United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/5th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 59
Chap. LIX.—An Act to authorize a grant of lands to Stephen Monot, and others, inhabitants of Galliopolis, therein named.
Survey to be made of 1200 acres of land.Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be the duty of the Surveyor-General of the Northwestern Territory, to survey one thousand two hundred acres of land, beginning on the bank of the Ohio river, at the lower corner of a tract surveyed pursuant to an act of Congress, entitledAct of March 3, 1795, ch. 49. “An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” and running thence down said river along the courses thereof; six hundred and forty poles when reduced to a straight line, thence extending back from the river and parallel to the lower line of the said grant so far as to include the quantity aforesaid. And the said Surveyor-General shall, bylines plainly marked upon trees, divide the said tract into eight equal parts or lots, having each as nearly as may be, an equal front on the river, and designated by progressive numbers, marked on the corners thereof. And the Surveyor-General, when the said lots are laid off and numbered as aforesaid,To be divided into eight parts, &c. shall distribute or assign the same by lot, to Stephen Monot, Lewis Anthony Carpentier, Lewis Vimont, Francis Valton, Lewis Philip A. Fichon, Anthony Maquet, Margaret G.C. Champaigne, wife of Peter A. Laforge, and Maria I. Dalliez, wife of Peter Luc, and to their heirs, being inhabitants of Galliopolis, who were prevented from obtaining their proportion of the land granted by the act aforesaid. The said Surveyor-General shall also make out a fair plat of the said tract,Plats to be made of the tract and lots. and shall designate thereon the said lots marked each with the name of the person to whom the same shall have been assigned by lot as aforesaid, which plat with a certificate of the bounds and courses of the said tract and lots he shall record in his office, and return a copy thereof to the Secretary of State, to be filed in his office.
Letters patent to be issued therefor.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to issue letters patent in the usual form, thereby granting to the persons above named, and to their heirs, the said tract of land to be held by them and their heirs in severalty, in lots designated, numbered and marked as aforesaid.
Saving of private contracts made with the grantees.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be taken or considered in any manner to affect the claims of the persons herein named against any person or persons, for or by reason of any contracts heretofore made by them, but that the same contracts shall be and remain in the same state as if this act had not passed.
Approved, June 25, 1798.