# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/8th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 24

Chap. XXIV.—An Act further to amend an act, intituled “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.”
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 27. Act of March 27, 1804, ch. 61. Persons obtaining certificates from the board of commissioners in the Mississippi territory, allowed a further time for entering them. Commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to land in the Mississippi territory, east of Pearl river, authorized to grant certificates for land in the island of Nannee Hubba; and persons having claims permitted to file them before the 1st May, 1805.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That persons who may have obtained, or shall obtain certificates from the board of commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to lands in the Mississippi territory, shall be allowed three months after the respective date of such certificates, for entering the same with the register of the proper land-office; and certificates, thus entered, shall have the same force and effect, as if they had been duly entered with the said register, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and five.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to lands, in the above-mentioned territory, east of Pearl river, shall be authorized to grant certificates for lands lying in the island known by the name of Nannee Hubba, formed by the cut off of the river Tombigbee and Alabamaha; and persons having claims for lands lying either in said island, or east of the Tombigbee and Alabamaha rivers, shall be permitted to file the same with the register of the land-office, till the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and five; and the commissioners shall decide on the same, in the same manner as if they had been presented before the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four.
Per diem allowances to the commissioners for their attendance after 1st April. Whole additional allowance limited. Compensations of the clerks of the boards of commissioners in the Mississippi territory.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That each of the last mentioned commissioners, shall be allowed at the rate of six dollars a day, for every day he shall attend, subsequent to the first day of April, one thousand ​eight hundred and five: Provided, that such additional allowance shall not exceed five hundred dollars for each commissioner.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of each of the boards of commissioners appointed to ascertain the claims to lands in the above-mentioned territory, shall be allowed at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dollars a year, from the time when he entered on the duties of his office, to the time when the board shall adjourn sine die.
Claimants under British grants legally and fully completed, allowed a further time for filing their claims. Register to make report to Secretary of the Treasury of the grants thus recorded. The lands included in the grants not to be disposed of for one year. Grants not filed, &c. according to this act to be no bar to other Spanish and American grants.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That persons claiming lands in the Mississippi territory, by virtue of British grants, legally and fully completed, who may not have filed their claims with the proper register of the land-office, in conformity with the provisions heretofore made for that purpose, may, until the first day of December one thousand eight hundred and five, file such claims with the register of the land-office west of Pearl river, and have the same recorded. And the said register shall, on or before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and six, make to the Secretary of the Treasury, a full report of all the British grants thus recorded; which report shall immediately be laid before Congress. The lands contained in such grants shall not be otherwise disposed of until the end of one year, after that time. And if any such person shall neglect to file such British grant, and to have the same recorded, in the manner and time hereby provided, neither such grant nor any other evidence of such claim, which shall not have been recorded as above directed, shall ever after be considered or admitted as evidence in any court of the United States, against any grant derived from the United States, or against any title legally and fully executed, derived from the Spanish government;—any act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 2, 1805.