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said awards shall be made; and shall cause certificates to be issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as he may prescribe, showing the proportion to which each may be entitled of the amount that may thereafter be received; and on the presentation of the said certificates at the treasury, as the net proceeds of the general instalments, payable by the Neapolitan government, shall have been received, such proportions thereof shall be paid to the legal holders of said certificates.

. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, to cause the several instalments, with the interest thereon payable to the United States, in virtue of the said convention, to be received from the Neapolitan government, and transferred to the United States, in such manner as he may deem best, and the net proceeds thereof to be paid into the treasury, and the same are hereby appropriated, to satisfy the awards herein provided for.

. And be it further enacted, That all communications to and from the secretary of the board of commissioners, on the business of the commission, shall pass by mail, free of postage.

. And be it further enacted, That as soon as said commission shall be executed and completed, the records, documents, and all other papers, in the possession of the Commission or its officers, shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.

, March 2, 1833.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, whenever the governor of the territory of Arkansas shall furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury a sufficient description of the boundaries of the thousand acres of land, granted by an, to the territory of Arkansas, for the erection of a courthouse and jail in the town of Little Rock, in the territory aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause a patent to be issued for said thousand acres of land, to the governor of Arkansas, and his successors in office, in trust, for the benefit of the territory of Arkansas, for the purpose of erecting a courthouse and jail at Little Rock.

. And be it further enacted, That the governor of the said territory of Arkansas be, and he is hereby, fully empowered and authorized to lay off into town lots, conforming, as near as practicable to the present plan of the town of Little Rock, so much of said grant of a thousand acres of land as he may deem advisable so to be appropriated; and that he be further authorized to sell the same, from time to time, as the public interest may require; and the residue of said grant, which may not be laid off into town lots corresponding with the plan of the said town of Little Rock, he shall be authorized to dispose of, in such lots or parcels as he may deem advisable; but in no case shall he be authorized to sell, unless he shall give public notice of such sale by an advertisement in one or more newspapers printed in the territory of Arkansas; and said sale shall be public at the courthouse in the town of Little Rock.

. And be it further enacted, That, in case suitable situations cannot be had, free of cost to the territory, for the location of the statehouse, as well as for the courthouse and jail in the town of Little Rock, the governor aforesaid shall be, and he is hereby, fully authorized to select and lay off suitable squares for each of those buildings, within the addition hereunto authorized to be added to the town of Little Rock;