*Ante, chap. 98.

receiver to make

entitled, etc. cer

mation, etc. direct

ral LandOffice,and

ed, if, etc.

to be entitled to

act who does not

United States, and for other purposes,"* passed on the thirtyfirst day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eight, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their rights to land so claimThe register and ed. And the register and receiver of public moneys for the out to claimants district within which the lands may lie are authorized and tificates of confir- required to make out, to such claimant or claimants entitled ed to the Commis. thereto by the provisions of this act, a certificate of confirmsioner of the Gene- ation, for each of which certificates the register and repatents to be graut-ceiver shall each receive one dollar, directed to the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and if it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the said Commissioner, that such certificates have been fairly obtained, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, then, and in that case, patents shall be granted in like manner as is provided by law for the other Proviso; no person lands of the United States: Provided, That no person shall the benefit of this be entitled to the benefit of this act who shall not appear, by appear, etc. to have the report made to Congress as aforesaid, or by the records been a resident of of the boards of commissioners for the said Territory, to have the 27th of October, been a resident of said Territory on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; nor shall any person be entitled to the benefit thereof who has received a donation grant from the United States: Provided, also, That not more than six hundred and forty acres any one claim. shall, by virtue of this act, be granted to any one claim. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this ions of the courts, act contained shall be construed to affect the decisions of the claims, etc., or to courts of justice in the said Territory, heretofore made, reprevent a judicial specting the claims, or any part thereof, embraced by the prethe holders of a ceding section, or to prevent a judicial decision between the and the persons holder of a British patent, legally and fully executed, and reconfirmed, etc. corded with the register of the land office east or west of Pearl river, and the persons whose claims are confirmed by the preceding section, where such claims interfere.

the Territory on

1795, nor, etc.

Proviso: not more than 640 acres to

Nothing in this act

to affect the decis

etc. respecting the

between

British patent, etc.

whose claims are

Approved, June 30, 1812.

[See Part II, Nos. 19, 658, 661, 662, 663, 664.]

The other sections of this act irrelevant.

to be received in

lands, &c.

of Treasury notes,

CHAP. 143.-An act to authorize the issuing of Treasury notes.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said TreasThe Treas'y notes ury notes, wherever made payable, shall be every where repayment of duties, ceived in payment of all duties and taxes laid by the authortaxes, public ity of the United States, and of all public lands sold by the On every payment said authority. On every such payment, credit shall be given etc. credit to be for the amount of both the principal and the interest which, given for principal on the day of such payment, may appear due on the note or the interest to be notes thus given in payment. And the said interest shall, rate of one cent and on such payments, be computed at the rate of one cent every $100, etc. and one half of a cent per day on every hundred dollars of principal, and each month shall be computed as containing thirty days.

and interest, etc.,

computed at the

a half per day on

Approved, June 30, 1812.

CHAP. 144.-An act giving validity to the sale of certain tracts of public lands sold in the western district of the Territory of Orleans, now State of Louisiana.

tracts of land sold

at public sales, un

tendence of the re

or of the western

made good and val

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sale of the several tracts of public lands The sale of the sold in the month of January, one thousand eight hundred in January, 1812, and twelve, at the public sales held under the superintend- der the superinence of the register of the land office and the principal dep- gister and princiuty surveyor of the western district of the Territory of Or- pal deputy surveyleans, (now State of Louisiana,) be, and the same is hereby, district of Orleans, made good and valid, to all intents and purposes, any law to id, etc. the contrary notwithstanding: And the purchasers of the The purchasers of said tracts shall, severally, on completing the payment of the pleting the paym't purchase-money according to law, be entitled to receive a money, to be enti patent or patents for the lands so purchased and paid for, as ents, etc. in case of other lands sold by the United States; the first in- The first instalm't stalment of the purchase-money shall be considered as due of the purchaseand payable at ten days after the receiver of public moneys sidered due and for the district within which the lands lie shall have entered on the discharge of the duties of his office. Approved, July 1, 1812.

the tracts, on com

of the purchase

tled to receive pat

money to be con

payable ten days after the receiver has entered on the discharge of the duties of his office.

CHAP. 145.--An act confirming grants to lands in the Mississippi Territory, derived from the British Government of West Florida, not subsequently regranted by the Government of Spain or of the United States.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre

by legally and ful

from the British

Florida, whose

been regranted,

been regularly

sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- Citizens claiming sembled, That citizens of the United States claiming lands lands in the Mis in the Mississippi Territory, by virtue of grants legally and sissippi Territory, fully executed, derived from the British Government of ly executed grants West Florida, whose lands have not been subsequently re- Governm't of West granted by the Spanish Government, or claimed in right of lands have not donation or pre-emption certificates granted by the boards or claimed, etc., of commissioners east and west of Pearl river, and whose whose claims have claims have been regularly filed, according to law, with the filed, etc. and are proper register of the land office in the said Territory, and report laid before are embraced in the report of the commissioners laid before firmed Congress according to law, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their respective claims, according to the said grants; Provided, That nothing in any law of the United States shall Proviso; nothing be construed to prevent a judicial decision of controversies vent a judicial de under the respective claims aforesaid.

Approved, July 5, 1812.

[See Part II, No. 19.]

embraced in the

Congress, etc., conin their

in any law to pre

cision of controver

sies, etc.

*See original act, of 23d April, 1812; ante, chap. 134.

the act referred to

fractional sections,

er for sale, accord

CHAP. 146.-An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands northwest of the river Ohio to complete their payments.'

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe provisions of Sembled, That the provisions of the act to which this act is a extended to the supplement shall be, and they are hereby, extended to the purchasers of the several purchasers of the fractional sections which were, by etc., classed togeth the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, classed toing to the 9th sec. gether for sale, according to the ninth section of an act ened, notwithstand titled "An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana Territory, and for other purposes," It ought to be the passed on the twentieth‡ of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, notwithstanding the quantity of land contained in any one tract, composed of such fractional sections, so classed together, and purchased by a single contract, shall exceed six hundred and forty acres.

of the act mention

ing, etc.

*Chap. 69.

26th.

Assignees of origin

al purchasers of prior to the 1st of

tled to the benefit

every case where,

etc.

§Ante, chap. 134.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the assignee or lands purchased assignees of any original purchaser of land from the United April, 1808, enti States, the lands being purchased prior to the first day of of the act and sec- April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall be ention referred to, in titled to the benefit of the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement,§ and the last preceding section, in every case where it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of public moneys of the district within which the land may lie, that the assignment by which he or they so claim was bonafide made prior to the passing of the aforesaid act, that the whole lands claimed by virtue of such assignment does not exceed six hundred and forty acres, unless it comes within the provision of the preceding section, and that the lands, or some one tract thereof, is inhabited and cultivated by or for the use of the assignee or assignees.

tracts, etc. pur

1st of April, 1808,

acres, unless, etc. have, since the 1st

may have, before

1812, reverted, etc.

claiming, etc. may

re-enter; moneys

In all cases where SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in every case chased prior to the where any tract or tracts of land, purchased prior to the first not exceeding 60 day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, unless such tract shall of April, 1812, or come within the provision of the first section of this act, has, the 1st of August, since the first day of April last, reverted, or that may, before for default of pay. the first day of August next, revert to the United States, for ment, the persons default of payment, the person or persons claiming such tract paid to be placed or tracts, whether as an assignee or an original purchaser, to credit, etc., and may again re-enter the same; and all moneys which such aslowed the same signee or original purchaser may have paid shall be replaced tension of the time to his credit, by the register and receiver of public moneys of payment, etc. of the district in which the lands may lie; and such repurchaser or repurchasers shall be allowed the same benefit of Proviso; applica the extension of the time of payment, provided by the act to to the proper land which this is a supplement, as though no such reversion had on or before the occurred: Provided, Such assignee or assignees, original if the lands have purchaser or purchasers, shall make to the proper land officer not been resold, application for such re-entry on or before the first day of

repurchasers al

benefit of the ex

tion to be made

officer for re-entry

1st Sept. 1812, and

etc.

September next, and that the lands so re-entered shall not have been resold previous to such application.

Approved, July 6, 1812.

[See Part II, Nos. 13, 217, 218.]

CHAP. 147.—An act increasing the pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates, and others, of the army, and for other purposes.

*The other sec

officers, privates,

the promulgation

list to serve during

SEC. 3.* And be it further enacted, That every non-com- tions irrelevant. missioned officer, musician, and private, who shall, after the Non-commissioned promulgation of this act, be recruited in the regular army of etc. recruited after the United States, may, at his option, to be made at the time of this act, may enof enlistment, engage to serve during the present war with the war, or for five Great Britain, instead of the term of five years; and shall, in years, at option,etc. case he makes such option, be entitled to the same bounty in money and land, and to all other allowances, and be subject to the same rules and regulations, as if he had enlisted for the term of five years.

Approved, December 12, 1812.

CHAP. 148.—An act supplementary to the act, entitled "An act for the more perfect organization of the army of the United States."

tions irrelevant.

to be advanced to

man enlisted after

1813, etc.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, in order to com- The other secplete the present military establishment to the full number 24 dollars, on ac authorized by law, with the greatest possible despatch, there count of pay, etc., shall be paid to each effective, able-bodied man, who shall be each able-bodied duly enlisted into the service of the United States, after the the 1st of February, first day of February next, to serve for the term of five years, or during the war, an advance of twenty-four dollars, on account of his pay, in addition to the existing bounty; one half of such advance to be paid at the enlistment of the recruit, and the other half when he shall be mustered, and have joined some military corps of the United States, for service; and a bounty of one hundred and sixty acres of land, as here Bounty of 160 acres tofore established by law.

Approved, January, 20, 1813.

of land, etc.

CHAP. 149.-An act giving the right of pre-emption in the purchase of lands

to certain settlers in the Illinois Territory.

Persons, etc. in

tivating tracts of

established in the

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- habiting and culsentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- and in the districts sembled, That every person, or legal representative of every Illinois Territory, person, who has actually inhabited and cultivated a tract of not rightfully clai land lying in either of the districts established for the sale med, etc. entitled of public lands in the Illinois Territory, which tract is not ers, etc.

to a preference in

rightfully claimed by any other person, and who shall not have removed from said Territory; every such person, and his legal representatives, shall be entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser from the United States of such tract of land, at private sale, at the same price, and on the same. terms and conditions, in every respect, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of other lands sold at private sale in said Territory, at the time of making such purchase: Provided, That no more than one quarter section of land shall section to one in be sold to any one individual in virtue of this act; and the same shall be bounded by the sectional and divisional lines run, or to be run, under the direction of the surveyor general, for the division of the public lands: Provided, also, That no lands reserved from sale by former acts, or lands which have lots, etc. not to be been directed to be sold in town lots and out-lots, shall be sold under this act.

Proviso; not more than one quarter

dividual, etc.

Proviso; lands re

served, or directed to be sold in town

sold under this act.

Persons claiming a preference in pur

notice in writing to

land office, etc.

Where it appears to the satisfaction

entitled to a prefer

ter the quarter sec

ister, on producing receipts, etc.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person chasing to deliver claiming a preference in becoming the purchaser of a tract the register of the of land in virtue of this act shall make known his claim by delivering a notice, in writing, to the register of the land office for the district in which the land may lie, wherein he shall particularly designate the quarter section he claims; which notice the register shall file in his office, on receiving twenty-five cents from the person delivering the same. And in every case where it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the of the register, etc. register and receiver of public moneys of the land office, that persons are that any person who has delivered his notice of claim is enence, they may en- titled, according to the provisions of this act, to a preference tions with the reg in becoming the purchaser of a quarter section of land, such person, so entitled, shall have a right to enter the same, with the register of the land office, on producing his receipt from the receiver of public moneys for at least one twentieth part of the purchase money, as in case of other public lands sold at private sale: Provided, That all lands to be sold under this act shall be entered with the register at least two weeks bebefore the public fore the time of the commencement of the public sales in the district wherein the land lies: and every person having a right right of preference, of preference in becoming the purchaser of a tract of land, make entry within who shall fail so to make his entry with the register within rights are forfeited, the time prescribed, his right shall be forfeited, and the land by him claimed shall be offered at public sale with the other public lands in the district to which it belongs. Approved, February 5, 1813.

Proviso; lands sold

under this act to be

entered with the register two weeks

sales, etc.

Persons having a

etc. failing to

the time, etc., their

etc.

[See Part II, Nos. 15, 42, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 72, 77, 88, 93, 220, 221, 243, 244, 245, 247, 260, 261, 262, 286, 293, 309, 330, 564, 695, 696.]

CHAP. 150.-An act confirming certain claims to lands in the district of Vin

cennes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as