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 726 THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 112, 113. 1848. and the said vestry may, from time to time, sell or otherwise dispose of the said ground for the purposes of burial. Governmentof Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the government of the Llyigzltiklcsjylzi United States shall be entitled to purchase from the said vestry, and to to P,,,ch,,,,g ,, occupy as a burial-ground, for members of Congress and such other l>¤tii¤¤ of Mid members of the United States government as the President shall deem gzzyffgrouigg ,-0: it expedient and proper to allow, a portion of the land hereinbefore members or can- authorized to be sold, not exceeding one fourth part thereof, and which §‘,§;;;“d P“l’h° portion shall be laid out in some compact form, and at such place as proviso_ the Secretaries aforesaid shall select: Provided, That the ground so authorized to be purchased and used by the government shall be paid for from time to time, as it is actually used, at the price demanded by the vestry, for grave-sites in other parts of the same ground : And provided, also, That this reservation of the right to purchase to the extent United States aforesaid shall not be held to subject the United States to any part of put *0 bs S“l’J€°‘ the expense of putting up or keeping up the enclosures of the said OHXIYGXPEHSG FOP. · - ,,,,cr0,,,,€,, &c_ buxing-ground,, pr Sthefgeligpense incident thereto. PPROVED, u y o,. July 25, 1848. Can. CX1I.-An Act to confirm the Location and to grant a Quarter Section '_—""""_ of Public Lands for the County Site of Hillsborough County, State of Florida. Bc it enacted by the Senate and House if Representatives of the Confirmation of United States of America in Congress assembled, That the location of L‘Q.°;°‘°"”“dg'““° the county commissioners of the county of Hillsborough, in the State I quarter sec- . . . tion of land to of Florida, of one hundred and sixty acres of land for the county site $;ls§’°'°:_é.Il;ri,3 of said county, at Tampa, viz.: beginning on the east bank of Hills- ,-0,. c,,l,j,t,. mc?`borough River, at the point where the reduced military reservation, as made by Major L. Vilhiting, September fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, strikes the same; thence up said river, binding thereon, to a point at least half a mile in a straight line from the beginning; thence north-easterly to a point from whence a line running parallel to said straight line, and striking the line of said reduced reservation; and thence along the lines of said reservation to the place of beginning —shall include between said rivcr and said lines one hundred and sixty acres ofland; and the same is hereby granted to the said commissioners of the said county, and their successors in office, for the use Proceeds of of said county, the proceeds of sales to be applied to the building of a ` the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall cause said one hundred and sixty acres ofland, granted as aforesaid, to be surveyed, and the survey confirmed, as soon as practicable; and a patent shall issue therefor to said commissioners, for the use of said county, as aforesaid, referring to this act. Armtovao, July 25, 1848. July 25, 1848. Cru?. CXI11. — An ./Ectfor the Relief ofdyrcd White. Be it enacted by the Senate and House if Representatives of the 1'ostm:tster-Qen- United States of America in Congress assembled, 'I`hat the Postmaster- $l',“,:,:gP“éQll’Q_‘; General be, and he is hereby, directed to pay, from the revenues of c,,ntS,tr·,eamr,u¤r the Post-Oflice Department appropriated for mail transportation, t0 g£:J;1c<iigm§¤;_f¤; Alfred White, of Mississippi, the sum of fifty-four dollars and forty-five ,,,m_ g ms cents, that sum having been paid by him in satisfaction of a judgment recovered against him by the United States, in the `District Court for the southern district of Mississippi; and which said sum, included in said judgment, was over and above what appears to have been due
 * §i;,'h°""‘°b° court-house and jail, and other public buildings for said county ; and