ACTS OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS
Dec. 22, 1837.
The Presidentauthorized tocause the publicvessels to cruiseupon the coastin the winter forthe relief of dis-tressed naviga-tors.
Statute II.Jan. 16, 1838.
The locations,&c., of JohnPope , of tensections of landgranted by Con-gress to Arkan-sas for a State-house,undcrau-thority vested inhim by an act of4th July. 1832,confirmed.
Act of July 4,1832, ch. 172.
Proviso.
Further pro-viso.
OF THE
Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City ofWashington, in the district of Columbia, on Monday, the 4th dayof December, 1837, and ended July 7, 183S.
Martin Van Buren, President. Richard M. Johnson , Vice Presi-dent of the United States, and President of the Senate. James K.Polk, Speaker of the House of Representatives .
STATUTE II.
Chap. I .—Jin Ad to authorize the President of the United Slates to cause thepublic vessels to cruise upon the coast in the winter season and to relieve dis-tressed navigators .
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 to cause any suitable num-ber of public vessels, adapted to the purpose, to cruise upon the coast,in the severe portion of the season, when the public service will allowof it, and to afford such aid to distressed navigators as their circum-stances and necessities may require; and such public vessels shall goto sea prepared fully to render such assistance.
Approved, December 22, 1837.
Chap. II .—An Ad to ratify and confirm certain official ads of John Pope , lateGovernor of Arkansas ,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the locations, sales,and transfers of John Pope, late Governor of Arkansas , of a quantityof the public land, not exceeding ten sections, (or six thousand fourhundred acres,) which was granted by Congress to Arkansas to build aState-house at Little Rock, the seat of Government of Arkansas , tosundry citizens of Arkansas , in pursuance of an authority vested in himby an act of Congress of the fourth day of July, in the year eighteenhundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby, ratified and con-firmed : Provided said location, sales, and transfers, were in conformityto legal subdivisions, be those divisions fractional quarter sections ornot: And provided, also, That the gross amount of acres of land thuslocated, sold, and transferred, for the purpose aforesaid, does not exceedsix thousand four hundred acres; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to cause patents to issue to said pur-chasers, their heirs, or their legal representatives, for the late Governor’sseveral locations, sales, and transfers, whenever the applications areproperly made by said purchasers or their legal representatives.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the northeast and southwestquarters of section twenty-seven, township eighteen south, range onewest, the southeast quarter of section twenty-eight, same township and
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