Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CLXIII.—An Act for the sale of the unlocated lots in the fifty quarter townships in the United States’ military district, in the state of Ohio, reserved to satisfy warrants granted to individuals for their military services.
Unlocated lots in military district, in Ohio, made liable to private sale.
Act of Feb. 11, 1800, ch. 8.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lots and fractional parts of lots lying in the fifty quarter townships, reserved by an act of Congress, passed the eleventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred, and entitled “An act giving further time to the holders of military warrants to register and locate the same,” and which remain unlocated, shall, hereafter, be liable to be sold at private sale, in the respective land offices in which they lie, in the same manner, and for the same sum per acre, as other lands of the United States lying in said districts, and undisposed of.
Approved, July 3, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CLXIV.—An Act to authorize the surveying and laying out a road from Detroit to the mouth of Grand river of Lake Michigan, in the Michigan territory, and for the survey of canal routes in the territory of Florida.
Commissioners to be appointed to survey and lay out road.
Plats of surveys to be certified and transmitted to President; if approved, to be deposited, &c.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 be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint three commissioners, who shall explore, survey, and mark, in the most eligible course, a road from Detroit, westwardly, by way of Sciawasse, to the mouth of Grand river, in the territory of Michigan; and said commissioners shall make out accurate plats of such surveys, accompanied with field notes, and certify and transmit the same to the President of the United States, who, if he approve of said surveys, shall cause the plats thereof to be deposited in the office of the Treasury of the United States, and the said road shall be considered as established and accepted:Proviso. Provided, That said commissioners shall be disinterested persons, not residents of any county through which said road may pass.
Pay of commissioners and assistants.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall, each, be entitled to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents, for each and every day they shall be necessarily employed in the surveying, exploring, and marking of said road, and making their returns thereof:Proviso. Provided, The whole expense thereof shall not exceed the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars.
Appropriation.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of compensating the said commissioners and their assistants, there shall be, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Survey to ascertain practicability of canals to connect bays and rivers in Florida.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be made, an accurate and minute survey of the country between the waters of St. Andrew’s bay and the river and bay of Chattahoochie, and between Pensacola bay and Bon Secour, along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, with a view to ascertain the practicability and cost of canals to connect said bays and rivers, with notes, plans, observations, and opinions, of the engineers on each of said parts designated,Estimates to be made.
Appropriation. with estimates of the cost of each; and, for the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing provisions, the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
