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To be paid out of the city funds.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of any monies in the hands of the said superintendent arising out of the city funds.

Appropriation from the treasury.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars shall be, and is hereby appropriated, to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, in such repairs or alterations in the Capitol and other public buildings as may be necessary for the accommodation of Congress in their future sessions, and also for keeping in repair the highway between the Capitol and other public buildings; which sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 3, 1803.

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March 3, 1803.

Chap. XXX.An Act to revive and continue in force, an act in addition to an act intituled “An act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for Military Services and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen,” and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of anAct of April 26, 1803, ch. 30, revived and continued in force for four weeks.
Act of March 19, 1804, ch. 26.
act in addition to an act intituled “An act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen,” approved the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby revived and continued in force until the first day of April next.

Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 61.
Secretary of War to issue land warrants; when and to whom.
1802, ch. 30.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is authorized, from and after the first day of April next, to issue warrants for military bounty lands to the two hundred and fifty-four persons who have exhibited their claims, and produced satisfactory evidence to substantiate the same to the Secretary of War, in pursuance of the act of the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen hundred and two, intituled “An act in addition to an act, intituled An act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen.”

Where to be located.
1800, ch. 13.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the holders or proprietors of the land warrants issued by virtue of the preceding section, shall and may locate their respective warrants only, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships which had been reserved for original holders, by virtue of the fifth section of an act intituled “An act in addition to an act intituled An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen.

Land warrants to General La Fayette.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized to issue land warrants to Major General La Fayette, for eleven thousand five hundred twenty acres, which shall, at his option, be located, surveyed, and patented, in conformity with the provisions of an act intituled “An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen,” or which may be received acre for acre,1804, ch. 61, sec. 14. in payment for any of the lands of the United States north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river.

Unappropriated lands within the military tract; how to be surveyed.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all the unappropriated lands within the military tract, shall be surveyed into half sections, in the manner directed by the act intituled “An act to amend the act intituled An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river;”Part to be attached to the district of Chilicothe; and for sale. and that so much of the said lands as lie west of the eleventh