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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 182. 1832.

Certificates tobe as cash in

payment of pub-lic lands.

Commissionerand registers tobe governed byprovisions of actof May 23,1828,ch. 71.

Excess paid onlandsrelinquish-ed, when it ex-ceeds $10, to becertified,and re-ceived in pay-ment for publiclands.

Duplicate oflost or destroy-ed certificate.

1828, ch. 71.

upon application, to the person or persons legally entitled to the benefitof payments made previous to such reversion or sale, his, her or theirlegal representatives or assigns, a certificate for the amount so paid andnot refunded, which shall be received and credited as cash in paymentof any public lands that may hereafter be sold by the United States , inthe state or territory in which such original purchase was made.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of thecommissioner of the general land office and of the registers as afore-said, to conform to, and be governed by, the provisions of the actaforesaid, to which this is an amendment, passed the twenty-third day ofMay, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight as aforesaid.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That where the lands have beenrelinquished to the United States under the provisions of the act ofsecond March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, as aforesaid,or other acts of Congress , and the money paid thereon has, in part, beenapplied in the payment of other lands, if the payment so made on landsretained be less than the amount paid on the relinquished lands, whensuch excess exceeds the sum of ten dollars, it shall be the duty of theregister of the land office where the transfer of payment was made, toissue a certificate for such excess to the person or persons entitled theretoand in the manner pointed out in the first section of this act; whichcertificate shall be received in payment of the purchase of the publiclands as pointed out in said section.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That on proof being made, satisfac-tory to the Secretary of the Treasury, that any certificate issued underthis act, or that has been, or may be, issued under the said act of thetwenty-third of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred andtwenty-eight, has been lost or destroyed by accident, he is hereby autho-rized to issue to the legal owner thereof, a duplicate of such original cer-tificate, which shall be, in all respects, as available to the owner as theoriginal certificate would have been.

Approved, July 9, 1832.

Statute I.

July 9, 1832.

District courtto be held onthe fourth Mon-day of May, an-nually.

Chap. CLXXX1I. —An Act to alter the times cf holding the district court of'theUnited States for the state of Illinois , (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the term of the districtcourt of the United States for the district of Illinois , which is now directedby law to be held on the first Monday of May, shall hereafter be heldon the fourth Monday of May in each year; and all process which mayhave issued, or which may hereafter issue, returnable on the said first Mon-day of May, as heretofore directed, shall be held returnable, and bereturned, on the fourth Monday of May in each year.

Approved, July 9, 1832.

(a) Acts relating to the district court of the United States in the territory and state of Illinois .

An act regulating and defining the duties of the United States’ judges for the territory of Illinois .March 3, 1815, ch. 98.

An act supplemental to “An act regulating and defining the duties of the United States ’ judges forthe territory of Illinois, ” &c. April 29, 1816, ch. 154.

An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the state of Indiana .March 3, 1817, ch. 100.

An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts. February 19, 1831, ch. 28.

An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act to amend the judicial system of the United States .”March 3, 1837, ch. 34, sec. 3.

An act to change the times of holding the circuit and district courts of the United States in theseventh circuit. March 10, 1838, ch. 33.