No security given to, or obligation entered into with, the government, to be impaired.ligation entered into, with the government, shall be in any wise impaired, by the dismissing any officer, or from failure of the President to dismiss any officer coming under the provisions of this act.
Approved, January 31, 1823.
Statute II.
[Expired.]
Chap. X.—An Act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the territory of Michigan.[1]
Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85, revived, and continued in force till 1st Nov. next.
Report of the commissioners to be laid before Congress.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, in the territory of Michigan,” approved May the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, shall be, and the same is hereby, revived, and shall continue in force until the first day of November next; and it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, as soon thereafter as may be, to forward their report, as is required by the second section of said act, to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be by him laid before Congress at its next session.
Second section of the act of April 23, 1812, ch. 62, to embrace certain claims.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the second section of the act, entitled “An act to authorize the granting of patents for land, according to the surveys that have been made, and to grant donation rights to certain claimants of land in the district of Detroit, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall be so construed as to embrace all persons who have claims confirmed below Milk river point, at the lower end of Lake St. Clair.
Patents to be issued to persons whose claims have been filed under the act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That patents shall, and they are hereby directed to, be issued, in the mode pointed out by law in other cases, to persons whose claims to lands, town or village lots, have been regularly filed with the commissioners appointed by an act, entitled “An act to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Prarie du Chien, in the territory of Michigan,”- ↑ Acts relating to public lands in Michigan: An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes, March 26, 1804, ch. 35. An act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes,” March 3, 1805, ch. 43. An act to provide for the adjustment of titles to land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes,” April 21, 1806, ch. 43. An act relating to grants of land in the territory of Michigan, March 3, 1807, ch. 34. An act supplemental to “An act regulating the grants of land in the territory of Michigan,” April 23, 1808, ch. 67. An act to authorize the granting of patents for land according to surveys that have been made, and to grant donation rights to certain claimants of land in the district of Detroit, and for other purposes, April 23, 1812, ch. 62. An act allowing further time for entering donation rights to lands in the district of Detroit, March 3, 1817, ch. 99. An act to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascertaining and deciding claims to land in the district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to land at Green Bay and Prairie du Chien, in the territory of Michigan, May 11, 1820, ch. 85. An act to annex certain lands within the territory of Michigan to the district of Detroit, May 11, 1820, ch. 94. An act to revive and continue in force certain acts for the adjustment of land claims in the territory of Michigan, February 21, 1823, ch. 10. An act to alter the lines between the land districts in the territory of Michigan, May 16, 1826, ch. 56. An act to confirm claims to land in the territory of Michigan, April 17, 1828, ch. 28. An act to establish a land office in the territory of Michigan, and for other purposes, February 19, 1831, ch. 27. An act to change the boundary between the south-eastern and western land district in the territory of Michigan, June 25, 1834, ch. 72. An act to divide Green Bay land district in Michigan, and for other purposes, June 15, 1836, ch. 98. An act to establish a land office in the territory of Michigan, January 30, 1833, ch. 12. An act supplementary to “An act to provide for the adjustment of the titles to land in the town of Detroit, and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes,” passed April 21, 1806. August 29, 1842, ch. 260.
