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 816 TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 100. Rus. 2. 18/10. in accompanying a party of emigrating Cherokees from Bellante to Waterloo, in the state of Alabama. Appropmtkm Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifteen hundred to emma P, M, dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in G9; *0 ¤r¤?PlY the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Postmaster-Gene 3?l233°?;§°nS ral to comply with the resolutions of the House of Representatives 1840. passed twenty-third of June eighteen hundred and forty, which were reported on the twenty-fifth of May by the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads. Approved, July 21, 1840. Snrurs I. ————- July 2i, 1840. Cr-mp. C.-An Actfar the relief af Hyacinth Lassel. 1844, ch. 152. Be it enacted, 4*-0., That the Commissioner of the General Land A certificate Office shall issue to Hyacinth Lassel (named in the schedule of grants
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1;,3: f;',::,;?" the seventeenth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, near the mouth of the Mississinniwa, upon the Wabash, in the state of Indiana), a certificate under the seal of said land office, authorizing him, the said Hyacinth Lassel, to locate five hundred and sixty acres ofland in one tract, at any land office in the state of Indiana; he, the said Lassel, paying the minimum price fixed for such lands, for eighteen acres and forty-six hundredths of an acre, part and parcel of said tract of five hundred and sixty acres. Such certificate Sec. 2. And be it_;‘?n·ther enacted, That such certificate of the Com- }:ri1;;'(·‘i°°*"°bl° missioner of the General Land Office aforesaid, shall be receivable, ' from the said Hyacinth Lasse], at any land office in said state of Indiana, at any time prior to the fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three or from the heirs or assigns of the said Hyacinth Lassel, in payment, ahcording to the provisions of the Proviso. first section of this act: Provided, however, That the entry and location hereby authorized shall not be made on anylands within the limits of the grant made to the state of Indiana for the Wabash and Erie Canal; nor on the alternate sections reserved to the United States in said grant ; neg? any lands selected by the state of Indiana for the purposes of sai anal. Approved, July 21, 1840. RESOLUTIONS. May 16, 1840. No. 2. Join! Resolution for the relief of Maslerlon and Smith, and for other pur- """·r·; panes. same in the erection of the new building now erecting for the use of the General Post Office Department, are unable to complete the said work within the time specified in their contract, owing to causes not now within their control and Whereas the public interest will be promoted by an extension of the time for the fulfilment of the contract by the contractors; therefore, Be it resolved, ¢§~c., That the contractors aforesaid have the time for cemiu con, completing their contracts extended until the first day of June, eighteen zactsextended, hundred and forty-one; and that all other contractors for material, or °· work for said Post Office building, have a proportional extension of time if the Postmaster-General shall deem it expedient or necessary: pmvjm Préwided, That all contractors be liable to all penalties, restrictions an reservations provided for, and covenanted to be made and kept in tlheir present contralpts, eétcept as to time, anything in this resolution to t e contrary notwit stan ing.
 * 1*;-gamble, Whereas, the contractors for furnishing the marble, and building the