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, shall be extended to and embrace in its operations, every claim to a donation of land in the state of Missouri, held in virtue of settlement and cultivation; and the commissioners appointed under the above-recited act, shall proceed to consider, decide, and report upon the aforesaid claims, under the provisions of the several acts of Congress heretofore passed in relation to said claims, and under such provisions and restrictions of the act to which this is a supplement, as may be applicable thereto.

. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the recorder and commissioners aforesaid, to continue to take the testimony of all such claims as heretofore described, for and during the term of two years, from the date of the act to which this is a supplement, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

, March 2, 1833.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That after the first day of April next, the office of the surveyor general of public lands south of Tennessee, shall be kept at Jackson, the seat of government of the state of Mississippi.

. And be it further enacted, That all accounts for surveys of public lands in the state of Louisiana, nor approved before the first day of April next, shall be presented with the proper returns of such surveys, to the office of the surveyor general of public lands for the state of Louisiana, for settlement and allowance.

, March 2, 1833.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lands granted to the state of Illinois by the, may be used and disposed of by said state, for the purpose of making a railroad instead of a canal as in said act contemplated; and that the time for commencing and completing said canal or railroad, whichever the state of Illinois may choose to make, be and is extended five years; Provided, That if a railroad is made in place of a canal, the state of Illinois shall be subject to the same duties and obligations, and the government of the United States shall be entitled to, and have the same privileges on said railroad, which they would have had through the canal, if it had been opened.

. And be it further enacted, That the further time of five years be allowed the state of Ohio to commence the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, in addition to the time now allowed therefor by law.

, March 2, 1833.