tion and in the manner which we shall prescribe by a separate ordinance, by the proprietors in towns and in the country in consideration also of the established right of possession which our laws grant to lease-holders, we will likewise give them access to a participation in the elections. In like manner the possession of landed property is to be a requisite condition to elligibility; and although, generally speaking, we are not willing to preclude those of our subjects holding official situations, who are at the same time landed proprietors, from having a seat in the Assemblies of the States, when they are elected thereto, no person in office who is provided with a commission, or charge, or confirmation subscribed by us, is allowed to accept of such appointment, without having first obtained our supreme sanction.

3. It is our determination to appoint members of the University and of the clergy to a seat in the Assemblies of Provincial States, and, according to circumstances, some few others whom we, in consideration of their situations and merits, might consider particularly adapted for it.

4. Before we give out any law to alter either the personal or possessive rights of our subjects, or the taxes and public imposts, we will cause the plan of such a law to be laid before the Assemblies of both States, or, if it should only relate to one or more of the Provinces, then before the Provincial States to which it belongs, that the States may be enabled to take the law into consid

eration, and submissively communicate the result of their deliberations.

5. If the Provincial States should find occasion to wish for any change in the general laws or institutions of the country, or those immediately affecting the province, or if they should find it requisite to bring forward any complaint of the manner in which the laws are conducted, they may represent the same to us and make their proposals, whereupon we will take such proposition into consideration, and then make known our determination.

6. As we consider it useful to allow the provincial states to take a part in the affairs of the parishes (communes,) we will take into consideration how this may be executed, and then further determine respecting it.

7. The provincial states will assemble when we summon them. This will take place every second year, but when it may be found necessary, we will also appoint extraordinary meetings of the States. With respect to the du ration of the sittings, we will, each time, according to circumstances, determine how long they are to last, after which we will have the dissolution of the meeting proclaimed.

8. We will make known the necessary further determinations, not only respecting the number of those persons who are to be elect ed as members of each of the Provincial Assemblies, but also the distribution of the number in each of the districts, and of the further stipulations for the right of election and elligibility, togeth

N. B.

CHAP. 1. An Act to authorize the State of Illinois to sell twenty thousand acres of the saline lands in said State.

СНАР. 2. An Act for the relief of William J. Quincy and Charles E. Quincy.

CHAP. 3. An Act for the relief of

Henry H. Tuckerman.

CHAP. 4. An act for the relief of

Robertson and Barnwell.

CHAP. 5. An Act for the relief of

Lewis Anderson.

CHAP. 6. An Act for the relief of

William Forsythe.

CHAP. 7. An Act for the relief of Charles Cassedy.

CHAP. 8. An Act for the relief of Dixon Spears.

Approved, January 19, 1832.

CHAP. 9. An Act supplementary to

an Act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on Public Lands.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, all persons who have purchased under an act, entitled An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,' approved the twentyninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may assign, and transfer their certificates of purchase

or final receipts, and patents may issue in the name of such assignee, any thing in the act aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. 10. An Act to direct the

manner of issuing patents on confirmed land claims in the Territory of Florida.

SECT. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all patents that are, or may be, by law, directed to be issued on private land claims confirmed by the commissioners of private land claims, and by the several acts of Congress approving their reports and confirming the titles to lands in the Territory of Floriida, shall be, and they are hereby, required to be issued to the confirmees, or to the assignee, or present owner, where the land has been sold or transferred since the confirmation of the title; and it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the production of satisfactory proof of the death of the confirmee, or upon the production of a regular chain of title from the confirmee, to cause the patent to be issued to the heirs and legal representatives, or to the assignees of the confirmee, as the case may be.

CHAP. 11. An Act for the relief of Robert A. Forsythe.

CHAP. 12. An Act for the relief of William D. King, James Daviess, and Garland Lincicum.

CHAP. 13. An Act for the relief of Stephen Hook.

Edward Lee.

CHAP. 21. An Act for the relief of

Andrew H. Richardson, executor of
Valentine Richardson.

CHAP. 22. An Act for the relief of Ariel Ensign.

CHAP. 23. An Act for the relief of Adam Peck.

CHAP. 24. An Act for the relief of Antoine Dequindre, Richard Smith, and others, Michigan volunteers. Approved, February, 18, 1832.

CHAP. 25. An Act to provide for the payment of arrearages in the naval service, chargeable to the enumerated contingent prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

CHAP. 26. An Act making appropria

tions for the revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo.

CHAP. 27. An Act making appropriations for fortifications for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo.

CHAP. 28. An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo.

Eber Hubbard.