Chapter CXCV. for the relief of John Anderson, assignee of Jean B
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Chap. CXCV.— An Act for the relief of John Anderson, assignee of Jean B. Jerome and George McDougall.July 10, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the Surveyor-General of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall, as soon as practicable, survey, or cause to be surveyed, a certain tract Survey of a certain tract of land directed. of land confirmed by the Board of Commissioners, appointed by virtue of an act of Congress, entitled “An act to revive the powers of the Commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to land in the Act of May 11, 1820, ch. 85. district of Detroit, and for settling the claims to lands at Green Bay, &c.,” approved May the eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to George McDougall, as will more fully appear by reference to the fourth volume of the reports of said commissioners, made in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and confirmed by act of Congress of the second of January [seventeenth of April], one thousand Act of April 17, 1828, ch. 28. eight hundred and twenty-eight; and also, one other tract of land confirmed by the commissioners aforesaid, to Jean B.
Jerome, as will more fully appear by reference to the fifth volume of the reports of said commissioners, made in one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and confirmed as aforesaid, by act of Congress, of second January [seventeenth of April], one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight; and shall return to the Register of the Land Office of the district wherein such lands lie, an accurate plat of such survey, exhibiting such portions of land lying within the exterior lines of the aforesaid claims as have been disposed of by the government; such (if any) as have been patented for the benefit of one or either of the aforesaid claimants, and those still belonging to the Government.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the Register of the Land Certificate to issue for all such lands, &c. upon which patents shall issue, &c. Office aforesaid shall forthwith issue to John Anderson, of Monroe, Michigan Territory, (assignee of Jean B. Jerome and George McDougall) his heirs or assigns, a patent certificate for all such lands, within the exterior lines of the tracts aforesaid, as now belong to the Government, upon which patents shall issue to the aforesaid John Anderson, his heirs, and assigns.
And for the purpose of carrying into full effect Authorized to enter land, not exceeding 840 acres. the recommendations of the commissioners aforesaid, the said John Anderson shall be entitled, and is hereby authorized, as soon as the return of the surveys aforesaid shall have been made to the Register’s office, to enter a quantity of land upon any of the United States’ lands which have been surveyed and offered for sale in the Territory of Michigan according to the legal subdivisions of the United States’ lands, which when added to the quantity which the Government either have patented, or may be able to patent to him, within the limits of the original claims, shall equal the entire quantity recommended by the commissioners aforesaid, not exceeding in the whole eight hundred and forty acres.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That, if in locating the aforesaid If, in locating, &c., he shall be entitled, &c., the price of such remaining quantity may be applied, &c. residuum according to the legal subdivisions of the United States’ lands, the said John Anderson shall be entitled to any number of acres less than the lowest subdivisions of the public lands, he shall then be entitled to apply the price of such remaining quantity in payment towards any other tract which he or his heirs or assigns, may afterwards choose to purchase of the Government.
Approved, July 10, 1832.