titled “An act providing for the sale of the tract of land at the British fort of the Miami of the Lake, at the foot of the rapids, and for other purposes.” But all such town lots and out lots, or other tract or tracts of land, reserved, or directed to be reserved, as aforesaid, shall be holden subject to the uses and trusts in said acts, and in other acts relating to such reserves, designated or intended.Payments due the U. S. and Ohio not affected. But nothing contained in this act shall prevent the original purchasers of the lots or lands within the limits of the said towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, and not relinquished to the United States, from paying to the State of Ohio or the General Government for the use of said road or the United States the money with the interest remaining due thereon, on all such lots and lands as may not have heretofore been disposed of by the authorities of the said State for the benefit of said road.
Approved, February 20, 1845.
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Chap. XVII.—An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to provide for the enlistment of boys for the naval service, and to extend the term of enlistment of seamen.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Seamen to be detained under 2d and 3d secs. act of 2d March 1837, ch. 21, until arrival of vessel in U. S., and until disch’d. That, from and after the passage of this act, the provisions of the second and third sections of the act entitled “An act to provide for the enlistment of boys for the naval service, and to extend the term of enlistment of seamen,” approved March second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, which authorize and provide for the detention of any person enlisted for the navy, after the expiration of the enlistment, until the return of such person to the United States, shall be understood and construed to authorize and provide for the detention of such person until the arrival of the vessel in which he shall be so detained at a port of the United States, and until he shall have received his regular discharge by order of the Secretary of the Navy:Proviso. Provided, That such detention shall not exceed the term of thirty days from the time of the arrival of the said vessel in a port of the United States.
Naval officers clothed with powers of consuls in certain cases.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commanding officer of any vessel, squadron or fleet of the navy of the United States, when upon the high seas or in any foreign port where there is no resident consul of the United States, shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise all the powers of a consul in relation to mariners of the United States.
Approved, February 20, 1845.
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Chap. XVIII.—An Act to organize a new land district in the southern part of the State of Arkansas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Champagnole land district established. That the section of country in the southern part of the State of Arkansas, south of the base line, and east of the meridian, comprised within the following boundaries, to wit: between the line dividing ranges five and six on the east, the line dividing ranges twenty and twenty-one on the west, the dividing line between townships ten and eleven on the north, and the State line on the South, be made to form a separate district, to be called the Champagnole district, the seat of theOffice to be in Champagnole. land office for which shall be at the town of Champagnole, and be subject to removal by the President of the United States, whenever, in his judgment, it may be proper so to do.
Register and receiver to be appointed, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register and receiver of public moneys appointed for said land district, who shall