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in the district of

1807, and subse

to be offered for

&c.

*Chap. 94.

13 sections of land sembled, That the thirteen sections of land, lying within the Canton, reserved land district of Canton, in the State of Ohio, which were reby act of 3d March, served for the use of certain persons of the Delaware tribe quently ceded, &c. of Indians, by an act of Congress passed on the third day sale at Wooster, of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven,* and were subsequently ceded to the United States by the eighteenth article of the treaty concluded on the twenty-ninth day of +See the treaty, at September, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen,† shall be offered to public sale, by the register and receiver of the public moneys at the land office at Wooster, on such day or days as the President shall designate for that purpose, in the same manner and on the same conditions and terms as are provided by law for the sale of the public lands of the United States.

the end of this vol.

Approved, May 11, 1820.

[See Part II, No. 47.]

was

CHAP. 247.-An act to annex certain lands within the Territory of Michigan to the district of Detroit.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asPublic lands, to sembled, That all the public lands of the United States withwhich the Indian in the Territory of Michigan, to which the Indian title was guished by the extinguished by the treaty held and concluded at Saguina, of 24th Sept. 1819, in the said Territory, on the twenty-fourth day of Septemdistrict of Detroit. ber, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, shall be, and hereby are, attached to and made part of the district of Detroit, in the said Territory.

treaty of Saguina,

attached to the

served or appro

The lands not re- SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lands aforepriated, to be sur said, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and veyed and offered which have not been reserved or appropriated by existing

for sale, &c.

Persons holding confirmed unloca ted claims for land

tion of act of 16th

laws or treaties, shall be surveyed and offered for sale, under the direction of the President of the United States, in the same manner, with the same reservations and exceptions, and upon the same terms and conditions, in every respect, both at public and private sale, as are or may be provided by law for the disposal of the other public lands within the said district.

Approved, May 11, 1820.

[See Part II, No. 64.]

CHAP. 248.-An act for the relief of persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for lands in the State of Illinois.

within the tract SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprereserved by 3d sec. sentatives of the United States of America in Congress asApril, 1814, allow- sembled, That all persons lawfully holding confirmed unlo1820, to register cated claims for land within the tract reserved by the third

ed till 1st Nov.

them.

the reserved tract

section of the act entitled "An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois Territory, and providing for their location," passed the sixteenth day of April, in the year one *Chap 163. thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be allowed until the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to register the same; and the said claims shall be claims to be rereceivable in payment for public lands within the said re- ceivable, &c. in served tract, conformably with the provisions of the said act until 1st Nov. and of the act entitled "An act making further provision for settling claims to land in the Territory of Illinois," passed tChap. 188. the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, at any time before the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. Approved, May 15, 1820.

1820.

CHAP. 249.-An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the village of Peoria, in the State of Illinois.

lots in Peoria to

writing. to the re

ville, before

the Treasury.

1st

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, or the legal representatives of Persons claiming every person, who claims a lot or lots in the village of Peo- deliver notice, in ria, in the State of Illinois, shall, on or before the first day gister of Edwards. of October next, deliver to the register of the land office for Oct. 1820. the district of Edwardsville a notice, in writing, of his or her claim; and it shall be the duty of the said register to Register to report make to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of all claims to the Secretary of filed with the said register, with the substance of the evidence in support thereof, and also his opinion, and such remarks respecting the claims as he may think proper to make; which report, together with a list of the claims Report, &c. to be which, in the opinion of the said register, ought to be con- gress. firmed, shall be laid by the Secretary of the Treasury before Congress, for their determination. And the said register 25 cents to the reshall be allowed twenty-five cents for each claim on which gister for a decision shall be made, whether such decision shall be in favor or against the claims; which allowance shall be in full for his services under this act. Approved, May 15, 1820.

laid before Con

claim.

each

CHAP. 250.-An act granting to the State of Ohio the right of pre-emption to

certain quarter sections of land.

Right of pre-emp

ter section, in the

County, in the pur

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- tion, at minimuni sentatives of the United States of America in Congress price, to one quarassembled, That there be granted to the State of Ohio, at centre of each the minimum price for which the public lands are sold, the chase by the Inright of pre-emption to one quarter section, in or near the Mary's, granted to centre of each county, included in the purchase recently made Ohio for a seat of

dian treaty of St.

justice.

Provisoes; purchase must be

ter deducting sums

of the Indians, by the treaty concluded at St. Mary's, on the twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for the establishment of a seat of justice in the said counties: Provided, The purchase be made before the made before public commencement of the public sales: And provided, also, sales; proceeds, af. That the proceeds of the sale of each quarter section, which originally paid, ap. may be made under the authority of the State of Ohio, shall propriated for public buildings; and be appropriated for the purpose of erecting public buildings to be fixed on the in said counties, respectively, after deducting therefrom the lands selected. sums originally paid by the State aforesaid: And provided, further, That the seat of justice for said counties, respectively, shall be fixed on the lands so selected.

the seat of justice

Approved, May 15, 1820.

[See Part II, No. 611.]

*Original act, of CHAP. 251.—An act to amend “An act making reservation of certain public 1st March, 1817; lands for naval purposes,"* passed first March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen.

ante, chap. 201.

retary of the Navy

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asPower of the Sec- sembled, That so much of the first section of the act of Conto appoint agents gress, passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight and surveyor, re- hundred and seventeen, entitled "An act making reservapealed. Ante, chap. 201. tion of certain public lands for naval purposes," as empow ers the Secretary of the Navy to appoint an agent or agents and surveyor, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and Duties to be per the duties and services required by said section be performed ors of public lands in future by such surveyors of public lands as may be designated by the President of the United States. Approved, May 15, 1820.

formed by survey

[See Part II, No. 379.]

*Further extended; infra, ch. 263.

til 4th Jan. 1823,

tions; and until 4th

surveys and war

CHAP. 252.-An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asTime allowed un- sembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line to obtain warrants on continental establishment, their heirs or assigns, entitled and complete loca to bounty lands within the tract of country reserved by the Jan. 1826, to return State of Virginia, between the Little Miami and Sciota rants, to procure rivers, shall be allowed a further time of two years, from the fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to obtain warrants and complete their locations; and the further time of four years, from the fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, to return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants, to the General Land Office, to obtain patents.

patents.

the act of March, 3

limitation, as to

&c.

*Chap. 89.

in the

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of The provisions of the act entitled "An act authorizing patents to issue for 1807, revived, with lands located and surveyed by virtue of certain Virginia time, as resolution warrants,"* passed the third day of March, one preceding section, thousand 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 Office: Provided, That no locations, as afore- Proviso; no loca said, in virtue of this or the preceding section of this act, viously patented shall be made on tracts of lands for which patents had pre- or surveyed. viously been issued, 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.

Approved, February 9, 1821.

[See Part II, Nos. 2, 35, 37, 43, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 134, 156, 137, 236, 237.]

tion on tracts pre

CHAP. 253.-An act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty.

prior to 1st of July,

ly paid for, may be

the certificate

writing, with the

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where lands have been purchased Lands purchased from the United States prior to the first day of July, eighteen 1820, and not whol hundred and twenty, it shall be lawful for any such purchaser, relinquished, by or other person or persons, being the legal holder of any the legal holder of certificate or certificates of land, on or before the thirtieth filing a notice, in day of September, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, to file register, &c. with the register of the land office where any tract of land has been purchased, a relinquishment, in writing, of any section, half section, quarter section, half-quarter section, or legal subdivision of any fractional section, of land so purchased, upon which the whole purchase-money has not been paid; and all sums paid on account of the part relinquished Sums paid on aeshall be applied to the discharge of any instalments which relinquished to be may be or shall hereafter become due and payable upon instalments due on such land, so purchased, as shall not have been relinquished, quished. and shall be so applied and credited as to complete the payment on some one or more half-quarter sections, where the payments by transfer are sufficient for that purpose: Pro- Provis); divisions vided, That all divisions and subdivisions contemplated by under this act to be this act shall be made in conformity with the first section of of April 24, 1520. an act making further provision for the sale of public lands, passed the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty: And provided, also, That the right of Ante, chap. 240. relinquishment hereby given shall in no case authorize the ment from the U. party relinquishing to claim any repayment from the United States.

count of the part

applied to disch'ge lands not relin

and subdivisions

conformable to act

Proviso; no repay.

Proviso; purchas States: And provided, also, That where any purchaser has quarter sections, purchased at the same time two or more quarter sections, he shall not be permitted to relinquish less than a quarter sec

ers of two or more

cannot relinquish less than one.

1821, remitted.

tion.

Interest accrued SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the interest which before 30th Sept. shall have accrued before the thirtieth day of September next, upon any debt to the United States for public land, shall be, and the same is hereby, remitted and discharged.

Debtors divided into three classes:

First class.

Second class.

l'hird class.

debts by the re

instalments.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the persons indebted to the United States, as aforesaid, shall be divided into three classes: the first class to include all such persons as shall have paid to the United States only one fourth part of the original price of the land by them respectively purchased or held; the second class to include all such persons as shall have paid to the United States only one half part of such original price; and the third class to include all such persons as shall have paid to the United States three fourth Payment of the parts of such original price. And the debts of the persons spective classes, in included in the first class shall be paid in eight equal annual instalments; the debts of the persons included in the second class shall be paid in six equal annual instalments; and the debts of the persons included in the third class shall be paid Triving in four equal annual instalments; the first of which instalments, in each of the classes aforesaid, shall be paid in manner following, to wit: of the third class, on the thirtieth day of September next; of the second class, on the thirty-first day December next; and of the first class, on the thirty-first day Debt to bear an in- of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two; and the whole of the debt aforesaid shall bear an equal annual Proviso; interest interest at the rate of six per cent.: Provided, always, That the same shall be remitted upon each and every of the instalments aforesaid which shall be punctually paid when the same shall become payable as aforesaid.

the first instalm't.

terest of six per cent. per annum.

reinitted on punctual payment.

Deduction of 371

per cent. on pay.

sum due by 30th Sept. 1822.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where ment of the whole complete payment of the whole sum due, or which may become due, for any tract of land purchased from the United States, as aforesaid, shall be made on or before the thirtieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twentytwo, a deduction, at the rate of thirty-seven and a half per centum, shall be allowed upon the sum remaining unpaid: Proviso; no dis. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize made by any discount upon payments made by a transfer of former payments under the provisions of the first section of this act. Those who have SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That each and every or the whole of the individual or company that has laid off, on any lands by him been sold, are enti. or them purchased of the United States, any town, a part or tled to the benefits the whole of the lots whereof have been sold, shall be en

count upon pay

ments

transfer, &c.

laid off towns, part

lots whereof have

of this act

titled to the benefits of this act in relation to any half-quarter or quarter section of land on which such town may be situated, and of all land by him or them owned, contiguous to and adjoining said half-quarter, quarter section, or section, on which said town is situated, upon condition, only,

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