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(ACT of May 11th, 1820.)

be given him by the secretary of the treasury; and the said commissioners and agent shall each receive five hundred dollars, as full compensation for the services to be performed under this act, together with the recording fees to the agent, and allowance to the register, for a certificate of confirmation for donation rights, provided for by former laws.

ACT of May 11, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 77.

An act for the relief of certain settlers in the state of Illinois, who reside within the Vincennes land district.

95. SEC. i. Every person who would have been entitled to the right of pre-emption, according to the provisions of the act, entitled "An act giving the right of pre-emption in the purchase of lands to certain settlers in the Illinois territory," passed February fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, provided said act had been so construed as to embrace those who were living withe in the limits of the Vincennes land district, and who became the purchaser, at public sale, of the said land, to which the right of pre-emption would have so attached, at more than two dollars per acre, shall be entitled to a certificate for the amount so paid, or to be paid, exceeding two dollars per acre, from the register of the land office at Vincennes; which certificate shall be receivable in payment of any debt due to the United States, on account of the sale of public land: Provided, however, That it shall be the duty of every person claiming the benefit of this act to prove, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land office at Vincennes, that they are entitled thereto, according to its true intent and meaning.

SEC. 11. Every person who would have been entitled to the right of pre-emption, in the said Vincennes district, according to the provisions of the said recited act, passed the fifth day of Feb. ruary, eighteen hundred and thirteen, had it been so construed as to embrace them, and who did not become the purchaser of any tract of land, to which such right of pre-emption would have attached, shall be allowed till the first day of September next, to prove, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver at Vincennes, that they would have been so entitled; and it shall be the duty of the register, when the satisfaction aforesaid shall be made, to grant a certificate to every such person, or their legal representatives, stating therein that such person would have been entitled to such right of pre-emption, and that he did not become the purchaser thereof, neither at public nor private sale. And every such person, or his legal representatives, shall, upon producing such certificate to the register of any land office, in the state of Illinois, be allowed to enter one quarter section of land each, at the minimum price fixed by the United States, of any land which may be

(ACT of May 15th, 1820.)

surveyed previous to the first day of September next, whether the same shall have been offered at public sale or not.

ACT of May 11, 1820.

Pamphlet edit. 84.

An act to annex certain lands within the territory of Michigan to the district of Detroit.

96. SEC. I. All the public lands of the United States within the territory of Michigan to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaty held and concluded at Saguina in the said territory, on the twenty-fourth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, shall be and are hereby attached to and under part of the district of Detroit.

SEC. II. The lands aforesaid to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and which have not been reserved or appropriated by existing laws or treaties, shall be surveyed and offered for sale under the direction of the president of the United States, in the same manner, with the same reservations and exceptions, and upon the same terms and conditions in every respect, both at public and private sale as are or may be provided by law for the disposal of the other public lands within the said district.

ACT of May 15, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 135,

An act to authorize the governor of Illinois to obtain certain abstracts of lands from certain public offices.

99. SEC I. It shall be the duty of the register of the United States land office at Vincennes, in the state of Indiana, to furnish to the governor of the state of Illinois, when he shall apply for the same, a complete abstract of all the lands which have been purchased at that office, or which may hereafter be purchased, which lie within the state of Illinois, designating the name of each purchaser, and the time of making the purchase; for which he shall be entitled to receive, from such applicant, at the rate of ten cents for each separate entry, a copy whereof is required: Provided, however, That all the expense incurred by virtue of this act shall be defrayed by said state.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury, upon the application of the governor of said state, to cause a complete abstract to be made out for the use of said state, of all the military bounty lands which have been patented to the soldiers of the late army, lying within the same, designating the name of each patentee.

ACT of May 15, 1820. Pamphlet edit. 132.

An act for the relief of persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for lands in the state of Illinois.

SEC. 1. All persons lawfully holding confirmed unlocated claims

(ACT of March 3d, 1803.)

for land within the tract reserved by the third sections of the act, entitled "An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois territory, and providing for their location," passed the sixteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen be allowed until the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to register the same; and the said claims shall be receivable in payment for public lands within the said reserved tract, conformably with the provisions of the said act, and of the act entitled "An act making further provision for settling claims to land in the territory of Illinois," passed the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, at any time before the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. (Supra, 57.)

See titles INDIANA, 7, ante, page 347. ILLINOIS 5 and 8, ante, page 344. OHIO, &c.

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ACT of March 3, 1803. 3 Bioren, 546.

An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the state of Tennessee.

1. SEC. 1. Any person or persons, and the legal representatives of any person or persons, who were resident in the Mississippi territory on the twenty-seventh day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and who had, prior to that day, obtained, either from the British government of West Florida, or from the Spanish government, any warrant or order of survey for lands lying within the said territory, to which the Indian title had been extinguished, and which were on that day actually inhabited and cultivated by such person or persons, or for his or their use, shall be confirmed in their claims to such lands in the same manner as if their titles had been completed: Provided, however, That no such incomplete title shall be con

(ACT of March 3d, 1803.)

firmed, unless the person in whose name such warrant or order of survey had been granted, was, at the time of its date, either the head of a family, or above the age of twenty-one years.

SEC. 11. To every person, or to the legal representative or representatives of every person, who, being either the head of a family, or of twenty-one years of age, did, on that day of the year, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, when the Mississippi territory was finally evacuated by the Spanish troops, actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land in the said territory, not claimed by virtue either of the preceding section, or of any British grant, or of the articles of agreement and cession between the United States and the state of Georgia, the said tract of land, thus inhabited and cultivated, shall be granted: Provided, however, That not more than one tract shall be thus granted to any one person, and the same shall not contain more than six hundred and forty acres: And provided, also, That this donation shall not be made to any person who claims any other tract of land in the said territory by virtue of any British or Spanish grant, or order of survey.

SEC. 111. Every person, and the legal representatives of every person, who, being the head of a family, or above the age of twen ty-one years, doth, at the time of passing this act, inhabit and cultivate a tract of land in the said territory, not claimed by virtue of the preceding sections of this act, or of any British grant, or of the articles of agreement and cession abovementioned, shall be entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser, from the United States, of such tract of land, at the price at which the other lands of the United States in the said territory are by this act directed to be sold; and payment may be made therefor in the same manner, and under the same conditions, as directed by this act for such other lands: Provided, however, That no interest shall be charged upon any of the instalments until they respectively become payable.

2. SEC. IV. For the disposal of the lands of the United States within the Mississippi territory, two land offices shall be established in the same, one at such place in the county of Adams, as shall be designated by the president of the United States, for the lands lying west of "Pearl River," sometimes called “ Half Way River;" and one at such place in the county of Washington, as shall be designated by the president of the United States, for the lands lying east of Pearl River: and, for each of the said offices, a register and receiver of public moneys shall be appointed, who shall give security in the same manner, and whose 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 by law provided in relation to the registers and the receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States, north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river.

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(ACT of March 3d, 1803.)

3. SEC. v. Every person claiming lands by virtue of any British grant, or of the three first sections of this act, or of the articles of agreement and cession between the United States and the state of Georgia, shall, before the last day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four, deliver to the register of the land office, within whose district the land may be, a notice in writing, stating the nature and extent of his claims, together with a plot of the tract or tracts claimed; and shall, also, on or before that day, deliver to the said register, for the purpose of being recorded, every grant, order of survey, deed, conveyance, or other written evidence of his claim; and the same shall be recorded by the said register, in books to be kept for that purpose, on receiving from the parties at the rate of twelve and a half cents for every hundred words contained in such written evidence of their claim; and if such person shall neglect to deliver such notice in writing, of his claim, together with a plot as aforesaid, or cause to be recorded such written evidence of the same, all his right, so far as the same is derived from the abovementioned articles of agreement, or from the three first sections of this act, shall become void, and forever thereafter be barred; nor shall any grant, order of survey, deed, conveyance, or other written evidence, which shall not be recorded as above directed, ever after be considered or admitted as evidence in any court in the United States, against any grant derived from the United States. [See Infra, 16.] SEC. VI. [The registers, with other persons to be appointed, constituted commissioners to ascertain the rights of persons claiming the benefit of the articles of agreement and cession, between the United States, and the state of Georgia, or of the three first sections of this act, whose decision, if favourable to the claimant shall entitle him to a patent, provided the certificate, &c. were filed, &c. on or before January 1, 1805. And a receipt produced for at least one fourth part of the purchase money. Infra, 12.] SEC. VII. [The commissioners to report to the secretary of the treasury, on or before December 1, 1804.]

SEC. VIII. So much of the five millions of acres reserved for that purpose by the articles of agreement above mentioned, as may be necessary to satisfy the claims not confirmed by that agreement, which are embraced by the two first sections of this act, or which may be derived from British grants for lands which have not been regranted by the Spanish government, is hereby appropriated for that purpose; and so much of the residue of the said five millions of acres, or of the net proceeds thereof, as may be necessary for that purpose, shall be, and is hereby appropriated for the purpose of satisfying, quieting, and compensating, for such other claims to the lands of the United States south of the state of Tennessee, not recognised in the above mentioned articles of agreement, and which are derived from any act or pretended act of the state of Georgia, which congress may hereafter think

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