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AN ACT Supplementary ii act, entitled Ati act for ascertaining and adjusting the ctles " and claims land", within the Territory of Orleans and the district of Ltusiansu BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the V nited States i of America ' XCcri grief s serkk?di hfjVery jtwmqti? sons cUimmg a tract fjand ly vir tue bthlieriJd seclipJof the act to whicrtKict i? a5; supplemeni, and wha h'aa commericed an actua lettlemfTit; on such tract, prior to the first d ay. 6f October, one thousand eight hundTediJandbad continued actually jto inrta'bft cultivate the irorh the ilrrTi'Keiuch actual set tlement had 'omrhenced, and prior to ther uventieih dj ;of .December, eighteen hundred anS three, shall be considered as having made suchset tlement with the permission of the proper Spanish " q5icer, alihough it may not be in the 'power of such person or persons to protluce snffi cient evidence of such permission. . Sec. 2 And be it furrier enacted. That every person or persons righfullf claiining a tract of land, notexceedinj six hundred and forty acres, by vir tue of the'act to , which this act is a supplement, shall be' confirmed in his or their claims, if otherwise em braced by the provisions of the said act,' although, the person or,per4on,s: under whom the claim or claims ori ginated we re. not at the time when the same originated, above the ajrfc of twenty-one years tProvidedThat the tract of land thus claimed, had beeri for the space of ten consecutive ycarsf prior to the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and three! in the quiet possession of, and actually inhabited and cultivated by luch: person or persons, or for his or their use Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the time fixed by he aict to which this act is-a supplement, for delivering to the register of the pro per land office, notices in writing, and the. written evidences of claims to land in' the trritory of Orleans be, and the same is hereby extended 'till the first day of January next ; and persons v delivering such no tices and eyidertfes shall be enti tled to the" same benefits as if the same had been delivered, prior to the first day of March last ; but the rights of such persons as hidl ne& lect so doing, within the time liini ted by this act, shall be birred, a nd the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in the same manner as had been. provided by the fourth section of the act to which this act is a supplement, in relation to claims, notices and written evU dences of wtaich should not be deli vered prior to? the said first day of March last. Sec 4. And be it farther enacted, That the registers of the land offices in the .territory, of Orleans, respc lively, be, and they are hereby au thorised to appoint so many depu ties not exceeding one for each coun ty, in their respective districts, as ijiey may think necessary 1; whose duty r it shall be to receive, enter, and file noticei, and toreceive and record written evidences of claims of lands lying m the: county or coun ties to theth respectively assigned, in the samemanner as the register might do ; ind also to jransmit to the register the said notices and evU dences. or. such trantcripts of or abstracts of the same, as ili'esaid re gister, or the cjmmissibnerj5jTnay direct ; artd"gTenrally to dolanof per form all suchactsTihelatlofttb claims, a& the'said register may di rect. Persons having claims to land winy deliver the notices and eviden ces of the same, at thir option, ei ther to the register of the proper land office, or to his deputy, for the coun ty m which; such land lies ; and each f the S4id deputies shall be entitled toreceiref the recording fees allowed to the registeX..thetact to wliich this is a supplement, and in addi . tion thereto, (or a cbmpefaljon " ve hundred cUMlars in full for all h s services) at the rate , of one dol: lar for every claim fitcd With himi be paid out of ;themonies aprro rvlaied for carrying into eSect-iKe " wtiich this act is a ,up- Sec. 5. And b& i fur ther enacted That the commissioners appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the rights of r persons claiming lands in the territory F Orleans shall,, in their t spec' iye districts, have the 'same powers and perform, the same du ties, in relation to the claims thus filed before the first day of January next as if notice, of the same had been given before the first day of March last .&nd as was provided by tfte jet to Wnicfii this act is a supple iiiefit in relation to the claims there in described i Transcriptb of (he de cision s of the said com m issioners, and reports of the claims fifed in -conformity with the provisions1 f this act, shall be made and transmitted, as was provided by the act to which this act is, a supplement, in relation tli the clat'SH therein described. It shall likeifise betheduty of the said comrtiissibners to enquire into the nature and extent of the claims, which may arise from a right, or supposed righV to a double or, addi tional concessions on the bick of grants orconcessions heretofore made tr from grants or cbmmis-ions hereto fpre madeto minors, and not by ihe provisions of this act: orembraced ti-om grants or concession made by the Spanish Government, subsequent to the fii-st day of April, one thou sand eight hundred, fblpands which were actually settled and inhabited on the twentieth day of December, one thousand eight hundredand three , and to make a special report thereon to the Secretary of the Tseasury: which report shall be by him hid be fore Congress at their next ensuing session. And the lands which may be embraced by such report, shall not be othtrwise disposed of, until a decision of Congress shall have been had thereupon. See.' 6, And be it farther enttcted, That each of the rigisters aforesaid, shall in addition tThls other emoluments receive a compensation of five hun dred dollars r lor the services to be performed under this act, prior 10 the first- day of January next ; and each of the commissioners aforesaid shall receive at. the rate of six dol lars' a day, for every day's actual at tendance on the duties of his office, subsequent to the first day of Janua ry next: Provided, That the whole amount of compensations thus al lowed, shall not, for any commis sioner, exceed two thousand dollars.. "And provided aho, That the Presi dent of the Uuttd States may, if he think proptr, reduce,: after the firs, day of January: nexJt, thef Uiiiber;of commissioners! on eitherbr both boards, to one or two persons 'and in case of sudi reduction, the com missioner, or commissioners consti tuting the board, shall have the same powers, which are vested by this act, or by the act to wliich this is a sup plement, in the board established by ifie act to which thi is a suplemen . The cterk of each of the boardis shall be entitled to receive at the rate of fifteen hundred N dollars a year; the translators at the rate of six hundred dollars a; year, I and the agents era ployed by the Secretary of the Trea sury at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars a year, from the first day of January hext, to the time when each board shall respectively be t dissolved: Provided,; That no more thun ons year's compensation W; jhus allowed to each 6f4.he said 'clerk's translators and agents : And -ftovtBed. That iheeCTetaiifeTreasury may discontinue either Vbne or both of . said agents whenever, hevihall think it proper; ; '"5f, -'? Sec. 7- And te it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed far the purpose'bf aScertainiiig the rights of persons claiming lands in the terri tories of Orleans and 'Louisiana, bc .and they, are hereof' authorised, if tbey shall think it necessary, for the purpose of ' obtaining oral evidence, either iffjSUpport of or in opposition to claimsrwhicb evidence could not j be given at the usual place of their sittings without oppression to the; parties or jwUnesses,jto reraoye-tbeif sittings, or to send for-that purpose pieor-raore members pE the board; to such other place or places, within their rep active s disiricts, as they- .may think necessary: ' And each of the mrBissioncrs going for that purposet6sucri other place or pla- ces, siiaii, iu auuiuwu 10 nis cumprnw sat ion, receive anne nc w six aoj- lars for every twenty mUes, going to and returning from such, f place of places i Provided ThafcnQ commis suner shall receive in : the whole, on that account, more than-for. the dis tance froihttlie usual place of the sit tings of the board tp the extreme set tlements within his respective, dis tricts. , Sec, 8. And be it firtber Jptacted, That eac,h of the boards aforesaid shall "prepare, or cause to be prepare the: reports ari transcripts which by Jaw-they arc directed to make to the -Secretary ?of the Treai su ry, it con farm t y with s u c h forms as he may prescribe ; arid they shall also, in their several proceedings and decisions, confirm to such instruc tions a? the said Secretary mav,, with the approbation j6( t'ne Presi dent of the United States, transmit to them in relation thereto. 5 Sec. 9. And belt further enacted. That the surveyor of the public land3 South of Tennessee be, .nd he is hertby directed to appoint a prin cipal deputy for each of the two dis tricts of the territory of Orleans, whose duty it shall be fo reside and keep an office in the said districts res pectively, to execute or cause 'lo be executed by the other deputies such surveys as have been or may be au thorised by law, of as fthe commis sioners aforesaid may,2irect ; to file and record all such surveys ; to form as for as practicable, coftnected drafts of the lands granted in the district so as to exhibit the lands remaining vacant ; and generally to perform, in such districts respectivejy, in con fprmity with the regulations and in structions of the said surveyor of ie public lands South of the State of Tennessee, the . ijuties imposed by law on said surveyor. And each of the said principal Jtlepuies shall re ceive an anntiul conipensation of five hundred dollars," antin addition thereto, the following fees that is to say : for examining and recording the surveys executed by any of the deputies, at the rate of twenty-five" cents for every mileof the boundary line of such survey ; and for a cer tified copy cf any plot of a survey in the office, twenty-five cell's Sec. 10, And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authori-j rised, whenever he shall think it proper, to appoint a receiver of publx monies for the Western dis- irict'of the territory of Orleans, who shall receive the same annual com pensation, give security in the same manner and in the same sums, and whose duties nd authorities shall in everv resoect be the same, in rela tion to the lands which shall hereaf ter be disposed of at' their offices, as are by law provided with respect to the receivers of public monies in the several offices established for the dis posal ofthe lands of the United States N rthof the river Ohio and above the mouth of Kentucky river. And- the said receiver, and the register of the land office for the same district, shall, whenever the public lands within the same shall be offered for sale, be en- tilled to the sanie commission and fees, which are by law respectively allowed to the same officers North of j the river Ohio and above the mouth J of Kentucky river. Sec. 11. Ami be it farther enacted, T'.iat the President of ihe United States be, and he is hereby authorised, whenever he shall think' it proper, to direct so much of the public lands lying in the Western district of the territory of Orleans,' as shall have been surreyed inxonformity with the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, to be offered for sale. AH such land shall, with the exception of the section u number sixteen," which shall be. reserved in each township for the support of schools. Iwi thin the same ; with the exception awo ot an entire township to -be? -Ideated "by the Secretary of the - felslry,-for the use of a seminary of learning, and vrith Che exception als(v of the salt springs and lands contiguous there to, which hduxctiotiRthe Pre- sklent of the United States, may be reserved for thefuture disposal of the. said States; shall be offered for sale to the highestjddrit(icr.fthe di rection of the re bi stereo f-,tKe. land office,, of the receiver of public uno-: veyor; and on such day or, days ar shall by a public proclamation, of the President of the United States, 1 a . i . 1 . rr ' oe designated ior.tnat purpose, inc sale sjvdl remain open for three weeks and no longer ; the lands, shall be sold for a price, not less than that which has been, or may be, fixetby law for the rubiio lands in .the .'Mis sissippi, Territory & shall in every b-j tner respect be sold ip tracts of thI same sizs, on the sameterms Sccondi tions as hve been or mav be bv law provided for the: , lands sold in the Mississippi Territory. The super intendants of the said public sales shall receive six dollars each for each days attendance on the said sales. All lands other than the f eservectifoah Belbte ' '' sections, and those excepted as a bove mentioned, remaining unsold at the closing tf the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale. by the register of the land office, in the samemanner,?under the same re gulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions as are or may be provided by law for the sale of the lands of the Umted States in the Mississippi Tepritorv. And patents shall be obtained for all lands granted or sold in the tei ritorr of Orleans, in the sarne manner,od on the same terms, as is or mav be provided for lands sold in the' Mis sissippi Territory. 5ec- 12. And be tt Jurtber enacted, TV at the location or locations Hand, which may be made in the territory of Or leans by Major-Generlf La Faytt'ev. by virtue of the ninth section of the act, to which this act is a supplement, shall and may be received, though containing less than one thousand a cres: Provided, That no such loca tion or survey shall contain less than five hundred acres. Sec. 13. And be it farther enacted. Thar the Secretarv ofthe Treasury be au thorised to cause a survey t U made of the sea coasts of the lerri. tor of Orleans, from the rnoulh of the Mississippi to Vermillion Bay inclusively, and as mucfi Urthe VVestwardly as the President of the United States shall dirsct ; and also of the bays, inlets and navigable wa ters connected th e i : Provided, Thattheexp 'neeof -u:h survey snuli not exceed five thousand dplbrs. Sec. 14: And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, in addition to the sum ap. propriated by the act to which this act is a suppleme nt, and to b? paid put of any unappropriated monies i the treasury, be, and the same hereby appropriatetl for the purpose of carrying this act intojeffect. NAT Hi.. MACON", Speaker of the House of Representatives. SAMl. SMITH, Presidtnt 'tf the Senate pro tempore, - April -21, 1806. Approved, TH. JEFFERSON. FOR SALE, tN Franklin County, three and a - half Miles above Judge Haywood's, o the Granville Road, 297 Acres of prime Hickory Land A Plantation sufficient to work to advantage, four or five hands, a proportionable part of which is fresh, and in tine order for Cultivation, lyith the ad vantage of a comfortable- D welling Hhuse and Out-houses, Peach and Arjple. orchards, with Fruit Trees of. various kmds, vizJ Damson, Quince, Cherry and Wdd ChenyTrees The pleasantness of the situation, together witn the excellence of the Water, renders this among the most. agreeable settlements in the County 6r Terms apply to the Subscriber on the Pi-ij-mises. GIDEON GLENN. July 24th, 1806. FDR SALE, A Valuable TRCT of EAND, lying in Orange Cowuty, on Elibees Creek, Containg about 1200 Acres, a good Dwelling H use, Kitchen, and other Out Houses; a large new Barn with. Stables; an Orckariijwith about 700 bearing Trees of excellent Fruit 100 Acres cleared,' and under a good Fence, About 100 Acres of said Land is good low Ground, with a convenient situation for a Saw and Grist Mill. Tbe Land is geueraOy good for the cultivation of Tobacco, Wheat or Corn, and lies about 15.M.les from Hdisborowgh and 23 from Raleigh. Any Person inclined to purchase may koow the terms by apply- t?..i !.... i - jug to uic ouuscriocr living an xnc pre raises. SH A DRICK FORREST. : Orange County, Jidj 161806. CAS70U0JL. J. A ALibbnas just'Tcceived trota TioR,orL, Wb;ch h sejli bv-the Botd of ' 4 TTltAT, vaidable . Tract' of Lakd .caixeq,; tne jurats Koaas,, contnjng 10CC "Acres: : lyipir in-Stokes Cottr.n. 11 ; fop sale;" n .es ,blpws SfeiRoiwwh ich" there -is:-a:u: -Z od p welling House;' well constructed-f cr ? 1 a Tavern, a good Store-House ?ndther f Out-Houses ; an Appre Orchard containing Yvj upwards Of SOO" Trees rf the bir IcihH nf .i fVuiU and: a very rod Peacli Orchsrrdi 1 i piAny ,Pei8on inclined to purchase fev navlnir 4- we aair inaavance; . may nave a ; hanu y J sbnie Credit; fe the other half. 'Th terfh I jnay ue Know n py-appiy mg .to tne UDscri-. ' Uer on the JfttffF&i. f :7WILLlAM A DOBSON - Mat $0t 1&Q6. , ,. ia:ZA. I . IX 4 . STATE OP N0iiTH,QAHOJ,INA, Bertif County; y.- , : Mar Trm: 1806. ' ' v orfglnal Attachment.; JosepKCartey. S Jleiurnedi" Levied on the LeindoftbeDif. rJent'Jjin'fn'aciqttesf Svanip t lt TT beinir renre sr nttd tn th PMi'rf that the Defendant in this5. Suit is net, an Inhabitant oif Tis State, It if ordered, '"i That three Months public Notice be given ' to the sa'wl Joseph Cartey, by Atlverrise if 'merit in the Nrth-Caroliria StatGazeie - that he appear at the next Tet m f this ; uourt, replevy ins rTonerty and utead to " issue, or that final Judgment wdl be entered up against h rn. leste, JOS. BLOUNT, Dep. Clerh S t ATE OF NORTH.C ARUJ.1NA, aroues bounty Uourt. -June Sessions. lbOS. Benjamin i'orsjth,") v Original AftitcSimeni Stokes Teomans.- ' . : Levied m onebu. id ed 4crt of Lmdt on u the-tieadof Wo f Crt ek, that the Plain- , f tiff told to the litfenaant. jN-this .case u having been made ' A anpealto the satisfaction of theC.nk. that the Defendant is an inhabitant ?f ano thtrHState, ir is therefore Ordered, That thi Sa t beaveriised .n the Kattizh tteffier .or three weeks, $o that the Defeirat nay haye no ate a appear to replevy hi- ropcrt and picarl to issue, or filial jtidg- ' icnc will be entered against him at next Ferni. Test, - -JtQbtJWilliams, C. C. By :. ' T.. ArmstrmgtJj.U; The ' , ' Grand Lodge of North Caroling and Tennessee, 1"ILL convene in their Lodgs Room in the Citv of Ratri . ' u,r requested to attend order of the Most W rsbipfid, tfc K nor able J 'obt: Sail, Grand Mat' ier of Mi sore. ROBERT WILLIAMS, . Grand Setrttnrvi T Ri. .. m . -Vi J 1 A. D.1806. Ireasury Department of the Unt ied states. June 21; 1S0& TjyHEREAS the Com iiiissionera ot tne Sinking Fard, at a meeting ' held on the 28th day of April. 1806. rlid resolve, that the sum remaining to com plete the expenditure of the annual appro priation of EIGHT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, should amonV ether tiumn. - ses be applied to the reimburssmenr of the NAVY SIX PER CENT. STOCK, created in pursuance bf an act cf Congress, - r"-wv- nmi.miv uy 01 jun, xtito, : and to tne reimbursement ot the FIVEAND tiAi.t PERCENT. STOCK, created in pursuance of an act of Confess, nasfl 1 on the 3d day of March", 1795. " ;. This is therefore to give notice, that principal of the said NAVY SIX PER the Evening of Wednesday the third day, f December next ; atlwhich time and plac tUeO Hcers, Me nber'sand Renresentativea Ufc.Nl. STOCK, with the interest due f thereon, will, on surrender of the ceriifi cates, be paid on the first day of October " next ensuing .he date hereof, to the resnec ...w n,.v,uclur incur lawruirepreseji ' -tatvvesor attornj duly const ,tutedi and authenfed, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office, as the case may be, where -credits have teeetj given for the amount of " stock, resject!vely held by t'Kem ; and tint ' the principal of the FIVE AND H ALF PER CENT STOCK, , with the imeiS- " 4ae thereon, wUUn like manner, and it the same places, be paid onlthe first day ' of January, 1807, to the respective stock, holders, or their lawful represen tat ivescr ' attornies duly constituted and autWed. It is further made knwn, for the mfor mation of the parties concerned, that & transfers of the NAVY SIX PER CENT. -STOCK, either from or to the '"Slioki the Treasury, or from or to theCon;"mW". sioner of Loans, will be allowed aftethe 1st day of Septenfiber-ensuing nor ef thft FIVE vr AND H ALF PERvvCfiKT : tuwi, aicer tne ist day qi Uecemjxr CUSUUlg. cates been fication, will cease and determine.- onih day preced'rrg the day. herefcy fixed for thd -' reioibarsement thereor v . ; ; ALBERT GALL ATIXV v ALBERT. GALL ATUT ' : , . cctiry f tat Tjiasarif : ' i ! i 1 4 9 t ill it : h 1 mi i rv.r Ni-.. v
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