Carlos de Ville for the heirs of Carlos de Villemont to submit the evidence Claim of heirs of of their claim to a tract of land in Arkansas Territory, to a mont. place called " Chicot point," to the said recorder and commissioners, and it shall be the duty of said recorder and commissioners to report upon said claim in the manner that other claims provided for in this act are to be reported and proceeded upon. Approved, July 9, 1832. [See Part II, Nos. 19, 709, 968, 974, 998.] CHAP. 440.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of purchasers of the public lands that have reverted for non-payment of the purchasemoney," passed twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. cates. +Chap. 253. 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 public lands have been Money paid for purchased, on which a further credit has been taken under public lands, and forfeited, to be rethe provisions of the act of the second March, one thousand funded in certifi eight hundred and twenty-one,† or under any other act of Congress granting relief to the purchasers of the public lands, and have reverted to the United States for failure to pay the purchase-money, or have been sold by the United States by reason of such failure to pay, it shall be the duty of the register of the land office where the purchase was made to issue, upon application, to the person or persons legally entitled to the benefit of payments made previous to such reversion or sale, his, her, or their legal representatives or assigns, a certi- Certificates to be ficate for the amount so paid, and not refunded, which shall lands. be received and credited as cash in payment of any public lands that may hereafter be sold by the United States, in the State or Territory in which such original purchase was made. receivable for other SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Act of 23d May, duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and 1828, to govern. of the registers, as aforesaid, to conform to and be governed by the provisions of the act aforesaid, to which this is an amendment, passed the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, as aforesaid. issued for excess SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That where the lands Certificates to be have been relinquished to the United States under the pro- of payment in cervisions of the act of second March, one thousand eight hun- tain cases. dred and twenty-one, as aforesaid, or other acts of Congress, and the money paid thereon has, in part, been applied in the payment of other lands, if the payment so made on lands retained be less than the amount paid on the relinquished lands, when such excess exceeds the sum of ten dollars, it shall be the duty of the register of the land office, where the transfer of payment was made, to issue a certificate for such excess to the person or persons entitled thereto, and in the Where certificates have been lost, du manner pointed out in the first section of this act; which certificate shall be received in payment of the purchase of the public lands, as pointed out in said section. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That on proof being plicates to issue. made, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, that any certificate issued under this act, or that has been or may be issued under the said act of the twenty-third of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, has been lost or destroyed by accident, he is hereby authorized to issue to the legal owner thereof a duplicate of such original certificate, which shall be, in all respects, as available to the owner as the original certificate would have been. Approved, July 9, 1832. [See Part II, Nos. 348, 370, 396, 428.] CHAP. 441.-An act to establish additional land districts in the State of Alabama, and for other purposes. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asTalapoosa and sembled, That the tract of country in the State of Alabama tricts established ceded to the United States by a treaty concluded with the Coosa land dis in Alabama. Lands to be sold at pointed. Creek tribe of Indians, at the city of Washington, on the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, shall be divided into and constitute two land districts, by extending through the same, east and west, the line between township number twenty-two, south of the base line of the Huntsville district, and township number twenty-four, north of the thirty-first degree of latitude. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the land in said ceded territory, south of said dividing line, shall be sold at the town of Montgomery, and said district shall be called the Talapoosa district; and all the land in said ceded territory, north of said dividing line, shall be sold at the town of Montevallo, and said district shall be called the Coosa district: Provided, however, That the President of the United States may, if he shall deem it expedient, remove either or both of the said land offices to any other point in the respective districts for which they are established. Registers and reSEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a ceivers to be ap register and receiver appointed to each of the aforesaid land offices, to superintend the sales of the public lands in their respective districts, who shall reside at the places designated, give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be provided by law in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands. be deposited, &c. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Plats of surveys to duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as the same can be done, to cause the proper plats of the surveys of said districts to be deposited in the land offices intended for them, respectively. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensa- Compensation. tion of the registers and receivers, to be appointed for the land districts hereby established, shall not commence till after the surveys shall have been completed. cessions to be sold SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all that portion Part of Choctaw of country acquired by the treaty with the Choctaw nation of at St. Stephen's Indians, within the State of Alabama, south of township nine- and Tuscaloosa. teen, shall be offered for sale at the Saint Stephen's land office, and the residue shall be attached to the Tuscaloosa land district, and be offered for sale at that place. Approved, July 10, 1832. [See Part II, Nos. 64, 400, 427, 452, 453.] CHAP. 442.-An act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary_army.* *See chaps. 461, 478, and 482. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for issuing military land war- Extend time for rants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army land warrants. shall be extended to the first day of January, eighteen hun dred and thirty-five. issuing military Scrip granted for SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further Additional land or quantity of three hundred thousand acres of land be, and the Virginia land war same is hereby, appropriated, in addition to the quantity here- rants. tofore appropriated by the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army, during the revolutionary war,' approved the thirtieth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty; +See chap. 402. which said appropriation shall be applied, in the manner provided by the said act, to the unsatisfied warrants which have been or may be issued, as therein directed, to the officers and soldiers and others, as described in the first, fifth, and seventh, sections of said act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the last para- Lost warrants. graph of the first section of the said act, which authorizes the issuing of warrants upon an affidavit that the original was lost, and upon the production of an official copy thereof, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, July 13, 1832. [See Part II, Nos. 2, 35, 43, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 134, 136, 137, 236, 237, 414, 450, 457, 458.] Certain reserva tions lately ceded sold. CHAP. 443.-An act to authorize the sale of certain public lands in the State of Ohio. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the lands heretofore reserved for certain Inby Indians to be dian tribes in the State of Ohio, and which were ceded to the United States by treaties ratified on the twenty-fourth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirtyone, and the sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same are hereby, attached to and made to form part of the land districts in which they are respectively situate, and liable to be sold as other public lands in the State of Ohio. Approved, July 14, 1832. a school section of land in Florida, to be invested stocks. CHAP. 444.-An act to authorize the disposition of the fund arising from the sale of a quarter section of land reserved for the use of schools in Florida. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asProceeds of sale of sembled, That the commissioners elected by the qualified voters in township five, range eleven, north and west, in the in county of Jackson, in the Territory of Florida, in obedience to an act of Congress entitled "An act to authorize the establishment of a town on land reserved for the use of schools, &c.," approved the second of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, be, and they are hereby, authorized to vest the money arising from the sale in said act authorized, in some productive fund, under the authority of the Governor and Legislative Council of the Territory, the proceeds of of which shall forever be applied to common schools in said township. *See chap. 379. For benefit schools. Remaining town tots to be sold. * SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners be, and they are hereby, authorized to make sale of the remainder of said lots, to be applied to the objects aforesaid; and all provisions of the act aforesaid, inconsistent with this act, be, and the same are hereby, repealed: Provided, That the Governor and Legislative Council of said Territory authorize such sale, with the assent of the majority of the inhabitants of said township. Approved, July 14, 1832. *See chaps. 401 and 421, ante; and 459, post. CHAP. 445. An act supplemental to the act "granting the right of pre-emption to settlers on the public lands," approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty.† SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as enter rights of pre lands. sembled, That all the occupants and settlers upon the pub- Further time to lic lands of the United States, who are entitled to a pre-emp-emption to public tion according to the provisions of the act of Congress approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, and who have not been or shall not be enabled to make proof and enter the same within the time limited in said act, in consequence of the public surveys not having been made and returned, or where the land was not attached to any land district, or where the same has been reserved from sale on account of a disputed boundary between any State and Territory, the said occupants shall be permitted to enter the said lands on the same conditions, in every respect, as are prescribed in said act, within one year after the surveys are made, or the land attached to a land district, or the boundary line established; and if the said lands shall be proclaimed for sale before the expiration of one year, as aforesaid, then they shall be entered before the sale thereof. fractional LOWN ships. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the occupants Right to extend to upon fractions shall be permitted, in like manner, to enter the same, so as not to exceed in quantity one quarter section; and if the fractions exceed a quarter section, the occupant shall be permitted to enter one hundred and sixty acres, to include his or their improvement, at the price aforesaid. Approved, July 14, 1832. [See Part II, Nos. 15, 42, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 65, 72, 74, 77, 83, 88, 93, 509, 512, 514, 515, 519, 521, 523, 524, 527, 528, 580, 532, 533, 534, 535, page 606, Nos. 599, 610, 611, 1,011, 1,012.] CHAP. 446.-An act to authorize the sale of lands reserved from sale at Fort SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and Reserved lands at he is hereby, authorized to offer for sale the lands hereto- bama, to be sold. fore reserved from sale at Fort Jackson, in the State of Al abama. Fort Jackson, Ala SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every settler on Settlers to have said lands who, prior to the year one thousand eight hun- right of pre-empdred and thirty, cultivated any part thereof, and is now in possession of the same, shall be allowed to enter, at the proper land office, one quarter section, according to the provisions of the first section of an act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on public lands, approved May twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.* Approved, July 14, 1832. *See chap. 401. |