Chapter XLIII. to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes
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Chap. XLIII.— An Act to provide for the adjustment of titles of land in the town of Detroit and territory of Michigan, and for other purposes. April 21, 1806. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the governor and the judges of the territoryA town to be laid out by the Governor and Judges of Michigan, &c. of Michigan shall be, and they, or any three of them, are hereby, authorized to lay out a town, including the whole of the old town of Detroit, and ten thousand acres adjacent, excepting such parts as the President of the United States shall direct to be reserved for the use of the military department, and shall hear, examine, and finally adjust Lots to be given to actual settlers of Detroit when it was burnt, if citizens of U.
S.all claims to lots therein, and give deeds for the same. And to every person, or the legal representative or representatives of every person, who, not owning or professing allegiance to any foreign power, and being above the age of seventeen years, did, on the eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and five, when the old town of Detroit was burnt, own or inhabit a house in the same, there shall be granted by the governor and the judges aforesaid, or any three of them, and where they shall judge most proper, a lot not exceeding the quantity of five thousand square feet.
Sec. 2. Land undisposed of according to preceding section to be sold by the Governor and Judges. *And be it further enacted, *That the land remaining of the said ten thousand acres, after satisfying claims provided for by the preceding section, shall be disposed of by the governor and judges aforesaid, at their discretion, to the best advantage, who are hereby authorized to make deeds to purchasers thereof; and the proceeds of the lands so disposed of shall be applied, by the governor and judges aforesaid, towards building a court-house and jail in the town of Detroit, and the said governor and judges are required to make a report to Congress, in writing, of their proceedings under this act.
Approved, April 21, 1806. 9 2 1806 1807 PRIVATE ACTS OF THE NINTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the first day of December,* 1806, *and ended the third day of March,* 1807. Thomas Jefferson, President; George Clinton, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Samuel Smith, President of the Senate pro tempore, on the 3d day of March, 1807;
Nathaniel Macon, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE II.