(ACT of March 3d, 1803.)

hereafter be set up against the United States by any proprietor or holder of warrants for military services, on account of any defi ciency in the quantity of land contained in the quarter township or fractional part of a quarter township, which shail have been located by such proprietor or holder, nor shall any claim be hereafter set up by the United States, against such proprietor or holder, on account of any excess in the quantity of land contained therein.

ACT of March 3, 1803. 3 Bioren, 554.

An act to revive and continue in force, "An act in addition to an act, entitled an act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services," &c.

22. SEc. v. All the unappropriated lands within the military tract, shall be surveyed into half sections, in the manner directed by the act, entitled "An act to amend the act, entitled An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," and so much of the said lands as lie west of the eleventh range, within the said tract, shall be attached to, and made a part of, the district of Chilicothe, and be offered for sale at that place, under the same regulations that other lands are within the said district.

23. SEC. VI. The lands within the said eleventh range, and east of it, within the said military tract, and all the lands north of the Ohio Company's purchase, west of the seven first ranges, and east of the district of Chilicothe, shall be offered for sale at Zanesville, under the direction of a register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, to be appointed for that purpose, who shall reside at that place, and shall perform the same duties, and be allowed the same emoluments, as are prescribed for, and allowed to, registers and receivers of the land offices by law.

24. SEC. VIII. Where any warrants, granted by the state of Virginia for military services, have been surveyed on the northwest side of the river Ohio, between the Sciota and the Little Miami rivers, and the said warrants, or the plats and certificates of survey made thereon, have been lost or destroyed, the persons entitled to the said land may obtain a patent therefor, by producing a certified duplicate of the warrant from the land office of Virginia, or of the plat and certificate of survey from the office of the surveyor in which the same was recorded, and giving satisfactory proof to the secretary of war, by his affidavit, or otherwise, of the loss or destruction of said warrant, or plat and certificate of

survey.

ACT of March 23, 1804. 3 Bioren, 592.

An act to ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia, northwest of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers, on continental establishment, and to limit the period for locating the said lands.

25. SEC. I. The line run under the direction of the surveyor general of the United States, from the source of the Little Miami towards the source of the Sciota, and which binds, on the east, the surveys of the lands of the United States, shall, together with its course continued to the Sciota river, be considered and held as the westerly boundary line, north of the source of the Little Miami, of the territory reserved by the state of Virginia, between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, for the use of the officers and soldiers of the continental line of that state: Provided, That the state of Virginia shall, within two years after the passing of this act, recognise such line as the boundary of the said territory.

26. SEC. II. All the officers and soldiers, or their legal representatives, who are entitled to bounty lands within the abovementioned reserved territory, shall complete their locations within three years after the passing of this act; and every such officer and soldier, or his legal representative, whose bounty land has or shall have been located within that part of the said territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished, shall make return of his or their surveys to the secretary of the department of war, within five years after the passing of this act, and shall also exhibit and file with the said secretary, and within the same time, the original warrant or warrants under which he claims, or a certified copy thereof, under the seal of the office where the said warrants are legally kept: which warrant, or certified copy thereof, shall be sufficient evidence that the grantee therein named, or the person under whom such grantee claims, was originally entitled to such bounty land, and every person entitled to said lands, and thus applying, shall thereupon be entitled to receive a patent in the manner prescribed by law. [Infra.]

[The limitation of time in this section has been enlarged by Acts of March 2, 1807. 4 Bioren, 92. March 16, 1810. ib. 281. Nov. 3, 1814, ib. 714. February 22, 1815. April 11, 1818, and February 24, 1819. Infra, 49.]

27. SEC. II. Such part of the abovementioned reserved territory as shall not have been located, and those tracts of land, within that part of the said territory to which the Indian title has been extinguished, the surveys whereof shall not have been returned to the secretary of war, within the time and times prescribed by this act, shall thenceforth be released from any claim or claims for such bounty lands, and shall be disposed of in conformity with the provisions of the act, entitled "An act in addition to, and modification of, the propositions contained in the act, entitled 'an act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and state govern

(ACT of March 2d, 1807.)

ment, and for the admission of such state into the union, on an equat footing with the original states, and for other purposes.'

ACT of April 15, 1806. 4 Bioren, 34.

An act to authorise the secretary of war to issue land warrants, and for other purposes.

28. SEC. I. It shall be the duty of the surveyor general, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, to cause to be surveyed so much of the fifty quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships aforesaid, as have been, or hereafter may be, located according to law, in conformity with the locations made on the plats of the said quarter townships: Provided, The whole expense of surveying the same shall not exceed three dollars for every mile actually surveyed.

ACT of March 2, 1807. 4 Bioren, 92.

An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military warrants, &c.

29. SEC. 1. [The time limited by the second section of the act of March twenty-three, one thousand eight hundred and four, Supra, 26, enlarged to three years after March twenty-three, one thousand eight hundred and seven, for completing locations, and five years for return of surveys.] Provided, That no locations, as aforesaid, within the abovementioned tract, shall, after the passing of this act, be made on tracts of land for which patents had previously been issued, or which had been previously surveyed; and any patent which may, nevertheless, be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be considered as null and void.

30. SEC. 11. The secretary of the treasury is authorised to obtain copies of all the locations and surveys which have been, or may be, made within the abovementioned tract, and to cause to be run or surveyed as many straight lines across the same, as he may deem necessary, not exceeding three, and from these and such other documents as may be obtained, to cause to be made a general connected plat of all the lands located and surveyed within the same; a copy of which shall be deposited in the war department, and another copy shall be laid before congress, together with an estimate of the surplus which may remain, after satisfying the bounties abovementioned. And the expenses incurred in surveying the lines, and obtaining the copies aforesaid, and in preparing the general plat abovementioned, shall be defrayed out of the moneys appropriated for completing the surveys of the public lands northwest of the river Ohio.

31. SEC. 11. Eighteen quarter townships and three sections, to be selected by the secretary of the treasury, by lot, in that tract of land in the state of Ohio lately purchased from the Indians, and

(ACT of March 3d, 1807.)

lying between the tract commonly called the United States military tract and the tract commonly called the Connecticut reserve, are hereby appropriated for the use of schools, in that tract of land in the state aforesaid, commonly called "the Virginia military reservation," and are vested in the legislature of that state, in trust, for the use aforesaid, and for no other use, intent, or purpose, whatever; which said eighteen quarter townships and three sections, are thus appropriated and vested in lieu of the one thirty-sixth part of the tract aforesaid, called the "Virginia military reservation," which, by a former act, had been appropriated and vested as aforesaid, for the use of schools within the same: Provided, however, That no quarter townships including the section number sixteen of such township, shall be selected, as aforesaid, for the purpose above mentioned. And provided also, and it is hereby understood and declared, That the said eighteen quarter townships and three sections shall be appropriated and vested, for the purposes aforesaid, only on condition that the legislature of the state of Ohio shall, within one year after the passing of this act, pass a law accepting the said eighteen quarter townships and three sections, for the purposes aforesaid, in lieu of the thirty-sixth part of the tract commonly called "the Virginia military reservation," heretofore appropriated and vested by law for the use of schools within the same; and releasing to the United States all their claim, right, title, and interest, and all the right, title, and interest, of the inhabitants of the tract of land last mentioned, to the thirtysixth part of the said tract, heretofore appropriated and vested by law for the use of schools within the same. And if the legislature of the said state shall not pass a law as aforesaid, within one year after the passing of this act, the said eighteen quarter townships and three sections shall not be considered and held as appropriated and vested for the purposes aforesaid, but shall be disposed of in the same manner as is, or may be, provided by law for the disposal of other public lands in the same tract,

ACT of March 3, 1807. 4 Bioren, 107.

An act authorising patents to issue for lands located and surveyed by virtue of certain Virginia resolution warrants.

33. SEC. 1. Any officer or soldier of the Virginia line, on continental establishment, or his legal representatives, to whom a land warrant has issued by virtue of any resolution of the legislature of Virginia, as a bounty for services which, by the laws of Virginia, passed prior to the cession of the northwestern territory to the United States, entitled such officer or soldier to bounty lands, shall, if the said warrant has been, or shall be, located within three years from the twenty-third of March next, and a survey thereof has been, or shall be, within five years from the said twenty-third of March next, returned to the office of the secretary of war, ob

(ACT of May 6th, 1812.)

tain a patent for the same, in the same manner, and on the same conditions, as patents are obtained for lands located and surveyed on other warrants of the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment: Provided, That no patent shall be obtained on such resolution warrant, unless there is produced to the secretary of war satisfactory evidence that such warrant was granted for services which, by the laws of Virginia, passed prior to the cession of the northwestern territory, would have entitled such officer or soldier, his heirs or assigns, to bounty lands, and also a certificate of the register of the land office of Virginia, that no other warrant has issued from the said land office for the same services. [Time extended, see Infra, 44.]

34. SEC. II. No patent shall be issued, by virtue of the preceding section, for a greater quantity of land than the rank or term of service of the officer or soldier to whom, or to whose legal representatives, such resolution warrant has been granted, would have entitled him to under the aforesaid laws of Virginia; and, whenever it appears to the secretary of war, that the survey or surveys, made by virtue of any resolution warrant, is for a greater quantity of land than the officer or soldier is entitled to for his services, the secretary of war shall certify, on the said survey or surveys, the amount of such surplus quantity, and the officer or soldier, his heirs or assigns, shall have leave to withdraw his survey from the office of the secretary of war, and resurvey his location, excluding such surplus quantity, in one body, from any part of his resurvey, and a patent shall issue upon such resurvey as in

other cases.

ACT of April 25, 1812. 4 Bioren, 418.

An act for the establishment of a general land office, &c.

[See "Lands-General Laws."]

SEC. VII. In all cases in which land has heretofore, or shall hereafter, be given by the United States for military services, warrants shall be granted to the parties entitled to such land by the secretary of war; and such warrants shall be recorded in the said land office, in books to be kept for the purpose, and shall be located as is, or may be, provided by law; and patents shall afterwards be issued accordingly.

ACT of May 6, 1812. 4 Bioren, 425.

An act to provide for designating, surveying, and granting, the military bounty lands.

35. SEC. 1. The president of the United States is hereby authorised to cause to be surveyed a quantity of the public lands of the United States, fit for cultivation, not otherwise appropriated, and to which the Indian title is extinguished, not exceeding, in the