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sant, to the Great Bridge, Norfolk city. From Point Pleasant to Wright s mills, in Jackson county. From Burlington, in the county of Hampshire, by Kelly's to Smith's farm, in the county of Alleghany, Maryland. From Orange courthouse, in the county of Orange, to Madison courthouse, in the county of Madison. From Taylorsville, in Hanover county, via Pottersville, in Louisa county, to Mansfield, the residence of William Mansfield, in Louisa county. From Piketon, in Pike county, Kentucky, to Logan courthouse in Virginia. From the Smith's creek post office, in Rockingham county, by Keazletown to Mount Sidney, in Augusta county. From Miller's ironworks in Augusta county to Staunton. From Harrisonburg to Keagletown. From Madison courthouse to the Robinson meeting-house in the county of Madison, and from thence to the State Mills in Culpeper county. From Harrisonburg, by Rifesville, Bridgeport, Miller's iron works, and head of Mossy creek, to James A. Fra zier's in Augusta county. From Dickinsonville in Russell county, by Osborne's ford, in Scott county, and Pendleton, (Milbourne's store,) to Estillville. From Danville, directly to Henry courthouse, from thence to Christians burg, passing through the county of Patrick, on the north side of Bull Mountain. From Miller's ironworks, in Augusta county, Virginia, tó Staunton. From Abingdon, in Virginia, by way of the Reedy Creek road to Estillville, in Frederick county, by Wickliffs, and Cabletown, to Charlestown, in Jefferson county. From Front Royal to Millwood in Frederick county, by Berryville to Charlestown in Jefferson county. From Clarkton, in King and Queen county, by Walkerton, Stephensville, King and Queen Court House, Little Plymouth, to Matthews Court House. From King William Court House, by Lanesville, and Smith's Ferry to New Kent courthouse. From Fincastle up the Valley of Catawba, and down that of the North fork of Roanoke, by the most direct route to Blacksburg, in the county of Montgomery. That the mail route from Cabin Point, Virginia, by Blount's bridge to South Quay, be so changed as to run from Petersburg by Blount's bridge to South Quay.

IN NORTH CAROLINA.

burgh district. From Spartansburg, by Rowland's hill,
Jacksonville, Earlsville, to Dodd's store. From Colum-
bia, in Richland district, by Union courthouse, and Spar-
tanburg courthouse, to Ashville, in Buncombe county,
North Carolina. From Edgefield courthouse to Abbeville
courthouse. From Unionville, via Hancockville, to
Ruthfordton. From Clarksville, in Georgia, to the Cur-
rahee mountain and Wiley's ferry, in said State, and
Pickens courthouse, to Greenville, in South Carolina,
From Laurence courthouse, by Nash's mills and Cripple
creek, to Greenville courthouse. From Abbeville court.
house, by Church hill post office, and Elberton, to Da
nielsville, in Georgia. From Hamburg to Coker's spring.
From Laurens's courthouse, by Anderson courthouse, to
Andersonville.
IN GEORGIA.

From Sparta, in Hancock county, by Bennett's store, Sandersville, Fish's store, Fuqua's store, Dublin, and Hampton's, to Hartford, in the county of Pulaski. From Macon, in Bibb county, by Perry, in Houston county, to Hawkinsville, in Pulaski county. From Marion, Twiggs county, to Perry, in Houston county. From Vernon, in Troup county, by Lagrange, Franklin, West Point, Columbus, Fort Mitchell, Randolph courthouse, and Fort Gaines, to Early courthouse. From Warrenton, in Warren county, to White Oak, in Columbia coun ty. From fort Gaines, in Early county, by Smithville academy, and Spring creek, to Bainbridge, in Decatur county. From Hillsborough, in Jasper county, by McGehee's store, in Jones county, and Dover, to Forsyth, in Monroe county. From Covington, in Newton county, by Lattimer's store, Decatur, Sandtown, Campbellton, and Pumpkington, to Carrollton, in Carroll county. From Carrollton, in Carroll county, by Robinson's and Lavender's stores, to the head of Coosa river. From Gainesville, in Hall county, by Gailley's, to Clarksville. From Forsyth, by Zebulon, Greenville, to Lagrange, in Georgia. From Wrightsborough, Columbia county, by Crawfordville, to Greenborough, Green county, From Augusta,in Richmond county, by Richmond, Bath, Dye's store, and Hudson's store, to Louisville, in Jefferson in Florida. From Burk courthouse to Robinson's store. county. From Thomasville, in Georgia, to Monticello From Centreville, in Talbot county, to Talbotton. From Monticello, by McDonough, Fayetteville, and Campbellton, to Villa Rica, in Carroll county. From Watson's post office in Columbia county, to Cook's Law office, in Elbert county, via Raysville, Wilborn's Gatril's, JackMonticello, Jasper county, to the town of Zebulon, in son's, Danburgh, Williams, an: Muckle's ferry. From Pike county, via Cargill's ferry, and the town of Jackson. From Perry, in Houston county, by way of the Taveller's Rest, on Flint river, to Pondtown, in Lee county; thence to Lannahasseetown, in Stewart county; thence to Lumpkin, in Stewart county; thence to King's Bluff, on Chattahochee river, in said county. From Lagrange, in Troup county, Georgia, by the way of Wood's store, to Franklin, in Heard county. From the town of Columbus, in the State of Georgia, to Appalachicola bay, in the Territory of Florida. From Greenville to Stauntonburg. From Lawrenceville, Montgomery county, Cadesboro', Anson county. From Leesburgh, by Hightowers, to Caswell courthouse. FromPoplar branch, to Powell's point, in Currituck county. From Gravelly hill, in Bladen county, by Lisburn, Taylor's bridge, to Clinton, in Sampson county.

From Salem, in Stokes county, by Germantown, Frost's iron works, Clement's iron works, Boyle's store, to Patrick court house, in Virginia. From Rutherfordton, in Rutherford county, across the Blue Ridge, at the Hickory nut gap, to Ashville, in Buncombe county. From Columbia to Spring field, in Tyrrel county. From Kingston to Trenton. From Rockford, by Juddsville, in Surry county, to Bower's store, in Ashe county. From Pittsborough, Chatham county, by Hackney's cross roads, to Chapel Hill, in Orange county. From Rocksborough, by Hugh Wood's to Black Walnut, in Hallifax county, Virginia.

From Concord to Mill Grove, thence to Dewees' Hicko ry Grove post office, Mecklenburg county, and to Beatty's ford. From Nashville to Warrenton, by Belford post office, and Shocco Springs. From Oxford to Hills borough, in the State of North Carolina, passing by Potter's bridge, Richard Bulloc's, Hester's store, Thomas Bechan's, and Picket's oil mill.

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From McDonough, Henry county, by Latimer's store and Rock bridge, to Lawrenceville, Gwynett county. From Rive's, Hall county, by Leathersford, Loudsville, Mouth Yonah, and Nocooche, to Clayton, Rabun county. From Bainbridge, in Decatur From Decatur, DeCounty, by Cairo, to Duncanville. kalb county, by Housley's Blackstock's, and Johnston's store, to Newnan, Coweta county. From Lawrenceville, Gwinett county, by Waters and Winn's ferry, on the Ca tahoochee river, and Downing's ferry, on Hightower f ver, to Echota, in Cherokee county. From Columbes, in Georgia, via Hubbard and Watkins' post office, to Franklin, in Troup county. From Blakeley to Bai

IN SOUTH CAROLINA. From Unionville to Cowpen furnace, in South CaroliFrom Edgefield by Laurens courthouse, and Spartanburg, to Rutherfordton, in North Carolina. From Brownsville, in the district of Martborough, to Darlington courthause, and thence to Kingstree, in Williams-bridge.

IN OHIO.

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Ohio. From Milton, by Jacksonburgh, Washington, Economy, and Smith's, to Winchester. From Connersville, by Danville, in Fayette county, and Perkin's, to Greensburgh. From Fort Wayne, by Seley's, in Lagrange county, Goshen, Pulaski, Southbend, and Laporte Court-house, to Chicago, in Illinois. From Fort Wayne, by Seley's, in Mongaquinong prairie, to the Seat of Justice of St. Joseph's county, in the Territory of Mi

IN ILLINOIS.

ton, to Paris, in Illinois. From Indianapolis, by LogansFrom Bucyrus, in Crawford county, to New Haven, in Port, at the mouth of Eel river, to Niles' village, on the river St. Joseph, in the Michigan Territory. From RichHuron county. From Kinsman, in Trumbull county, to mond, in Wayne county, by Washington, Munceytown, Cleaveland, in Cuyahoga county. From Gallipolis, in and Grant Court-house, to Miamisport. From LawrenceGallia county, to Portsmouth, in Scioto county. From burgh, by Cambridge, Yorkridge, Hughes' store, Ger. Washington, in Fayette county, by the Willow spring, to man village, Summon's mill, and George's, on Salt creek, London, in Madison co. From Canton in Stark co., to Boto Rushville. From Indianapolis to New Pennsylvania, livar, to Dover, and to New 'hiladelphia, Tuscarawas co. Thorntown, Jefferson, Lafayette, and Laporte CourtFrom Newark, in Licking county, by Martinsburg, to house, to Michigan city, on Lake Michigan. From MilDanville, in Knox county. From Bellefontaine, in Lo-ton to New Castle. From Richmond to Greenville, in gan county, by Newell's mills, and Christiansburg to New Carlisle. From Wapaughkonetta, to Lima, the seat of Justice, in the county of Allen, by the seat of justice, in the county of Putnam, to Perrysburg, in the county of Wood. From the post office, in Fearing township, Washington county, thence by Chamber's Mills, and Flint's Mills, to Proctor's Store, in Grandview. From Grafton, in Lorain county, by Lagrange and Wakeman, to Norwalk, in the county of Huron. From Mansfield, in Richland county, to Marion, in the county of Marion.chigan. From Bloomington, by Tabor and Gosport, to Greencastle. From Edinburg to Martinsville. From From Russelville to Ripley, in the county of Brown. From the mouth of Vermillion river in Huron county, by Princeton. Crawfordsville to Covington. From Petersburgh to From Madison, by Paris, to Brownstown. Florence, Wakeman, Clarkesfield, New London and From Michigan, by Frankfort, to Delphi. From Lafay Ruggles, to Ashland, in the county of Richland. From ette, by Lagrange, Gregory's settlement, Williamsport, Knoxville, Jefferson county, by Cope's salt works, to New Baltimore, to Perrysville. From the Falls of Ohio, by Lisbon, Columbiana county. From Bucyrus to Fort Salem and Brownstown, to Columbus. From Oxford, Findlay. From Springfield, in Clarke county, by New by Billingsville, Dunlapsville, Connersville, Philpot's Carlisle, to Troy, in Miami county. From Gallipolis to mill, to Raystown. From Somerset, by Chrisler's mills, Wilksville. From Elyria, Lorain county, passing thro' and Connersville, to Milton. From Crawfordsville, by Carlisle, Lagrange, Penfield, Spencer, Harrisville, Rob Roy, to Williamsburgh. From Andersonville, by Waynesburgh, to Wooster. From Wellsville, in Colum: Richland, Little Flat Rock, and Moscow, to Shelbyville. biana county, by McKay's Mill, Augusta, Pekin, and Waynesburgh, to Sandyville, in the county of Tuskarawas. From Fairview, on the national road, in Belmont county, by Smyrna and Freeport, in Harrison county, to Tuscarawas town, on the Ohio Canal. From Cadiz, through Hanover and New Rumley, in the county of Harrison, New Hagerstown, and New Cumberland to Zoar, in the county of Tuscarawas. From Wheeling, in the State of Virginia, to Cleveland, in the State of Ohio, passing through the town of Cadiz, in Harrison county, the towns of New Philadelphia and Dover, in Tuscara. was county, the town of Massillon, in Stark county, and the town of Akron, in Portage county. Fron Cleaveland, thence, to Newburgh, Independence, Brickville, Richfield, Bath, Copley, and Norton, thence to Clinton, in Stark county, Fulton, and Massillon. From West Union, to David C. Vance's on the Ohio river, thence to Sandy Spring, Vanceburg, Portsmouth, Cole's Forge, Brush creek Furnace, and thence back to West Union. From Greenville, Dark county, by Fort Recovery, and Saint Mary's, to Wiltshire. From Sandusky city, by Bloomingville, Monroeville, and Penn township, to New Haven, in Huron county. From Galliopolis to the French Grant, in the county of Scioto. From George. town, by New Hope, Lilley's, to Fayetteville, Brown county. From Deerfield, in Portage county, to Ells worth, in Trumbull county. From Unionville to Char don, in Geauga county. From Millersburg, in the county of Holmes, by Mount Eaton, Wayne county, to Massillon, in the county of Stark. From Wellsville, by East Liverpool, Little Beaver bridge, and Ohio, to Achartown. From Wooster, by Armstrong, to Harrisville, in Wayne county. From Harrisburgh, in the county of Stark, to Damascus, in the county of Columbiana. From Jacobsburgh, by Wallace's and Zeazer's mill, to Saint Clairs ville, in Belmont county. From New Rumley, in the county of Harrison, to Centreville, in the county of Co

From Salem, in Marion county, near the old Vincennes trace, to Kaskaskias, in the county of Randolph. From Springfield, in Sangamon county, by Rushville, to Quincy, in Adams county. From Quincy, in Adams county, to Rock Island Court House. From Peoria, in Peoria county, to the mouth of Fox river. From Canton, in Fulton county, by Knox Court House, and Warren Court House, to the Yellow Banks, on the Mississippi river. From Jacksonville, by Pleasant Point, Winchester, Williamsport, Merckham's Ferry, Pitt's Cross Roads, to Atlas. From St Louis, Missouri, by Alton, Carrolton, to Jacksonville, in Illinois. From Jacksonville, in Morgan county, by Quincy, in Adams county, to Palmyra, in Missouri. From Hillsborough, to Carlinville. From Shelbyville, by way of Decatur and the mouth of Fox river, to Chicago. From Paris, by way of Decatur, to Springfield. From Chicago, by Danville, Illinois, to Newport, in Indiana. From Hendersons, to Jacksonville. From Beardstown, by Rushville, and McComb, to Monmouth. From Alton, by way of Eminence, Daggettsville, to Gilliard. From Venus, Hancock county, to Monmouth, in Warren county. From Rushville, by Lewistown, and Canton to Peoria. From Rock Island to Galina. From Lewistown, by McComb, to Venus, the county seat of Hancock county. From Jacksonville to Atlas. From Carlisle, by Edwardsville, Alton and Lower Alton, in Illinois, to Saint Charles, in Missouri, From McLean's borough, in Hamilton county, to Frankfort, in Franklin county. From Springfield to Galena. IN MISSOURI.

From Chariton, in Chariton county, on the North side of the Missouri river to Kitesville. From Kaskaskias, in Randolph county, Illinois, by St. Mary's Landing, in St. Genevieve county, to Perryville, in Perry county. From Caledonia, to Potosi. From Palmyra, in Marion county, by Canton, to the mouth of Des Moines river. From Louisiana, by Bowling Green, to Fulton. From St. From Martinsville, Spencer, Fairplay, and Bruceville, Louis, by Bowles' Ferry, the Big Spring, and Wideto Vincennes. From Montezuma, in Indiana, by Clin-man's Mills, to the Rich Woods. From Keytesville, by

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IN INDIANA.

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Huntsville, in Randolph county, to Fayette, in Howard county. From Herculaneum, by St. Genevieve, to Perrysville. From Independence, in the county of Jackson, to the Shawnee Agency. From Pinckney, in Montgo. mery county, by Pendleton's, to Troy, in Lincoln county. From Wellsburg, in St. Charles county, by Monroe, in Edwin Allen's, William McQueen's and Clarksville, to Louisiana. From Massey's Iron Works to the Kickapoo Prairie, in the county of Crawford.

ville.

IN KENTUCKY.

to Franklin.

the main stage road; from thence to Lavender's on the Marchbank's road; from thence direct to Jamestown. From Brabson's store, Huffaker's ferry, and Mecklen burg, to Knoxville. From Mills Point, in Kentucky, on the Mississippi, to Paris, in Henry county, in Tennessee. From Columbia, by Perryville and Lexington, to Jackson. From Winchester, Tennessee, to Bellefonte, Alabama, by way of Pleasant Grove, Alabama. From Liberty, Smith county, via Slatesville, Cainsville, George A. Huddleton's, Ship A. Puckett's ferry, (Stone's river,) to Nashville. From Paris, by Centreville and Newtown, to George. Hico, Christiansville. and Fleming's. From Columbia, by From Huntingdon to Dresden, by way of town. From Pike Court House to Perry Court House. Bigbyville, Pleasant Grove, Mooresville, and CornersFrom Columbia to Liberty, by Casey's Creek Salt Works. From Hopkinsville, Kentucky, by Williams, to Madisonville, to Fayetteville. From Lebanon, by Banton's ferry, From Smithland, in Livingston county, by Story's Winchester to Fayetteville. From Covington to Somerville. From From Gainsborough, in Ferry, to Waidsborough. From Burkeville, in Cumber land county, by way of Crocus Creek, to Creelsburgh, in Hill, to Deckson's spring in Smith county. From SpringJackson county, via Mount Carmel, Bagdad, and Pleasant Russell county. From Midway, (formerly Centreville,) field, Robertson county, Tennessee, to Haydonsville, in in Livingston county, by Ford's Ferry, to Equality, in Gallatin county, Illinois. From Hardinsburg, by the way lem, Franklin county, Tennessee, by way of Larkin's, Kentucky, by Clark's mills and Cross mills. From Saof Cloverport and Hawesville, to the Yellow Banks, in Fork of Paint Rock river, to Bellefonte, Alabama; and the State of Kentucky. From Harrodsburgh, in Mercer the present route from Winchester, Tennessee, to the county, by Maxwell, to Springfield, in Washington counsame place, discontinued. ty. From Manchester, in Clay county, to London, in Laure! county. From Jacksborough, in Tennessee, to Laurel Court House, in Kentucky. From Carlisle, by Moorefield, to Owensville.. From Munfordsville, in Hart county, to Glasgow, in Barren county. From David C. Vance's, Ohio, by the way of Concord, to Everett's post office, in Lewis county, Kentucky. From Lebanon Court House, Russell county, Virginia, to Perry Court House, in Kentucky. From Feliciana, Kentucky, to Dresden, in Tennessee.

IN TENNESSEE.

IN ALABAMA.

From Bellefonte, in Jackson county, by Larkinsville and Larkin's fork of Paint Rock river, Newmarket, Hazle Green, to the cross roads, in Madison county, and Athens, in Limestone county, Alabama, to Elkton, in Giles county. From Montgomery, in Montgomery county, by Monticello, Williamstown, Franklin, on the Chatahoochie, Lemon's store, Columbia, and Woodville, to Webbville, in Florida. From Burnt Corn, in Monroe county, by Belleville, Sparta, and Brooklyn, to Covington Courthouse in Conecuh county. From Mobile, in Alabama, to New Orleans, in Louisiana; and the route from Pas

From Jonesborough, by the Walnut Mountains, to Ashville, North Carolina. From Newmarket, in Jefferson county, by Blain's cross roads, Lea's springs, Powder cagoula, to New Orleans, is hereby discontinued. From Spring Gap, and Joseph Beelor's, to Tazewell, in Clai. Ashville, by Allen's mills, Thomason's, and the Big borne county. From Newport, Lillard's mill, on Cosby's spring, to Elyton. From Tuscaloosa to Springfield. From Greenville to Montezuma, in the county of Coving Creek, Jones's Cove, Seviersville, in Sevier county, by Wear's Cove, Thuckaleechee Cove, Miller's Cove, Caid's ton, by Pearman's ferry, on Pee river, Dale court-house, the Block-house, Joel T. McLindon's, to Franklin, in Cove, and Carson's ironworks, to Chilhowee, in Monroe Henry county. From Montgomery to Haynesville, in county. From Clinton, in Anderson county, by Camp-Lowndes county; thence, to Cahawba. From Womack's bell's station and Unity, to Morgantown, in Blount county. From Clinton, in Anderson county, through the Big Valley, to Tazewell, in Claiborne county. From Gallatin, in Sumner county, up Bledsoe's to Scottsville, in Allen county, Kentucky. From Knoxville, in Knox county, by Armstrong's ferry, Newmarket, Mossy creek, Panther springs, Morristown, Creek's cross roads, Rus-ville, Coffeeville, Washington Court House, Winchester, sellville, and James's store, to Bluntville, From Jonesborough, via Broyles, and Camp creek ironworks, to Newport, Cocke county. From Salem, in Tennessee, to Bellefont, in Alabama. From Fayetteville, in Lincoln county, by Dyer's store, Cold Water, and Hightower's store, to Upper Elkton, in Giles county. From Dyers. burg, in Dyer county, by Rutherford's mills and Blairfield's point, on the Mississippi, in Arkansas Territory, and return by Rutherford's mills, Nash's Bluff, Eaton, to Trenton, in Gibson county. From Blane's cross roads to Jacksonborough. From Centreville to Perryville. From

Vernon to Reynoldsburgh. From Reynoldsburgh, by Clark Level, to Pleasant Exchange, in Henderson coun ty. From Morgantowa, North Carolina, to Elizabeth, in Tennessee, on Avery's turnpike road. From Murfreesborough, by Anthony's store and Hardimann's cross roads, to Granklin. From Tomkinsville, in Kentucky, by way of Benjamin Greer's, Samuel Jones', Withers,' and Archi bald Sloan's, to Carthage, in Tennessee. From Memphis, by White's, Hally's, Glenn's, Jones's, &c. &c. to La grange. From Pikeville, by way of Tollett's mill; thence to the stand formerly occupied by John F. Greer, Esq. on

Post Office, in Wilcox county, to Robison's store, in Lowndes county, and from thence to Haynesville From Montgomery, via Montevallo to Elyton. From Florence, by way of Lexington in Lauderdale county, to Pulaski, Tennessee. From Daletown, in Perry county, toGreenboro. From Burntcorn in Alabama by Claiborne, ClarksEllisville, Williamsburgh, Monticello, Meadville to Natchez, in Mississippi. From Monticello to Port Gibson. From Newman, Georgia, to Harpersville. From MooresVille, via Fulton, Athens, Redus' mills, (cross Elk river to Jones' ferry,) Prather's store, Smithville, in Limestone county, and to Pulaski, in Tennessee. From Gaines' post office in Pike county, to Greenville, Butler county, through Wrightsborough. From Montgomery, by William Townsend's in the fork, and Chesnut creet settlement to Ashville. From Larkinsville to Woodville,Jackson county. From Lowndes to Vernon, in Autauga

county. From Demopolis, by Arcola, to Greensborough
From Caliawba, by Woodville to Lynden. From Monti-
collo in Pike county, by Gainer's store, to Montezuma in
Covington county.

IN MICHIGAN TERRITORY.
From Tecumseh, in the Territory of Michigan, by
Niles' village, to Chicago, in the State of Illinois. From
Chicago to Greenbay. From Green Bay to Prairie du
Chien, by way of Fort Winnebago. From fort Winneba
go to Galena, in the State of Illinois. From Galena to

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IN NEW YORK.

Prairie du Chien. From Detroit to Tecumsee, by way of
Ypsilanti, Sabine, and Clinton. From Monguagon, to From Ithaca to Burdett, near the head of Seneca Lake.
Ypsilanti, through Brownstown, at Smooth Rock. From From Howard, by Rathbone's settlement and Loon Lake
Pontiac to Sagana. From Ypsilanti to the mouth of the settlement, to Cohocton. From Bath, by Mount Wash-
river St. Joseph, on the Territorial road, by way of Annington, to Catharine's, and returning by Mead's creek,
Arbor, and Jacksonburgh. From Niles' to Newburyport, and the mouth of Mud creek: Provided, however, That
From the mouth of the river St. Joseph, this route be continued until the thirty-first day of De-
via Berrian, Pokagon, Prairie. Lagrange, Young's Prairie cember, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
and Prairie Ronde, to White Pigeon Prairie. From
Bloomfield, in Oakland, through Southfield, to South
Pekin, in Wayne county. From Monroe to Ypsilanti.
IN LOUISIANA.

or Saranac.

From Vicksburgh, in Warren county, Mississippi, to lake Providence, in Washita parish, Louisiana, From Springfield, in the parish of St. Helena, to the courthouse in said parish. From Port Hudson, on the river Mississippi, in the Parish of East Feliciana, passing Mount Willing and Stuart's mill, to the town of Clinton, from thence passing Rich and Hill to Kalerstown to meet the Woodville route. From Warrenton, in Warren county, Mississippi, by the lower end of Palmyra island, to New Carthage, in Concordia parish Louisiana. From Vermilionville, to Perrysbridge on the Vermillion river. From Thibedeauville to Caseaux, in the parish of Terrebonne, with an intermediate post office at the court-house of Terribonne. From the town of Opelousas, in Louisiana, to the settlement on the Calcasieu, and from Thibedauville | by Williamsburgh, to Newport. From St. Helena, to Baton Rouge. From Point Coupee court-house, down the west side of the river, passing West Baton Rouge court-house, and Iberville court-house, to Donaldson. From Port Hudson down the river to Port Hickey, and crossing the river there and uniting with the route from Point Coupee court-house, to West Baton Rouge courthouse on the west bank of the river. From Mount Plea. sant to Baton Rouge.

IN FLORIDA TERRITORY.

From Monticello, in Jefferson county, to Magnolia, in Leon county. From Saint Augustine, in St. John's county, to Tampa bay. From Monticello, by Roscitur's ferry, to the seat of justice of the county of Hamilton and by Alligator, to Alachua court-house.

IN MISSISSIPPI.

From Natchez, in Adams county, by the Upper road across the Homochitto, th Woodville, in Wilkinson county. From Westville, by way of Georgetown and Gallatin, to Port Gibson. From Columbus, by way of Cohay bridge, and Williamsburg, to Columbia, and from Garland's to Winchester. From Kingston to Liberty. From Port Gibson to Rodney. From Jackson, by Mount Olym pus, Beauties Bluff, Vernon, and Urbanna, to Benton. From Doak's stand, by way of Georgeville, Franklin, Rankin, Benton, Manchester, Liverpool, and Statartia, to Vicksburgh. From Pearlington, in Mississippi, by way of Pearl river, the Lagoon, and the Riggoletts, to Fort Pike, in Louisiana. From Vicksburgh, to New Mexico, in Mississippi; thence to Villemont, in Arkansas.

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IN KENTUCKY.

From Williams to Madisonville. From Smithport to Warren. IN TENNESSEE.

Thrt part of the rout from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to Dougherty's, Tennessee, between Paris and Dougherty's, and from Kingsport to Jonesborough.

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AN ACT to authorize the President of the United States to direct transfers of appropriations in the naval service, under certain circumstances.

Be it enacted, &c. That, upon the application of the SeCretary of the Navy, the President of the United States shall have authority, whenever in his opinion the unforeseen contingencies of the public service may require it, to direct that a part of the money appropriated for a particular branch of the naval service be applied to another branch of the said service; in which case, a special account of the moneys thus transferred, and of their ap plication, shall be laid before Congress before its adjournment, if then in session, and during the first week of the next ensuing session, if such transfer be made in the recess of Congress.

This Act shall continue in force until the close of the next session of Congress and no longer. Approved: 3d July, 1832.

AN ACT to authorize the Legislature of the State of In. diana to sell and convey certain lands granted to said State for the use of the people thereof.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Legislature of the State of in such manner, and on such conditions, as said Legisla Indiana be and is hereby, authorized to sell and convey, land heretofore granted and set apart for the use of said ture shall by law direct, the following described tracts of State, namely: sections numbered thirteen progressively to thirty-six, inclusive; section sixteen excepted, in township numbered two, north of range two, west; and sections numbered one to twelve progressively and inclu sive, in township one, north of range two, west; and the northeast quarter of section numbered fourteen, in township seven, north of range two, west; and the northwest quarter of section numbered twenty-six, in township one, north of range five, west, in the Vincennes district; likewise, section fifteen, in township two, north; section twenty-eight, in township three, north of range four, east; and fractional section, numbered thirty-one, in township nine, north of range two, east, of the Jeffer sonville district; and to apply the proceeds of said sale, to the purposes of education: Provided, That the Legis

lature shall not authorize a sale of the said land at a less price than that at which the public lands are sold at private entry.

Approved: July 3, 1832.

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AN ACT to authorize the surveying and laying out a road from Detroit to the mouth of Grand river, of Lake Michigan, in the Michigan Territory, and for the survey of Canal routes in the Territory of Florida.

lars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents, for each and every day they shall be necessarily employed in the surveying, exploring, and marking, of said road, and making their returns thereof: Provided, That the whole expense thereof shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars.

Be it enacled, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint three commissioners, who shall explore, survey, and mark, in the most eligible course, a road from Detroit, westwardly, by way of Sciawassee, to the mouth of Grand river, in the Territory of Michigan; and said commissioners shall make out accurate plans of such surveys, accompanied with field notes, and certify and transmit the same to the President of the United States, who, if he approve of said survey, shall cause the plats thereof to be deposited in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and the said road shall be considered as esta-out first in making such parts of it from LaPlaisance Bay, blished and accepted: Provided, That said commissioners shall be disinterested persons, not residents of any county through which said road may pass.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall, each, be entitled to receive three dollars, and their assistants one dollar and fifty cents, for each and every day they shall be necessarily employed in the surveying, exploring, and marking of said road, and making their returns thereof: Provided, The whole expense thereof shall not exceed the sum of three thousand and five hundred dollars.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the purpose of compensating the said commissioners and their assistants, there shall be, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appro. priated.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, for the pur pose of compensating the said Commissioners, and their assistants, and for opening and making said road, there shall be, and is hereby, appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, however, That the money applied to the making of said road shall be laid to the crossing of the river Raisin, at or near Tecum seb, as have not heretofore been improved; and the resi due, if any, upon such parts of it as, in the judgment of the superintendent, the public good may most require. Approved: July 4, 1832.

AN ACT for the final adjustment of the claims to lands in the southeastern land district of the State of Louisiana.

Be it enacted, &c. That any persons claiming lands within the limits of a southeastern land district of the State of Louisiana, agreeably to the provisions of the laws heretofore enacted for the adjustment of land claims in that part of the territory of Orleans, or State of Louisiana, but whose titles have not been heretofore confirmed, may, at any time prior to the first day of July, one thousand Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President eight hundred and thirty-three, present their claims, toof the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized together with the written evidence and other testimony in cause to be made, an accurate and minute survey of the support of the same, to the Register and Receiver of the country between the waters of St. Andrew's bay, and land office at New Orleans; and it shall be the duty of the river and bay of Chattahoochie, and between Pensa- the said Register and Receiver to record, in a book to be cola bay and Bon Secour, along the northern coast of the kept for that purpose, the notice of every claim so preGulf of Mexico, with a view to ascertain the practicabili-ferred, together with the evidence; for which service ty and cost of canals to connect said bays and rivers, with they shall receive a compensation from the claimants, at notes, plans, observations, and opinions, of the engineers, the rate of twenty-five cents for every hundred words. on each of said parts designated, with estimates of the cost of each; and, for the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing provisions, the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise ap-have been preferred before them, together with the tes propriated.

Approved: July 4, 1832.

AN ACT to authorize the surveying and making a road from La Plaisance bay, in the Territory of Michigan, to intersect the Chicago road.

Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint three Commissioners, who shall explore, survey, and mark, in the most eligible course, a road from La Plaisance bay,in the Territory of Michigan, to intersect, at some suitable point, the road from Detroit to Chicago, extablished un der the provisions of the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five; and said commissioners shall make out accurate plats of such surveys, accompanied with field notes, and certify and transmit the same to the President of the United States, who, if he approve of said surveys, shall cause the plats thereof to be deposited in the office of the Treasury of the United States, snd the said road shall be considered as established and accepted: Provided, That said Commissioners shall be disinterested persons, not residents of the counties of Monroe or Lenewee, in said Territory.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners shall, each, be entitled to receive three dol

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Regis ter and Receiver shall, at or before the beginning of the next session of Congress thereafter, make to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of the claims which may timony, their opinion of the validity of the claims, and such other information respecting them as may be in their possession; which report shall, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be laid before Congress as soon as practicable, with his opinion touching the validity of the respective claims: Provided, That no claim shall be therein recoin. mended for confirmation, for more than the quantity con tained in a league square.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sales of land in the said southeastern district, by public auction or private entry, shall be suspended until after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all persons who, before the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, held lands in the said southeastern district, by claims unconfirmed, but which were embraced in the principles of the previous laws for the adjustment of claims in that part of the territory of Orleans or State of Louisiana, which lands may have been sold at the pub. lic sale which took place at New Orleans on the first Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, under the President's proclamation of the fifth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may avail themselves of this act as though their lands had not been sold; and the said Register and Receiver shall make a separate report of the cases of this class: and if it shall

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