in like manner, if the sum due, with interest, be not at such sale bidden and paid. And in cases where any tract or tracts of land in said territory, not exceeding, in the whole, six hundred and forty acres, unless the tract be a fractional section or sections, or fractional sections classed with an entire section, have, since the first day of October last, reverted to the United States, for default of payment, the original purchaser may again enter the same tract or tracts at the price at which such tract or tracts were originally sold; and all moneys which such original purchaser may have paid shall be replaced to his credit by the receiver of public moneys for the district in which the land may lie, and such re-purchasers shall be allowed the same benefits of the extension of the time of payment created by this act, as through no such reversion had occurred: Provided, That such original purchaser shall make to the proper officer such application for such re-entry as it required by law for the entry of lands on or before the first day of July next, and that the land so reverted shall not have then been previously re-sold.
Approved, April 24, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. LXXVI.—An Act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act granting bounties in lands and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers.”
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.
Further allowance of pay.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That instead of the treasurer of the United States, as is prescribed by the third section of the act to which this act is a supplement, the paymaster of the army of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to each of the persons described in the act above recited according to the provisions thereof, three months’ pay in addition to that to which they may have been previously entitled, according to the rank they respectively held in the army of the United States during the late war.
Approved, April 26, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. LXXVII.—An Act declaring the assent of Congress to an act of the general assembly of the state of Virginia.
Assent of Congress to a law of Virginia relative to the navigation of James River.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the assent of Congress is hereby given and declared to an act of the general assembly of Virginia, entitled “An act incorporating a company for the purpose of improving the navigation of James river from Warwick to Rockett’s landing,” which act was passed on the twenty-second day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Approved, April 26, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. LXXIX.—An Act rewarding the officers and crew of the Constitution, for the capture of the British sloop of war Levant.
Reward for capturing the sloop of war Levant.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to have distributed as prize money, to Captain Charles Stewart, late of the frigate Constitution, his officers and crew, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the capture of the British sloop of war Levant; and that the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose aforesaid.
Approved, April 26, 1816.