TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 20, 22, 23. 1831.
Chap. XX. —An Act to repeal the charges imposed on passports and clearances.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That, so much of the act ofthe first of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-sis, entitled“ An act providing passports for the ships and vessels of the UnitedStates, ” as imposes a charge of ten dollars for passports, and of four dol-lars for a clearance, to any ship or vessel bound on a voyage to anyforeign country, be, and the same is hereby repealed, to take effect fromand after the thirty-first day of March of the present year.
Approved, February 12, 1831.
Chap. XXII. —An Act authorizing the sale of a tract of land therein named.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty ofthe President of the United States to offer at public sale, as soon as maybe, the south-west, north-west, and north-east quarters of section numbertwenty-five, of township number six, in range number one west, in theCincinnati district, under the same rules and regulations that govern thesale of other public lands of the United States .
Approved, February 12, 1831.
Chap. XXIII. —An Act to amend the act granting “ certain relinquished and un-appropriated lands to the state of Alabama , for the purpose of improving thenavigation of the Tennessee, Qiosa, Cahawba , and Blackwarrior rivers,” ap-proved the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be law-ful for the state of Alabama , by the board of canal commissionersappointed by her for that purpose, to contract for and construct that partof the canal round the Muscle shoals , beginning at Campbell’s ferry, andrunning up the river to Lamb’s ferry, before they contract for, or com-plete that part of the said contemplated canal between Campbell’s ferryand Florence; any thing in the act to which this is an amendment to thecontrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theengineers of the United States who have this matter in charge, to furnishto said board of commissioners, as soon as practicable, a plan of thatsection of the canal above contemplated first to be executed, connectingit with the river at or near to Campbell’s ferry, and at the most eligiblepoint at, or immediately below Lamb’s ferry, on the cheapest practicableplan, in conformity with said original act, to be approved by the Presi-dent of the United States .
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the section of said canal aboveLamb’s ferry, shall, by said engineers, be so planned as to connect itwith the deep water in the river at or above Lamb’s ferry; and the sec-tion below Campbell’s ferry, shall, in like manner, be connected withthe deep water at or below said last-mentioned ferry.
Approved, February 12, 1831.
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