INDEX ΤΟ THE GENERAL PUBLIC ACTS OF CONGRESS RELATING TO THE SALE AND DISPOSITION OF THE PUBLIC LANDS. A. Academies in Tennessee, provision for (See Seminaries of learning.) Academy, in Ohio, land assigned for Agents for the United States, in the examination of land-titles in Louisiana Page. 136 90 126, 140 309 310 367 428 430 - 455, 528, 529 - 441, 472, 543 446 508 543 555 556 The compact with, in relation to the 5 per cent. fund, provision for Lands in, reserved for schools Lands granted to, for the seat of justice of Cherokee county Appeal from the decision of the district court of Missouri to the Supreme Court of Archives, public, keepers of, to be appointed in Florida To give bond and security Duties of, prescribed - To receive certain records from registers and receivers Arkansas Claimants in, to try by suit the validity of their claims Salt-springs and hot-springs in, with contiguous land, reserved from sale, and to be leased 578 389 404 405 405, 422 424 495 472 484, 498, 505, 524, 531 495 Surveyor of public lands for the State of 498 Land districts in, established 500 Land granted to, for public buildings, divided into town-lots, and sold 524 The State of, restricted in her right to tax, and to dispose of the land Ratification of locations, sales, and transfers, by the Governor of 568 Army, continental, lands set aside for the officers and soldiers of Assignees of persons entitled to pre-emption rights Of confirmed claims entitled to patents Assignments of grants to revolutionary officers and soldiers to be invalid B. Back lands, the inhabitants of Louisiana authorized to enter Baton Rouge, West, grant to Board of Treasury. (See Treasury.) Boundary line, of lands purchased from the Creeks, to be surveyed Between Alabama and Florida Northern, of Illinois - Bounties: MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY— Lands set apart for Warrants for, to be issued Bounty lands: REVOLUTIONARY Scrip for, receivable in payment for the Ohio purchase Reservation for Warrants for, to be issued - Page. 12 492 492 6 363 - 499, 531, 536 401 259 487 487 12, 17 33 25 28 - 33, 99, 127, 133, 164 - 56, 66, 100, 102, 128, 133, 164, 509 34 35 - 63, 66, 84, 99 63 65, 66 66 66, 67 Priority of location determinable by lot Provision for those who have not drawn and located To be located and patented in the name of the original proprietor of The quantity limited to certain metes and bounds Time extended for issuing and locating warrants for 173, 233, 264, 338, 368, 405, Additional land appropriated for Bounty lands or WAR OF 1812, WITH GREAT BRITAIN— 425, 493, 509, 535 522, 536 To persons enlisting for five years, their heirs and legal representatives 196, 197, 225, Provision in case of lost warrants and informal discharges To be exempt from taxation in certain cases To remain free from taxation for three years, in the hands of patentees 275 302 311, 322 396, 534 Soldiers entitled to, and their heirs, may surrender if unfit for cultiva- Time for obtaining warrants, locating the same, and returning sur- Patents therefor to issue Boundaries of the territory reserved for, and regulations for issuing 41 103 148, 175, 334, 366, 367 Surveys of, and plats thereof, ordered Patents to be granted for, under Virginia resolution warrants C. Cahokia, the conversion of a common into town lots by the inhabitants, confirmed Canal: The State of Illinois allowed to open through the public lands To connect the Wabash and Miami To connect the river Illinois with lake Michigan Illinois, to be a public highway Lands granted to Indiana for a Lands granted to Ohio for - Florida authorized to open a, through the public lands Grant of land to Wisconsin to aid in opening Canals, roads, and improving water-courses: Five per cent. of proceeds of lands in Alabama appropriated to Certificates of unlocated confirmed claims receivable in payment for other lands - Cessions by the States, to be chargeable with advances for acquisition Georgia Choctaws, their claims to reservations In Mississippi, authorized to try the validity of their title by suit Page. 325 - 262, 292, 340 341 382 425 426 427 447, 448 485, 486 571 309 246 247, 320 281 7 585 588 592 595 563, 568 160, 227 Of land in Florida over 3,500 acres, may cause the lands claimed to Of lands in Louisiana, whose lands are sold, entitled, upon the con- Of land in St. Helena and Jackson court-house land districts, to de- 318, 394 Of land in Louisiana, to file claims 365 Of land within Missouri and Arkansas, to try the validity of their 385, 442 Of land in Arkansas, further provisions for the trial of their claims Claims to lands in the Territory of Orleans, further time for registering Scotia, referred for decision to a board To Choctaw reservations, commissioners for settling Unlocated, confirmed, may be applied in payment of another tract Claims to lands in Alabama, commissioners for determining - Claims to lands in Florida, commissioners authorized to settle Additional provisions, and time extended Claims to lots in Illinois, referred to a board of commissioners Confirmation of Surveys made and patents issued agreeably to certificates of, confirmed Claims to lands in Louisiana, mode of deciding confirmed conflicting Confirmed Claims to land in Michigan, commission for deciding on Confirmation of Page. 490 242, 330, 352, 360, 402, 407, 414 Claims to land in Missouri and Arkansas, provisions for settling Donation rights allowed Time for registering extended May be tried by suit Not brought or tried to be barred Claimants required to prove cultivation, inhabitation, or possession Time of filing petition extended Claims in Mississippi - Claims to land in Tennessee, stipulation in favor of - - 433 216, 478 231 233, 234 - 385, 386, 419 387 397 319 92, 115, 121, 146, 165, 221, 445, 468 Claims to land in the district east of the island of New Orleans confirmed Combinations to depress the price of lands at public sales, punishment for In Tennessee, provision for Lands for, to be located by the Secretary of the Treasury Commissioner of General Land Office to be appointed His duties and salary To employ clerks Commissioners to ascertain titles Compensation of 213 137 216 143 460 97 136 198 496 496 212, 213 212, 213, 552, 554 For land titles and claims in Indiana 98, 121, 146 124, 154, 155, 209 129 To ascertain titles in Illinois To ascertain and survey the western boundary of Virginia military res- To adjudge upon the sufficiency of releases of certain claimants of land 198 220 237, 252, 261, 268 To survey the boundaries of a Creek purchase 259 381, 403 To examine and determine titles to town lots and pre-emption claims On the part of the United States and Georgia, for an amicable settle- Further powers to - To decide on certain pre-emption rights Common of Cahokia converted into town lots Adjacent to New Orleans, the right of, confirmed in the corporation Compensation of the surveyors general Of deputy surveyors Of superintendents of sales Of commissioners of land titles Of registers and receivers 77, 162, 184, 273 98, 121, 130, 141, 146 152, 156, 180, 189, 198, 212, 328, 375, 564 59 70 81, 86, 87 325 195 421 54 110 54 Of deputy surveyors general Of translators Of recorder of land titles 156 155 - 156, 180, 190 Of commissioners, &c. of Yazoo lands Of surveyor for Illinois and Missouri Of deputy surveyors, chain-carriers, and axe-men Of registers and receivers, acting as commissioners of claims - 123, 219, 232 278 320, 422, 430, 504 Compensation of the secretary of board of land titles in Florida Of surveyor of Florida Confirmation of title: Of the French and Canadian inhabitants on the Kaskaskia, Illinois, Of the French settlers at Post St. Vincent Of the grants of certain commandants In Missouri In Illinois In Mississippi In Indiana In Louisiana and Missouri In district east of New Orleans Of claims to lots in Mobile In Michigan In Louisiana In Florida In St. Helena and Jackson land districts Page. - 355, 362, 363 364 370 390 498 554 553 554 554 554 31 37 42 91 179, 271 - 226, 227, 468 316 349 358 360, 402, 407, 414, 538 Of the titles of purchasers from the trustees of the Vincennes uni- Of certain sales made in the western district of Louisiana Of the sales by the widow, children, or administrator of certain Creek - Of certain locations Certificates of, to be furnished the Surveyor General Connecticut, State of, cession to, of the territorial rights of the United States, for the use of certain claimants State of, required to renounce jurisdiction over certain lands - 408, 436, 466 412 274 222 565 258 398 67 68 595 22 357 13 385 389 437 463 289 Provision in favor of certain, who, by treaty, were entitled to reser- 565 107 347 Contracts, private, in northwestern territory to be inviolate Copies of papers in the Departments to be furnished the claimants of land Superior, of Florida, authorized to try the validity of certain land Of Arkansas, the powers of, extended in trying private claims Creek Indians, location of a reservation for them Deaf and Dumb, grant to the Connecticut Asylum of Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Kentucky may locate their grant in Florida or The time allowed for selling their land extended Debt, public, evidences of, receivable in payment for public lands Deceased persons, patents issued in favor of, to have legal effect Detroit Land district of Town of, authorized to be laid out Commissioners appointed to adjust titles to lots therein Time for entering donations in, extended 311 420 540 56, 63, 137 540 467 104 144 145, 327 150, 206 291, 327 Lands granted to 415 |