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the existing controversy with Great Britain relating thereto to a speedy termination.

, April 17, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in lieu of the lands appropriated by the, there shall be granted to the state of Ohio, for the purposes designated in the said act, forty-nine sections of land, to be located in the Delaware land district, in the following manner, to wit: every alternate section, through which the road may run, and the section adjoining thereto, on the west, so far as the said sections remain unsold, and, if any part of the said sections shall have been disposed of, then a quantity equal thereto, shall be selected under the direction of the commissioner of the general land office, from the vacant lands in the sections adjoining on the west of those appropriated.

, April 17, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for the redemption of lands which have been, or may be, sold for the non-payment of taxes under the several acts ; ; and the, for laying and collecting a direct tax within the United States, so far as the same have been purchased for, or on behalf of, the United States, be revived, and be extended for the further term of three years, from and after the expiration of the present session of Congress: Provided, also, That on such redemption, interest shall be paid at the rate of twenty per centum on the taxes aforesaid, and on the additions of twenty per centum, chargeable thereon; and the right of redemption shall enure, as well as to the heirs and assignees of the land so purchased, on behalf of the United States, as to the originals thereof.

, April 28, 1828.