3 March 1835 c. 30 4 Stat. 760

CHAP. XXX.- An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the following sums be,and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, viz

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That six hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army during the revolutionary war,” approved the thirtieth day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and the act entitled “An act to extend the time for issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war,” approved the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the act entitled “An act granting an additional quantity of land for the location of revolutionary bounty land warrants,” approved the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be applied in the manner provided for in said acts, to the unsatisfied warrants whether original or duplicate, which have been or may be issued as therein directed to the officers, soldiers and others therein described; and the certificates of scrip, issued pursuant to said acts shall be receivable in payment for any of the public lands liable to sale at private entry: Provided, That no scrip shall be issued until the first day of September next, and warrants shall be received in the general land office until that day and immediately thereafter, if the amount filed exceed six hundred and fifty thousand acres, the commissioner of the general land office shall apportion the said six hundred and fifty thousand acres of land among the warrants which may be then on file, in full satisfaction thereof.

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APPROVED, March 3, 1835.

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