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538 TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 81,86, SS. 1833. S1'.vr¤·rx·: II. CHAP. LXXXI.-.611 Act to authorize the county commissioners for the count qf Much 2 1g3S_ Peoria, in me Szatejgf Illinois, to enter a fractional quarter section of land jar a ...;.L... sud af justice, and or other purposes. Commissioners Be it enacted, ¢§·c., That the commissioners for the county of Peoria, ““*l‘°’l*°'r ‘°'€· in the state of Illinois, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter with the Register and Receiver of the public lands at Springfield, in said state, (for the use of said county,) the residue of the northeast fractional quarter of section number nine, in township number eight Provlso. north, in range number eight east: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to interfere with the claim or claims of any other person or persons, to said fractional quarter section. Hem, gw 0;- J_ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the heirs or legal represen- L¤¤h¤¤¤ may 1*8- tatives of J. Latham, deceased, be, and they are hereby, authorized to l°°"°’ &°' withdraw and re-locate the claim which was illegally located on said fractional quarter section, upon any other quarter section of public land to which it may, by law, be applicable. Armoveo, March 2, 1833. STATUTL H` CHAP. LXXXVl.— An Act, grantinv certain city lots to the President and Directors M""h 2» 1833* of the Gcorgctmun. College m the Bistrict of Columbia. Lot, to be ,,3- Be it enacted, r§·c., That there shall be, and hereby are, granted to l¤¢\¤d»&·¤· the President and Directors of Georgetown College in the District of Columbia, lots in the city of Washington, to the amount, in value, of twenty-five thousand dollars, which said lots shall be selected and valued by the commissioner of the public buildings, when requested To bes¤1d,&e. by the said president and directors; and when the said lots shall be so selected and valued, the same shall be vested in the said corporation, in fee simple, to be by them held and disposed of in the following manner; that is to say : The said corporation, by proper and lawful act or acts, under their corporate seal, shall sell and dispose of the said lots, as soon as reasonably practicable, for the best price or prices they can obtain, and shall vest the proceeds of the same in some public stock, or in stock of some incorporated bank. Retums to be Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, when the lots aforesaid

 °°”*‘ shall be selected and valued as aforesaid, the said commissioner shall

' make return of the numbers and description thereof to the clerk of the circuit court of the county of Washington ; to be by him recorded among the records of the land titles in the said county. use 0;,,,0,,0,,,]., Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proceeds of the sales &·<=- ulbresaid, so to be vested, shall not be otherwise used by the said president and directors than as a capital, to he by them forever hereafter kept vested as aforesaid; and the dividends, or interest, thereupon accruing, shall, by them, be used and applied in the aid of the revenues of the said college, to the establishment and endowment of such professorships therein as now are, or hereafter shall be, established by said president and directors; and to and for no other purpose whatever. Avmovmn, March 2, 1833. Sr.u·v·rm ll. ··-······ March 2, 1833. Curxr. LXXXVlll.·——An Act ta incorporate the Georgetown Free School and —-·——-——--——- Orphan Asylum, in the District of Columbia. cm2,.,,,,,;,,,, cm- Be it enacted, Qc., That Stephen Dubuisson, Lewis Carbery, Peter ¤\¤ · O’Donoghue, Edward B. King, Enoch King, Charles King, Ignatius Clarke, Bernard Brien, A. H. Boucher, John R. May, and Joseph Brooks, and their successors in office, are hereby made, declared, and constituted, a corporation and body politic, in law and in fact, to have continuance forever, under the name style, and title, of the Georgetown Free School and Orphan Asylum. Sec. 2. And be it jizrt/tar cnarted, That all and singular the lands, tenements, rents, legames, annuities, rights, privileges, goods, and chat-