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Vol. ii. p.1291. CHAP. 86. An act for the relief of certain settlers in the state of Illinois, who reside within

Persons who would have been entitled

emption, under

construed, &c.

to a certificate

the Vincennes land district.

1. Be it enacted, &c. That every person, who would have been entitled to the right of pre-emption, according to the proto right of pre- visions of the act, entitled "An act giving the right of pre-empact of 5th Feb. tion in the purchase of lands to certain settlers in the Illinois 1813, had said territory," passed February the fifth, one thousand eight hunact been so dred and thirteen, provided said act had been so construed as to to be entitled embrace those who were living within the limits of the Vincenfor the excess nes land district, and who became the purchaser, at public paid above 2 sale, of the said land, to which the right of pre-emption would dolls. per acre, 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 Certificate re- at Vincennes; which certificate shall be receivable in payment payment, &c. of any debt due to the United States on account of the sale of Proviso; per- public land: Provided, however, That it shall be the duty of evthey are enti- ery 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.

&c.

ceivable in

sons to prove

tled.

Persons who would have

ers, allowed

&c.

cate, &c.

§ 2. That every person who would have been entitled to the been entitled, right of pre-emption in the said Vincennes district, according to &c. who were the provisions of the said recited act, passed the fifth day of not purchas- February, eighteen hundred and thirteen, had it been so construtill 1st Sept. ed as to embrace them, and who did not become the purchaser 1820, to prove, 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 Register, on Vincennes, that they would have been so entitled; and it shall satisfaction, to grant a certifi- 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. Every person, And every such person, or his legal representatives, shall, upon cate, allowed 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 surveyed previous to the first day of September next, whether the same shall have been offered at public sale or not. [Approved, May 11, 1820.]

upon certifi

to enter a

quarter sec

tion, at minimum price,

&c.

Vol. iii. p. 1748.

Claims for lands in the eastern dis

trict of Louis

iana, described in the re

port of 20th

Nov. 1816, confirmed.

CHAP. 87. An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana.

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the claims for lands within the eastern district of the state of Louisiana, described by the register and receiver of the said district, in their report to the commissioner of the general land office, bearing date the twentieth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and recommended in the said report for confirmation, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed against any claim on the part of the United States.

founded upon

may deliver

notices and

2. That any person or persons, claiming lands within that Persons part of Louisiana lying west of the river Mississippi, including west of the claiming lands the island of New Orleans, founded upon any Spanish grant, con- Mississippi, cession, or order of survey, and whose claims have not hereto- Spanish fore been filed in the proper office, may, from and after the first grants, &c. day of July next, and until the thirty-first day of December thereafter, deliver notices, in writing, and the written evidences, of evidences of claims, &c. their claims, to the register of the land district within which such lands may be situate, within the said state; and the said notices Notices, &c. and evidences, so delivered, within the time limited by this act, to be recorded. shall, by the said registers, be recorded, in books to be kept for that purpose; for which service a compensation shall be receiv- 25 cents for ed, from such claimants, at the rate of twenty-five cents for words recordevery hundred words. And the rights of such persons as shall ed. neglect so doing, within the time limited by this act, shall, so lecting forfeit far as they are derived from, or founded on, any act of congress, their rights, ever after be barred and become void, and the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in any court of the United States, against any grant derived from the United States.

every 100

Persons neg

&c.

report to the

3. That the said registers shall, on the first day of January Registers to next, make, to the secretary of the treasury, a report of all the secretary of claims filed in their respective offices, in pursuance of the provi- the treasury sions of this act, together with the substance of the evidence in 1821. support thereof, with their opinion of the credit to which such evidence is entitled.

on the 1st Jan.

claiming lands

allowed to de

dence, &c.

4. That every person or persons, claiming lands within that Persons part of Louisiana described in the preceding section, founded under Spanish upon any Spanish grant, concession, or order of survey, who had grants, &c. filed their notices of claims in the proper office, according to liver additionformer laws, and whose claims have not been confirmed, may, at al written eviany time before the thirty-first day of December next, deliver additional written evidence, or other testimony, in support of their claims, the notice of which had been filed as aforesaid, to the said registers; and the evidence, so delivered, or offered, Evidence to shall be recorded in books to be kept for that purpose; for which service a compensation shall be received, from such claimants, 25 cents for at the rate of twenty-five cents for every hundred words. And every 100 the rights of such persons as shall neglect so doing, within the ed. time limited by this act, shall, so far as they are derived from, Rights of peror founded on, any act of congress, ever after be barred, and ing, barred, become void, and the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in any court of the United States, against any grant derived from the United States.

words record

&c.

the 1st Jan.

which addi

5. That the said registers shall, on the first day of January Registers, on next, make, to the secretary of the treasury, a report of the 1821, to report claims in which additional evidence shall have been filed in their claims in respective offices, together with the substance of the evidence tional eviso filed, with their opinion of the credit to which such evidence dence has is entitled, and such other information as the examination of with their opisuch cases, under any former law, may have placed in their pow- nion, &c. er or possession.

been filed, &c.

Secretary of 6. That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury, the treasury as soon as the reports of the said registers shall be received, to to examine,

and report.

proceed to the examination of the claims aforesaid, and to report to the two houses of congress a list of the cases, which, in his Proviso; no opinion, ought to be confirmed, together with the reason's upon claim to be re- which his opinion may be founded: Provided, nevertheless, That for more than no claim shall be so recommended for confirmation which cona league tains more than the quantity contained in a league square. square.

commended

The 5th sect.

7. That the fifth section of the act of the third day of March, of the act of 34 eighteen hundred and eleven, entitled "An act providing for the revived, &c. final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public. Vol. ii. p. 1197. lands, in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, and to repeal

March, 1811,

600 dolls. additional to the registers in full, &c.

Vol. iii. p. 2027.

The time al

der acts of 9th

5th March,

1816, extended three years. Vol. ii. p. 1451.

limited to Ist

and interest

ble and rever

the act passed for the same purpose, and approved February sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eleven," be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued, for the term of two years from and after the passing of this act.

8. That the said registers, in addition to the compensation herein prescribed, shall receive, in full for the services required of them, respectively, by this act, the sum of six hundred dollars, which shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. [Approved, May 11, 1820.]

CHAP. 88. An act extending the time allowed for the redemption of land sold for direct taxes, in certain cases.

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the time allowed for the redemplowed for re- tion of lands which have been, or may be, sold for the payment demption un- of taxes, under the act passed the ninth day of January, one Jan. 1815, and thousand eight hundred and fifteen, so far as the same regards the direct tax of six millions of dollars, laid in that year, or under the act passed the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, so far as the same regards the direct tax of Vol. iii. p. three millions of dollars, laid in that year, and purchased on be1536. 1687. half of the United States, be extended three years beyond the Proviso; ex- time heretofore allowed: Provided, That such extension of time tension of time shall not be beyond the first of June, one thousand eight hunJune, 1821; dred and twenty-one, and that on such redemption interest be to be paid, &c. paid at the rate of twenty per centum per annum, on the taxes Right to re- aforesaid, and additions of twenty per centum chargeable theredeem equita- on; and the right to redeem shall enure, as well to persons holdsionary inter- ing an equitable or reversionary interest in lands so purchased on behalf of the United States, as to the original owners thereof. § 2. That where any person or persons, who has or have purchased lands or tenements sold for the nonpayment of the direct been removed, tax, shall be entitled to have a deed for the same, but, from the on petition to death or removal of the collector, or from any other cause, there is no officer who, by the existing laws, is authorized to make a required to di- deed, it shall be lawful for such person or persons to apply, by shal to make a petition, to the district judge of the district in which such lands deed, &c. or tenements are situate, setting forth the circumstances of the case, and, upon due proof being made, to the satisfaction of such judge, that such person or persons, is or are a purchaser or purchasers as aforesaid, and has or have fully complied with all the conditions of sale, and is or are entitled to have a deed, and that there is no officer who, by the existing laws, is authorized to make such deed, it shall be lawful for such judge, and he is

est.

Where the collector is dead or has

the district judge, he is

rect the mar

hereby authorized and required, to order and direct the marshal of the district to make a deed to the purchaser or purchasers, which deed, being acknowledged in open court and entered of record, shall have the same effect as if it had been made by the - collector or other officer authorized by the laws heretofore or now in force. [Approved, May 11, 1920.]

CHAP. 89. An act authorizing the sale of thirteen sections of land lying within the land district of Canton, in the state of Ohio.

13 sections of land in the dis

trict of Canon, reserved March, 1807,

by act of 3d

offered for sale

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the thirteen sections of land, lying within the land district of Canton, in the state of Ohio, which were reserved for the use of certain persons of the Delaware tribe of Indians, by an act of congress, passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, and were sub- and subsequently ceded, sequently ceded to the United States by the eighteenth article & to be of the treaty concluded on the twenty-ninth day of September, at Wooster, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, shall be offered at &c. public sale, by the register and receiver of the public moneys at the land office at Wooster, on such day or days as the president shall designate for that purpose, in the same manner, and on the same conditions and terms, as are provided by law for the sale of the public lands of the United States. [Approved, May 11, 1820.]

СНАР. 92. An act to amend the act, entitled "An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes,"

Vol. iii. p. 1685.

of state to

&c. except

in not exceed

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of state shall, as The secretary soon as conveniently may be, after he shall receive any order, cause orders, resolution, or law, passed by congress, except such orders, reso- those of a pri lutions, and laws, as are of a private nature, cause the same to vate nature, to be published in a number of public newspapers, not exceeding be published one in the District of Columbia, and in not more than three ing one newsnewspapers in each of the several states and territories of the paper, &c. United States. And he shall also cause to be published, in like And public manner, in the said newspapers, all public treaties entered into and ratified by the United Stntes, except Indian treaties, which Indian treaties shall be published only in one newspaper, and that to be within &c. to which the limits of the state or territory to which the subject matter of they relate. such treaty shall belong.

treaties.

only in states,

1st section of

$2. That the first section of the act, entitled "An act to pro- the act of 20th vide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for April, 1818, other purposes," approved the twentieth of April, one thousand repealed. eight hundred and eighteen, be, and the same is hereby, repeal- Proviso; reed: Provided, That such repeal shall not be construed to prevent peal not to the payment of any compensation that may be due for the publi- prevent paycation of the laws previous to the promulgation of this act. [Ap- pensation due. proved, May 11, 1820.]

CHAP. 94. An act to annex certain lands within the territory of Michigan to the district of

Detroit.

ment of com

Indian title

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all the public lands of the United Public lands, States within the territory of Michigan, to which the Indian title to which the was extinguished by the treaty held and concluded at Saguina, in the said territory, on the twenty-fourth day of September, in guished, at

was extin

district of

tached to the the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, shall be, and hereby are, attached to, and made part of, the district of Detroit, in the said territory.

Detroit.

reserved or

sale, &c.

The lands not 2. That the lands aforesaid, to which the Indian title has appropriated, been extinguished, and which have not been reserved or approto be surveyed and offered for priated 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. [Approved, May 11, 1820.]

Vol. iii. p. 1809.

CHAP. 97. An act to establish an uniform mode of discipline and field exercise for the militia of the United States.

The system of § 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the system of discipline and field discipline and field exercise exercise, which is and shall be ordered to be observed by the reobserved by gular army of the United States, in the different corps of infanarmy to be ob- try, artillery, and riflemen, shall also be observed by the militia, served by the in the exercises and discipline of the said corps, respectively, throughout the United States.

the regular

militia.

1792, as estab

So much of the $ 2. That so much of the act of congress, approved the eighth act of 8th May, of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, as approves lishes the ba- and establishes the rules and discipline of the baron de Steuben, ron de Steu- and requires them to be observed by the militia throughout the discipline, re- United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. [Approved, pealed. Vol. i. p. 252. May 12, 1820.]

ben's rules and

Post roads discontinued.

Post roads es-
tablished.
In New

CHAP. 99. An act to alter and establish certain post roads.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the following post roads be, and the same are hereby, discontinued; that is to say: From Lilly Point to Halcyonville, in Virginia. From Dublin to Jacksonville, in Georgia. From Westport to Brunerstown, in Kentucky. From Whitfield to Jefferson, in Maine. From Chickasaw Agency to St. Stephens, in Mississippi. From Choctaw Agency to Monticello; and from Natchez to Lake Pontchartrain, in the same state. From Rhea Courthouse, Tennessee, to Fort Jackson, in Alabama. From Haysville to Oxford, North Carolina. From Walterborough to Barnwell Courthouse, in South CaroliFrom St. Charles, by Montgomery Courthouse, to Howard Courthouse. From Franklin, Howard county, to Chariton. From St. Charles, by Murphey's, in St. John's settlement, to Howard Courthouse, in the Missouri Territory. From Vassalborough to Harlem, in Maine. From Alna to Palermo. From Dunstable to Piscataguog Bridge, in New Hampshire. From Cahaba to St. Stephens.

na.

2. That the following be established post roads; that is to say: In New Hampshire. From Amherst, by Lyndborough and Hampshire. Greenfield, to Hancock, That the post road from Keene to Richmond pass by Winchester. From Keene, by Surry, Drewsville, and Langdon, to Charlestown. From Dunstable, through Merrimack, by Bedford Meeting House, and Piscataguog Bridge, to Isle Hookset. In Vermont. From Danville to Montpelier,

In Vermont.

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