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such company as shall be organized by them, for a canal, and for noother purpose whatever.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the said territory shallnot survey, and direct by law, said canal to be opened, and furnishthe commissioner of the general land office a map thereof, within twoyears from and after the date of this act, or if the said canal be not com-pleted suitably for navigation within five years thereafter, or if said landhereby granted shall ever cease to be used and occupied for the purposeof constructing and keeping in repair a canal suitable for navigation, thereservation and grant aforesaid shall be void and of no effect: Provided,That nothing in this act contained, or that shall be done in pursuancethereof, shall be deemed to imply any obligation, on the part of the UnitedStates , to appropriate money to defray the expense of surveying or open-ing said canal: And provided likewise, That the said canal when com-pleted by said territory, or by an incorporated company under the authorityof the same, shall be, and for ever remain, a public highway for the useof the government of the United States , free from any toll or chargewhatever, for any property of the United States , or persons in theirservice on public business passing through the same.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every section of land throughwhich said canal route may pass, shall be, and the same is hereby, reservedfrom sale under the direction of the government of the United States ,until hereafter specially directed by law; and the said territory, or com-pany incorporated by them, are hereby authorized, without waste, to useany materials on the public lands adjacent to said canal that may benecessary to its construction.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said territory, or any incor-porated company under their authority, be, and they are hereby, author-ized to open through the public lands of the United States , a canal fromMatanzas to Halifax river, in East Florida, upon the same conditions,restrictions and limitations, in every respect, as are prescribed in the fore-going provisions of this act; and the same lands shall be reserved, in likemanner, for the objects specified, and for no other.

Approved, March 2, 1831.

Chap. LXXV.— Jin Act to authorize the state of Illinois to surrender a townshipof land granted to said state for a seminary of learning, and to locate otherlands in lieu thereof.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the state of Illinois be,and is hereby, authorized, to relinquish to the United States , townshipnumber five, north of range number one west, situate in the county ofFayette, in said state, heretofore granted to the said state for the use ofa seminary of learning, and to locate upon the public lands within saidstate, the sale of which is authorized by law, one entire township ofland or a quantity of land equal thereto, in tracts of not less than thequarter of a section.

Approved, March 2, 1831.

Chap. LXXVI.— An Act to establish ports of delivery at port Pontchartrain andDelaware city, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby isestablished at port Pontchartrain, on lake Pontchartrain, a port of delivery;that a surveyor shall be appointed to reside at said port: that all ships and

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Adjacent lands.

Other canalroute granted.

Statute II.

March 2, 1831.

Land grantedmay be relin-quished andother land lo-cated.

Statute II.March 2, 1831.

Port Pontchar-train.