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Sixth census documents to be bound.hereby authorized to have the Sixth Census documents bound in a plain and substantial manner, the cost of which shall not exceed fifty cents per volume; and that the amount thereof shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

The number of inhabitants of Montgomery co., Maryland to be again taken.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the marshal of the State of Maryland, and he is hereby required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to cause the number of inhabitants within Montgomery county, in the State aforesaid, to be again taken according to the directions of the act to which this is a supplement, and the same to be returned before the first day of December next, and when so taken and returned shall be considered as the correct enumeration of the inhabitants of the said county:Proviso. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such marshal and his assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid:Proviso. And provided further, That no persons be included in the returns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitants of the district for which such returns shall be made on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty:Proviso. And provided also, That the said corrected return shall not delay the printing of the Census: and that the said corrected return be printed by itself separately.

Approved, September 1, 1841.

Statute Ⅰ.



Sept. 4, 1841.

Chap. XVI.An Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights.[1]

Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.
Certain States to be paid 10 per cent. on nett proceeds of sales of public lands therein, &c.
1842, ch. 270, § 30.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, there be allowed and paid to each of the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Michigan, over and above what each of the said States is entitled to by the terms of the compacts entered into between them and the United States, upon their admission into the Union, the sum of ten per centum upon the nett proceeds of the sales of the public lands, which, subsequent to the day aforesaid, shall be made within the limits of each of said States respectively:Proviso. Provided, That the sum so allowed to the said States, respectively, shall be in no wise affected or diminished on account of any sums which have been heretofore, or shall be hereafter, applied to the construction or continuance of the Cumberland road, but that the disbursements for the said road shall remain, as heretofore, chargeable on the two per centum fund provided for by compacts with several of the said States.

After deducting said 10 per cent. &c. residue to be divided among the States, &c. of the Union; how.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That after deducting the said ten per centum, and what, by the compacts aforesaid, has heretofore been allowed to the States aforesaid, the residue of the nett proceeds, which nett proceeds shall be ascertained by deducting from the gross proceeds all the expenditures of the year for the following objects: salaries and expenses on account of the General Land Office; expenses for surveying public lands; salaries and expenses in the surveyor general’s offices; salaries, commissions, and allowances to the registers and receivers; the five per centum to new States, of all the public lands of the United States, wherever situated, which shall be sold subsequent to the said thirty-first day of December, shall be divided among the twenty-six States of the Union and the District of Columbia, and the Territories of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida,To be applied as the Legislatures may direct.
Proviso.
according to their respective federal representative population as ascertained by the last census, to be applied by the Legislatures of the said States to such purposes as the said Legislatures may direct: Provided, That the distributive share to which the