passed the fifteenth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be, and [t]he same is hereby repealed, and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause to be sold such of the vessels acquired under the said act, as he may deem inexpedient to be retained in the public service; and ot cause the money arising therefrom to be paid into the public treasury.
President authorized to cause to be sold the gun-boats unnecessary for public service, and warrant officers and privates in consequence entitled to four months’ pay, &c.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be sold, they being first divested of their guns and military stores, which are to be carefully preserved, such and so many of the gun-boats belonging to the United States, as in his judgment may no longer be necessary to be retained for the public service; and such of the warrant officers and privates as may be discharged in consequence of such sale, shall be entitled to receive four months’ pay, over and above what may be due to them at the time of their discharge.
Approved, February 27, 1815.
Statute III.
Chap. LXIII.—An Act to amend and extend the provisions of the act of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois territory, and providing for their location.”
Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 61.
Western boundary of the Illinois territory to include all islands in the Mississippi, between the middle and eastern margin.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the western boundary of the tract of country set apart by the act of the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois territory, and providing for their location,” be extended upon the river Mississippi, to the middle thereof, so as to include all islands in said river, between the middle and eastern margin, throughout the length of said line; and that all or any of the said islands shall be subject to be appropriated under the said recited act.
Proviso of a former act repealed so far as it regards settlers on fractions of sections, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proviso contained in the fourth section of the before-recited act to be repealed, so far as it regards persons settled on fractions of sections or quarter sections containing less than one hundred and sixty acres; and that such persons under the like circumstances shall be considered as entitled to all the rights, benefits, and advantages, specified in the said fourth section, as those settled on sections or quarter sections, and also, to any right, privilege, or advantage secured by this act: Provided however,Proviso. That such persons shall not be permitted in such cases to take less than the whole quantity of such fractional quarter section on which they are respectively settled.
Settlers on lands reserved for the use of schools, entitled to the pre-emption of the like quantity of other land, on the same terms and within the proper boundary.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person or persons, who settled on and improved any of the lands in the said territory, reserved for the use of schools or seminaries of learning, before the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and who would have had the right of pre-emption thereto, had not the same been reserved as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the pre-emption of the like quantity of other land, upon the same terms, and under the same recited act, to be located on any lands within the boundary specified in this and the said recited act, not otherwise appropriated; and such persons shall also be entitled to the benefit of, and subject to, the restrictions contained in this act.
Persons who failed to locate their claims, entitled to pre-emption upon other unappropriated lands within the boundary.Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 61.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all and every person or persons entitled to the pre-emption of lands, under the fourth section of the before-recited act, who failed to locate their claims within the time limited in said act, and which lands have been appropriated by others, shall be entitled to the pre-emption of the like quantity, as they could
