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 98 ELEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 111. Ch. 24, 27. 1811. acquire, shall be liable to be taken and sold in the same manner as if he had never been imprisoned and discharged as aforesaid: And provided also, That any surety or sureties of said Fosdiok shall first agree in writing, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, as aforesaid, that any liability which may at present exist against such surety` shall in nowise be impaired or affected by this act, or by the liberation of said Fosdick from his imprisonment. Approved, February 13, 1811. STATUTE IH. -i-— Feb. 25, 1811- CHAP. XXIV.-An Act providing for the sale of zz tract of land lying in the state """‘;' of Tennessee, and a tract in the Indiana territory. Be it enacted, &c., That the commissioners appointed by an act of Site of town of the legislature of the state of Tennessee, passed on the fourteenth day §n*1l_’;;lS:_gtE‘i_B_ of November, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to fix on a site for g,,,,,,, 0;],,,,, the town of Pulaski, in the county of Giles, and state aforesaid, and office, and sold. their successors in office, be, and they are hereby authorized, on producing a receipt from the receiver of public moneys, for at least onetwentieth part of the purchase money, to enter with the register of the land office, established for the lands ceded to the United States by the Conditions. Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians, in the Mississippi territory, a tract of land lying in a regular square, and containing six hundred and forty acres, which has or may be fixed on as a site for the town of Pulaski, as aforesaid, at the same price and on the same terms and conditions of payment as are provided with respect to the other public lands sold at private sale at the said office; and on completing the payment of the purchase money, a patent shall be granted therefor to the said commissioners and their successors in office, in trust, for the use of the said county of Giles, for the purpose aforesaid. (gondgrions Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed upon which the by an act of the legislature of the Indiana territory, to fix on a proper   site for the permanent seat of government for the said territory, be, and 1,,4;,.,,, govern. they are hereby authorized, and their successors in office, so soon as men} muy be the surveys under the authority of the United States shall have been °b““"d' made of the lands which they shall select, and on producing a receipt from the receiver of public moneys, for at least one-twentieth part of the purchase money, to enter with the register of the land office for the district in which the land lies, any four quarter sections of land adjoining to each other, which have not been reserved by any former act of Congress, and which the said commissioners may select and fix on as a site for the permanent seat of government for the said territory; and payment shall be made therefor at the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, as are provided in respect to the other public lands sold at private sale in the same district; and on completing the payment of the purchase money, a patent shall be granted therefor, to the said commissioners and their successors in office, in trust for the use of said territory, for the purpose aforesaid. Approved, February 25, 1811. Srxrtvrs III. —-——- Feb. 26, 1811. CHAP. XXVIl.—-An dot for the relief of Peter dudrain. Be it enacted, »$·c., That there be allowed to Peter-Audrain the sum Cgmpgngation of seven hundred dollars, being a balance due as a compensation for two fvf ¤¤r‘vi¤¤S ¤S years' services as clerk to the board of land commissioners at Detroit, °l°'k‘ from the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and seven, to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and nine; and that the same be paid to him out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 26, 1811.