Delaware patriot & American watchman., 1828-06-27

mo. 81 IAN ACT TO continue in force for limited time
and to annnd an act entitled An act 10 ennhle CLAIM
ants lands within the limits Of the State OF Missouri
and Territory Of Arkansas, TO institute proceedings y
try the validity of heir claims,
BE II enacted by me Sqnete ard House of Repre-
spntatires of the Unitpd States Of .9merra IN Con
gress asSemtled. That the act approved the twenty.
sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twcn' y-ioni, /,
entitled & An act to enable claimants to ihnhs
within the limits oi the State OF Missouri ahd Ter
rtory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to Try
the validity Of their claims. Shall be. ant the same
hereby is, continued III force that Is 70 say Tor the
purpose oi filing petitions in the manner prescribed
by that act, 10 aud uutil the twenty sixth day q
MAY, IN the ,ear one Thousand eight huhdred and
twenty nine, and for the purpose Of enabling the
claimants to OBTAIN final decision On thc va' dty
Vt their claims in the Courts ut Missouri and Ar
kansas. respectively the sand claims having been
ex.G,t ! ". Niin the time above specified the sald
act s'lii be rauirucI in force to. and until. the
'vtat sixth day Of May, in the year one thousand
lt hundred and thirty, and no longer and the
Courts having cOgnisaucc II said claims shall de.
eide upon and cnniiin such as would have been
confirmed under the avs. usages, and customs OF
the Spanish Government, for two years, from and
after the e6th day Of May, one thousand eight
nnndred ard twenty-eight, and all the claims au-
thorlxcd By thai act, to bc heard and decided.
shall lie ratlle,! and confirmed to the same extent
that the same would be valid if the country n
which they lie had renamed under the dominion
of the sovereignty ~ wnich said claims originated
Sec. 8. AMI 5e ii ttartksr pDactet, That SO much
of the SAID act d. sahects the claimants to the
payment e! cnsts ID any Nhefc the dec|sion
may be IN tayo. u thlr claims he, and Tie same Is
hereby repealed, aai the costs shall abide the DE-
ciston o the canse as in ordinary causes before
tie said cuurt: and so much Of the said act as
require Tic ClGi,iants To make adverse clniHants
paitie ~ iaeiF suits, or to show the court what
adverse ciai,naht. ;nere maY be to the land cai'n
Cd ~ The tntte,l states, be also hereby repealed.
Md the Combinations had by virtue o! sad act,
and tie patents i;s9ra thereon, Shall operate only
reIn4 4ni.hmet VI tile on the part OF the Lhlted
states, ansl sAg'l, p no wise, affect the IIsht OF
title, either III law u equity, et adverse claimants
Of the same land.
sec. a ma " Il ftrder enacted That where
any claim. lnane,i on concession, warrant,
der Of survey, ,a.ll ae ad;uiged against and
jec.a'l, the cianGnt his legal representatives,
bv descent or pr" asa. being actual inhabitants
and cuItI?atore o the soil. the claim to winch Shall
ha.e beon rejected snail have the right OF pre-
smDuon 1t tie minimum price Of the public lands
a sonn = the land sAss, be surveyed and suhdivi-
ded ~ Tic United State, 81 tie quarter section
nl whilh the Improvement stall be situate, and 50
much Ct eTery ot.er quarter section which
talns any part oi tAe nnt"t unn,. as shall be
WITHIN the limit, Of tie tcicc:ed .ai;9
ApPycyed-2ith May, 1o9"