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34 EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 141,145. I824. of the United States, or others, at a sum not less than the par value there. of, certificates of stock of the United States, to any amount not exceeding the sum of five millions of dollars, and bearing an interest of not exceeding four and one half per cemum per annum, from the period of the sale thereof; which stock, so created, shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, at any time after the first day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. rind, upon the sale of such stock, in manner aforesaid, credit or credits to the pm. prietors thereof, shall thereupon be entered and given on the books cf the treasury, in like manner as for the present funded debt; which said credits or stock shall thereafter be transferable as other public stock of the United States. Mg5·j,r¤ fha Sm:. 2. And be it further enacted, That the moneys which may be
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cate: or said shall [be,] and the same are hereby, directed to be applied to the pay- ”§£;:§£';bb° *i" ment and discharge of the awards of the commissioners under the treaty gnu, of- ,:8Pay` with Spain, of the twenty-second day of February, in the year eighteen awards under hundred and nineteen. Provided, also, That in all cases where the perg'°a;;°**Y with son or persons, in whose name, or for whose benefit and interest, the PP,.,,,,,,, aforesaid awards shall be made, shall be in debt and in arrears to the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury shall retain the same out of the amount of the aforesaid awards, in the first instance, and a warrant or certificate, as the case may bc, shall only issue for the balance. (ez) Ipterest ac- Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That a sum, equal to what will
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Ou, of the ,1;,,, the end of the present year, bc, and the same is hereby, appropriated for sury. that purpose, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, May 24, 1824. Srsrvrn I. __... May 24, 1824. CHAP. CXLl.—An cdctfhanging the mode of surveying the public lands, cm any raver, lake, bayou, or water-·c0uo·se. cause wb, Be it enacted by Ute Senate and House of Representatives of the United pursued in sur- States of America, m Congress assembled, That, whenever, in the opin- "Ymg l·*¤d¤- ion of the President of the United States, n departure from the ordinary mode of surveyin gland on any river, lake, bayou, or water-course, would promote the public interest, he may direct the surveyor general, in whose district such land is situated, and where the change is intended to be made under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, to cause the lands thus situated, to be surveyed in tracts of two acres in width, fronting on any river, bayou, lake, or water-course, and running back the depth of forty sores; which tracts of land, so surveyed, shall be otiered for sale entire, instead of in halflquarter sections, and in the usual manner _ Y spd 0: éhe same terms, in all respects, as the other public lands of the mte tutes. Approved, May 24, 1824. Srwrurs I. ...;. May 25, 1824- Gun. CXLV.—An det to alter the times of holding the circuit and district ca-urls of the United States fm- the district of South Carolina. (b) Th ti en f · _ _ hmmag as Be at enacted tire Senate and House ¢y"Rrpresen!atzves if the Gated States of America, ut Congress assrmbkrl, That instead of the times now (a) If under the act of May 24 1824 h. —-T the andunt of debt due to the,Uniteii gtates tin;-ica pei-sin e`i1cti;l?dyb(y ai: iulfaisd iiiiiieimtl; tgdsdiiii treaty. from money provided for the payment of such award, it does not prejudice the United States to proceed for payment of such debts against the general assignee who has received the mane from tha treasury. The United States v. William Hunter, 5 Mason, C. ci R. 62. y (b) Circuit and district courts in South Carolina. Act of September 2s, 1789, (obsolete,) ch. 20, sec. 3. Au act to alter the times for holding the circuit courts of the United States, in the district of South
