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obligations, notes, claims, or property, in consideration of which given by the the trustees of the said college became indebted to the United trustees on States, and also all property heretofore pledged to the United tions. States, in security of the said debts so due from the trustees of the said college to the United States.

§2. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of the said Trustees to college shall be discharged and released from the said claims of be discharged the United States, immediately upon complying with the requisitions of the first section of this act. [Approved, 19 March, 1828.]

CHAP. 22. An act to revive and continue in force the several acts making provision for the extinguishment of the debt due the United States by the purchasers of the public lands.

and released.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the act, entitled "An act to pro- Act of 18th vide for the extinguishment of the debt due the United States by May, 1824, the purchasers of public lands," approved May the eighteenth, 26th May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four;* and the act, entitled 1824, and act "An act explanatory of an act to provide for the extinguishment May 4th, of the debt due the United States by the purchasers of public ued in force 1826, continlands," approved May the twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hun- until 4th Judred and twenty-four ;† and also the act, entitled "An act making ly, 1829. further provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the Act of 1824, United States by the purchasers of public lands," approved May ch. 88, vol. 3. the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be, and +Act of 1824, the same are hereby, revived and continued in force until the ch. 176, vol 3, fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. p. 1669. § 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act Act of 1826, be, and the same are hereby extended to all lands on which a p. 2021. further credit has not been taken, and which, having become for- The provifeited to the United States since the first of July, one thousand sions of this eight hundred and twenty, remain unsold. [Approved, 21 March, act extended 1828.]

CHAP. 28. An act to confirm certain claims to lands in the territory

of Michigan.

p. 1941.

ch. 34, vol. 3,

to all lands.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the claims purporting to be con- Claims under firmed, or recommended for confirmation, by the commissioners that of 11th May, appointed to carry into effect the " Act to revive the powers of the 1820, concommissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to lands firmed. in, and for settling the claims to lands at, Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, in the territory of Michigan,"* passed on the eleventh *Act of 1820, day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, which are ch. 85, vol. 3, contained in volumes two, four, and five, be, and the same are

confirmed.

p. 1780.

the act of 21st

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the claims purporting to Claims under be confirmed or recommended for confirmation, by the commis- Feb. 1823. sioners appointed to carry into effect "An act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the territory of Michigan," passed the twenty-first of February, one tAct of 1823, thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, which are contained in ch.139, vol. 3, volumes one, three, six, eight, and nine of said reports, be, and the p. 1877. same are hereby confirmed.

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the trea- Secretary of

the treasury to give full effect to the

reports of the

commission

ers.

Proviso:

This act not

sury, under the direction of the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and required, as soon as may be, to adopt such measures as may be necessary to give full effect to the reports of the commissioners which are enumerated in the first and second sections of this act: Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to prejudice the rights of third persons, or to to prejudice impose any obligation on the part of the United States to make the rights of payment or give other lands to any claimant who may be deprivthird pers ns, ed of his possessions by operation of law; nor shall the confirmations made by this act be so construed as to extend further than to a relinquishment by the United States of all interest in, and to said lands, nor to any lands occupied by the United States for military purposes.

&c.

Register of the land office

at Detroit, to issue certifi. cates to claimants.

Secretary of the treasury to pay $30 for maps.

Compensation per mile, to be paid for surveying the donation rights or

back concessions in said territory.

*Act of 1827, ch. 166, vol. 3,

p. 2041.

An addition

al judge of the S. C. to be ap

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the register of the land office at Detroit, to issue patent certificates, in the forms usual in similar cases, to claimants whose claims are confirmed by this act, upon which certificates if legally and properly obtained, patents shall be granted by the commissioners of the general land office.

§ 5. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby authorised and required to pay to John J. Deming of Detroit, the sum of thirty dollars, which shall be in full for his services in preparing and publishing maps for the use of the commissioners aforesaid.

§ 6. And be it further enacted, That for surveying the donation rights or back concessions in said territory, heretofore made under the abovementioned acts of Congress, and not paid for, and also for such surveys as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, there shall be paid out of any in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same commoney pensation per mile as is allowed by the tenth section of the act of the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twentyseven, entitled "An act to provide for the confirmation and settlement of private land claims in East Florida, and for other purposes,"* any thing in any act to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, 17 April, 1828.]

CHAP. 29. An act providing for the appointment of an additional judge of the superior court of the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States of America, by, and with the advice and pointed for T. consent of the Senate, to appoint and commission an additional of Arkansas, judge of the Superior Court for the territory of Arkansas, who to hold his shall reside in said territory, and hold his commission for the for four years, term of four years.

commission

The legisla

ture of Arkansas au

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That when said judge shall have been commissioned, the legislature of the territory of Arkansas thorised to or. shall be authorized to organize the counties of said territory into four judicial districts, and to assign to each of the four judges of counties of the Superior Court of the territory of Arkansas, one of said cirsaid territory cuits or districts, and to require said judges to hold Circuit or into four judicial districts. District Courts in each county of their respective districts, at

ganise the

such place and time as the legislature aforesaid may appoint and designate.

two terms

§3. And be it further enacted, That in addition to holding Dis- The judges trict or Circuit Courts as aforesaid, the judges aforesaid shall shall hold hold two terms annually of the Superior Court, at the seat of annually of government in said territory; and the legislature aforesaid shall the S. C. at be authorised in all cases, except when the United States is a government party, to fix the respective jurisdictions of the District and Supe- in said terririor Court. The United States' cases shall be tried in the Supe- tory, &c. rior Court, in the manner that said cases are now tried.

the seat of

thorised to

§4. And be it further enacted, That the Judges aforesaid shall Judges aube authorised to nominate and appoint, and the governor to com- nominate the mission a clerk in each county of their respective districts, in governor to such manner, with such powers, and for such term of time as the commission a legislature aforesaid may designate; but in no county shall the clerk in each clerk of the Superior Court be appointed the clerk of the Circuit Court; and the compensation of said clerks, except in United CompensaStates' cases, shall be fixed by the legislature aforesaid.

county.

tion of clerks.

§ 5. And be it further enacted, That when any party to a suit Party to a suit is aggrieved by a decision of a judge holding a district court, criminal ca except in except in criminal cases, the party aggrieved shall be at liberty, ses, empow by appeal, writ of error, or certiorari, to remove said suit to ered to rethe Superior Court of said territory for further trial; and the case it to the S. thus brought up shall be tried by the judges, or any two of them C. for further other than the judge who made the decision in the District Court. trial.

move said

§ 6. And be it further enacted, That the additional judge hereby Additional authorised to be appointed shall receive the same salary now judge's salary. allowed by law to the judges of the Superior Court for the territory of Arkansas.

ror from the

§7. And be it further enacted, That writs of error and appeal Writs of erfrom the final decision of the Superior Court for the territory of S. C. to be Arkansas, shall be made to the Supreme Court of the United made to the States, in the manner, and under the same regulations, as from S. C. of the the Circuit Courts of the United States, when the amount in controversy, to be ascertained by oath or affirmation of either party, shall exceed one thousand dollars.

U.S.

far as is not

§ 8. And be it further enacted, That the act of the legislature Act of the leg. of the territory of Arkansas, passed at the last session of the islature, so legislature of said territory, in relation to the courts of said terri- inconsistent, tory, so far as the provisions of said act are not inconsistent with &c. with this and repugnant to this act, be, and the same is hereby affirmed, act, affirmed. until said legislature may alter or modify the same.

view of this

§9. And be it further enacted, That all acts coming within the All acts with purview of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed; and in the purthat this act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its act repealed, passage. [Approved, 17 April, 1828.]

CHAP. 30. An act authorising the President of the United States to

appoint certain agents therein mentioned.

&c.

or agents to

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the President of the United States President to be, and he is hereby authorised, by and with the advice and con- appoint agent sent of the senate, to appoint such agent or agents as may be use- designate the fully employed in prosecuting the designation and settlement of N. E. bounda VOL. IV.

2

S.

ry of the U. the line forming the north-eastern boundary of the United States, and bringing the existing controversy with Great Britain relating thereto to a speedy termination. [Approved, 17 April, 1828.]

Forty-nine sections of

land to be located in the

Delaware

land district

in lieu of the

lands desig

nated in the

act of 3d

March, 1820.

*Act of 1827,

ch. 250, vol. 3,

p. 2069.

Time for the

lands sold for

non-payment

of taxes, extended for 3

years.

*Act of 1813,

ch. 36 vol. 2,

p. 1354.

CHAP. 31. An act explanatory of" An act to grant a certain quantity of land to the state of Ohio, for the purpose of making a road from Columbus to Sandusky."

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That in lieu of the lands appropriated by the act approved on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven,* there shall be granted to the state of Ohio, for the purposes designated in the said act, forty nine sections of land, to be located in the Delaware land district in the following manner, to wit: every alternate section through which the road may run, and the section next adjoining thereto, on the west, so far as the said sections remain unsold, and if any part of the said sections shall have been disposed of, then a quantity equal thereto shall be selected under the direction of the commissioner of the general land office, from the vacant lands in the sections adjoining on the west of those appropriated. [Approved, 17 April, 1828.]

СНАР. 39. An act to extend the time allowed for the redemption of land, sold for direct taxes, in certain cases.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the time allowed for the redempredemption of tion of lands, which have been, or may be sold for the non-payment of taxes under the several acts, passed on the second of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen ;* the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen;† and the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, for laying and collecting a direct tax within the United States, so far as the same have been purchased for, or on behalf of the United States, be revived, and be extended for the further term of three years, from and after the expiration of the present session of Congress: Provided also, That on such redemption, interest shall be paid at the rate of twenty per centum on the taxes aforesaid, and on the additions of twenty per centum, chargeable thereon; and Proviso: In the right of redemption shall enure, as well as to the heirs and terest shall be assignees of the land so purchased on behalf of the United States, rate of twenty as to the originals thereof. [Approved, 28 April, 1828.]

+Act of 1815,

ch. 174, vol. 2, p. 145.

ch. 2, vol. 3,

p. 1536.

paid at the

per centum

on the taxes. CHAP. 40. An act extending the limits of certain land offices in Indiana, and for other purposes.

Lands east of the second principal meridian, and

north of the

southern boundary of Fort Wayne

district, at

tached to the

land district.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all the lands in the state of Indiana to which the Indian title is extinguished, which lie east of the line dividing the first and second ranges east of the second principal meridian, and north of the southern boundary of the fort Wayne district, shall be attached to the land district, the land office of which is established at fort Wayne; and that all the lands to which the Indian title is extinguished in said state, and which may lie west of the line dividing the first and second ranges east of the second principal meridian, shall be attached to the land district, the land office of which is established at Crawfordsville.

dian to be ex

§ 2. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor general shall Second princause the second principal meridian to be extended to the northern cipal meriboundary of the state of Indiana: Provided, The assent of the tended to Indians be obtained to the running and marking that portion of northern the meridian line which may lie within the lands not ceded to the boundary. United States. [Approved, 28 April, 1828.]

CHAP. 41. An act in addition to the act, entitled "An act to provide for the sale of lands conveyed to the United States in certain cases, and for other purposes," passed the twenty-sixth day of May, eigh teen hundred and twenty-four.

Proviso;

Act of 1824,

ch. 172, vol. 3, p. 1958. Lands sold or conveyed to,

&c. not used,

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That in all cases where lands have been, or shall hereafter be conveyed to, or for the United States, for forts, arsenals, dock-yards, light-houses, or any like purpose, or or for the U. in payment of debts due the United States, which shall not be S. for forts used, or necessary for the purposes for which they were purchas- &c. to be ed, or other authorised purpose, it shall be lawful for the Presi- sold. dent of the United States to cause the same to be sold for the best price to be obtained, and to convey the same to the purchaser by grant or otherwise.

to procure the

the erection

§2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United The president States be authorised to procure the assent of the legislature of any assent of the state within which any purchase of land has been made, for the legislature of erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other any state for needful buildings, without such consent having been obtained; and also to obtain exclusive legislation over any such tract, as is provided for in the sixteenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution; and that he be authorised to procure the like consent and exclusive legislation as to all future purchases of land for either of those purposes.

conveyed for

§ 3. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United Where lands States, in all cases where lands have been conveyed for the United have been States to individuals or officers, be authorised to obtain from the the U. S. to person or persons to whom the conveyance has been made, a individuals, a release of their interest to the United States. [Approved, 28 April, their interest 1828.]

release of

to be obtained.

An act authorising the legislative council of Florida to meet in October instead of December; and repealing the proviso in the sixth section of the act, entitled "An act to amend an act for the ́establishment of a territorial government in Florida, and for other purposes,"* approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred "Act of 1823, and twenty-three.

ch. 156, vol. 3, p. 1902.

§1. Be it enacted, &c. That the legislative council of the ter- Legislative ritory of Florida, shall begin its next session on the second Mon- council to begin its session day in October instead of December, and annually thereafter on on the 2nd the same day in the said month of October.

Monday in

nually.

§2. And be it further enacted, That the proviso in the sixth October ansection of the act, entitled "An act to amend 'An act for the Proviso in establishment of a territorial government in Florida, and for other the fifth secpurposes,"" approved March the third, one thousand eight hun- tion of the act dred and twenty-three, be, and the same is hereby repealed: of 2d March, 1823, repealProvided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as ed.

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