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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 163, 164. 1832.
Statute I.July 3, 1832.
Unlocated lotsin military dis-trict, in Ohio ,made liable toprivate sale.
Act of Feb. 11,1800, ch. 8.
Statute I.July 4, 1832.
Commissionersto be appointedto survey andlay out road.
Plats of sur-veys to be certi-fied and trans-mitted to Presi-dent ; if approv-ed, to be depo-sited, &c.
Proviso.
Pay of com-missioners andassistants.
Proviso.
Appropriation.
Estimates tobe made.Appropriation.
Chap. CLXIII .—An Act for the sale of the unlocated lots in the fifty quartertownships in the United States’ military district, in the state cf Ohio , reserved tosatisfy warrants granted to individuals far their military services.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the lots and fractionalparts of lots lying in the fifty quarter townships, reserved by an act ofCongress , passed the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hun-dred, and entitled “An act giving further time to the holders of militarywarrants to register and locate the same,” and which remain unlocated,shall, hereafter, be liable to be sold at private sale, in the respective landoffices in which they lie, in the same manner, and for the same sum peracre, as other lands of the United States lying in said districts, and un-disposed of.
Approved, July 3, 1832.
Chap. CLXIV .—An Act to authorize the surveying and laying out a road fromDetroit to the mouth of Grand river of Lake Michigan, in the Michigan terri-tory, and for the survey of canal routes in the territory of Florida .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the UnitedStates be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint three commissioners,who shall explore, survey, and mark, in the most eligible course, a roadfrom Detroit , westwardly, by way of Sciawasse, to tne mouth of Grandriver, in the territory of Michigan ; and said commissioners shall makeout accurate plats of such surveys, accompanied with field notes, andcertify and transmit the same to the President of the United States , who,if he approve of said surveys, shall cause the plats thereof to be depo-sited in the office of the Treasury of the United States , and the said roadshall be considered as established and accepted: Provided, That saidcommissioners shall be disinterested persons, not residents of any countythrough which said road may pass.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shalljeach, be entitled to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollarand fifty cents, for each and every day they shall be necessarily employedin the surveying, exploring, and marking of said road, and making theirreturns thereof: Provided, The whole expense thereof shall not exceedthe sum of three thousand five hundred dollars.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of compensatingthe said commissioners and their assistants, there shall be, and is hereby,appropriated, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, to be paidout of afly moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the UnitedStates be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be made, an accurateand minute survey of the country between the waters of St. Andrew’sbay and the river and bay of Chattahoocbie, and between Pensacola bayand Bon Secour, along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico , witha view to ascertain the practicability and cost of canals to connect saidbays and rivers, with notes, plans, observations, and opinions, of theengineers on each of said parts designated, with estimates of the cost ofeach; and, for the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing provi-sions, the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, ap-propriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwiseappropriated.
Approved, July 4, 1832.