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be annually wanted to discharge the interest accruing on the stock which may be created by virtue of this act. The said commissioners are hereby authorized to apply, from time to time, such sum and sums, out of the said fund as they may think proper, towards redeeming, by purchase or by reimbursement, in conformity with the provisions of this act, the principal of the said stock; and such part of the annual sum of ten millions of dollars, vested by law in the said commissioners, as may be necessary, and wanting, for the above purposes, shall be, and continue, appropriated to the payment of interest and redemption of the public debt, until the whole of the stock which may be created under the provisions of this act, shall have been redeemed or reimbursed.

Not to impair the rights of those creditors of the United States who shall not subscribe to the loan.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed in any wise to alter, abridge, or impair, the rights of those creditors of the United States, who shall not subscribe to the loan to be opened by virtue of this act.

Approved, May 26, 1824.

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May 26, 1824.
Chap. CXCIV.—An Act reserving to the Wyandot tribe of Indians a certain tract of land, in lieu of a reservation made to them by treaty.

The north quarter section numbered two, in township two and range seventeen, in the Delaware land district, Ohio, reserved for the use of the Wyandot tribe of Indians.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, reserved, for the use of the chiefs and tribe of Wyandot Indians, subject to the conditions and limitations of the former reservation, the northeast quarter of section numbered two, in township two, and range seventeen, south of the base line, of land, in the Delaware land district, in the state of Ohio, in lieu of the one hundred and sixty acres of land, on the west side of, and adjoining, the Sandusky river; and which was reserved to said tribe of Indians, by a supplementary treaty between the United States and certain tribes of Indians, held at St. Mary’s, in the state of Ohio, on the seventeenth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighteen; on condition that the chiefs of said Wyandot tribe first relinquish to the United States all the right, title, and claim, of said tribe, to the one hundred and sixty acres of land reserved by said supplementary treaty.

Approved, May 26, 1824.

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May 26, 1824.
Chap. CXCV.—An Act supplementary to the act “to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington,” passed the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and for other purposes.[1]

Part of the act of May 15, 1820, ch. 104, repealed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act, entitled “An act to incorporate the inhabitants of the city of Washington, and to repeal all acts heretofore passed for that purpose,” passed May fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Public notice of the time and place of sale of all real property for taxes due the corporation of Washington to be given.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That public notice of the time and place of the sale of all real property, for taxes due the corporation of the city of Washington, shall be given in all cases hereafter, by advertisement, inserted in some newspaper published in the said city, once in each week, for at least twelve successive weeks, in which advertisement shall be stated the number of the square or squares, the number of the lot or lots, (if the square has been divided into lots,) the name or names of the per-

  1. Notes of the acts relating to the corporation of Washington, vol. ii. 254721.
    Decisions of the Supreme Court on the provisions of the act incorporating the city of Washington and authorizing the laying of taxes, vol. ii. 721.