Chapter LXXXI. to provide for the Location of certain confirmed Private Land Claims in the State of Missouri, and for other Purposes
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Chap. LXXXI.— An Act to provide for the Location of certain confirmed Private Land Claims in the State of Missouri, and for other Purposes.June 2, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedDecisions of recorder, &c. as to certain private land claims in Missouri confirmed.1832, ch. 180.Vol. iv. p. 565.1833, ch. 84.Vol. iv. p. 661. States of America in Congress assembled,* That the decisions in favor of certain land claimants herein made by the recorder of land titles in the State of Missouri and the two commissioners associated with him, by virtue of an act entitled “An Act for the final adjustment of Private Land Claims in Missouri,” approved July nine, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and an act supplemental thereto, approved second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, as entered in the transcript of decisions transmitted by the said recorder and commissioners to the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, which said claims are named and numbered as follows:
Manuel de Liza, number thirty-three; John Coontz and Hempstead, number forty-four; Matthew Saucier, number fifty-seven; Charles Tayon, number sixty-seven; the sons of Joseph M. Pepin, number seventy-four; Louis Lorimier, number eighty-seven; Bartholomew Cousin, number eighty-nine; Manuel Gonzales Moro, number ninety-five; Seneca Rawlins, number one hundred and four; William L. Long, number one hundred and six; Joachim Liza, number one hundred and thirty-three; Francis Lacombo, number thirty-four;
Israel Dodge, number three hundred and thirty-eight; Joseph Silvain, number two hundred and ninety-three; John P. Calanis, number two hundred and ninety-eight; William Hartley, number three hundred and one; Andrew Chevalier, number two hundred and ninety-two; William Morrison, number three hundred and seven; Solomon Bellew, number three hundred and eight; Paschal Detchemendez, number three hundred and nine; Baptiste Amure, number three hundred and ten; Alexander Maurice, number three hundred and twenty-three;
John Baptiste Vallee, number three hundred and thirty-four; said decisions above named being in the first class of claims, acted upon by said board; also the claim of Regis Loisel, number six, in the second class, acted on by said board, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed to the respective claimants or their legal representatives. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the decisions in favor of landDecisions in favor of other claims confirmed. claimants made by P. Grimes, Joshua Lewis, and Thomas B.
Robertson, commissioners appointed to adjust private land claims in the eastern district of the Territory of Orleans, communicated to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the ninth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and which *is* [are] found in the American State Papers, Public Lands, (Duff Green’s edition,) volume two,*Post*, p. 442. from page two hundred and twenty-four to three hundred and sixty-seven, inclusive, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, saving and reserving, however, to all adverse claimants the right to assert the validity of their claims in a court or courts of justice: *Provided, however,* That any claimProviso. so recommended for confirmation, but which may have been rejected, in whole or in part, by any subsequent board of commissioners, be, and the same is hereby, specially excepted from confirmation. 295 THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 81, 82. 1858. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the locations authorized by theLocations to be entered with register, &c. preceding section shall be entered with the register of the proper land-office, who shall, on application for that purpose, make out for such claimant, or his legal representatives, (as the case may be,) a certificate of location, which shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of the General Land-Office; and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said commissioner thatIf Commissioner of General Land-Office is satisfied, patents shall issue.Register’s fee. said certificate has been fairly obtained, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, then, and in that case, patents shall be issued for the land so located as in other cases; and for each and every certificate aforesaid, issued by the register of any land-office, he shall receive the sum of one dollar; that in all cases of confirmation by this act, or where any private land claim has been confirmed by Congress, and the same, in wholeWhen private land claim has not been located, the certificate may be located, &c. or in part, has not been located or satisfied, either for want of a specific location prior to such confirmation, or for any reason whatsoever, other than a discovery of fraud in such claim subsequent to such confirmation, it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general of the district in which such claim was situated, upon satisfactory proof that such claim has been so confirmed, and that the same, in whole or in part, remains unsatisfied, to issue to the claimant, or his legal representatives, a certificate of location for a quantity of land equal to that so confirmed and unsatisfied; which certificate may be located upon any of the public lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry, at a price not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre: *Provided,* That such location shall conform to legal divisionsProviso. and subdivisions.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the register of the proper land-office,Register to issue certificate, and patent to issue. upon the location of such certificate, shall issue to the person entitled thereto a certificate of entry, upon which, if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office that such certificate has been fairly obtained, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, a patent shall issue as in other cases. Approved, June 2, 1858.