same terms as be sold at dollars per acre; and shall, in every other respect, be sold To be sold on the on the same terms and conditions as have been or may be lands north of the by law provided for the lands sold north of the Ohio river Ohio, etc. and above the mouth of Kentucky river. All the lands, Lands not disposed other than the reserved sections and those excepted as above. of private mentioned, remaining unsold at the closing of the public sale, etc. sales, may be disposed of at private sale, by the register of the land office at Wooster, agreeably to the provisions of this act, and in the same manner, under the same regulations and conditions, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of the lands of the United States north of the Ohio river and above the mouth of Kentucky river. And patents shall Patents as for land be obtained for all lands granted or sold within the said cession, in the same manner and on the same terms as are or may be provided by law for lands sold in the State of Ohio. The superintendents of the public sales directed by this 4 dolls to each section shall receive four dollars each for each day's attend- each day's attend. ance on the said sale. Approved, April 27, 1816. [See Part II, Nos. 13, 234, 272, 782.] sold in Ohio. superintendent for ance. CHAP. 194.-An act to establish a land district in Illinois Territory, north of the district of Kaskaskia. tofore in the dis and lying north of new land district, 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 Public lands hereStates heretofore included within the land district of Kas-trict of Kaskaskia, kaskia, and lying north of the base line in the Illinois Ter- the base line in Ilritory, shall form a new land district for the disposal of the linois, to form a said lands, and for which purpose a land office shall be es- with a land office at Edwardsville, tablished at Edwardsville, Madison county, under the direc- etc. tion of the register of the land office and receiver of public Register and remoneys to be appointed for that purpose, who shall reside at pointed, etc. the place, give security in the same manner and in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their office, as are or may be by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States northwest of the river Ohio. ceiver to be ap ed of as in the Kas SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said lands Lands to be dispos shall be disposed of in the same manner and on the same kaskia district; terms and conditions as are or may be provided by law for provided, etc. the sale of public lands in the district of Kaskaskia: Provided, That no tract of land excepted from the sale by virtue of any former act, shall be sold by virtue of this act. Approved, April 29, 1816. [See Part II, No. 64.] lands in Illinois appointed, who is ral, etc. cause lands to confirmed to surveyed, etc. be CHAP. 195.-An act to provide for the appointment of a surveyor of the public lands in the Territories of Illinois and Missouri. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asA surveyor of the sembled, That a surveyor of the lands of the United States and Missouri to be in the Territories of Illinois and Missouri shall be appointed, to engage deputies, whose duty it shall be to engage a sufficient number of skiland perform duties similar to those of ful surveyors as his deputies, and to cause so much of the the surveyor gene- land above mentioned as the President of the United States shall direct, and to which the titles of the Indian tribes have been extinguished, to be surveyed and divided in the manner, and to do and perform all such other acts in relation to such lands as the surveyor general is authorized and directed to do in relation to the same, or the lands lying The surveyor to northwest of the river Ohio; and it shall also be the duty of which claims are the surveyor to cause to be surveyed the lands in the said Territories the claims to which have been or hereafter may be confirmed by any act of Congress, which have not already been surveyed according to law, and, generally, to do and perform all and singular the duties required by law to be performed by the principal deputy surveyor for the TerTo transmit to the ritory of Missouri; and shall transmit to the registers of the land offices within the said Territories, respectively, general and particular plats of all the lands surveyed, or to be surCopies of plats to veyed; and shall also forward copies of said plats to the of the General Land Commissioner of the General Land Office, fix the compensation of the deputy surveyors, chain-carriers, and axeProviso; the whole men: Provided, That the whole expense of surveying and expense of surveying and marking marking the lines shall not exceed three dollars for every mile that shall be run, surveyed, and marked. Annual compensa- SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor of or under this act, the lands of the United States appointed in pursuance of this act shall be allowed an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, and shall be entitled to receive from indiFees from individ- Viduals the following fees, that is to say for recording the surveys executed by any of the deputies, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the boundary line of such survey; and for a certified copy of a plat of a survey in All plats of sur his office, twenty-five cents; and that all the plats of surveys, of former survey and all other papers and documents pertaining, or which did to the surveyors pertain, to the office of the surveyor general under the registers general and particular plats, etc. the Commissioner Office. not to exceed 83 a mile. tion of the survey. $1,000. uals. veys, papers, etc. ors, to be delivered under this act. Spanish Government, within the limits of the Territory of Missouri, or to the office of principal deputy surveyor for said Territory, or pertaining to the office of surveyor general, or to any office heretofore established or authorized for the purpose of executing or recording surveys of lands within the limits of the Territories of Missouri and Illinois, shall be delivered to the surveyors of the lands of the United Certified plats of States authorized to be appointed by this act; and any plat evi of survey, duly certified by the said surveyor, shall be admitted as evidence in any of the courts of the United States or Territories thereof. surveys to be admitted as dence. tending the pow general to Louisi act, repealed. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the Part of the act exact entitled "An act extending the powers of the surveyor ers of the surveyor general to the Territory of Louisiana, and for other pur-ana, and any act poses," passed February twenty-eighth, one thousand eight repugnant to this hundred and six, as provides for the appointment of a prin- Chapter 79. cipal deputy surveyor, and so much of any act of Congress [heretofore] passed as is repugnant to, or inconsistent with, any provision of this act, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, April 29, 1816. [See Part II, Nos. 783, 983, 984.] CHAP. 196.-An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the State of tract of land set from Canada and act of 18th of Feb. tached to the dis land to be offered cothe on such day may direct; at not SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That such part of the tract of land which was set Such part of the apart for refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia by the act apart for refugees of Congress passed the eighteenth day of February, one Nova Scotia, by thousand eight hundred and one, entitled "An act regula- 1st, as has not ting the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the been located, atBritish provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia," which has trict of Chillicothe. not been located by the said refugees, shall be attached to Chapter 56. and made a part of the land district of Chillicothe; and the The unlocated said unlocated land shall be offered for sale to the highest for sale at Chillibidder, under the direction of the register of the land office as the President, and of the receiver of public moneys for the said district, at by proclamation, Chillicothe, on such day as shall, by proclamation of the less than 2 dollars President of the United States, be designated for that purpose the sale shall remain open six days, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre, and shall, in every other respect, be sold in tracts of the same size, and on the same terms and conditions, as have been or may be provided for lands in the said district. All the said Land remaining unlocated land remaining unsold at the close of the public may be disposed of sales may be disposed of at private sale, by the register of at private sale, etc. the said land office, in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of lands in the said district; and patents shall be obtained in the same man- Patents as for other ner and on the same terms as for other public lands in the lands in the said district. per acre, etc. unsold at public district. intendents for each SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the superintend- 4 dollars to superents of the public sales directed by this act shall each re- days attendance ceive four dollars a day for each day's attendance on the on the sales. said sales. Approved, April 29, 1816. [Sec Part II, Nos. 13, 257.] 91. Reference to the land in the Terri CHAP. 197.-An act for the confirmation of certain claims to land in the western district of the State of Louisiana and in the Territory of Missouri. Whereas, by the eighth section of the act of third March, *See the act, ch. one thousand eight hundred and seven,* it is required that the commissioners for ascertaining and adjusting the titles act of 3d March, and claims to land in the then Territories of Orleans and 1807, respecting ti tles and claims to Louisiana should arrange their reports into three general tories of Orleans classes, the second of which classes should contain claims and Louisiana. which, though not embraced by the provisions of the several acts of Congress, ought, nevertheless, in the opinion of the commissioners, to be confirmed, in conformity with the laws, usages, and customs, of the Spanish Government: and Class of claims not whereas the commissioners in and for the western district of of Congress, but the State of Louisiana, formerly Territory of Orleans, in which, in the opin their several reports of the sixteenth of October, one thousioners, ought to be sand eight hundred and twelve, fourth of December, one confirmed. thousand eight hundred and twelve, ninth of March, one embraced by acts ion of the commis thousand eight hundred and thirteen, sixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, first of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and fourth of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, have formed this second class, recommending the claims which it embraces for confirmation, and have designated the same by letter B; and the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, acting as commissioners for adjusting the titles and claims to land in the said district, in their report dated the thirtieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, under the act giving further time for registering claims to land in the western district of the Territory of Orleans, passed the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and See the act, ch. twelve, the "Act giving further time for registering claims to land in the eastern and western districts of the Territory of Orleans," passed the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and the act of the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and four$See the act, ch. teen,§ have arranged the claims into the following classes, to wit: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven: therefore, 126. +Chapter 151. 162. Claims arranged cally. in classes, numeri Claims marked B, etc. confirmed. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims marked B, and described in the several classes in the above-mentioned reports of the commissioners for the western district of the State of Louisiana, formerly Territory of Orleans, and recommended by them for confirmation, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed: Proviso no person Provided, nevertheless, That under no one claim shall any league person or persons be entitled, under this act, to more than the quantity contained in a league square. entitled to more in the reports of Claims embraced SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all claims emthe recorder, etc. braced in the reports of the recorder of land titles, acting has been favorable, as commissioner for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land in the Territory of Missouri, dated November where the decision confirmed, etc. first, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and February second, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, where the decision of the said commissioner is in favor of the claimants, shall be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, to wit: confirmations of village claims under the act of Congress of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve ;* grants of the late board of commissioners appointed *See chapter 140. for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land in the Territory of Missouri, extended by virtue of the fourth section of the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen ;† grants and confirmations under the See the act, chap. several acts of Congress, commencing with the act of the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. 140. vided for, persons etc. entitled to a patent when their located, etc. a SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in all cases not In cases not proprovided for by law for patent certificates to issue, every whose claims have person, and the legal representative of every person, whose been confirmed, claim to a tract of land is confirmed by this or any former certificate for act, and who has not already obtained a patent certificate for claims have been the same, shall, whenever his claim shall have been located and surveyed according to law, be entitled to receive, from the register of the land office at Opelousas, in the State of Louisiana, or from the recorder of land titles in the Territory of Missouri, as the case may be, a certificate, stating that the claimant is entitled to a patent for such tract of land by virtue of this act; for which certificate the officer issuing the A dollar for the same shall receive one dollar; and the certificate shall enti- officer issuing it. tle the party to a patent for the tract of land, which shall is- The certificate to sue in like manner as is provided by law for patents to issue a patent. for lands purchased of the United States. Approved, April 29, 1816. [See Part II, No. 19.] CHAP. 198.-An act concerning pre-emption rights given in the purchase of lands to certain settlers in the State of Louisiana and in the Territories of Missouri and Illinois. certificate to the entitle the party to a preference, in ers, at private sale, Louisiana, Missou cording to the pro SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person, and the legal representatives of Persons entitled to any person, entitled to a preference in becoming the pur- becoming purchaschaser from the United States of a tract of land at private of tracts of land in sale, in the State of Louisiana, and in the Territories of ri, and Illinois, acMissouri and Illinois, according to the provisions of the act visions of an act of entitled "An act giving the right of pre-emption, in the 5th Feb. 1813, and purchase of lands, to certain settlers in the Illinois Terri- an act of 12th April, tory," passed February fifth, one thousand eight hundred less than 160 acres, and thirteen, and the fifth section of the "Act for the final lege of purchasing, adjustment of land titles in the State of Louisiana and Ter. etc. ritory of Missouri,"§ passed April twelfth, one thousand See chapter 149. eight hundred and fourteen, who is settled on a fraction of a the 5th section of 1814, settled on to have the privi §See chapter 162. |