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which shall be certified by them, and one of which shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State for the United States, and the other delivered to the governor of Georgia.

Appropriation.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying this act into execution, the sum of five thousand dollars be, and hereby is, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, May 4, 1826.

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May 4, 1826.

Chap. XXXII.An Act to extend the lines of certain land districts in the state of Missouri.

Boundaries of the districts.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the western boundary of the land district of Cape Girardeau, and of the western district in the state of Missouri, be and the same is hereby, extended to the western boundary of the state of Missouri.

Approved, May 4, 1826.

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May 4, 1826.
[Obsolete.]

Chap. XXXIII.An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect the appointment of a Mission at the Congress of Panama.

Sums appropriated for carrying into effect the appointment of a mission to Panama, viz.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying into effect the appointment of a mission at the Congress of Panama; that is to say:

For the outfits of two envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, eighteen thousand dollars.

For the salaries for the same at the rate of nine thousand dollars per year, eighteen thousand dollars: Provided, That it shall not be lawful to pay to either of the said envoys more than nine thousand dollars for his salary in any one year, in the capacity of public minister abroad.

For the secretary to said mission.For the secretary of the mission at Panama, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, two thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of the said mission, two thousand dollars.

Approved, May 4, 1826.

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May 4, 1826.

Chap. XXXIV.An Act making further provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States, by the purchasers of public lands.

The provisions of the act of May 18, 1824, ch. 88, and the act explanatory thereof, May 26, 1824, ch. 176, revived and continued in force until July 4, 1827.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act, entitled “An act to provide for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands,” approved May the eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and the provisions of the act, entitled “An act explanatory of an act entitled an act to provide for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands,” approved May the twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, be, and the same are hereby, severally revived and continued in force, in all respects whatsoever, until the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

Lands forfeited under the acts of March 2, 1821, ch. 12, April 20, 1822, ch. 30, and May 10, 1800, ch. 55, sec. 5, may be redeemed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the legal holder of any certificate of lands purchased from the United States, which land has reverted by virtue of the provisions of the act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, or the several acts supplementary thereto; or which, by virtue of the fifth section of the act of tenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, is subject to be sold for the balance due thereon