American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-05-24

missioner, or Of the register and receiver, acne -
commissioners, founded on private conveyance,
which haze passed through the Office of the Com
mapdant, or other evidence, but founded, as Tho
claimants allege, on grants lost by time and acc;
dent, and which ought, in the opinion of the CON.
missioner, to be confirmed shall be confirmed. n
the same il the titles were in ext ,teucs
Provided, That, in all such claims where the oman
itty claimed not ascertained, one claim shall
be confirmed for a quantity exceeding seven thou.
sand two hundred square ieet
Sec. 4. And be further enacted, That, for all The
other claims to lots in the town aforesaid repor,sd
aforesaid, which are contained in the report of
the register and receiver, and which by the said
report, appear to have been built upon, or improved
and occupied or before the fifteenth day of Anril
one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the claim
ants shall be entitled to grants therefor as donations
Provided, That in all such claims where the ouao
lty claimed is not ascertaned, no one claim shalt
lbe confirmed for quantity exceeding seven thou
sand two hundred square feet find trov,ded alao.
That all the combinations and grants provided to b,
made by this act. shall amount only 20 a renouisb.
ment forever on the part OF the United States. or
all right and title whatever, to the lots Of land 60
confirmed or granted
Sec S. find be il further enacted, That the re.
gsters and receivers of the land Offices at St Helen
Court House, and at Jackson Court House, respec.
lively, shall have the same powers to direct the
manner in which all lands confirmed by this act
shall be located and surveyed ard also to decide
between the parties in all conflicting and interfering
claims, as are given by the act, entitled sAD arr
lsupp ementary to the several acts for adjusting the
claims to land and establishing land offices, in the
districts east of the island of New Orleans"
Approved: LINES MONROE
Washington, May, 1922.
AN ACT to designate the boundaries of Land District
and tor the establishment Of Land Office in the state
of Indiana
Re enacted By The Senate and House Of Representative,
I9f tho United Sates Of .4aica in Congress assembled
That, Tor tic sale Of the unappropriaed public lands
N the state Of Indiana, to Which the Indian title is
distinguished. the following district shall be formed
and land Office established: All the public kinds,
las aforesaid, to which the Indian title was exlin.
Iguished by the treaties concluded at ST. Mary's ia
1.-THE month OF October eighteen hundred and
eighteen lying east of the range line, separating
the first and second ranges of the second prn.
|cpal meridian. extended north to the present In.
dian boundary, and north of a line to be run separa.
ting the tiers Of townships numbered twenty and
twenty one commencing on the old Indian boun.
Diary. in thirteen east of the said principal
meridian, in Randolph county, and the said district
to be bounded on the east by the line dividing the
states Of Ohio and Indiana, shall form district for
which land Office shall be established at Fort
WAYNE.
Sec. .. find Be nfurther enacted, That the Pre-
siden is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate for the afore-
said district. Register Of the Land Office, and a
Receiver of Public Moneys which appointments
shall not be made, for the aforesaid land district,
until sufficient quantity Of public lands shall have
been surveyed within the said district as author
ze, in the opinion of the President, public sale of
land within the same; which Register of the Land
Office, and Receiver of Public Moneys, when ap.
pointed, shall each. respectively. give security in
the same sums and in the same manner, and whose
compensation, emoluments and dutes and author-
y shall, in every respect, be the same in respect
to the lands which shall be disposed Of at their Of
ices, as are or may be provided by law in relation
to the Registers and Receivers Of Public Moneysin
the several land Offices established for the the dis
posal OF the Public lands of the United States OF
Ohio and Indiana.
Sec. 8. find be IL further enacted, That all the
public lands within the aforesaid district to which
the Indian title has been extinguished, and which
have not been granted to, secured for the use Of
any individual, or individuals, or appropriated and
reserved for any other purpose, by any existing
treaties or laws and with the exception OF section
numbered sixteen, in each township, which shall
be reserved tor the support of schools theren shall
be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the land
office for the said district, under the direction of the
Register Of tbeLand Office and Receiver OF Public
Moneys, on such day, days, as shall, by procama-
ton the of Presd ent ofthe United States be desgna'
ted for that purpose the lands shall be sold in tracts
ct thu same size, on the same terms and conditions
and in every other respect provided by the act en-
titled An act making further provision for the sale
OF the public lands;' approved April twenty fourth,
eighteen hundred and twenty