Other lands Proviso. upon the survey of said lands one-half of section sixteen, of township forty-five, of range one west, in Warren County, Missouri, was covered by the concession to said Kinaird: Therefore Be it enacted, &c., That the board of directors of common schools in may be selected and for said township be, and they are hereby, authorized to select and in lieu of one-half? have set apart, for the use of schools in said township, one-half of a of section 16. section of any of the public lands in the land district within which said county is situated, in lieu of the half of said section sixteen, which is covered by the concession to said Kinaird; and when the said board of directors shall make the selection of said half-section, the[y] shall notify the register of the land office in said district of the land so selected, and the same shall be reserved from sale and set apart for the use of schools in said township: Provided, That said selection and notification be made within twelve months after the passage of this act, and provided said selection shall be according to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and in quantities not less than eighty acres. SEC.2. And be it further enacted, That, when the half-section of land shall have been so as aforesaid selected and reported to the register aforesaid, the same shall vest in the State of Missouri,subject to the same disposition and uses, and shall be held subject to the same conditions and terms in all respects whatsoever, as by the sixth section of the act of Congress of March sixth, eighteen hundred twenty, entitled "An act to authorize the people of Missouri Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain Tertories," were prescribed or intended in relation to sections numbered sixteen. (a) When selected; how to be held and used. (a) See Nos. 972, 988, 989, 995, 1013, 1016, 1114, 1142, 1145. Jan. 12, 1855. Vol. 10, p. 838. Representatives No. 1094.-AN ACT authorizing the legal representatives of Antoine Vasquez, Missouri. Be it enacted, &c., That the legal representatives of Antoine Vasquez, of Antoine Vas- Hypolite Vasquez, Joseph Vasquez, and John Colligan, be, and they quez, and others, are hereby, authorized to enter, without payment, at any land office in authorized to en; the State of Missouri, in such quantities, agreeably to the United States in Missouri in surveys, as the claimants may desire, a quantity of land subject to lieu of another private entry, not exceeding eight hundred arpens for each of the three ter certain land claim. persons first above named, and twelve hundred arpens for said Colligan, in lieu of, and in compensation for, a claim of that quantity allowed to them by the board of commissioners appointed for the final adjustment of private land claims in the State of Missouri, and confirmed to them by "An act confirming claims to land in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes," approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and the register or registers of the land offices aforesaid shall receive the proper applications and proofs, and shall issue the necessary certificate or certificates, on return of which to the General Land Office, with proofs sufficient, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, to establish the right of the claimants as such legal representatives, a Patent to issue. patent or patents shall issue, as in other cases. April 5, 1856. July 3, 1856. Vol. 11, p. 23. Preamble. No. 1095.-AN ACT to continue temporarily the land offices at Kalamazoo, in the No. 1096.-AN ACT granting to certain citizens of the State of Missouri the right MISSOURI. certain land in Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases where persons purchase such lands Purchasers from the said State of Missouri, by entry at the State land office, the from Missouri of title to which lands is still in the United States, such persons so hav- the ing purchased the same, or their assignees, in case the same shall have district. been sold and conveyed, shall be permitted to enter the same at the proper land office of the United States, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: Provided, That in all cases where entries of Proviso. such lands have been permitted to be made at the proper United States land office, at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, by persons who had purchased the same from the State of Missouri, or their assignees, such entries or sales shall be, and the same are hereby, confirmed: Provided, further, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed so as to interfere with the rights of third parties. (a) (a) See Nos. 729, 981, 983, 997, 1007, 1009, 1010, 1020, 1028, 1083, 1086, 1110, 1115, 1120, 1121, 1135. No. 1097.-AN ACT authorizing the legal representatives of Manuel Gonzales au certain land in Vol. 11, p. 482. Aug. 23, 1856. Representatives Be it enacted, &c., That the legal representatives of Manuel Gonzales Moro be and they are hereby authorized to enter, without payment, at of Manuel Gonany land office in the State of Missouri, in such quantities, agreeably to zales Moro the United States surveys, as the claimants may desire, a quantity of thorized to enter land subject to private entry, not exceeding seven thousand and fiftysix arpens of land, at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, in lieu of and in compensation for a claim of that quantity allowed to them by the board of commissioners appointed for the final adjustment of private land claims in the State of Missouri, and confirmed to them by "An act confirming claims to land in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes," approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirtysix. And the register and receiver of the land offices aforesaid shall receive the proper applications and proofs, and shall issue the necessary certificate or certificates; on return of which to the General Land Office, with proof sufficient, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, to establish the right of the claimants as such legal representatives, a patent or patents shall issue as in other cases. No. 1098.-AN ACT to authorize the legal representatives of Pascal L. Cerre to enter certain lands in the State of Missouri. land in Missouri. Jan. 26, 1857. Vol. 11, p. 488. Representatives Be it enacted, &c., That the legal representatives of Pascal L. Cerre be and they are hereby authorized to locate, free of costs, on any of the of Pascal L. public lands of the United States in the State of Missouri, agreeably to Cerre authorized the United States surveys, subject to sale at private entry, at the mini- to locate certain mum price, the quantity of seven thousand and fifty-six arpens of land, less such quantity of lands as they may have already acquired under and by virtue of the confirmatory act of eighteen hundred and thirtysix, entitled "An act confirming claims to lands in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes," approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, upon the receipt of the proper certificate or certificates, and upon being satisfied that such claimants are such legal representatives, shall cause a patent or patents to be issued as in other cases. No. 1099.-AN ACT for the relief of Charles Lucas, or his legal representatives, Feb. 3, 1857. Charles Lucas or his representconfirm. Be it enacted, &c., That Charles Lucas, or his legal representatives, be and he or they are hereby confirmed in the hereinafter-described one hundred and twenty-five acres and fifty-eight one-hundredths of an atives acre, part and parcel of a tract of three hundred and twenty-three acres ed in their title and fourteen one-hundredths of an acre, located by virtue of New to land in Mis Madrid certificate number two hundred and thirteen, corresponding to souri. survey number two thousand five hundred and ninety-two, lying in the Palmyra, Missouri, land district, that is to say, the west half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-five, a strip eighty-one links wide off the entire north side of the northwest quarter of section thirty-six, and so much off the south end of the east half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-five, township fifty-eight north, of range six west, as John T. Redd in Missouri. together will (with the said west half and said strip) make said quantity of one hundred and twenty-nine acres and fifty-eight one-hundredths of an acre, and that a patent be issued therefor to the said Charles Lucas, or his legal representatives, upon the receipt of a plat and survey of the same, executed by the proper officer, which said patent shall have the same force and effect as if the said certificate number two hundred and thirteen had issued for said quantity hereby confirmed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That John T. Redd, for himself and permitted to en- those claiming title derived from him, be and he is hereby permitted to ter certain land enter with the register and receiver of the proper land office, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, all the rest and residue of said east half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-five, in township fifty-eight north, of range six west, included in the location under said certificate number two hundred and thirteen, and not included in the said one hundred and twenty-nine acres and fifty-eight one-hundredths of an acre, so as aforesaid confirmed. March 3, 1857. Vol. 11, p. 511. Be it enacted, &c., That Martin Fenwick be and he is hereby confirmed Martin Fen-in his claim to five hundred arpens of land, situated on the west bank wick confirmed of the Mississippi River, in the State of Missouri, and described as folin certain land in lows, to wit: Fractional sections five and six, lying north of the private No. 1100.-AN ACT for the relief of Martin Fenwick. Missouri. Authorized to in Missouri. land claim surveyed to George A. Hamilton, number one thousand two hundred and forty-four, in township thirty-four: the southeast fractional quarter and the northwest fractional quarter of fractional section thirty-one, and fractional section thirty-two, in township thirty-five, all of range fourteen east, of the lands subject to sale at Jackson, Missouri, and containing in the aggregate four hundred and twenty-five acres and forty-six hundredths of an acre. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Martin Fenwick shall have enter certain land the exclusive right, within one year from the passage of this act, to enter at the minimum price of public lands, subject to private sale, the southwest quarter, and the fractional northeast quarter of fractional section thirty-one, township thirty-five north, of range fourteen east, of the lands subject to sale at Jackson, Missouri. Said lands to embrace said Fenwick's claim. Patent to issue. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the lands hereby confirmed, together with the lands authorized to be entered, are intended to embrace the claims of Martin Fenwick, as reserved on the plats of the land office at Jackson, Missouri, on the twenty-seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, deducting therefrom any part thereof that may have been sold by the United States prior to the passage of this act. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioner of the GenTooperate only eral Land Office shall cause a patent to be issued to the said Martin as a relinquish- Fenwick for the lands hereby confirmed: Provided, That such patent ment of title. shall only operate as a relinquishment of title on the part of the United States, and shall not affect the rights of any third person. May 24, 1858. Loisel to land confirmed. No. 1101.-AN ACT for the relief of Regis Loisel, or his legal representatives. Be it enacted, &c., That the said Regis Loisel, or his legal representaClaim of Regis tives, be, and they are hereby, confirmed in their title to a certain tract of land ceded by Don Carlos Dehault Delassus, Spanish governor of upper Louisiana, on the twenty-fifth day of March, anno Domini eighteen hundred, to Regis Loisel, situate in what was then known as Upper Louisiana, on the Missouri River, including Cedar Island, as the same was surveyed on the twentieth November, anno Domini eighteen hundred and five, by Antonio Soulard, surveyor-general for the Territory of Louisiana, according to the plat now on file in the archives of the If said land is Missouri District. But it is provided that if said tract of land, confirmed located by others, as aforesaid, or any part thereof, has been located by any other person Loisel may reloor persons, under any law of the United States, or has been surveyed and sold by the United States, this act shall confer no title to such lands in opposition to the rights acquired by such location or purchase; but the said Loisel, or his legal representatives, shall be permitted to make a relocation on an equal amount of the public lands as may be cate. taken by such location or purchase, that may be subject to entry at private sale, at a price not to exceed one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and the surveyor-general for the district of Missouri shall issue a certificate to authorize the same. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the location authorized by this act shall be entered with the register of the proper land office, who shall, on application for that purpose, make out a certificate of such lo- Certificate of cation as in other cases; and if it shall appear to the Commissioner of location and pat the General Land Office that said certificate has been obtained accord- ent. ing to the provisions of this act, then patents shall issue as in other cases: And it is further provided, That if it shall be found that said tract of land, confirmed as aforesaid, has not been located by any other person or persons, or has not been sold by the United States as aforesaid, that, in that case, a patent shall be issued for the same as in other cases. No. 1102.—AN ACT to provide for the location of certain confirmed private land claims in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes. June 2, 1858. Vol. 11, p. 294. Decisions of land claims in Be it enacted, &c., That the decisions in favor of certain land claimants herein made by the recorder of land titles in the State of Missouri recorder, &c., as and the two commissioners associated with him, by virtue of an act en- to certain private titled "An act for the final adjustment of private land claims in Mis- Missouri consouri," approved July nine, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and an act firmed. supplemental thereto, approved second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, as entered in the transcript of decisions transmitted by the said recorder and commissioners to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, which said claims are named and numbered as follows: Manuel de Liza, number thirty-three; John Coontz and Hempstead, number forty-four; Matthew Saucier, number fifty-seven; Charles Tayon, number sixty-seven; the sons of Joseph M. Pepin, number seventy-four; Louis Lorimer, number eighty-seven; Bartholomew Cousin, number eighty-nine; Manuel Gonzales Moro, number ninety-five; Seneca Rawlins, number one hundred and four; William L. Long, number one hundred and six; Joachim Liza, number one hundred and thirtythree; Francis Lacombe, number thirty-four; Israel Dodge, number three hundred and thirty-eight; Joseph Silvain, number two hundred and ninety-three; John P. Cabanis, number two hundred and ninetyeight; William Hartley, number three hundred and one; Andrew Chevalier, number two hundred and ninety-two; William Morrison, number three hundred and seven; Solomon Bellew, number three hundred and eight; Paschal Detchemendez, number three hundred and nine; Baptiste Amure, number three hundred and ten; Alexander Maurice, number three hundred and twenty-three; John Baptiste Vallee, number three hundred and thirty-four; said decisions above named being in the first class of claims, acted upon by said board; also the claim of Regis Loisel, 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 representatives. Decisions in firmed. con. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the decisions in favor of land claimants made by P. Grimes, Joshua Lewis, and Thomas B. Robertson, favor of other commissioners appointed to adjust private land claims in the eastern claims district of the Territory of Orleans, communicated to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and which is [are] found in the American State Papers, Public Lands, (Duff Green's edition,) volume two, from page two hundred and twenty-four to three hundred and sixty-seven, inclusive, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, saving and reserving, however, to all adverse claimants the right to assert the validity of their claims in a court or courts of justice: Pro- Proviso. vided, however, That any claim so recommended for confirmation, but which may have been rejected, in whole or in part, by any subsequent board of commissioners, be, and the same is hereby, specially excepted from confirmation. (a) Locations to bo SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the locations authorized by the preceding section shall be entered with the register of the proper land entered with regoffice, who shall, on application for that purpose, make out for such ister, &c. claimant, or his legal representatives, (as the case may be,) a certificate of location, which shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said Land Office is land claim has &c. If Commission- Commissioner that said certificate has been fairly obtained, according er of General to the true intent and meaning of this act, then, and in that case, patsatisfied, patents ents shall be issued for the land so located as in other cases; and for shall issue. each and every certificate as aforesaid, issued by the register of any land Register's fee. office, he shall receive the sum of one dollar; that in all cases of conWhen private firmation by this act, or where any private land claim has been connot been located, firmed by Congress, and the same, in whole or in part, has not been the certificate located or satisfied, either for want of a specific location prior to such may be located, confirmation, or for any reason whatsoever, other than a discovery of fraud in such claim subsequent to such confirmation, it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general of the district in which such claim was situated, upon satisfactory proof that such claim has been so confirmed, and that the same, in whole or in part, remains unsatisfied, to issue to the claimant, or his legal representatives, a certificate of location for a quantity of land equal to that so confirmed and unsatisfied; which certificate may be located upon any of the public lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry, at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: Provided, That such location shall conform to legal divisions and subdivisions. Proviso. issue. to Register to SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the register of the proper land issue certificate, office, upon the location of such certificate, shall issue to the person and patent entitled thereto a certificate of entry, upon which, if it shall appear to the satisfaction 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, a patent shall issue as in other cases. (b) Feb. 28, 1859. Assent of Con lature of Missouri. (a) See Nos. 722, 728, 957, 967, 972, 973, 974, 976, 980, 988, 998, 1002, 1007, 1020, 1024, 1041, 1063, 1067, 1104, 1106, 1107, 1124, 1139, 1143. (b) See Nos. 957, 998, 1041, 1106, 1107. No. 1103.-AN ACT giving the assent of Congress to a law of the Missouri legis lature for the application of the reserved two per cent. land fund of said State. Be it enacted, &c., That the assent of Congress be, and the same is gress given to an hereby, given to the act of the legislature of the State of Missouri, enact of the legis- titled "An act supplemental to an act to amend 'An act to secure the completion of certain railroads in this State, and for other purposes," approved on the nineteenth day of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, appropriating the two per centum of the net proceeds of sales of public lands in said State, reserved by existing laws to be expended under the direction of Congress, but hereby relinquished to Accounts to be that State; and that the proper accounting officers of the Government are hereby authorized and required to audit and pay the accounts for the same, as in the case of the three per centum land fund of said State. (a) audited, &c. March 3, 1859. Operation of (a) See Nos. 989, 993, 1015. No. 1104.-A RESOLUTION in relation to the second section of the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for the location of certain confirmed private land claims in the State of Missouri and for other purposes." Resolved, &c., That the second section of the act of Congress, entitled act of 1858, con- "An act to provide for the location of certain confirmed private land cerning certain claims in the State of Missouri and for other purposes," approved June private land claims in Mis second, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, is hereby so suspended in its souri, in part sus. operation and effect until the end of the Thirty-sixth Congress, as that pended. June 1, 1860. Heirs, &c.. of no patent or patents shall be issued, nor shall any action be had by the executive branch or department of the Government, or any officer or agent thereof, under or by virtue of said section. (a) (a) See Nos. 722, 728, 957, 967, 972, 973, 974, 976, 980, 988, 998, 1002, 1007, 1020, 1024, 1041, 1063, 1067, 1102, 1106, 1107, 1124, 1139, 1143. No. 1105.-AN ACT to grant the right of preëmption to a certain tract of land, in the State of Missouri, to the heirs and legal representatives of Thomas Maddin, deceased. Be it enacted, &c., That the heirs and legal representatives of Thomas to enter certain Maddin, deceased, late of the State of Missouri, be, and they are hereby, land in Missouri. authorized to enter and purchase, at the price of one dollar and twentyfive cents per acre, a tract of land containing eight hundred arpents, or six hundred and eighty acres and fifty-six hundredths, surveyed for the said Thomas Madden, in his own right, as per patent certificate of sur |