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(ACT of March 3d, 1819.)

and such evidence adduced, before the said commissioners closed their registers.

SEC. IX. It shall be the duty of the register of each of the said land offices respectively, to make to the commissioner of the general land office, a report of all the claims filed with the register aforesaid, with the substance of the evidence in support thereof; and of the claims formerly filed, in support of which additional evidence shall have been received, with the substance of such evidence; and also their opinion, and such remarks respecting the claim as they may think proper to make: which report, together with a list of the claims, which, in the opinion of the register and receiver, ought to be confirmed, and also a list of actual settlers, prior to the passage of this act, noting the time of their respective settlements, shall be laid, by the commissioner of the general land office, before congress, at their next session, for their determination thereon. SEC. X. The said registers and receivers shall, respectively, have power to appoint a clerk, who shall be a person capable of translating the French and Spanish languages, and who shall perform the duty of translator, when required by said registers and receivers; and each of the said registers and receivers shall be allowed, as a compensation for their services in relation to the said claims, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars a year; and each of the clerks at the rate of one thousand dollars a year: Provided, That not more than eighteen months' compensation be thus allowed to the register, receiver, and clerk, for the district east of Pearl river, nor more than eighteen months' compensation be allowed to the register, receiver, and clerk, of the district west of Pearl river.

SEC. XI. The surveyor for the lands south of the state of Tennessee shall, with the consent and approbation of the president of the United States, appoint a principal deputy surveyor for the lands within the said districts, who shall receive an annual salary of five hundred dollars, and, in addition thereto, the following fees; that is to say: for examining and recording the surveys executed by any of the deputies, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the boundary line of such survey; and for a certified copy of any plat of a survey in the office, twenty-five cents; and whose duty it shall be to survey, or cause to be surveyed, by his other depu ties the lands, the claims to which are confirmed, and that are directed to be granted as donations, where the same have not already been surveyed, and the lands which may be claimed by right of preemption, whenever directed by the register and receiver, and to execute such other surveys as may be necessary for the ascertainment of the lands, the title or claim to which is embraced in the report of the commissioners aforesaid. And the said principal deputy surveyor shall make out particular plats of the surveys directed by this act, which he shall return to the register of the proper district; and also, a general and connected plat, which he shall return to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of

(ACT of May 11th, 1820.)

Tennessee, and the expense of surveying shall be paid by the United States: Provided, The same shall not exceed, in the whole, four dollars a mile, for every mile which shall be actually surveyed and marked.

SEC. XII. The books of the former commissioners, in which the claims, and evidence of claims, are recorded, shall be lodged with the registers of the land office, for the respective districts; and the register and receiver of public moneys, in each respective district, shall have power to examine the claims recognised, confirmed, or provided to be granted, by the provisions of this act, as also, claims to the right of preemption; and they shall make out to each claimant, entitled in their opinion, thereto, a certificate, according to the nature of the case, under such instructions as they may receive from the commissioner of the general land office; and on presentation at the general land office of such certificate for a confirmed claim, or for a donation, according to the provisions of this act; and where it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the commissioner of the general land office, that the certificate has been fairly obtained, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, then, and in that case, a patent shall be granted, in like manner as for other lands of the United States.

SEC. XIII. The president shall have power to appoint the regis ter and receiver of public moneys for the said districts in the recess of the senate, who shall be nominated to them at their next meeting.

ACT of May 11, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 75.

An act to establish additional land offices in the states of Alabama and Illinois. 63. [See LANDS-Northwest of the Ohio, 93, ante page 495.]

ACT of May 11, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 78.

An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana.

64. SEC. 1. The claims for lands within the eastern district of the state of Louisiana described by the register and receiver of the said districts, in their report to the commissioner of the general land office, bearing date the twentieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and recommended in the said report for confirmation, are hereby confirmed against any claim on the part of the United States.

SEC. 11. Any person or persons, claiming lands within that part of Louisiana lying west of the river Mississippi, including the island of New Orleans, founded upon any Spanish grant, concession, or order of survey, and whose claims have not heretofore been filed in the proper office, may, from and after the first day of July next, and until the thirty-first day of December, thereafter,

(ACT of May 11th, 1820.)

deliver notices, in writing, and the written evidences of their claims, to the register of the land district within which such lands may be situate, within the said state, and the said notices and evidences, so delivered, within the time limited by this act, shall, by the said registers, be recorded, in books to be kept for that purpose, for which service a compensation shall be received, from such claimants, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every hundred words. And the rights of such persons as shall neglect so doing, within the time limited by this act, shall, so far as they are derived from, or founded on, any act of congress, ever after be barred, and become void, anu the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in any court of the United States, against any grant derived from the United States.

SEC. II. The said registers shall, on the first day of January next, make, to the secretary of the treasury, a report of all the claims filed in their respective offices, in pursuance of the provisions of this act, together with the substance of the evidence in support thereof, with their opinion of the credit to which such evidence is entitled.

SEC. IV. Every person, or persons, claiming lands within that part of Louisiana described in the preceding section, founded upon any Spanish grant, concession, or order of survey, who had filed their notices of claims in the proper office, according to former laws, and whose claims have not been confirmed, may at any time before the thirty-first day of December next, deliver additional written evidence, or other testimony, in support of their claims, the notice of which had been filed as aforesaid, to the said registers, and the evidence, so delivered, or offered, shall be recorded in books to be kept for that purpose, for which service a compensation shall be received, from such claimants, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every hundred words. And the rights of such persons as shall neglect so doing, within the time limited by this act, shall, so far as they are derived from, or founded on, any act of congress, ever after be barred, and become void, and the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in any court of the United States, against any grant derived from the United States.

SEC. v. The said registers shall, on the first day of January next, make, to the secretary of the treasury, a report of the claims in which additional evidence shall have been filed in their respective offices, together with the substance of the evidence so filed, with their opinion of the credit to which such evidence is entitled, and such other information as the examination of such cases, under any former law, may have placed in their power or possession.

SEC. VI. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury, as soon as the reports of the said registers shall be received, to pro ceed to the examination of the claims aforesaid, and to report to the two houses of congress a list of the cases which, in his opinion,

(ACT of August 10th, 1790.)

ought to be confirmed, together with the reasons upon which his opinion may be founded: Provided, nevertheless, That no claim shall be so recommended for confirmation, which contains more than the quantity contained in a league square.

SEC. VII. The fifth section of the act, of the third day of March, eighteen hundred and eleven, entitled "An act providing for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, and to repeal the act passed for the same purpose" and approved February sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, be, and the same is hereby revived and continued, for the term of two years, from and after the passing of this act.

SEC. VIII. The said registers, in addition to the compensation herein prescribed, shall receive, in full for the services required of them, respectively, by this act, the sum of six hundred dollars, which shall be paid out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

See titles, ALABAMA, 6 and 9, ante page 17; ARKANSAW 14, 15, and 16, ante page 29; TENNESSEE, &c.

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ACT of August 10, 1790. 2 Bioren, 179.

An act to enable the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line, on continental establishment, to obtain titles to certain lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the little Miami and Sciota.

1. SEC. 1. The act of congress of the seventeenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, relative to certain locations and surveys made by, or on account of, the Virginia troops, on continental establishment, upon lands between the little Miami and Sciota rivers, northwest of the Ohio, is hereby repealed

And whereas the agents for such of the troops of the state of Virginia, who served on the continental establishment in the ar

(ACT of June 9th, 1794.)

my of the United States, during the late war, have reported to the executive of the said state, that there is not a sufficiency of good land on the southeasterly side of the river Ohio, according to the act of cession from the said state to the United States, and within the limits assigned by the laws of the said state, to satisfy the said troops for the bounty lands due to them, in conformity to the said laws: to the intent therefore, that the difference between what has already been located for the said troops, on the southeasterly side of the said river, and the aggregate of what is due to the whole of the said troops, may be located on the northwesterly side of the said river, and between the Sciota and little Miami rivers, as stipulated by the said state.

2. SEC. 1. The secretary of the department of war shall make return, to the executive of the state of Virginia, of the names of such of the officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates, of the line of the said state, who served in the army of the United States, on the continental establishment, during the late war, and who, in conformity to the laws of the said state, are entitled to bounty lands, and shall, also, in such return, state the aggregate amount in acres due to the said line by the laws aforesaid.

3. SEC. III. It shall and may be lawful for the said agents to locate, to, and for the use of the said troops, between the rivers Sciota and Little Miami, such a number of acres of good land, as shall, together with the number already located between the said two rivers, and the number already located on the southeasterly side of the river Ohio, be equal to the aggregate amount, so to be returned as aforesaid, by the secretary of the department of

war.

4. SEC. v. It shall be lawful for the president of the United States to cause letters patent to be made out, in such words and form as he shall devise and direct, granting to such person, so originally entitled to bounty lands, to his use, and to the use of his heirs or assigns, or his or their legal representative or representatives, his, her, or their heirs or assigns, the lands designated in the said entries. [See the Proviso, Infra 6.]

5. SEC. VII. No fees shall be charged for such letters patent and record, to the grantees, their heirs or assigns, or to their legal representative or representatives.

ACT of June 9, 1794. 2 Bioren, 440,

An act to amend the act, entitled "An act to enable the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment to obtain titles to certain lands,"

&c.

6. SEC. 1. All and every officer and soldier of the Virginia line on continental establishment, his or their heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty lands on the northwest side of the river Ohio, between the Sciota and Little Miami rivers, by the laws of the state of Vir

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