Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-08-03

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BIZ AUTHORSHIP
AN ACT
Supplementary to an act, entitled {" An act
to incorporate company for making
certain turnpike roads within the Dis
trict of Columbia
he 10 enacted bg the Senate and House OF
representatives oftte United States of II.
anericG az Congress assembled, That the
company for making certain turnpike roads
in the District of Columbia, established by
an act of Congress, passed on the twen.
tieth day OF April, one thousand eight hun
dred and ten, be authorised aud empower
ed to open and make turnpike road ut
their own risk and expense, from the Eas-
tern Branch bridge to meet road to be O.
pened and made under the authority of the
of the state of Maryland, from Edward
Il. Calvert's mill, in Prince feorge's coun-
ty, to the lineof the District Of Colum-
bia.
Sec. 2. find be 10 .furtherenacted. That
the said company may demand and receive
The same tolls as are allowed for a like dis
lance by the act to which this is supple
ment, and shall possess andenjoy the same
rights and privileges, and subject to the
same Limitations. pains, aid penalties as
are prescribed, enioined, and directed by
the aforesaid act, and an sct in addition
thereto, passed OH the twelty-ffth dav of
April, one thousand eight hundred and
ten.
II. CLAY,
Speaker Of the Hs'tss Of Representatives,.
JOHN GAILLARD.
President Of tie Senste, PRO fembore.
-lhTiL 16, 1816--AprRovED,
JAMES MADISON.
AN ACT
Further extending the time for issuing and
locating military land warrants, and for
other purposes.
Be 1t enacted by the .Seaate and house OF
| representatives 0fthe United States of A.
nlerica IN congress assembled, That the
Secretary of War be authorised to issue
military land warrants to sich persons as
have or shall, before the firt day of March.
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
produce to him satisfactory evidence of
the validity Of their claims which war
rants, with those heretoiOr. issued, and not
jet satisfied, shall and my be located IN
the name of the holders or proprietors
thereof, prior to the frat lay of October,
one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
o. any INDICATED parts of the fifty quarter
townships, reserved by Law fOr original hol-
ders of military land warrlnts. And pa
tents shall be granted, for the land located
under this act, IN the same manner as is di-
rected by former acts for granting militia
ry lands.
Sec. 2. .qad be Il furf.er enacted, That
at the expiration of the term limited by
this act, for the location Of the military
land warrants aforesaid, il shall be the duty
OF the commissiOnerofthe generalland office
20 transmist to the surveyor general list
OF all the lots of land within the fifty quar-
ter townships, which shall at that time re-
main INDICATED and the surveyor gene
raj shall prepare and transmit 70 the regis
ter OF the land Office at Chilhcothe and
GAINESVILLE, respectively, general plats Of
the aforesaid INDICATED lots, which lots
shall after the first day of March, one thou
sand eight hundred and nineteen, be offer
ell for sale at the land officcs in the dis
tricts in which they are situated, i'm the
same manner, on the same terms and con.
ditlons, III every respect, as other public
lands are offered at private sale, in the
same districts.
II. CLAY,
Speaker Of The House Of Rebresen.ofiUes
JOHN GAILLARD.