AN ACT to appropriate the proceeds of the Entry of Public Lands, and to grant Pre-emption Rights.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That there shall be granted to each State specified in the first section of this act, five hundred thousand acres of land, for purposes of Internal Improvement: Provided, That to each of the said States which has already received grants for said purposes, there is hereby granted no more than a quantity of land which shall, together with the amount such State has already secured as aforesaid, make five hundred thousand acres, the selections in all of the said States, to be made within their limits respectively, in such manner as the Legislature thereof shall direct; and located in parcels conformably to sectional divisions and subdivisions, of not less than three hundred and twenty acres in any one location, on any public land except such as is or may be reserved from sale by any law of Congress, or Proclamation of the President of the United States, which said locations may be made at any time after the lands of the United States in said States respectively, shall have been surveyed according to existing laws. And there shall be, and hereby is, granted to each new State that shall be hereafter admitted into the Union, upon such admission, so much land as, including such quantity as may have been granted to such State before its admission, and while under a Territorial Govcrnment, for purposes of Internal Improvement as aforesaid, as shall make five hundred thousand acres of land, to be selected and located as aforesaid.

AN ACT to provide for the confirmation and settlement of private land claims in East Florida, and for other purposes.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor and Legislative Council to sell one of the reserved quarter sections of land near Tallahassee, and apply the proceeds to the erection of public buildings; and it shall be lawful for them to reserve such portion of the quarter section to the town of Tallahassee, contiguous to the creek and waterfall, as may, in their opinion, contribute to the health and convenience of the inhabitants; and they shall have power to pass laws for the preservation of, and expulsion from, the other two reserved quarter sections, all intruders, and to abate all nuisances; which said two reserved quarter sections shall be reserved for, and vested in, the State, should that Territory ever be erected into one.

AN ACT providing for a grant of land for the seat of Government in the Territory of Florida, and for other purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That there shall be, and hereby is, granted to the Territory of Florida, one entire quarter section of land, or fractional section, not exceeding in quantity one quarter section, for the seat of Government in that Territory, to be located previously to the sale of the adjacent lands, under the authority of the Governor thereof, at the point selected for the permanent seat of Government for said Territory.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory aforesaid, or a majority thereof, be, and they are hereby, authorized to adopt such measures as to them may seem expedient, for the sale of said tract of land, or any part thereof, for the purpose of raising a fund for the erection of public buildings at said seat of Government.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be and hereby are reserved from sale three entire quarter sections of lands of the United States, lying contiguous to and adjoining the quarter section granted by the first section of this act, to be located by the Governor of said Territory.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the seventh section of the act of Congress of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, entitled "An act amending and supplementary to the act entitled An act to provide for the survey and disposal of the public lands in Florida,'" as prevents the appointment of a surveyor for Florida until the commissioners shall have decided and reported on the private claims in said Territory, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and the Eastern and Western land districts in said Territory shall be divided and separated by the Suwannee river, and not by the ancient line of division between the provinces of East and West Florida, as prescribed by the eighth section of the act aforesaid.

An act amending and supplementary to the act for ascertaining claims and titles to land in the Territory of Florida, and to provide for the survey and disposal of the public lands in Florida :

"SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That an entire township, in each of the districts of East and West Florida, shall be reserved from sale, for the use of a Seminary of Learning, to be located by the Secretary of the Treasury."

An act to provide for the location of the two townships of land, reserved for a Seminary of Learning, in the Territory of Florida, and to complete the location of the grant to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the township of land reserved in the District of East Florida, by an act

of Congress, approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, for a Seminary of Learning, shall be located east of the Apalachicola river, and may be located in sections, corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed, so as not to interfere with private land claims, or the rights of pre-emption; and the township located west of the Apalachicola river, as directed in the aforesaid act, so far as covered by the claims of those entitled to the right of pre-emption, by the act approved the twenty-second of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, shall be located in sections, upon any unappropriated lands in said district of country, until the amount taken by said interferences, shall be satisfied and discharged. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Governor and Legislative Council of said Territory, shall have power to take possession of the lands granted for the use of the schools, and for a Seminary of Learning, and lease the same from year to year; and the money arising from the rent of said lands, shall be appropriated to the use of schools, and the erection of a Seminary of Learning, in such manner as they may direct; and shey shall have power to pass laws for the preservation of said lands from intrusion and trespass, until Florida shall be admitted into the Union as a State.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

TREASURER'S OFFICE, Tallahassee, 15th Dec'r, 1845.

To his Excellency, WM. D. MOSELEY:

Sir-I have the honor herewith to hand you my account with the School Land Funds, marked A.,-my account with the Territory of Florida, marked B.; also, my report on the examination of the books belonging to the Treasurer's Office of the Territory of Florida, marked C. Respectfully, your obedient servant,

BENJAMIN BYRD, State Treasurer.

[4] The School Land Fund, in account with Benj. Byrd, Treasurer.

DR.

1845. November 13.-To balance on hand this day, in the following description of funds, being the same that I received of H. L. Rutgers, viz :—

Four warrants on the Treasury issued to T. H. Austin, late Ter. Treasurer, for his salary, say $200 each, $800,00

Bills of the Bank of Florida,

Par funds (in Georgia money,)

CR.

100,00

2,25 902,25

1845. Aug. 7.-By Cash received of H. L. Rutgers, late Treasurer,

in the following description of funds, viz:

Four warrants on the Treasurer of the Territory, issued to T. H. Austin, late Ter. Treasurer, for $200 each, $800,00

Bills of the Bank of Florida,

Par funds, (in Georgia money,)

100,00

2,25902,25

[B.] The Territory of Florida in account with Benj. Byrd, Treasurer.

Aug. 6. To cash paid Auditor's Warrant No. 211, to R. J. Floyd, for apprehending criminals,

Nov. 14. To cash paid Auditor's Warrant, No. 347, to J. Lester, for pros. crim. Mid. Dis.

Dec. 10. To cash paid Auditor's Warrant No. 344,

200,00

6,25 $206,25

8,75

66 346, 15,75

CR.

Aug. 7. By cash received of H. L. Rutgers, late Treasurer of the Territory, viz:

In Bills of the Union Bank of Florida,

In par funds, (Georgia money,)

$439,12

71= $439,83

Aug. 6. By cash received of W. H. Wall, Auct'r,

Monroe county, on Auditor's Certificate No. 1, 86,42

Aug. 6. By cash received of S. Haley, Auct'r,

Monroe county, on Auditor's Certificate No. 2, 114,19 200,61 Oct. 8. By cash received of W. Monroe, Auct'r, Gadsden county, on Auditor's Certificate No. 3, Nov'r 4. By cash received of R. H. Berry, Auct. Leon county, on Auditor's Certificate No. 4, Nov'r 15. By cash received of T. D. Wilson, Auct. Gadsden co., on Auditor's Certificate No. 6, Dec. 10. By cash rec'd of R. K. Shaw, Tax Collector, Gadsden county, on Auditor's Certificate No. 7,

1845. Dec. 13. By balance on hand this day,

50

7,25=

7,75

56

38,07

$682,82

$192,32

[C] Report on the books and files of the Treasurer's Office of the Territory of Florida.

TREASURER'S OFFICE, Tallahassee, 15th Dec'r, 1845.

His Excellency, W. D. MOSELEY, Governor of Florida :

Sir:-In obedience to the following resolution of the House of Representatives, adopted on the 22d July, 1845, viz: "Resolved, "That the Comptroller and Treasurer of the State be directed by "the Governor to make enquiry and strict examination into the books, papers and files belonging to the respective offices of Treasurer and Auditor of the Territory of Florida, and also to enquire "by what authority and for what purpose the money belonging to "the Orphan's Fund has been expended, and to report the result 'thereof, to be laid before the next session of the General Assem"bly," I respectfully report: That I commenced the examination of the books and papers belong to the Treasurer's Office, from the 9th day of February, 1832, up to the 7th day of August, 1845, (the day I receive the same from H. L. Rutgers, Esq., late Treasurer,) and find charged on the books to C. G. English, Commissioner of the city of Tallahassee, in the months of November and December, 1839, the sum of three thousand dollars, in checks of the Treasurer of the Territory of Florida on the Planters' Bank of Savannah. I addressed a note to Dr. English, on the subject of this charge standing against him on the books. He referred me to his account and report to the Governor of Florida on the first day of January, 1840; and, on reference to the account, I find that the checks charged to him were accounted for in his account, which will be found in the Senate Jour. of the Legislative Council of 1840, p. 60.