Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLIII.—An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to sell and convey a certain tract of land in Northumberland county, in the state of Virginia.
The Secretary of the Treasury authorized to sell the right of the United States to a piece of land formerly owned by Presly Thornton, in Virginia.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of, at public or private sale, all the estate, right, title, interest, claim, and demand, of the United States of America, of, in, and to, all that certain tract, or piece of land, situate in Northumberland county, in the state of Virginia, formerly owned by Presly Thornton, of the said county and state, and late of Sharp Delany, containing about two thousand five hundred acres, be the same more or less; the same being the premises which William Lewis and Thomas Robinson, by deed of indenture, executed on the second day of June, anno domini one thousand eight hundred and nine, granted and conveyed to the United States; the moneys arising from the saidAppropriation of the moneys arising from the sale. sale to be appropriated towards the payment of a debt due from the late Sharp Delany to the United States; and the residue thereof, if any there be, to be paid over to the legal representatives of the said Sharp Delany.
Approved, March 3, 1821.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLIV.—An Act to regulate the location of land warrants, and the issuing of patents, in certain cases.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 106.
Assignees of warrants issued to Canadian volunteers, may locate them, &c.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the holders, by assignment, of warrants issued under the acts of Congress, of the fifth of March, eighteen hundred and sixteen, the third of March eighteen hundred and seventeen, to Canadian volunteers, may be, and hereby are, authorized to locate the said warrants, and to receive patents therefor in their own named, as had been the practice before the twenty-sixth of December, eighteen hundred and nineteen: Provided, however, That in no case shall lands be so located, until, after having been exposed to public sale, shall remain unsold.
Approved, March 3, 1821.
Statute II.
[Repealed.]
Chap. XLV.—An Act to continue in force, for a further time, the act, entitled “An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes.”
The act of March 2, 1811, ch. 30, continued until June 3, 1822.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act for establishing trading-houses with the Indian tribes,” passed on the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and which was, by subsequent acts, continued in force until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, shall be, and the same is hereby, further continued in force until the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and no longer.
Approved, March 3, 1821.
Statute II.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLVI.—An Act to release French ships and vessels, entering the ports of the United States prior to the thirtieth of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, from the operation of the act, entitled “An act to impose a new tonnage duty on French ships and vessels,” and for other purposes.
