# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 33

Chap. XXXIII.—An Act to ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia, northwest of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment, and to limit the period for locating the said lands.
Boundary line now under the direction of the surveyor-general established.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the line run under the direction of the surveyor-general of the United States, from the source of the Little Miami, towards the source of the Scioto, and which binds on the east, the surveys of the lands of the United States, shall, together with its course continued to the Scioto river, be considered and held as the westerly boundary line, north of the source of the Little Miami, of the territory reserved by the state of Virginia, between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers, forProviso, that within two years the state of Virginia recognize the line. the use of the officers and soldiers of the continental line of that state: Provided, that the state of Virginia shall, within two years after the passing of this act, recognize such line as the boundary of the said territory.
Officers and soldiers to complete their locations in three years within the reserved territory. Officers and soldiers whose bounty land shall have been located on that part of the territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished, to make returns, &c. to the Secretary of War in five years. Papers returned to be evidence entitling the claimants to patents. 1803, ch. 21. Act of April 11, 1818, chap. 43. Act of February 24, 1819, chap. 40. Unlocated portion of the reserved territory in five years to be released from claims and disposed of, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the officers and soldiers, or their legal representatives who are entitled to bounty lands within the above-mentioned reserved territory, shall complete their locations within three years after the passing of this act, and every such officer and soldier, or his legal representative, whose bounty land has or shall have been located within that part of the said territory, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, shall make return of his or their surveys to the secretary of the department of war, within five years after the passing of this act, and shall also exhibit and file with the said secretary, and within the same time, the original warrant or warrants under which he claims, or a certified copy thereof, under the seal of the office where the ​said warrants are legally kept; which warrant, or certified copy thereof, shall be sufficient evidence that the grantee therein named, or the person under whom such grantee claims, was originally entitled to such bounty land: and every person entitled to said lands and thus applying, shall thereupon be entitled to receive a patent in the manner prescribed by law.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That such part of the above mentioned reserved territory as shall not have been located, and those tracts of land, within that part of the said territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished, the surveys whereof shall not have been returned to the Secretary of War, within the time and times prescribed by this act, shall thenceforth be released from any claim or claims for such bounty lands, and shall be disposed of in conformity with the provisions of the act, intituled “An act in addition to, and modification of, the propositions contained in the act, intituled An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory, northwest of the river Ohio, to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes.”
Approved, March 23, 1804.