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And that, from and after that day, foreign gold coins shall cease Current until to be a tender within the United States, for the payment of debts then to cease. or demands.

1st. Nov.1819;

So much of

silver coins, in

$ 2. That so much of the act, entitled "An act regulating the act as rethe currency, within the United States, of the gold coins of lates to foreign Great Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain," passed on the twen- force until ty-ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixteen, as relates 29th April, to foreign silver coins, shall be, and the same is hereby, contin- vol. iii. p. ued in force two years from and after the twenty-ninth day of 1599. April next, and no longer. [Approved, March 3, 1819.]

1821.

CHAP. 221. An act providing for the correction of errors in making entries of land at the Vol. iii. p. land offices..

1948. vol. iv.

p. 2138.

making entries

and office, &c. and must retry to the

gister of the

cretary of
the treasury,
who may al-
low the entries

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, in every case of a purchaser of Purchasers public lands, at private sale, having entered, at the land office, a different from tract different from that he intended to purchase, and being de- what they insirous of having the error in his entry corrected, he shall make make applicahis application, for that purpose, to the register of the land office; tion to the reand if it shall appear, from testimony satisfactory to the register and receiver of public moneys, that an error in the entry has been made, and that the same was occasioned by original incorrect marks made by the surveyor, or by the obliteration, or change, of the original marks and numbers of corners of the tract of land; or that it has, in any otherwise, arisen from mis- to be withtake or error of the surveyor, or officers of the land office; the money's paid said register and receiver of public moneys shall report the case, other purcha with the testimony, and their opinion thereon, to the secretary ses of land. of the treasury, who shall have power to direct, if in his opinion it shall be proper, that the purchaser shall be at liberty to withdraw the entry so erroneously made, and that the moneys which had been paid shall be applied in the purchase of other lands in the same district, or credited in the payment for other lands which shall have been purchased at the same office. [Approved, March 3, 1819.]

CHAP. 222. An act concerning invalid pensions.

drawn, and the

to be applied to

Vol. iii. p1662.

Vol. iv. p.

diers, &c. on

act of 18th

3. That any pension granted by this act, or any other act 2143. hereafter to be passed, to any officer, soldier, or marine, who Officers, solserved in the revolutionary war, shall cease and be discontinued, availing themin case the individual, to whom the same may be granted, hath selves of the availed himself, or shall hereafter avail himself, of the provisions March, 1818, of an act, passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand not entitled to eight hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to provide for cer- der this, or tain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."

pensions un

other future acts.

Persons enti

ed, may be

without re

4. That all persons entitled to pensions, in conformity with led by the the provision of the act, entitled "An act to provide for per- acts mentionsons disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary placed on the war," passed April the eighteenth, [tenth] eighteen hundred pension list and six, and also, the fourth section of an act, entitled "An act port. concerning invalid pensioners," passed the twenty-fifth of April, Vol. ü p. 1008. one thousand eight hundred and eight, may be placed on the pension list by the secretary of war, without reporting the same to congress. [Approved, March 8, 1819.]

Vol. ii. p. 1235. CHAP. 223. An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices, in the districts east of the Island of New Orleans.

Vol. iii. p.

1782.1860. 1867.

Vol. iv. p. 2104.2137.

ed on Spanish

the secretary

missioners

tricts east and

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That all the claims to land, founded on complete grants from the Spanish government, reported to Claims, found the secretary of the treasury, by the commissioners from the disgrants favora- tricts east and west of Pearl river, appointed under the authority bly reported to of an act, entitled "An act for ascertaining the titles and claims of the treasu- to lands in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the river ry by the com- Mississippi and island of New Orleans," which are contained in from the dis- the several reports of the commissioners, and which are, in the west of Pearl Opinion of the commissioners, valid, agreeably to the laws, usariver, confirm- ges, and customs, of the said government, be, and the same are ed, &c. hereby, recognised as valid, and complete titles against any claim on the part of the United States, or right derived from the UnitAnd on Brit- ed States: And that all claims founded on British grants contained in the said reports, which have been sold and conveyed, according to the provisions of the treaty of peace, between Great Britain and Spain, of the third of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, by which that part of Louisiana, lying east of the island of Orleans, was ceded to Spain, under the denomination of West Florida, or which were settled and cultivated by the person having the legal title therein, at the date of said treaty, are recognised as valid and complete titles, against any claim on the part of the United States, or right derived from the United States.

ish grants.

Claims under Spanish orders of sur

vey, requette, &c. prior to 20:h Dec. 1803, &c. re

Proviso ; where, &c.

the claim not

ed for more

than 1280

2. That all claims, reported as aforesaid, and contained in the several reports of the said commissioners, founded on any order of survey, requette, permission to settle, or any written evidence of claim, derived from the Spanish authorities, which ought, in the opinion of the commissioners, to be confirmed, and ported favora- which, by the said reports, appear to be derived from the Spably, confirmed. nish governments, before the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, and the land claimed to have been cultivated and inhabited, on or before that day, shall be confirmed in the same manner as if the title had been completed: Provided, That in all such claims, where the plat and certificate of survey, made prior to the fifteenth day of April, one to be confirm thousand eight hundred and thirteen, under the authority of the Spanish government, in pursuance of such claim, has not been filed with the said commissioners, such claim shall not be confirmed to any one person for more than twelve hundred and eighty acres; and that, for all the other claims to land comprisdonations for ed in the reports aforesaid, and which ought, in the opinion of other claims. the commissioners, to be confirmed, the claimant to such lands shall be entitled to a grant therefor as a donation: Provided, That such grant, as a donation, shall not be made to any one person for more than twelve hundred and eighty acres; which confirmation of the said incomplete titles and grants of donations, hereby provided to be made, shall amount only to a relinquishment forever, on the part of the United States, of any claim whatever to the tract of land so confirmed or granted: And proProviso; no vided also, That no such claim shall be confirmed to any person to persons re- to whom the title to any tract of land shall have been recogniscognised, &c. ed under the preceding provisions.

acres to one

person.

Grants and

Proviso; not

more than

1280 acres to

one person. Confirmation,

&c. only, &c.

confirmation

.

or before 15th

3. That every person, or his or her legal representative, Grants, as dowhose claim is comprised in the lists, or register of claims, renations, in the case of claims ported by the said commissioners, and the persons embraced in in right of setthe list of actual settlers, or their legal representatives, not hav- uers, &c. un ing any written evidence of claim reported as aforesaid, shall, April, 1813, if comprised in where it appears, by the said reports, or by the said lists, that the lists, &c. the land claimed or settled on had been actually inhabited or cultivated, by such person or persons in whose right he claims, on or before the fifteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, be entitled to a grant for the land so claimed, or settled on, as a donation: Provided, That not more than one Proviso; not tract shall be thus granted to any one person, and the same shall not contain more than six hundred and forty acres; and that no person. lands shall be thus granted which are claimed or recognised by lands recogthe preceding sections of this act.

more than 640 acres to one

No grant for

nised by, &c.

bitants and

1814, in the case of lands Lot claimed by preceding

4. That every person comprised in the said list of actual Pre-emption settlers, not having any written evidence or claim to land in said rights to inhadistricts, and who, on the twelfth day of April, one thousand cultivators on the 12th April, eight hundred and fourteen, shall have inhabited or cultivated a tract of land in either of the said districts, not claimed by virtue of either of the preceding sections of this act, shall be entitled to a preference, on becoming a purchaser, from the United States, sections. of such tract of land, on the same terms and conditions, and at the same price, for which the other public lands are sold at private sale: Provided, That the first instalment of the purchase Proviso; first money shall be paid to the receiver of public moneys of the dis- instalment trict within which the land lies, within two years after the open- after opening ing of the land office for such district.

within 2 years

the land office.

at St. Helena

son Court

5. That, for the purpose of adjusting the titles and claims A land office to lands in the districts aforesaid, and for the disposal of the lands Courthouse, which may remain the property of the United States therein, a and at Jackland office shall be established in each of the said districts, to house. be kept, for the western district, at St. Helena Courthouse, and, for the eastern district, at Jackson Courthouse; and a register and receiver of public moneys shall be appointed for each of the A register and said land offices, who shall give security in the same manner, public moneys and in the same sums, and whose compensation, duties, and au- for each, &e. thority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall hereafter be disposed of, at their respective of fices, as are by law provided in relation to the other registers and receivers of public moneys for the several land offices of the United States.

receiver of

lowed till 1st

ters at Jack

$6. That every person or persons, claiming lands in either of Claimants althe said districts, whose claims have not heretofore been filed July, 1820, to with the commissioner of the land office of the district wherein deliver notices, evidenthe lands lie, shall be allowed until the first day of July, one ces, &c. thousand eight hundred and twenty, to deliver notices in writ- to the regis ing, and the evidences of their claims, in the said districts, re- son and St. spectively, to the register of the land office at Jackson Court- Helena house and at St. Helena Courthouse; and the notices and evidences so delivered, within the time limited by this act, shall be Notices, &c. recorded in the same manner, and on the payment of the same delivered in fees, as if the same had been delivered before the commissioners corded. closed their said registers.

VOL. III.

200

Courthouses.

time, to be re

Persons who

had filed no

of the land

recommended,

7. That every person or persons, who had filed his or their tices with the notice of claims to land, within either of the said districts, with commissioner the commissioner of the land office, according to the former laws, but have not exhibited sufficient testimony in support of the same, office, &c. whose claims and whose claim has not been recommended for confirmation, have not been shall be allowed until the first day of July, one thousand eight &c. allowed hundred and twenty, to deliver written evidence, or other testitill 1st July, 1820, to deliv- mony, in support of his or their claim, the notice of which had er written evi- been filed as aforesaid, to the register of the land office at St. other testimo- Helena, for lands lying in the district west of Pearl river, and to the register of the land office at Jackson Courthouse, for the livered in time, lands lying in the district east of Pearl river; and the evidence to be record of claims, the notice whereof had been filed, as aforesaid, for lands lying in the said district, delivered, within the time limited by this section, to the said registers, shall be recorded by them, respectively, in the same manner as was directed by former acts, on receiving the same fees allowed by said acts for recording evidence of claims to lands in the same districts.

dence, and

ny, &c.

Evidence de

ed.

at Jackson

na Court

The registers 8. That the register and receiver of public moneys of the and receivers said respective land offices, at Jackson Courthouse and at St. and St. Hele- Helena Courthouse, shall have the same powers, and perform the houses to have same duties, in every respect, in relation to the claims that may the same pow- be filed in virtue of the sixth section of this act, and in relation to the claims, the notices of which had been filed under former acts, as well as to the additional evidence which shall be adduced in support thereof, agreeably to the seventh section of this act, as the commissioners for the districts east and west of Pearl river would have had, or should have performed, if such notices had been filed, and such evidence adduced, before the said commissioners closed their registers.

ers, perform the same duties, &c. as the commis

sioners for the

districts east and west of

Pearl river would have had, &c.

The register of each of the

commissioner

The commis

$9. That it shall be the duty of the register of each of the land offices to said land offices, respectively, to make, to the commissioner of report to the the general land office, a report of all the claims filed with the of the gener- register aforesaid, with the substance of the evidence in support al land office. thereof; and of the claims formerly filed, in support of which additional evidence shall have been received, with the substance of such evidence; and also their opinion, and such remarks respecting the claim as they may think proper to make; which report, together with a list of the claims, which, in the opinion of the register and receiver, ought to be confirmed, and also a list of actual settlers, prior to the passage of this act, noting the time of their respective settlements, shall be laid, by the commissioner of the general land office, before congress, at their next session, for their determination thereon.

sioner to lay

the report, &c.

before congress.

1500 dolls. a

Registers and 10. That the said registers and receivers shall, respectively, receivers may appoint clerks, have power to appoint a clerk, who shall be a person capable of translating the French and Spanish languages, and who shall perform the duty of translator, when required by said registers and receivers; and each of the said registers and receivers shall be allowed, as a compensation for their services in relation to the said claims, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars a year; and each of the clerks at the rate of one thousand dollars a year; Proviso; not Provided, That not more than eighteen months' compensation

year to each register and receiver. 1000 dolls. ann. to each clerk.

per

be thus allowed to the register, receiver, and clerk, for the dis- more than 18 trict east of Pearl river; nor more than eighteen months' com- pensation. pensation be allowed to the register, receiver, and clerk, of the district west of Pearl river.

months' com

the lands

point a princi

of 500 dolls.

deputy sur

11. That the surveyor for the lands south of the state of Surveyor of Tennessee shall, with the consent and approbation of the presi- south of Tendent of the United States, appoint a principal deputy surveyor nessee to apfor the lands within the said districts, who shall receive an an- pal deputy, nual salary of five hundred dollars, and, in addition thereto, the with a salary following fees; that is to say: for examining and recording the and fees. surveys executed by any of the deputies, at the rate of twenty- Rate of fees. five cents for every mile of the boundary line of such survey; and for a certified copy of any plat of a survey in the office, twenty-five cents; and whose duty it shall be to survey, or cause Duty of the to be surveyed by his other deputies, the lands, the claims to veyor. which are confirmed, and that are directed to be granted as donations, where the same have not been already surveyed, and the lands which may be claimed by right of pre-emption, whenever directed by the register and receiver, and to execute such other surveys as may be necessary for the ascertainment of the lands, the title or claim to which is embraced in the report of the commissioners aforesaid. And the said principal deputy surveyor shall make out particular plats of the surveys directed by this act, which he shall return to the register of the proper district; and also, a general and connected plat, which he shall return to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee; and Expense of the expense of surveying shall be paid by the United States: be paid by the Provided, The same shall not exceed, in the whole, four dollars U. States. a mile, for every mile which shall be actually surveyed and Proviso, &c.

marked.

surveying to

mer commis

receiver em

&c.

to each claim

12. That the books of the former commissioners, in which Books of forthe claims, and evidence of claims, are recorded, shall be lodged sioners to be with the registers of the land office, for the respective districts; lodged with the registers, and the register and receiver of public monies, in each respec- &c. tive district, shall have power to examine the claims recognised, Register and confirmed, or provided to be granted, by the provisions of this powered to exact, as also claims to the right of pre-emption; and they shall amine claims, make out to each claimant entitled, in their opinion, thereto, a certificate, according to the nature of the case, under such in- A certificate structions as they may receive from the commissioner of the ant entitled, general land office; and on presentation at the general land of- &e. fice of such certificate for a confirmed claim, or for a donation, according to the provisions of this act; and where it shall ap- The certificate pear, to the satisfaction of the commissioner of the general land having been fairly obtainoffice, that the certificate has been fairly obtained, according to ed, a patent to the true intent and meaning of this act, then, and in that case, a patent shall be granted, in like manner as for other lands of the United States.

issue.

The president

the registers

13. That the president shall have power to appoint the register and receiver of public moneys for the said districts in the may appoint recess of the senate, who shall be nominated to them at their and receivers next meeting. [Approved, March 3, 1819.]

in the recess.

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