passed the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to audit and settle the claim of the county of Hamilton, in the state of Ohio, for the destruction by fire of the county courthouse while occupied by the troops of the United States, by ascertaining the value thereof, in the manner and form prescribed by the aforesaid act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the amount thereof, when so ascertained, shall be paid to the proper authority out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 26, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. CI.—An Act making further provision for settling claims to land in the territory of Illinois.
Further time allowed to certain settlers on the public lands of the United States for making good their pre-emption right.
Act of April 16, 1814, ch. 61.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person, and the legal representatives of every person, who before the fifth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, settled on and improved any tract of land reserved for the use of schools or seminaries of learning, and who, had not the same been reserved, would have had the right of pre-emption within the tract of country set apart by the third section of the act of the sixteenth day 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,” to satisfy the unlocated claims to land in the said territory, shall be, and they hereby are authorized and allowed, until the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, to enter the same, for purchase, with the register and receiver of public moneys of the land office at Kaskasia; and it shall be the duty of the register and receiver to enter the same for purchase, according to the provisions of this and the said recited act: Provided, That such person or persons shall not have entered, in right of pre-emption, Act of Feb. 27, 1815, ch. 63. other lands in lieu thereof, in virtue of the third section of an act to amend the aforesaid act, passed the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen.
Register and receiver of public lands authorized to select other lands than those settled upon and reserved for the use of schools, &c., for satisfying the pre-emption.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the register and receiver of public money shall have power, and they are hereby authorized to select any other vacant and unappropriated lands within the tract set apart to satisfy confirmed claims as aforesaid, in lieu of such of the lands formerly reserved for a seminary of learning, and for the support of schools, as have been appropriated in satisfaction of ancient grants or confirmed improvement claims, or as shall be entered in right of pre-emption, according to the provisions of the preceding section of this act: Provided, That the lands thus to be selected shall be taken as near adjacent to those in lieu of which they are selected as an equal quantity of land of like quality can be obtained,Proviso. and shall be reserved and appropriated for the same purpose.
Provisions of second section of act of 1815, ch. 63, to extend to settlers on a fractional section within the Kaskaskia district.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the second section of an act passed the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, respecting the settlers on the fractional sections and quarter sections within the aforesaid reserved tract, shall extend to all other settlers on the fractional section or quarter sections within the Kaskaskia district.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the claims filed in the name of the original claimants, or their heirs, not exceeding four hundred acres, contained in a list transmitted to the commissioner of the