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penses of a de-legation of theSeminole In-dians to explorecountry west ofthe Mississippi .
Ante, p. 519.
Transfer ofappropriation.
the amount appropriated for the purchase of provisions for the relief ofthe Seminole Indians, by the act making appropriations for the Indiandepartment for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, todefray the expenses of a delegation of the said Indians to explore thecountry west of the Mississippi , for the purpose of deciding upon aremoval thither; and so much of the appropriation for the payment oflabourers in the ordnance department, as will not be required in conse-quence of the new organization of the ordnance department, shall betransferred to the pay department, to enable the latter to meet the addi-tional expenditures to which that organization subjects it.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the districtpaymasters of the army of the United States , in addition to the paymentsrequired to be made by them to the regular troops, to make payment toall other troops in the service of the United States , whenever requiredthereto by order of the President.
Approved, July 14, 1832.
Statute I.July 14, 1832.
Act of June 30,1834, ch. 155.
Proviso.
Chap. CCXXV.— Jin Act providing for the purchase by the United States of the
rights of the Washington Bridge Company, in the District of Columbia , and
for the erection of a public bridge on the site thereof.
Whereas it is represented to this present Congress , that the Wash-ington Bridge Company are willing and desirous to sell, convey, andtransfer to the United States , the bridge by them owned, in its presentcondition, with all their rights, property, and privileges, as a company,under the existing laws, including their lands, piers, abutments, roads,and ways, as well as all materials by them owned at the site of the saidbridge, whether worked up in the construction or re-construction of thesame or not, for the sum of twenty thousand dollars:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That provided the said Wash-ington Bridge Company shall, at a lawful meeting of the stockholdersthereof, agree to convey, and shall actually convey to the United States ,the said bridge as it now is, with all the estate, right, title, and interest,either in law or equity, by them owned, as a company under existinglaws, in said bridge, with its piers, abutments, roads and ways, togetherwith all the materials by them now owned as a company, at the saidbridge and ways, either worked up or not, in the construction or re-con-struction of the said bridge, and all other their rights, privileges, andimmunities as such company, within two calendar months from the pass-ing of this act; which conveyance the said company is hereby authorizedand empowered to make, by deed, under their corporate seal, to be de-posited with the Secretary of the Treasury of the United [States;] thenthe said secretary shall be, and he hereby is, authorized and required topay to the said company the sum of twenty thousand dollars, out of anymoneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 2. And. be it further enacted, That, upon the execution of suchconveyance by the said company, the President of the United States be,and he is hereby authorized to cause to be erected upon the site of thepresent bridge, a good and sufficient bridge across the river Potomac , ofsuch materials, and upon such plan of construction as he shall approveand direct: Provided, That the said bridge be so constructed as to havea draw therein suitable for the safe passage of vessels of the largestdimensions, capable of navigating the Potomac river above the saidbridge, not less than sixty-six feet at the least; and, also, on each sideof the said draw, and at a suitable distance therefrom, an arch of suffi-cient elevation to admit the passage under the same of an ordinarysteamboat; which said draw and arch shall be at the Virginia channel