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Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the fifth day of December, 1831, and ended July sixteenth, 1832.

, President;, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; , Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of Illinois be, and is authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of, twenty thousand acres (in addition to the thirty thousand acres heretofore authorized to be sold) of the lands granted to said state for the use and support of the salt works, known by the name of the “Ohio Saline,” in the county of Gallatin, in said state; the said twenty thousand acres of land to be selected and sold, and the proceeds thereof applied in such manner as the general assembly of Illinois have directed, or hereafter may direct.

, January 19, 1832.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, all persons who have purchased under an act, entitled “,” approved the twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may assign and transfer their certificates of purchase, or final receipts, and patents may issue in the name of such assignee, any thing in the act aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding.

, January 23, 1832.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all patents are, or