*Chap. 352. Former selections, if sold, to be paid sioners. by the United States, within the State of Ohio, and which would otherwise become the property of the State of Indiana, in virtue of "An act to grant a certain quantity of land to the State of Indiana for the purpose of aiding such State in opening a canal to connect the waters of the Wabash river with those of Lake Erie,"* approved March second, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, the canal commissioners authorized to locate the lands granted as aforesaid for the use of the canal within the State of Ohio, be, and they are hereby, authorized to select an equal quantity from the alternate sections, which would otherwise belong to the United States in the division under said act, or from the lands recently acquired by purchase from the Indians, or from other lands in the neighborhood, near the line of said canal, as they shall think proper; and the lands thus selected shall be vested and disposed of for the use of the canal, as other lands appropriated by the act aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case of selecfor to the commnis. tions of lands authorized by the previous section, and which, agreeably to treaty stipulations, may hereafter be sold by the United States for the benefit of the Indians; a sum equal to the amount for which said lands may have been sold shall be paid over, by the Treasurer of the United States, to the commissioners authorized to receive the same, for the use and benefit of said canal. Lands reserved from sale until se +Chap. 352. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That until the lands lections are made. granted by the aforesaid act of March second, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven,† shall be selected, and the selections contemplated by this act shall be made, the public lands on and near the line of said canal, and liable to the selections aforesaid, shall be reserved from sale. Commissioners to maps. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the be furnished with duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to furnish said commissioners with a perfect map of the surveyed lands on and contiguous to the Maumee river, within the State of Ohio, including the lands recently purchased from the Indians, carefully noting thereon the lands which have been sold or otherwise disposed of by the United States. Approved, June 30, 1834. CHAP. 475.-An act to authorize the sale of lots in the town of St. Mark's, in Florida. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asPresident may di- sembled, That the President of the United States be, and red receive he is hereby, authorized to direct the register and receiver of the Tallahassee land district to make sale at public auction of one fourth of the lots in the town of St. Mark's, in the Territory of Florida, according to the plan of the sur and make sale. to veyor general of said Territory, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, upon giving two months' public notice of the said sale. Approved, June 30, 1834. CHAP. 476.-An act to relinquish the reversionary interest of the United States in a certain Indian reservation lying between the rivers Mississippi and Desmoines. to tain half-breeds of dians. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the right, title, and interest, which might Lands designated relinquished accrue or revert to the United States, to the reservation of and vested in cer land, lying between rivers Desmoines and Mississippi, Sacs and Fox Inwhich was reserved for the use of the half-breeds belonging [to] the Sacs and Fox nations, now used by them, or some of them, under a treaty made and concluded between the United States and the Sacs and Fox tribes or nations of Indians, at Washington, on the fourth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, be, and the same are hereby, relinquished and vested in the said half-breeds of the Sacs and Fox tribes or nations of Indians, who, at the passage of this act, are, under the reservation in the said treaty, entitled, by the Indian title, to the same; with full power and authority to transfer their portions thereof, by sale, devise, or descent, according to the laws of the State of Missouri. Approved, June 30, 1834. [See Part II, No. 47.] CHAP. 477.-An act granting land to certain exiles from Poland. or Michigan, iles from Poland. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby, granted to Lewis Thirty-six sections Banezakiewitz and his associates, being two hundred and of land in Illinois thirty-five exiles from Poland, transported to the United granted to 235 exStates by the orders of the Emperor of Austria, thirty-six sections of land, to be selected by them, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in any three adjacent townships of the public lands which have been or may hereafter be surveyed, situated within the limits of the State of Illinois or the Territory of Michigan. recorded in the SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Their names to be duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain an authenti- General Land Of cated list of the names of the aforesaid two hundred and fice. thirty-five Polish exiles, and cause the same to be filed and recorded in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. vided in equal by lot. The land to be di- SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That immediately after parts among them the said thirty-six sections of land shall be surveyed and located in the manner prescribed in the first section of this act, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the said thirty-six sections to be divided into equal parts among the said two hundred and thirty-five Poles, by lot, under such regulations as the said Secretary may pre years' occupancy. Proviso. scribe. To be entitled to a SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawpatent after ten ful for each and every of the said grantees to enter upon and take possession of the respective lots of land assigned to them and each of them; and, after the expiration of ten years, the said grantees, respectively, shall be entitled to a patent for the lot of land assigned to them as aforesaid: Provided, That the said grantees shall, during the said term of ten years, without intermission, actually inhabit and cultivate the said township of land, in the ratio of one settlement for every five hundred acres thereof; and, on due proof of such habitation and cultivation to the Secretary of the Treasury, and of the payment into the proper land office of the minimum price per acre, at the time of such payment, within the said term of ten years, patents shall be granted as aforesaid, and not otherwise. Approved, June 30, 1834. [See Part II, Nos. 438, 459, 460.] 1834, and of 24th CHAP. 478.-An act to allow further time to complete the issuing and locating of military land warrants during the late war. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asActs of 26th May, sembled, That the act entitled "An act to allow further time Feb. 1819, revived. to complete the issuing and locating of military land war*Chap. 309. rants," approved the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and also the operations of the act approved the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, which, by said act of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, is revived, be, and the said acts are hereby, extended and continued in force for the term of five years from and after the twentysixth day of May last. +Chap. 226. Approved, January 27, 1835. [See Part II, Nos. 2, 43, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 236, 237.] CHAP. 479.-And act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army.* *See chap. 461. 1st Jan. 1840. 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 Time extended to warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army shall be extended to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty. Approved, January 27, 1835. [See Part II, Nos. 2, 43.] CHAP. 480.-An act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the State of Louisiana. thorized claims to re ceiver within two SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or persons having claims to lands Persons having au in the State of Louisiana, whose claims have been recog- present them to nised by former laws as valid, but which have not hereto- register and fore been confirmed to the grantees or their legal represent- years. atives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to present their claims to the register and receiver of the land office in which the land may lie, within two years from the passage of this act, together with the written and other testimony in support of the same; and it shall be the duty of the register and receiver to record, in a book to be kept by them for that purpose, the notice of every claim so preferred, together with the evidence in support of the same; and the said register and receiver are hereby further authorized to receive any evidence for and on behalf of other individuals who may resist the confirmation of any such claim, either on their own behalf or that of the United States, and cause to be taken any evidence which shall be deemed necessary and proper by them to have such claim properly and justly settled, and to have the same likewise recorded in said book, for which service, in recording the applicant's title papers and evidence, they shall be entitled to receive from said applicant at the rate of twenty-five cents for every hundred words. ceivers to report to SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the Registers and reduty of the registers and receivers of the land offices, at or the Secretary of before the beginning of each session of Congress thereafter, the Treasury, and to make to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of the Congress. claims which may have been presented before them, together with the testimony, accompanied by their opinions of the validity of each claim, and such other information respecting them as may be in their possession, which said report shall, by the Secretary of the Treasury, be laid before Congress as soon as practicable, with the opinion of the *Chap. 432. tering back lands year from the 15th June next. Commissioner of the General Land Office, touching the va- [See Part II, No. 19.] CHAP. 481.-An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act to authorize the inhabitants of the State of Louisiana to enter the back lands.”* SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress The time for en assembled, That the time given by the act to which this is a extended to one supplement, to the owners of lands bordering on any of the rivers, creeks, bayous, or other watercourses, of the State of Louisiana, to become the purchasers, by preference, of the back tracts adjacent to those owned by them, be, and the same is hereby, extended one year from the fifteenth of June next. Approved, February 24, 1835. [See Part II, Nos. 15, 42, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 72, 77, 88, 93.] + The other sections irrelevant. 650,000 acres land, in addition to former appropria CHAP. 482.-An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That six hundred and of fifty thousand acres of land, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act entitled "An act for the retions, to be applied lief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and rants and certifi- navy, and of the continental army, during the revolutionary to unsatisfied war cates, &c. +Chap. 402. Chap. 442. Chap. 461. Proviso. war," approved the thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and the act entitled "An act to extend the time for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war,"§ approved the thirteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and the act entitled "An act granting an additional quantity of land for the location of revolutionary bounty land warrants," approved the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be applied, in the manner provided for in said acts, to the unsatisfied warrants, whether original or duplicate, which have been or may be issued, as therein directed, to the officers, soldiers, and others, therein described; and the certificates of scrip issued pursuant to said acts shall be receivable in payment for any of the public lands liable to sale at private entry: Provided, That no scrip shall be issued until the first day of September next, and warrants shall be received in the General Land Office until that day; and immediately thereafter, if the amount filed exceed six hundred and fifty thousand acres, the Com |