# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 46

Chap. XLVI.—An Act to provide for paying to the state of Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama, three per cent. of the net proceeds, arising from the sale of the public lands within the same.
The Secretary of the Treasury from time to time, to pay 3 per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of public lands in the state of Missouri, since January 1, 1821, deducting expenses, &c. Act of March 6, 1820, ch. 22. The sums to be applied to the making of roads and canals in Missouri, under direction of the legislature, &c. Account of the application of the money to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices in the said state of Missouri shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of the lands of the United States, lying within the state of Missouri, which since the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, have been, or hereafter may be, sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incidental to the same, to such person or persons as may or shall be authorized by the legislature of the said state of Missouri to receive the same; which sum or sums, thus paid, shall be applied to the making of public roads and canals within the said state of Missouri, under the direction of the legislature thereof, according to the provisions on this subject contained in the act of Congress of the sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled “An act to authorize the people of the Missouri territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories,” and to no other purposes. And an annual account of the same shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, by such officer or person of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct, and of its application, if any be made; and, in default of such return being made, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sum or sums that may then be due, or which thereafter may become due, until a return shall be made as herein required.
The Secretary of the Treasury to pay 3 per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of public lands within the state of Mississippi, deducting expenses, to any person authorized to receive it. The sums thus paid to be applied to the making of roads and canals in Mississippi, &c. 1817 ch. 23. Annual account to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices in the state of Mississippi shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of the lands of the United States lying within the state of Mississippi, which, since the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, have been, or hereafter may be, sold by the United states, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, to such person or persons as may or shall be authorized by the legislature of the said state of Mississippi to receive the same; which sum or sums, thus paid, shall be applied to making public roads and canals within the said state, according to the provisions on this subject contained in the act, entitled ​“An act to enable the people of the western part of the Mississippi territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states,” and to no other purpose; and an annual account of the same shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, by such officer or person of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct, and of its application, if any be made, and in default of such return being made, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sum or sums that may then be due, or which thereafter may become due, until a return shall be made as herein required.
The Secretary of the Treasury to pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands within the state of Alabama, since Sept. 1, 1819, deducting expenses, to any person authorized to receive it. The sums thus paid to be applied to the making roads, canals, &c., in Alabama. 1819 ch. 47. Annual account of the application of the money to be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. Proviso.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices in the state of Alabama shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of the lands of the United States lying within the state of Alabama, which since the first day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, have been, or hereafter may be, sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, to such person or persons as may or shall be authorized by the legislature of the said state of Alabama to receive the same; which sum or sums, thus paid, shall be applied to making public roads and canals, and improving the navigation of rivers, within the said state of Alabama, under the direction of the legislature thereof, according to the provisions on this subject contained in the act, entitled “An act to enable the people of the Alabama territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states,” and to no other purpose; and an annual account of the same shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, by such officer of person of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct, and of its application, if any be made; and in default of such return being made, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sum or sums that may then be due, or which thereafter may become due, until a return shall be made as herein required: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall not allow to either of the said states of Mississippi and Alabama three per cent. on the net proceeds of the sales of public lands within the limits of the late Mississippi territory, after deducting incidental expenses, until the sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, stipulated to be paid by the United States to the state of Georgia, for the cession of the late Mississippi territory, now composing the states of Mississippi and Alabama, shall have been first paid and deducted; nor until the stock created under the provision of the act of Congress of the thirty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory,”Act of Jan. 23, 1815, ch. 24. and the act supplementary thereto, shall have been redeemed, or if not entirely redeemed the residue to be deducted from the net proceeds.
Approved, May 3, 1822.