Abstract of the same.intelligible abstract thereof, showing the names of the parties in each suit, the cause of action, the time of its commencement, and such other matters as may be necessary to full information respecting the same, to be prepared and laid before Congress at the commencement of the next session.
Clerk to be transferred.Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to transfer one of the clerks now employed in the office of the fifth auditor, to the office of solicitor of the treasury; and the said clerk shall continue to receive the same salary as at present.
Attorney general to advise, &c.
Additional salary, 500 dolls.Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the attorney general of the United States, at the request of said solicitor, to advise and direct the said solicitor as to the manner of conducting the suits, proceedings, and prosecutions aforesaid; and the attorney general shall receive, in addition to his present salary, the sum of five hundred dollars per annum.
Salary of solicitor, $3500.
Clerk, $1150.
Messenger, 500 dollars.
Postage free.Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the solicitor of the treasury shall receive an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars, and be authorized to employ, with the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, one clerk, who shall receive a salary of eleven hundred and fifty dollars per annum; and one messenger, with a salary of five hundred dollars per annum. All letters to and from the solicitor of the treasury, relating to the duties and business of his office, shall be transmitted by mail free of postage.
3500 dollars appropriated.Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated for the payment of the said salaries for the present year; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, May 29, 1830.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CLXI.—An Act to vest in the state of Indiana certain lands within the limits of the canal grant.[1]
Certain lands vested, &c.
Act of Feb. 27, 1841, ch. 12.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 56.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be vested in the state of Indiana twenty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-eight acres and seventy-eight hundredths of the public lands, to be selected by the canal commissioners of said state, from the alternate sections reserved to the United States in the division made under “An act to grant a certain quantity of land to the state of Indiana, for the purpose of aiding said state in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Wabash river with those of Lake Erie,” approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, which shall be in lieu of the aforesaid quantity heretofore sold by the United States, permanently reserved by treaty to individuals, and located by individual grants before the division aforesaid, and which would otherwise have become the property of the said state in virtue of the act above referred to; the selections aforesaid to be made and reported by the commissioners to the proper land offices, before the reserved sections aforesaid shall be offered for sale.
Approved, May 29, 1830.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CLXII.—An Act relating to the orphans’ courts in the District of Columbia.
- ↑ An act to grant certain lands to the state of Indiana, the better to enable the said state to extend and complete the Wabash and Erie canal, from Terre Haute to the Ohio river, March 3, 1845, ch. 42.
