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proper plats of the surveys of said districts to be deposited in the land offices intended for them respectively.

. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the registers and receivers, to be appointed for the land districts hereby established, shall not commence till after the surveys shall have been completed.

. And be it further enacted, That all that portion of country acquired by the treaty with the Choctaw nation of Indians, within the state of Alabama, south of township nineteen, shall be offered for sale at the Saint Stephen’s land office, and the residue shall be attached to the Tuscaloosa land district, and be offered for sale at that place.

, July 10, 1832.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioners of the navy pension and navy hospital funds be, and they are hereby, directed to close all their accounts as trustees of said funds, and to pay over the balance of cash in their hands, and to assign over and transfer all the certificates of stock, and other property belonging to said funds, and to the privateer pension fund, to the treasurer of the United States, for the use of the Secretary of the Navy, for the payment of navy and privateer pensions, and for expenditures on account of navy hospitals, et cetera; and as soon as said assignment and transfer shall be made, the said commissioners shall be, and they are hereby, released and discharged from all further trust connected with said funds, and the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, constituted the trustee of said funds; and as such, it shall be his duty to receive applications for pensions, and to grant the same according to the terms of the acts of Congress in such case made and provided, and to direct and control the expenditures out of the navy hospital fund.

. And be it further enacted, That the balance of cash now on hand, and all moneys that may hereafter arise to said pension funds from stocks redeemed, or from any other source, shall be immediately invested, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, in the bank stock of the Bank of the United States; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be, and hereby is, authorized to sell so much of the stock of the United States in said bank, at the par value thereof, as said navy pension funds will pay for; and to receive said navy pension funds, in payment thereof; the said bank stock to be held in the name of the treasurer of the United States for the purposes aforesaid.

. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause books to be opened, and regular accounts to be kept, showing the condition of the navy and privateer pension funds, the receipts and expenditures thereof, the names of the pensioners, and the dates and amount of their respective pensions, with a statement of the act or acts of Congress under which the same