TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 16. 1841.
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hereby authorized to have the Sixth Census documents bound in a plainand substantial manner, the cost of which shall not exceed fifty centsper volume; and that the amount thereof shall be paid out of anymoney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawfulfor the marshal of the State of Maryland , and he is hereby required,under the direction of the Secretary of State, to cause the number ofinhabitants within Montgomery county , in the State aforesaid, to beagain taken according to the directions of the act to w hich this is asupplement, and the same to be returned before the first day of Decem-ber next, and when so taken and returned shall be considered as thecorrect enumeration of the inhabitants of the said county : Provided,That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such marshaland his assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid : Andprovided further, That no persons be included in the returns madeunder the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitantsof the district for which such returns shall be made on the first day ofJune, one thousand eight hundred and forty : And provided, also, Thatthe said corrected return shall not delay the printing of the Census:and that the said corrected return be printed by itself separately.
Approved, September 1, 1841.
Chap. XVI.— in Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands,and to grant pre-emption rights, {a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-dred and forty-one, there be allowed and paid to each of the States ofOhio, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ar-kansas, and Michigan, over and above what each of the said States isentitled to by the terms of the compacts entered into between them andthe United States , upon their admission into the Union, the sum of tenper centum upon the nett proceeds of the sales of the public lands,which, subsequent to the day aforesaid, shall be made within the limitsof each of said States respectively : Provided, That the sum so allowedto the said States, respectively, shall be in no wise affected or diminish-ed on account of any sums which have been heretofore, or shall behereafter, applied to the construction or continuance of the Cumberlandroad, but that the disbursements for the said road shall remain, as here-tofore, chargeable on the two per centum fund provided for by compactswith several of the said States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That after deducting the saidten per centum, and what, by the compacts aforesaid, has heretoforebeen allowed to the States aforesaid, the residue of the nett proceeds,which nett proceeds shall be ascertained by deducting from the grossproceeds all the expenditures of the year for the following objects :salaries and expenses on account of the General Land Office ; expensesfor surveying public lands; salaries and expenses in the surveyor general’soffices; salaries, commissions, and allowances to the registers and re-ceivers ; the five per centum to new States, of all the public lands of theUnited States , wherever situated, which shall be sold subsequent to thesaid thirty-first day of December, shall be divided among the twenty-sixStates of the Union and the District of Columbia , and the Territoriesof Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida , according to their respective federalrepresentative population as ascertained by the last census, to be appliedby the Legislatures of the said States to such purposes as the said Legis-latures may direct: Provided, That the distributive share to which the
Sixth censusdocuments tobe bound.
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Statute I.
Sept. 4, 1841.
Act of May 29,1830, ch. 208.
Certain Statesto be paid 10 percent, on nettproceeds ofsales of publiclands therein,&c.
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After deduct-ing said 10 percent. &-c. resi-due to be divi-ded among theStates , &c. ofthe Union;ho a .
To be appliedas the Legisla-tures may di-rect.
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CO See notes to the act of May 29,1830, chap. 208.