United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 42
Chap. XLII.—An Act limiting the time for claims being produced for lands authorized to be granted to the inhabitants of New Madrid.
Act of Feb. 17, 1815, ch. 45.
Persons claiming lands, in virtue of the act mentioned, to make application, &c., on or before the 1st Jan., 1819.
Recorder not to issue certificate where the evidence has not been produced within the time.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person claiming lands in virtue of the act entitled “An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the late county of New Madrid, in the Missouri territory, who suffered by earthquakes,” passed on the seventeenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, shall make application therefor, and produce evidence, in support of his claim, to the recorder of land titles for the said territory, on or before the first day of January next: and the said recorder shall not issue a certificate for any claim as aforesaid, the evidence in support of which shall not have been produced to him within the time limited as aforesaid.
Approved, April 4, 1818.