Indiana Centinel, Volume 4, Number 10, Vincennes, Knox County, 17 June 1820 — Page 1
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The Receiver of-Public Monies , has teen instructed to receive in payment for Lands sold .in the District u Yincennes, notes on the following Banks, Bank of the United. States & Branches, Bank of Virginia and its Rranhces., Farmer's Bank of Virginia and branches, Bank of Penn. (Philadelphia ; :
of North America do. Jmers and Mechaiics lis , JlrlL-chiiniv naaK (A. ao Cewrnercial p & Count, do. Schuyl" 'jank of Penn. dg . -ml Bank do nk of Northern T " of Ma- liberties do ' : -" ...yiand or Baltimore of Columbia (District of Columbia TTnion Bank of Georgetown do Patriotic Bank of Washingtou da . jiank of Washington da of Metropolis do tf Alex-fidria do Jef York Bank, New York Manhattan Co. do Mechanics Bank do Merchants Bank, do do, Union Bank, do. Bmk of America do. Bank of Chilicothe, Ohio. State Bank of Indiana, at Vincennes. Bank of .Illinois, at Shawnee-Town, Bank of' Missouri, at St. Louis, JBank. of Mississippi and brauchea. do. of New-Orleans, do. of Louisiana. Planters bank do. No note of less than five dollars is re ceivable. (Corrected Jfeekhj'.)
fic( s,(o superintend the gales of the public land in their respective districts, who
shall reside at th nlari d
thfir respective district, at which ;the oflj-.es are fixed, give security iu the same manner, in the, same sums, and whoe compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every' rv?peLt, he thp same, in relation to .'he!
lands which shall be dinosedofat their
offices as are or nay be by law provided
n relation to the registers and receivers
ol public moneys in the several offices
estrblis!i2d for the sa
lands
VINCENySt (iM) SATirii n W, JUNE J7,J320.
laws.
rights
provided for uv former
NO. 10.
sale of the public
Sec 5. And he it further enacted That
the provisions of the second,- third, ami fiiih sections of the act.mtitled An art
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to designate the boundaries of districted establish land offices.for ,itsnil ,i "the public land- ; ? MP fred foraJ 'not heretofore OfIndUna M ' in thcBtatw of Ohioand eMiteft-V appn,ved March the thirfl tl ' ,nuded an(' nineteen, be, and . same' are bet ebv, made auDlic.ibl t,
the aforesaid districts and officers. o quent laws of the ?r , t',DSc wofcd states. II. CLAY; speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. May 11, 1820. Approved : JAMBS MONROE.
II. CI.4V
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN GAILLARD, l resident of the Seriate, pro tempore. May 11, 1S20. App.oveW:
JAMES MONROE.
AN ACT for the relief of certain set.
uers in the state of Illinois who reside withiu the Vincennes Land District. He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States f America In Congress assembled, -That every person, who would have been entitled t0 rirrht
of Januarv ncxl, make, to tits Secretary
of the Treasury, a report of all the claims filed in their respective offices,
In pursuance of tin provisions of this act. together with 'the tubstance of the evi
dence it support thereof, with their opinion of tke credit td which such evidences is entitled. ' Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
every person, or person, claiming lands within that' part of Louisiana ciescribVd
in the preceding section, founded upon any Spanish srant, concession, or order
01 U, vfwv uhf "ad filed their notices of claims in the proper office, according to former laws, and whose claims have not
been confirmed, may, at any time before
the thirty-first dav'of December next,
.u to the provisions of the act. &nt;-rlni;vip additional ivVjpi, :.m n.
tied .'nil npt !V!.nT the riffht fif nn. I Uo- fa.timi... : (
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BY AUTHORITY.
Laws of the Union. Istb CONGRESS 1st SE SSI ON?
AN ACT to establish additional Lan.i
Offices in the states of Alabama and
Illinois. f
lie it enacted by the Senate and House of
Jtienresentatives of the United Mate of
America, in Congress assembled, That
for the sale of the unappropriated pub
lie lands in the state of Atabanr-t, the following district shall be formed, awl land Offices therefor established vll the public lands, as aforesaid, bounded on the north by the lioe which separates (j vnships numbered fourteen, fif teen, in t r district of Huiit'sville ; on tne south, by the line which separates townships twentv-two and twenty-three in the dis
trict of Oahaba, anil the district east of
Pearl river and on the east and west, by the line1 of the state of Alabama, sliali form a district, fur which a land office shall be established at Tuscaloosa. And a.11 the public lands, as aforesaid, bounded on the south by the southern boundarv of the state of Alabama : on the west, by the line separating ranges four $nd five, east of the basis meridian." to
the line separating townships five ami six north, in the district of C ah aba : thence, east, with said line, to the line separating ranges twenty 21 ; thence,
north, with said hue, to the line separating townships eleven and twelve; thence, east, wilh said line, to the eastern boundary oi the "tate of Atabama.and bounded on the eust by the eastern boundary of said sfate ; shall form a district, for which a land ofiice shall be established at Conecah court-House. Sec. 2 And be it further enacted. That so much of the public land.?, heretofore included in the Shawneetowu land district, as lies east of the third principal meridian, north of the base line, and vrest of the range line, between ranges numbered eiht and nine, east of the said third principal meridian, shall constitute a separate land district ; and, fur the sale of the public lands therein, there
shall be a land office established at Vandalia, the seat of government for the State of Illinois. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That so much of the public iand as Iie north of the base line, east of the aforesaid range line, aud west of the Big "Wabash river, as lies in the state cf liIinij, shall also constitute a separate land district ; and, for the tale of the public lands, there shall be a land Office established at the town of Palestine, on the said Wabash, river. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That thsre shall be a roister and itcciver
AN ACT to revive the powers of the commissioners for ascertaining and deciding on claims to laud in the District of Detroit, and for settling the
claims to land -tt Green Bay and Prairie des Chiens, in the territory of Michigan. Be it enacted 67 the Senate and House
of Ue preso.t dives nf the United States cf America in Congress assembled, That
the powers of the eooimissio:trs lor as
certaining and deciding on the nguts 01 oersons claiming lands in the district of
Detroit, as defined by the second section
of an act, entitled An act to author
ize the granting of patents for land accordini to the surveys that have been
made, and to giant donation rights to certain claimants of laud in the district
f Detroit, and tor other purposes," pas
sed on the twenty-third ot April, one
thousand eight hundred and twelve, shall be, and are hereby, revived. And the said commissioners shall perform the duties therein prescribed, in relation to the claims which have been filed with the register of the land office for the said district, in purs iar.ee of the act entitled An act allowing further tinie for en
tering donation rights to lands in the
district of Detroit." And the said com missioners shall also have power to cx
amine and decide, according to the laws
respecting the sa;t;e. the claims which have bon filed with the register of the Iliad office, and not Sieretofore decided n; and they shall transmit their report, and transcripts of th ir decisions, to the Seeretary of the Treasury, to be laid before Congress, in the manner directed by former laws providing for the adjustment of such claims. Sqc. 2. Ami be it farther enacted, That the said commissioners shall be. and
they are hereby, authorised to employ, witli the approbation of the Secretary of the Treasury, a person capable of translating the French language, as an a-ent, for the purpose of ascertaining the titles and claims to land at the settlements of Green Bay and Prairie des Chiens. It shall be the duty of the said ag?nt to give public notice, at each of the said settlements, of the time and place therein, at which he shall attend for -the purpose of receiving notices and evidences of titles and claims to land within the same. And e-erv person bavins:
title or claim to lands within the settlements aforesaid, shall pioduce the evidence of his title or claim to the said agent, who shall record the same in books
to be kept for that purpose.. And after the said asrent shall have remained at tr-e places aforesaid h time sufficient for thi inhabitants to produce the evidence of their claims, he shall mak his report
thereof to the said commissioners, who shall have power to examine and decide on the clai o so reported to them, ac
cording to the laws lor adjusting and settling the. claims to laud in the district of Detroit, except that which relates to donations -f vacant land adjacent to the land confirmed, shall not be considered applicable to claims in the settlements aforesaid. And the said commissioners shall transmit their report, and transcripts of their decisions, to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before the first of October, in the vear one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, to be laid before Congress at their next session thereafter, in the same manner
as was directed bv law in respect to the
chinas to lauds in the district of De-tioit.
emption in the purchase of lands to ccr
tain settlers in the. Illinois . territory," i passed February fiftn, one thousand! eight bundled thirteen, provided said actiiad been so construed as to embrace those who were, living within the limits of the Vincennes land district, and who became the purchaser, at public sale, of the aid land, to which the right of preemption would have so attached, at more than two dollars per acre, shall he entitled tu a certificate f;r the amount so paid, or to be paid, e.rceeding two dollars per acre, iiom tne register of the land o$ice at Viiicennes ; which certi
ficate sluil be receivable in payment of
any debt -due to the united .Mates on account of the sale of public laud: Provided, Auu'S.rer, That it shall be the duty of every person claiming the benefit o! this act, to prove to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land othce at Vpicennes, that they are enti tied thereto, according to its true intent and meaning. Sec. 2. Aivl be it further enacted, That
everv person who would have been en
titled to the right of pre-emption in the said Vincennes district, according to the
provisions of the said recited act, passed the fifth day ol February eighteen
hundied and thirteen, had it been so construed as to embrace them, and who did not become the purchaser of any tract of laud, to which such right of preemption would have attached, shall bo allowed till the first day of September next, to prove, to the satisfaction of the register and .receiver at Vmcannes, that tiicy would have beeu so entitled ; and it shall be the duty of the regnter, when the satisfaction aleresaid shall be made, to grant a ceititicate to every uch person, or their legal reptesentatives, sta-
thert-m that such net sou vvould
ngnt of pre
timr
have been entitled to such
claims, the notice of which had been filed as aforesaid, to the said registers, and the evidence, so delivered or offered,: shall be recorded in books. to be kept for; that purpose, for which service a compensation shall ba received from such claimant, at the rate of twenty -five cents for every hundred words. And the rights of such persons as shall neglect so doing, within the time limited by tnis act shall, so far as they are derived from, or founded on any act of Congress, ever after he barred, and become void, and the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in any court of the United States, against any grant derived from the United State. Sec. And be it further enacted. That the said registers shall, on the first dav of January next, make to the Secretary of the Treasury, a report of the claim. in which additional evidence shall have been filed in their respective offices, together with the substaucc of the evidence so filed, with their opinion of the credit to which such evidence is entitled, and such other information as the examina
tion of such cases, under any former law, may have placed iu their power or possession. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That
it shall be the duty of the Secretary of
the Treasury, as soon as the reports of
the said registers shall be received, to proceed to the examination of the claim
aforesaid, and to report to the two Houses of Congress a list of the cases, which.
in his opinion, ought to be confirmed,
together with the reasons upon which
his opinion may be founded : Provided nevertheless, that no claim shall be so
lccommended for confirmation, which
contains more than the quantity con tained in a league square.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That
the fiftn section of the act or the tniru
emption, and that he did not become dav of March, eighteen hundred and
the purchaser thereof, neither at public eleven, entitled "An act providing for nor private sale And every such per- the final adjustment of claims to lands, son, or hi legal representatives, shall, and for the sale of the public lands, in
upon producing such certificate to the ths territories of Orleans and Louisiana, icgister of any iand ofiice, iu (lie stale and to repeal the act passed lor the same
of Illinois, be allowed to enter one qu jr- purpose, and approved February six-
icr section 01 iuou, eawi, ai ire mini- teentu, one thousanu eight nunurea anu
mum price hrc by the United .Mates, eleven," be, and the same is hereby, re of any land which may be surveyed pre- vived and continued, for the term o vious to the first day of Si ptembcr next, two vcars from and after the passing o lit . I I ill 1 . m 13
whether tne same sn.:u nave Deeu otter- (big act. ed at public sale or not. sec. 8. Awl be. it further enacted, Tha
H.CLAY, the. said registers, sn addition to the
Speaker of the House of Hepteaentatives. compensation herein prescribed, shall reIfll.'V i 1 II 1 nr I ' . . . 1 r
juun u.viiiLAiii, ceive, in lull lor the services requireu 01 President of the Senate, pro-teiupore. them, respective! v, by this act, the um
May 11, 1820. Approved, Lf x hundred dollars, which shall be
JAMLb AiO.itOL. naid out of any monev in the 'treasury
1 .
not otherwise appropriates. 11 rr. iv-
AN ACT supplementary to the scv-L . ':.
, , 4 , I- . ri . j5neaKeruiuieiioijscuitMJiiiC3ciiittiii.es. era! acts lor the adjustment of land 1 mitv n i r 1 x utt
claims iu uie oiai - u ioaisiana.
Judge of the Distnct in which schla,ds or tenement are situate, setting fc.-tJa the circumstances of the case, and up.,0 due proof being made, to the sanction of such judge, thafweh person oc ptrsons, is or are a purchaser or pure Visers as aforesaid, and has or have luilr" complied with all conditions of ale,anli' is or are entitled to have a .i ?
tiat there is no officer who, by the existing laws, is authorized tn 9t- '.. .1.
deed, it shall be lawful for sri, 4 . .
and he is hereby authorized and rcquh.V ti order and direct the Marshal f the District to make a deed to the ninri.,B.
or purchasers, which deed, being acknowledged in open court, and en?-r.,i
of record, shall have the same e'fect as
11 it haa Deen made by the collector or other officer authorized by the laws hm-
tofore cr now in furce.
1L CLAY.
Speaker of the House of Representatives ' . . . .3?.u-1 GAikiura,
rresincntoi tne Senate pro tempore, May 11, 1820 Approved, JAMKS MONROE.
AN ACT auth rizing the sal of thir
teen sections of land, lying wit . in toe Iand district of Canton, in the sute o Ohio. Be it enweted by the Senate and Tlonset
of Representatives of the UntUd ate
if America in Lonres atsmbfod. That
the thirteen sections en 'x.nd, lying with in the land disttict of Canton, in tha s'ate of Ohio, which were reserved fop
the use of certain persons of the Dela
ware tribe of Indians, hvan aot of Con
gress, passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven and were subsequently ceded to the,
United States by the eighteenth rticle nf the treaty concluded on the tuentvninth day of September, one t!i;uand eight hundred and seventeen, shnil ba
offered to public sale, by the Register
anil Kecencrof the Public Moue at the Land Office at Vootert on euci
dav, or days, as the President shall de-
gnate for that purpose, in the sama
manner, and on the same condition ac-1
terms, as arc provided by law fir thrj
sn!e of the public lands of the United
Slates.
II CLAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate pro tempore. May 11, 1820. Approved, JAM lis MONROE.
President of the Senate, pro tempore. May 11, 1820. Approved: JAMKS MONROE.
Be it enacted by t!te Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America in t'ongress assembled,
That the claims for lands within the
eastern district of the state uf Louisiana, AN ACT extending the time allowed
described by the register and receiver of I for the redemption of land sold for di-
the said districts, in their report to the rect taxes, in certain cases.
Commissioner of the General Land Of- Be it enacted by the Senate and House fice, bearing date the 20th day of No- of Bepresentatives of the United States
v ember, one thousand eight hundred and of America in Congress assembled, That
sixteen, and recommended in the said the time allowed for the redemption ol
report for confirmation, be, and the same lands which have been or may be sold
are hereby, confirmed against any claim for the payment of taxes, under the act
on the part ot the United States. Inassed the ninth day ot Januarv, one
Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That thousand eiht hundred and fifteen, so
anv person or persons, claiming land! far as the same regards the direct tax of
within that Dart of Louisiana Ivinj; west six millions of dollars, laid in that year
of the river Mississippi, including the lor under the act passed the fifth day of
islam! of New Orleans, founded upon .March, one thousand eight hundred and
anv Spanish grant, concession, or order sixteen, so far as the same regards the
of'survev, and whose claimshave not direct tax of three millions of dollars,
heretofore been filed in the proper office, laid in that year, and purchased on be
may, from and after the first day of half of the United States, be extended
AN ACT for the relief of James AYil-
kinson. B? it enacted by the Senate and hous of Representatives of the United Slates of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of t:.i Treasury Department settle and i charge the amount of a judgment, with interest, if any shall have accrued, ai.J cost, which General John Adair, bttlv, iu the Superior Court of Mississippi, recovered of General James W ilki.w n, for false imprisonment, to the person wh may have paid ofF said judgment or. if undischarged, to the person entitled theteto. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, T zt a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for tho
payment 01 saiu expenses and damages. II. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. May 11, 1820. Approved : JAMES MONROE.
Sec. 3. And b? it further enacted, That the uent aforesaid shall take an oath for the faithful discharge of the duties enjoined on him; and h shall conform, in discharging the said duties, to such geueral instructions as shall be given him by the Secretary of the Treasury ; and the said commissioners and aJnt shall each receive five hundred dollars, as full compensation for the services to be performed'under this act, together .1.1 1 w
.vim me recording tees to the
ajrent.
land allowance to the re-ister, fr
npobtedtoeashwf tbaforid U'ioi-jctuiticatQ of couHiinatiua iur doaa-
July next, and until the thirty first day
of December, thereafter, deliver notices,
iu writinjr, and the written evideoces ol
their claims, to the register of the land
district within which. such lands mar be
situate, within the said state, and the
three vears beyond the time heretofore allowed. Provided, That such exten
sion of time shall not be beyond the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and twentv-one, and that on such redemp
tion interest be paid at the rate of twen
AN ACT for the relief of Martha Flood.
Be it enacted bu the Senate, and Jlou-e
of Representatives of the United Stfitss
of America in Congress assembled, J hat tits 1 r-
mere snail oe paid, out 01 any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to Martha Flood, administratix of William Flood, late of Buckingham county, in the state of Virginia the sum of one hundred and twenty two dollars and four cents being the amount paid bv the said William Fl..dt for the dutv cfiarued on a boiler used tor the boiling of water only, which boiler was not Icgaly subject to duty. II. CLAY, Speaker of the Houe of Renrsentsives. JOHN GAILLARD,
President of the Senate, prj tempore. May 11, 182. Approved, JAMES MONROE
aid notices and evidoncies, so delivered, ty per centum per annum, on the taxes
w ithin the time limited by this act, shall aforesaid, and additions ot twenty per
bv the said le-isters, be recorded, in centum chargeaole thereon; and the
hiiitk tn h; L-pnf fur tb.it nurnntp. fnr riht to redeem shall enure as well to
which service a comnen-atiou 'shall rersonsholdingan equitable or reversion-
be received from surh claimants, at the ary interest in lands so purchased on
7 i 1 "1 ir r . 1 a.. aI
rate ot twentv-fite cents lor everv hun-toenail 01 mc unueu oiaies, as iu vie
dred words. And the rights of such persons as shall neglect so doing, within the time limited by this act, shall, so far as they are derived from, or fojuded on, any act of Congress, ever after oe barred, and become void, and the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in any court of the United States, against any grant derived from the United States. Sc. 3. And be it further enacted, That
original ow ners thereof.
Sec. 2. And be it further enact ed,TnX
where any person or persons who has or have purchased land or tenements sold
for the non-payment ot the direct tax
shall be entitled to have a deed for the
same, but, from the death or removal of
the collector, or from any other cause, there is no officer who, by the existing
laws, is authorized to make a deed, 1
hall be lawful for such person or ptrsons
to pplj by petition, to the. DiStnc
Market Street Ferry
James Gibson,
Respectfully informs the public, thattb
FERRY is in complete operation ; and
:hat travellers an J Citizens, enn, at ill lours and weathers, be accomioodati d
with safe and convenient Boats nr:d caifut and attentive Ferrymen ; and at a very reduced price. Healsokcpps, at
his house, on the ILLINOIS SlDh, accommodations for moving families, sin
gle travellers and others, and hopes, by his attention, to continue to receive
liberal fchire of tieir custom.
JAMES GIBSON. April 27, IStO. S-tf
Blank Deeds Kor tale at tkls V&24
the said riUU; l!.h n th first day