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public sale: Provided, That, if any lot so offered and bid off on the last day of the public sale shall not be thus paid for, the same may be entered at private sale, upon paying to the United States the sum at which it was bid off, and to the owner of the improvements the previously ascertained value thereof: And provided further, That the President be not authorized to offer any part of said town lots for sale, till he shall be satisfied that the site proposed for said town is not included within the limits of any conflicting Spanish title, which may not be released, or decided to be invalid.

, March 2, 1833.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the further quantity of two hundred thousand acres of land be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act, entitled “,” approved the thirtieth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and the act, entitled “,” approved the thirteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; which said appropriations shall be applied in the manner provided by the said acts, to the unsatisfied warrants, whether original or duplicate, which have been or may be issued as therein directed, to the officers and soldiers, and others, as described in said acts: Provided, That the said certificates of scrip shall be receivable in payment of any of the public lands liable to sale at private entry.

, March 2, 1833.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all offences prescribed in the act, entitled “,” approved the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven,” [sic] when committed upon public lands not situated within any state, or organized territorial government, shall be cognisable in the district court of the United States held in the state nearest where the said offence may have been committed: and the offenders, upon conviction, shall be punished accordingly. And the said court shall also have jurisdiction to hear and determine all suits or prosecutions, instituted for the recovery of all fines and penalties imposed by the said act.

. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to direct the Indian agents at Prairie du Chien, and Rock Island, or either of them, when offences against said act shall be committed on lands recently acquired by treaty from the Sac and Fox Indians, to execute and perform all the duties required by the said act to be performed by the marshals in such mode as to give full effect to the said act, in and over the lands acquired as aforesaid.

, March 2, 1833.