Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

30th CONGRESS,
30th1st Session. H. R. 142. (Pub.)

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
February 3, 1848.
Read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
AN ACT
To confirm the boundary between Missouri and Arkansas.

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15 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the dividing line between the States of
Missouri and Arkansas, surveyed by commissioners ap-
pointed under authority of laws enacted by those States,
and ratified as a common boundary by the act of the legis-
lature of Arkansas, approved twenty-third December,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, and of the legislature of
Missouri, approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred
and forty-seven, shall be, and the same is hereby, approved
and confirmed as the boundary between those States, and
between the surveying and land districts bordering thereon;
and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized
to have the surveys of the public lands of the United
States closed on the line so surveyed as above mentioned:

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18 Provided, The expense thereof shall not exceed six dol-
lars per mile for every mile and part of a mile actually sur-
veyed, or necessarily re-surveyed in closing those surveys.

Passed the House of Representatives: January 31, 1848.
Attest:THO. J. CAMPBELL, Clerk.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the dividing line between the States of Missouri and Arkansas, surveyed by commissioners ap- pointed under authority of laws enacted by those States, and ratified as a common boundary by the act of the legis- lature of Arkansas, approved twenty-third December, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and of the legislature of Missouri, approved February sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall be, and the same is hereby, approved and confirmed as the boundary between those States, and between the surveying and land districts bordering thereon; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to have the surveys of the public lands of the United States closed on the line so surveyed as above mentioned:
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16 17 18	Provided, The expense thereof shall not exceed six dol- lars per mile for every mile and part of a mile actually sur- veyed, or necessarily re-surveyed in closing those surveys.