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THE GENERAL PUBLIC ACTS OF CONGRESS

RELATING TO THE

SALE AND DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC LANDS.

A.

Academies in Tennessee, provision for

(See Seminaries of learning.)

Academy, in Ohio, land assigned for

Agents for the United States, in the examination of land-titles in Louisiana
Alabama: Compact with

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136

90

126, 140

309

310

367

428

430

- 455, 528, 529

- 441, 472, 543

446

508

543

555

556

The compact with, in relation to the 5 per cent. fund, provision for
carrying into effect

Lands in, reserved for schools

Lands granted to, for the seat of justice of Cherokee county

Appeal from the decision of the district court of Missouri to the Supreme Court of
the United States on certain land claims

Archives, public, keepers of, to be appointed in Florida

To give bond and security

Duties of, prescribed

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To receive certain records from registers and receivers

Arkansas Claimants in, to try by suit the validity of their claims

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Salt-springs and hot-springs in, with contiguous land, reserved from

sale, and to be leased

578

389

404

405

405, 422

424
385, 495

495

472

484, 498, 505, 524, 531

495

Surveyor of public lands for the State of

498

Land districts in, established

500

Land granted to, for public buildings, divided into town-lots, and sold

524

The State of, restricted in her right to tax, and to dispose of the land
within her limits

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Ratification of locations, sales, and transfers, by the Governor of

568

Army, continental, lands set aside for the officers and soldiers of

Assignees of persons entitled to pre-emption rights

Of confirmed claims entitled to patents

Assignments of grants to revolutionary officers and soldiers to be invalid
Attorneys, district, of Florida, required to perform certain services in adjudicating
land claims

B.

Back lands, the inhabitants of Louisiana authorized to enter

Baton Rouge, West, grant to

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Board of Treasury. (See Treasury.)

Boundary line, of lands purchased from the Creeks, to be surveyed

Between Alabama and Florida

Northern, of Illinois

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Bounties: MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY—

Lands set apart for

Warrants for, to be issued

Bounty lands: REVOLUTIONARY

Scrip for, receivable in payment for the Ohio purchase

Reservation for

Warrants for, to be issued

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12

492

492

6

363

- 499, 531, 536

401

259

487

487

12, 17

33

25

28

- 33, 99, 127, 133, 164

- 56, 66, 100, 102, 128, 133, 164, 509

34

35
55, 64
56

- 63, 66, 84, 99

63

65, 66

66

66, 67

Priority of location determinable by lot

Provision for those who have not drawn and located

To be located and patented in the name of the original proprietor of
the warrant

The quantity limited to certain metes and bounds

Time extended for issuing and locating warrants for 173, 233, 264, 338, 368, 405,

Additional land appropriated for

Bounty lands or WAR OF 1812, WITH GREAT BRITAIN—

425, 493, 509, 535

522, 536

To persons enlisting for five years, their heirs and legal representatives 196, 197, 225,

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Provision in case of lost warrants and informal discharges

To be exempt from taxation in certain cases

To remain free from taxation for three years, in the hands of patentees
Extension of time for issuing and locating

275

302

311, 322

396, 534

Soldiers entitled to, and their heirs, may surrender if unfit for cultiva-
tion, and substitute other lands

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Time for obtaining warrants, locating the same, and returning sur-
veys, extended

Patents therefor to issue

Boundaries of the territory reserved for, and regulations for issuing
patents

41

103

148, 175, 334, 366, 367

Surveys of, and plats thereof, ordered

Patents to be granted for, under Virginia resolution warrants
Provisions for ascertaining the western boundary of the tract reserved

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C.

Cahokia, the conversion of a common into town lots by the inhabitants, confirmed
Canadian volunteers, bounty in land to

Canal: The State of Illinois allowed to open through the public lands

To connect the Wabash and Miami

To connect the river Illinois with lake Michigan

Illinois, to be a public highway

Lands granted to Indiana for a

Lands granted to Ohio for

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Florida authorized to open a, through the public lands

Grant of land to Wisconsin to aid in opening

Canals, roads, and improving water-courses:

Five per cent. of proceeds of lands in Alabama appropriated to

Certificates of unlocated confirmed claims receivable in payment for other lands
Of confirmation; surveys to be made, and patents issued agreeably to
Of confirmation to be issued

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Cessions by the States, to be chargeable with advances for acquisition
Cession Deed of, by the State of Virginia

Georgia
South Carolina
Connecticut

Choctaws, their claims to reservations
Claimants of land, whose titles are confirmed, to receive patents

In Mississippi, authorized to try the validity of their title by suit
Whose titles are confirmed, required to make their locations -
Of land in Mississippi, (Yazoo,) indemnity provided for
Further time allowed to

Page.

325

- 262, 292, 340

341

382

425

426

427

447, 448

485, 486

571

309

246

247, 320

281

7

585

588

592

595

563, 568

160, 227

Of land in Florida over 3,500 acres, may cause the lands claimed to
be reserved from sale

Of lands in Louisiana, whose lands are sold, entitled, upon the con-
firmation of their claims, to be paid therefor

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Of land in St. Helena and Jackson court-house land districts, to de-
liver notices of their claims, and file titles

318, 394

Of land in Louisiana, to file claims

365

Of land within Missouri and Arkansas, to try the validity of their
claims

385, 442

Of land in Arkansas, further provisions for the trial of their claims
Of land in Florida, to have further time to file claims

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Claims to lands in the Territory of Orleans, further time for registering
Claims founded on grants and promises to the refugees from Canada and Nova

Scotia, referred for decision to a board

To Choctaw reservations, commissioners for settling

Unlocated, confirmed, may be applied in payment of another tract

Claims to lands in Alabama, commissioners for determining

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Claims to lands in Florida, commissioners authorized to settle

Additional provisions, and time extended
Confirmation of

Claims to lots in Illinois, referred to a board of commissioners
Claims to lands in Illinois, confirmation of, in Kaskaskia district

Confirmation of

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Surveys made and patents issued agreeably to certificates of, confirmed

Claims to lands in Louisiana, mode of deciding confirmed conflicting

Confirmed

Claims to land in Michigan, commission for deciding on

Confirmation of

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490

242, 330, 352, 360, 402, 407, 414
150, 151, 152, 166, 358

Claims to land in Missouri and Arkansas, provisions for settling

Donation rights allowed

Time for registering extended

May be tried by suit

Not brought or tried to be barred

Claimants required to prove cultivation, inhabitation, or possession

Time of filing petition extended

Claims in Mississippi -

Claims to land in Tennessee, stipulation in favor of

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433

216, 478

231

233, 234

- 385, 386, 419

387

397

319

92, 115, 121, 146, 165, 221, 445, 468

Claims to land in the district east of the island of New Orleans confirmed
Coast, survey of a portion of, authorized

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Combinations to depress the price of lands at public sales, punishment for
College, Jefferson, reservation of lands for

In Tennessee, provision for

Lands for, to be located by the Secretary of the Treasury
Empowered to surrender former locations and substitute others
Authorized to sell their lands

Commissioner of General Land Office to be appointed

His duties and salary

To employ clerks

Commissioners to ascertain titles

Compensation of

213
92, 116

137

216

143

460

97

136

198

496

496

212, 213

212, 213, 552, 554

For land titles and claims in Indiana

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98, 121, 146
105

124, 154, 155, 209

129
150, 327
143, 168

To ascertain titles in Illinois

To ascertain and survey the western boundary of Virginia military res-
ervation

To adjudge upon the sufficiency of releases of certain claimants of land

198

220

237, 252,

261, 268

To survey the boundaries of a Creek purchase
To ascertain land titles in Florida, their powers and duties 354, 356, 362, 363,

259

381, 403

To examine and determine titles to town lots and pre-emption claims
To adjust claims to reservations under Choctaw treaty

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On the part of the United States and Georgia, for an amicable settle-
ment of limits

Further powers to -

To decide on certain pre-emption rights

Common of Cahokia converted into town lots

Adjacent to New Orleans, the right of, confirmed in the corporation
Of St. Augustine confirmed to the city

Compensation of the surveyors general

Of deputy surveyors

Of superintendents of sales

Of commissioners of land titles

Of registers and receivers

77, 162, 184, 273

98, 121, 130, 141, 146
111, 130, 140, 156, 160, 304
- 121, 126, 156

152, 156, 180, 189, 198, 212, 328, 375, 564

59

70

81, 86, 87

325

195

421

54

110

54

Of deputy surveyors general

Of translators

Of recorder of land titles

156

155

- 156, 180, 190

Of commissioners, &c. of Yazoo lands

Of surveyor for Illinois and Missouri

Of deputy surveyors, chain-carriers, and axe-men

Of registers and receivers, acting as commissioners of claims

- 123, 219, 232
252, 262, 268

278
7

320, 422, 430, 504

Compensation of the secretary of board of land titles in Florida

Of surveyor of Florida

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Confirmation of title:

Of the French and Canadian inhabitants on the Kaskaskia, Illinois,
&c.

Of the French settlers at Post St. Vincent

Of the grants of certain commandants

In Missouri

In Illinois

In Mississippi

In Indiana

In Louisiana and Missouri

In district east of New Orleans

Of claims to lots in Mobile

In Michigan

In Louisiana

In Florida

In St. Helena and Jackson land districts

Page.

- 355, 362, 363

364

370

390

498

554

553

554

554

554

31

37

42

91

179, 271
221, 223

- 226, 227, 468
242, 243

316

349

358

360, 402, 407, 414, 538

Of the titles of purchasers from the trustees of the Vincennes uni-
versity

Of certain sales made in the western district of Louisiana

Of the sales by the widow, children, or administrator of certain Creek
Indians

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Of certain locations

Certificates of, to be furnished the Surveyor General

Connecticut, State of, cession to, of the territorial rights of the United States, for

the use of certain claimants

State of, required to renounce jurisdiction over certain lands
Cession by

- 408, 436, 466

412

274

222

565

258

398

67

68

595

22

357

13

385

389

437

463

289

Provision in favor of certain, who, by treaty, were entitled to reser-
vations

565

107

347

Contracts, private, in northwestern territory to be inviolate

Copies of papers in the Departments to be furnished the claimants of land
Copper mines, one-third of, on public lands, reserved for the United States
Court, district, of Missouri, authorized to try the validity of certain land claims
Appeal from the decision of

Superior, of Florida, authorized to try the validity of certain land
claims

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Of Arkansas, the powers of, extended in trying private claims

Creek Indians, location of a reservation for them

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Deaf and Dumb, grant to the Connecticut Asylum of

Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky may locate their grant in Florida or

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The time allowed for selling their land extended

Debt, public, evidences of, receivable in payment for public lands

Deceased persons, patents issued in favor of, to have legal effect
Deeds of rejected claims shall be returned to claimants

Detroit

Land district of

Town of, authorized to be laid out

Commissioners appointed to adjust titles to lots therein
Decisions of commissioners confirmed

Time for entering donations in, extended

311

420

540

56, 63, 137

540

467

104

144

145, 327

150, 206

291, 327

Lands granted to

415

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