The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-10-02
(BY AUTHORITY
LAWS'OF THE III. STATEs

AN ACT Making further provision for settling the
claims to iant in the Territory of Missouri.
BE ut enacted by tie Senate and House of Ret
gesentativss Of the Uaitsd STATES of .9,ner;c1 3,
Congress aSscinbked, That the rights, titles, and
claims, to town village lots, out lots field
lots and commons, in, adjoining and belonging to the
severa' towns Or villages of Portage DIES Sioux, St.
Charles, ST. Louis, st. ferdinand Village a Robert.
Carondelet, ST. Geneveve, New Madrid. New
Ilourbon Little Prairie and Arkensas in the terrific.
~ OF Missouri, which lots have been inhabited oul
tivsted or possessed prior the twentieth day of
December, one Thousand eight hundred and three
shall he, and the came are hereby confirmed to the
Inhabitants of the respective towns villages afore-
said acoordiBg to their several right or rights in
cop,inon thereto: Provided, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed to affect the rights az
any persons claiming the same lands, or any part
thereof, whose claims have been confirmed by the
board OF commissioners for adjusting and settling
claims to land in the said territory. And it shall be
the duty " the principal deputy surveyor for the
sad territory, ms soon may be, survey or cause
to be surveyed and marked, (where the same has
not already been done according to law) the out
boundary lines Of the said several towns or yilIaoea
so as to include the out lots, common field lots, and
commons, thereto respectively belonging. And he
shall make out pats of the surveys, which he shall
transmit to the surveyor general who shall forward
copies of the said plats to the commissioner of the
general land office, and to the recorder of land H.
tlos; the expenee OF surveying the said out bounda.
rylines shall be paid by the United States out of n
ny monies appropriated for surveying the pubIe
lands ProOided, That the whole expence shall not
exceed three dollars for every mile that shall be ac-
tuay surveyed aHd marked
See. O. lind be it further enacted, That ali
town or village lots. out lots common field lots
included IN such surveys, which are not rightGnls
owned or claimed by any private individuals, or held
as commons belonging to such towns or villages, or
thst the President OF the United States may not
think prope' t. reserve tor military purposes shall
be, and ths same hereby reserved for the sep.
port OF schools IN the respective towns or villages
Aforesaid R,Ovided, That the whole qoantty ol
land continued In the lots reserved for the support
ofsehools in any one town village, shall not ex-
seed one-tweneth part Of the whole lands included
an the general survey of such town or village
\ Sec, 8. .9Rdbs it flrfhey enacted, That every
lsre TO donation OF lands in the said territorv in
tue Of settlement aud cultivation, which is enbra.
by tie report Of the commissioner transmitted
Secretsry OF the Treasury, and which By the
wort shaiI spPear not 70 have been confirmed
because permission by the proper Spanish
settle has not been duly proven or be
rset claimed, although Inhabited, was not
the twentieth OF December, one thou.
pdred and three, or not TO have beer
kecqunt u both said causes the SANS
u, m case it shall appear dat Che
gas Inhabited by the claimant OF
pfior % the twentieth day o