hereto annexed and by me subscribed: Nor until such person shall have delivered, or caused to be delivered, to the secretary of war, a copy of the aforesaid schedule and oath or affirmation, certified by the clerk of the court to which the said schedule was delivered, together with the opinion of the said court, also certified by their clerk, of the value of the property contained in the said schedule: Provided, That, in every case in which the pensioner may be insane, or incapable of taking an oath, the court may receive the said schedule, without the aforesaid oath or affirmation, from the committee, or other person authorized to take care of such person. A certified copy of sche ty or incapaci filed in the of suffer, &c. strike from the names of persons, who, in his opinion,are 2. That the original schedule and oath or affirmation shall Original schebe filed in the clerk's office of the court to which the schedule dule, &c. to be and oath or affirmation aforesaid shall be exhibited: And any fice, &c. person who shall swear or affirm falsely in the premises, and be Persons swearthereof convicted, shall suffer as for wilful and corrupt perjury. ing falsely to § 3. That, on the receipt of the copy of the schedule and oath, The secretary or affirmation aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the secretary of of war may the war department to cause to be struck from the list of pen-pension list the sioners under the said act, the name of such person, in case the said person shall not, in his opinion, be in such indigent circumstances as to be unable to support himself without the assistance of his country: Provided, That every person who shall have been placed on the pension list in consequence of disability, from known wounds received in the revolutionary war, and who shall have relinquished such pension in order to avail themselves of the benefit of the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, who, by virtue of this section, may be stricken from the pension list, shall be forthwith restored to the pension so relin- from the list quished. [Approved, May 1, 1820.] CHAP. 75. An act further to regulate the medical department of the army. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the apothecary general and assistant apothecaries general shall severally give bonds to the United States, with good and sufficient security, for the faithful performance of their duties, in such sums as shall be required by the surgeon general of the army, under the direction of the war department. [Approved, May 8, 1820.] CHAP. 84. An act to establish additional land offices in the states of not, &c. Proviso; persons who reinquished penthemselves of the act of 18th sions to avail March, 1818, and stricken under this section, may be restored, &c. Act of 1816, ch. 69. Apothecary and assistant apothecaries bonds with security, &c. general, to give Tuscaloosa. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, for the sale of the unappropriated public lands in the state of Alabama, the following districts shall be formed and land offices therefor established: All the District, and public lands, as aforesaid, bounded on the north by the line land office at which separates townships numbered fourteen and fifteen, in the district of Huntsville; on the south, by the line which separates townships twenty-two and twenty-three, in the district of Cahawba and the district east of Pearl river; and on the east and west, by the lines of the state of Alabama; shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at Tuscaloosa. And all District, and the public lands, as aforesaid, bounded on the south by the southern boundary of the state of Alabama; on the west, by the land office at house. Conecuh court. Part of Shawneetown dis trict to form a separate land district Land office at Vandalia. Another land district in Illi nois Land office at Palestine, A register and receiver for each of the land offices, with compensation, &c. as in other cases, 2d, 3d,and 5th, act of 3d March, 1819, applicable, &c. so far as they line separating ranges four and five, east of the basis meridian, to the line separating townships five and six north, in the district of Cahawba; thence, east, with said line, to the line separating ranges twenty and twenty-one; thence, north, with said line, to the line separating townships eleven and twelve; thence, east, with said line, to the eastern boundary of the state of Alabama, and bounded on the east by the eastern boundary of said state; shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at Conecuh courthouse. 2. That so much of the public lands, heretofore included in the Shawneetown land district, as lies east of the third principal meridian, north of the base line and west of the range line, between ranges numbered eight and nine, east of the said third principal meridian, shall constitute a separate land district; and, for the sale of the public lands therein, there shall be a land office established at Vandalia, the seat of government for the state of Illinois. § 3. That so much of the public land as lies north of the base line, east of the aforesaid range line, and west of the Big Wabash river, as lies in the state of Illinois, shall also constitute a separate land district; and, for the sale of the public lands, there shall be a land office established at the town of Palestine, on the said Wabash river. 4. That there shall be a register and receiver appointed to each of the aforesaid land offices, to superintend the sales of the public lands in their respective districts, who shall reside at the places designated in their respective districts, at which the of fices are fixed, give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands. 5. That the provisions of the second, third, and fifth, secsections of the tions of the act, entitled "An act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices, for the disposal of the public lands not heretofore offered for sale in the states of Ohio and Indiana," approved March the third, eighteen hundred and nineteen, be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the aforeAct of 1819, ch. said districts and offices, so far as they are not changed by subsequent laws of the United States. [Approved, May 11, 1820. have not been changed, &c. 215. Act of 1812, ch. CHAP. 85. An act to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascer 62. Powers of the for deciding on claims to lands in the district taining and deciding on claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Prairie des Chiens, in the territory of Michigan. § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the powers of the commissioners commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on the rights of persons claiming lands in the district of Detroit, as defined by the second section of an act, entitled "An act to authorize the granting of patents for land according to the surveys that have been made, and to grant donation rights to certain claimants of land in the district of Detroit, and for other purposes;" passed on the twenty-third of Detroit, un der act of 23d April, 1812, re vived. And to exam ide on claims ine and de filed, &c. Report and transcripts to to the secreta be transmitted ry, &c. of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall be, and are hereby, revived. And the said commissioners shall perform Commissioners the duties therein prescribed, in relation to the claims which to perform the duties prescrib have been filed with the register of the land office for the said dis- edtrict, in pursuance of the act, entitled "An act allowing further Act of 1817, ch. time for entering donation rights to lands in the district of De- 272. troit." And the said commissioners shall also have power to examine and decide, according to the laws respecting the same, the claims which have been filed with the register of the land office and not heretofore decided on; and they shall transmit their report, and transcripts of their decisions, to the secretary of the treasury, to be laid before congress, in the manner directed by former laws providing for the adjustment of such claims. § 2. That the said commissioners shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to employ, with the approbation of the secretary of the treasury, a person capable of translating the French language, as an agent, for the purpose of ascertaining the titles and claims to land at the settlements of Green Bay and Prairie des Chiens. It shall be the duty of the said agent to give public Agent to give notice, at each of the said settlements, of the time and place notice, and therein at which he shall attend for the purpose of receiving notices and evidences of titles and claims to lands within the same. And every person having title or claim to lands within the set- Claimants tlements aforesaid, shall produce the evidence of his title or to produce claim to the said agent, who shall record the same in books to The commissioners authoran agent, &c. for ascertaining titles, ized to employ &c. attend, &c. evidence, &c. be kept for that purpose. And, after the said agent shall have Agent to report remained at the places aforesaid, a time sufficient for the inha- to the cominisbitants to produce the evidence of their claims, he shall make sioners, &c. his report thereof to the said commissioners, who shall have power to examine and decide on the claims so reported to them, according to the laws for adjusting and settling the claims to land in the district of Detroit, except, that which relates to donations of vacant land adjacent to the land confirmed shall not be considered applicable to claims in the settlements aforesaid. And the said commissioners shall transmit their report, and Commissioners transcripts of their decisions, to the secretary of the treasury, on to transmit reor before the first of October, in the year one thousand eight scripts to the hundred and twenty-one, to be laid before congress at their next secretary of the session thereafter, in the same manner as was directed by law in treasury, to be respect to the claims to lands in the district of Detroit. port and tran laid before congress, &c. Agent to take conform to 3. That the agent aforesaid shall take an oath for the faithful discharge of the duties enjoined on him; and he shall con- au oath, and form, in discharging the said duties, to such general instructions instructions. as shall be given him by the secretary of the treasury; and the 500 dolls. for said commissioners and agent shall each receive five hundred each commisdollars, as full compensation for the services to be performed sioner, and under this act, together with the recording fees to the agent, and fees to agent allowance to the register for a certificate of confirmation for do- and register. nation rights provided for by former laws. [Approved, May 11, 1820.] agent, with Act of 1813, ch. CHAP. 86. An act for the relief of certain settlers in the state of Illinois, who reside within the Vincennes land district. 162. Persons who would have been entitled to right of pre act been so to be entitled for the excess paid above 2 § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That every person, who would have been entitled to the right of pre-emption, according to the provisions of the act, entitled "An act giving the right of pre-empemption, under tion in the purchase of lands to certain settlers in the Illinois act of 5th Feb. territory," passed February the fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, provided said act had been so construed as to construed, &c. embrace those who were living within the limits of the Vincento a certificate nes land district, and who became the purchaser, at public sale, of the said land, to which the right of pre-emption would have so attached, at more than two dollars per acre, shall be endolls. per acre, titled to a certificate for the amount, so paid or to be paid, exceeding two dollars per acre, from the register of the land office at Vincennes; which certificate shall be receivable in payment of any debt due to the United States on account of the sale of Proviso; per- public land: Provided, however, That it shall be the duty of every person claiming the benefit of this act, to prove, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land office at Vincennes, that they are entitled thereto, according to its true intent and meaning. &c. Certificate receivable in payment, &c. sons to prove they are entitled, Persons who would have been entitled, not purchasers, allowed till 1st Sept. 1820, to prove, &c. &c. who were Register, on satisfaction, to grant a certificate, &c. § 2. That every person who would have been entitled to the right of pre-emption in the said Vincennes district, according to the provisions of the said recited act, passed the fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirteen, had it been so construed as to embrace them, and who did not become the purchaser of any tract of land to which such right of pre-emption would have attached, shall be allowed till the first day of September next to prove, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver at Vincennes, that they would have been so entitled; and it shall be the duty of the register, when the satisfaction aforesaid shall be made, to grant a certificate to every such person, or their legal representatives, stating therein that such person would have been entitled to such right of pre-emption, and that he did not become the purchaser thereof, neither at public nor private sale. And every such person, or his legal representatives, shall, upon producing such certificate to the register of any land office in the state of Illinois, be allowed to enter one quarter section of quarter section, land, each, at the minimum price fixed by the United States, of any land which may be surveyed previous to the first day of September next, whether the same shall have been offered at public sale or not. [Approved, May 11, 1820.] Every person, upon certificate, allowed to enter a at minimum price, &c. Act of 1819, ch. 223. Claims for eastern district CHAP. 87. An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana. 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the claims for lands within the eastern district of the state of Louisiana, described by the register and receiver of the said district, 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, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed against any claim on the part of the United States. of the Missis may deliver be recorded. 25 cents for every 100 § 2. That any person or persons, claiming lands within that Persons claimpart of Louisiana lying west of the river Mississippi, including ing lands west the island of New Orleans, founded upon any Spanish grant, con- sippi, founded cession, or order of survey, and whose claims have not hereto- upon Spanish fore been filed in the proper office, may, from and after the first grants, &c. day of July next, and until the thirty-first day of December there- notices and after, deliver notices, in writing, and the written evidences, of evidences of their claims, to the register of the land district within which such claims, &c. lands may be situate, within the said state; and the said notices Notices, &c. to 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, 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. 3. That the said registers shall, on the first day of January Registers to renext, make, to the secretary of the treasury, a report of all the port to the secclaims filed in their respective offices, in pursuance of the provi- treasury on the sions of this act, together with the substance of the evidence in 1st Jan. 1821. support thereof, with their opinion of the credit to which such evidence is entitled. words record ed. Persons neg their rights, &c. lecting forfeit retary of the Persons claiming lands under Spanish grants, &c. allowed to deliver addievidence, &c. tional written § 4. That 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, Evidence to be shall be recorded in books to be kept for that purpose; for which recorded. service a compensation shall be received, from such claimants, 25 cents for evat 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. 5. That the said registers shall, on the first day of January next, make, to the secretary of the treasury, a report of the ery 100 words Rights of persous neglecting, barred,&c. recorded. Registers, on 1821, to report the 1st Jan, claims in which additional evi dence has been 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 filed, &c. with is entitled, and such other information as the examination of their opinion, such cases, under any former law, may have placed in their power or possession. &c. § 6. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury, Secretary of as soon as the reports of the said registers shall be received, to the treasury to examine, and report. |