ACTS Passed at the First Session of the Twentysecond Congress of the United States. N. B. The titles only of private acts and appropriation bills are given; and the dates of approval refer back to the last preceding dates. Andrew Jackson, President. J. C. Calhoun, Vice President, and President of the Senate. Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. 1. An Act to authorize the State of Illinois to sell twenty thousand acres of the saline lands in said State. CHAP. 2. An Act for the relief of William J. Quincy and Charles E. Quincy. CHAP. 3. An Act for the relief of Henry H. Tuckerman. or final receipts, and patents may issue in the name of such assignee, any thing in the act aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding. CHAP. 10. An Act to direct the manner of issuing patents on confirmed land claims in the Territory of Florida. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Con CHAP. 4. An act for the relief of gress assembled, That all patents that Robertson and Barnwell. CHAP. 5. An Act for the relief of Lewis Anderson. CHAP. 6. An Act for the relief of William Forsythe. CHAP. 7. An Act for the relief of Charles Cassedy. CHAP. 8. An Act for the relief of Dixon Spears. Approved, January 19, 1832. CHAP. 9. An Act supplementary to an Act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on Public Lands. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, all persons who have purchased under an act, entitled An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,' approved the twentyninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may assign, and transfer their certificates of purchase are, or may be, by law, directed to be issued on private land claims confirmed by the commissioners of private land claims, and by the several acts of Congress approving their reports and confirming the titles to lands in the Territory of Floriida, shall be, and they are hereby, required to be issued to the confirmees, or to the assignee, or present owner, where the land has been sold or transferred since the confirmation of the title; and it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the production of satisfactory proof of the death of the confirmee, or upon the production of a regular chain of title from the confirmee, to cause the patent to be issued to the heirs and legal representatives, or to the assignees of the confirmee, as the case may be. CHAP. 11. An Act for the relief of Robert A. Forsythe. CHAP. 12. An Act for the relief of William D. King, James Daviess, and Garland Lincicum. CHAP. 13. An Act for the relief of Stephen Hook. CHAP. 14. An Act for the relief of CHAP. 29. An Act for the relief of Henry Kilbourn. Approved, January 23, 1832. CHAP. 15. An Act to alter the time of holding the spring term of the circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York. CHAP. 16. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claim of the United States in the Commercial bank of Lake Erie. Approved, February 10, 1832. CHAP. 17. An Act for the relief of John Proctor. CHAP. 18. An Act for the relief of Lawrence L. Van Kleeck. William Tharp. CHAP. 30. An Act for the relief of the representatives of Doctor Hanson Catlett. CHAP. 31. An Act for the relief of the heirs of William Robertson, deceased, and Daniel S. Leonard. CHAP. 32. An Act for the relief of John Sapp. CHAP. 33. An Act for the relief of Peter Peck. CHAP. 34. An Act for the relief of Cornelius Overton. Approved, February 24, 1832. CHAP. 19. An Act for the relief of CHAP. 35. An Act for the relief of James Lucius Sawyer. Edward Lee. CHAP. 20. An Act granting a pension CHAP. 36. An Act for the relief of to Jared Cone : CHAP. 21. An Act for the relief of Andrew H. Richardson, executor of Valentine Richardson. CHAP. 22. An Act for the relief of Ariel Ensign. CHAP. 23. An Act for the relief of Adam Peck. CHAP. 24. An Act for the relief of Antoine Dequindre, RichardSmith, and others, Michigan volunteers. Approved, February, 18, 1832. CHAP. 25. An Act to provide for the payment of arrearages in the naval service, chargeable to the enumerated contingent prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. CHAP. 26. An Act making appropriations for the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo. CHAP. 27. An Act making appropriations for fortifications for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo. CHAP. 28. An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo. Eber Hubbard. CHAP. 37. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel Wagstaff. CHAP. 38. An Act for the relief of Percia Tupper, executrix of Samuel Tupper, deceased. CHAP. 39. An Act for the relief of Jane Muir. Approved March 7, 1832. CHAP. 40. An Act for the relief of Edward Livingston. CHAP. 41. An Act for the relief of William Owens. CHAP. 42. An Act for the relief of Amariah Squirrel, administrator of Jacob Squirrel, deceased. CAP. 43. An Act for the relief of Robert Jones and William A. Fleming. CHAP. 44. An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel Keep. CHAP. 45. An Act for the relief of Anthony Foreman, John G. Ross, Cherokee Delegation. CHAP. 46. An Act for the relief of Bernard Marigny, of the State of Louisiana. CHAP. 47. An Act for the relief of William Williamson. CHAP. 48. An Act for the relief of Nathan Towson, Paymaster-General of the army of the United States. CHAP. 49. An Act for the relief of Richard S. Hackley. CHAP. 50. An Act for the relief of J. CHAP. 51. An Act for the adjustment ations for the support of the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo. CHAP. 65. An Act supplementary to the several laws for the sale of the Public Lands. SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of May next, all the public lands of the United States, when offered at private sale, may be purchased at the option of the purchaser, either in entire sections, half sections, quarter sections, half quarter sections, or quarter-quarter sections; and in every case of a division of a half quarter section, the line for the division thereof shall run east and west, and the corners and contents of quarter quarter sections, which may thereafter CHAP. 53. An Act for the relief of be sold, shall be ascertained as nearly as John McDonough. CHAP. 52. An Act to amend the sever. al acts establishing a Territorial Government in Florida. may be, in the manner and on the principles, directed and prescribed by the CHAP. 54. An Act for the relief of second section of an act, entitled Sylvester Havens. An art concerning the mode of surveying passed on the eleventh day of February the public lands of the United States,' eighteen hundred and five; and fractional sections, containing fewer or more than one hundred and sixty acres, shall in like manner, as nearly as may be practicable, be subdivided into quarter quarter sections, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the treasury: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to alter any special provision made by law for the sale of land in town lots; And, provided also, That no person shall be permitted to enter more than one half quarter section of land under this act, in quarter quarter sections, in his own name, or in the name of any other person, and in no case unless he intends it CHAP. 59. An Act for the relief of for cultivation, or for the use of his imJohn Rodgers. provement. And the person making application to make an entry under this CHAP. 60. An Act for the relief of act, shall file his and her affidavit, unRobert Smart. der such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, that he CHAP. 61. An Act for the relief of or she makes the entry in his or her John Menary. CHAP. 62. An Act for the relief of Thomas Dennis, and the legal representative of Asa Hartfield. own name, for his or her own benefit, and not in trust for another: Provided, further, That all actual settlers, being house-keepers, upon the public lands, shall have the right of pre-emption to enter, within six months after CHAP. 63. An Act for the relief of the passage of this act, not exceed Benedict Joseph Flaget. Approved, March, 31, 1832. CHAP. 64. An Act making appropri ing the quantity of one half quarter section, under the provisions of this act, to include his or their improvements, under such regulations as have been, or |