fect the right of Proviso; not to af- confirmed in a quantity not exceeding ten acres: Provided, any other person. Nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect the right, if any such there be, of any other person or persons to the said lots, or any part of them, derived from the United States, or any other source whatever, or as a pledge, on the part of the United [States,] to make good any deficiency occasioned by any other interfering claim or claims. Surveyor general to cause the lots to ed, &c. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the be surveyed, &c. duty of the survey or of the public lands of the United States for that district to cause a survey to be made of the several Plat to be forward-lots, and to designate on a plat thereof the lot confirmed and set apart to each claimant, and forward the same to the SecPatents to be issu- retary of the Treasury, who shall cause patents to be issued in favor of such claimants, as in other cases. Approved, March 3, 1823. ed. ted to the State of in lieu of section No. 16, &c. CHAP. 291.-An act concerning the lands to be granted to the State of Missouri, for the purposes of education, and other public uses. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asCertain lands gran sembled, That, in all cases in which section number sixteen, Missouri, for sch'ls, in any township within the State of Missouri, has been sold, or otherwise disposed of, it shall be the duty of the register and receiver of the respective land office in whose district such land may lie, so soon after the passage of this act as may be, to select the like quantity of other lands equivalent thereto, from any of the unappropriated lands of the United States in that State, including the residue of such section, when only a part of it has been disposed of, and the value of the residue is not materially diminished by such disposition, and as nearly contiguous to such sixteenth section as may be; A descriptive en and a descriptive entry of such selected lands shall be made on the books of the register, specifying as well the township in which, as that for the use of which, the selection shall have been made; and the lands thus selected and located are hereby granted to the said State, for the use of the inhabitants of the respective townships, for the use of schools, instead of such sixteenth sections so sold or otherwise disposed of. try of selected lands, &c. Certain lands gran ted to salt springs, SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases in for the use of Mis: which the General Assembly of the State of Missouri has souri, where unap selected, or shall hereafter select, a salt spring, for the use cannot be found of the State, according to the provisions of an act of Con propriated lands adjoining, &c. *Chapter 237. gress of the sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and the six sections of unappropriated lands cannot be found adjoining to such spring, agreeably to the provisions of said act, the deficiency shall be supplied by the selection of other sections equivalent thereto, and not farther distant than six miles therefrom, of unappropriated lands of the CHAP. 292.—An act to regulate the surveying of public and private lands in the southern part of Alabama. tached to the dis SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the lands in the State of Alabama shall be All lands to be at attached to the district of the surveyor of the public lands in trict of the survey. the State of Alabama, and the surveying of all public and surveyor east of private lands, in the said State, shall hereafter be made under the island of New his direction; and it shall be the duty of the deputy surveyor private claims to of the district east of the island of New Orleans, and east of the office of the Pearl river, to return the plats of all private claims within the State of Alabama, to the office of the said surveyor. Approved, February 28, 1824. [See Part II, Nos. 29, 825, 853, 862, 913, 921, 923, 952, 954.] Orleans, &c. to return plats of all surveyor. CHAP. 293.--An act to extend the time limited for the settlement of private land claims in the Territory of Florida. certaining the ti Florida, to be ex 1825. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time limited for the settlement of private The act amending, land claims in the Territory of Florida, by an act of the &c. the act for asseventeenth Congress, entitled "An act amending, and sup- les to land in plementary to, the act for ascertaining claims and titles to tended to 1st Jan. land in the Territory of Florida, and to provide for the survey and disposal of the public lands in Florida,"* be, and the *Chapter 261. same is hereby, extended and enlarged, until the first day of January next, when the commissioners for ascertaining claims Commissioners to and titles to the lands aforesaid shall make a return of their proceedings to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be laid before Congress. make a return, &c. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the claimant or The claimant or claimants shall not be required to produce, in evidence, a quired to produce claimants not re raignment of title tee, &c. *Chapter 274. claimant, with ori &c. in evidence a de- deraignment of title from the original grantee or patentee, from the original but the exhibition of the original title papers, agreeably to grantee or paten- the fourth section of an act passed the eighth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An act for ascertaining claims and title to lands within the Territory of Florida," with the deed or devise, to the claimant, and the Deed or devise to office abstract or abstracts of the intermediate conveyances ginal title papers, for the last ten years preceding the surrender of Florida to the United States; and, where they cannot be produced, their absence being satisfactorily accounted for, shall be sufficient evidence of the right of the claimant or claimants to the land Proviso; claim to so claimed as against the United States: Provided, The claim be defined in quantity, and the amount does not exceed the quantity limited in the second section of the act which this Proviso; condi- is intended to extend: And provided, The conditions recomplied with. quired by the laws and ordinances of the Spanish Government, and the treaty between Spain and the United States, shall have been complied with. be defined, &c. tions, &c. to be deemed an actual act of 3d March, an occupier or cul No person to be SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no person shall settler, within the be taken and deemed to be an actual settler, within the proprovisions of the visions of the "Act amending, and supplementary to, an act 1823, unless he was for ascertaining claims and titles to land in the Territory of tivator of the land Florida," passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, unless such person, or those under whom he claims title, shall have been in the cultivation or occupation of the land at and before the period of the cession. at the period of the cession. +Chapter 281. So much of the act as authorizes ten words, repealed. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of the cents per hundred act of which this is an amendment as authorizes the secretary of said commissioners to demand and receive from the claimants ten cents per hundred words for recording titles to land, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Secretaries of com. missioners having SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the former secreceived $1,250, re retaries, or those who may now be secretaries, to the said quired to pay over boards of commissioners, who shall have received their salary been demanded of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, from the and rec'd by them. Treasury of the United States, which is, by law, declared to such fees as have So much of the acts of which this is makes void all 1823, repealed. be their full compensation, shall be, and they are hereby, required to pay over, respectively, to the commissioners, conformable with the provisions of the original law, all such fees as have been demanded, and received by them, which shall be appropriated to defray the expenses of the commission. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of the amendatory, as acts of which this is amendatory as makes void all claims claims not filed be not filed before the first day of December, one thousand eight fore the 1st of Dec. hundred and twenty-three, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and it shall be lawful for claims to be filed any time previous to the first day of September next; but all and every claim not filed by that time shall be held and deemed void *Repealed. See and of none effect.‡ section 3, act of 3d March, 1825, chap. 321, post. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That each of the commissioners heretofore appointed, or who may hereafter be ap er to receive $2,000 pointed, who has performed; and shall hereafter perform, the Each commissionduties assigned him, shall receive, from the first Monday in per annum. February until the first day of January next, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, in full compensation for his services. Approved, February 28, 1824. [See Part II, No. 19.] CHAP. 294.-An act to define the boundary line between the Edwardsville and of the base line of SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that tract of country lying between the The country lying Illinois and Mississippi rivers, and south of the base line of between the nois and Mississip the military surveys, be, and the same is hereby, attached to pi rivers, and south and made a part of the land district, the office of which is the military surlocated at Edwardsville; and all the tract of country lying ed to, &c. the land between the said rivers, and north of the said base line, be, and the same is hereby, attached to and made a part of the land district, the office of which is established at Springfield, in the county of Sangamo. Approved, March 16, 1824. [See Part II, No. 64.] CHAP. 295.-An act to provide for the extinguishment of the debt due to the veys, to be attachdistrict of Edwards ville, &c. *See explanatory act, chap. 30s, post; also chap. 330. Where the pur lands obtained ther credit, under 2, 1821, he shall be with the register of situated. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprcsentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where the purchaser or legal chaser or holder of holder of any certificate of purchase of any of the public any of the public lands of the United States may have obtained a certificate a certificate of furof further credit under the provisions of an act passed the the act of March second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and allowed to file it twenty-one, entitled "An act for the relief of the purcha- the land office sers of public lands prior to the first day of July, one thou- where such land is sand eight hundred and twenty," or of the acts supplement- †Chapter 233. ary thereto of the twentieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and of the third of March, one Chapter 263. thousand eight hundred and twenty-three,§ the person ob- Chapter 287. taining such certificate, or the legal holder thereof, shall be allowed, at any time prior to the tenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, to file with the register of the land office in the district where such land is situated, a relinquishment, in writing, of any section, half section, quarter section, or legal subdivision of a fractional section, made according to the provisions of the existing laws in relation to the survey and sale of the public lands; and any payment made on any tract of land so relinquished shall be applied to the payment of the amount due on any tract retained by said purchaser, or legal holder of a certificate of purchase; which relinquishment shall be allowed only on condition that any such purchaser, or legal holder of a certificate of purchase, relinquish a sufficient quantity of land thereby to complete his or her payments due to the United States on any lands retained, or pay the balance due, and which may afterwards become due, in money, before or at the time of such relinquishment; and on the payment of such balance in money, there shall be allowed, on the amount so paid, a deduction at the rate of thirty-seven and a half Proviso; no repay per centum: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall entitle the person making such relinquishment to claim any repayment from the United States on account of any lands Proviso; no dis so relinquished: And provided, further, That nothing herein contained shall authorize any discounts upon payments made by relinquishment. inent for lands re linquished. counts on paym'ts. A deduction at the rate of 37 per cen SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all purchasers tum, to be made on or legal holders of any certificate of purchase of any of the complete paym'ts. public lands of the United States, who may have obtained a certificate of further credit under the provisions of the several acts above mentioned, on making complete payment previous to the tenth of April, eighteen hundred and twentyfive, of every instalment then due, and which shall afterwards become payable, shall be allowed upon the amount so paid a deduction at the rate of thirty-seven and a half per Duty of the regis ters and receivers. Fees to be allowed ceivers. centum. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the registers and receivers of the land offices of the United States, immediately after the tenth of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, to return complete lists of the lands relinquished to the United States within their districts; and such lands shall be exposed to sale, as other public lands of the United States. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the register and to registers and re- receiver of any land office shall be allowed double the fees given them by the act of the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, for like services; to be paid by the person or persons availing themselves of the provisions of this act. The provisions of to town lots, &c. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act to extend this act be extended to town lots and out-lots reserved for that purpose, and sold by the United States on a credit. Approved, May 18, 1824. [See Part II, Nos. 13, 26, 27, 110, 301, 306, 307, 308, 310, 312, 313, 321, 324, 344, 396.] |