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and after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and the proprietors of any location, survey, or patent, contemplated by the aforesaid section, may avail themselves of the provisions of the said section, in the cases therein enumerated.

Approved, March 31, 1832.

Statute Ⅰ.



March 31, 1832.

Chap. LVIII.An Act to add a part of the southern to the northern district of Alabama.[1]

The country in the limits of Alabama occupied by the Cherokees and Chicasaws, a part of the northern judicial district.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of the country lying within the limits of Alabama, and now in the occupancy of the Cherokee and Chicasaw tribes of Indians, shall be added to, and constitute a part of, the northern judicial district of Alabama, instead of the southern district of said state as now arranged.

Approved, March 31, 1832.

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April 5, 1832.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. LXIV.An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

Appropriations for the army.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz:

Pay of army, &c.For pay of the army and subsistence of officers, one million one hundred and twenty-two thousand one hundred and forty-six dollars.

Arrearages.For arrearages in the pay department, fifteen thousand dollars.

Forage of officers.For forage of officers, forty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars.

Clothing for servants.For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.

Subsistence.For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred thousand dollars, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.

Clothing of army, &c.For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, in addition to material and clothing on hand, amounting to thirty-five thousand dollars, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars.

Medical department.For medical and hospital department, twenty thousand dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of eight thousand dollars.

Expenses of quartermaster’s department.For various expenses of the quartermaster’s department, viz: For fuel, forage, straw, stationery, blanks, repairing officers’ quarters, barracks, store-houses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments and gun-houses; for rent of quarters, store-houses, and land; for postage of letters on public service; for expenses of courts martial, including compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses: for extra pay to soldiers employed on extra labour,1819, ch. 45. under the act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and for expenses of expresses, escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies to quartermaster’s department, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

Transportation of baggage, &c.For transportation of officers’ baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu of transportation for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-five thousand dollars.

Transportation of clothing, &c.For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army, and funds for pay of the

  1. Notes of the acts relating to the district court of Alabama, vol. iii. p. 564.