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66 TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 91, 92. 1846. otherwise appropriated? tho sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended, under the dxrecuon of the Sccrctary of the Treasury, in such repairs or additions as may be necessary to put lll good condition for use, with as little delay as may be consistent with the public interests, the offices, rooms, gaults, arld safes, hcycin mentioned, and in the purchase of any uccessary additional furmture. and Hxtpres, in the purchase of necessary books and statxoneryj and ln defraying my other incidental expenses necessary to carry thns act mto efect. Conuiceiug mu Sec. 24. And be it further enacted, That all acts, or parts of acts, '°P°’·l°d· which como in conflict with the provisions of this act be, and the same arc hereby, repealed. Approved, August 6, 1846. Aug. 6, 1846. Cmu>. XCI.—An .@cL 1;; ggovidc {cr t2;C;1%f1;»q!1;vnLqf pcftain Settlement Claim; —-———-——— m mms urg n as no , auzswm. 'Bc it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Tho2dprovis0 United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second f£;°;§r:§¥é§;‘; proviso of the third section of the act df eighth May, eighteen hun· ’S¥’*‘b$?L€»§°°2L‘3 E ?2§Lh`§€;E¥.§`KE;`E3S$L$Ll §§’f'§n’$°§nZ“£EZS1$`£2EZ§ £Z,.`$`€>£ZZZ'£1.

 the Districts east of the Island of New Orleans," shall not apply to

claims, which me the reports dated eighteenth November, eighteen hundred and twenty, gffby °°“E"“' and twenty-fourth July, eighteen hundred and twenty-ono, of Cosby and Skipwith, on settlement claims in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the Mississippi River and west of Pear] River; but such claims which, according to the said reports, were inhabited or cultivatod, or where the date of settlement was before the fifteenth April, eighteen hundred and thirteen, are hereby confirmed under the other restrictions of said third section; but this confirmation shall in no manner affect prior rights, and shall only amount to a relinquishment on the part of the United States. Arpnovmv, August 6, 1846. Aug, 7, 1846, Gun. XCII.—An Act to surrender to the State a Tennessee all Title the United 5'latc: -;-—- have to Law in Tennessee, snuxh and uwst cftlzc Line commonly called the Cangrpssional Reservation Line, and to release to mid State the Proceeds of such pf

glagllzczgs may have been sold by the Szate of Tmn.e.ssee,us the Agent rj` za

Au umppw Qc it enacted by the {Senate and Homes; of Rqpresentatives of ithe priatgd land or United States of America m Congress assembled, That the United

ljés-ingsa; States hereby release and surrender to the State of Tennessee the

md wgst of the right and title of the United States to all lands in the State of Ten- Congaessioualrc- nessee, lying south and west of the Congressional reservation line in {:;;g°"$°°£5 said State, which may yet remain unappropriatcd, and further rcléasé sm.}, with me and transfer to said State of Tennessee the proceeds of such of Said {;°°€;‘;i°f Egg; lands as may have boon sold by said State, not heretofore paid Over wld_ to the United States, nor deposited subject to the order or usc of the 1841 ch- ,1; United States, under tho authority of the act of Congress of the tigh- ' teenth February, eighteen hundred and forty-onc, entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue Grants and perfect Titles to certain Lands therein described, and to settle the Claims to the vacant and unappropriated Lands within the Same,' passed the eighteenth Day of April, one thousand eight said smc to hundred and six." This surrender and transfer is upon the 6Xp1'€SS 2E5U' glgfgg gg copdition that the State of Tennessee shall, out of the pr00€BdS of said pm for a Bud lands, sci; apart and apply forty thousand dollars t0W&@'dS UW couege. cstabhshment and support of a collcgo at Jackson, in tha county of