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Chap. CLXIII.—An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An act authorizing the appointment of persons to test the usefulness of inventions to improve and render safe the boilers of steam engines against explosions,” approved twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Act of June 28, 1838, ch. 147—supplement. That nothing in the act to which this is additional shall be construed to exclude from the consideration and examination of the commissioners, any plan of a steam engine, for propelling boats constructed without a boiler.
Approved, July 7, 1838.
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Chap. CLXIV.—An Act making appropriations for certain roads in the Territory of Florida.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation. That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for repairing and opening certain roads in the Territory of Florida, viz:
From Tallahassee to Iola.For opening and constructing a road from Tallahassee to Iola, on the river Appalachicola, the sum of ten thousand dollars.
From St. Augustine to Picolata.For repairing the road, and reconstructing the bridges and causeways thereon, from St. Augustine to Picolata, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars.
From Jacksonville to Tallahassee.For repairing the road from Jacksonville, by the Mineral Springs, to Tallahassee, the sum of ten thousand dollars: the said sums to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, July 7, 1838.
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Chap. CLXV.—An Act to authorize the sale of certain public lands of the United States near the Wabash and Erie canal, in the State of Ohio.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The President authorized to proclaim for public sale the residue of lands reserved by act of June 30th, 1834, ch. 137.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 56.
Act of March 3, 1845, ch. 42.
Proviso. That after the State of Ohio shall have completed the selection of lands authorized by an act entitled “An act authorizing the selection of certain Wabash and Erie canal lands, in the State of Ohio,” approved June thirty, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, the President of the United States shall be, and he hereby is, authorized to proclaim for public sale the residue of the lands reserved from sale by said act; which sale shall be governed by the same rules and regulations, impose the same duties, and give the same rights, which are provided by the existing laws in relation to other sales of the public lands by proclamation of the President: Provided, however, That no lands shall be sold at such sale for a less price than two dollars and fifty cents per acre.
Afterwards, any lands unsold shall be subject to private entry, &c.
Not subject to entry under pre-emption laws.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That after the expiration of the time fixed in the proclamation of the President for the sale authorized in the first section of this act, any lands which may then remain unsold shall be subject to sale at private entry, at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and not less; and no lands hereby authorized to be sold shall be subject to entry under any pre-emption law of Congress.
