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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 161, 162. 1830.

Abstract ofthe same.

Clerk to betransferred.

Attorney gen-eral to advise,&c.

Additional sa-lary, 500 dolls.

Salary of so-licitor, $3500.

Clerk, $1150.Messenger,500 dollars.Postage free.

3500 dollarsappropriated.

Statute I.May 29, 1830.

Certain landsvested, &c.

Act of Feb.27,1841,ch.12.

Act of March2, 1S27, ch. 56.

Statute I.May 29, 1830.

Judge’s salary,800 dollars.

(a) An act toand complete tl

intelligible abstract thereof, showing the names of the parties in each suit,the cause of action, the time of its commencement, and such other mat-ters as may be necessary to full information respecting the same, to beprepared and laid before Congress at the commencement of the nextsession.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, Thai the Secretary of the Treasurybe, and he hereby is, authorized to transfer one of the clerks now employ-ed in the office of the fifth auditor, to the office of solicitor of the trea-sury ; and the said clerk shall continue to receive the same salary as atpresent.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theattorney general of the United States , at the request of said solicitor, toadvise with and direct the said solicitor as to the manner of conductingthe suits, proceedings, and prosecutions aforesaid; and the attorney gene-ral shall receive, in addition to his present salary, the sum of five hun-dred dollars per annum.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the solicitor of the treasuryshall receive an annual salary of three thousand five hundred dollars, andbe authorized to employ, with the approbation of the Secretary of theTreasury, one clerk, who shall receive a salary of eleven hundred andfifty dollars per annum: and one messenger, with a salary of five hundreddollars per annum. All letters to and from the solicitor of the treasury,relating to the duties and business of his office, shall be transmitted bymail free of postage.

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousandfive hundred dollars be, and the same hereby is, appropriated for the pay-ment of the said salaries for the present year; to be paid out of any mo-ney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, May 29, 1830.

Chap. CLXI .—An Act to vest in the state of Indiana certain lands within thelimits of the canal grant. ( a )

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That there be vested in thestate of Indiana twenty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-eightacres and seventy-eight hundredths of the public lands, to be selectedby the canal commissioners of said state, from the alternate sections re-served to the United States in the division made under “An act to granta certain quantity of land to the state of Indiana , for the purpose of aid-ing said state in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Wabash river with those of Lake Erie, ” approved March second, one thousandeight hundred and twenty-seven, which shall be in lieu of the aforesaidquantity heretofore sold by the United States , permanently reserved bytreaty to individuals, and located by individual grants before the divisionaforesaid, and which would otherwise have become the property of thesaid state in virtue of the act above referred to; the selections aforesaidto be made and reported by the commissioners to the proper land offices,before the reserved sections aforesaid shall be offered for sale.

Approved, May 29, 1830.

Chap. CLXII .—An Act relating to the orphans' courts in the District ofColumbia .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That, from and after the pas-

rant certain lands to the state of Indiana , the better to enable the said state to extendWabash and Erie canal, from Terre Haute to the Ohio river, March 3, 1845, ch. 42.