Lighthouse near the mouth of Duck creek.To build a lighthouse near the mouth of Duck creek, adjoining Delaware bay, the sum of four thousand dollars.
Salaries of the respective keepers of lighthouses.
Proviso.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the passage of this act, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to regulate and fix the salaries of the respective keepers of lighthouses, in such manner as he shall deem just and proper: Provided, The whole sum allowed shall not exceed an average of four hundred dollars to each keeper.
Appropriation.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, to pay the salaries to the several keepers of the lighthouses within the United States; to be applied under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, in conformity to the authority vested by the third section of this act.
Approved, May 23, 1828.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. LXX.—An Act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement and configuration of private land claims in Florida.[1]
Act of May 8, 1822, ch. 129.
Act of March 3, 1823, ch. 29.
The three claims to land in the district of West Florida, contained in the reports of the commissioners, numbered 4, 8, and 10, excluding from the latter the land contained in certificate, and in the plats A. and C., &c., confirmed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the three claims to land in the district of West Florida, contained in the reports of the commissioners, and numbered four, [4] eight, [8] and ten, [10] excluding from the latter the land contained in certificate, and in the plats A. and C., and the claims contained in the reports of the commissioners of East Florida, and in the reports of the receiver and register, acting as such, made in pursuance of the several acts of Congress providing for the settlement of private land claims in Florida, and recommended for confirmation by said commissioners, and by the register and receiver, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to the extent of the quantity contained in one league square, to be located by the claimants, or their agents, within the limits of such claims or surveys filed, as aforesaid, before the said commissioners, or receiver and register, which location shall be made within the bounds of the original grant, in quantities of not less than one section, and to be bounded by sectional lines.
No more than the quantity of acres contained in a league square shall be confirmed within the bounds of any one grant, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no more than the quantity of acres contained in a league square, shall be confirmed within the bounds of any one grant: and no confirmation shall be effectual until all the parties in interest, under the original grant, shall file with the register and receiver of the district where the grant may be situated, a full and final release of all claim to the residue contained in the grant: and where there shall be any minors incapable of acting within said territory of Florida, a relinquishment by the legal guardian shall be sufficient; and thereafter the excess in said grants, respectively, shall be liable to be sold as other public lands of the United States.
All the decisions made by the register, &c., of the district of East Florida, as commissioners under act of Feb. 8, 1827, ch. 9, recommended for confirmation, confirmed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the decisions made by the register and receiver of the district of East florida, acting ex officio, as commissioners, in pursuance of an act of Congress, approved the eighth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, authorizing them to ascertain and decide claims and titles to lands in the district aforesaid, and those recommended for confirmation under the quantity of three thousand five hundred acres, contained in the reports, abstracts, and opinions, of the said register and receiver, transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury, according to law, and referred by him to Congress, on the twenty-ninth January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight,- ↑ See notes of the decisions of the Supreme Court upon claims and titles to land in the territory of Florida, vol. iii. 709.
