proper to manifest the sensibility, with which the disastrous accident is viewed by the government of the United States, therefore,
Arrangement to be made with France for payment of double pensions to persons wounded and relatives of those killed.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 and empowered to enter into an arrangement with the government of France for the payment of an annual sum of twice the amount receivable by the navy pensioners of the same or a similar class to the wounded who survive, and to such relatives of those who were unhappily killed as aforesaid, as the President may deem it expedient to include in this provision, which said sum shall be paid on the earliest day practicable after the proposed arrangement shall be concluded, and on the same day in each year thereafter during the respective lives of the persons to whom granted.
Appropriation.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That a sum of money sufficient to enable the President to carry the aforesaid arrangement into effect, be and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, June 28, 1834.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CI.—An Act to authorize the correction of erroneous selections of land granted to the state of Indiana, for the purpose of constructing the Michigan road.
Indiana to select lands in lieu of those formerly selected.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of Indiana be, and hereby is authorized to select other lands in lieu of sections numbered eighteen and twenty-nine, and fractional section numbered thirty-two, in township thirty-seven north, of range one, east, heretofore selected, to be applied to the purpose of constructing the Michigan road in Indiana; the selections authorized by this act to be made on any unsold land, within the district where the above-mentioned lands lie, and shall be applied to the same object, and the first named selections are hereby declared void and of no effect.
Approved, June 28, 1834.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CII.—An Act limiting the times of advertising the sales of the public lands.
Sales to be advertised not less than three, nor more than six months.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter the public lands which shall be exposed to public sale by order of the President of the United States, shall be advertised for a period of not less than three nor more than six months prior to the day of sale, any thing in any law heretofore enacted to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, June 28, 1834.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CIII.—An Act making additional appropriations for certain harbours, and removing obstructions in the mouths of certain rivers, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Appropriations for harbours and rivers.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, for carrying on and completing certain works heretofore commenced, viz:
Kennebunk river.For piers at the entrance of Kennebunk river, ten thousand three hundred dollars.