TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess.II. Ch. 17,18. 1845.
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titled “ An act providing for the sale of the tract of land at the British fort of the Miami of the Lake , at the foot of the rapids, and for otherpurposes.” But all such town lots and out lots, or other tract or tractsof land, reserved, or directed to be reserved, as aforesaid, shall be holdensubject to the uses and trusts in said acts, and in other acts relating tosuch reserves, designated or intended. But nothing contained in thisact shall prevent the original purchasers of the lots or lands within thelimits of the said towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, and not relin-quished to the United States, from paying to the State of Ohio or theGeneral Government for the use of said road or the United States themoney with the interest remaining due thereon, on all such lots andlands as may not have heretofore been disposed of by the authorities ofthe said State for the benefit of said road.
Approved, February 20, 1845.
Chap. XVII. — An Act to amend the act entitled “ An act to provide for the en-listment of boys for the naval service, and to extend the term of enlistment ofseamen
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That, from and afterthe passage of this act, the provisions of the second and third sectionsof the act entited “ An act to provide for the enlistment of boys for thenaval service, and to extend the term of the enlistment of seamen,” ap-proved March second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven,which authorize and provide for the detention of any person enlistedfor the navy, after the expiration of the enlistment, until the return ofsuch person to the United States , shall be understood and construed toauthorize and provide for the detention of such person until the arrivalof the vessel in which he shall be so detained at a port of the UnitedStates , and until he shall have received his regular discharge by orderof the Secretary of the Navy : Provided, That such detention shall notexceed the term of thirty days from the time of the arrival of the saidvessel in a port of the United States .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commanding officer ofany vessel, squadron or fleet of the navy of the United States , whenupon the high seas or in any foreign port where there is no residentconsul of the United States , shall be and is hereby authorized and em-powered to exercise all the powers of a consul in relation to marinersof the United States .
Approved, February 20, 1845.
Chap. XVIII .—An Act to organize a new land district in the southern part of the
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the section ofcountry in the southern part of the State of Arkansas , south of the baseline, and east of the meridian, comprised within the following bounda-ries, to wit: between the line dividing ranges five and six on the east,the line dividing ranges twenty and twenty-one on the west, the dividingline between townships ten and eleven on the north, and the State lineon the South, be made to form a separate district, to be called theChampagnole district, the seat of the land office for which shall be atthe town of Champagnole , and be subject to removal by the Presidentof the United States , whenever, in his judgment, it may be proper soto do.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register andreceiver of public moneys appointed for said land district, who shall
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Act of April27, 1816, ch.132.
Statute II.Feb. 20,1845.
Seamen to bedetained under2d and 3d secs,act of 2d March1837,ch.21, un-til arrival of ves-sel in U. S. , anduntil disch’d.
Proviso.
Naval officersclothed withpowers of con-suls in certaincases.
Statute II.Feb. 20, 1845.