United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 89
Chap. LXXXIX.—An Act to authorize the President of the United States to cause the public surveys to be connected with the line of demarcation between the states of Indiana and Illinois.
Lands to be surveyed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and hereby is authorized and required to cause the public lands lying along the line of demarcation between the states of Indiana and Illinois, as established by the joint sanction of those states, to be surveyed in connection with said line on either side thereof.
Compensation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized to allow for the service to be performed under this act, such further compensation, in addition to [the] regular price now authorized by law, as to him shall appear to be just and reasonable, to be paid out of the regular appropriation for surveying public lands north-west of the Ohio river.
Approved, March 2, 1833.