Superintendents'of public sales to re vided by law for other public lands sold in the State of Ohio and the Indiana Territory. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several suceive $6 a day, etc. perintendents of public sales directed by this act shall receive six dollars a day for each day's attendance on the said sales. The President, in the recess, etc. empowered to appoint the registers and receivers, etc. The lead mines in sections as the SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States, in the recess of Congress, shall have full power to appoint and commission the registers and receivers of public moneys of the land offices established by this act, and their commissions shall continue in force until the end of the session of Congress next ensuing such appointment. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the several lead many contiguous mines in the Indiana Territory, together with as many secPresident may tions contiguous to each as shall be deemed necessary by the be reserved for fu- President of the United States, shall be reserved for the future disposal, etc. ture disposal of the United States; and any grant which may containing lead hereafter be made for a tract of land containing a lead mine, been discovered which had been discovered previous to the purchase of such chase, etc., to be tract from the United States, shall be considered fraudulent considered fraudu and null. And the President of the United States shall be, The President au- and is hereby, authorized to lease any lead mine, which has any lead mine dis- been or may hereafter be discovered in the Indiana Terridiana Territory, tory, for a term not exceeding five years. deem necessary, to Grants for tracts mines, which had previous tothe pur lent and null, etc. thorized to lease covered in the In etc. *Private. SEC. 6.* Approved, March 3, 1807. [See Part II, Nos. 13, 47, 64, 82, 215, 760, 764, 765.] See original act of March 3, 1803, chapter 62. family, or above the 3d of March, habited and culti not claimed by virtue of a certificate, sippi Territory, CHAP. 95.-An act supplemental to an act entitled "An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the State of Tennessee."† SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asPersons, etc. who, sembled, That every person, and the legal representatives being head of 21 of every person, who, being either the head of a family or years, and who, on above the age of twenty-one years, and who did, on the third 1507, actually in day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, actuvated tracts of land ally inhabit and cultivate a tract of land not claimed by virtue of a certificate granted by the boards of commissioners etc. in the Missis east and west of Pearl river, in the Mississippi Territory, and and have obtained who has obtained permission to remain on such tract or tracts main thereon, etc., of land, agreeably to an act entitled "An act to prevent setpreference in be- tlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, coming purchasers, until authorized by law," shall be entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser from the United States of such tract of land, at the price at which the other lands of the United States in the said Territory are directed to be sold; and payment may be made therefor in the same manner and under the same conditions as directed by law for such other permission to re to be entitled to a etc. *Chapter 92. to exceed a section lands: Provided, That such tract of land shall not exceed Proviso; tracts not one section. And provided, also, That the same shall be each. surveyed agreeably to the sectional lines already established, to be surveyed or which may hereafter be established, by the surveyor of sectional lines esthe lands of the United States south of the State of Tennes- tablished, etc. see. Proviso; the tracts agreeably to the Persons claiming to the register, etc. writing, etc. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person acts by virtue of claiming a tract of land by virtue of this act shall, before the this act, to deliver first day of October next, deliver to the register of the land before the 1st Oct. office within whose district the land may be, a notice of his notice in claim, in writing, together with a plat of the tract of land claimed; and if any person shall fail to deliver such notice Persons failing to and plat, the person or persons so failing shall forfeit all claim, forfeit all claim, or pretension of claim, to such tract of land, and the same shall be sold with the other lands of the United States in said Territory. deliver notice, etc., etc. a right of pre-emp section of this act, make the first pay ment of the pur 1st of Jan. 1809, to chase-money, etc. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That persons entitled Persons entitled to to a right of pre-emption under the first section of this act tion under the 1st shall be allowed until the first day of January, one thousand allowed until the eight hundred and nine, to make the first payment of the purchase-money of such tract or tracts of land as may be claimed by virtue of said section; and the residue of the said purchasemoney shall be paid in the same manner and under the same conditions as directed for the other lands in said Territory.* *See chapter 118. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not This act not to exextend to any person or persons claiming other lands in said claiming Territory, in his or their own right, by virtue of British or tory, etc. Spanish grants, or to any person or persons to whom a donation has been granted by either of the said boards of commissioners. Approved, January 19, 1808. [See Part II, Nos. 1, 15, 16, 42, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 72, 77, 88, 93, 260, 645, 646, 670, 673, 768, 769, 773, 819, 824.] tend to persons lands in the Terri other CHAP. 96.—An act making further provision for the disposal of the sections of land heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress.† See act of the 34 March, 1807, ante, chapter 94. land heretofore re sold, etc., lying Ohio, except No. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemled, That all the sections of land heretofore reserved for All the sections of the future disposition of Congress, not sold or otherwise dis- served, etc., not posed of, and lying within either of the districts established within either of the for the disposition of public lands in the State of Ohio, with districts, etc. in the exception of the section numbered sixteen, of the salt 16, etc., to be offer springs, and lands reserved for the use of the same, shall be offered for sale in that district within which such reserved sections may respectively lie, on the same terms and under the same regulations as other lands in the same district: Proviso; the secProvided, That such sections shall previously be offered to be offered to the the highest bidder, at public sales, to be held under the su- public sale, etc. ed for sale, etc. tions previously to highest bidder at perintendence of the registers and receivers of public moneys of the land offices, respectively, to which they are attached, on the same terms as have been provided by law for the public sales of the other lands of the United States, and on such day or days as shall, by a proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose: And provided, also, That no such heretofore reserved section shall tion to be sold for be sold, either at public or private sale, at a less price than four dollars per acre. Proviso; no hereto fore reserved sec less than 84 per acre. Approved, February 29, 1808. [See Part II, No. 13.] *See act of 19th Dec. 1809, chapter 105, post. The Secretary of warrants sons who have, be CHAP. 97.-An act extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants.* SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue War authorized to military land warrants to such persons as have or shall, beissue military land to per fore the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fore the 1st March, ten, produce to him satisfactory evidence of the validity of 1810, produced at their claims; which warrants, with those heretofore issued isfactory evidence of their claims. and not yet satisfied, shall and may be located in the names may be located in of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to the first day of holders, etc., prior October, one thousand eight hundred and ten, on any unloto the 1st Oct. 1810, cated parts of the fifty quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants. The warrants, etc. the names of the etc. Approved, March 21, 1808. [See Part II, Nos. 2, 43, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 236, 237.] +See, in relation to the 4th sect. of this act, chap. 142. Whenever the thorized to cause CHAP. 98.-An act concerning the sale of the lands of the United States, and for other purposes.†(1) SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President of the United States President is au- has been or may be authorized to cause the public lands, the public lands, in any land district, to be offered for sale, it shall be lawful, in any district, to whenever he shall think it convenient, to offer for sale, at he may direct that first, only a part of the lands contained in such district, and, first offered, etc. at any subsequent time or times, to offer for sale, in the same manner, any other part, or the remainder, of the lands contained in the same. be offered for sale, only a part be at The 4th sect. of the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the fourth section act referred to re- of an act, passed the twenty-first day of April, one thousand ued until the 1st of eight hundred and six, entitled "An act in addition to an vived and contin Oct. 1808, etc. (1) See Part II, Nos. 13, 93, 106, 187, 212, 233, 235, 646, 658. Where a donation act entitled 'An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the State of Tennessee,'"* be revived and continued in force until the first day of October next and in any *Ante, chap. 87. case where a donation shall be granted in lieu of a pre-emp- is granted in lieu tion certificate, agreeable to the provisions of the said fourth etc. agreeably to section, the money, if any shall have been paid, shall be, by the 4th section of the receiver of the public money, repaid to the person or the money, etc. to persons who have paid the same. of a pre-emption, the act referred to, be repaid, etc. the river Mobile 1st of Oct. 1808, to SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That certain settlers on Certain settlers on the river Mobile, in the Mississippi Territory, (east of Pearl allowed until the river, who reside near the line of demarcation between the file notice of their United States and Spain, run in pursuance of the treaty of claims, etc. the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and whose claims to land has not been decided on according to law,) shall be allowed until the first day of October next to file a notice, in writing, with the register of the land office, stating the nature and extent of their claims, together with a plat of the tract or tracts claimed; and the said register of the land office, and the receiver The register and of public moneys, are hereby required to hear and deter- to hear and deter mine such claims, according to the several acts of Congress mine the claims, "regulating the grants of land, and providing for the dispo- the acts of Consal of the lands of the United States, south of the State of etc Tennessee," and to grant certificates in the form hereto- +Chapter 62. fore prescribed by the board of commissioners in said district. receiver required etc. according to gress referred to, the land offices Pearl riv'r to trans on or before the and fair report of the Mississippi SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the The registers of duty of the registers of the land office east and west of Pearl east and west of river, in the Mississippi Territory, to transmit to the Secre- mit to the Secreta tary of the Treasury of the United States, on or before the the Treasury, first day of November next, a full and fair report of all the of Nov. 1808, a full claims of certain persons to lands in the Mississippi Territo- claims to lands in ry, founded upon British or Spanish warrants or orders of Territory, founded upon British or survey, granted prior to the twenty-seventh day of October, Spanish warrants, etc. granted prior one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, not confirmed to the 27th Oct. by former laws regulating the grants of lands in said Territo- 1796, not confirmry, which have heretofore been regularly filed with the etc., together with register of the land office aforesaid, together with the evi- to be laid before dence in support of such claims, respectively, and to be by him laid before Congress at their next ensuing session. And the land contained in such warrants or orders of survey shall not be disposed of until otherwise directed by law. ed by former laws, the evidence, etc. Congress, etc. lands to which the extinguished by Choctaws, etc. to land district east SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That that part of the That part of the lands to which the Indian title was extinguished by the Indian title was treaty with the Choctaw nation made on Mount Dexter, in treaty with the the year one thousand eight hundred and five, lying on the be attached to the east of Pearl river, shall be attached to the land district east of Pearl river. of Pearl river; and that the residue of the lands to which The residue, etc. the Indian title was extinguished by said treaty shall be at- the land district tached to the land district west of Pearl river; and the said west of Pearl river. lands shall, with the exception of section number sixteen, to be attached to the exception of The lands, with which shall be reserved in each township for the use of No. 16, etc., and of schools within the same, and also with the exception of fifteen hundred acres of land, which is hereby confirmed to McGrew, etc., to John McGrew, in compliance with the fourth article of said treaty, be offered for sale under the same regulations, at the same prices, and on the same terms, as other lands lying within the said district. 1,500 acres confirmed to John be offered for sale, etc. Every person, etc. being the head of before the 3d of tually inhabited, in the Mississippi lowed until the 1st tain permission to SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That every person, and a family, or above the legal representatives of every person, who, being either 21 years, and who, the head of a family or above the age of twenty-one years, March, 1807, ac who did, before the third day of March, one thousand eight etc. a tract of land hundred and seven, actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of Territory, etc. al- land in the Mississippi Territory, belonging to the United of Oct. 1808, to ob- States, shall be allowed until the first day of October next to obtain permission to remain on such tract or tracts of to the provisions of land, according to the provisions of the act entitled "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorized by law;"* and the person or persons obtaining such permission shall be entitled to all the benefits, rights, and privileges, granted by law to those who obtained the same prior to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eight. remain, according the act mentioned, etc. *Chapter 92. The right of the vested in the cor SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the right of the two town lots in United States to two town lots, lying and being in the city of Natchez, forever Natchez, be, and the same is hereby, forever vested in the poration of that corporation of the said city, so as not to affect the legal or equitable claims of any individuals, or of any body politic or corporate, if any such there be. city, etc. When the claims right of pre-emp the districts east or SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That whenever the of persons having a claims of persons having a right of pre-emption, in either of tion, in either of the districts east or west of Pearl river, shall interfere with west of Pearl river each other, the register and receiver of public moneys are register and re hereby authorized, in their respective districts, so to reguceiver are to regulate their locations as to prevent such interference. interfere, etc., the ге late the locations, etc. Approved, March 31, 1808. [See Part II, Nos. 15, 42, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 72, 77, 88.] +See original act of 3d March, 1807; ante, chap. 90. lands within the oflegal grantsmade CHAP. 99.-An act supplemental to "An act regulating the grants of land in the Territory of Michigan." SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asPersons claiming sembled, That every person claiming lands within that part Territory of Mich- of the Michigan Territory to which the Indian title hath igan, etc. by virtue been extinguished, by virtue of any legal grant made by the by the French Gov- French Government prior to the treaty of Paris of the tenth the treaty of Paris of February, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three; ruary, 1763, or of or of any legal grant made by the British Government submade by the Brit. sequent to the said treaty, and prior to the treaty of peace subsequent to that between the United States and Great Britain of the third of ernment prior to of the 10th of Feb any legal grant ish Government |