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Provided, that this additional compensation shall not exceed two thousand dollars, for each of the said commissioners.

. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, the surveyor of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee, shall receive an annual compensation of two thousand dollars, in lieu of the annual compensation now fixed by law. And the lands claimed by virtue of Spanish grants, legally and fully executed, and the titles to which were confirmed by the articles of agreement and cession between the United States and the state of Georgia, shall be surveyed in the manner prescribed by the, at the expense of the United States; any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

. And be it further enacted, That the tract of country lying north of the Mississippi territory, and south of the state of Tennessee, and bounded on the east by the state of Georgia, and on the west by Louisiana, shall be, and the same is hereby annexed to, and made part of the Mississippi territory.*

. And be it further enacted, That so much of the eighth section of an act, intituled “,” as provides, “that no certificate shall be granted for lands lying east of the Tombigby river,” be, and the same hereby is repealed: Provided, that no certificate shall be granted for any lands to which the Indian title has not been extinguished.

. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the act aforesaid, be, and they are hereby authorized and required to make, on or before the first day of December next, a full report to the Secretary of the Treasury, of all claims that have been, or may be laid before them, for lands held by warrant of survey and improvement, in cases where the claimants were minors, and not heads of families, at the time such warrants were issued, with the circumstances which occasioned the issuing of such warrants, and the validity which has been considered as attached to the same.

. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of carrying this act into effect, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That the execution of so much of the twelfth section of the, as excepts “such town lots, not exceeding two, in the town of Natchez, and such an out lot adjoining the same, not exceeding thirty acres, as may be the property of the United States, to be located by the governor of the Mississippi territory, for the use of Jefferson College,” be, and the same is hereby suspended until the end of the next session of Congress.

. And be it further enacted, That transcripts of the records of the British province of West Florida, to claims for lands therein, and which have been delivered to the government of the United States, may be produced as evidence, and shall be entitled to the same weight in any court of the United States, as if the same had been delivered or shall be delivered, to either of the registers of the land-offices in the Mississippi territory, before the last of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, any thing in this act, or in the fifth section of the, to the contrary notwithstanding.

. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of extending the external commerce, and exploring the limits of the United States, in the new acquired territory of Louisiana, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That Major-General La Fayette