Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-06-01
'GBY AUTHORITY.1
Hdtna of tte 0anlteG States, PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTY
 FIRST CONGRESS.
TPUBLIC-No. 62. l

PUBLIC-No. 62.
 AN ACT to ascertain and mark the line between State ot Alabama and the Territory of Florida, and the North poses.
 Be it enacted 6y the Senate and House of RefreSe7tatiUeS ofthe United States o .dn,e- rica in Congress assembled, That the Pre- sident of the United States be- and he is here by, authorized to cause to be run and mark = ed the boundary line between the State of Alabama and the Territory of Florida, by the surveyors General of Alabama and Florida, on the thirty-hrst degree of north latitude; and it shall be the duty of the Surveyor Gene ral of Florida to connect the public, surveys on both sides with the line so run and marked. Sec. 2. find De n further enacted, That patents shall be issued for such tracts of land as were sold and paid for at the land office at Tallahassee, in the Territory of Florida, as are found to be situated within the limits of the district of anls subject to sale at Sparta, in Alabama, agreeably to the terms of the act organizing that district; and the said en- tries and sales shall be valid, in every re- spect, as if they had been made in the land district of Alabama.
 Sec. 8. .4nd De it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause the Surveyor General of the United States for the States of Illinois and Missouri, and the Territory of Arkansas, to act as Commissioner on the part of the United States, whenever he shall be duly in formed that the Government of the State of Illinois shall have appointed a Commission CT on its part, the two to form a board, to ascer- tain, survey and mark the northern line8f the State of Illinois, as defined in the act of Con gress, entitled {" An act to enable the people of the Illinois Territory to form Constitu- tion and State Government, &c. "passed the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hun dred and eighteen and, in case of vacancy in said office of Commissioner, or of his being unable to act from any cause, the President is authorized fill such vacancy by the appoint ment of some other qualified person, whene- yer it may be necessary, until the object of the commission shall be attained.
 Sec. 4. find De it further enacted, That the said Board of Commissioners shall have power to employ the necessary surveyors and laborers, and shall meet at such time and place as may be agreed upon by the President of the United States and the Government of the State of Illinois, and proceed to ascertain, survey and mark the said Northern line of the State of Illinois, and report their proceed ings to the President of the United States, and the Governor of the State of Illinois,
 Sec. $. .and De n further enacted, That the President may allow to the said Commis- sioner of the United States, such compensa- ton for his services as shall seem to him req sonable: Provided, it does not exceed the al lowance made by the State of Illinois to the Commissioner on its part; and the said al lowance, together with one half of the neces- sary expenses of said board, and the survey ors and laborers, and the allowance to be made to the Surveyors General of the State oi Alabama and the Territory of Florida, and the necessary expenses incurred by them r running and marking said line between said
 
 Treasury of the United States, out of any money not otherwise appropriated; And, to enable the President to carry this act into ef- feet, there is hereby appropriated the sum ol two thousand dollars.
 APPROVED, March 3, 1881.