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Act of March3, 1819, ch. 99.
Act ofMay 8,1822, ch. 128.
Power givento the registerand receiver.
Proviso.
Statute II.March 3, 1827.[Obsolete.]Accountingofficers of theTreasury De-partment to li-quidate theclaims of thestate of Penn-sylvania againstthe U. S.
of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled“ An act for adjusting the claims to lands, and establishing land offices,in the district east of the Island of New Orleans, ” and which have notbeen reported to Congress , or whose claims have not heretofore been pre-sented to the said commissioners, or to the register and receiver, actingas commissioners, or whose claims have been acted upon, but additionalevidence adduced, be allowed until the first day of September, eighteenhundred and twenty-seven, to present their titles and claims, and theevidence in support of the same to the register and receiver of the landoffice at St. Stephen’s, in the state of Alabama , whose powers and duties,in relation to the same, shall, in all respects, be governed by the provi-sions of the acts before recited, and of the act of the eighth of May,eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled “ An act supplementary to theseveral acts for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices,in the district east of the Island of New Orleans .”
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said register and receivershall have power to receive and examine such titles and claims, and, forthat purpose, shall hold their sessions at the city of Mobile ; they shallgive suitable notice of the time and place of their sessions, but may ad-journ from time to time, and meet at such other places as may be neces-sary, or may best suit the convenience of the claimants, on giving pro-per notice of the time of their adjournments. And the said registerand receiver shall have power to appoint a clerk, who shall be a personcapable of translating the French and Spanish languages, and who shallperform the duty of translator, and such other duty as may be requiredby the said register and receiver, and the said register and receiver shalleach be allowed, as a compensation for their services, in relation to saidclaims, and for the services to be performed under the provisions of theseveral acts to which this is a supplement, at the rate of one thousand dol-lars per annum ; and the clerk at the rate of one thousand dollars perannum ; which several sums of money shall be paid out of any moneysin the treasury not otherwise appropriated : Provided, That no morethan one year’s compensation shall be thus allowed to either the registeror receiver, or clerk: and the payment of the whole of the aforesaidcompensation shall be withheld by the Secretary of the Treasury , untila report, to be approved by him, shall have been made to him, of the per-formance of the services for which the same is allowed.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the register and receiver ofthe land office at Augusta, in the state of Mississippi , be, and they are here-by, required to separate, so far as practicable, from the titles to lands inMississippi , all such papers or claims, or evidence of claims, for anytract of land or town lot, lying in the state of Alabama , and certify thesame generally to the register of the land office at St. Stephen’s, in thestate of Alabama ; and, on proper application, to deliver them over tothe said register, whose duty it shall be to receive the same, and preservethem among the records of his office.
Approved, March 3, 1827.
Chap. LXXIX.— An Act authorizing the payment of interest to the state ofPennsylvania .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting offi-cers of the Treasury Department be, and they are hereby, authorized anddirected to liquidate and settle the claim of the state of Pennsylvania against the United States , for interest upon loans or moneys borrowed,and actually expended by her, for the use and benefit of the United States ,during the late war with Great Britain .