Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-03-21

PuBLIc-No. 46.
AN ACT.
Be it enacted the Senate and House Of Representatives Of
the United States Of America Congress assembled That
the selection of swamp and overowed lands granted to
the several States by the act Of Congress approved Sep
TENDER twenty EIGHT eighteen hundred and fifty. en-
titled IAN act to enable the State of Arkansas and other
States to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits,
and the acts Of the second of March, eighteen hundred
and entitled An act to aid the State of Lou
isiana In draining the swamp lands therein heretofore
made and reported the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, far the shall remain vacant and
unappropriated and not nterfered with by actual
settlement under any existing law of the United States
be and the hereby confirmed and shall be ap
proved and patented to the said several States in
fornty with the provisions Of the aforesaid
as may be practicable after the passage of this law:
Provided hoUere, That nothing in this act contained
shall interfere with the provisions Of the act Of Congress
entitled An act for the relief of purchasers and ooa-
tors of swamp and overfowed lands" approved March
the second, eighteen hundred and fyfve, which shall
be and is hereby continued in force, and extended to
all entries and locatipfs Of lands claimed swamp
lands made since its passage.
Approved, March 8, 1857.
TPUBL1o-No. Al
AN ACT to construct building for customhouse and
post Office at Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of Representative
Of the United States Of America Congress assembled,
That the of twenty thousand dollars with ten per
cent. thereon to contingencies and much as
may be required purchase suitable ste be and the
hereby appropriated out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the construc
ton, In the city of Perth Amboy in the State OF New
Jersey for the accommodation of custom-house and
post Office, of brick building perfectly FIRE proof with
floors constructed iron beams and buck arches and
| iron roof of forty-fye by thrty-two fst
feet high: Prorided, That money riated
he used or lau Tor e sly D sand bun shah
be vested in the United States and until the State of
New Jersey shall also duly renqush and release to the
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site, the property of the United States that may be
thereon during the time that the United States shall
| be or remain the owner thereof
| Approved, March 8, 1867.
[PUBLIc-No. 4s.]
AN ACT to increase the pay of y adets at the West
Point Acade
Be it enacted by the Senate dndA Of Representatives.
Of tie United States of America congress assembled,
That the pay of the cadets at the litary Academy at
West Point shall hereafter be thirty dollars per month
Sec q And be further enacted, That this act shall
! take effect from and after the passage thereof.
Approved, March 8, 1857.
[PuBLIo-No. 49,
AN ACT providing for the construction of military
road between Port Seilacoom and Bellingham bay in
the Territory of Washington.
Be enacted By the Senate and House Of Representatives.
of United States of America Congress assembled That
the of hiryfve thousand dollars be and the same
is hereby appropriated out of moneys In the Treau
i strucng military road between Fort Steilacoom and
Bellingham bay, in the Territory of Washington, the
said road be constructed under the direction of the
Secretary of War; pursuant to contracts to be made by
| him. [Approyed, March g. 1857.
[PUBLIc-No. go
AN ACT for the construction of road in the Territory
i of Nebraska.
Be enacted the Senate and House Of Representatives.
the United States Of america Congress assembled That
the of thirty thousand dollars be and the same is
hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury
for the construction of road from the Platte river via
the Omaha Reserve and Dakota city, to the Running
Water river in the Territory of Nebraska said road to
be constructed under the direction of the Secretary Of
Il the Interior. Approved, March 8, 1904.
II TPUBLIc-No. g..
RESOLUTION relative to sections sixteen and thirty
six in the Territories of Minnesota, Kansas and Ne
braska
Pesolyed 5v the Senate and House Of Representatives of
ihc L5aed Stes ef Awerica Concres GssznAcd Thst
where any settlements by the erection of dwelling
the cultivation of any portion Of the land shall
have been shall be made upon the sixteenth of thirty
sixth sections (which sections have been reserved by
for the purpose of being applied to the support of schools
in the Territories of Minnesota Kansas and Nebraska
and in the States and Territories hereafter be erected
of the same before the said sections shall have
shall be surveyed when such sections have been
may be selected occupied town Sites under and by
virtue of the act of Congress approved twenthrd of
May eighteen hundred and fortyfour, reserved for
public before the survey then other lands shall be
selected by the proper authorities in lieu thereof agree
ably the provisions of the of Congress approved
twentieth May, eighteen hundred and twentysix enti
tied An act to appropriate lands for the support Of
schools in certain townships and fractional townships not
before provided for. And if such settler bring him
herself within the provisions of the act of fourth
of September eighteen hundred and fortyone, the
occupants of the town site be enabled to show comp
with the provisions of the law of twenty May,
eighteen hundred and fortyfour then the right of pre-
ference granted by the said acts in the purchase of such
the sixteenth settled
and occupied shall be in them respectively if such
sections had been previously reserved for school
purposes. [Approved, March 8, 1867.
II SOUND NATIONAL MORALITY.
FnLIBUsTERIEG PRoPENsITIEs OF THE AMERICAN Pro-
PLE-The inclination of the Americans colonize,