the house, six thousand dollars be expended, under the direction of the President of the United States.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XXXIV.—An Act supplementary to “An act to perfect certain locations and sales of the public lands in Missouri,” passed April the twenty-six, [sixth,] one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two.
Act of April 26, 1822, ch. 40.
The location of lands for the relief of the inhabitants of the late county of New Madrid, to be perfected into grants.
Act of Feb. 17, 1815, ch. 45.
Act of July 9, 1832, ch. 180, and notes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the locations of lands heretofore made according to law, by virtue of warrants issued under the act of Congress, passed the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred [and] fifteen, for the relief of the inhabitants of the late county of New Madrid, in the Missouri territory, who suffered by earthquakes, in lieu of lots and out lots, in and adjacent to the villages of New Madrid and Little Prairie, and not exceeding six hundred and forty acres in the whole to any one sufferer, shall be perfected into grants in the manner prescribed by the last mentioned act of Congress, any construction thereof to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
[Expired.]
Chap. XXXV.—An Act to extend the time of issuing and locating military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army.
Act of Feb. 24, 1819, ch. 41.
Time of issuing and locating military land warrants, extended.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time limited by the second section of the act, approved the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army, shall be extended till the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and the time for locating the unlocated warrants shall be extended till the first day of October thereafter.
Approved, March 2, 1827.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XXXVI.—An Act to provide for the adjustment of claims to persons entitled to indemnification, under the first article of the treaty of Ghent, and for the distribution, among such claimants, of the sum paid, and to be paid, by the government of Great Britain, under the convention between the United States and his Britannic majesty, concluded at London on the thirteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.
President to appoint three commissioners and one clerk.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint three commissioners and one clerk, who shall constitute a commission, to carry into effect the purposes of this act.
Records, &c., constituting the mixed commission under the treaty of Ghent, to be delivered to them.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all records, documents, and other papers, which were in possession of the commissioners, constituting the mixed commission under the treaty of Ghent, so far as the same are under the control of the government of the United States, shall be delivered to the commissioners under this act.
Said commissioners and clerk to convene at the city of Washington, on the 10th July next.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, with their clerk, shall convene in the city of Washington on the tenth day of July next, and shall proceed to execute the duties
