American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-03-16

AN ACT to extend the time limited for Tie settlement
private land claims in the Territory Of Florida
Benenacted BY the Senate and House Of Representatives. If
s United States IF .qcn in Congress dssembe7 Thar the
time limited for the settlement ofpryate land claims IN the
Territory of Florida by act Of the Seventeenth Congress-
entitled An act amending and supplementary to, the
tory Of Florida, and provide for the survey and disposal
of the public lands in Florida be- and the same hereby
extended and enlarged until the first day Of January next
when the commissioners for ascertanng claims and titles TO
the lands aforesaid shall make Of their proceedings
ito the Secretary Of the Treasury to be laid before Con-
.gress.
Sec 9 Ind be Il further enacted That the claimant
claimants shall not be required produce in evidence,
deragnmen of title from the original grantee patcnees
but the exhibition OF the original title papers, agreeaby
TO the fourth section of act passed the eighth OF ays
eighteen hundred and twenty-five entitled An act for
asceranng claims and titles TO lands within the Territory
of Florida, with the decd device to the claimant, and
the office abstract abstracts Of the intermediate convey
for the last ten years preceding the surrender Of
Florida to the United States and where they cannot be
produced, their absence being satisfactorily accounted for
shall be sufficient evidence Of the right of the claimant
claimants to the land claimed against the United
States Pr07ied, The claim be defined in quantity, and
the does not exceed the quantity limited in the
second section Of the which sis intended to extend
find Pr0Jded, The conditions required by the laws and
ordinances of the Spanish governments and the treaty be-
tween Spain and the United States, shall have been CONF
lplied with.
Sec. 8. .qnd5e il further enacted That person shall be
taken and deemed to be actual settler within the pro-
visions of the esAct amending, and supplementary to-
act for asccrtaning claims and land in the Territory
Of Florida" passed the third day Of March, one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty three unless such person,
those under whom he claims title shall have been IN the
cuation, occupations of the land, at and before the
period Of the cession.
Sec. A. .4nd be further enacted That much Of the sce
OF which this is amendment authorizes the Secretary
of raid commissioners 10 demand and receive from the
claimants per hundred words for recording tiles
| to land, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec S. And be further enacted That the former Secretaries
of those who may be Secretaries, to the sad Boards
of Commissioners, who shall have received their salary OF
one thousand hundred and fifty dollars from the Treaa
sury of the United States, which by laws declared to be
their full compensation shall be, and they hereby, re-
CURED to pay over. respectively to the Commissloners
conornaby with the provisions of the original law, all
such fees have been demanded and received by them,
which shall be appropriated deay the expenses OF the
L Commission.
j Sec 6. .qnd6e Il further enacted That much Of the
of which this is amendstoTy, makes void all claims
not filed before the first day of Dccember one thousand
eght hundred and twenty three be, and the same IS here
bv repealed and it shall be lawful for claims 10 be fled
any time previous to the first day of September next but
and every claim filed by that time, shall be held anG
I deemed void and Of none effect.
Sec. T. Ind belt further enacted That each of the Com
mssoners heretofore appointed who may hereafter be
appointed who has performed and shall hereafter per-
FORM the duties assigned him. shall receive, from the first
Monday in February until the first day of January next, at
the rate of thousand dollars per annum in full COM
lpensation for his services.
I II CLAY, Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
DANIEL D. TomrKiNs Vice President of the United States
y and President of the Senate.
81 Washington, February 49, 1924
| Approved JAMES MONROE.