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quorum.

to act as a

of the Senate, to appoint three fit and disinterested persons, to be and act as commissioners, by virtue of an act entitled "An act providing for the indemnification of certain claim*Ante, chap. 161. ants of public lands in the Mississippi Territory,"* in the place of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General of the United States, for the Any two of the time being; and the said persons are hereby constituted and appointed a board of commissioners, any two of whom may act as a quorum, as in and by the act aforesaid is provided. Object of the board, Which board is hereby declared to be intended to effect the same purposes and services as the said original board; and is, in every respect, substituted for the same; and is hereby authorized to execute all the powers granted to, and directed to perform all the duties enjoined upon, the said original board of commissioners, according to the intent and provisions +See act of the 3d of the act aforesaid.† of March, 1815, ch. 178.

etc.

ers to meet at a

District of Colum

proceed, certify, and report, etc.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners The commission to be appointed in pursuance of this act shall meet at some place within the suitable place within the District of Columbia, on the fourth bia, etc., and to Monday of January current, or as soon thereafter as may be, to enter on the duties assigned them. And that they shall proceed therein as expeditiously as may be, and from time to time shall certify and report to the President of the United States, as to the sufficiency of the releases that shall have been made, and the claims they shall have finally adjudged and allowed, agreeably to the third section of the act to which this act is supplementary.

Each commissioner to take an oath.

Form of the oath.

The board may ap

his duty, etc.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That each of the said commissioners, before they proceed to execute their duties as such, shall take the following oath or affirmation, to wit: "I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am not interested in the event of any decision that may be made by this board of commissioners, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me as a member thereof; and will adjudge and determine all the matters, claims, and controversies, subject to the adjudication and determination of this board, according to the best of my abilities, agreeably to the laws of the United States and the principles of justice and equity."

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said board point a secretary; of commissioners shall have power and authority to appoint a secretary, whose duty it shall be to receive, file, and preserve, the papers, documents, and claims, that may be presented to and received by said board of commissioners, and to enter and record all the orders, proceedings, judgments, and determinations, of said board of commissioners. And An oath to be ad one of said commissioners shall administer an oath to such ministered to the secretary, for the faithful discharge of his duty. And there $1,500 to cach shall be allowed and paid, out of the Treasury of the United commissioner and States, to each of the said commissioners, as well as to the

secretary.

the secretary.

secretary by them to be appointed, as a compensation for

their respective services under this act, and in full for the same, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

Further time al

releases in the of

fice of the Secreta

ry of State, etc. and

for recording, etc.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That further time be, owed to deposite and hereby is, allowed to deposite in the office of the Secretary of State releases to the United States of claims under the act, or pretended act, of the State of Georgia, passed on the seventh day of January, seventeen hundred and ninetyfive, and assignments of rights or claims to moneys paid into the treasury of the State of Georgia, and power to sue therefor; and also for recording, in the office of the Secretary of State, any deed or evidence of any title or claim that hath been released to the United States, or that shall be released on or before the day hereby appointed, to wit: the third Monday in March next. And so much of the act of Congress So much of the acts passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred mentioned as os and three, entitled "An act regulating the grants of lands of from recording, etc. the United States south of the State of Tennessee," and so 1804, repealed. much of the act to which this is supplementary, as exclude claimants from recording their claims after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and four, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

cludes claimants

after the 1st Jan.

Chapter 62.

+Ante, chap. 161.

ers empowered to

claims duly releas

rupts, etc.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said commis- The commissionsioners be, and hereby are, authorized and empowered to determine all consider and determine all claims that shall have been duly cd, made by as released to the United States on or before the said third signees of bank. Monday of March, which may be made and preferred by assignees of bankrupts, or executors or administrators on estates of deceased persons, which may be insolvent and subject to distribution among the creditors of the persons so deceased.

Approved, January 23, 1815.

[See Part II, No. 109.]

CHAP. 172.-An act attaching to the Canton district, in the State of Ohio, the tract of land lying between the foot of the rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie and the Connecticut Western Reserve.

described, attach

Canton.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that tract of land lying between the foot The tract of land of the rapids of the river Miami of Lake Erie and the west- ed to the district of ern line of the Connecticut Reserve, in the State of Ohio, which was ceded to the United States by certain tribes of Indians, at a treaty concluded at Brownstown, in the Michigan Territory, on the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall be attached to and made a part of the district of Canton.

the lands descri

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in surveying and In surveying, etc. dividing the lands by this act attached to the district of Can- bed, the ordinary ton, the ordinary mode of surveying the public lands shall be so

mode to be devia

The lands to be of fered to the highest

President may designate by procla

mation; the sales

to remain open one week, etc.

far deviated from, that the boundary lines of the tracts to be laid off therein shall be run parallel to and at right angles with the road laid out in conformity with the said treaty, and in every other respect the surveys shall be made in the same manner and for the same compensation allowed for the surveying the other public lands northwest of the river Ohio.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the lands by bidder, etc. as the this act attached to the district of Canton shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land office and the receiver of public moneys of the said district, at such time and place as the President of the United States shall designate by proclamation for that purpose; and the sales shall remain open one week, and no longer; and the said lands shall, in every respect, be sold on the same terms and conditions as have been provided for the sale of other lands of the United States. All the lands Lands remaining in the said tract, remaining unsold at the close of the said disposed of at pri- sales, may be disposed of at private sale by the register of the land office of the said district, on the same terms and conditions as are provided for the sale of other public lands in the same district; and patents shall be obtained in the same manner as in case of other lands of the United States. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid day's attendance, register and receiver of public moneys shall each receive four dollars per day for each day's attendance on the public sales directed by this act.

unsold, may be

vate sale, etc.

Patents, etc.

$4 to register and receiver for each

etc.

Approved, February 4, 1815.

[See Part II, Nos. 64, 775, 776.]

the 1st April, 1810,

April, 1811, had purchased not ex

and whose lands

have not been

CHAP. 173.-An act for giving further time to the purchasers of public lands to complete their payments.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person who, after the first day of April, Persons who, after one thousand eight hundred and ten, and prior to the first and prior to the 1st day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, had purchased any tract or tracts of land of the United States, ceeding 640 acres, not exceeding in the whole six hundred and forty acres, at sold or reverted, any of the land offices of the United States, and whose lands etc. allowed the have not already been actually sold or reverted to the United three years, etc. States for non-payment of part of the purchase-money, shall for completing be, and they hereby are, allowed the further time of three years, from and after the expiration of the period already See ante, chapter given by law,* for completing the payment of the purchasemoney aforesaid; which further time of three years shall be allowed only on the following conditions: First, all arrears 1. Arrears of in; of interest on the purchase-money shall be paid on or before the expiration of the time for completing the payment of the

further time of

payment, etc.

158.

Conditions, etc.

terest to be paid,

etc.

payment of inter

of est on or before the

the sum due, etc.

terest, in

three

purchase-money according to former laws: Provided, That Proviso; as to the in all cases in which the time for completing the payment the purchase-money may have expired, or shall expire be- 1st June, 1815. fore the first day of June next, the interest may be paid on or before that day. Second, the residue of the sum due on 2. The residue of account of the principal of such purchase shall be paid, with to be paid, with ininterest thereon, in three equal annual payments, as follows, equal annual payviz: one third of the said sum, with the interest due thereon, ments, etc. within one year; one third of the said sum, with the interest due thereon, within two years; and the residue, with the interest due thereon, within three years, after the expiration of the time for completing the payments on such purchases according to law. And in case of failure to pay the arrears In case of failure of interest, or any of the three instalments of principal, with land to be adver the accruing interest, at the time above mentioned, the tract for sale, etc. of land shall be forthwith advertised and offered for sale, in the manner and on the terms directed by law in case of lands not paid within the time limited by law, and shall revert to the United States in like manner if the same is not sold at such sale.

Approved, February 4, 1815.

[See Part II, No. 13.]

CHAP. 174.-An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the late county of New
Madrid, in the Missouri Territory, who suffered by carthquakes.

to pay, etc. the

tised and offered

owning

lands in the coun

etc. materially in

to locate the like

etc.

quantity allowed

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or persons owning lands in the Persons county of New Madrid, in the Missouri Territory, with the ty of New Madrid, extent the said county had on the tenth day of November, jured by earthone thousand eight hundred and twelve, and whose lands quakes, authorized have been materially injured by earthquakes, shall be, and quantity on any public lands in the they are hereby, authorized to locate the like quantity of Missouri Territory, land on any of the public lands of the said Territory, the sale of which is authorized by law: Provided, That no per- Proviso; as to the son shall be permitted to locate a greater quantity of land, be located. under this act, than the quantity confirmed to him, except the owners of lots of ground or tracts of land of less quantity than one hundred and sixty acres, who are hereby authorized to locate and obtain any quantity of land, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, nor shall any person be entitled to locate more than six hundred and forty acres, nor shall any such location include any lead mine or salt spring: Lead mines and And provided, also, That in every case where such location ed. shall be made according to the provisions of this act, the title Proviso; the title of the person or persons to the land injured as aforesaid shall to revert to the U. revert to, and become absolutely vested in, the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever it to the recorder, by shall appear to the recorder of land titles for the Territory any persons are of Missouri, by the oath or affirmation of a competent wit- under this act, he ness or witnesses, that any person or persons are entitled to is to issue a certifi

salt springs except

to the land injured

States.

When it appears

the oath, etc. that entitled to a tract

cate, etc.

A survey
made, and plat re-
turned, etc.

a tract or tracts of land under the provisions of this aet, it shall be the duty of the said recorder to issue a certificate to be thereof to the claimant or claimants; and upon such certificate being issued, and the location made, on the application of the claimants, by the principal deputy surveyor for said Territory, or under his direction, whose duty it shall be to cause a survey thereof to be made, and to return a plat of each location made to the said recorder, together with a notice, in writing, designating the tract or tracts thus located, and the name of the claimant on whose behalf the same shall Plat, etc. to be re- be made; which notice and plat the said recorder shall cause to be recorded in his office, and shall receive from the claimant, for his services on each claim, the sum of two dollars, for receiving the proof, issuing the certificate, and recording Compensation to the notice and plat as aforesaid; and the surveyor shall be entitled to the same compensation for his services from the party applying as is allowed for surveying the public lands of the United States.

corded.

the recorder and

surveyor.

The recorder to transmit a report of

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the the claims allow duty of the recorder of land titles to transmit a report of the missioner of the claims allowed and locations made, under this act, to the General Land Of Commissioner of the General Land Office, and shall deliver

ed, etc. to the Com

fice, etc.

to the party a certificate, stating the circumstances of the case, and that he is entitled to a patent for the tract therein designated, which certificate shall be filed with the said recorder within twelve months after date, and the recorder The recorder to is shall thereupon issue a certificate in favor of the party, which certificate, being transmitted to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, shall entitle the party to a patent, to be issued in like manner as is provided by law for other public lands of the United States.

sue

etc.

a certificate,

Patent, etc.

Approved, February 17, 1815.

[See Part II, Nos. 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 23, 62, 225, 246, 247, 256, 294, €95, 786, 787, 797, 800, 811, 974, 1,018.]

diers of the Vir

ment, to whom

issued by virtue of

CHAP. 175.-An act giving further time to complete the surveys and obtain the patents for lands located under Virginia resolution warrants.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreOfficers and sol sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asginia line on con- sembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line tinental establish- on continental establishment, or their legal representatives, land warrants have to whom land warrants have issued by virtue of any resoluany resolution of tion of the Legislature of Virginia, as a bounty for services which, by the laws of Virginia passed prior to the cession of have been made the Northwestern Territory to the United States, entitled such prior to the 23d of officers or soldiers to bounty lands, and whose location of lowed until the 22d such warrants shall have been made prior to the twentyto complete their third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eleven, surveys, etc., pro- shall be allowed the further time of two years from the pass

the Legislature of Virginia, etc., whose locations

March, 1811, al

of February, 1817,

vided, etc.

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