commissioned off charged, and has cate from the com med his duty, he is soldier shall be discharged from the service, who shall have When any nonobtained from the commanding officer of his company, bat- cer or soldier is distalion, or regiment, a certificate that he had faithfully per- obtained a certifi formed his duty whilst in service, he shall, moreover, be al- manding officer lowed and paid, in addition to the said bounty, three months' that he had perfor. pay, and one hundred and sixty acres of land; and the heirs to be allowed, in and representatives of those non-commissioned officers or pay and 160 acres soldiers who may be killed in action, or die in the service of case of his being the United States, shall likewise be paid and allowed the the heirs and represaid additional bounty of three months' pay, and one hun- sentatives are to redred and sixty acres of land; to be designated, surveyed, tional bounty, to and laid off, at the public expense, in such manner and upon veyed, etc., at the such terms and conditions as may be provided by law. Approved, January 11, 1812. addition, 3 months' of land; and, in killed or dying, &c. ceive the addi be designated, sur public expense. CHAP. 121.—An act directing the terms on which lands sold at public sale, and that revert for failure in payment, shall again be sold. lands, sold at pub verting to the Uni count of failure to SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- No tract of public sembled, That no tract or tracts of the reserved sections or lic sale, and re other public lands of the United States, that have been or ted States on acmay hereafter be sold at public sale, and which may have, complete the pay or shall, on account of failure to complete the payment of ment, to be herethe purchase-money, revert to the United States, shall here- vate sale for a less after be sold, at private sale, at a price less than that for which it was sold which the same tract was sold at public sale. Approved, January 14, 1812. [See Part II, No. 13.] after sold at pri price than that for at public sale. CHAP. 122.--An act authorizing the President of the United States to accept and organize certain volunteer military corps. *Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8, irrele vant. sioned officer or action, &c., enti SEC. 1.* SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the heirs and rep- The heirs, &c. of resentatives of any non-commissioned officer or soldier, who any non-commismay be killed in action, or die in the actual service of the soldier, killed in United States, shall be entitled to receive one hundred and led to 160 acres of sixty acres of land, to be designated, surveyed, and laid off, at the public expense, in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as may be provided by law. Approved, February 6, 1812. [See Part II, No. 97.] land, to be desig nated, surveyed, &c., at the public expense, &c. *See act of 16th of April, 1814, chap. 163. The register and office at Kaskaskia, son as the Presi quire into the va land in the district rived from confirm Governors of the diana Territories, CHAP. 123.-An act for the revision of former confirmations, and for confirming certain claims to land, in the district of Kaskaskia.* SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the register and receiver of public moneys receiver of the land of the land office at Kaskaskia, and such other person as the and such other per President of the United States shall appoint for that purpose, dent may appoint, be, and they are hereby, authorized to examine and inquire authorized to in into the validity of claims to land in the district of Kaskaslidity of claims to kia, which are derived from confirmations made, or pretended of Kaskaskia, de- to have been made, by the Governors of the Northwest and ations made by the Indiana Territory, respectively. They shall employ a clerk, Northwest and In- and shall, in relation to the claims aforesaid, have, in every etc., and to employ respect, the same powers which had been vested in the coma clerk, etc., re- missioners appointed to ascertain the claims to land in the said district. And they shall report to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him laid before Congress, at their next session, their opinion on each of the claims aforesaid. The commission- SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissionpointed by this act, ers and clerk appointed by this act, and such agent as may etc., to receive $500 be appointed on behalf of the United States by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall each receive five hundred dollars, in full for the services performed by them under this The compensation, act; which compensation, and also the contingent charges of the moneys ap for office rent, fuel, stationery, and summoning witnesses on propriated for surveying the public the part of the United States, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by law for surveying the public lands of the United States. port their opinion, etc. ers and clerk ap each, in full, etc. etc. to be paid out lands. The decisions made by the com. amining claims to favor, etc., as en cripts, etc. of 31st firmed, etc. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the decisions made missioners for ex by the commissioners, heretofore appointed for the purpose of lands in thedistrict examining the claims of persons to lands in the district of of Kaskaskia, in Kaskaskia, in favor of such claimants, to town or village lots, tered in the trans- out-lots, or rights in common, to commons and common fields, Dec. 1809, etc., con- as entered in the transcripts of decisions, bearing date the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and nine, which have been transmitted by the said commissioners to the Secretary of the Treasury, according to law, be confirmed to all such rightful claimants, according to Proviso nothing their respective rights thereto : Provided, That nothing any particular de herein contained shall be construed to confirm any particular cision heretofore decision heretofore made in favor of any individual, or to any individual, or affect the right of any other individual claiming the same of any other claim- land, but such conflicting claims shall be decided, according to law, by the proper tribunal. Approved, February 20, 1812. herein to confirm male in favor of to affect the right ing, etc. CHAP. 124.-An act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to locate the lands reserved for the use of Jefferson College, in the Mississippi Territory. 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 the Treasury be, and he is the Treasury em in one body, the 36 served for the use hereby, authorized and empowered to locate, in one body, The Secretary of the thirty-six sections of land reserved for the use of Jeffer- powered to locate son College, in the Mississippi Territory, by an act entitled sections of land re"An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the of Jefferson Colsale of the lands of the United States, south of the State of lege, in the MissisTennessee," passed on the third day of March, one thousand any lands not seld, eight hundred and three, on any lands within the said Ter- *See chap. 62. ritory, not sold or otherwise disposed of, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished. Approved, February 20, 1812. sippi Territory, on etc. CHAP. 125.-An act to establish a land district in the Illinois Territory, east of the district of Kaskaskia, and to attach certain public lands to the district of Jeffersonville. A new land dis included within Kaskaskia, etc., lands lying be nes and Kaskas established at SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands of the United trict formed of part States, heretofore included within the land district of Kas- of the public lands kaskia, as lies east of the third principal meridian establish- the land district of ed by the surveyor general, shall, together with the public and the public lands lying between the Vincennes and Kaskaskia districts, tween the Vincenand not heretofore attached to any district, form a new land kia districts, etc. district. For the disposal of the said lands, a land office A land office to be shall be established at Shawneetown, under the direction of Shawneetown, for a register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, etc. are to be ap to be appointed for that purpose; who shall reside at the pointed. place, give security in the same manner, in the same sums, receiver to reside and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and au- at Shawneetown, thority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the same as regis the lands which shall be disposed [of] at their office, as are or in the land offices may be by law provided in relation to the registers and re- Ohio. ceivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States northwest. of the river Ohio. which a register, The register and give security, etc. ters and receivers northwest of the disposed of, etc. as tract er act to be sold by virtue of this act. square dent to reserve six States works on Saline creek. Proviso; the Presi miles for the salt Saline SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said lands shall The lands to be be disposed of in the same manner, and on the same terms in the district of and conditions, as are or may be provided by law for the Kaskaskia. sale of public lands in the district of Kaskaskia: Provided, Proviso; no That no tracts of land excepted from the sales by virtue excepted by formof any former act shall be sold by virtue of this act: And provided, also, That a tract of not less than six miles shall be reserved by the President of the United for the use and support of the public salt works on creek. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the so much of the lands attached to the district of Vincennes, by virtue of the landed to first section of an act entitled "An act providing for the cennes, etc. to be sale of certain lands in the Indiana Territory, and for other trict of Jeffersonpurposes," passed on the thirtieth day of April, one thou- ed at public sale sand eight hundred and ten, as lies east of the second prin- +Ante, chap. 109. the district of Vin attached to the dis ville, and be offer there, etc. cipal meridian established by the surveyor general, shall be attached to and become a part of the district of Jeffersonville, and shall be offered at public sale at the land office for the said district, under the superintendence of the register and receiver of public moneys for the said land office, and shall be sold in every other respect in the same manner and on the same terms and conditions as are provided by the The public sales to above-mentioned act, except that the public sales for the said remain open only lands shall remain open only for six days. six days. Approved, February 21, 1812. [See Part II, No. 64.] *See act of 27th February, 1813, ch. 151, post. lands in the west settlers, whose been filed, etc., al November, 1812, CHAP. 126.--An act giving further time for registering claims to land in the western district of the Territory of Orleans.* 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 or persons claiming lands in the ern district of Or- Western district of the Territory of Orleans, who are actual leans, being actual settlers on the land which they claim, and whose claims have claims have not not been heretofore filed with the register of the land office lowed until the 1st for the said district, shall be allowed until the first day of to deliver notices, November next to deliver notices in writing, and the writetc. to the register ten evidences of their claims, to the register of the land ofThe notices and fice at Opelousas; and the notices and evidences, so debe recorded as if livered within the time limited by this act, shall be recorddelivered before ed in the same manner, and on payment of the same fees, as if the same had been delivered before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight; but the rights of sons neglecting to such persons as shall neglect so doing, within the time limitbecome ed by this act, shall, so far as they are derived from or void, so far, etc. founded on any act of Congress, ever after be barred and at Opelousas. evidences, etc. to the 1st July, 1808. The rights of per deliver notices, etc. to become void, and the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in any court of the United States, +See ante, sec. 5. against any grant derived from the United States. † chap. 91. The register and lousas to have the to perform the given before the cept, etc. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the register and receiver at Ope receiver of public moneys of the said land office at Opelousame powers and sas shall have the same powers, and perform the same dusame duties, etc. as ties, in relation to the claims thus filed before the first day of if notice had been November next, as if notice of the same had been given be1st July, 188, ex fore the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight, except that their decisions shall be subject to the reThe register and Vision of Congress. And it shall be the duty of the said to the Secretary of register and receiver to make, to the Secretary of the Treas. claims filed, with ury, a report of all the claims thus filed with the register of the substance of the land office, together with the substance of the evidence their opinion, etc. in support thereof, with their opinion, and such remarks thereon as they may think proper; which report, together list of the claims, with a list of the claims which, in the opinion of the register etc. to be lidhe, and receiver, ought to be confirmed, shall be laid by the Sec receiver to report the Treasury the the evidence, and The report, with a be fore Congress, etc. receiver empower clerk; his duties, etc. retary of the Treasury before Congress, at their next session, for their determination thereon. The said register and The register and receiver shall have power to appoint a clerk, whose duty ed to appoint a shall be the same, in relation to the claims filed as aforesaid, as was required of the clerk to the board of commissioners for adjusting claims to land in the said district; and the said register, receiver, and clerk, shall each be allowed The register, re. fifty cents for each claim filed according to this act, and on each to be allowed which a decision shall be made, whether such decision be in claim filed, etc. in favor of or against the claim; which allowance of fifty cents full, etc. shall be in full compensation for their services under this act. Approved, March 10, 1812. [See Part II, Nos. 19, 64.] ceiver, and clerk, 50 cents for each CHAP. 127.-An act granting to the corporation of the city of New Orleans the use and possession of a lot in the said city. space 150 by 125 feet of a vacant lot ed in the corpora authorized to use ing, etc. stean en SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right and claim of the United States The right of the to the use, possession, and occupancy, of a space of one hun- United States to a dred and fifty by one hundred and twenty-five feet of a va- of ground in New cant lot of ground, in the city of New Orleans, bounded by Orleans, etc. vestBienville and Custom-house streets, and by Levee street and tion of that city. the high road, be, and the same is hereby, vested in the corporation of the said city. And the said corporation is au- The corporation thorized to use, possess, and occupy, the same, for the pur- the space for erectpose of erecting, or causing to be erected and kept in opera- gines for conveytion, a steam engine, or engines, for conveying water into ing water into the the said city, and all buildings necessary to the said purpose: Provided, That if the said space of ground shall not be occupied for the said purpose within the term of three years from and after the passing of this act, or shall, at any thereafter, cease to be so occupied for the term of years, the right and claim of the United States thereto shall remain unimpaired: And provided, also, That this act not affect the claim or claims of any individual or individuals, if any such there be. Approved, April 3, 1812. time three shall city. Proviso; if the space is not occupied within 3 years from the 3d April, is12, or ceases to be occupied for three years, the right of the United States to remain impaired; and this act not to af fect the claims of individuals, etc. CHAP. 128.-An act for the admission of the State of Louisiana into the The people of that part of Louisiana within the limits described, formed, tution and State Whereas the representatives of the people of all that part on the 224 Janua of the territory or country ceded, under the name of " Lou- ry, 1812, a consti isiana," by the treaty made at Paris on the thirtieth day of Government, April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the transmitted to ConUnited States and France, contained within the following approved. which has been gress and by them |