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commissioners and the supplement thereto, now received, and which may be returned to the of hereafter received, shall be recorded by the secretary of the fice of the Secreta said commissioners, and the said records returned, with all

the records, etc.

ry of State, etc.

other papers and documents in relation to said claims, when the business of the said commissioners shall be closed, to the office of the Secretary of State; and that the said secretary shall be paid, by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United 100 words record. States, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, at the rate of twelve and a half cents for each and every hundred words contained in each instrument so recorded.

12 cents for every

ed.

On the dissolution, etc. of the board of

President may al

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That, on the dissolucommissioners, the tion of the said board of commissioners, and the performance low them further of the duties assigned them, the President of the United compensation, etc. States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized, if in his judgment he shall consider the said commissioners entitled to any further additional compensation for their services than is now provided for, to cause them to be paid such other and further sums, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as he shall think just and reasonable : Proviso; the addi Provided, That such additional compensation shall not extional compensa ceed fifty cents, to each commissioner, for every, deed or 50 cents to each evidence of title which shall be submitted to their examinaevery deed, etc. tion and decision, in pursuance of the provisions of the said original act and the supplements thereto. Approved, March 3, 1815.

tion not to exceed

commissioner for

submitted, etc.

[See Part II, No. 109.]

*See act of 3d of March, 1817, chap. 208.

States anterior to

siding in Canada

ment, and having joined the armies

ring its continu

bounty land.

Quantity to each person.

CHAP. 179.-An act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Cana

dian volunteers.*

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asCitizens of the U. sembled, That all such persons as had been citizens of the the war of 1812, re- United States anterior to the late war, and were, at its comat its commence mencement, inhabitants of the province of Canada, and who, during the said war, joined the armies of the United States, of the U. States duas volunteers, and were slain, died in service, or continued ance, entitled to therein till honorably discharged, shall be entitled to the following quantities of land, respectively, to wit: each colonel, nine hundred and sixty acres; each major, to eight hundred acres; each captain, six hundred and forty acres; each sub+Quantities redu altern officer, to four hundred and eighty acres; each nonced. See act of 3 commissioned officer, musician, or private, to three hundred chap. 208, post. and twenty acres; and the bounties aforesaid shall extend Claims may be le to the medical and other staff, who shall rank according to sections, on unap their pay.† And it shall be lawful for the said persons to the Indiana Terri- locate their claims, in quarter sections, upon any of the unbeen surveyed, ex appropriated lands of the United States within the Indiana cept salt springs, Territory, which shall have been surveyed prior to such loSee act of 3d of cation, with the exception of salt springs and lead mines 2, chap. 208, post. therein, and of the quantities of land adjacent thereto which

March, 1817, sec. 3,

cated in quarter

propriated lands in

tory, which have

etc.

March, 1817, sec.

may be reserved for the use of the same, by the President of the United States, and the section number sixteen, in every township, to be granted to the inhabitants of such township for the use of public schools; which locations shall Manner of loca be subject to such regulations, as to priority of choice and President shall the manner of location, as the President of the United States prescribe. shall prescribe.

tion, etc. as the

according to rules
prescribed by the

President, to issue
warrants
land.

for the

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary for Secretary of War, the Department of War, for the time being, shall, from time of evidence, to be to time, under such rules and regulations, as to evidence, as the President of the United States shall prescribe, issue to every person coming within the description aforesaid a warrant for such quantity of land as he may be entitled to by virtue of the aforesaid provision; and in case of the death of such person, then such warrant shall be issued to his See act of 3d of widow, or if no widow, to his child or children.*

March, 1821, chap. 258, post.

ditional pay to

rank.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of Three months' adthe United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and re- Canadian volunquired to pay to each of the persons aforesaid three months' teers, according to additional pay, according to the rank they respectively held in the army of the United States during the late war. Approved, March 5, 1816.

[See Part II, Nos. 8, 14, 40, 230, 252.]

CHAP. 180.-An act relating to settlers on the lands of the United States.† tExpired.

chapter 198.

See

lands ceded to the

on applica

shal, to remain

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 who, before the first Persons occupying day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, United States, alhad taken possession of, occupied, or made a settlement on, loved a register, any lands ceded or secured to the United States, by any recorder, or mar treaty made with a foreign nation, or by a cession from any thereon, etc. State to the United States, which lands had not been previously sold, ceded, or leased, by the United States, or the claims to which lands had not been previously recognised or confirmed by the United States, and who, at the time of passing this act, does or do actually inhabit and reside on such lands, may, at any time prior to the first day of September next, apply to the proper register or recorder, as the case may be, of the land office established for the disposal, registering, or recording, of such lands; and, where there is no register or recorder, to the marshal, or to such person or persons as may be, by the registers, recorders, or marshals, respectively, appointed for the purpose of receiving such applications, stating the tract or tracts of land thus occupied, settled, and inhabited, by such applicant or applicants, and requesting permission to continue thereon; and it shall thereupon be lawful for such register, recorder, or

give quiet pos

quired, etc.

marshal, respectively, to permit, in conformity with such instructions as may be given by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approbation of the President of the United States, for that purpose, such applicant or applicants to reNot exceeding 320 main on such tract or tracts of land, provided the same shall, acres for each ap. at that time, remain unsold by the United States, not explicant, etc. ceeding three hundred and twenty acres for each applicant, as tenants at will, on such terms and conditions as shall prevent any waste or damage on such lands, and on the express condition that such applicant or applicants shall, whenever The applicant to such tract or tracts of land may be sold or ceded by the UniSession when re- ted States, or whenever, from any other cause, he or they may be required, under the authority of the United States, so to do, give quiet possession of such tract or tracts of land to the purchaser or purchasers, or to remove altogether from Proviso; the appli- the land, as the case may be: Provided, however, That such sign a declaration permission shall not be granted to any such applicant unless he shall previously sign a declaration, stating that he does not lay any claim to such tract or tracts of land, and that he does not occupy the same by virtue of any claim, or pretended claim, derived, or pretended to be derived, from any Proviso; as to lead other person or persons: And provided, also, That in all cases where the tract of land applied for includes either a lead mine or salt spring, no permission to work the same shall be granted without the approbation of the President of the United States.

cant previously to

that he lays no claim, etc.

mines and

springs.

salt

Applications and

permissions to be

etc.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the applicaentered on books, tions made, and permissions granted, by virtue of the preceding section, shall be duly entered on books, to be kept for that purpose, by the registers, recorders, and marshals, aforesaid, respectively; and they shall be entitled to receive, from the party, for each application fifty cents, and for each permission one dollar.

Fees.

Limitation of this

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall act to 25th March, continue and be in force for the term of one year, any law *Continued till 3d to the contrary notwithstanding.*

1817.

March, 1818: see

chap. 20, post; and

to 3d March, 1819:

see chapter 219.

Approved, March 25, 1816.

[See Part II, Nos. 1, 16, 106, 119, 205, 206, 207, 208, 213, 229, 243, 267.]

+Time further ex CHAP. 181.-An act further extending the time for issuing and locating mili

tended. See act of

9th March, 1818, chap. 211, post.

The Secretary of

tary land warrants

have, before the 1st

produced satisfactory evidence.

tary land warrants, and for other purposes. †

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreWar to issue mili sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asto persons who sembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized to issue of March, 1818, military land warrants to such persons as have or shall, before the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and The warrants may eighteen, produced to him satisfactory evidence of the vathe 1st of October, lidity of their claims; which warrants, with those heretothe 50 fore issued, and not yet satisfied, shall and may be located, quarter townships, in the name of the holders or proprietors thereof, prior to

be located prior to

1818, on unlocated

parts of

etc. reserved, etc.

the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships reserved by law for original holders of military land warrants. And patents Patents to be grant shall be granted, for the land located under this act, in the former acts. same manner as is directed by former acts for granting military lands.

ed as directed by

of the term limited

Office is to transmit

general a list of all

unlocated; the sur

transmit to the reg.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, at the expiration At the expiration of the term limited by this act for the location of the mili- the Commissioner tary land warrants aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Com- of the General Land missioner of the General Land Office to transmit to the sur-to the surveyor veyor general a list of all the lots of land within the fifty the lots remaining quarter townships and fractional quarter townships which veyor general is to shall at that time remain unlocated; and the surveyor gene-isters at Chilicothe ral shall prepare and transmit to the registers of the land of- and Zanesville general plats of fice at Chilicothe and Zanesville, respectively, general plats the lots which are of the aforesaid unlocated lots; which lots shall, after the sale, etc. first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be offered for sale at the land offices in the districts in which they are situated, in the same manner, on the same terms and conditions, in every respect, as other public lands are offered at private sale in the same districts. Approved, April 16, 1816.

[See Part II, Nos. 2, 43, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 236, 237.]

to be offered for

CHAP. 182.-An act for the relief of certain claimants to land in the district of

[blocks in formation]

claims con

cannot be survey.

cations with the

nes, etc.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the several persons whose claims were con- Persons whose firmed by the act of Congress entitled "An act confirming fired by the acts certain claims to land in the district of Vincennes, and for of 3d March, 1807, and 13th February, other purposes," approved the third day of March, one 1813, and which thousand eight hundred and seven; and the act entitled ed as located, etc. "An act confirming certain claims to land in the district of may enter their loVincennes," approved the thirteenth day of February, one register at Vincenthousand eight hundred and thirteen; which, having been +Chap. 93. located, cannot be surveyed agreeably to law, or which, Chap. 150. having been located, have, in the opinion of the register of the land office for the said district, been removed, by the surveys of prior locations, from the spot intended to be occupied, are hereby authorized to enter their locations, with the register of the land office at Vincennes, on any part of the tract set apart for that purpose in the said district, by virtue of the act entitled "An act respecting claims to lands in the Indiana Territory and State of Ohio," and in conformity Chap. Sú to the provisions of this act.

Approved, April 16, 1816.

*Irrelevant.

officers and sol

been killed in bat

wounds, etc., may,

linquish the boun

ly pay for 5 years.

CHAP. 183.-An act making further provision for military services during the late war, and for other purposes.

SEC. 1.*

The guardians of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any nonnon-commissioned commissioned officer, musician, or private soldier, of the regdiers who have ular army of the United States, shall have been killed in tle or died of battle, or have died of wounds or disease, while in the serwithin a year, re vice of the United States, during the late war, and have left ty lands, and re- a child or children under sixteen years of age, it shall be ceive the month lawful for the guardian of such child or children, within one year from the passing of this act, to relinquish the bounty land to which such non-commissioned officer, musician, or private soldier, had he survived the war, would have been entitled, and, in lieu thereof, to receive half the monthly pay to which such deceased person was entitled at the time of his death, for and during the term of five years, to be computed from and after the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen; the payment thereof to be made when and where other military pensions are Where a warrant or shall be paid; and where a warrant for the military boundian may surren- ty land aforesaid shall have been issued to or for the use of the child or children of any such deceased non-commissioned officer, musician, or private soldier, such child or children, or either of them, being under sixteen years of age, it shall be lawful for the guardian of such minor or minors to surrender and deliver such warrant into the office for the Department of War, within one year from the passing of this Notice of surren- act; of which surrender and delivery the Secretary of that ry of the Treasury, Department shall give notice to the Secretary of the Treasders for the half ury, who shall thereupon give the requisite orders for the The remaining payment of the half pay hereby provided for.t

has issued the guar.

der it.

der to the Secreta

who is to give or

pay.

sections irrelevant.

Approved, April 16, 1816.

[See Part II, Nos. 91, 97.]

Indiana authorized

Government, as

CHAP. 184.-An act to enable the people of the Indiana Territory to form a constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreThe inhabitants of sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asto form a constitu- sembled, That the inhabitants of the Territory of Indiana be, tion and State and they are hereby, authorized to form for themselves a sume such name as constitution and State Government, and to assume such they deem proper, and be admitted, name as they shall deem proper; and the said State, when formed, shall be admitted into the Union upon the same footThe 2d, 3d, 4th, ing with the original States, in all respects whatever. and 5th sections ir- SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the following Propositions offer propositions be, and the same are hereby, offered to the coned to the conven- vention of the said Territory of Indiana, when formed, for

&c.

relevant.

tion

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