Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-06-22

concerning the Coastlng trade" be SO lar
altered and amended that the sea coast
and nayigable rivers ofthe United States
be, and the same are hereby, divided
into three great districts, the first and
second to be and remain as therein de-
scribed, and the third to include all the
ports, harbors, sea coasts, and navigable
rivers, between the southern limits OF
Georgia and the river Perdido, and said
third great district SO established, shall
be subject to all the regulations and
provisions of said act
Washington, May Z, 1892.
Approved: JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT supplementary to the several acts for
adjusting the claims to land, and establish
ing Land Offices in the districts east of the
Island Of New-Orleans.
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House
ofRehreaentatiues Qfthe United States
Of ,America, in Congress assembled,
rived from the British or Spanish au-
thorities, reported to the Commissioner
oil the General Land Office by the regis
tiers aud receivers of the land offices at
S. Helena Cour, House, and at Jackson
Court House, in the districts east and
west OF Pearl river, appointed under the
authority OF an act, entitled +" An act for
adjusting the claims to land, and esta-
blishing land offices, in the districts east
OF the Island of New-Orleans," which
are contained in the several reports of
the registers and receivers, and which
are in the opinion of the registers and re-
eeivers, valid, agreeably to the laws,
usages and customs, of the said govern
ments, be, and the same are hereby, re-
cognized as valid and complete titles,
against any claim on the part OF the
United States, or right derived from the
United States.
Sec. 2. ind be il. further enacted, That
all the claims reported as aforesaid, and
contained in the several reports Of the
said registers and receivers. founded
on orders OF survey, requettes, permits
sion To settle, or other written evidences
of claims derived from the Spanish au-
thorities, which ought in the opinion OF
the registers and receivers, to be con-
hrmed, shall be confirmed in the same
manner as if the title had been complet-
cd Provided, That the confirmation OF
all the said claims provided for by this
act, shall amount only to a relinqulsh-
ment forever on the part of the United
States of any claim whatever to the
tract of land 50 confirmed or granted.
Sec. Ind be il farther enacted,
That every person or his or her legal
representative, whose claim is comprised
in the lists or registers of claims report
ed by the registers and receivers, and
the persons embraced in the list Of actu-
al settlers, or their legal representatives.,
not having any written evidence of claim
reported as aforesaid, shall when ii ap.
pears by the said reports, or by the said
lists, that the land claimed or settled on
had been actually inhabited or cultivated
by such person or pefsons IN whose
right he claims, on or before the iii
teenth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and thirteen, be entitled to a
grant for the land so CLAIMED or settled
on as a donation: PROVIDED, That moi
more than one tract shall be thus grant.
ed 10 any one person, and the same shall
not contain more than six hundred and
forty acres; and that no lands shall be
thus granted which are claimed or re.
cognlzed by the preceding sections o.
this act, or by virtue of a confirmation
under an act, entitled can act for ad
justing the claims to land, and establish
ing land offices in the districts east o
the Island of New-Orieans," approved
on the third day of March, eighteen hun
dred and nineteen: .And PROVIDED, also
That no claim shall be confirmed where
the quantity was not ascertained, and re
port made thereon by the registers ant
receivers, prior to the twenty -fiflh day Of
July, one thousand eight hundred ane
twenty.
Sec. 4. .And be it further enacted
That the registers and receivers of the
public moneys of the said respective
districts, except in relation to perfec
titles, as recognized in the first section
of this act, and of the first section of the
act of the third day of March, one thou.
sand eight hundred and nineteen, sbal
have power 10 direct the manner ir
which all lands claimed in virtue of ths
preceding sections shall be located and
surveyed, and, also, to direct the location
and manner of surveying all the claims
to land recognized by the second, third
and fourth sections of an act, entitled
Gan act for adjusting the claims to land,
and establishing land Offices, inthe dis