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became entitled, under the contract entered iuto on the eighth day ofJanuary eighteen hundred and nineteen, by the Secretary of the Trea-sury, on the part of the United States , and Charles Villar, agent of theTombecbee Assocation, in pursuance of “An act to set apart and dis-pose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivationof the vine and olive,” approved third March, eighteen hundred andseventeen, to an allotment or share of the four sections of land reservedfor the small allotments, and designated as sections, seven, eighteen,nineteen, and thirty in township eighteen, range three east, their heirs,devisees, or assigns, who shall have complied with the conditions ofsettlement and cultivation on such allotment, as required by said con-tract, or shall have been in the actual settlement and cultivation of hisor her allotment within said four sections, or a part thereof, before oron the thirty-first day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-two, asprovided by the act of the nineteenth day of February, eighteen hun-dred and thirty-three, shall, on producing to the register and receiverof the laud district in which said lands are situated, satisfactory evi-dence of title to such allotment, and of settlement aud cultivation onthe same as aforesaid, and paying one dollar and twenty-five cents peracre for the land, receive a patent for the same: Provided. Sucli proofshall be filed and payment made within six months from the passage ofthis act: And provided further, That the expense of surveying anysuch allotment shall be defrayed by the person or persons claiming thesame.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any remainder of said foursections not disposed of by the first section of this act shall be subjectto entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, by the trustees ofthe Demopolis Female Academy, in trust for the use and benefit of saidinstitution.
Approved, March 2, 1837.
Chap. XXX. —An Act making appropriations for the naval service, for the yearone thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums beappropriated for the naval service, for the year one thousand eight hun-dred and thirty-seven, in addition to the unexpended balances of formerappropriations, to wit:
For pay of commissioned, warrant and petty officers, and of seamen,two million four hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred and eighty-six dollars;
- To enable the President, provided he should deem it necessary, tooffer a bounty for the purpose of promoting the enlistment of seamen,seventy-two thousand dollars;
For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civilestablishments at the several yards, sixty-nine thousand four hundredand seventy dollars;
For provisions, seven hundred and sixty-two thousand eight hundredand sixty-five dollars;
For repairs of vessels in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tearof vessels in commission, one million two hundred and fifty thousanddollars;
For medicines and surgical instruments, hospital stores, and otherexpenses, on account of the sick, thirty-nine thousand dollars;
For improvements and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Ports-mouth, New Hampshire , forty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars;
For improvements and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charles-town, Massachusetts , one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars;
meats undercontract by Sec.Trees, withClias. Villar,shall receivepatents on cer-tain conditions.
A ct ol' March3, 1817, ch. 61.
Act of Feb.19,1833, ch. 30.
Proviso.
Further pro-viso.
Remaindersubject to entry,for use of De-mopolis FemaleAcademy.
Statute II.March 3, 1837.[Obsolete.]
Pay of navy.
Bounty for en-listments.
Pay of super-intendents, &c.at yards.
Provisions.
Repairs of ves-sels, &c.
Medicines andsurgical instru-ments, &c.
Portsmouthnavy yard.
Charlestownnavy yard.