otherwise disposed of by the United States, within the state of Ohio, and which would otherwise become the property of the state of Indiana, in virtue ofAct of March 2, 1827, ch. 51.
Act of March 2, 1845, ch. 42. “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, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, the canal commissioners authorized to locate the lands granted as aforesaid for the use of the canal within the state of Ohio, be, and they are hereby, authorized to select an equal quantity from the alternate sections, which would otherwise belong to the United States in the division under said act, or from the lands recently acquired by purchase from the Indians, or from other lands in the neighbourhood near the line of said canal as they shall think proper; and the lands thus selected shall be vested and disposed of for the use of the canal as other lands appropriated by the act aforesaid.
Former selections, if sold, to be paid for to commissioners.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 51.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case of selections of lands authorized by the previous section, and which agreeably to treaty stipulations, may hereafter be sold by the United States for the benefit of the Indians, a sum equal to the amount for which said lands may have been sold, shall be paid over, by the Treasurer of the United States, to the commissioners authorized to receive the same, for the use and benefit of said canal.
Lands reserved from sale until selections are made.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That until the lands granted by the aforesaid act of March second, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, shall be selected and the selections contemplated by this act shall be made, the public lands on and near the line of said canal, and liable to the selections aforesaid, shall be reserved from sale.
Commissioners to be furnished with maps.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general land office, to furnish said commissioners with a perfect map of the surveyed lands on and contiguous to the Maumee river within the state of Ohio, including the lands recently purchased from the Indians, carefully noting thereon the lands which have been sold or otherwise disposed of by the United States.
Approved, June 30, 1834.
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Chap. CXXXVIII.—An Act to procure a bust, in marble, of the late Chief Justice Ellsworth.
American artist to be employed to execute bust.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the joint committee of the two Houses of Congress on the library be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to contract with a suitable American artist for the execution, in marble, and delivery in the room of the Supreme Court of the United States, a bust of the late Chief Justice Ellsworth.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, there be, and hereby is, appropriated, eight hundred dollars; to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 30, 1834.
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Chap. CXXXIX.—An Act concerning the duty on lead.
