Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-09-08
DAVID FULTON, EDrron.
VOL. 4,---NO. 50,
BY AUTHORITY.
Acts and Resolutions passed at the First
session of the Thirtieth Congress.

LPUBL1c-No. 76.l-An Act supplemental to
an act TO confirm the survey and location of
claims for lands in the State of Mississippi,
east OF the Pearl river and south of the thir.
ty-tlrSt degree of north latitude, approved
March three, eighteen hundred and forty-
five
BE ut enacted by the Senate and House OF
Representatives Of the United States of Amer-
'cd an Congress assembled, That all confirmed
claims and settlement rights for lands situate
IN the State OF Mississippi, east of the Pearl
river and south of thirty first degree of north
latitude, which had not been actually survey
ed on The ground, and for which no pIats of
actual survey had heen returned TO the sur
veyor generals office, south of Tennessee, on
or before the first day of January, one thou
sand eight hundred and thirty nine, shall be,
and are hereby, confirmed, according TO actu-
al surveys hereafter to be made as herein pro-
vided for, in the same manner that said claims
actually surveyed on the ground, and return
ed to the surveyor generals Office at the time
aforesaid, are confirmed by the act to which
this is supplement; and the surveyor gener-
al Is hereby authorized and directed, on re-
quest OF any party Interested, to cause the
survey OF SAID claims, without delay, and at
any time between the passage of this act and
me first day OF January, eighteen bundled and
hfty, TO be made and returned 10 his office,
and he shall certify the return and plats of
such actual surveys so made TO his office to
The register and receiver for lands in the Au-
gusta district for said State. And the sur
Veyor general, and the said register and rece.
yer, shall regard these claims and pIats of &C
tual survey, in all respects, upon the same
footing with the claims confirmed, as actually
surveyed upon the ground, by said act to
which this is a supplement, and subject to,
and entitled 10, the benefits of all the provis.
ions of said act: Provided, That it shall APP
pear 10 the surveyor general, from the plats
of actual survey already returned to his office,
that any of said claims cannot now be actual
ly surveyed on the ground, owing to their
conflict with other claims already confirmed
as actually surveyed on the ground, by the
act to which this is a supplement, then it shall
be lawful for him to grant to the claimant, so
deprived of his location, a warrant, as prQvi-
ded by the fourth section of said act, without
causing the survey to be made
Sec. ?. Ard be 1t further enacted, That all
warrants which have been heretofore issued
or which shall hereafter be issued, by the sur
veyor general south of Tennessee, under the
provisions of the original act to which this is
supplement, and under the provisions OF
this act, be, and they are hereby, authorized
to be located upon any lands subject TO sale
at private entry in the State of Mississippi, in
any of the land districts in said State, in the
same manner that said warrants are now au-
thorZed TO be located in the Augusta land dis
trCt.
ROB'T C. WINTHROP,
Sneaker of the AOuSa of REPRESENTATIVES.