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(ACT of April 16th, 1814.)

seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, are hereby confirmed. [Supra, 54.]

ACT of March 28, 1814. 4 Bioren, 667.

An act concerning Shawneetown.

66. SEC. 1. A tract of land not exceeding two sections in the Illinois territory, adjoining Shawneetown, shall, under the directions of the surveyer general, be laid off into town lots, streets, and avenues and outlots in the same manner, under the same restrictions as are prescribed by the sixth section of the act entitled, "An act providing for the sale of certain lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes," approved the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ten. And it shall be the duty of the surveyor general, or the person by him authorised to carry this act into effect to select the two sections so as to extend the said town to the highlands in the rear of the town as it is now laid out.

SEC. II. The lots in said town shall be offered for sale at the same time and on the same terms and conditions as are provided by the sixth section of the before recited act. [Supra, 54.]

ACT of April 16, 1814. 4 Bioren, 687.

An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois territory, and providing for their location.

67. SEC. I. The decisions made by the commissioners (appointed in pursuance of the act, entitled, "An act for the revision of former confirmations, and for confirming certain claims to land in the district of Kaskaskia," Supra, 60.] passed the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twelve) where such decisions were in favour of the claims, and where the commissioners have reported specially, and have not rejected the claims; all such claims, as entered in their report to the secretary of the treasury, bearing date the fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be, and the same are hereby confirmed. [Infra, 71.]

SEC. II. That all the claims contained in a list transmitted to the secretary of the treasury by Michael Jones, one of the commissioners aforesaid, bearing date the eighteenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, shall be, and the same hereby are, confirmed: Provided, That any person who may have received a militia right, shall not receive in addition thereto, more than three hundred acres of land by virtue of this section, and it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general land office to enter the list aforesaid of record in his office: And provided also, That nothing in this act shall prevent or bar a judicial decision between persons claiming the same original title or claim.

(ACT of April 16th, 1814.)

SEC. II. All that tract of land included within the following boundary, viz: beginning at the township line nearest to, and above, the mouth of Big Muddy river, on the Mississippi river; thence, east, to the meridian line running from the mouth of the Ohio river; thence, north, with the said meridian line to the north boundary line of township number five, north; thence, west, to the Mississippi river; thence, down the same, to the beginning; shall be, and the same hereby is, reserved and set apart to satisfy the unlocated claims of persons to land within the Illinois territory confirmed to them heretofore or by this act.

68. SEC. IV. Any person or persons residing within the tract reserved by this act, and who had actually cultivated or improved any tract of land therein, before the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, not rightfully claimed by any other person, shall be entitled to a preemption in the purchase of such tract of land, including the improvement: Provided, That the purchaser shall not enter less than one-quarter section or more than one section. And any person claiming a preemption in the purchase under this act, who may be the owner of any unlocated confirmed claim which may be located within the tract aforesaid, shall be, and is hereby authorized to deliver to the receiver of public money, for the district within which the land lies, the evidences of his or their claim, which shall be received as payment for the quantity of land such person or persons would have been entitled to locate by virtue thereof; and in all cases where the land purchased shall not be completely paid for by the evidences of confirmed claims, the residue of the land shall be paid for at the same price, in the same manner, under the same restrictions, and liable to the same forfeiture, as other public lands sold at private sale. [Infra, 146.]

69. SEC. VI. After the first day of October next, it shall be lawful for any person or persons, being the owner of any unlocated confirmed claim, to enter with the register of the land office for the Kaskaskia district, any quantity of land within the reserved tract aforesaid, not exceeding one quarter section more than the quantity of acres contained in his claim or claims, and to deliver to the receiver of public money, the evidence of his claim, which shall be received in payment for the number of acres specified therein; and the residue of the land thus entered, which may exceed the amount of confirmed claims thus paid in, shall be paid for at the same price, and in like manner, as the other public lands of the United States sold at private sale. And if two or more persons shall make applications, at the same time, to enter the same tract or tracts of land, the priority of right to enter shall be decided by lot, in the presence of the register of the land office; and any person or persons failing or refusing to enter or locate his claim within the reserved tract aforesaid, according to the provisions of this act, on or before the first day of May, one thousand

(ACT of February 4th, 1815.)

eight hundred and fifteen, shall forfeit all right or claim against the United States, derived from confirmations under this act or any former law.

SEC. VII. It shall be the duty of the register of the land office for the Kaskaskia district, to make out a certificate of confirmation to each person whose claim or claims are confirmed by this act, or by any former law, within the territory of Illinois; and such certificate shall specify the quantity of land confirmed to the holder thereof, and shall be sufficient evidence of claim, within the meaning of this act, to entitle the owner or holder thereof to a credit with the receiver of public moneys, for the quantity of land mentioned in such certificate, within the reserved tract aforesaid: and the register of the land office shall receive the sum of twentyfive cents from the person demanding and receiving such certifi

cate.

SEC. VIII. Patents shall be obtained for lands entered under this act, in the reserved tract aforesaid, in the same manner, and on the same terms, as are provided by law for other public lands of the United States.

ACT of February 4, 1815. 4 Bioren, 789.

70. SEC. 1. All that tract of land lying between the foot of the rapids of the river Miami of lake Erie and the western line of the Connecticut reserve, in the state of Ohio, which was ceded to the United States, by certain tribes of Indians, at a treaty concluded at Brownstown, in the Michigan territory, on the twenty-fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall be attached to, and made a part of, the district of Canton.

SEC. 11. In surveying and dividing the lands by this act attached to the district of Canton, the ordinary mode of surveying the public lands shall be so far deviated from, that the boundary lines of the tracts to be laid off therein shall be run parallel to, and at right angles with, the road laid out in conformity with the said treaty, and in every other respect the surveys shall be made in the same manner, and for the same compensation allowed for the surveying the other públic lands northwest of the river Ohio.

SEC. III. All the lands by this act attached to the district of Canton, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land office and the receiver of public moneys of the said district, at such time and place as the president of the United States shall designate by proclamation for that purpose; and the sales shall remain open one week, and no longer; and the said lands shall, in every respect, be sold on the same terms and conditions as have been provided for the sale of other lands of the United States. All the lands in the said tract, remaining unsold at the close of the said sales, may be disposed of at private sale by the register of the land office of the said district, on the same terms and conditions as are provided for the sale of

(ACT of February 27th, 1815.)

other public lands in the same district; and patents shall be obtained in the same manner as in case of other lands of the United States.

ACT of February 27, 1815. 4 Bioren, 814.

An act to amend and extend the provisions of " An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois territory, and providing for their location. [Supra, 67.]

71. SEC. 1. The western boundary of the tract of country set apart by the act of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled " An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois territory, and providing for their location," be extended upon the river Mississippi, to the middle thereof, so as to include all islands in said river, between the middle and eastern margin, throughout the length of said line; and that all or any of the said islands shall be subject to be appropriated under the said recited act.

SEC. II. The proviso contained in the fourth section of the be fore recited act is repealed, so far as it regards persons settled on fractions of sections or quarter sections containing less than one hundred and sixty acres; and that such persons, under the like circumstances, shall be considered as entitled to all the rights, benefits and advantages, specified in the said fourth section; as those settled on sections or quarter sections, and also to any right, privilege, or advantage, secured by this act: Provided, however, That such persons shall not be permitted, in such cases, to take less than the whole quantity of such fractional quarter section on which they are respectively settled.

SEC. III. Every person or persons, who settled on and improve any of the lands in the said territory, reserved for the use of schools or seminaries of learning, before the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and who would have had the right of preemption thereto had not the same been reserved as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the preemption of the like quantity of other land, upon the same terms, and under the same restrictions, provided by the fourth section of the said recited act, to be located on any lands within the boundary specified in this and the said recited act, not otherwise appropriated; and such persons shall also be entitled to the benefit of, and subject to the restrictions contained in this act. [Infra, 75.]

72. SEC. IV. All and every person or persons entitled to the preemption of lands, under the fourth section of the before recited act, who failed to locate their claims within the time limited in said act, and which lands have been appropriated by others, shall be entitled to the preemption of the like quantity as they could have appropriated under the said act, or under the provisions of this act, to be located on any land within the boundary specified in this and the said recited act, not previously appropriated.

(ACT of April 16th, 1816.)

SEC. V. All and every person or persons, entitled to the preemption of lands under the provisions of this act, shall conform to, and be governed by, the rules prescribed in the said recited act, in locating, proving, and completing their titles respectively, except in cases where the same is changed by this act.

73. SEC. VII. The locations of any confirmed claim, made by virtue of any authority given by the commissioners appointed to examine the claims of persons to land in the Illinois territory, shall be, and the same are hereby confirmed: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not be so construed as to extend to any locations made by any person or persons without any authority from the commissioners aforesaid; nor shall it affect the claims of any other person or persons.

SEC. VI. The register and receiver of public moneys of the land office at Kaskaskia shall be allowed the same commission, respectively, on the confirmed claims, which have been or shall be received in payment for land entered at the said office, as they are now entitled to, on moneys received in payment for lands sold, calculating the value of the confirmed claims at the rate of two dollars per acre.

ACT of April 24, 1816.

Pamphlet edit. 70.

74. SEC. 1. The president of the United States is hereby authorized to lease the United States' saline, near the Wabash river, for a term not exceeding seven years, from and after the end of the present term, on such conditions as will ensure the working the same most extensively and most advantageously to the United States.

ACT of April 16, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 91.

An act making further provision for settling claims to land in the territory of Illinois.

75. SEC. 1. [Further time, until October 1, 1816; allowed to settlers on land reserved for the use of schools, to make their entries. Infra, 95.]

SEC. II. The register and receiver of public money shall have power, and they are hereby authorized to select any other vacant and unappropriated lands within the tract set apart to satisfy confirmed claims as aforesaid, in lieu of such of the lands formerly reserved for a seminary of learning, and for the support of schools, as have been appropriated in satisfaction of ancient grants or confirmed improvement claims, or as shall be entered in right of preemption, according to the provisions of the preceding section of this act: Provided, That the lands thus to be selected shall be taken as near adjacent to those in lieu of which they are selected

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