became entitled, under the contract entered into on the eighth day of January eighteen hundred and nineteen, by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the part of the United States, and Charles Villar, agent of the Tombecbee Association, in pursuance of “An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive,” approved third March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to an allotment or share of the four sections of land reserved for the small allotments, and designated as sections, seven, eighteen, nineteen, and thirty in township eighteen, range three east, their heirs, devisees, or assigns, who shall have complied with the conditions of settlement and cultivation on such allotment, as required by said contract, or shall have been in the actual settlement and cultivation of his or her allotment within said four sections, or a part thereof, before or on the thirty-first day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as provided by theAct of Feb. 19, 1833, ch. 30. act of the nineteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, shall, on producing to the register and receiver of the land district in which said lands are situated, satisfactory evidence of title to such allotment, and of settlement and cultivation on the same as aforesaid, and paying one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the land, receive a patent for the same:Proviso.
Further proviso. Provided, Such proof shall be filed and payment made within six months from the passage of this act: And provided further, That the expense of surveying any such allotment shall be defrayed by the person or persons claiming the same.
Remainder subject to entry, for use of Demopolis Female Academy.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any remainder of said four sections not disposed of by the first section of this act shall be subject to entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, by the trustees of the Demopolis Female Academy, in trust for the use and benefit of said institution.
Approved, March 2, 1837.
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Chap. XXX.—An Act making appropriations for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be appropriated for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, to wit:
Pay of navy.For pay of commissioned, warrant and petty officers, and of seamen, two million four hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars;
Bounty for enlistments.To enable the President, provided he should deem it necessary, to offer a bounty for the purpose of promoting the enlistment of seamen, seventy-two thousand dollars;
Pay of superintendents, &c. at yards.For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several yards, sixty-nine thousand four hundred and seventy dollars;
Provisions.For provisions, seven hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars;
Repairs of vessels, &c.For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
Medicines and surgical instruments, &c.For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick, thirty-nine thousand dollars;
Portsmouth navy yard.For improvements and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, forty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars;
Charlestown navy yard.For improvements and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars;