United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 35
Chap. XXXV.—An Act to carry into effect the ninth article of the treaty concluded between the United States and Spain, the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.[1]
Judges of the superior courts of Florida to adjust the claims under the ninth article of the Florida treaty.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the judges of the superior courts established at St. Augustine and Pensacola, in the territory of Florida, respectively, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to receive and adjust all claims, arising within their respective jurisdictions, of the inhabitants of said territory, or their representatives, agreeably to the provisions of the ninth article of the treaty with Spain, by which the said territory was ceded to the United States.
Decision with evidence to be reported to the Secretary of the Treasury.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in all cases in which said judges shall decide in favour of the claimants, the decisions, with the evidence on which they are founded, shall be, by the said judges, reported to the Secretary of the Treasury, who, on being satisfied that the same is just and equitable, within the provisions of the said treaty, shall pay the amount thereof to the person or persons in whose favour the same is adjudged, out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
- ↑ See notes to the act of May 8, 1822, ch. 129, for the decisions of the courts of the United States on Florida land titles.