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may be, by law, directed to be issued on private land claims confirmedby the commissioners of private land claims, and by the several acts ofCongress approving their reports and confirming the titles to lands inthe territory of Florida , shall be, and they are hereby, required to beissued to the confirmees, or to the assignee, or present owner, wherethe land has been sold or transferred since the confirmation of thetitle; and it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general landoffice, upon the production of satisfactory proof of the death of theconfirmee, or upon the production of a regular chain of title from theconfirmee, to cause the patent to be issued to the heirs, and legal re-presentatives, or to the assignees of the confirmee, as the case may be.Approved, January 23, 1832.

Chap. XV .—An Act to alter the time of holding the spring term of the CircuitCourt of the United States for the Southern District of New York .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and afterthe first day of March next, a term of the Circuit Court of the UnitedStates for the Southern District of New York , shall commence and beheld at the place fixed by law for holding said Court , on the first Mon-day of April in each and every year; and that, from and after said firstday of March, the term of said Court, now required by law to be heldon the last Monday in May in each year, shall be abolished.

Approved, February 10, 1832.

Chap. XXV .—An Act to provide for the payment of arrearages in the naval ser-vice , chargeable to the enumerated contingent prior to the first day of January,,one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America, in Congress assembled, That the sum of eightythousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of anymoney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be applied, underthe direction of the Secretary of the Navy , in the payment of arrear-ages connected with the naval service, and chargeable to the contin-gent enumerated prior to January the first, one thousand eight hundredand thirty-two, and which have been or may be approved and passedby the proper accounting officers.

Approved, February 24, 1832.

Chap. XXVI .—An Act making appropriations for the revolutionary and otherpensioners of the United States , for the year one thousand eight hundred andthirty-two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America, in Congress assembled, That the followingsums be appropriated for the pensioners of the United States , for theyear one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two :

For the revolutionary pensioners, nine hundred and eighty-seventhousand, five hundred and four dollars.

For the invalid pensioners, in addition to the sum of one hundredand forty thousand five hundred and thirty-two dollars in the treasury,one hundred and sixty-five thousand and thirty-nine dollars.

For pensions to widows and orphans, three thousand dollars.Approved, February 24, 1832.

Statute I.Feb. 10, 1832.

Term to be heldon the 1st Mon-day of April.1839, ch. 81.

Statute I.Feb. 24, 1832,[Obsolete.]

$80,000 appro-priated.

Statute 1.Feb. 24, 1832.[Obsolete.]

Revolutionary

pensioners.

Invalid pen-sioners.

Widows andorphans.

Chap. XXVII. — An Act making appropriations for fortifications for the year onethousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America, in Congress assembled, That the followingsums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, for fortifications for theyear one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz :

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