to land in the dis the tract set apart. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person, or Confirmed claims their legal representatives, whose claims were confirmed by trict of Vincennes any of the several acts for confirming claims to land in the may be located on district of Vincennes, and which claims have not been loca- etc. ted, shall be 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 an act entitled "An act respecting claims to land in the Indiana Territory and State of Ohio," and in conformity to the provision of that act, and shall be entitled to receive certificates and patents in the same manner as provided by former laws respecting locations in the same tract: Provided, Proviso; locations That the locations authorized by this act, and those autho- 1st Sept. 1818. rized by an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain claimants to land in the district of Vincennes," passed on †Ante, chap. 182. the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall be made before the first day of September next; Residue of tract to and after the said locations shall have been made, and the surveys thereon completed, the surveyor general shall cause the residue of the said tract to be surveyed, conforming, as far as practicable, to the plan for surveying the other public lands; and he shall make a return of the surveys to the Gen- Return of surveys, eral Land Office and to the register of the land office at Vincennes. to be made before be surveyed. etc. be sold at Marietta der, etc. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That such part of the Part of one tract to tract described by the first section of this act as shall appear to and part of the belong to the United States shall be offered for sale at Ma- other at Vincennes. rietta; and such part of the tract described by the second section of this act as shall not have been located under confirmed claims shall be offered for sale at Vincennes. The said lands, in the said respective tracts, with the exception of the usual proportion for the support of schools, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the To the highest bidregister of the land office and the receiver of public moneys for the said districts, on such days, respectively, as shall, by Days of sale. proclamation of the President, be designated for that purpose; the sales at each place shall remain open six days, and Sales no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less than two dol- Price. lars an acre, and shall, in every other respect, both as to public and private sales, be sold on the same terms and conditions as other public lands in the same districts; and pat- Patents. ents shall be obtained in the manner and on the terms provided in case of other public lands sold by the United States. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the superintend- 4 dolls a day to ents of the public sales directed by this act shall each receive four dollars a day for each day's attendance on the said sales. Approved, March 18, 1818. [See Part II, Nos. 13, 288.] days. open six superintendents. CHAP 213.-An act extending the time for obtaining military land warrants in certain cases. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe 2d section of sembled, That the provision of the second section of the act the act referred to, entitled "An act to provide for designating, surveying, and heirs, etc. of per- granting, the military bounty lands," passed on the sixth not to apply to the sons killed, etc. * Chap. 138. day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, which limits the time within which persons entitled to military bounty lands shall make their application for a land warrant to five years from and after such person shall become entitled thereto, shall not be construed to apply to, affect, or bar, any application for a military land warrant which may be made by the heirs and representatives of a deceased person, who was entitled thereto by services performed in the late war, or application by the heirs and representatives of any non-commissioned officer or soldier killed in action, or who died in the actual service of the United States, and entitled The heirs, etc. of by existing laws to a bounty in lands; but the heirs and repmake applications resentatives of such persons shall be allowed to make their until 1st May, 1820. applications there for at any time before the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, any act to the contrary notwithstanding. such persons may Approved, March 27, 1818. [See Part II, Nos. 2, 43, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 236, 237.] +Orig. act,chap. 82. nessee may issue pursuant to the olina, before the which were valid, described, etc. CHAP. 214.-An act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to authorize the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles to certain lands therein described, and to settle the claims to the vacant and unappropriated lands within the same," passed the eighteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and six. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe State of Ten. sembled, That it shall be lawful for the State of Tennessee grants, etc. on all to issue grants and perfect titles on all special entries and loentries, etc. made cations of lands in the said State, made pursuant to the laws laws of North Car- of North Carolina, before the twenty-fifth day of February, 25th of Feb. 1790, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety, which and lie west and were good and valid in law, and recognised by the act of south of the line the said State of North Carolina, commonly called the cession act, passed the day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, and which lie west and south of the line described in the act to which this is supplementAnd may issue ary; and also to issue grants and perfect titles on all wargrants on warrants rants of survey, interfering entries, and locations, which might which might be re be removed by the cession act of North Carolina aforesaid, sion act, etc. and which are good and valid in law, and which have not been actually located or granted, east and north of the aforesaid line; and all interfering grants which are good and valid survey, etc. moved by the ces grants, etc. under in law, or the warrants or certificates legally issued, in con- And all interfering sequence of such interference, on land lying south and west the same rules, etc. of the said line, in the manner and under the same or similar rules, regulations, and restrictions, as are prescribed by the laws now in force in the said State of Tennessee, for issuing grants and perfecting titles on claims of a like nature for lands lying north and east of the said line. a grant, etc. the commissioner of being declared val. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, previous to is- Previous to issuing suing a grant or perfecting a title on any of the claims here- warrant, etc. must inbefore described, the warrant or other legal evidence of be laid before the such claim shall be laid before the commissioner of land land claims for West Tennessee, claims for West Tennessee for the time being, appointed by etc. the authority of the said State, and approved by him as valid, upon sufficient legal evidence being adduced of such validity, according to the rules and regulations prescribed by the laws of the said State now in force, for deciding on warrants and other land claims of the like nature, authorized to be perfected into grants north and west of the aforesaid line; and upon The warrant etc. such warrant or other legal evidence of any of the claims id, the land to be aforesaid being declared valid by said commissioner, it shall laid off by the surbe lawful for the surveyor of the proper district or county to lay off and survey the same in the manner prescribed by the laws of the said State in similar cases, and return such survey to the register of the land office of West Tennessee, Grant to be execu who shall thereupon be authorized to make out a grant there- or, etc. on, to be executed by the Governor, and countersigned by the Secretary, of the said State, in the manner provided by the laws of the same: Provided, That no surveys shall be Proviso; the Indian made, grants issued, or titles perfected, by virtue of this act, been extinguished. for any land to which the Indian claim has not been previously extinguished. veyor, etc. claim must have had grants from 1811, for lands in rendering them to obtain grants from SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That those persons Persons who have who have had surveys made, and obtained grants from the North Carolina State of North Carolina, since the twenty-third day of De- since the 23d Dec. cember, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred Tennessee, on surand eleven, for lands lying within the State of Tennessee, be cancelled, may shall, upon surrendering such grants to the said commissioner Tennessee. of land claims for West Tennessee for the time being, to be cancelled and vacated, be allowed to produce the entries, warrants, or other evidences of claims, upon which such grants were founded; and if the said claims shall be deemed good and valid by the said commissioner, then it shall be lawful for the State of Tennessee to issue grants and perfect titles on such claims, in the same manner as if no such grants had been issued by the State of North Carolina. Approved, April 4, 1818. CHAP. 215.-An act limiting the time for claims being produced for lands authorized to be granted to the inhabitants of New Madrid. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as lands in virtue of tion, etc. on or be uary, 1819. *Chapter 174. Persons claiming sembled, That every person claiming lands in virtue of the the act mentioned, act entitled "An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the to make applica late county of New Madrid, in the Missouri Territory, who fore the 1st of Jan- suffered by earthquakes,"* passed on the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, shall make application therefor, and produce evidence in support of his claim, to the recorder of land titles for the said TerriRecorder not to is tory, on or before the first day of January next; and the said where the evi- recorder shall not issue a certificate for any claim as aforeproduced within said, the evidence in support of which shall not have been produced to him within the time limited as aforesaid. Approved, April 9, 1818. sue certificate dence has not been the time. [See Part II, Nos. 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 23, 62, 241, 256.] +See act of the 9th of Feb. 1821; chap. 252, post. diers of the Vir to bounty lands, allowed two years tion of any treaty dian title, etc. to etc. CHAP. 216.-An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office, and for designating the western boundary line of the Virginia military tract. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asOfficers and sol sembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line ginia line entitled on continental establishment, their heirs and assigns, entitled to bounty lands within the Virginia military tract, between from the ratifica- the Little Miami and the Sciota rivers, shall be allowed a extinguishing In further term of two years, from the ratification of any treaty obtain warrants, extinguishing the Indian title to lands within the said boundaries not heretofore extinguished, to obtain warrants and And three years to complete their locations; and a further term of three years their sur from the ratification of any treaty extinguishing the Indian title to lands within the said boundaries not heretofore extinguished, as aforesaid, to return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants, to the General Land Office, any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of for lands surveyed the act entitled "An act authorizing patents to issue for lands in virtue of Virgin- located and surveyed by virtue of certain Virginia resolution rants, revived, etc. warrants," passed on the third day of March, one thousand return veys, etc. The act authoriz. ing patents to issue ia resolution war. except, etc. Chapter 89. eight hundred and seven, shall be revived and in force, with all its restrictions, except that the respective times allowed for making locations and returning surveys thereon shall be limited to the terms prescribed by the first section of this act for the location and return of surveys on other warrants, and that the surveys shall be returned to the General Land OfProviso; no loca fice: Provided, That no locations, as aforesaid, in virtue of which patents had this or the preceding section of this act, shall be made on previously issued or which had been tracts of lands for which patents had previously been issued, surveyed, etc. or which had been previously surveyed; and any patent which may, nevertheless, be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be considered null and void: Provided, also, That no locations or surveys shall be made tion on tracts for tions or surveys the military tract, within that part of the said military tract to which the Indian Proviso, no locatitle remained heretofore unextinguished, until after six within that part of months shall have elapsed from the date of a proclamation of etc. until 6 months the President of the United States, declaring a treaty or treaties after date of procto have been concluded and ratified, providing for the extin- extinguishing guishment of the Indian title to such lands; nor shall any etc. patent be granted for any location, survey, or entry, that has been or shall be made prior to the expiration of six months from and after the ratification of such treaty. lamation of a trea Indian title; nor, ted by the act of until otherwise di SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from the source The line designaof the Little Miami river to the Indian boundary line estab- 23d March, 1804, to lished by the treaty of Greenville, in one thousand seven hun- remain the westerly boundary line of dred and ninety-five, the line designated as the westerly the Virginia tract, boundary line of the Virginia tract, by an act of Congress, rected by law. passed on the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled "An act to ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the State of Virginia northwest of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment, and to limit the period for locating the said lands,"* shall be considered and held to be *Chapter 68. such until otherwise directed by law: And from the afore- The line run by said Indian boundary line to the source of the Sciota river, 1812 to be consid the line run by Charles Roberts, in one thousand eight hun- ered the westerly dred and twelve, in pursuance of instructions from the com- Indian boundary missioners appointed on the part of the United States, to of the Sciota river. establish the western boundary of the said military tract, shall be considered and held to be the westerly boundary line thereof; and that no patent shall be granted on any location No patents for loand survey that has or may be made west of the aforesaid lines. respective lines. Approved, April 11, 1818. [See Part II, Nos. 2, 6, 35, 37, 43, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 134, 136, 137, 236, 237.] CHAP. 217.-An act to enable the people of the Illinois 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. Charles Roberts in boundary, from the line to the source cations west of the †The SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the following the first five secpropositions be, and the same are hereby, offered to the con- Propositions offervention of the said Territory of Illinois, when formed, for tion of Illinois. their free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted by the convention, shall be obligatory upon the United States and the said State. in every township, etc. for schools. First. That section numbered sixteen, in every township, 1. Section No. 16, and, when such section has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to the State, for the use of the inhabitants of such township, for the use of schools. Second. That all salt springs within such State, and land reserved for the use of the same, shall be granted 2. Salt springs and the land reserved, etc. to State, etc. to granted the |