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Chap. LXIX.—An Act to provide for satisfying claims for bounty lands, for military services in the late war with Great Britain, and for other purposes.
Act of April 16, 1816, vol. 3, 284.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases of warrants for bounty lands for military services in the war of eighteen hundred and twelve with Great Britain, which remain unsatisfied at the date of this act, it shall be lawful for the person in whose name such warrant shall have issued, his heirs or legal representatives, to enter at the proper land office in any of the States or Territories in which the same may lie, the quantity of the public lands subject to private entry to which said person shall be entitled in virtue of such warrant in quarter sections:Proviso.
1848, ch. 74. Provided, Such warrants shall be located within five years from the date of this act.
Acts of 27th Jan. 1835, ch. 6, and 7, continued for five years.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the terms prescribed for the issuing of warrants by the Secretary of the Department of War, under the act entitled, “An act to allow further time to complete the issuing and locating of military land warrants during the late war,” and under the act entitled “An act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary army,” both of which acts were approved January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, be, and the same are hereby, respectively, renewed and continued in force for the term of five years from and after the date of this act;Cases not finally disposed of within that time, for ever barred. and all cases which shall not, within the time aforesaid, be finally disposed of, shall be thereafter for ever barred from the benefits of all claim to bounty land for services performed within the spirit and meaning of said acts:Proviso. Provided, That warrants issued under the provisions of this section may be located as is provided for warrants under the first section of this act:Further proviso. And provided further, That the certificate of location obtained under the provisions of this act, shall not be assignable, but the patent shall in all cases issue in the name of the person originally entitled to the bounty land, or to his heirs or legal representatives.
Approved, July 27, 1842.
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Chap. LXXXII.—An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the corporation of Georgetown.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Jurisdiction extended to as to include Little Falls bridge. That the jurisdiction of the corporation of Georgetown is hereby extended so as to include the bridge lately constructed by the said corporation across the river Potomac, at the Little Falls, and the site of said bridge and premises appertaining to said site; and that, as often and as long as said bridge shall hereafter, from any cause, be impassable,A ferry may be established. it shall and may be lawful for the proprietors of land on both sides of said river, through which the ferry road to connect with the Falls Bridge turnpike must necessarily pass, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and keep a ferry, at any rate of ferriage not exceeding the tolls which the Georgetown Bridge Company were heretofore authorized to charge on their bridge.
Powers of the corporation of Georgetown extended.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Corproation of Georgetown, in addition to its present chartered powers, shall have full power and authority to provide for licensing, taxing, and regulating, within its corporate limits, all traders, retailers, pawnbrokers, and to tax venders of lottery tickets, money changers, hawkers and pedlers.
Approved, July 27, 1842.