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THIRTY—SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 114, 115. 1852. 143 Cmir. CXIVi.——.AnActmaking further Provisions fm- the- Satiqfzctiemqf Virginia Land— August 31, 1852. Warrants. "··-—·;· Be il enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stam: of America in Uongress assembled, That all unsetished Unsntisiiedviroutstanding military land-warrants or parts of warrants issued or allowed QEQWIQLEFY prior to the first day of March, eighteen hundred and ’fifty-twc, by may bg sm-,-en. the proper authorities of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for military d¤1‘¤d»¤»¤d 59**5 services performed by the officers and soldiers, seamen or marines, of g€,,,;§° Pgigige the Virginia State and continental lines in the Army or Navy .0f the in public lands Revolution, may be surrendered to the Secretary of the Interior, who, $3;%, ’” h" upon being satisfied, by a, revision of the proofs or by additional testi- ` mony, that any warrant thus surrendered was fairly and justly issued in pursuance of the laws of said Comm0nwcs.ltl1,for military services so rendered, sbdll issue land scrip in favor of the present proprietors of any warrant thus surrendered, for the whole or any portion thereof yet unsatisfied, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents for each acre mentioned in the warrant thus surrendered and which remains unsatisfied, which scrip shall be receivable in payment for any lands _ owned by the United States subject to sale at private entry; and said , $**,39 m’*·d° scrip shall, moreover, be assiguable by indorsemeut attested by two 9'Smgm °` witnesses. In issuing such scrip, the said Secretary is authorized, when Provision wm., there are more persons than one interested in the same warrant to issue there are more to each person scrip for his or her portion of the warrant; and where Ph%t°';_6;;§,P‘f•*;_S°” infants or feme coverts may be entitled to any scrip, the guardian of the whwc mgm M, infant and the husband of the feme covert may receive and sell or infants, or feme locate the same. Provided, that no less than a, legal subdivision shall °°;,‘;,‘xiS0_ be entered and paid for by the scrip issued in virtue of this act. Sec. 2. And be[it] further emuied, That this act shall be taken as a _ This awt to be full and Html adjustment of all bounty-land claims to the officcrs and fun **Fl$Y*‘?‘ . . . . . . . 10n of Virginia soldiers, seamen and marines of the State of Virginia, for servmes in mmm,-y 1,;,,,;. the war of the Revolution: Provided, That the State of Virginia shall by w¤rm¤t§· a. proper act of the legislature thereof relinquish all claim to the lands Sh8_5"°;%;'§1El;§ in the Virginia military land district in the State of Ohio. au emma to hei- SEO. 3. And be it further enacted, That in settling the claims of the *’°’°“’° State of Ohio, under the acts of Mzirch second, eighteen hundred and m Setggmem, oftwenty-seven, and May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, claim ofOhio for granting lands to said State for canal purposes, the same principles shall g‘;Q”£c,;“g?’i$.}` be acted upon as have been applied under the provisions of the act of ch, 56, and ;g28’ May the ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, entitled "An act in ¢h~ I08- addition to an act therein mentioned," for the settlement of the claims 1848»°h· 86- of the State of Indiana, accruing under the said act of March the second, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven. Appnovmn, August 31, 1852. CHAP. CXV.—-An Act to constitute Alt0n, in the State of Minais, zz Port of Delivery. August 81, 1852. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Alton, in the A1m,,,m__ State of Illinois, shall be, and is hereby, constituted a port of delivery, made at port of and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as other d°’h"'Y‘ ports of delivery in the United States; and there shall be appointed a. surveyor of customs to reside at said port, who shall, in addition to his Surveyor of the own duties, perform the duties and receive the salary and emoluments °“§;‘"‘;i,m and of surveyor, prescribed by the act of Congress, approved on the second pay, of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, providing for the payment 1831•°h· 87- of duties on imported goods, at certain ports therein mentioned, entitled “ An act allowing the duties on foreign merchandise imported into Pittsburg, `Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, Nashville, and Natchez,