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thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be construed into a legislative sanction of any examination or survey which shall not be deemed of national importance, and within the provisions of the aforesaid.

To complete a pier adjacent to a pier at Buffalo, in the state of New York, thirty-four thousand two hundred and six dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

, May 19, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That if any one, being a citizen of the United States, or trading under their authority, shall, in contravention of the stipulations entered into by the United States, with the Emperor of all the Russias, by the fifth article of the treaty, signed at St. Petersburg, on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, sell, or cause to be sold, to the natives of the country on the north-west coast of America, or any of the islands adjacent thereto, any spirituous liquors, fire arms, or other arms, powder or munitions of war of any kind, the person offending shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days, nor more than six months.

. And be it further enacted, That the superior courts in each of the territorial districts, and the circuit courts and other courts of the United States, of similar jurisdiction in criminal causes, in each district of the United States, in which any offender against this act shall be first apprehended or brought for trial, shall have, and are hereby invested with, full power and authority to hear, try and punish, all crimes, offences and misdemeanors against this act; such courts proceeding therein in the same manner as if such crimes, offences and misdemeanors, had been committed within the bounds of their respective districts.

, May 19, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States of America be, and he is hereby, authorized, in conjunction with the constituted authorities of the state of Louisiana, to cause to be run, and distinctly marked, the line dividing the territory of Arkansas from the state of Louisiana; commencing on the right bank of the Mississippi river, at latitude thirty-three degrees north, and running due west on that parallel of latitude, to where a line running due north from latitude thirty-two degrees north, on the Sabine river, will intersect the same. And, for that purpose, he is hereby authorized, to appoint a commissioner, or surveyor, or both, as in his opinion may be necessary: Provided, The compensation to be allowed to the person or