the Secretary of the evidence ad Commissioners and such remarks thereon as they may think proper: which reports, to make report to together with the transcripts of the decisions of the commissioners in the Treasury of favour of claimants, shall be laid by the Secretary of the Treasury bethe claims reject- fore Congress at their next ensuing session. Each of the commissioners ed by them, with and clerks aforesaid, shall be allowed a compensation of five hundred the substance of dollars in full for his services as such; and each of the said clerks shall, duced in their previous to his entering on the duties of his office, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation, to wit: "I, do solemnly Secretary of swear, (or affirm,) that I will truly and faithfully discharge the duties the Treasury to of a clerk to the board of commissioners for examining the claims to land, report these with the transcripts of as enjoined by an act of Congress, intituled An act making provision claims admitted for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana Territory, and for to Congress. other purposes." (d) support. Compensation clerks. the clerks. terms and where. Salt springs. to the commis- SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all the lands aforesaid, not sioners and excepted by virtue of the preceding section, shall, with the exception of the section "number sixteen," which shall be reserved in each townOfficial oath of ship for the support of schools within the same, with the exception also All the lands of an entire township in each of the three above-described tracts of with certain ex-country or districts, to be located by the Secretary of the Treasury, for ceptions to be the use of a seminary of learning, and with the exception also of the sold, on what salt springs and lands reserved for the use of the same as hereinafter directed, be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the surveyor-general, or governor of the Indiana Territory, of the register of the land office, and of the receiver of public monies, at the places respectively, where the land offices are kept, and on such day or days as shall, by a public proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose. The sales shall remain open at each place for three weeks and no longer: the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre, and shall in every other respect, be sold in tracts of the same size and on the same terms and conditions as have been or may be by law provided for the lands sold north of the Lands remain river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky River. All lands other ing unsold after than the reserved sections and those excepted as above mentioned, rethree weeks may be disposed of at maining unsold at the closing of the public sales, may be disposed of private sale. at private sale, by the registers of the respective land offices, in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of the lands of the United States north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky River. And patents shall be obtained for all lands granted or sold in the Indiana Territory, in the same manner and on the same terms as is or may be provided by law for lands sold in the State of Ohio, and in the Mi.sissippi Territory. (e) All the naviga SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all the navigable rivers, creeks and ble rivers, &c., in the Indiana Ter. waters, within the Indiana Territory, shall be deemed to be and remain ritory to be public public highways; and the several salt springs in the said Territory, highways. together with as many contiguous sections to each, as shall be deemed Salt springs, necessary by the President of the United States, shall be reserved for the sections reserved future disposal of the United States: and any grant which may herefor the disposal after be made for a tract of land, containing a salt spring which had of the United been discovered previous to the purchase of such tract from the United States, shall be considered as fraudulent and null. (ƒ) with contiguous States. to remain in force Commissions SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United till the end of the States shall have full power to appoint and commission the several regnext session of isters and receivers of public monies of the land offices established by. Congress. this act, in the recess of Congress; and their commissions shall continue in force until the end of the session of Congress next ensuing such appointment. Per diem allow SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the several superintendents of ance to superin- the public sales directed by this act, shall receive six dollars each, for each day's attendance on the said sales. tendents of sales. No. 197.—AN ACT supplementary to the act intituled "An act naking provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana Territory, and for other purposes." March 3, 1805. Vol. 2, p. 343. Lands purchas Indians, Be it enacted, &c., That the lands lately purchased from the Indian tribes of the Wabash, and lying between the rivers Wabash and Ohio, ed from the Wa bash and the road leading from the falls of the river Ohio to Vincennes, shall and lying bebe attached to, and made a part of the district of Vincennes, and be of tween the Wafered for sale at that place, under the same regulations, at the same bash and Ohio, price, and on the same terms as other lands lying within the said dis- attached to the trict. (a) district of Vin cennes, and of SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That such and so many of the tracts fered for sale, &c., of land lying north and west of the Indian boundary, established by at Vincennes. the treaty of Greenville, which were ceded by that treaty to the United Lands lying northwest of the States, as the President of the United States shall direct, shall be sur- Indian boundary veyed and subdivided in the same manner as the other public lands of by the treaty of the United States, and shall be offered for sale at Detroit, or at such of Greenville, shall the other land offices established by law in the State of Ohio, or in the be surveyed, &c. Indiana Territory, as the President of the United States shall judge for sale at De&c., and offered most expedient, under the same regulations, at the same price, and on troit. the same terms, as other lands lying within the same district. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the tract of land lately purchased from the Indian tribes known by the name of Sacs and Foxes, as the President of the United States shall think expedient tached to the disand shail direct, shall be attached to and made a part of the district of trict of Kaskas. Kaskaskias, and shall be offered for sale at that place, under the same kias, &c. regulations, at the same price, and on the same terms, as other lands lying within the said district. Lands purchas ed from the Sacs and Foxes at claimed under SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the lands lying within the dis- Lands in the tricts of Vincennes, Kaskaskias and Detroit which are claimed by virtue districts of Vinof French or British grants, legally and fully executed, or by virtue of cennes, &o., grants issued under the authority of any former act of Congress, by French or British either of the governors of the Northwest or Indiana Territories, and grants, &c., &c., which had already been surveyed by a person authorized to execute shall be resursuch surveys, shall, whenever it shall be found necessary to resurvey veyed at the expeusᎾ of the the same for the purpose of ascertaining the adjacent vacant lands, be United States. surveyed at the expense of the United States; any act to the contrary notwithstanding. registers of the SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That persons claiming lands in either Claimants of of the said three districts, either under legal grants derived from the lands in the foreFrench or British governments, or by virtue of actual possession and going districts, improvement, or for any other account whatever, may until the first day to give notice in of November next, give notice in writing to the register of the land of writing to the fire of their claims, and have the evidence of the same recorded, in the land offices of manner and on payment of the fees provided by the act to which this their claims, &o. act is a supplement; and the right of any person neglecting to give such notice in writing of his claim, and to have the evidence of the same recorded, shall become void and forever be barred. (b) The commissioners appointed for the purpose of examining the Powers, duties, claims of persons claiming lands in the said three districts, shall, in &c., of the com their respective districts, have the same powers, and perform the same missioners. duties in relation to the claims thus filed, as if notice of the same had been given before the first day of January last; and as was provided by the act to which this act is a supplement, in relation to the claims therein described. It shall be the duty likewise of the clerk of each board to prepare two transcripts of all the decisions made by the said commissioners in favor of the claimants, and to transmit one to the surveyor-general and one to the Secretary of the Treasury. It shall also be the duty of the said commissioners, respectively, to make to the Secretary of the Treasury a report of all the claims filed with the register of the land office, which they may have rejected, together with the substance of the evidence adduced in support thereof, and such remarks thereon as they may think proper; and they shall in relation to any such rejected claims which were founded on possession and actual settlement and improvement, particularly state the date of the improvement and the quantity, situation and boundaries of the land claimed. Those reports, together with the transcripts of the decisions of the commissioners, in favour of claimants, shall be laid by the Secretary of the Treasury before Congress at their next ɛession; and the lands, the claims to which shall have been affirmed by the commissioners, as well as those, the claims to which, though rejected by the commissioners, were derived from actual possession, improvement and settlement, shall not be otherwise disposed of until the decision of Compensations Congress thereupon shall have been made. Each of the said commisof the commis- sioners, and each of the clerks of the respective boards, shall be alsioners, clerks, lowed an additional compensation of five hundred dollars, in full for and registers of his services as such in relation to such claims; and each of the reg land offices. isters of the land offices for the said three districts, shall be allowed a further sum of five hundred dollars, as a compensation in full for translating and recording, or causing to be translated and recorded, grants, deeds or other evidences of claims in the French language. (c) SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the governor of the Michigan Territory shall act as one of the superintendents of the sales of public lands at Detroit, in lieu of the governor of the Indiana Territory. April 15, 1806. No. 198.-AN ACT to suspend the sale of certain lands in the State of Ohio and Vol. 2, p. 378. the Indiana Territory. [See OHIO, No. 43.] April 21, 1806. No. 199.--AN ACT respecting the claims to land in the Indiana Territory and State Vol. 2, p. 395. of Ohio. Registers and Be it enacted, &c., That the registers and receivers of public monies of receivers of pub- the districts of Vincennes and Kaskaskias, respectively, be, and they lic moneys in Vin- are hereby authorized and empowered, under the direction of the Seccennes and Kaskaskias author. retary of the Treasury, to lay out one or more tracts of land, in their ized to lay ont respective districts, for the purpose of locating therein, tracts of land one or more tracts granted by virtue of any legal French or British grants, or of any resoin their respect-lution or act of Congress: Provided, That the tracts thus laid out shall ive districts. Proviso. ed. be, whenever practicable, adjoining the tracts, which, in conformity with former laws, had been laid out for similar purposes by the governors of the Northwest or Indiana Territories; and the tracts thus laid out shall not be otherwise disposed of, unless by order of Congress. (a) Resolution war. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons entitled to rants not specific; grants of land by virtue of any former resolution or act of Congress, which how to be enter are not specifically designated in the patents issued by the governors aforesaid, or which have not yet been located, shall have a right to locate the same in the tract or tracts, to be laid out in each district, respectively, by virtue of the preceding section, the priority of such locations shall be determined by lot in presence of the register of the land office, with whom the location shall be entered: and the surveyor-general shall cause the same to be surveyed at the expense of the parties; Provided, That all the lands thus located, shall, in each tract laid out for that purpose, be laid out in a body, without leaving any intervals of vacant land, and shall each be surveyed in the form of a square or of a parallelogram, the length of which shall not exceed three times its breadth. Proviso. Registers and SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the registers and receivers receivers of pub- aforesaid, shall complete and transmit their reports to the Secretary of lic moneys to the Treasury, before the first day of December next. Each of the said transmit reports officers shall be allowed an additional compensation of five hundred to the Secretary of the Treasury; dollars; and each of the clerks of the respective boards shall be allowed by what time." an additional compensation of two hundred and fifty dollars, in full for Additional his services, as such, in relation to such claims. them. certificates of compensation to SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the register and receiver of pubRegisters and lic monies in the district of Cincinnati be, and they are hereby authorreceivers of pub-ized to grant certificates of a right of pre-emption to any person residing lic moneys in Cin- on any reserved section (other than section No. 16) for the tract on cinnati to grant which he resides, on the applicant's producing satisfactory evidence pre-emption to that his claim was within the provisions of the seventh section of an act, intituled "An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands, in the Indiana Territory, and for other purposes:" Provided, That the person shall exhibit the evidence of his claim, and shall have paid at least one-twentieth part of the purchase money, on or before the first residents. Proviso. day of August next: And provided also, That such certificates shall not Proviso. Certificates not be granted for any lands previously granted or sold, or for a larger tract to be granted for than a quarter of a section, nor for any other tract than that on which lands previously he resides, and such land shall be granted at the same price, and on the sold, &c. payments being made, as for other public lands sold at private sale. (a) See Nos. 191, 196, 197, 200, 205, 210, 211, 214, 308, 312, 313, 321. No. 200.-AN ACT confirming claims to land in the district of Vincennes; and for other purposes. March 3, 1807. of to Be it enacted, &c., That all the decisions made by the commissioners Decisions appointed for the purpose of examining the claims of persons claiming commissioners, lands in the district of Vincennes, in favour of such claimants as entered transmitted Secretary of the in the transcripts of decisions which have been transmitted by the said Treasury, commissioners to the Secretary of the Treasury, according to law, be firmed. and the same are hereby confirmed. (a) con SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the confirmations or grants of Confirmations land, made in the said district of Vincennes, by the governors of the of the governor Northwest and Indiana Territories, prior to the establishment of the of the Northwest and Indiana Terboard of commissioners aforesaid, and in conformity with the act, inti- ritories, confirmtuled "An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vin- ed by Congress, cennes and the Illinois country, in the territory northwest of the Ohio, conditionally. and for confirming them in their possessions," be, and the same 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 aforesaid. (b) Proviso. the tract called SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several persons, or the legal Assurance of representatives of the several persons, to whom or to whose assigns the certain titles in several tracts of the tract of land near Vincennes, known by the name "Continuation." of the "Upper Prairie," have been heretofore confirmed, be and they 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 firmed under this act to be entered SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the several persons whose claims are confirmed by this act, and had not been actually located prior to the establishment of the board of commissioners, be, and they are with the register hereby authorized to enter their locations with the register of the land of the land office office of Vincennes, on any part of the tracts set aside for that purpose, of Vincennes. by virtue of the act, intituled "An act respecting the claims to lands in the Indiana Territory, and State of Ohio," and in conformity with the provisions of that act: Provided, That such location shall be made prior Proviso. to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight; and the right of any person who shall neglect to locate prior to that day, shall become void, and forever be barred. firmed under this not SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That every person, or the legal rep- Persons whose resentative of every person, whose claim to a tract of land is confirmed claims are conby this act, and who had not previously obtained a patent for the same, act, entitled to from the governor either of the territory northwest of the Ohio, or of patents, &c., if the Indiana Territory, shall whenever his claim shall have been located they shall and surveyed, be entitled to receive from the register of the land office, received them. previously have at Vincennes, a 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. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the public sales of the public Public sales in lands in the district of Vincennes, may be continued six weeks, if the Vincennes, how ong to be kept term of three weeks now prescribed by law, shall not be found sufficient to offer all the lands within the said district for sale. (c) open. (a) See Nos. 196, 197, 199, 205, 308, 312, 313. (c) See Nos. 196, 197, 205, 207, 208, 218, 232, 237, 228, 317. March 3, 1907. Land office at Jeffersonville, &c. No. 201.-AN ACT making provision for the disposal of the public lands, situated between the United States military tract and the Connecticut Reserve, and for other purposes. [SECS. 1-4. Providing for land district between Cincinnati and Vincennes districts, with office at Jeffersonville, for appointment of landofficers, and sale of lands therein. See Ono, No. 47.] Lead mines to SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the several lead mines in the be reserved for Indiana Territory, together with as many sections contiguous to each as the future dispo- shall be deemed necessary by the President of the United States, shall sal of Congress, be reserved for the future disposal of the United States; and any grant &e. which may hereafter be made for a tract of land containing a lead mine, which had been discovered previous to the purchase of such a tract from the United States, shall be considered fraudulent and null: and the au-President of the United States shall be, and is hereby authorized to lease thorized to lease any lead mine which has been or may bereafter be discovered in the Indiana Territory, for a term not exceeding five years. President lead mines. ed. May 18, 1808. No. 202.-AN ACT granting William Wells the right of pre-emption. Vol. 6, p. 72. Be it enacted, &c., That William Wells shall have the right of prePre-emption emption to three hundred and twenty acres of land, to include his imright to be grant-provements situate at Fort Wayne, in the Indiana Territory, at the confluence of the rivers Saint Joseph's and St. Mary's, which form the Miami of the Lake; the boundaries of which shall be designated under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; which tract of land shall be granted to him at the same price, and on the same terms for which other public lands are sold at private sale, and the respective instalments of the purchase money shall become due at the same time with those of the first public lands which may be sold in the tract of six miles square, ceded by the treaty of Greenville to the United States, at the confluence of said rivers. Feb. 3, 1809. Feb. 24, 1810. Joab Garret ments. No. 203.-AN ACT for dividing the Indiana Territory into two separate govern. [See ILLINOIS, No. 326.] No. 204.-AN ACT to prescribe the mode in which application shall be made for the purchase of land at the several land offices; and for the relief of Joab Garret. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Joab Garret shall be permitted may withdraw to withdraw his entry, made on the second day of September, one his entry. thousand eight hundred and seven, at the land office at Vincennes, from the northwest quarter-section, number two, township number seven, south range number seven west; and the money paid by him on the said entry, shall be placed to his credit, on any purchase he shall or ma y have made of public land in the same district. April 30, 1810. No. 205.—AN ACT providing for the sale of certain lands in the Indiana Territory, and for other purposes. Certain lands Be it enacted, &c., That all that tract of land, to which the Indian to which Indian title was extinguished by the treaty made at Fort Wayne, on the thirtitle has been ex- tieth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and tinguished to be added to the dis. nine, lying west, and adjoining to the boundary line established by the tricts of Cincin treaty of Greenville, shall be attached to, and made a part of the disnati and Vin- trict of Cincinnati; and the residue of the lands to which the Indian cennes. title was extinguished by the said treaty, and other treaties made at Vincennes in the same year, shall be attached to, and made a part of the |