Senate to appoint

not to begin till

have examin'd and

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That there shall be The President and appointed by the President of the United States, by and with a surveyor, &c. the advice and consent of the Senate, a surveyor, who shall possess the power and authority, and receive the same salary, as by law appertains to the surveyor south of the State of Tennessee; but his duties shall not commence until the Surveyor's duties commissioners shall have examined and decided upon the commissioners claims in West Florida, who shall thereupon furnish the sur- decided on claims veyor with a list of those admitted, and he shall thereupon in West Florida, proceed to survey the country, taking care to have surveyed, and marked, and laid down, upon a general plan, to be kept in his office, the metes and bounds of the claims so admitted; causing the same to be surveyed at the expense of the Surveys at the exclaimants, the price whereof shall be the same as is paid for pense of the claimsurveying the public lands; but no surveyor shall charge for any line except such as may be actually run, nor for any line not necessary to be run. He shall appoint a suitable Surveyor to point deputies. number of deputies, and shall fix and determine their fees : Provided, That the whole cost of surveying shall not ex- Proviso; cost of surceed four dollars a mile And provided, also, That none sta mile. other than township lines shall be run where the land is Proviso; none othdeemed unfit for cultivation. Said surveyor shall reside at lines to be run; and such place as the President of the United States may direct, c. as the Presi and shall keep his office there, and may charge the follow-dent may direct. ing fees, to wit: for recording the plat and surveys of pri- Surveyor's fees for vate claims made by any of his deputies, twenty-five cents for each mile contained in the boundary of such survey, and twenty-five cents for any copy certified from the books of his office.

Approved, May 8, 1822.

[See Part II, Nos. 19, 20, 677, 823, 830, 833, 850, 857, 864, 870, 872, 875, 878, 888, 891, 895, 896, 897, 934, 951, 957, 959.]

ants, &c.

ap

vey not to exceed

er than township

surveyor to reside,

recording, &c.

CHAP. 275.-An act to enable the proprietors of lands held by titles derived from the United States to obtain copies of papers from the proper department, and to declare the effect of such copies.

the Treasury to

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever any person, claiming to be interested The Secretary of in or entitled to land under any grant or patent from the Uni- cause authentic coted States, shall apply to the Treasury Department for copies and remaining in pies of papers filed of papers filed and remaining therein, in any wise affecting the Treasury Dethe title to such land, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of inade, &c., and the Treasury to cause such copies to be made out, and au- equal evidence as thenticated under his hand and seal, for the person so apply- pers ing; and such copies, so authenticated, shall be evidence equally as the original papers.

Approved, January 23, 1823.

partment to be

these copies to be

the original pa

1820, revived, and

until 1st November next.

*Chap. 243.

CHAP. 276.-An act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjust/ment of land claims in the Territory of Michigan.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asAct of 11th May, sembled, That the act entitled "An act to revive the powers continued in force of the commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Praire du Chien, in the Territory of Michigan,"* approved May the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall be, and the same is hereby, revived, and shall continue in force until the first day of Commissioners to November next; and it shall be the duty of the said comretary of the Treas missioners, as soon thereafter as may be, to forward their ury, to be laid before Congress. report, as is required by the second section of said act, to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him laid before Congress at its next session.

report to the Sec

the act of April 23,

point.

Second section of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the second sec1812, to embrace tion of the act entitled "An act to authorize the granting of all persons having claims confirmed patents for land according to the surveys that have been below Milk river made, and to grant donation rights to certain claimants of land in the district of Detroit, and for other purposes,"t approved April twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall be so construed as to embrace all persons who have claims confirmed below Milk river point, at the lower end of Lake St. Clair.

+Chap. 132.

Patents to be issued

to persons whose

filed with the com.

1820.

*Chap. 243.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That patents shall, and claims have been they are hereby directed to, be issued, in the mode pointed missioners under out by law in other cases, to persons whose claims to lands, the act of May 11, town or village lots, have been regularly filed with the commissioners appointed by an act entitled "An act to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, in the Territory of Michigan," passed on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and whose claims are contained in the report transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, and which have been reported favorably on by said commissioners; and such persons are hereby confirmed in their claims, agreeably to any surveys heretofore made, or the lines and boundaries established by tions only a relin the claimants, respectively: Provided, That such confirmaquishment by the tions shall only amount to a relinquishment forever, on the part of the United States, and that not more than six hundred and forty acres shall be confirmed by virtue of any one claim; nor shall more be confirmed in any case than the quantity claimed; nor shall any claim extend in width more than forty, nor in depth more than eighty, arpens; nor to land heretofore and now reserved by the United States for public uses.

Proviso; confirma

United States, and

not more than 640 acres to any one claim, &c.

Claimants who have been remov'd

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That, whenever it shall by an officer of the appear to the said commissioners that any claimant to land, have certificates for or a town or village lot, at Green Bay or Prairie du Chien,

States army, to

&c. which they

cannot establish his, her, or their claim to the same, in con- any tract of land, sequence of his, her, or their removal therefrom by any offi- have occupied after cer of the United States army, it shall be the duty of the such removal. said commissioners to issue a certificate to such person or persons for any tract of land, or village lot, which may have. been occupied by him, her, or them, after such removal, not exceeding in quantity that originally claimed; on which certificates patents shall issue as in other cases; which claims shall be in all other respects subject to the restrictions and provisions of the third section of this act.

in Green

Bay,

or Michilimacki

who

have continued un

the United States,

resentatives, to be

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That every person Occupants of land who, on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred Prairie du Chien, and twelve, was a resident of Green Bay, Prairie du Chien, naw, on the 1st of or within the county of Michilimackinaw, and who, on the July, 1812, said day, occupied and cultivated, or occupied a tract of land der the authority of which had previously been cultivated by said occupant, or their legal rep lying within either of said settlements, and who has con- confirmed in the tinued to submit to the authority of the United States, or to land occupied, &c. the legal representatives of every such person, shall be confirmed in the tract so occupied and cultivated; and the said Evilence in adjucommissioners, in adjudicating on claims to land embraced dicating claims. by this act, are authorized to take into their consideration the evidence and facts collected and reported to them by the agents of the United States, pursuant to the provisions. of the act of the eleventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty,* as well as such other and further evi- Chap. 243. dence and testimony as may or shall be exhibited before them by the claimants, to support their claims. And the Register to receive register of the land office at Detroit is authorized and re- and quired to receive and record all notices and claims to lands provided for by this act, and which shall be exhibited to him on or before the first day of October next: Provided, however, Proviso; no cou. That no person shall be confirmed in a greater quantity than than 640 acres; nur, six hundred and forty acres; nor shall any tract, so confirmed, exceed eighty arpens from front to rear. And it shall Land to be survey. be the duty of the surveyor general of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to cause the land confirmed by this act to be surveyed, at the expense of the claimants, respectively; plats of which shall be returned as in other cases, and patents therefor shall be granted to the several claimants in the manner prescribed by law.

and record notices,

'firmation for more

&c.

ed, &c.

persons carrying this and former

SEC. 6. And be it further enacled, That the Secretary of An additional sum the Treasury shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to allow to be allowed to to the former agent, and to each of the persons whose duty laws into effect. it is made to carry this law into effect, such sum, in addition to the sum allowed by the first-recited act, as he may deem just and reasonable.

Approved, February 21, 1823.

[See Part II, No. 712.]

in the eastern dis

CHAP. 277.-An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the State of Louisiana.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe claims to land sembled, That the claims for lands within the eastern district trict of Louisiana, of the State of Louisiana, described by the register of the described in a re- land office of the said district, in his report to the Secretary of the Treasury bearing date the sixth of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed against any claim on the part of the United States.

port of the 6th Jan. 1821, confirmed.

Claims of lands

described in a re

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the claims for north of Red river, lands within the district north of Red river, in the State of port of 1st January, Louisiana, described by the register of the land office of the 1821, confirmed, except, &c. said district, in his report to the Secretary of the Treasury bearing date the first January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and included in the first, second, and third classes of claims, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed against any claim on the part of the United States, with the exception of the claims numbered forty and fifty-one in the first class, and of the claims numbered forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, and forty-eight, in the said first class, (which are included in the claim of Baron Bastrop.) Approved, February 28, 1823.

[See Part II, No. 19.]

thorized to lay out

CHAP. 278.---An act for laying out and making a road from the Lower Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the western boundary of the Connecticut Western Reserve, in the State of Ohio, agreeably to the provisions of the treaty of Brownstown.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asState of Ohio au sembled, That the State of Ohio is hereby authorized to lay a road from the out, open, and construct, a road from the Lower Rapids of Lower Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the western boundary of the Erie, to Connecti Connecticut Western Reserve, in such manner as the Legislature of said State may by law provide, with the approbation of the President of the United States; which road, when constructed, shall forever remain a public highway.

the Miami of Lake

cut Western Re serve, &c.

Land granted for

penses.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in order to enathe road and ex ble the State of Ohio to open and construct said road, a tract of land, one hundred and twenty feet wide, whereon to locate the same, together with a quantity of land equal to one mile on each side thereof, and adjoining thereto, to be bounded by sectional lines as run by the United States, to defray the expenses of making said road, is hereby granted to said State; to commence at the Miami Rapids, and terminate at the western boundary of the Connecticut Western Reserve, with full power and authority to sell and convey the

same, and apply the proceeds to the making of said road; and in case the said tract of land shall sell for a greater sum than shall be sufficient to complete such road, then the residue thereof shall remain with the State of Ohio, as a fund for the purpose of keeping said road in repair: Provided, That said Proviso; road to be road shall be made within the term of four years from the years. passage of this act: And provided, None of the land hereby Proviso; land appropriated for making said road shall be sold for a less sold for less than price than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.

made within four

granted not to be

$125 per acre.

ously sold, the Secretary of the Treas. proceeds to Ohio,

have been previ

ury to pay the nett

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in case any of If any of the lands the lands through which it may be thought expedient to open said road may have been previously sold by the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay such officer as the State of Ohio may appoint for that purpose the nett proceeds of the sales of the quantity thus sold at a minimum price.

&c.

or of Ohio shall

and an act of the

the trust, the Pres

in three miles, &c.,

&c.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That whenever the When the GovernGovernor of the State of Ohio shall have laid before the produce a survey, President of the United States a survey of the location of State shall accept said road, accompanied by an act of said State accepting ident shall stop the said trust, and providing for making said road within the sale of lands withtime above limited, and the President shall have approved until June 1, 1523, the same, then the right of the State to said tract of land shall be considered as complete for the purposes aforesaid; and the President shall direct that, until the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, none of the public lands shall be sold within three miles on each side of a line, to be drawn direct from the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the Lower Rapids of Sandusky, thence to the western boundary of the Connecticut Western Reserve: Provided, That nothing in this act Proviso; no obligacontained shall ever hereafter be construed to imply any tional land, or aids, obligation upon the United States to grant additional lands, or further aids of any sort, towards the opening, making, or keeping in repair, of the road aforesaid. Approved, February 28, 1823.

[See Part II, No. 389.]

tion to grant addi

&c.

CHAP. 279.-An act to revive and continue in force the seventh section of an

act entitled "An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of

land claims in the State of Louisiana,"* approved the eleventh May, eighteen See chap. 229. hundred and twenty, and for other purposes.

the act of May 11, force for eighteen

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the seventh section of an act entitled "An Seventh section of act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of 1520, continued in land claims in the State of Louisiana," approved the eleventh of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, in re- +Chapter 229. lation to back concessions, be, and the same is hereby, re

months.