# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 16

Chap. XVI.—An Act to quiet the titles to certain lots of land in the towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, in the State of Ohio.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Lots of which the titles are confirmed. That all titles to town lots and out lots in the towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, in the State of Ohio, derived from said State under color of the grant made to said State by virtue of the act of Congress entitled “An act for laying out and making a road from the lower rapids of the Miami of Lake Erie to the western boundary of the Connecticut western reserve, in the State of Ohio, agreeably to the provisions of the treaty of Brownstown,” approved the twenty-eighth of February,1823, ch. 16. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, be, and the same are hereby, recognised as valid and confirmed, in the same manner as though the title to said lots had been vested in the State under the aforesaid act:List of lots to be furnished to General Land Office. Confirmations only a relinquishment of the right of the United States. Lands not comprehended in this act. Provided, That the authorities of the said State shall, within one year from and after the passage of this act, furnish the Commissioner of the General Land Office with a certified list of all lots heretofore sold and disposed of under color of the above recited act: And provided, also, That all the confirmations intended by this act shall amount only to a relinquishment forever, on the part of the United States, of all their right and title whatever to the lots of land so confirmed: And provided, further, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to comprehend within the provisions thereof such town lots and out lots, or other tract or tracts of land, as may have been reserved, or directed to be reserved, within the limits of either of said towns of Perrysburg or Croghansville, for the support of schools within the same, in and by the third section of the act entitledAct of April 26, 1816, ch. 102. Act of April 27, 1816, ch. 132. “An act providing for the sale of the tract of land at the lower rapids of Sandusky river,” or in and by any provision contained in the act ​entitled “An act providing for the sale of the tract of land at the British fort of the Miami of the Lake, at the foot of the rapids, and for other purposes.” But all such town lots and out lots, or other tract or tracts of land, reserved, or directed to be reserved, as aforesaid, shall be holden subject to the uses and trusts in said acts, and in other acts relating to such reserves, designated or intended.Payments due the U. S. and Ohio not affected. But nothing contained in this act shall prevent the original purchasers of the lots or lands within the limits of the said towns of Perrysburg and Croghansville, and not relinquished to the United States, from paying to the State of Ohio or the General Government for the use of said road or the United States the money with the interest remaining due thereon, on all such lots and lands as may not have heretofore been disposed of by the authorities of the said State for the benefit of said road.
Approved, February 20, 1845.