Chapter CIV. to settle certain Accounts between the United States and the State of Mississippi and other States
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Chap. CIV.— An Act to settle certain Accounts between the United States and the State of Mississippi and other States. March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Commissioner of the Settlement of accounts with Mississippi for lands.General Land-Office be and he is hereby required to state an account between the United States and the State of Mississippi, for the purpose of ascertaining what sum or sums of money are due to said State, heretofore unsettled, on account of the public lands in said State, and upon the same principles of allowance and settlement, as prescribed in the “Act to settle certain accounts between the United States and the Slate of Alabama,” 1855, ch. 139.approved the second March, eighteen hundred and fifty-five; and that he be required to include in said account the several reservations under the Vol. x. p. 630.various treaties with the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians within the limits of Mississippi, and allow and pay to the said State five per centum thereon, as in case of other sales, estimating the lands at the value of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the said commissioner shall And with other States.also state an account between the United States and each of the other States upon the same principles, and shall allow and pay to each State such amount as shall thus be found due, estimating all lands and permanent reservations at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. Approved, March 3, 1857.