Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 31.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Read twice, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Mr. Garnett Duncan, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported the following joint resolution:
JOINT RESOLUTION
Relating to errors and defective returns in certain svrveys, plats, and field-notes.

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13 Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That there be paid to the purchasers, or to the
legal representatives of purchasers, of one hundred
and twenty-eight tracts of land in township one south,
range seven east, in the State of Michigan, (the original
surveys, returns, plats, and field-notes whereof have been
found by the surveyor-general, upon a re-survey, to have
been erroneous, deceptive, and untrue,) the several sums
for deficiencies and damages found due to them, respect-
ively, in virtue of the provisions of the resolution entitled
“A resolution relative to errors and defective returns in
certain surveys, plats, and field-notes,” approved August

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19 tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to be paid by the
Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, according to such
regulations as he shall prescribe: Provided, That said
sums so to be paid shall not, in the aggregate, exceed the
amount of twelve thousand dollars.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13	Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be paid to the purchasers, or to the legal representatives of purchasers, of one hundred and twenty-eight tracts of land in township one south, range seven east, in the State of Michigan, (the original surveys, returns, plats, and field-notes whereof have been found by the surveyor-general, upon a re-survey, to have been erroneous, deceptive, and untrue,) the several sums for deficiencies and damages found due to them, respect- ively, in virtue of the provisions of the resolution entitled “A resolution relative to errors and defective returns in certain surveys, plats, and field-notes,” approved August
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14 15 16 17 18 19	tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, according to such regulations as he shall prescribe: Provided, That said sums so to be paid shall not, in the aggregate, exceed the amount of twelve thousand dollars.