Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1814-04-27
JAMES MADISON.
AN ACT

AN ACT
For the final Adjustment of Land Titles in
the state of Louisiana and Territory of
Missouri.
BE At enacted BY the Senate and Rouse of Re-
presentafives ofthe United States of america in
Congress assembled, That every person or per.
sons or the legal Representatives OF any per-
son or persons claiming lands in the state of
Louisiana, or the Territory of Missouri, by
virtue of any incomplete French or Spanish
grant or concession or any warrant or order.
OF survey, which was granted prior to the
goth December. 1903, for lands lying within
tina. part of the state of Louisiana which
composed the late Territory of Orleans o.
which was granted for lands lying within the
Territory of Missouri, before the 10th day
Of March 1904. and where the claimant, or
the person under whom he claims were re
sident in the province of louisiana. at the
respective times aforesaid, or 1T the tine the
said concession, warrant, or order of survey
was granted. and whose claims have been
filed with the proper register orrecorder of
land titles according TO law, and are en-
bracel in the report of the commissioners
orregister, or recorder, for the district with
in which the lands claimed do lie, in every
case when it shall appear by the said report
OF the commissioners, register. or recorder;
that the concession, warrant or order of sur.
vey, urAer which the claim Is made Contains
special locatio1, CT had been actually Local
ted or surveyed within the late territory of
Orleans, before the Goth day of Dec. 1908,
or actually located or surveyed within the
territ1ry or Missouri, before the 10Th da,
OF March. 1904. by a surveyor duly autho.
rised by the gopernncnt making su h grant
snch persons shall be and they are HEREBY
confirmed in their claims Provided, That
no claim shall be confirmed by this section
which shall have been adjudged by either of
the boards of commissioners, or a register or
receiver of public monies, or recorder
acting as such to be ante>dated or other
wi'e fraudulent (; nor any ore to claim
greater quantity of land than the
numeer acres of contained in one league
square, nor the claim of any person i'm his
own right, who has received in his own
right donation grant from the United
states, in said state or territory; ind Pro
Dide6 also, That no confirmation made by
this section shall affect the rights Of any per-
son claiming the sama lands or any part
thereof, whose claim has been confirmed By
board ct commissioners for ascertaining
and adjusting claims to land in said state or
territory, nor preclude judicial decision
between private claimants in such interfer.
ing claims
Sec. 2. ind be IL further enacted, That
every person or persons claiming lands in
the said state or territory, by right OF dona
ton under any former laws, whose CLAIMS
are contained in the report of any of the
boards OF commissioners or the report of the
register and receiver of public monies, or
of the recorder of land titles made, or here
after to be made, under existing laws, and
which claims shall appear by the said re-
ports not to have been Confirmed, merely be
cause the tracts claimed were not inhabited
on the goth, December 1903, such person or
persons shall be and they are hereby con
hrmed i'll their respective claims Pr0viied,
That in every other respect such claims shall
be embraced by the provisions, ana conform
to The limitations and restrictions prescribed
by former laws for granting the right Of do.
nations in the said state or territory.
Sec. 8 Ind be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the several registers
of the land Offices, and of the recorder Of the
land titles in the state or territory aforesaid.
with whom the claims in their respective
districts have been entered, which ara con
hrmed by This act, in all cases where the
land has not been surveyed according TO law,
to make it out for the principal deputy sur
veyof, or if tae district in which the land
lies, an order of survey for each tract of
land confirmed under this act, with a pro-
per description of the tracts to be surveyed,
wherein the quantity. locality, boundaries,
and connection, when practicable, with
each other and the tracts which have been
heretofore confirmed, shall be stated and
on the return OF the plat of survey, or where
an order of survey is not necessary, the said
register OF recorder of land titles shall, on
application for that purpose, make out, for
each claimant entitled thereto by the pro-
visions OF this act, a certificate Of confrma'
ion, directed to the commissioner of the ge~
neral land Office and if it shall appear to
the satisfaction of said commissioner, that
such certificate shall have been fairly OBJ
tanned according TO the true intent and
meaning Of this act, then. and in that case,
patents shall be granted in like manner as is
provided by law for the other lands of the
United States. And the said register or re-
corder shall be entitled to receive from the
person applying therefor, where he shall
have previously issued an order of survey