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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
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AN ACT to provide for the location of cer-
tain confirmed private land claims in the
State of Missouri, and for other purposes
Be It enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. of the United States of Auae-
rsca IN Congress assembled, That the decis-
ions in favor of certain land claimants herein
made by the recorder of land titles in the
State OF Missouri and the two commissioners
assooissed With Aiara. by virtue of an act enti
tied IAN act for the final adjustment OF pri-
vste land claims in Missouri" approved July
ninth, 1882, aud an act supplemental thereto,
approved second March, 1888, as entered in
the transcript of decisions transmitted bv the
said recorder and commissioners to the Com
missioner of the General Land office, which
said claims are named aud numbered as fol-
lows: Manuel de Lisa, number 80; John
Coontz and Hempstead, number A; Matthew
Saucier, number 81: Charles Tayon, number
81; the sons of J. NJ. Psprn, number IA
Louis LorImier, number 81; Bartholomew
Cousin, number 50; Manuel Gonzales Moro,
number 95; Seneca lsawlins, number IO4,
William L. Long, number LOG; Joachim Lisa.
number 1873; Francis Laco,nJe, number 81:
lsarel Dodge, number 33S; Joseph Sivain,
number 293; john L. Cabanis, number 29S:
William Hartley, number sol; Andrew
Chevalier, number 292; William Morrison.
number 3OI; Solomon Beew, number 3O6;
Paschal Detchemendez, number 500; Baptiste
Amure, number $40; Alexander Maurice,
number 323; John Baptiste Vale, number
334; said decisions above named being in the
first class of claims, acted upon by said board
also the claim of Regis Loise, number six, in
the second class, acted on BY said board be,
and the same are hereby, confirmed to the
respective claimants or their legal representa-
uyes.
SEC. 2. Ind be "a JlrtRcr enacted, That
the decisions in favor Of Land claimants made
by L. GriInes Joshua Lewis, and Thomas b.
Robertson, commissioners appointed II adjust
private land claims in the eastern district o!
the Territory OF Orleans, comm lnicated to
the House OF Representatives by the Sccreta-
ry of the Treasury, on the ninth day Of Jan
nary, one thousand eight hundred and twelve
and which is found in the American State
Papers, Public Lands, (buIt Green's edition.
volume two, from pag: two hundred aud
twenty four TO three haEdred and sixty scv
cn, inclusive, be, and the same are hereby,
confirmed, SAVING aud rcSerYInS, however. 10
all adverse claimants the II, LIT to assert the
Validity ot their claims Ia court or courts
OF justice: PrOTidef, h0rerer, That any clam
50 recommended for confirmation, but which
may have been rejected, in Is hole or in part,
10y any subsequent board Of commissioners,
be, and the same Is hereby, specially except
Cd from confirmation.
SEC. g. ind be It FURTHER enacted. That
the locations authorized by the preceding
section shall bc entered with the register OF
the proper land Office. who shall, on applca
ton tor that purpose, make ont for such
claimant, or his legal representatives, .as the
case may BEL a certificate OF location, which
shall be transmitted To the Commissioner OF
the General Land ufiic,; and if il shall ap-
pear 10 the satisfaction oI tie said tUinn!s-
sionef that said ceTtIIcate has been fairly
o5dsinad. according 10 the true intent and
meaning ef this act, then, and IN that case,
patents shan be issued for the land so ocated
,as in other c.s g; and for each and every Ger
tlticate as afore> aid issued by the register Of
any land Office, he shall receive the sum of
one dollar: that in all cases Of confirmation
by this act, or whers any private land claim
has been confirmed by Congress, and the
same, iu whole or in pat, has rot been loca
ted ur satisfied. either fo.' want of IA specific
location prior to such conf. NATION. or for any
reason whatsoever, other than a discovery OF
fraud in such claim Subsequent to such con
tirmatior. it shall be the duty q the surveyor
general of the district in which such CLAIM
WAS situated, upon satisfactory proof that such
claim has teen SO confirmed, and that the
same, in whole or in part, remains un >atlstl-
ed, To issue TO the claimant, or his lega. rep
resentatives, a certificate of location for
quantity Of land equal to that so confirmed
and unsatisted; which certificate may be To-
Gated upon any Of the public lands of the
United States subject to sale at private entry,
ut price not exceeding one dollar and twen-
ty-fve cents per acre: Prorided, That such
location shall conform to legal divisions and
subdivisions.
SEC. 4. And be a farther enacted, That
the register of the proper land Office, upon
the location of such certificate, shall issue to
the person entitled thereto certificate OF en-
try, upon which, if it shall appear to the sat
isfaction of the Commissioner of the General
Land Office that such certificate has been
fairly obtained, according to the true intent
and meaning of this act, patent shall issue
as in other oases.
Approved June Cd, 1853.