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Public Law 20–LVIII
to authorize the President of the United States to run and mark a line, dividing the territory of Arkansas from the state of Louisiana.(a)(a) See notes of the acts relating to the territory afterwards the state of Arkansas, vol. iii. 493.
Approved May 19, 1828
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize the President of the United States to run and mark a line, dividing the territory of Arkansas from the state of Louisiana.(a)(a) See notes of the acts relating to the territory afterwards the state of Arkansas, vol. iii. 493.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That the President of the United States of America be, and he is hereby, authorized, in conjunction with the constituted authorities of the state of Louisiana, to cause to be run, and distinctly marked, the line dividing the territory of Arkansas from the state of Louisiana; commencing on the right bank of the Mississippi river, at latitude thirty-three degrees north, and running due west on that parallel of latitude, to where a line running due north from latitude thirty-two degrees north, on the Sabine river, will
Commissioner to be appointed.
intersect the same. And, for that purpose, he is hereby authorized, to appoint a commissioner, or surveyor, or both, as in his opinion may be
Proviso.
necessary: Provided, The compensation to be allowed to the person or TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 59, 60, 67. 1828. persons so to be appointed by the President of the United States, shall not exceed in amount the compensation allowed by the government of Louisiana to the person or persons appointed, on its part, for the same object.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the person or persons, so to
Person appointed to make two fair certified drafts, one of which shall be deposited in the Secretary of State’s office, and the other with the governor of Louisiana.
1000 dollars appropriated.
be appointed by the President of the United States, with such as have been or shall be appointed for the same purpose, on the part of the state of Louisiana, after they, in conjunction, shall have run, and distinctly marked said line, shall make two fair drafts, or maps thereof, both of which shall be certified by them, and one of which shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State for the United States, and the other delivered to the governor of Louisiana.
Sec. 3.
And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of carrying this act into execution, the sum of one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, .