# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 47

Chap. XLVII.—An Act confirming claims to land in the district of Vincennes; and for other purposes.
Decisions of commissioners, transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, confirmed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the decisions made by the commissioners appointed for the purpose of examining the claims of persons claiming lands in the district of Vincennes, in favour of such claimants as entered in the transcripts of decisions which have been ​transmitted by the said commissioners to the Secretary of the Treasury, according to law, be and the same are hereby confirmed.
Confirmations of the governor of the N. West and Indiana territories, confirmed by Congress—conditionally. 1791, ch. 27.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the confirmations or grants of land, made in the said district of Vincennes, by the governors of the Northwest and Indiana territories, prior to the establishment of the board of commissioners aforesaid, and in conformity with the act, intituled “An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois country, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their possessions,” be, and the same are hereby confirmed; unless when actually rejected by the said commissioners; although the persons entitled to the land may not have given notice of their claim, as required by the several acts making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory:Proviso. Provided however, that no other claims shall be confirmed by virtue of this section, than such as, having been entered on the territorial records, have, by the commissioners aforesaid, been inserted in their reports transmitted as aforesaid.
Assurance of certain titles in the tract called “Continuation.”Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several persons, or the legal representatives of the several persons, to whom or to whose assigns the several tracts of the tract of land near Vincennes, known by the name of the “Upper Prairie,” have been heretofore confirmed, be and they are hereby respectively confirmed in their claims to the respective tracts also claimed by them, and in their actual possession, lying in that tract of land containing two hundred and forty-four acres, which is known by the name of “Continuation,” and is situated between the boundaries of the tracts already confirmed, and the river Wabash.
Claims confirmed under this act to be entered with the register of the land-office of Vincennes.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several persons whose claims are confirmed by this act, and had not been actually located prior to the establishment of the board of commissioners, be, and they are hereby authorized to enter their locations with the register of the land-office of Vincennes, on any part of the tracts set aside for that purpose, by virtue of the act, intituled “An act respecting the claims to lands in the Indiana territory, and state of Ohio,” and in conformity with the provisions of that act:Proviso. Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 40. Provided, that such location shall be made prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight; and the right of any person who shall neglect to locate prior to that day, shall become void, and forever be barred.
Persons whose claims are confirmed under this act, entitled to patents, &c. if they shall not previously have received them.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That every person, or the legal representative of every person whose claim to a tract of land is confirmed by this act, and who had not previously obtained a patent for the same, from the governor either of the territory northwest of the Ohio, or of the Indiana territory, shall whenever his claim shall have been located and surveyed, be entitled to receive from the register of the land-office, at Vincennes, a certificate stating, that the claimant is entitled to receive a patent for such tract of land by virtue of this act; for which certificate the register shall receive one dollar; and which certificate shall entitle the party to a patent for the said tract, which shall issue in like manner as is provided by law for the other lands of the United States.
Register and receiver of Kaskaskias allowed a further time.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the register and receiver of public monies in the district of Kaskaskias, be allowed till the first day of December next, to complete the investigation of claims to land in the said district. And each of the said officers, and the clerk of the board, shall be allowed an additional compensation of five hundred dollars, in full for his service in relation to such claims.
Additional compensation to them. Public sales in Vincennes, how long to be kept open.Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the public sales of the public lands in the district of Vincennes, may be continued six weeks, if the term of three weeks now prescribed by law, shall not be found sufficient to offer all the lands within the said district for sale.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That persons entitled to a right ​1804, ch. 35. Pre-emption rights in Mississippi—time for satisfying them.of pre-emption to lands in the Mississippi territory, shall be allowed till the first day of January next, to make the payment of the purchase money of such lands.
Approved, March 3, 1807.