Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-11-17
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WEDNESDAY, NoyEMBRR II.
CHARITY SERMON.

|. S. S. SMITH at the Presbyterian Church.
A collection will be RATED at the requef
Of the ST. Andrews Society, for the poor
of the town in general. The Society an
ticipate their annual iolicitation for cha
rity, having reafon TO think that their
Chaplain will be ablent ON the day when
that iolicitaticn would OF courle have been
made.
It is hoped that 'hoEe who nay attend
Divine Service this evening Will come
prepared TO add alms TO their praysrs that
their prayers may be heard, and their aims
be had in remembrance in the fight OF
God.
The following Notification which appear
ed in the MiGiilippi Herald Of the 10Th
o. September, is re-publiihed, as il may
concern the interetts of individuals III
this part of the United States.
To PERSONS CLAIMING LANDS WITH
IN THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY.
The agreement for an amicable fertile
ment of limits within the fare Of Georgia,
which was entered Into on the twenty
fourth of April lat, between the comrnilli
oners on the part Of the United States, and
tholc on the part of Georgia, duly autho
rized for that purpole and in which a
greement, Georgia has ceded to the Unir.
ed States all her title ara claim 70 the
|uriidi6ion and foil of the lands hsuated
within the Mihiaippi Territory, as ratif-
ed by the Legislature of that fate, on the
9th day Of July laa.
By the 1tcond article Of the aforefaid
agreement, it is declared That all per-
lons who, on the twenty ieveath day OF
October, one thoufand feyen hundred and
ninety-hve, were actual fettlers within the
territory thus coded, fhall be confirmed In
all the grants, legally and fully execnt-
ed prior 10 that day, by the former Bglllh
government Of WeG- Florida, OF by the
government of Spain, and in the claims
which may be derived from any actual fur
vey or fettlemenc, made under the act al
the fate of Georgia, entitled /" An a8 tor
laying out diGsitt OF land, fsuate On the
river Mi1illippi, and within the bounds
of this fate, into county to be called
Bourbon" pai1ed the feventh day Of Ic-
bruary, one thouland, leven hundred and
eighty-fve.
The undersigned has been direaed TO
furnilh the department Of fate, with the
bef information he can obtain, as to the
extent of the claims recognized in the
laid lecond article of agreement with Geor-
gia: And 20 enable him TO render his in
formation upon this iubjea as accurate
and foil as pol1ible, he is infrudted to in
vite the claimants falling under the article
aforelaid, TO meet prior TO the hrf day OF
November next, in the Office of the clerk
Of the county court, il which the land
claimed is iiiuated, the particular autho-
riry and extent Of their reipetiive claims,
and the chain Of title derived to the pre-
Gens claimant from the original title TAX
ing care to note particularly their dates,
The clerks will be directed TO give due
attendance at their REFLECTIVE Offices, until
the day above mentioned and it is hoped,
that the claimants, Whole inIerefS are 70
Immediately involved, will punttualIy at
tend to this invitation.
There are other claims for land, with
in this territory, which the underGgned
has alto been infrutted 20 enquire into and
report the fame to the department Of tate;
and among which are !:
1T. The claims IF any, derived under |
the French government, previous to the |
peace Of 1863.
I'd. Claims derived under the Britif1 /
and SPanilh governments previous to the |
18th day Of oct. 1895, but unaccompani-
ed by actual fettiement at that period.
Cd. Claims derived under the Spanill |
government fublequent to the Spanilh trea-
~ of one thoufand, feyen hundred and |