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 and the Indian boundary line, at the rate of two dollars per acre, payable without interest, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the register of the land office, established at Cincinnati, to receive and to enter on his entry-book, the applications of the said Dufour, and his associates, for any unappropriated sections with the adjoining fractions, if any, not to exceed in the whole four sections, and lying within the district aforesaid; stating in each entry the date of the application and the number of the section or fraction, township and range applied for; and it shall also be the duty of the said register to deliver to the said Dufour and his associates a copy of each entry thus made; also a copy of the description or field notes, and of the plat of each tract, with a certificate stating that the same has been purchased under the authority of, this act, at the rate of two dollars per acre, payable without interest, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen.

. 3. And be it further enacted, That payment for said land may be made at the treasury of the United States, or to the receiver of the land office at Cincinnati, either in specie, or in the evidences of the public debt of the United States, at the rates prescribed by an act entitled "an act to authorize the receipt of evidences of the public debt in payment for the lands of the United States," and a discount at the rate of six per cent. a year shall be allowed on any payments, which shall be made before the same shall become due.

. 4. And be it further enacted, That on producing to the secretary of the treasury copies of the entries aforesaid, and of the plats of the tracts applied for, also the certificate of the register of the land office established at Cincinnati, that the same have been purchased in conformity to the provisions of this act, the President of the United States shall be, and he hereby is authorized and empowered to issue letters patent in the usual form, unto the said Dufour, his associates, and their heirs, for the said lands; with condition expressed in the said letters patent, that on failure to pay the purchase money when the same shall become due the lands therein described, with the improvements thereon, shall be deemed forfeited, and shall revest in the United States,

, May 1, 1802.

Be it enacted, &c., That there be paid unto Fulwar Skipwith, out of any money in the public treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, advanced by him for the use of the United States, with an interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the first day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, at which time she advance was made.

May 3, 1802.