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Seven thousand dollars for a lighthouse at Pass Christian near the bay of St. Louis.

For buoys to be placed at the south pass, and the pass at Dauphin island, four hundred dollars.

State of Alabama.—Five hundred dollars for placing buoys in Mobile bay.

State of Illinois.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse at the mouth of Chicago river, Lake Michigan.

Michigan Territory.—Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse at the confluence of the St. Joseph’s river with Lake Michigan.

Five thousand dollars for a lighthouse on the Outerthunder bay island in Lake Huron.

A sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for building a light-boat to be stationed in the strait connecting Lakes Huron and Michigan; and three hundred and fifty dollars for buoys and placing the same on the flats at the head of Lake St. Clair.

Florida Territory.—Eleven thousand four hundred dollars for building a lighthouse on the west end of St. George’s island, near the entrance of Appalachicola bay.

Four hundred dollars for placing buoys in the said bay between St. George’s island, and the entrance of the Appalachicola river.

Two hundred dollars for placing buoys in the bay and river of St. Mark’s.

One hundred and sixty dollars for placing buoys at St. Augustine, and in St. John’s river.

Five thousand dollars for building a lighthouse on a suitable site at or near Port Clinton.

, March 3, 1831.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of land not exceeding one half section, including the present residence of Mrs. Percis Lovely, in Pope county, in the territory of Arkansas, shall be reserved by the President of the United States from public sale, during the lifetime of said Percis, and that she shall have the entire use and privilege of, and possession of the said half section of land, for and during her life: Provided, That the said Percis Lovely shall not commit, or permit any other person to commit, on said land, any voluntary waste.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury pay unto the said Percis Lovely, or her legal representative, out of any money in the treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to that for which her improvements upon the land secured to her by the treaty of Hiawassee, in one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, for life, were valued, and which improvements and land were taken from her by the treaty of Washington, of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, with the Cherokee Indians. Provided, That before the money shall be paid the said Percis Lovely, she shall produce to the Treasury Department satisfactory evidence that the said sum of money has not been heretofore paid her by the government of the United States, through the Indian Department: and Provided, also, That the half section granted by this act, shall not interfere with, or include any lands lying within the limits of any reservation made by the last-named treaty, made at Washington as aforesaid, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.

. And be it further enacted, That, for carrying into effect the treaty concluded with the Seneca tribe of Indians at Washington, the