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act, entitled “,” approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, are hereby declared to extend to cases where patents have issued, or shall hereafter issue: upon condition that the party concerned shall surrender his or her patent, to the commissioner of the general land office, with a relinquishment of title thereon, executed in a form to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

, May 24, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to defray the expenses of treating with the Chippewas, Ottawas, Pattawattimas, Winnebagoes, Fox and Sacs nations of Indians, for the purpose of extinguishing their titles to lands within the state of Illinois and the territory of Michigan, situated between the Illinois river and the lead mines, on Fever river, and in the vicinity of said lead mines; and, also, certain reservations on the south-east border of Lake Michigan; and that the President of the United States, if he shall deem it expedient, may apply a part of the aforesaid appropriation, for the purpose of holding a treaty with the Choctaw nation of Indians, to extinguish their title to the tract of land, which lies in the territory of Arkansas, east of the western boundary line of said territory; the said sum to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of negotiating said treaty, on the part of the United States, the President shall be, and he is hereby, authorize to appoint commissioners, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as soon as practicable, and to fix their compensation, so as not to exceed what has been heretofore allowed for like services.

, May 24, 1828.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of thirty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the suppression of the slave trade, pursuant to the.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be authorized to pay, out of the sum herein appropriated, the claim of the administrator of the estate of Taliaferro Livingston, late United States’ marshal for the district of Alabama, for the maintenance of sundry Africans, captured in one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: Provided, The said administrator shall produce satisfactory evidence of the reasonableness of the charges for the said maintenance; and that the sums received by the said Livingston for the hire of the said Africans, and for the labour performed for him by said Africans, if any, be accounted for, and deducted.

, May 24, 1828.