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Chap. LXXXIX.—An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the public surveys to be connected with the line of demarcation between the states of Indiana and Illinois.
Lands to be surveyed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and hereby is authorized and required to cause the public lands lying along the line of demarcation between the states of Indiana and Illinois, as established by the joint sanction of those states, to be surveyed in connection with said line on either side thereof.
Compensation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to allow for the service to be performed under this act, such further compensation, in addition to [the] regular price now authorized by law, as to him shall appear to be just and reasonable, to be paid out of the regular appropriation for surveying public lands north-west of the Ohio river.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
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Chap. XC.—An Act further to extend the powers of the board of canal commissioners for the improvement of the Tennessee river in the state of Alabama.
Commissioners to suspend improvement of Tennessee river.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioners appointed by the state of Alabama to superintend the improvement of the Tennessee river, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby authorized to suspend the improvement of so much of said river as is below Florence, in said state, and every part of the same, until the canal and other improvements, between Lamb’s ferry and Campbell’s ferry, shall have been completed; any thing in the act entitledAct of May 23, 1828, ch. 75. “An act to grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers,” approved twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
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Chap. XCI.—An Act prescribing the mode by which patents for public lands shall be signed and executed.
Secretary to be appointed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a secretary, with a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, whose duty it shall be, under the direction of the President, to sign in his name, and for him, all patents for lands sold or granted under the authority of the United States.
Limitation of the act.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force until the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and no longer.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
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Chap. XCII.—An Act to revive the act entitled “An act supplementary to the several laws for the sale of [the] public lands.”
Act of April 5, 1832, ch. 65.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases in which persons were settlers or occupants of the public lands prior to the first
