The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-04-18

granted to the State of Indiana, for the purpose,
of aiding said State in extending and complete
ing the Wabash and Erie canal from Terre
Haute, in the county of vigo, in said State, to
the Ohio river, at Evansville, in said State, as
the course thereof has been established and
surveyed by the authority of said State. one mo-
iety of the public lands, remaining unsoId, and
not otherwise disposed OF, encountered, or
appropriately in a strip FIVE miles in width on
each side of said canal to be selected by an
agent or agents to be appointed by the iGovern-
or of said State, subject to the approval of the
Secretary of the Treasury of the United States;
reserving to the United States each alternate
section, (or other proper subdivisions of said
land,0 from one end of said canal to the other;
and before the selection, to be made as afore said
by such agent or agents, shall be deemed to
have been made and perfected, a chart or,charis,
showing the courses and distances and points
OF termination of said canal, seall be reported,
or caused to be reported, by the Governor of In
diana, or by some person or persons by him APP
pointed, to the commissioner of the General
Land Office.
SEC. 2. find be ii further enacted, That, for
the purpose hereinbefore mentioned, there be,
and hereby is, granted to the said State, in ad-
dition to the grant hereinbefore provided for,one
moiety Of all the other lands in the Vincennes
land district, in said State, and which remain, as
aforesaid, unsold, and not otherwise disposed of
encountered, or appropriated, to be selected un-
der the authority and by the direction of the
Governor o. said State: Provided, That, In the
selection of the lands by this section provided
for no lands shall be comprehended which. in
and by the first section Of this act, are lin alter
nate sections or other proper subdivions) direct
ed to be reported, by the Governor Of said State.
to the register of the land Office at Vincennes,
before such selection shall be deemed TO be made
and completed.
SEC. 8. .Andibe it further enacted, That all the
lands, by the first and second sections of this
act granted as aforesaid, shall, after the selec-
tionsstherefore shall have been made and COM
pleted as aforesaid, be subject to be disposed OF
by the General Assembly OF said State. for the
purpose aforesaid, and no other; and the Presi-
dent shall direct the further sales of the public
LANDS, in the Vinceunes land district aforesaid,
to be suspended until the Governor Of said State
shall have caused the selection aforesaid to be
made and perfected as aforesaid. and shall have
notified the Secretary of the Treasury therefore
Provided, That such suspension shall not con.
tinue longer than - months from and after
the passing OF this act.
SEC. q. find be.i further enacted. Tint the said
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main a public highwayifor the use of the Govern
ment of the United States, free from any toll OF
other charge whatever, for any property of the
United States. or persons in their service, pass
ing through or alonc the same; and shall be
completed within fifteen years from and after
the passing Of this act, or the State shall be
holden to pay to the United States the amount
of the price or prices for which any and all oil
said land which may have been disposed of shall
from and after said fifteen years, if said canal
| should not then have been completed. revert
to and again become the property ofthe United
States: Provided, always, That it shall not be
competent for the said general Assembly to dis
pose of said lands, or any Of them, at q price
lower than, for the time being, shall be the min
imum price of other public lands.