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Laws of the United States.

Arkansas.

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United States, owns a tract of land bordering on any ri- AN ACT establishing land districts in the Territory of ver, creek, bayou, or water course, in the said territory, and not exceeding in depth forty arpents, French mea Be it enacted, &c. That there shall be four land dissure, shall be entitled to a preference in becoming the tricts in the Territory of Arkansas, to be called as follows, purchaser of any vacant tract of land adjacent to and viz: the Arkansas land district, the White River land disback of his own tract, not exceeding forty arpents, trict, the Red River land district, and the Fayetteville French measure, in depth, nor in quantity of land, that land district; and each of the aforesaid land districts shall which is contained in his own tract, at the same price be bounded as follows, to wit: the Arkansas land district and on the same terms and conditions as are, or may be, shall include all the country embraced within the followprovided by law for the other public lands in the said ing boundaries: beginning on the west bank of the MisState. And the Surveyor General for the State of Lou-sissippi river, at the mouth of the St. Francis river, and isiana shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to running thence due west with the base line to the north. be surveyed the tracts claimed by virtue of this section; east corner of range six, township one north, and south and in all cases where, by reason of bends in the river, of said base line; thence due north with the dividing lake, creek, bayou, or water course, bordering on the line between ranges five and six, to the northeast corner tract, and of adjacent claims of a similar nature, each of township seven, north of said base line; thence due claimant cannot obtain a tract equal in quantity to the west with the dividing line between townships seven and adjacent tract already owned by him, to divide the va eight, to the northwest corner of range seventeen; and cant land applicable to that object between the several thence due south with the dividing line between ranges claimants, in such manner as to him will appear most seventeen and eighteen, to the Mississippi river. The equitable Provided, however, That the right of pre- White River district shall include all the country south of emption granted by this section, shall not extend so far Missouri, which is not included in the Arkansas land disin depth as to include land fit for cultivation, bordering trict above described, and east of the dividing line beon another river, creek, bayou, or water course. And tween ranges seventeen and eighteen, as extended from every person entitled to the benefit of this section, shall, the northwest corner of the said Arkansas land district, within three years after the date of this act, deliver to to the State of Missouri. The Red River land district the Register of the proper land office, a notice in wri- shall include all the country in Arkansas lying west of ting, stating the situation and extent of the tract of land the Arkansas land district, and south of the base line. he wishes to purchase; and shall also make the payment The Fayetteville land district shall include the residue of and payments for the same at the time and times which the Territory of Arkansas, being all the country lying north are or may be prescribed by law for the disposal of the of the Red River district, and west of the Arkansas and other public lands in the said State, the time of his deli- White River districts. vering the notice aforesaid being considered as the date Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land office of the purchase: Provided also, That all notices of claims for the Arkansas land district shall be at Little Rock; the shall be entered, and the money paid thereon, at least land office for the White River district shall be at Batesthree weeks before such period as may be designated by ville; the land office for the Red River district shall be at the President of the United States, for the public sale of the town of Washington; and the land office for the Fay. the land in the township in which such clains may be si-etteville district shall be at Fayetteville. tuated; and all claims not so entered, shall be liable to Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the be sold as other public lands. Whenever it shall be ne-duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as the same cessary to re-survey the public lands, in order to enable can be done, to cause the proper plats of the surveys to persons entitled to avail themselves of the provisions of be deposited in the proper land offices. this act, the expenses of such re-survey shall be paid by Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for each of the the person or persons who shall enter the lands so re said districts created by this act, a Register and Receiver surveyed under this act, at the time he or they shall pay of Public Moneys shall be appointed, who shall give sethe price of such lands to the Receiver of Public Moneycurity in the same manner, and whose duties and autho And if any such person shall fail to deliver such notice within the said period of three years, or to make such payment or payments at the time above mentioned, his right of pre-emption shall cease and become void; and the land may thereafter be purchased by any other person, in the same manner and on the same terms, as are or may be provided by law for the side of other public lands in the said State.

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rities shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are by law provided in relation to the Registers and Re ceivers of Public Moneys in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands.

Approved: June 25, 1832.

AN ACT to increase the number of Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons in the army of the United States.

AN ACT for the benefit of the Alexandria Canal Com. hereby, authorized, by and with the advice and consent

pany.

Be it enacted, &c. That the President be, and he is of the Senate, to appoint four additional Surgeons, and ten additional Surgeon's Mates, in the army of the United States.

Approved: June 28, 1832.

AN ACT further to extend the pension heretofore granted to the widows of persons killed, or who died in the naval service.

Be it enacted, &c. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, required to pay to the President and Directors of the Alexandria Canal Company, or to such officer of said Company as they may empower to receive it, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be applied to the construction of an aqueduct across the river Potomac, at or near Georgetown, in the District of Columbia; which sum shall be paid out of any money in Be it enacted, &c. That, in all cases where provision the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, at such times had been made by law for the five years' half pay to wiand in such proportions (having a due regard to the pro-dows and children of officers, seamen, and marines, who gress of the work) as the President of the United States may, from time to time, direct.

Approved June 25, 1832.

were killed in battle, or who died in the naval service of the United States; and, also, in all cases where provision has been made for extending the term for five years, in

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addition to any term of five years, the said provision shall be, and is hereby, further extended for an additional term of five years, so far as respects widows only; to commence at the end of the current or last expired term of five years in each case respectively; which pension shall be paid out of the fund heretofore provided by law. And the pensions herein continued shall cease for the causes mentioned in the laws granting the same, respectively.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall be extended to the widows of all those who may have died by reason of wounds received during

the war.

Approved: June 28, 1832.

AN ACT making provision for the sale and disposition of the public grounds in the cities of St. Augustine and Pensacola, and to reserve certain lots and buildings for public purposes, and to provide for their repair and preservation.

Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, required to cause to be selected such of the lots and buildings in the city of St. Augustine and of Pensacola, as may in his opinion be needed for public purposes; which, when so selected, shall be kept for the use of the United States, and when the selection shall have been made of such lots or buildings, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be surveyed all the public and private lots and commons in and about the said cities; one copy of which survey shall be lodged in the land offices in which the respective places are situated, and the other copy delivered to the city authorities, to be there kept and preserved as other records pertaining to the corporations of said cities.

thereof, either upon the public lands, or upon a site to
be procured for that purpose.
Approved: June 28, 1832,

AN ACT making appropriations for certain Internal Improvements for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following sums be appropriated for the purpose of making the improvements hereinafter enumerated, viz:

For removing obstructions to the navigation of Kenne. beck river, at Lovejoy's Narrows, Maine, including a balance of former appropriations, of two thousand five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-eight hundredths, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six

hundred dollars.

thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairing Plymouth Beach, Massachusetts, two

For further protection and preservation of the Beach at Provincetown, Massachusetts, four thousand six hundred dollars.

For deepening the channel through the Pass au Heron, Alabama, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, carried to the surplus fund first January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, six thousand and fifty dollars.

For deepening the channel at Pascagoula river, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, carried to the surplus fund the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.

For carrying on the work of the Delaware Breakwater, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

For improving the navigation of the Red river, Louisiana, and Arkansas, being the balance of the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lots, build-carried to the surplus fund, two thousand six hundred and ings, and commons, not so set apart or needed for public twenty-eight dollars, and the further sum of twenty purposes, shall, at such time, and in such proportions or thousand dollars. sizes, as may be deemed most advisable and conducive to the interest of the United States and the said cities, be sold at public auction as other public lands, and the mo ney arising from the sales paid into the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize the sale of any lot or parts of lots, or other grounds which have been, by the laws of Spain or the United States, vested in the corporations of said towns, or which have been set apart for churches or burying grounds by the laws aforesaid, or by any ordinance of the corporate authorities of the said cities.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the title to the lot of ground in St. Augustine, known as the Old or Burnt Hospital Lot, with all its appurtenances, be, and the same is hereby, vested in the Mayor of St. Augustine, and his successor, forever, in trust for the purpose of erecting thereon, by the local authorities of St. Augus tine, buildings necessary for the education of free white children of both sexes.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President shall cause the buildings which may be selected for public purposes under this act, to be refitted and repaired fit for use, and the better to preserve them from ruin and dilapidation, for which purpose the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to dispose of such part of the military reservations in the city of Detroit, and upon the river Rouge, in the Territory of Michigan, as in his opinion may not be wanted for the public service; and to vest the proceeds in the purchase or erection of a store house and wharf in the said city of Detroit, and in the erection of an arsenal in the vicinity

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To enable the Secretary of War fo pay Lucius W. Stockton the amount expended by him on the repairs of the Cumberland Road, during the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, five thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight dollars.

For completing the repairs of the United States' mili. tary road between Pensacola and Tallahassee, four thou sand dollars.

For completing the same from St. Augustine to Tallahassee, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the completion of the improvement of the harbor and river St. Marks, in Florida, as recommended by the Chief Engineer, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For completing repairs to piers at the entrance of Kennebunk river, Maine, one thousand seven hundred dollars.

For removing obstructions in the Berwick branch of
the Piscataqua river, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For completing the sea wall for the preservation of
Deer Island, Boston Harbor, sixty thousand dollars.
For completing the breakwater at Hyannis harbor,
Massachusetts, seven thousand six hundred dollars.
For removing the bar at the mouth of Nantucket har-
bor, six thousand dollars.

For completing the breakwater and dike, and deepening the channel, in the harbor of Mill river, in Connecticut, four thousand four hundred and ninety dollars and forty-three cents.

For completing the pier and mole at Oswego, New York, nineteen thousand dollars.

For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus Bay, New York, seventeen thousand dollars.

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For improving the entrance of Genesee river, sixteen thousand dollars.

For completing the pier at the mouth of Buffalo har bor, ten thousand three hundred dollars.

For the work at Black Rock harbor, New York, five thousand one hundred dollars.

For securing and completing the work at Dunkirk harbor, New York, ten thousand two hundred dollars.

For completing the improvement of the harbor of Presqu' Isle, Pennsylvania, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For improving the harbors of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and Port Penn, on the Delaware, ten thousand dollars.

. For carrying on the work for the improvement of Ocracock Inlet, North Carolina, twenty-two thousand dollars. For improving Cape Fear river, below Wilmington, North Carolina, twenty-eight thousand dollars.

For improving the navigation of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers, fifty thousand dollars.

And the President of the United States is hereby authorized to extend the improvement of the steamboat na. vigation from Pittsburg to the Cumberland Road at Brownsville, upon such plan as he may approve, under the provisions of the act of May twenty-four, eighteen hundred and twenty-four and that the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to extend the provisions of the act of twenty-fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled "An act to improve the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers," so as to embrace in its operations the river Missouri, from its junction with the Mississippi to the mouth of the Kansas river; and, also, the Upper Mississippi ri. ver from St. Louis, in Missouri, to Galena, in Illinois, with power to remove all obstructions in the channel of said river between those points; and that the provisions of the act, approved twenty fourth May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled "An act to improve the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers," be extended so as to include in its operation the improvement of the Mississippi from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, and the deepening of the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi.

For improving the navigation of the Arkansas river, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, The Engineer de partment, after due examination, is satisfied that, during a portion of the ensuing year, the men and machine now employed in removing obstructions in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers can be more usefully employed in removing those of the Arkansas river: Provided, That the compensation of the superintendent of the Ohio and Missis. sippi rivers shall be the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, in full for all his services; and he shall not hereafter be allowed any thing in the shape of commissions on his disbursements.

For improving the mouth of Conneaut Creek, Ohio, seven thousand eight hundred dollars.

For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Ashtabula Creek, Ohio, three thousand eight hundred dollars.

For a pier head at Cunningham Creek, Ohio, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For completing the removal of obstructions at the mouth of Grand river, Ohio, two thousand six hundred dollars.

For completing the improvement of Cleaveland har bor, Ohio, six thousand six hundred dollars.

For removing a sand bar at the mouth of Black river, Ohio, eight thousand dollars.

For removing obstructions at the mouth of Huron river, Ohio, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For piers at La Plaisance bay, Michigan, eight thousand dollars.

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For the improvement of the navigation of the Cumberland river, thirty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the War Department.

For the removal of the obstructions to the navigation of the Savannah river, between the mouth thereof and the city of Savannah, the sum of twenty-five thousand dol lars, including the balance of the former appropriation to the same object, to be expended according to a plan and an estimate of the Department of War.

For defraying the expenses incidental to making examinations and surveys under the act of thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, thirty thou sand dollars.

For repairs of the Cumberland road east of the Ohio river, and other needful improvements on said road, to carry into effect the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, entitled "An act for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road," passed the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one; and of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Maryland,-entitled "An act for the preservation and repair of that part of the United States' road within the limits of the State of Maryland," passed the 23d day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to which said acts the assent of the United States is hereby given, to remain in force during the pleasure of Congress, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the War Department, under the superintendence of an officer of the Engineers; and which said acts are hereby directed to be printed, and appended to the laws of the present session of Congress.

For repairing and building bridges on the military road leading from Mattanawcook to Mar's Hill, in Maine, for widening said road, and for contingencies, twenty-one thousand dollars.

For continuing the road from Detroit toward Chicago, fifteen thousand dollars.

For continuing the road from Detroit to Fort Gratiot, in Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars: and authority is hereby given to the Secretary of War to change the direction in which the road shall be continued, agreeably to the report of the Superintendent to the War Department, of the eighteenth of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

For continuing the road from Detroit to Saganaw, ten thousand dollars.

For the repair of the Little Rock and Memphis road, from Little Rock to the St. Francis river, under the superintendence of the Governor of said Territory, twenty thousand dollars.

To complete the Washington and Jackson road, at the two extremes thereof, in the Territory of Arkansas, in addition to the unexpended balance, two thousand dol

lars.

For continuing the Cumberland road in the State of Ohio, west of Zanesville, one hundred thousand dollars. For continuing the Cumberland road in the State of Indiana, including the erection of bridges over the East and West branches of White Water, and other small streams, with a view to bring the road into immediate use, one hundred thousand dollars.

For continuing the Cumberland road in the State of Illinois, seventy thousand dollars.

Which sums shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for the laying out and making of roads under the direction of Congress, by the several acts passed for the admission of the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacled, That so much of the second section of the act for the continuation of the Cum.

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AN ACT to establish certain post roads, and to alter and discontinue others; and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, &c. That the following be established as post roads;

IN MAINE.

in Mount Desert, in the county of Hancock, to the Seal
Cove, in the same township. From Winslow, by Clin.
ton, Pittsfield, Palmyra, southeast corner of St. Albans,
Corrina, and Dexter, to Dover. From Alfred, through
Waterborough, Limerick, and Cornish to Hiram Bridge.
From the Northwest harbor, to the South harbor, in
Deer Island.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

From Derry, Chester, and Candia, to South Deerfield. From Wakefield, in the county of Strafford, over Fogg's Hill, to Effingham. From Sanbornton Bridge, by the centre of Franklin, Salisbury post office, and the westerly part of Boscawen, to Hopkinton village. From Dunstable, by Milford, Wilton, Hancock, Stoddard, AlsteadFrom East Machias, by Whiting, to Little River har- east parish, Paper Mill village in Alstead, Langdon, to Charleston. From Dover, by Madbury, Barrington, bor, in the County of Washington. From Dennysville, in Washington county, by Charlotte, Cooper, and Alexan- Strafford, Barnstead, Gilmanton, and Guilford, to Meredith der, to Baring. From East Machias to Cutter. From Bridge. From Northumberland, thro' Piercy Winslow's Bangor, in Penobscot county, by Brewer, Plantation Location, Dummer, Berlin, to Milan. From Great Falls, number eight, to Ellsworth, in the county of Hancock; by Lebanon, Sanford, Emery's Mills, in Shapleigh, Acton thence by Mariaville, to Plantation number twenty-six, Corner, and Newfield, by the post offices called by those in said county of Hancock. From Waterville, in Ken- names, and through the west part of Parsonsfield, to the nebeck county, by Winslow, Clinton, Milburn, Cornville, post office in Effingham. From Concord, by Loudon, Athens, Brighton, Fordstown, Fosstown, and Blanchard, Lower Gilmanton Iron Works, Alton Bay, Plainfield to Monson; and from Brighton to Wellington, in the Corner, Union Village, Farmington, Middletown Corner, county of Somerset. From Thomastown, in the county and Brookfield Corner, to Smith's Bridge, in Wolfboof Lincoln, by Tenant's harbor [and Moscheto harbor, rough, and return by the North Meeting House, in Alton, to Alton Bay. From Meredith Bridge, by Guilford to St. George. From Waldoborough, in Lincoln coun⚫ ty, by Washington and Liberty, to Mountville, in Waldo Centre, to Alton Bay. From Concord, by Loudon Mills, and Loudon, to Gilmanton Courthouse. From Concord, county. From Fryeburg, in the county of Oxford to Chatham, New Hampshire. From Brunswick, in Cum- by Epsom, North Deerfield, Nottingham Centre, Wadberland county, by Topsham and Lisbon, to Green, in leigh's Falls in Leer, to Lamprey river village, in New. the county of Kennebeck. From Westbrook, in Cum-market. From Concord, by Pembrooke, Allenstown, berland county, up the west side of Presumscut river, West Deerfield, South Deerfield, Raymond, Epping, to intersect the road from Standish to Gray, at the car- Exeter, Stratham, and Greenland, to Portsmouth. rying place on Sebago Pond. From Anson, by Bing. Concord, by Hooksett, Candia, Raymond, Poplin, and Brentwood, to Exeter. From Concord, by Dunbarton, ham, in Somerset county, by the forks of Kennebeck ri ver, thence on the Canada road, to the Canada line. Goffstown, New Boston, Amherst, Milford, Wilton, Ma From West Jefferson, in Lincoln county, by Trask's son Harbor, New Ipswich, Ashby, Ashburnham, to Fitzmills and Sheepscot bridge, to Wiscasset. From Brown-hugh, in Massachusetts. From Newport, by Wendell ville, by Kilmarnock, to the easterly part of Milo. From Saco, Biddeford, the northerly part of Kennebunk port, and the centre of Lyman, to Alfred. From Exeter, by Corrina and St. Albans, to the intersection of the mail route from Pittsfield to St. Albans. From Fac

From

North Village, New London, Wilmot, to Andover. From
Newport, by Wendell, Fishersfield, Bradford, Herricker,
Weare and New Boston, to Amberst. From Bath to
Landaff. From Lisbon to Lyman Village. From Hook-
sett by Westchester, Chester, Landown, and Hawke, to
Kingston.

IN VERMONT.

tory village, by Sebattus village, in Lisbon, to Green. From Passadumkeag post office, in the county of Penob. scot, in the State of Maine, by Treat's mills, through From Brattleborough, in Windham county, by Guil number one, to Page's mills, so called; and through ford Centre, to Halifax. From Brandon in Rutland number two, Herd's ridge to number four, Mullit's county, to Shoreham, in Addison county. From Hanmills, in said county. From Gray, in the county of Cum. cock by Goshen, to Brandon, in the county of Rutland. berland, by Standish, to Alfred, in the county of York. From Swanton, in Franklin county, by Alburg, to Cham. From Cambden, through Hope and Appleton, to Mont-plain, in the county of Clinton, and State of New York. ville, in the county of Waldo. From Prospect West village, to James Black's, in Prospect, in the county of Waldo. From Bangor, by Hermon, Levant, Stetson, North Newport, and Corrina, to St. Albans. From the town of Portland, through Westbrook, Scarborough, Bux. ton, Hollis, a part of Waterborough, Limerick, and Newfield, to Plymouth, in New Hampshire, by way of Ossipee corner, Tuftonborough corner, and Moultonborough, passing on the south side of Ossipee mountain. From Philips, through Berlin, to Weld, in the county of Oxford. From Bangor, in the county of Penobscot, by Dutton west post office, Levant, Corinth west post of fice, Garland, Dover, Foxcroft, Sangerville, Guilford, Abbot, Monson, to the post office in Fullerstown, in the county of Somerset. From the upper village in Farmington, by Keith's mills, Sewall's mills, in Chesterville, northeasterly corner of Fayette, Taylor's mills, and Dunn's tavern, in Mount Vernon, Hoyt's tavern, in Read field, and Augusta, to Hallowell. From the post office

From Randolph to Chelsea, in Orange county. From Elmore to Walcott. From Lynden, in Caledonia county, by Burke, Newark, Randon, Charleston, East Village and West Village, and Salem, to Child's Mills, in Derby, in the county of Orleans. From Sunderland, by Stratton, to Wardsborough. From Waterford Lower Bridge, in Caledonia county, by Concord and St. Johnsbury East Village, to Lynden. From Windsor in Windsor county, by Downer's Inn, in Weathersfield, the North Village in Springfield, the North and South Villages in Chester, Cambridge Port, to Athens. From Wells River Village, in Newbury, by Groton, to Topsham and West Topsham, in said Orange county. From Middlebury, by Weybridge Lower Falls, to Addison. From Keene, through Westmoreland, in the State of New Hampshire; thence through Putney, Brookline, Newfane, Wardsboro' and Stratton, to Sunderland. From Corinth, by Corinth East Village, Topsham Town House, Groton Village, near Groton Mills, to Peacham. From Randolph, by

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Randolph West Village, the east part of Braintree, west part of Brookfield, east part of Roxbury, to the Centre Village of Northfield.

IN MASSACHUSETTS.

Westchester, by the way of the White Plains, to Tarry town. From the house of Alanson Burr, in the town of Caneadea, in the county of Alleghany, by the way of Rushford, to Farmersville, in the county of Cattaraugus. From the house of Captain William Bennett, in the town of Canisteo, in the county of Steuben, by the way of Purdy Creek settlement, and Alfred, to Scio, in the county of Alleghany. From fort Miller to Craigsborough. From West Bloomfield, in the county of Ontario, by North Bloomfield, and Norton's mills, to Webster's mills, in the

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city of Norwich. From Waterbury, in New Haven county, to Colebrook, in Litchfield county, said route to follow the Waterbury river turnpike road in the valley of the Waterbury river, to Colebrook, intersecting at Colebrook the mail route which now runs from Winsted to Stockbridge, in Massachusetts. From East Haddam Landing, by Westchester, to the borough of Colchester. From Kent, in the county of Litchfield, to the town of Cornwall, in said county, on the direct road from the post office in said Kent, to the post office at Cornwall office, by the Old Furnace, on what is called the Somers Bridge, in said Cornwall. From Stafford Springs' post. and Woodstock turnpike road, by Bartlett's mills, to Somerstreet. From Cornwall through Weston and Reading to Newtown. From the borough of Bridgeport, in Fairfield county, through Nicholl's farms, on the Wells Hollow Turnpike road, by Derby and Humphreysville to Salem bridge in New Haven county. From Wilton to Ridgefield. From Norwalk to New Canaan. From Norwich city, through Preston, Griswold, and Voluntown, on the Shetucket turnpike to Scituate, in Rhode Island. IN NEW YORK.

From Madison, in Madison county, by Augusta, Vernon Centre, Vernon, Verona, to Rome. From Mount Morris, in Livingston county. by Tuscarora, Ossian, Burrell's mills, to De Witt's valley, in the county of Allegha

town of Rush, in the county of Monroe. From the forks of the Great au Sable river, to Hopkinton. From Utica to New York mills. From Colossee, in the county of Oswego, through the towns of Parish and Amboy, to Cam den post office, in Oneida county. From Corydon, by Pleasant Grove, and Sociality, to Persia, (formerly West Lodi) in the county of Cattaraugus. From Auburn to Montezuma, passing through Fosterville, and from Mon. From Florida, by Monroe, in Franklin county, and by Readsborough and Whittingham, to Halifax, in the coun. ty of Windham, in Vermont. From Colerain, in the county of Franklin, through North Heath to Whitting; ham, in Vermont. From Westfield, through Otis and Tyringham, to Great Barrington. From Fitchburg, inny. From Nunda, in Alleghany county, to Ossian. From Worcester county, by Lunenburg, Townsend harbor, Portageville, in Alleghany county, by Oakland and TusPepperell, Dunstable, Tyngsborough and North Chelms- carora, to Danville, in the county of Livingston. From ford, to Lowell, in the county of Middlesex. From New Italy, in the county of Yates, by Pultneyville post office, Bedford, in Bristol county, to the village of Padanaram, Horse Head, by Erin, to Cayuga, in Tioga county. From Pultney, in Steuben county, to Hammondsport. From in Dartmouth. From Enfield, by Greenwich, Dana, Pe- Maccumber's in Susquehannah county, Pennsylvania, by tersham, Templeton, Westminster, Fitchburg, Lunen Silver lake, and Ellerslie, to Owego, in Tioga county. burg, Shirley, Groton, Westford, and Chelmsford, to Lowell. From the centre of Annisquam parish, in Glou- lus, by Waterloo, to Phelps. From the town of Somers, From Otego by Gilbertsville, to Unadilla. From Romucester, to the post office in said Gloucester. From Green- in the county of West Chester, to Lundington's store, in field, by Deerfield, to the centre of Whately. From the town of Kent, in the county of Putnam. From the North Adams, in the State of Massachusetts, through town of Flatbush to the town of New Utrecht, in the Clarksburg, thence through Stamford and Readsborough, in the State of Vermont, to intersect the mail route from county of Kings. From Greene, in Chenango county, Brattleborough to Bennington. From South Plympton Ulster county, by Craig's store, in Olive, to the nearest by Spees Spa, to McDonough. From Marbletown, in to Middleborough Four Corners. From Keene, New post office in Shandaken, on the route from Kingston, in Hampshire, through Troy, Fitzwilliam, Winchendon, said county, to Delhi, in Delaware county. From SanAshburnham, Fitchburg, Leominster, Lancaster, Bolton, Stow, Waltham, Watertown and Cambridge, to Boston,gersfield, in Oneida county, by Brookfild, in Madison Massachusetts. From Danvers to Salem. From Norfolk county, to Sherburne. to Marbleboro', North.

IN RHODE ISLAND.

From Newport to Block Island. From Providence, by Cranston Bank, Lippitt, Phœnix, Harris's and Arkwright's factories, in the county of Providence, to the village of Fiskville, in said county of Providence.

IN CONNECTICUT.

From Scotland, in Rockland county, by Hempstead, English Church, and Haverstraw, to Monroe ironworks in the county of Orange. From Deposite, in Delaware county, by Stanville and Jackson, to Gibson, in Susquehannah county, Pennsylvania. From From Tyrone, in Steuben county, to Rock Stream. From South BainJordan, in Onondago county, to Ira. bridge, in Chenango county, by Coventryville, to Oxford. From Glen's Falls, in Warren county, by Northville, to Patton's mills, in the county of Washington. From BaFrom Tolland to Bolton, in the county of Tolland. tavia, on the line between Bethany and Alexander, in From Wolcottsville, by Winstead, Hitchcocksville, and the county of Gennessee, by Attica and Middlebury, West Hartland, to West Granville, in Hampden county, through the east part of Orangeville, to Wethersfield. Massachusetts. From Hartford in Hartford county, by From Watertown, in Jefferson county, by Brownville, La Wintonbury, Simsbury, West Granby, Hartland, Gran- Fargeville, to Cornelia, at the mouth of French Creek, ville, in Massachusetts, Tolland and New Boston, to Stan. on the river St. Lawrence; thence by De Peauville to disfield, in the county of Berkshire. From Middletown Brownville. From Cuba village, in Alleghany county,by by Meriden, Cheshire, Waterbury, Middlebury, South- Dodge's creek, to Mill Grove, in Cattaraugus county. bury, Newtown, to Danbury. From the post office in From Hueville, by Depeyster and Washband settlements, Greenwich, to the village of Stanwich. From New Lon- to Oxbow, in Jefferson county. From Buffaloe, in Erie don to Sag harbor, in New York. From Tolland, through county, by Aurora, Wales, Holland, Sardinia, China, the northerly parts of Willington, Ashford, and Wood- Freedom, Caneada, and Belfast, to Angelica, in Alleghastock, in Connecticut, South part of Dudley, South Ox-ny county. From Daggett's mills to Lawrenceville, in ford, Sutton, Northbridge, Upton, Hopkinton, Sherburne, Natick, and Needham, to Boston: said route is on Central turnpike. From Essex, in the town of Saybrook, through the towns of Lyme, Salem and Montville, to the

Tioga county, Pennsylvania. From Port Kent, on Lake Champlain, by the way of the Au Sable forks, to Eastville post office, in the town of Lawrence, St. Lawrence county. From Duanesburg to Schoharie court house.

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