ers, transmit. ted to secretary of the firmed. Confirmations of the governor of the N. West and Indiana territories, confirmed by Congress, conditionally. Decisions of claims of persons claiming lands in the district of commission- Vincennes, in favor of such claimants, as entered in the transcripts of decisions, which have been transmitted by the said commissioners to the secretary of treasury, con- the treasury, according to law, are hereby confirmed. Sec. 2. The confirmations or grants of land, made in the said district of Vincennes, by the governors of the North West and Indiana territories, prior to the establishment of the board of commissioners aforesaid, and in conformity with the act, entitled *" An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois country, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their possessions," are hereby confirmed; unless when actually rejected by the said commissioners, although the persons entitled to the land may not have given notice of their claim, as required by the several acts making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory: Provided however, That no other claims shall be confirmed by virtue of this section, than such as having been entered on the territorial records, have by the commissioners aforesaid, been inserted in their reports transmitted as afore said. Proviso. Assurance of in the tract called "Continnation." Sec. 3. The several persons, or the legal represen. certain titles tatives of the several persons, to whom or to whose assigns the several tracts of the tract of land near Vincennes, known by the name of the "Upper Praire," have been heretofore confirmed, are hereby respectively confirmed in their claims to the respective tracts also claimed by them, and in their actual possession, lying in that tract of land, containing two hundred and forty-four acres, which is known by the name of "Continuation," and is situated between the boundaries of the tracts already confirmed, and the river Wabash. Claims con this act to be Sec. 4. The several persons, whose claims are confirmed under firmed by this act, and had not been actually located entered with prior to the establishment of the board of commisthe register of sioners, are hereby authorised to enter their locations the land office with the register of the land office of Vincennes, on of Vincennes. any part of the tracts set aside for that purpose, by * Viz: Above act of 3d March, 1791, virtue of the act, intituled "An act respecting the under this act, Sec. 5. Every person, or the legal representative Persons, of every person, whose claim to a tract of land is con- whose claims firmed by this act, and who had not previously ob- are confirmed tained a patent for the same, from the governor, either entitled to paof the territory north-west of the Ohio, or of the In- tents, &c. if diana territory, shall, whenever his claim shall have they shall not been located and surveyed, be entitled to receive, have received previously from the register of the land office, at Vincennes, a them. certificate, stating, that the claimant is entitled to receive a patent for such tract of land, by virtue of this act; for which certificate, the register shall receive one dollar; and which certificate shall entitle the party to a patent for the said tract, which shall issue in like manner, as is provided by law for the other lands of the United States. claims to land in the district of Vincennes, Sec. 4. Any person or persons, entitled to dona- XI. 52. 30th April, tion lands, in the district of Vincennes, by any for- 1810. mer resolution or act of Congress, and who were mi- Certain nors, or did not reside within the Indiana territory during the time allowed by law for registering claims to land within the said district, and whose claims mode of prohave not heretofore been presented to either of the ceeding for boards of commissioners for adjusting claims to land having them at Vincennes and Kaskaskia, may, until the first day of November next, give notice, in writing, to the register of the land office of the said district, of their claims, and have the evidence of the same recorded in the same manner, and on payment of the fees provided by an act, entitled t" An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana ter * Viz: The preceding act of 21st April, 1806. recorded. Register of and the re ceiver of public monies at Vincennes, their duties and powers. ritory, and for other purposes;" and the right of any such persons neglecting to give such notice of his claim, and to have the evidence of the same recorded, shall become void, and forever be barred. Sec. 5. The register of the land office, and the rethe land office ceiver of public monies, at Vincennes, shall perform the same duties, and exercise the same powers, in relation to the claims filed with the register, under this act, which, by the last recited act, were enjoined on or vested in the commissioners, designated by the said act; and it shall also be the duty of the said register and receiver, to make to the secretary of the treasury a report of all the claims, thus filed with the register of the land office, together with the substance of the evidence adduced in support thereof, with such remarks thereon, as they may think proper; which report, together with a list of the claims, which, in the opinion of the register and receiver, ought to be confirmed, shall be laid, by the secretary of the treasury, before Congress, at their next session, for their determination thereon; and the said register and receiver shall each be allowed an additional compensation of one hundred dollars, in full for their services in relation to such claims, and one hundred dollars for clerk hire. Their compensation. IX. 92. Register and ther time to Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the register and receiver of public monies, in the district of KasKaskaskias, kaskias, be allowed till the first day of December next, allowed a fur- to complete the investigation of claims to land in the said district. And each of the said officers, and the clerk of the board, shall be allowed an additional compensation of five hundred dollars, in full for his ser compensation vice in relation to such claims. investigate claims. Additional to them. X. 83. 15th Feb. 1809. The powers heretofore vested in the register and receiver of public monies, for the district Powers of the of Kaskaskia, are hereby revived; and the said reregister, &c. at Kaskaskia, gister and receiver shall be allowed until the first day revived. of January next, to complete the investigation of decisions. claims to land in said district; they shall have full Power to repower to revise any of their former decisions, and vise former also the same power and authority in relation to claims to land in the village of Pioria; notices of which have heretofore been filed, as they have in re lation to other claims in the said district; and the said register and receiver, and the clerk of the board, shall Additional each be allowed an additional compensation of five compensa hundred dollars, in full for his services in relation to such claims. tion. 1809. Sec. 1. The secretary of the treasury is hereby au- XI. 3. thorised to employ an agent, whose compensation 15th June, shall not exceed five hundred dollars, in full for all Agent in behis services, for the purpose of appearing before the half of U. S. board of commissioners for adjusting the claims to to be appointland in the Kaskaskia district, in behalf of the United States, to investigate the claims for land, and to oppose all such as he may deem fraudulent and unfounded. ed. Sec. 2. Five hundred dollars shall be allowed to Compensaeach of the said commissioners and to the clerk of tions. the board, as compensation for their services, rendered in the year one thousand eight hundred and eight. 1809. Be it enacted, That the accounting offices of the trea⚫ XI. 21. sury be authorised to settle the claim of William and 28th Dec. Elias Rector, at a sum not exceeding three dollars per mile for the lines which bound each survey, whether claim, in IlliSurveyors' separate or adjoining other claims, for each survey, nois, to be which they have made or may hereafter make, under settled. the authority of the United States, of the private claims of the Kaskaskia district, or Illinois territory, claimed by virtue of French or British grants, legal. ly and fully made and executed, or by virtue of grants issued under the authority of former acts of Congress, by either of the governors of North-West, (now Ohio) or Indiana territories, and which had already been XI. 57. of commis surveyed, by a person authorised to execute such sur<vey. Sec. 1. All the decisions made by the commissioners appointed for the purpose of examining the claims 1st May, 1819. of persons, claiming lands in the district of KaskasConfirmation kia, in favor of such claimants, as entered in the transcript of decisions, bearing date the thirty-first sions, in Kas- day of December, eighteen hundred and nine, which have been transmitted, by the said commissioners, to the secretary of the treasury, according to law, are hereby confirmed. sioners' deci kaskia. XI. 59. 1st May, 1810. Compensation to the Sec. 1. There shall be paid out of the treasury of the United States, out of any monies therein, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred dollars to Robert Robinson, in full compensation for his clerk of com- extra services, as clerk to the board of commissionmissioners at ers at Kaskaskias, and as interpreter and transcriber of the different languages, and as agent to the board, and for conveying the report of the commissioners to the seat of the government of the United States. Kaskaskia. VI. 50. 10th May, 1800. vate claims (2) Provisions respecting Claims and Donations in the Mississippi territory. Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, And also, that the said commissioners,* on the part of the United Commission- States, or any two of them, be authorised to inquire ers may in- into the claims which are or shall be made by settlers quire into pri- or any other persons whatsoever, to any part of the aforesaid lands, and to receive from such settlers and propositions claimants, any propositions of compromise which of compro- may be made by them, and lay a full statement of the claims and the propositions which may be made to them by the settlers or claimants to any part of the said and receive mise. *For adjusting interfering claims between the United States and Georgia, under the act of the 7th April, 1798. |