3 That the Scioto Salt Springs and those near the Muskingum, and in the military tract, &c. be granted to said state, with condition that they be never sold or leased for a longer term than 10 years 4 That one twentieth of the nett proceeds of all public lands sold in said state, after the 30th June, 1802, be applied to making public roads to and through the same 227-8 5 The above three propositions of- fered on condition that the public lands sold by Congress in said state, be exempted from all taxa- tion for five years after the day of
sale 6 Certain tracts vested in the legis- lature of, for the use of schools 7 Three per cent. of the nett pro- ceeds of all public lands sold in, to be paid to such person as may be authorized by said state for opening and making roads therein 230 8 One complete township granted for an academy
9 Eighteen quarter townships and three sections, appropriated for schools in the tract called the Vir- ginia military reservation, in lieu of one thirty-sixth part thereof, formerly appropriated
10 To be void unless the state of
Ohio shall accept the same in lieu of the said one thirty-sixth part 232 See Compact.
Ohio Company.
1 The board of treasury authorized, by resolution of Congress, of 23d July, 1787, to contract for the sale of a tract of land on the Ohio, as therein described
2 The purchasers to lay off the tract into townships, &c. at their own expence
3 Lot No. 16 in each township to be given perpetually for schools, and No. 29 for religious purposes 237 4 Nos. 8, 11, 26, reserved for the future disposition of Congress, and (not more than) two townships for an university
ib. 5 Price to be not less than $1 per acre in specie, Loan Office certi- ficates at specie value, or certifi- cates of liquidated debt of the United States
. ib. 6 An allowance not exceeding one- third of a dollar per acre to be made for bad land
1 To purchasers of public lands 2 Fees for, no longer payable after the first day of April, 1804 3 The register of the treasury direct- ed to obtain and transmit by mail to the register of the proper land office the patents to which pur- chasers of public lands in his dis- trict are entitled 4 Not to issue for any lot or lots of 100 acres, located on warrants for military services, except in the name of the person originally en- titled to such warrant, or his heirs 201 5 See the note on this last provision at the bottom of the page 6 Not to issue to persons claiming under the rerolutions of Congress, in favor of refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, establishing their claims after the 24th February, 1810, unless such persons be resi- dent within the United States at the time then being
1 By purchasers of public lands; terms and conditions of
2 To be made either to the treasu- rer of the United States or the re-
ceiver of the public monies at the place of sale
151 See for the various provisions and al- terations in regard to the time and mode of payment, Sales of public land. Also Register, 5, 7, 8. Pre- emption, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, 16, 23, 24. Evidences of public debt.
1 Builder of a mill in the North- West Territory entitled to the pre- emption of the section including the mill, on complying with the laws prescribed for other purcha-
2 Rights of, granted to purchasers who had, previous to the first of April, 1797, contracted for land with John Gleyes Symmes 3 Terms and times of payment therefor
4 Various provisions relating to the surveying of and payments for such rights
5 Evidences of public debt receiva- ble in payment 6 Rights of, extended to purchasers previous to the 1st January, 1808, of lands between the Miami rivers within the limits of a survey made by Israel Ludlow, and the said Symmes's patent
7 Specification of price and terms of payment therefor
8 Notice of claims to, to be given to the receiver of public monies at Cincinnati, to be filed and laid be- fore the commissioners for adjust- ing such claims
9 Manner in which the aforesaid tract of country shall be surveyed 248 10 The preceding provisions ex- tended to purchasers from John C. Symmes, prior to the 1st Janua- ry, 1800, out of the limits of Lud- low's survey
11 Further provisions relating to pre-emption certificates, filing of claims and the powers and duties of the commissioners, &c. 12 Time given to claimants untilthe 1st January, 1803, to make the first payment
13 Further extended for that and the 2d, 3d, aud 4th instalments 14 No certificate of pre-emption to issue but to purchasers previous to the 1st January, 1800, who had made written contracts with, and paid money to said Symmes 15 Provision in favor of improvers of tracts other than those purcha- sed of said Symmes 16 The first instalment being regu larly paid, the residue of the pur-
17 Pre-emption rights in the terri- tory of Michigan, who entitled to, how to be paid for, and the steps to be pursued by the claimants in asserting the same 276 18 In the Mississippi Territory, granted to every person being the head of a family, or 21 years of age, inhabiting and cultivating a tract of land therein, on the 3d March, 1803
284 19 Commissioners' certificate of a right of pre-emption entitles the claimant to become a purchaser of the land claimed, on complying with certain requisitions 20 Proceedings in case of an ad- verse claim under a British patent, to the same tract
21 Pre-emptioner losing his land by judicial decision in favor of a claimant under a British patent, to be refunded the money paid by him therefor 22 Where only a part of his land is claimed under a British patent, he may have a patent for the residue ib. 23 Time for making the first pay- ment for pre-emption rights ex- tended to the 1st January, 1807, on failure of which, the pre-emp- tion right to cease 24 Further extended to the 1st Ja- nuary, 1808
25 Pre-emption rights extended to every person being the head of a family, or above 21 years of age, who did on the 3d March, 1807, actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land, and who had obtained permission to remain on such tract pursuant to the act of 3d March, 1807
2 Not exceeding 400 acres to any one person 3 Claimants under legal grants by the French government, prior to the treaty of Paris, of the 10th February, 1763, or by the Bri- tish government prior to the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, or any resolution or act of Congress subsequent thereto, in the several districts of Vincennes, Kaskaskia and Detroit, to deliver, on or before the 1st Ja- nuary, 1805, to the respective re- gisters of said districts, written no- tices of their claims. .266-7
4 Also grants and other written evi- dences of their titles to be record. ed
3 Forfeiture of all right derived from any resolution or act of Con. gress on failure therein
6 Claims under legal grants derived from any of the beforementioned sources to be surveyed at the pub- lic expence
Time for filing notices of claims, extended until the 1st November, 1805
8 Confirmation of the decisions of the commissioners in favor of claimants in the district of Detroit 271 9 Actual settlers in Michigan ter- ritory, prior to or on the 1st July, 1796, and in the actual occupancy
13 Additional tracts to be laid out, adjoining those formerly laid out, at Vincennes and Kaskaskia, for locating therein tracts granted by legal French or British grants, or by Congress
14 Unlocated claims under any for- mer resolution, or act of Congress, to be located therein 15 Priority of location to be deter- mined by lot, and the manner of making the same
16 Confirmation of claims in the dis- trict of Vincennes, on which the the commissioners have decided in favor of the claimants . . . 277-3 17 Of certain grants by the gover- nors of the North-West and Indi- ana Territories, except those actu- ally rejected by the commissioners subsequently appointed . . . 278 18 And of certain claims in the tract near Vincennes, known by the name of Continuation ib.
19 Claims thus confirmed, which have not been actually located, how to be located, and when and how patents are to be obtained there- for 278-9 20 Confirmation of the commission- ers' decisions in favor of certain claimants in the District of Kas- kaskia, &c.
21 Private claims in the Mississippi Territory; residents therein on the 27th October, 1795, being heads of families or 21 years of age, and who had obtained from the British government of West-Florida, or Spanish government, any warrant or order of survey for land, and on that day actually inhabited and cul- tivated the same, confirmed in their
23 Claims barred on failure thereof, and no written evidence of title not thus recorded to be admitted in the courts of the U. States 285 24 Commissioners, certificate of ti-
tle under a British or Spanish grant valid against the U. States 286-7 25 And of title under the Bourbon act of Georgia, or of the two first sections of the act of the 3d March, 1803, entitles the claim- ant to a patent for the land claim- ed
287 26 British grants, not confirmed by the articles of agreement with Georgia, to be reported by the commissioners
27 Specification of claims to which the 5,000,000 of acres reserved by the said articles are appropri
28 Under certain conditions and re- strictions
29 Time for filing and recording claims west of Pearl River 30 What evidence of title may be required by the commissioners there
31 They shall report to the Secre- tary of the Treasury claims dis- allowed by them, on suspicion of being antedated or otherwise frau- dulent
35 Claimants under British grants legally and fully executed allow- ed a further time for filing claims with the Register of the Land Office west of Pearl river
36 Such grants not filed, &c. to be no evidence in the courts of the United States, against certain o- ther claims
37 Certain settlers on the Mobile allowed until the first of October, 1808 to file their claims 38 The Registers of the Land Of fices east and west of Pearl river to transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of all claims under British or Spanish warrants, &c. granted prior to the 27th of October, 1795, and not confirmed by former laws, to be by him laid before Congress
ib. 38 Time given until the 1st Octo- ber, 1808, to obtain permission to remain on lands the property of the United States
ib. 39 The several tracts the titles to which are derived under Spanish grants, &c. disallowed by the com- missioners, on suspicion of their being ante-dated or otherwise frau- dulent, to be sold as other public lands, &c. 40 But the claimants may institute a suit for the recovery thereof, which must be brought within a certain time or the claimants fore- ver barred 41 If it shall appear to the court that the land claimed was actually surveyed prior to the 27th Oct. 1795, the same to be deemed good and valid
42 But if the claimant shall fail to make this appear, or the survey shall be otherwise deemed frau- dulent or illegal, the grant, &c. of the Spanish government de- clared null and void ib, 43 In the trial of such suit parole evidence to be admitted and the judgment of the court therein to be conclusive : 303 44 Private claims in the Orleans and Louisiana territories, all grants for lands in the territory ceded by France to the United States since the date of the treaty of St. Ide
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