TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch.89,90,91,92. 1833.
Chap. LXXXIX .—An Act to authorize the President of the United States tocause the public surveys to be connected with the line if demarcation between thestates of Indiana and Illinois .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of theUnited States be, and hereby is authorized and required to cause thepublic lands lying along the line of demarcation between the states of In-diana and Illinois , as established by the joint sanction of those states, to besurveyed in connection with said line on either side thereof.
Sec. 2. And be. it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasurybe, and hereby is, authorized to allow for the service to be performedunder this act, such further compensation, in addition to [the] regularprice now authorized by law, as to him shall appear to be just and reason-able, to be paid out of the regular appropriation for surveying publiclands north-west of the Ohio river.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
Chap. XC. —An Ad further to extend the powers of the board if canal com-missioners for the improvement of the Tennessee river in the state of Alabama .
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the commissioners ap-pointed by the state of Alabama to superintend the improvement of theTennessee river, and their successors in office, be, and they are herebyauthorized to suspend the improvement of so much of said river as isbelow Florence, in said state, and every other part of the same, until thecanal and other improvements, between Lamb’s ferry and Campbell’sferry, shall have been completed ; any thing in the act entitled “An actto grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the state ofAlabama for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee,Coosa, Cahawba , and Black Warrior rivers,” approved twenty-third ofMay, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, to the contrary not-withstanding.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
Chap. XCI .—An Act prescribing the mode by which patents for public lands shallbe signed and executed.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for thePresident of the United States , by and with the advice and consent ofthe Senate , to appoint a secretary, with a salary of one thousand fivehundred dollars per annum, whose duty it shall be, under the directionof the President, to sign in his name, and for him, all patents for landssold or granted under the authority of the United States .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and bein force until the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred andthirty-seven, and no longer.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
Chap. XCII. —An Act to revive the act entitled “ An act supplementary to theseveral laws for the sale of \the~\ public lands."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That in all cases in whichpersons were settlers or occupants of the public lands prior to the first
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Statute II.March 2,1833.
Lands to besurveyed.
Compensation.
Commissionersto suspend im-provement ofTennessee ri-ver.
Act of May 23,1828, eh. 75.
Limitation ofthe act.
Settlers priorto May 1, 1832,permitted to en-ter, &c.