Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XXXV.—An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians; and to establish a land-office in the Mississippi territory.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of carrying into effect a treaty, made on the twenty-third day of July, one thousand eight hundred and five, between the United States and the Chickasaw nation of Indians, the following sums, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,Appropriations. be, and the same are hereby appropriated, in conformity with the stipulations contained in the said treaty, that is to say;Surveyor general of the public lands south of Tennessee to cause lands ceded by the Cherokees and Chickasaws, and lying in Mississippi, to be surveyed and laid out.
President authorized to have a land-office for the sale of them; to appoint a register and a receiver of public monies, &c.
Their emoluments. to the Chickasaw nation, twenty thousand dollars; to George Colbert and O’Koy, each, one thousand dollars; and to Chinubbe Mingo, chief of the nation, an annuity of one hundred dollars, during his natural life.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general of the public lands, south of Tennessee, to cause to be surveyed and laid out, in the same manner as is provided by law for the other public lands in the Mississippi territory, so much of the lands ceded to the United States by the Cherokees and Chickasaws, as lies within the said territory; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized, whenever he shall think it proper, to establish a land-office for the sale of the said lands, and to appoint a register of the same, and a receiver of the public monies accruing from the sale of the said lands, whose respective emoluments and duties shall be the same as those of the registers and receivers of the other land-offices in the said territory.
Approved, March 3, 1807.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XXXVI.—An Act respecting claims to land in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana.[1]
Part of the 1st section of a former act repealed, respecting incomplete titles.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the first section of the act, intituled “An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the territory of Orleans and the district of Louisiana,” as provides that no incomplete title shall be confirmed, unless the person in whose name the warrant or order of survey had been granted, was at the time of its date, either the head of a family, or above the age of twenty-one years, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Residents in the territories of Orleans or Louisiana, confirmed in their titles, if in possession a certain number of successive years.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons, and the legal representative of any person or persons, who, on the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and three, had for ten consecutive years prior to that day, been in possession of a tract of land not claimed by any other person, and not exceeding two thousand acres, and who were on that day resident in the territory of Orleans or Louisiana, and had still possession of such tract of land, shall be confirmed in their titles to such tract of land: Provided, that no claim to a lead mine or salt spring, shall be confirmed merely by virtue of this section: And provided also, that no more land shall be granted by virtue of this section, than is actually claimed by the party, nor more than is contained within the acknowledged and ascertained boundaries of the tract claimed.
Release to be made by the corporation.
Proviso.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the claim of the corporation of the city of New Orleans, to the commons adjacent to the said city, and within six hundred yards from the fortifications of the same, be, and the same are hereby recognized and confirmed: Provided, that the
- ↑ See notes to act of March 2, 1805, chap. 26.
