States, or the proceeds thereof, to the making of the same; and the said grant shall be at their sole disposal.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. LIII.—An Act concerning a seminary of learning in the territory of Arkansas.
Secretary of the Treasury to set apart a certain quantity of land, out of the public lands, for the use of an university.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 set apart and reserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the territory of Arkansas, to which the Indian title has been, or may be, extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, for the use and support of an university within the said territory and for no other use or purpose whatsoever; to be located in tracts of land not less than an entire section, corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed, one of which said townships, so set apart and reserved from sale, shall be in lieu of an entire township of land directed to be located on the waters of the Arkansas river in said territory, for the use of a seminary of learning therein, by an act of Congress, entitled1818, ch. 12. “An act making provision for the establishment of additional land offices in the territory of Missouri,” approved February the seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Expired.]
Chap. LV.—An Act to authorize the importation of brandy in casks of a capacity not less than fifteen gallons, and the exportation of the same for the benefit of a drawback of the duties.
Act of March 2, 1799, ch. 22, sec. 108.
Brandy, after the passage of this act, to be imported into the United States in casks not less than 15 gallons.
Proviso.
Proviso.
Act of April 20, 1818, ch. 129.
Where the same is imported in casks not less than fifteen gallons.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and after the passage of this act, brandy may be imported into the United States, in casks of a capacity not less than fifteen gallons, any thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, That all the provisions of existing laws, not inconsistent with this act, relating to the importation of foreign spirits, be complied with: And provided further, That all brandy imported in casks of a capacity less than ninety gallons, shall be deposited, at the expense and risk of the importer, in such public or other ware-houses as shall be designated by the collector or surveyor, for the port where the same shall be landed, and shall be removed therefrom in the manner prescribed by an act, entitled “An act providing for the deposit of wines and distilled spirits in public ware-houses, and for other purposes.”
