Chapter LXIII. further supplementary to the act, entitled “An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory.”April 20, 1816. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39
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Chap. LXIII.— An Act further supplementary to the act, entitled “An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory.”April 20, 1816. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That every person or persons claiming public lands in the Mississippi territory, under the act or pre-295 FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I.
Ch. 64, 65. 1816.tended act of the state of Georgia, passed January the seventh, one Further time allowed to claimants. thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, who have not duly released their claims to the United States, so as to entitle them to the indemnification provided by the act of Congress, passed the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act providing 1814, ch. 39. for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory,” and the acts supplementary thereto, shall be allowed further time to execute and file with the commissioners appointed to decide on such claims, good and sufficient legal releases of their claim, as by said acts are required, until the first Monday of March next.
And 1815, ch. 24, 96. the commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized and empowered to decide on such claims, and to adjudge to every such claimant or claimants the proportion of indemnification to which he or they may be respectively entitled. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the commissioners aforesaid Commissioners authorized to send to the counsel employed by them original papers and documents. shall be, and they are hereby authorized, in all cases where they shall direct suits to be commenced for the recovery of money fraudulently withdrawn from the treasury of Georgia, to transmit to the counsel or attorney appointed to institute and conduct such suits or prosecutions, all original papers or documents in their possession, that may furnish evidence to sustain the same.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That there shall be allowed and Additional compensation to commissioners and their secretary. paid, out of the treasury of the United States, to each of the said commissioners and their secretary, the further sum of one thousand dollars, as a compensation for the additional services required by this act. Approved, April 20, 1816.