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TWENTY·FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess.H. Ch. 10,11,24. 1837. 685 Snrura II. CHAP. X.-—An dc! for the relief of Andrew Know, F8b_ 3, 1887. Be it enacted, &c., That Andrew Knox, of Washington county, in the state of Mississippi, be, and he is hereby, authorized and permitted Mu, I,,,,,,,,,,,,,, to purchase, upon the payment of the minimum price to the receiver of aseclion oflsnd the proper land district, section sixteen, in township fourteen, range i¤.Ch°°*¤W di¤· nine west, in the Choctaw district, in said state, the purchase of which mc" section heretofore was prevented by the illegal numbering of the sections in said township. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the A section to Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be selected and reserved for the l’° “?'°"°d f°' use of schools within the said township, numbered fourteen, in lieu of l°°bh° °°h°°k' the aforesaid section, a section [of]land in equal extent in said Choctaw land district. Arpnovura, February 3, 1837. ··—··· S·rA•ru·rr·: II. CHAP. XI.-dn Act for the relief of John E. Wool. F eb- 9, 1837. Be it enacted, &c., That so much of the thirteenth section of the act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, entitled "An act to Pnrtofact of provide for the organization of the Department of Indian Afl`airs," as J¤¤¤ 30. }834. prescribes " that all merchandise required by any Indian treaty for the °l;,,;gg’,,'£f’£ so Indians payable after making of such treaty, shall be purchased under hn asregards the direction of the Secretary of War, upon proposals to be received to him. &·¤· be based on notices previously to be given," be dispensed with so far as it may affect the purchases made by Brigadier General J. E. Wool under the eighteenth article of the treaty with the Cherokee Indians of December twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and thirty-tive, prior to the second day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and that the sums expended by him previous to that date be passed to his credit in the settlement of his accounts, and the drafts drawn by him on the Department of War on account thereof, be paid without reference to the said provisions of the said act. Approved, February 9, 1837. -——-—- Snrou II. CHAP. XXIV,—.d¢1 Act to incorporate the Howard Institution of the city of Mm-ph 2, 1831, Washington. -—··-········* Be it enacted, ¢$·c., That William W. Seaton, Archibald Henderson, Mathew St. Clair Clarke, William A. Bradley, John Coyle, George Certain pei-- Gilliss, N . B. Van Zandt, Richmond Johnson, John Nourse, Michael ::$:,‘;s°T;°' Nourse, B. F. Rittenhouse, Lewis II. Machen, Reziu Orme, Peter W. {-;,,,,,,,,4 Im",. Gallaudet, Jacob Gideon, George Stettinius, William C. Orme, John union. P. Ingle, William Brent, John G. Wliitxtrell, John Shackford, C. T. Coote, Thomas Blagden, Griliith Coombe, William Speiden, William Doughty, Marmaduke Dove, and D. Hanson, and all other persons who have contributed to the fund of the Howard Institution of the city of Washington, each in a subscription of an annual sum of at least one dollar, and all who may hereafter contribute to the said funds in a like annual subscription of a sum not less than one dollar, shall be, and are hereby, made, constituted, and declared, to be a corporation and body politic in law and in fact, to have continuance forever under the name, style, and title, of the Howard Institution of the city of Washington. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the lands, May hold protenements, rents, legacies, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chat— p°"Y· tels, that may hereafter be given, granted, sold, devised, or bequeathed to the suid Howard Institution, be, and they are hereby, vested in and confirmed to the said corporation; and that they mayégprchase, take,