for a term not exceeding three years, on such conditions as will insure the working the same most extensively, and to the most advantage to the United States. NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. March 3, 1803. APPROVED. TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXXXII. An ACT concerning the City of Washington. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the superintendant of the city of Washington shall Salary of the superinbe, and he hereby is allowed as a compensation tendant.. for his services, a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars, annually. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Allowance the surveyor of the city shall receive as a com- to the surpensation for his services, an allowance of veyor. three dollars for every day during which he shall be actually employed. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums be, and the same hereby are appropriated for defraying the expense in relation to the said officers, that is to say: For the salary of the superintendant for the year one thousand eight hundred and three, including an allowance at the same rate for six months of the preceding year, one thousand eight hundred dollars: Sums appro priated. To be paid out of the city funds. ry. For clerk hire in his office, five hundred dollars: For the wages of the surveyor, one thousand dollars: For a messenger to both offices, and also to attend the surveyor in the field, two hundred dollars: For fuel, stationery and other contingent expesces of both offices, two hundred dollars. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of any monies in the hands of the said superintendant arising out of the city funds. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That a Appropria- sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, shall tion from be and is hereby appropriated, to be applied the treasu- under the direction of the President of the United States, in such repairs or alterations in the capitol and other public buildings as may be necessary for the accommodation of Congress in their future sessions, and also for keeping in repair the highway between the capitol and other public buildings; which sum shall be paid out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. NATHL, MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STEPHEN R. BRADLEY, March 3, 1803. APPROVED. TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXXXIII. An ACT to revive and continue in force, an act in addition to an act, entituled, "An act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for Military services and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen;" and for other purposes. BE E it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the first section of an act in addition to an act intituled "An act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen, approved the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen hundred and two, be, and the Revived and same is hereby revived and continued in force continued in until the first day of April next. force four weeks. and to whom. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Secretary of the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is war to issue authorized, from and after the first day of land warApril next, to issue warrants for military rants; when bounty lands to the two hundred and fifty-four persons who have exhibited their claims, and produced satisfactory evidence to substantiate the same to the Secretary of war, in pursuance of the act of the twenty sixth of April eighteen hundred and two, intituled "An act in addition to an act, intituled, an act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military ser vices and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen." Where to Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That be located. the holders or proprietors of the land warrants issued by virtue of the preceding section, shall and may locate their respective warrants only, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships which had been reserved for original holders, by virtue of the fifth section of an act intituled "An act in addition to an act intituled an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen.” Land war Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the rants to gen- Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authoeral La Fay-rized to issue land warrants to Major General ette. La Fayette, for eleven thousand five hundred twenty acres, which shall at his option, be located, surveyed and patented, in conformity with the provisions of an act intituled an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the heathen, or which may be received acre for acre, in payment for any of the lands of the United States north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That Unappropriated lands all the unappropriated lands within the miliwithin the tary tract, shall be surveyed into half sections, military in the manner directed by the act intituled tract; how "An act to amend the act intituled an act to be surveyed. providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory north-west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river;" and that so much of the said lands as Part to be at- lie west of the eleventh range within the said tract, shall be attached to, and make a part of tached to the the district of Chillicothe, and be offered for district of Chillicothe ; sale at that place, under the same regulations and for that other lands are within the said district. sale. sale. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That Certain the lands within the said eleventh range, and tracts for east of it, within the said military tract, and all the lands north of the Ohio company's purchase, west of the seven first ranges, and east of the district of Chillicothe, shall be of- Where to be fered for sale at Zanesville, under the direc- offered. tion of a Register of the Land Office and receiver of public monies to be appointed for Registerand that purpose, who shall reside at that place, and shall perform the same duties and be al- Duties and lowed the same emoluments as are prescribed compensafor and allowed to Registers and receivers of tion. the Land Offices by law. receiver ap pointed. under John Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all Possessors persons who have obtained certificates of the of rights of right of pre-emption to lands by virtue of two pre-emption acts, the one intituled "An act giving a right of Cleves Sympre-emption to certain persons who have con- mes and otracted with John Cleves Symmes, or his as- thers allowsociates for lands lying between the Miami ri- ed further time of payvers in the territory of the United States north ment west of the Ohio," and the other "An act to extend and continue the provisions of the said act, passed on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and two, and who have not made the first payment therefor, before the first day of January last, shall be allowed until the tenth day of April next to complete the same; and that all persons who have become purchasers of land by virtue of the aforesaid acts, be, and they are hereby allowed until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and five, to make the second instal |