United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 4
Chap. IV.—An Act for the relief of William and Elias Rector.
Settlement for surveys.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the accounting officers of the treasury be authorized to settle the claim of William and Elias Rector, at a sum not exceeding three dollars per mile, for the lines which bound each survey, whether separate or adjoining other claims, for each survey which they have made, or may hereafter make, under the authority of the United States, of the private claims in the Kaskaskia district, or Illinois territory, claimed by virtue of French or British grants, legally and fully made and executed, or by virtue of grants issued under the authority of former acts of Congress, by either of the governors of North West, (now Ohio) or Indiana territories, and which had already been surveyed by a person authorized to execute such survey.
Approved, December 28, 1809.