The republic., 1851-01-29
BY AU THORITY.
Public Acts
Passed during the second session Gf the Thirty first
Congr6ss.


Passed during the second session Of the Thirty first
Congr6ss.
[PuBuc-No. 1.
AN ACT to grant the right of pre- emption to GER
lain purchasers and settlers on the % Maison
Rouge Grant, in the event OF the final adJudica-
ton OF the title in favor Of the United States.
Beuenncfed bp the Senate and House Of Representa-
trs of The United States Of Amerca IN Congress
s,mbfd That in the event OF a final adjudication
Ev The Court in favor of the United States on the
.A!ajson Rouge Grant" under the act of Congress
sppruved seventeenth June, eighteen hundred and
forty four, entitled Gan act TO provide for the ad
ju.tfncnt Of land claims within the States Of Mis-
souri, A Kansas and louisiana and In those parts
OF the States Of Mississippi and Alabama, south of
tue thirty first degree of north latitude aud between
the Mississippi and Perdido rivers" every person.
his heirs legal representatives, who prior TO the
fst March, eighteen hundred and forty nine,
purchased land in good faith. and for valuable
consideration, from Daniel w. Coke, or other per-
sons holding titles derived under the said Maison
Rouge Grant, on the Ouachita river, in the State
of louisiana, and who has improved and cuti-
waited the land purchased any part OF II, shall
be- and he is hereby, authorized TO enter, with
the Register of the Land Office for the district In
which said land may be, as nearly as practicable,
by legal subdivisions, the whole or any portion OF
the tract tracts so purchased, TO include the resi-
dence and improvements, upon paying TO the Uni
ted States the minimum price OF public lands.
SEc 2 dnd be IL further enacted, That in the event
OF such final adjudication, IT shall be the duty OF
tice nf the fact in some newspaper circulating in
the vicinity of the land. with declaration of the
readiness of the Land Office to receive pre- empton
applications under this act, and thereupon every
person claiming right OF pre- empton under this
act shall be allowed twelve months within which
To enter and pay for the land claimed, from and
after the date of the first public advertisement, and
in conformity with such instructions as may be
given by the Commissioner of the General Land
Office: PropiGed, that notice, specifying the par
ticular claimed shall! be given within three
months after such first advertisement, to the Regis
ter of the intention Of the claimant to make such
purchase Of the United States, and that no sale
or entry shall be permitted to land within the HIM
its of the aforesaid Mason Rouge claim until the
expiration OF the aforesaid three months, and the
lands embraced in the aforesaid notices or pre-
sniption application shall not be liable to sale to
other persons as public lands, unless after the ex-
piraon of the aforesaid term OF twelve months, II
shall be found that no re.emption under this act
shall have been established to the same,
SEc 3. lind bs IL further enacted, That II the
residence and improvements OF two or more per-
sons entitled to -empton as aforesaid shall be
found on any cne fthe lega! subdivisions
the public lands, the same may be entered Jointly
by the parties in oijer that they may secure and
divide the same according to their several rights
and in default of one or more OF the parties taxing
the proper steps within the time prescribed 10 Sc
cure the benefit Of this act il shall be lawful for any
one of the parties of this class make the entry
the whole vi such legal subdivision for his sole
benefit.
(Signed) HOWELL COBB,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives
lSjgned) WILLIAM X. KING,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
tsirnedj MILLARD FILLMORE.
TPuBLic--Eo.
AN ACT 10 renew and continue in force the char
Ter of the s' Potomac Insurance Company OF
Georgetown"
Be il enacted by the Senate and House OF Kepresen
tatirss of the United States c Anertca IN Congress
assembled, That the act entitled IAN act 10 incor
porate q Fire Insurance Company IN Georgetown,
in the District of Columbia, approved tpe sccona
March, eighteen hundred and ..irfy .ohe' asn lhe
act entitled :" An act t. amend the c.,Hser VI VI" VI.
Potomac Fire Insurance Company Of G George,"wp'
approved the third of March, eighteen hundred an
thirty seven, be, and the same hereby enact
ed and extended to the first day of March, in the
year eighteen hundred and seventy and until the
end Of the next session Congress which shall hap
pen thereafter; until which time the said company
may exercise all the powers, and have and enjoy
all the privileges and immunities, granted TO them
by the said original act Of incorporation, and the
amendment thereto, any thing to the contrary
thereof notwithstanding. This act shall commence
and be in force from the passage thereof.
SECTION 2. And be II further enacted, That the
stockhoidcrs OF sad company shall be individually
liable for the debts and liabilities of said corporation
TO amount equal to the capital stock held by
them respectively. Preceded, That such liability
shall be confined to the stockhold who were SUCH
when such debts contracted liabilities in
CURED.
Approved January 81, 1851.