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Arrangementto be made withFrance for pay-ment of doublepensions to per-sons woundedand relatives ofthose killed.
Appropriation.
Statute I.June 28, 1834.
Statute I.June 28, 1834.
Sales to be ad-vertised not lessthan three, normore than sixmonths.
Statute I.June 28, 1834.
Appropriationsfor harbours andrivers.
Kennebunk
river.
TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 101,102,103. 1834.
proper to manifest the sensibility, with which the disastrous accident isviewed by the government of the United States , therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the Uni-ted States be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to enter intoan arrangement with the government of France for the payment of anannual sum of twice the amount receivable by the navy pensioners ofthe same or a similar class to the wounded who survive, and to such rela-tives of those who were unhappily killed as aforesaid, as the Presidentmay deem it expedient to include in this provision, which said sum shallbe paid on the earliest day practicable after the proposed arrangementshall be concluded, and on the same day in each year thereafter duringthe respective lives of the persons to whom granted.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum of money sufficient toenable the President to carry the aforesaid arrangement into effect, beand the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in thetreasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 28, 1834.
Chap. Cl. —Jin Act to authorize the correction of erroneous selections of landgranted to the state of Indiana, for the purpose of constructing the Michigan road.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the state of Indiana be,and hereby is authorized to select other lands in lieu of sections num-bered eighteen and twenty-nine, and fractional section numbered thirty-two, in township thirty-seven north, of range one, east, heretofore selected,to be applied to the purpose of constructing the Michigan road in In-diana ; the selections authorized by this act to be made on any unsoldland, within the district where the above-mentioned lands lie, and shallbe applied to the same object, and the first named selections are herebydeclared void and of no effect.
Approved, June 28, 1834.
Chap. CII. —An Act limiting the times of advertising the sales of the public lands.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That hereafter the public landswhich shall be exposed to public sale by order of the President of theUnited States , shall be advertised for a period of not less than three normore than six months prior to the day of sale, any thing in any law here-tofore enacted to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, June 28, 1834.
Chap. CIII .—An Act making additional appropriations for certain harbours, andremoving obstructions in the mouths of certain rivers, for the year one thousandeight hundred and thirty-four.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappro-priated money in the treasury, for carrying on and completing certainworks heretofore commenced, viz :
For piers at the entrance of Kennebunk river, ten thousand three hun-dred dollars.