Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-07-09
LAWS OF THE u. STATES
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE
TwENTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
PUBLIC NO.-67.

PUBLIC NO.-O7.
AN ACT to confirm certain claims to lands in
the District of Jackson Court House, in the
State of Mississippi.
BE ii enacted by the Senate and House Of Re-
DreSehtatiUcS of the United States of america in
Congress assembled, That all the claims to
lands reported by the Register aad Receiver of
the Land Office for the District of jackson
Court House, in the State of Mississippi under
the provisions of the act of Congress- approved
on tho v-fouIth day of May, one Thousand
eight numbered and twenty eight, entitled " An
act supplementary to the several acts providing
Tor the adjustment of land claims in the State of
Mississippi" as founded on any order of survey,
re uette, permission to settle, or other written
evidence of claim derived from the Spanish au.
thofities which ought, in the opinion of the
said Register and Receiver, to be confirmed and
which, by the said reports appear to be derived
from the Spanish Government prior to the TWEEN
tieth OF December, one thousand eight hunderd
and three, and the land claimed TO have been
cultivated and inhabited on or before that day.
shall be confirmed in the same manner as if the
title had been completed: prOoided, That, in all
such claims, where the plat and certificate OF
survey, made prior to the fifteenth day of April
one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, under
the authority of the Spanish Government, in
pursuance OF sIch cain, has not been filed with
the said Register and Receiver, such claim
shall not be confirmed TO any one person for
more than twelve hundred and eighty acres {;
and that for all the other claims comprised in
the reports as aforesaid, and which ought, i'm the
opinion of the Register and Receiver, to be
confirmed, the claimant to such land shall be en-
titled 10 grant therefor, as donation, not TO
exceed twelve hundred and eighty acres to any
one person find PrO1ided, also, That the claim
OF the representatives of Louis Boisdore nun.
bered four, IN report numbered three, shall not
be confirmed to more than twelve hundred and
eighty acres; and all the combinations of the
said incomplete titles and grants of donations,
hereby provided to be made, shall amount only
| to a REIMBURSEMENT forever, on the part of the
United States, of any claim whatever to the
tract of land so confirmed or granted without
prejudice to the interests of third persons
SEC. 2. find be IL further enacted, That
every person, oil his her legal representatives,
whose claim is embraced by the said Register
and Receiver in their reports numbers five, six,
and seven of actual settlers, or their legal repre-
sentatives not having any written evidence OF
claim shall, where 1t appears by the said reports
that the land claimed or settled on had been
actually inhabited and cultivated by such per.
son or persons, in whose right the same is calm
cd, OH or before the fifteenth day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and thirteen, be emit
tied TO grant for the land so claimed or settled
on, as a donation; PrO0ided, That not more
than one tract shall be granted TO any one per-
son, and the same shall not exceed six hundred
and forty acres, to include his or her improve.
ments, and to be bounded by sectional or divi.
sional lines and that no lands shall be thus
granted which are claimed or recognized by the
preceding section.
SEC 3 ind be II further enacted, That O.
very person, or his or her legal representatives
comprised in the aforesaid reports Of actual sci.