claims with the register of the land office for the district *See act of 11th aforesaid.* May, 1820, ch. 243.

Approved, March 3, 1817.

*See the act,,ch. 180.

tinued for one year.

CHAP. 207.-An act to continue in force an act entitled "An act relating to settlers on lands of the United States."†

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

The act of the 25th sembled, That an act entitled "An act relating to settlers March, 1816, con on the lands of the United States," passed the twenty-fifth Ante, chap. 180. of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and SFurther continu- the same is hereby, continued in force for one year from and April, 1818, chap. after the passage of this act.§

ed by act of 20th

219, post.

Approved, March 3, 1817.

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

Expired. For the act, amended, see ante, chap. 179.

vice and name on

condition of boun

ty.

CHAP. 208.-An act to amend the act entitled "An act granting bounties in land and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers," passed the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asSix months' ser sembled, That, from and after the passing of this act, no the muster-roll a bounty in land shall be given to any Canadian volunteer, except where it shall appear that the full term of six months' service shall have been performed in some corps in the United States service, and whose names shall appear upon Proviso; where it the muster-rolls of such corps: Provided, That where it shall term of service had appear that the said term of service had not been performed not been perform by reason of wounds received in battle, or other disabilities occasioned by the performance of his duty while in such corps, such claimant shall be considered as having performed the full term of service for which he had engaged.

shall appear the

ed in consequence

of wounds, etc.

Warrants to be located on lands of

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all warrants issued fered at public sale. in pursuance of the act entitled "An act granting bounties Tante, chap. 179. in land and extra pay to certain Canadian volunteers,"¶ and which have not been located, and those which shall be issued in pursuance of this act, shall be located on such lands as have been offered at public sale according to law, and no other.

Rates of bounty to grades specified.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That instead of the bounty given in the act hereby amended, the following rates shall be given: For a colonel, four hundred and eighty acres; for a major, four hundred and eighty acres; for a captain, three hundred and twenty acres; for a subaltern, three hundred and twenty acres; to a non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, one hundred and sixty acres; and to the medical and other staff, in proportion to their pay.

ions of former act

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all such parts of Contrary provis the act hereby amended, as shall be inconsistent with or repealed. contravene the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

act in force for a

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this act, together This and former with the act hereby amended, shall continue and be in force year. for the term of one year, and no longer.

Approved, March 3, 1817.

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

CHAP. 209.-An act making provision for the establishment of additional land offices in the Territory of Missouri.

the county of How

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the disposal of the lands of the United States west of the Mississippi river and in the Territory of Missouri, in addition to the land office now established by law, there shall be established within the said Territory the following offices, to wit: One at the seat of justice in the A land office at the county of Howard, for all the lands lying within the follow-seat of justice in ing boundaries: beginning at a point where the western line ard. of range ten, west from the fifth principal meridian, intersects the north line of township thirty-four; thence, west, with said township line, to where the same intersects the Osage boundary line; thence, north, with the Osage boundary line, to the Missouri river; thence, up and with the Missouri river, to the western Indian boundary line at the mouth of Kansas river; thence, north, with the said western Indian boundary line, to where the same shall intersect the northern Indian boundary line; thence, east, with the said northern Indian boundary, to where the same shall intersect the aforesaid west line of range ten; thence, south, with the said range line, to the place of beginning. And a land office shall be es- A land office in tablished in the county of Arkansas, at such place as the Presi- the county of Ardent shall deem most convenient, for all the lands in the district bounded as follows: beginning on the river Mississippi, at the thirty-third degree of north latitude; thence, up and with the Mississippi river, to the mouth of St. Francis river, where the base line intersects the same; thence, west, with the said base line, to where the same shall intersect the meridian on which the Osage boundary line is run; thence, due south, to the thirty-third parallel of latitude; thence, east, with the said parallel, to the place of beginning. And a land office shall A land office at the be established at the seat of justice in the county of Law- the county of Lawrence, for all the lands in the district bounded as follows: *Repealed. The beginning on the base line at the mouth of St. Francis; President may es thence, up and with the Mississippi river, to the intersection office at any suitaof the same by the north line of township fifteen north; of 28 March, 1821; thence, west, with the said north line of township fifteen, to chap. 257, post. where the same shall intersect the Osage boundary line;

kansas.

seat of justice in

rence.

tablish the land

ble place. See act

town of Jackson.

thence, due south, to the aforesaid base line; thence, east, with A land office at the the said base line, to the place of beginning. And a land office shall be established at the town of Jackson, in the county of Cape Girardeau, for all the lands in the district bounded as follows: beginning on the Mississippi river, where the north line of township fifteen north intersects the same; thence, up and with the Mississippi, to its intersection by the north line of township thirty-four north; thence, west, with the said north line of township thirty-four, to the Osage boundary line; thence, south, with the said boundary, to the north line of township fifteen; thence, east, with the said township line, to the place of beginning. And all the lands withDistrict of the land in the following boundaries shall form a district for the land office established by law at St. Louis, in the county of St. Louis, viz beginning on the Mississippi river, where the north line of township thirty-four north intersects the same; thence, up and with the Mississippi river, to the mouth of Desmoin river; thence, up and with the Desmoin, to the north Indian boundary line; thence, west, with the said boundary, to the west line of range ten west; thence, south, with said range line, to the north line of township thirty-four north; thence, east, with the said township line, to the place of beginning.

office at St. Louis.

Time of opening

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so soon as, in the the land offices,etc opinion of the President of the United States, there shall be a sufficient quantity of the public lands surveyed, within all or either of the land districts hereby established, to authorize the opening of all or either of the land offices aforesaid, he shall cause the same to be opened, and shall proceed from time to time to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for each of the said offices, a register and a receiver of public moneys, who shall give security in the same sums and in the same manner, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall in every respect be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be provided by law in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several land offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States northwest of the river Ohio and above the mouth of the Kentucky river.

Whenever a land office shall have been established,

to direct lands to

etc.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever a land office shall have been established in any of the districts aforeetc. the President said, and a register and receiver of public moneys appointed be offered for sale, for the same, the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to direct so much of the public lands lying in such district as shall have been surveyed according to law, to be offered for sale, with the same reservations and exceptions, and on the same terms and conditions in every respect, as was provided for the sale of the public lands in the Territory of Louisiana, by the tenth section of an act entitled "An act providing for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands, in the

Territories of Orleans and Louisiana, and to repeal the act passed for the same purpose, and approved February sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eleven," except *Chapter 115. that the register and receiver of public moneys alone may be competent to superintend the public sales, and that, instead of one township for the support of a seminary of learn- 2 townships for the ing, there shall be two townships located for the purpose by nary of learning; the Secretary of the Treasury, and reserved from sale: Provi- provided, etc. ded, That one of said townships shall be located on the waters of the Missouri, and the other on the waters of the Arkansas.

Approved, February 17, 1818.

[See Part II, Nos. 23, 64, 93, 446, 714, 799, 828, 836, 837, 842, 855, 884, 93 3,945, 946, 958, 1,018.]

support of a semi

CHAP. 210.-An act to authorize certain purchasers of public land to withdraw their entries and transfer the moneys paid thereon.

Persons permitted

withdraw their land office for Jef

entries from the

fersonville.

A. Wiseman.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following persons shall be permitted to withdraw their respective entries, made with the register of the land office for the district of Jeffersonville, for the purchase of land in said district, viz: Abraham Wiseman, for the northeast and northwest quarters of section four, township four south, range one east; John Bones, for the northwest quarter of section thirty-four, township three south, range one east; Gory Jones, for the southeast quarter of section four, Gory Jones. township four south, range one east; Abraham Van Winkell, A. Van Winkell. for the northwest quarter of section three, township four south, range one east; and Joseph Tibbs, for the northeast Joseph Tibbs. quarter of section twenty-eight, township three south, range

John Bones.

credit for

other

must have been

one east. And the receiver of public moneys for the said Receiver to allow district shall be authorized to allow to any of the said per-cres, etc. sous, who shall withdraw his entry as aforesaid, a credit on any purchase he shall or may have made of other public lands in the same district, for the moneys paid on the entry by him withdrawn: Provided, That the said entries shall not be Proviso; entrics withdrawn until it shall be made appear, to the satisfaction made in mistake, of the register and receiver of public moneys for the said from marks, etc. district, that the said entries, or either of them, were made. in mistake, in consequence of the erroneous marks of the surveyor; and in case of patents having been granted, the Patents to be resame shall be returned to the register, and by him to the General Land Office, and shall be there cancelled. Approved, March 9, 1818.

erroneous

turned, etc.

warrants extend

CHAP. 211.-An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act further extending the time for issuing and locating military land warrants, and for other purposes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre*Orignal act, ante' sentatives of the United States of America in Congress aschapter 181. Time further extended, sembled, That the time limited by the act passed on the sixchap. 226. Time for issuing teenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, military land and to which this is a supplement, for issuing military land ed to 1st of March, Warrants, shall be extended to the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and the time limited unlocated warrants by the said act for the location of unlocated military land October, 1819. warrants shall be extended to the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. Approved, March 9, 1818.

1819.

Time for locating

extended to 1st

[See Part II, Nos. 2, 43, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 236, 237, 316.]

eral to require Ru

lands conveyed,

etc.

+Chapter 37.

CHAP. 212.-An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the district of Marietta, and for the location of claims and sale of certain lands in the district of Vincennes.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe surveyor en sembled, That, for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity fus Putman, etc. to and providing for the sale of the lands belonging to the Uninake a report of ted States within the limits of a tract of one hundred thousand acres, granted to Rufus Putman, Manassah Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, in trust for the persons composing the Ohio Company of Associates, in pursuance of the third section of an act entitled "An act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates," passed on the twenty-first of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, it shall be the duty of the surveyor general, and he is hereby authorized, to require of the said Rufus Putman, and other surviving patentees, in trust as aforesaid, to make a report to him of the quantity and situation of the lands by them conveyed, as bounties, to actual settlers, according to the conditions of the said third section Copy of field notes and grant aforesaid; and, also, a duly attested copy of the and plat of surveys. field notes and plat of the surveys of the lands by them conSurveyor general veyed to actual settlers as aforesaid. And the surveyor gendue of the lands to eral, on receiving a satisfactory report of the quantity and be surveyed, etc. situation of the lands so conveyed, shall cause the residue of the lands within the said tract to be surveyed in the same manner as the other public lands; or, if he shall deem it more convenient, into tracts of one hundred acres, conforming, as far as practicable, to the plan on which lots granted Return of surveys to actual settlers were laid off; and he shall make return of Land Office, etc. the surveys to the General Land Office and the register of

to cause the resi

to the General

the land office at Marietta.