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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 31,32. 1833.
1832,authorizedto purchase.
Occupants priorto October 31,1831,authorizedto purchase.
Proviso.
Term of pay-ment extended.
Act of June 7,1.833, ch. 126.
Invalid pen-sioners not em-braced in 2dsection of theformer act.
Appropriation.
who, on or before the thirty-first day of October, in the year eighteenhundred and thirty-two, were in the actual occupancy and cultivation ofthe same, or any part thereof, shall, on paying into the treasury one dol-lar and twenty-five cents the acre previous to the fifteenth of May, onethousand eight hundred and thirty-four, receive a patent for his or herallotment or purchase: Provided, The register of the land office for thedistrict in which the lands lie, shall be satisfied of the validity of thepurchase.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons in actual settlementand cultivation, before or on the thirty-first day of October, one thousandeight hundred and thirty-one, upon any of the lands referred to by theact to which this is an amendment, and not disposed of by the first sec-tion of this act, or any former act of Congress , shall, on proof of suchsettlement and cultivation, and on paying into the treasury of the UnitedStates , within six months after the passage of this act, one dollar andtwenty-five cents per acre, receive a patent for one hundred and sixtyacres: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as toalter or repeal the third section of the above-recited act.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act of whichthis is an amendment as requires that payment shall be made previousto the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, be, and thesame is hereby, extended to the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hun-dred and thirty-four.
Approved, February 19, 1833.
Chap. XXXI. —An Act to amend an act, entitled “ An act supplementary to the actfor the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution.’’ ’
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the second section ofthe act, entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certainsurviving officers and soldiers of the revolution,” approved the seventhday of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, shall not beconstrued to embrace invalid pensioners; and that the pensions of invalidsoldiers shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them underthe said act.
Approved, February 19, 1833.
Chap. XXXII. —An Act for the further improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of thepublic buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to alter theplan for the improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue, as provided for by an actpassed the twenty-fifth day of May, one thousand eight hundred andthirty-two, by causing that portion of the avenue lying between the roaddirected to he Macadamized and the side pavements, to be graduated andcovered with stone, on the Macadam’s plan, in place of gravel, providedfor by said act; also by extending the foot pavements not less- than five anda half feet on each side, and forming side drains, not less than four anda half feet wide; and further, by setting a line of curbs of granite, eightinches thick, on each side of that part of the avenue between the Capitolsquare and the President’s square, with suitable returns at the crossstreets, and Macadamizing the cross streets fifty feet on each side of theMacadamized cover of the avenue.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted., Tha4 to carry into effect the pro-