United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 12
Chap. XII.—An Act further supplemental to the act entitled “An act making further provision for settling the claims to land, in the territory of Missouri,” passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve.[1]
Act of June 13, 1812, ch. 99.
The United States to relinquish certain rights.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States do hereby relinquish to the inhabitants of the several towns or villages of Portage des Sioux, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, Saint Ferdinand, Villa Robert, Carondelet, Saint Genevieve, New Madrid, New Bourbon, and Little Prairie, in the state of Missouri, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the town or village lots, out lots, common field lots, and commons in, adjoining and belonging to, the said towns or villages, confirmed to them respectively, by the first section of the act of Congress, entitled “An act making further provision for settling the claims to land in the territory of Missouri,” passed the thirteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, to be held by the inhabitants of the said towns and villages, in full property, according to their several rights therein, to be regulated or disposed of for the use of the inhabitants, according to the laws of the state of Missouri.
United States to relinquish all right, &c. in Missouri.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the United States do hereby relinquish all their right, title, and interest, in and to the town and village lots, out lots, and common field lots, in the state of Missouri, reserved for the support of schools, in the respective towns and villages aforesaid, by the second section of the above-recited act of Congress; and that the same shall be sold or disposed of, or regulated for the said purposes, in such manner, as may be directed by the legislature of said state.
Approved, January 27, 1831.
- ↑ See notes of decisions of the Supreme Court on land titles in Missouri, vol. ii. pp. 748, 812.Notes of acts passed relative to land titles in Missouri, vol. ii. p. 812.