APPENDIX.
No. I.
Proclamation issued by the President of the United States, under the act of June 7, 1836, chap. 86.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
Preamble.Whereas, by an act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1836, it was enacted that when the Indian title to all the lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river should be extinguished, the jurisdiction over said land should be ceded by the said act to the State of Missouri, and the western boundary of said State should be then extended to the Missouri river, reserving to the United States the original right of soil in said lands, and of disposing of the same; and whereas, it was in and by the said act provided that the same should not take effect until the President should, by proclamation, declare that the Indian title to said lands had been extinguished, nor until the State of Missouri should have assented to the provisions of the said act:
And whereas, an act was passed by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, on the 16th of December, 1836, expressing the assent of the said State to the provisions of the said act of Congress, a copy of which act of the General Assembly, duly authenticated, has been officially communicated to this Government, and is now on file in the Department of State:
The President declares that the Indian title has been extinguished.Now therefore, I, Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America, do, by this my proclamation, declare and make known, that the Indian title to all the said lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river, has been extinguished, and that the said act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1836, takes effect from the date hereof.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington, this 28th day of March, A. D. 1837, and of the Independence of the United States of America the sixty-first.
MARTIN VAN BUREN.
By the President:
No. II.
BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
Act of Gen. Ass. of Va., passed 27th Feb. 1829.“An act further to amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company―Passed February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine.”
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal company may in lieu of bridges substitute boats, &c.“Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company be, and they are hereby empowered, whenever it shall be, in the judgment of the president and directors thereof, expedient, in lieu of bridges, to substitute boats, properly fitted, for the transportation of persons, wagons and carriages of every description, across the canal, whenever a public or private road shall render a bridge or ferry necessary, and such road cannot be conveniently conducted under the canal.
President and Directors may, with consent of company, sell, &c. any surplus water.Be it further enacted, That the said president and directors, acting in behalf of the said company, and with the consent and approbation thereof, expressed at some general meeting thereof, in which a majority in interest of said stock is represented, may sell, let, or otherwise dispose of, any surplus water in any part of the said canal, or of any feeder or reservoir thereof, if they shall be of opinion that no injury will result therefrom to the navigation of the canal.
