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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cn. 86. 1830.
The Choctawtreaty, Oct. 11,1820.
1821, ch. 35.
1824, ch. 155.
1827, ch. 29.
treaty.
Choctaw andChickasawtreaty.
1823, ch. 27.
Gratuity todisbanded offi-cers.
Custom andwarehouse, Mo-bile.
182S, ch. 89.
Statute I.
May 5, 1830.
[Obsolete.]
Certain pur-chasers of landin Louisiana au-thorized to en-ter them.
Proviso: Thisprivilege re-stricted to landswhich have notbeen paid forand entered byany other per-sons, &c.
For the road from Pensacola to St. Augustine , five thousand threehundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-two cents.
For the road, called the King’s road, in Florida , two thousand dollars.
For carrying into effect a treaty with the Choctaw Indians, datedeleventh of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the balanceof the sum appropriated by the act of March third, one thousand eighthundred and twenty-one, re-appropriated by the act of May twenty-sixth,one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and again by an act ofMarch the second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, beingtwenty-one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars.
For carrying into effect the treaty with the Cherokee Indians, andextinguishing their claim to lands within the state of North Carolina , twothousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars nineteen cents.
For defraying the expenses of treating with the Choctaw and Chicka-saw Indians, for extinguishing their title to lands within the limits of thestate of Mississippi , one thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollarsseventy-nine cents.
For purchasing certain tracts of land within the state of Georgia ,reserved by treaties in fee to the Creeks, and to the Cherokee Indiansythebalance of the appropriation of fifty thousand dollars, made for thoseobjects by an act of March the third, one thousand eight hundred andtwenty-three, being nine thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars.
For gratuitous pay for disbanded officers and soldiers, includingtravelling allowances for the same, five hundred and forty dollars and tencents, being the unexpended balance of appropriations for those objectscarried to the surplus fund on the last day of the year one thousandeight hundred and twenty-six.
For the purpose hereinafter stated, to wit: the sum of eight thousanddollars, appropriated for the erection of a custom and warehouse atMobile, by act of May twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred andtwenty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, re-appropriated, and an addi-tional appropriation of eight thousand dollars to complete the same onan enlarged plan, be, and the same is hereby, made, to be paid out ofany unappropriated money in the treasury.
Approved, April 30, 1830.
Chap. LXXXVI .—An Act to authorize the registers of the several land offices inLouisiana , to receive entries of lands in certain cases, and give to the purchasersthereof certificates for the same.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnitcdStates of America, in Congress assembled, That in all cases where personshave purchased lands of the United States within the state of Louisiana ,and have paid in full therefor, and who have failed or omitted to enterthe same, the register of the land office of the district in which the landwas purchased shall, on presentation of the original receipt of the re-ceiver of said district by the original purchaser or purchasers of the land,his, her, or their heirs, cause an entry thereof to be made, and give tohim, her, or them a certificate for the same, specifying the time whenthe land was purchased, upon which a patent shall be issued as in othercases: Provided, however, That if, in the intermediate time between thepurchase and presentation of the said receipt, any of the said lands shallhave been paid for and entered by any other person or persons, ignorantof the former purchase, the said register shall not enter the same lands,but may permit the party to enter other lands in lieu thereof, of equalquantity, within the same district, which may be subject to entry, andshall give him, her, or them a certificate therefor, upon which a patentshall issue as in other cases.
Approved, May 5, 1830.