# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 28

Chap. XXVIII.—An Act to confirm certain claims to lands in the territory of Michigan.
Claims purporting to be confirmed, &c., or recommended for confirmation, under the act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85, confirmed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claims purporting to be confirmed, or recommended for confirmation, by the commissioners appointed to carry into effect the “Act to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to lands in, and for settling the claims to lands at, Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, in the territory of Michigan,” passed on the eleventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, which are contained in volumes two, four, and five, be, and the same are, confirmed.
Claims purporting to be confirmed, or recommended for confirmation, under the act of Feb. 21, 1823, ch. 10, confirmed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the claims purporting to be confirmed, or recommended for confirmation, by the commissioners appointed to carry into effect “An act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the territory of Michigan,” passed the twenty-first of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, which are contained in volumes one, three, six, eight, and nine, of said reports, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed. ​Secretary of the Treasury authorized, &c. to give full effect to the reports of the commissioners enumerated in the 1st and 2d sections of this act. Proviso.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction of the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby, authorized and required, as soon as may be, to adopt such measures as may be necessary, to give full effect to the reports of the commissioners which are enumerated in the first and second sections of this act: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to prejudice the rights of third persons, or to impose any obligation, on the part of the United States, to make payment, or give other lands, to any claimant who may be deprived of his possessions by operation of law; nor shall the confirmations made by this act be so construed as to extend further than to a relinquishment, by the United States, of all interest in, and to, said lands, nor to any lands occupied by the United States for military purposes.
Register of the land office at Detroit, to issue certificates to claimants.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the register of the land office at Detroit, to issue patent certificates, in the forms usual in similar cases, to claimants whose claims are confirmed by this act, upon which certificates, if legally and property obtained, patents shall be granted by the commissioner of the general land office.
Secretary of the Treasury to pay John J. Deming 30 dollars.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to John J. Deming, of Detroit, the sum of thirty dollars, which shall be in full for his services in preparing and publishing maps for the use of the commissioners aforesaid.
Same compensation per mile, as is allowed by the 10th section of the act of Feb. 8, 1827, ch. 9, to be paid for surveying the donation rights or back concessions in said territory.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That, for surveying the donation rights or back concessions in said territory, heretofore made under the above-mentioned acts of Congress, and not paid for, and also for such surveys as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, there shall be paid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same compensation per mile as is allowed by the tenth section of the act of the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, entitled “An act to provide for the confirmation and settlement of private land claims in East Florida, and for other purposes,” any thing in any act to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, April 17, 1828.