862 'FWENTY-SEVENTII CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 176. 1842. settlement he allow to said Caldwell the rate of compensation stipulated for in his contracts with the department for carrying the mail over said routes during the time specified, if in the opinion of the Att0rney-General of the United States, (which opinion the said Auditor shall first require of the said Attorney-General,) the Postmaster-General had not the right, under the terms of these contracts, to make the alterations in the mode of transporting said mails, which were ordered by the department on the fourteenth November, eighteen hundred and thirty-three. Appropriation. And the proper officers shall thereupon pay to the said Caldwell whatever sum shall, upon such settlement of his accounts, appear to be justly due him, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, August 16, 1842. S·n·ru·rs II. Aug. 16, 1842. C1-mv. CLXXVI. -.0rz Act to compensate the township of Dublin, inMerm· """""' county, Ohio, for the loss of school lands. Be it enacted, ¢§··c., That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he Scrip to issue hereby is, authorized to issue to the trustees of Dublin township, Mercer “}g‘°,:fC“i‘°” county, in the state of Ohio, land scrip to the amount of three hundred Ship $0,.13,,3;; and eleven dollars and eight cents, in consideration of that part of secof school lands. tion number sixteen reserved for the use of schools in said township, which, previous to the survey of said township, had been granted by Congress to Anthony Shane; and to the further amount of four hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-two cents, in consideration of another part of said section number sixteen, which in like manner had been granted to Louis Godfrey, and of which parts of said section sixteen the said Shane and Godfrey, their heirs and assigns, have possession under the grants aforesaid, to the exclusion of the right to the said township Scrip, how to therein; which said scrip shall be issued in the form and manner herel b° ‘““"d· tofore prescribed for the granting of scrip for bounty land, and shall be Proinso. of like effect in the hands of the legal holder: Provided, however, That, before the issue and delivery of said scrip, the inhabitants of said township, at a legal meeting called for that purpose, shall vote to accept of the same in full satisfaction of their right and claim to the lands so granted, and in full compensation therefor, and shall authorize and cause to be executed to the United States, and filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and to his approval, a good and sufficient deed of quit claim, in release, in law and equity, of all claim, right, title, and interest in and to all those parts of said section sixteen, in said township, which are included in and conveyed by the grants P;·0vigg_ aforesaid to said Anthony Shane and Louis Godfrey: And provided, _furtlzcr, That if so ordered by said inhabitants, at such meeting, the execution and acknowledgment of such deed or conveyance, by a majority of said trustees, according to the laws of Ohio, shall be deemed and held a sufficient execution and acknowledgment thereof by said inhabitants. The serip,&.c. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the scrip so issued and deli-
- 6l>$S=;¤g}¤¤d *0 vered by the said Secretary of the Treasury to said township of Dublin,
Schools_ or the lands or other things purchased therewith, shall be held and applied by said township to the use of schools, and to no other object or purpose, in the same manner as the said section sixteen, or the proceeds of the sales, or the rents and profits thereof, would be held and applied, had the said land not been granted to said Shane and Godfrey, but had been held and enjoyed as school lands, to the use of said township, by virtue of the original reservation therefor. Approved, August 16, 1842.
