Mar. 3, 1841. Vol. 5, p. 415. Balance due Lyon & Howard For repairs of sea-wall on Rainsford island, Boston harbor, one thousand dollars; For continuing sea-wall at St. Augustine, fifteen thousand dollars; CHAP. 25.-An Act To provide for the support of the Military Academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *** SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there be, and for steam dredges hereby is, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in on Lake Michi- the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars, to pay a balance certified by the Topographical Bureau to be due to Lyon and Howard, as the balance upon a contract for building two steam dredging machines upon Lake Michigan. Approved, March 3, 1841. gan. Mar. 3, 1841. For removing CHAP. 36.-An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same hereby are, appropriated to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one; * * * for removing the raft of Red river under the Red River raft. direction of the Secretary of War seventy-five thousand dollars; Sept. 4, 1841. to be paid 10 per ceeds of sales of CHAP. 16.-An Act To appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Certain States the United States of America in Congress assembled, That cent on net pro- from and after the thirty-first day of December, in the year public lands of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and and forty-one, therein, in addi- there be allowed and paid to each of the States of Ohio, are entitled by Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Michigan, over and above what each of the said States is entitled to by the terms of the compacts entered into between them and the United States, upon tion to what they certain pacts. com Proviso. affected by sums their admission into the Union, the sum of ten per centum upon the nett [sic] proceeds of the sales of the public lands, which, subsequent to the day aforesaid, shall be made within. the limits of each of said States respectively: Provided, Said sum not That the sum so allowed to the said States, respectively, applied to Cumshall be in no wise affected or diminished on account of berland road. any sums which have been heretofore, or shall be hereafter, applied to the construction or continuance of the Cumberland road, but that the disbursements for the said road shall remain, as heretofore, chargeable on the two per centum fund provided for by compacts with several of the said States. land to be grant cified in sec. 1, Proviso. fore made for be included in said 500,000. wheretobemade, To be located, when. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, 500,000 acres of granted to each State specified in the first section of this act ed to States spefive hundred thousand acres of land for purposes of internal for internal im improvement: Provided, that to each of the said States provements. which has already received grants for said purposes, there Grants heretois hereby granted no more than a quantity of land which such purposes to shall, together with the amount such State has already received as aforesaid, make five hundred thousand acres, the selections in all of the said States, to be made within their limits respectively in such manner as the Legislatures there-Selections, of shall direct; and located in parcels conformably to sec- and how, tional divisions and subdivisions, of not less than three hun- how, where, and dred and twenty acres in any one location, on any public land except such as is or may be reserved from sale by any law of Congress or proclamation of the President of the United States, which said locations may be made at any time after the lands of the United States in said States respectively, shall have been surveyed according to existing laws. And there shall be and hereby is, granted to each new State that shall be hereafter admitted into the Union, ed to new states upon such admission, so much land as, including such quan- that shall heretity as may have been granted to such State before its ted. admission, and while under a Territorial Government, for purposes of internal improvement as aforesaid, as shall make five hundred thousand acres of land, to be selected and located as aforesaid. Quantitygrant after be admit Said lands not to be sold for less acre. to be faithfully nal improve SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the lands herein granted to the States above named shall not be disposed than $1.25 per of at a price less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, until otherwise authorized by a law of the United States; and the nett [sic] proceeds of the sales of said lands, Net proceeds shall be faithfully applied to objects of internal improve- applied to interment within the States aforesaid, respectively, namely: ments-objects Roads, railways, bridges, canals and improvement of specified. water-courses, and draining of swamps; and such roads, be free for transrailways, canals, bridges and water-courses, when made portation of or improved, shall be free for the transportation of the mail, etc. United States mail, and munitions of war, and for the passage of their troops, without the payment of any toll whatever. Roads, etc., to United States relinquished to able when. 1819, c. 47. The 2 per cent SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the two per Alabama-pay- cent. of the nett [sic] proceeds of the lands sold by the United States, in the State of Alabama, since the first day of September, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and reserved by the act entitled "An act to enable the people of the Alabama Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States," for the making of a road or roads leading to the said State, be, and the same is hereby, relinquished to the said State of Alabama, payable in two equal instalments, the first to be paid on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and the other on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and forty-three, so far as the same may then have accrued, and quarterly, as the same may thereafter accrue: Provided, That the Legislature of said State shall first to pass act ac- pass an act, declaring their acceptance of said relinquishembracing cerment, and also embracing a provision, to be unalterable tain provision without the consent of Congress, that the whole of said two per cent. fund shall be faithfully applied, under the direction of the Legislature of Alabama, to the connection, by some means of internal improvement, of the navigable waters of the bay of Mobile with the Tennessee river, and to the construction of a continuous line of internal improvements from a point on the Chattahoochie river, opposite West Point, in Georgia, across the State of Alabama, in a direction to Jackson, in the State of Mississippi. Approved, September 4, 1841. Proviso. Alabama first cepting sameand for its application. Sept. 9, 1841. St. Augustine. Arrearages for roads, harbors, rivers, etc. CHAP. 17.-An Act Making appropriations for various fortifications, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely: For continuing sea-wall at Saint Augustine, Florida, five thousand dollars; SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be in like manner appropriated: * * * * * For arrearages due for roads, harbors, and rivers, where public works and improvements have hitherto been made, and-for the protection of public property now on hand at these places, and for arrearages for surveys and completing maps authorized by act of March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, forty thousand dollars; * Approved, September 9, 1841. * * No. 6. A Joint Resolution making it the duty of the Attorney-General Sept. 11, 1841. to examine into the titles of the lands or sites for the purpose of Vol. 5, p. 468. erecting thereon armories and other public works and buildings, and for other purposes. eral to make ex dent. and Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Attorney-Genit shall be the duty of the Attorney General of the United amination States to examine into the titles of all the lands or sites report to Presiwhich have been purchased by the United States, for the Vol. p. 94; purpose of erecting thereon armories, arsenals, forts, fortifications, navy yards, custom-houses, light-houses, or other public buildings of any kind whatever, and report his opinion as to the validity of the title in each case, to the President of the United States. post, p. 479. be furnished to 2. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of all the officers, Title papers to of the United States having any of the title papers to the Attorney-Genproperty aforesaid in their possession, to furnish them eral. forthwith to the Attorney General, to aid him in the investigation aforesaid. not to be expend land hereafter purchased until, 3. Resolved, That no public money shall be expended Public money upon any site or land hereafter to be purchased by the ed on any site or United States for the purposes aforesaid, until the written opinion of the Attorney General shall be had in favor of etc. the validity of the title, and also the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the land or site may be shall be given to said purchaser [«]. neys to furnish 4. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the District District attor Attorneys of the United States, upon the application of assistance. the Attorney General, to furnish any assistance or information in their power in relation to the titles of the public property aforesaid lying within their respective districts. 5. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Secretaries Secretaries of of the Executive Departments, upon the application of the Attorney General, to procure any additional evidence of cure title which he may deem necessary, and which may not be in the possession of the officers of Government; the expense of procuring which to be paid out of the appropriations made for the contingencies of the Departments respectively. Executive Departments to proadditional evidence. Executive De to State legís 6. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Secretaries Secretaries of of the Executive Departments, respectively, under whose partments to apdirection any lands for the purposes aforesaid may have Patures for jurisbeen purchased, and over which the United States do not diction over said possess jurisdiction, to apply to the Legislatures of the lands, etc. States in which the lands are situated, for a cession of jurisdiction, and in case of refusal, to report the same to Congress at the commencement of the next session thereafter. Approved, September 11, 1841. a See act approved Apr. 24, 1888, page 479 hereof. June 4, 1842. CHAP. 35.-An Act For the relief of the Plumb Island Bridge and Vol. 6, p. 829. Turnpike Company. for destruction of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That To be paid $8,000 there be paid to the Plumb Island Bridge and Turnpike bridge across Company, of Newburyport, in the State of Massachusetts, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand dollars, for the destruction of a bridge, occasioned by the construction of a breakwater by the United States. Merrimac River. Aug. 23, 1842. for Army. Approved, June 4, 1842. CHAP. 183.-An Act Making appropriations for the support of the Army, and of the Military Academy, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Appropriations of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same hereby are, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. Arrearages and preservation of * * * * * For arrearages and for the preservation of the public public property. property at the several places of harbor and river improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. on western rivers. Improvements For building and repairing the necessary boats, and for carrying on the improvements on the Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, and Arkansas rivers, one hundred thousand dollars, Preservation under the direction of the Secretary of War; and, for the works for im- preservation and repairs of public works heretofore conharbors. structed for the improvement of harbors, thirty thousand dollars. and repairs of provement Aug. 31, 1842. Deer Island. of Approved, August 23, 1842. CHAP. 288.-An Act Making appropriations for certain fortifications of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the preservation, repairs, and construction of certain fortifications, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-two, viz.: For repairs of sea-wall on Deer Island, Boston harbor, two thousand dollars. |