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who, on or before the thirty-first day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, were in actual occupancy and cultivation of the same, or any part thereof, shall, on paying into the treasury one dollar and twenty-five cents the acre previous to the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, receive a patent for his or her allotment or purchase: Provided, The register of the land office for the district in which the lands lie, shall be satisfied of the validity of the purchase.

. And be it further enacted, That all persons in actual settlement and cultivation, before or on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, upon any of the lands referred to by the, and not disposed of by the first section of this act, or any former act of Congress, shall, on proof of such settlement and cultivation, and on paying into the treasury of the United States, within six months after the passage of this act, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, receive a patent for one hundred and sixty acres: Proviso, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to alter or repeal the third section of the above-recited act.

. And be it further enacted, That so much of the as requires that payment shall be made previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, be, and the same is hereby, extended to the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.

, February 19, 1833.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second section of the act, entitled “,” approved the seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners; and that the pensions of invalid soldiers shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act.

, February 19, 1833.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner of the public buildings be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to alter the plan for the improvement of Pennsylvania Avenue, as provided for by an, by causing that portion of the avenue lying between the road directed to be Macadamized and the side pavements, to be graduated and covered with stone, on the Macadam’s plan, in place of gravel, provided for by said act; also by extending the foot pavements not less than five and a half feet on each side, and forming side drains, not less than four and a half feet wide; and further, by setting a line of curbs of granite, eight inches thick, on each side of that part of the avenue between the Capitol square and the President’s square, with suitable returns at the cross streets, and Macadamizing the cross streets fifty feet on each side of the Macadamized cover of the avenue.

. And be it further enacted, That, to carry into effect the