that part of the State of Louisiana situated between [the] Rio Hondo and the Sabine river,"* be extended to all that tract of *Chapter 282. country known and called by the name of "the neutral territory," lying east of the present western boundary of Louisiana, and west of the limits to which the land commissioners have heretofore examined titles and claims to land in said State; and in the examination of claims to land within the aforesaid limits, the register and receiver shall, in all respects, be governed by the provisions of the aforesaid act. receiver to receive the business. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the register and The register and receiver of said land offices shall, severally, receive, as a each 8200 when full compensation for the duties required of them by this they have finished act, the sum of two hundred dollars, whenever they shall have finished the business required to be performed by them by this act and the act to which this is a supplement, and have forwarded their reports to the Secretary of the Treasury. Approved, May 26, 1824. [See Part II, Nos. 19, 675, 727.] CHAP. 311.-An act supplementary to an act, passed on the thirteenth day of +Original act, ch 140. vidual owners or in certain towns in ritory of Arkansas, firmed by the act SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the individual owners Duty of the indior claimants of town or village lots, out-lots, and common claimants of vil field lots, in, adjoining, or belonging to, the several towns or lage and other lots, villages of Portage des Sioux, St. Charles, St. Louis, St. Missouri and TerFerdinand, Villa a Robert Carondelet, St. Genevieve, New which were conMadrid, New Bourbon, and Little Prairie, in Missouri, and of the 13th of June, the village of Arkansas, in the Territory of Arkansas, whose 1812. lots were confirmed by the act of Congress of the thirtieth [thirteenth] of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, entitled "An act making further provision for settling the claims to land in the Territory of Missouri,"‡ on the ground Chapter 140. of inhabitation, cultivation, or possession, prior to the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, to proceed, within eighteen months after the passage of this act, to designate their said lots by proving, before the recorder of land titles for said State and Territory, the fact of such inhabitation, cultivation, or possession, and the boundaries and extent of each claim, so as to enable the surveyor general to distinguish the private from the vacant lots appertaining to the said towns and villages. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That immediately after Duty of the survey the expiration of the said term allowed for proving such or general. facts, it shall be the duty of the surveyor general within whose district such lots lie to proceed, under the instructions of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to survey, designate, and set apart, to the said towns and villages, respectively, so many of the said vacant town or village lots, out-lots, and common field-lots, for the support of schools in the said towns and villages, respectively, as the President of the United States shall not, before that time, have reserved for military purposes, and not exceeding one twentieth part of the whole lands included in the general survey of such town or village, according to the provisions of the second section of the above-mentioned act of Congress; and, also, to survey and designate, so soon after the passage of this act as may be, the commons belonging to the said towns and villages, according to their respective claims and confirmations, under the said act of Congress, where Proviso; lots relin- the same has not been already done: Provided, That lots be designated, &c. relinquished to the United States on account of damages done them by the earthquakes, and in lieu of which lands have been located elsewhere, shall neither be so designated or set apart, nor taken into the estimate of the quantity to which any town or village is entitled. quished, &c. not to The recorder to issue a certificate of confirmation for each claim confirmed, and to re SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the recorder shall issue a certificate of confirmation for each claim confirmed, and shall receive, for the services required of him ceive 81 therefor. by this act, the sum of one dollar for each lot so proved to have been inhabited, cultivated, and possessed, to be paid by the respective claimants; and, so soon as the said term shall have expired, he shall furnish the surveyor general with a list of the lots so proved to have been inhabited, cultivated, or possessed, to serve as his guide in distinguishing them from the vacant lots to be set apart as above described, and shall transmit a copy of such list to the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The provisions of this act, and the the village of Mine SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of act of 13th June, this act, and of the aforesaid act of the thirtieth [thirteenth] 1612, to extend to of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, be, and a Burton. the same are hereby, extended to the village of Mine à Burton, and the right of filing their claims with the recorder. Approved, May 26, 1824. claim of the Unit known as the hos CHAP. 312.-An act granting certain lots of ground to the corporation of the city of Mobile, and to certain individuals of said city. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepreAll the right and sentatives of the United States of America in Congress ased States to the lot sembled, That all the right and claim of the United States pital and bake to the lots known as the hospital and bake-house lots, concity of Mobile, &c., taining about three fourths of an acre of land, in the city of vested in the may Mobile, in the State of Alabama; and, also, all the right and claim of the United States to all the lots not sold or con house lots, in the or and aldermen of said city. the United States person to whom grant, or order of firmed to individuals, either by this or any former act, and to which no equitable title exists, in favor of any individual, under this or any other act, between high-water mark and the channel of the river, and between Church street and North Boundary street, in front of the said city, be, and the same are hereby, vested in the mayor and aldermen of the said city of Mobile for the time being, and their successors in office, for the sole use and benefit of the said city, forever. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the right and Right and claim of claim of the United States to so many of the lots of ground to other lots in said east of Water street, and between Church street and North city, vested in the Boundary street, now known as water lots, as are situated such alienation, between the channel of the river and the front of the lots survey, was made. known, under the Spanish Government, as water lots, in said city of Mobile, whereon improvements have been made, be, and the same are hereby, vested in the several proprietors and occupants of each of the lots heretofore fronting on the river Mobile, except in cases where such proprietor or occupant has alienated his right to any such lot now designated as a water lot, or the Spanish Government has made a new grant or order of survey for the same, during the time at which they had the power to grant the same; in which case, the right and claim of the United States shall be, and is hereby, vested in the person to whom such alienation, grant, or order of survey, was made, or in his legal representative: Provided, That nothing in this act contained Proviso; not to afshall be construed to affect the claim or claims, if any such viduals, &c. there be, of any individual or individuals, or of any body politic or corporate. Approved, May 26, 1824. fect claims of indi CHAP. 313.-An act granting to the corporation of Tuscaloosa certain lots and privileges over the reservations and commons in said town. of the U. States to Tuscaloosa, set uses, vested in the town, forever. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right and title of the United States to the The right and title public streets and to certain lots in the town of Tuscaloosa, the public streets, set apart for public uses, and designated in the plan of said &c., in the town of town by the names of the "Court square," the "Market apart for public square," the "Jail lot," the "Spring," the "Church," and corporation of said the "Burial ground," be, and the same is hereby, vested in the corporation of said town, forever; and, also, all the right The right, &c. to of the United States to that tract between the lots and the the lots and the river Tuscaloosa, river Tuscaloosa, called the "River Margin," and of that also vested in said called the "Pond," and, also, of that called "the Common," corporation, on ceron condition, however, that the corporation shall not lease or sell any portion of the last-mentioned tracts, but that the same shall be appropriated to the purposes for which they were designated and set apart, as well for the benefit of the that tract between tain conditions. inhabitants of said town as for that of those resorting to or visiting the same; and in case the same, or any part thereof, be applied to any other purpose, that it revert to the United States. Approved, May 26, 1824. two, in township in the Delaware reserved for the tribe of Indians, in &c. CHAP. 314.-An act reserving to the Wyandot tribe of Indians a certain tract of land, in lieu of a reservation made to them by treaty. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe north quarter sembled, That there be, and hereby is, reserved, for the use section numbered of the chiefs and tribe of Wyandot Indians, subject to the two, and range 17, conditions and limitations of the former reservation, the land district, Ohio, northeast quarter of section numbered two, in township two, use of the Wyandot and range seventeen south of the base line, of land in the lieu of land reserv Delaware land district, in. the State of Ohio, in lieu of one condition on hundred and sixty acres of land on the west side of and adjoining the Sandusky river, and which was reserved to said tribe of Indians by a supplementary treaty between the United States and certain tribes of Indians, held at St. Mary's, in the State of Ohio, on the seventeenth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighteen, on condition that the chiefs of said Wyandot tribe first relinquish to the United States all the right, title, and claim, of said tribe, to the one hundred and sixty acres of land reserved by said supplementary treaty. continued. Approved, May 26, 1824. [See Part II, No. 47.] CHAP. 315.-An act for the relief of the corporation of the church of St. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asLarned street, in sembled, That it shall be lawful for the Governor and judges Michigan, to be of the Territory of Michigan to cause Larned street, in the town of Detroit, to be continued, westerly, parallel to Jefferson avenue, until it intersects the street which runs northerly from said avenue, at right angles therewith, near the Public barn and public barn, agreeable to the plan of the town; and to cause pickets to be re- the public barn, and the pickets bounding the military reserve, to be removed to the north side of Larned street. So much of the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the ing south of said military reserve lying south of Larned street, thus extended, to the corporation as is included in the deed from the said Governor and judges of St. Anne. to the corporation of the Catholic Apostolic and Roman military reserve ly street, confirmed Church of St. Anne, of Detroit, on the eleventh day of the same is hereby declared to be, confirmed to the said corporation. reserve between Jefferson avenue, ernor and judges, SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the residue of The residue of the the said military reserve between Larned street and Jeffer- Larned street and son avenue, included within the pickets of the said reserve, vested in the Gov and bounded west by said street, which runs from said ave- to be disposed of nue to the public barn, and east by the east bounds of the agreeably to the act of 21st April, military reserve, be, and the same is hereby declared to be, 1806. vested in the said Governor and judges, to be disposed of as, by the act of Congress passed the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled "An act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and Territory of Michigan, and for other purposes," Ante, chap. 85. is directed. Approved, May 26, 1824. CHAP. 316. An act granting a tract of land to the parish of West Baton United States to a ed to the parish of on condition of its a SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of the United States to a tract of The right of the land of about eight arpens front on the Mississippi river, be, tract of land grantand the same is hereby, granted to the inhabitants of the west Baton Rouge, parish of West Baton Rouge, within which said land is situ- a gooof le ated, on condition that said parish shall at all times keep, or vee, &c. cause to be kept, a good and sufficient levee on said land in front on the river Mississippi; and if they should, at any time hereafter, cease to keep, or cause to be kept, a good and sufficient levee, the land shall revert to the United States. Approved, May 26, 1824. CHAP. 317.-An act to authorize the Legislature of the State of Ohio to sell and convey certain tracts of land granted to said State for the use of the people thereof. Ohio to be sold, ture may direct. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Legislature of the State of Ohio shall Tracts of land in be, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to cause to be &c., as the Legisla sold and conveyed, in such manner and on such terms and conditions as said Legislature shall, by law, direct, the following tracts of land, heretofore granted to said State for the use of the people thereof, to wit: so much of the sixmile reservation, including the salt springs commonly called the Sciota salt springs, as remains unsold, the salt springs near the Muskingum river and in the military tract, with the sections of land which include the same; the proceeds thereof to be applied to such literary purposes as said. Le |