TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 247. Res. 1. 1834.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, on failure of either or all ofthe corporations aforesaid to comply with the requirements of the secondsection of this act, it shall not thereafter be lawful for the corporation orcorporations so failing, to issue any promissory note or bill of a less de-nomination than ten dollars.

Approved, June 30, 1834.

Chap. COXLVII .—An Act granting land to certain exiles from Poland .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby,granted to Lewis Banezakiewitz and his associates, being two hundredand thirty-five exiles from Poland, transported to the United States by theorders of the Emperor of Austria , thirty-six sections of land, to beselected by them, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury,in any three adjacent townships of the public lands which have been, ormay hereafter be surveyed, situated within the limits of the state ofIllinois or the territory of Michigan .

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theSecretary of the Treasury to obtain an authenticated list of the namesof the aforesaid two hundred and thirty-five Polish exiles, and cause thesame to be filed and recorded in the office of the commissioner of thegeneral land office.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That immediately after the saidthirty-six sections of land shall be surveyed and located in the mannerprescribed in the first section of this act, it shall be the duty of the Sec-retary of the Treasury to cause the said thirty-six sections to be dividedinto equal parts among the said two hundred and thirty-five Poles, by lot,under such regulations as the said Secretary may prescribe.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for eachand every of the said grantees to enter upon and take possession of therespective lots of land assigned to them and each of them; and, afterthe expiration of ten years, the said grantees, respectively, shall be en-titled to a patent for the lot of land assigned to them as aforesaid: Pro-vided, That the said grantees shall, during the said term of ten years,without intermission, actually inhabit and cultivate the said township ofland in the ratio of one settlement for every five hundred acres thereof;and, on due proof of such habitation and cultivation to the Secretary ofthe Treasury, and of the payment into the proper land office of theminimum price per acre, at the time of such payment, within the saidterm of ten years, patents shall be granted as aforesaid, and not other-wise.

Approved, June 30, 1834.

RESOLUTIONS.

I. Resolution providing for the distribution of the diplomatic correspondence of theUnited Slates, from the peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, to the fourthof March, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Statesof America, in Congress assembled, That the copies of the “ Selection ofthe Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States , between the peaceof seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and the fourth of March, seven-teen hundred and eighty-nine,” published in virtue of an act of the fifthof May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, in continuation of the Diplo-matic Correspondence of the Revolution, be distributed and disposed of,

Notes less thanten dollars notto be issued, if2d section of actbe not compliedwith.

Statute I.June 30, 1834.

Thirty-six sec-tions of land inIllinois or Mi-chigan grantedto Polish exiles.

Names of thegrantees to berecorded in thegeneral land of-fice.

Land to be di-vided by lot, inequal portions.

Ten years’ oc-cupancy to en-title to patent.

Proviso.

June 19, 1834.

Library com-mittee to distri-bute copies ofDiplomatic Cor-respondence.

2832, ch. 74.