ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS

OF THE

UNITED STATES,

Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City ofWashington, in the District of Columbia , on Monday, the fifth dayof December, 1831, and ended July sixteenth, 1832.

Andrew Jackson, President; J. C. Calhoun , Vice President of theUnited States and President of the Senate ; Andrew Stevenson,Speaker of the House of Representatives .

Statute I.

STATUTE I.

Jan. 19, 1832.

State autho-rized to sell.

Proceeds, howto be applied.

Chap. I .—An Act to authorize the state of Illinois , to sell twenty thousand acresof the saline lands in said state.

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 authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of, twenty thousandacres (in addition to the thirty thousand acres heretofore authorized to besold) of the lands granted to said state for the use and support of thesalt works, known by the name of the “ Ohio Saline,” in the county ofGallatin, in said state; the said twenty thousand acres of land to beselected and sold, and the proceeds thereof applied in such manner asthe general assembly of Illinois have directed, or hereafter may direct.

Approved, January 19,1832.

Statute X.

Jan. 23, 1832.

Act of May29, 1830, ch.

208.

Purchasersunder the actmay assign theircertificates ofpurchase, &c.

Chap. IX.— An Act supplementary to an act to grant pre-emption rights to set-tlers on public lands, (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the passageof this act, all persons who have purchased under an act, entitled “ Anact to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,” approvedthe twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, mayassign and transfer their certificates of purchase, or final receipts, andpatents may issue in the name of such assignee, any thing in the actaforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, January 23,1832.

Statute I.

Jan. 23, 1832.

Patents maybe issued to thepresent owner.

Chap. X.— An Act to direct the manner of issuing patents on confirmed landclaims in the territory of Florida .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That all patents that are, or

(a) Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to pre-emption of public lands. Act of May29, 1S30, ch. 208.

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