Chapter XLVIII. for the relief of Daniel Burnet, Gibson Clark, and the legal representatives of Hubert Rowel
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Chap. XLVIII.— An Act for the relief of Daniel Burnet, Gibson Clark, and the legal representatives of Hubert Rowel. April 11, 1818. *Be it enacted, &c., * That it shall be the duty of the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys west of Pearl river, in theExamination of land claims, &c. State of Mississippi, to examine the evidence heretofore given, and to receive additional testimony, in the claims to land of Daniel Burnet 206 FIFTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 50, 52, 53. 1818. and Gibson Clark, of the State of Mississippi, founded on warrants or orders of survey granted by the Spanish government to James Davenport and James Stewart, and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said register and receiver, that the said James Davenport and James Stewart, under whom the said Daniel Burnet and Gibson Clark claim, were resident in the late Mississippi territory, on the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, then, and in that case, the claims aforesaid shall be respectively confirmed, and Receiver of public moneys to refund, &c.patents shall issue for the same as in other cases.
And it shall moreover be the duty of the said receiver of public moneys to refund, to either of the said claimants, any moneys which they, or either of them, may have paid to the United States, in consequence of said lands being granted to them in right of pre-emption. Sec. 2. The legal representatives of Hubert Rowel confirmed in their claim to a tract of land. *And be it further enacted, *That the legal representatives of Hubert Rowel be, and they are hereby confirmed in their claim to a tract of land, lying and being in the State of Mississippi, on the waters of the Bayou Sarah, containing eight hundred and fifty arpents, granted by the Spanish government to said Hubert Rowel, by patent, legally and fully executed, bearing date the sixteenth day of May, one Proviso.thousand seven hundred and ninety-one: *Provided,* The said land has not been already disposed of under the authority of the United States.
Approved, April 11, 1818.