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veyor-General shall appoint for that purpose. The expense of surveying shall be the same, and the plats of surveys and transcript of the decisions of the commissioners in favor of claimants shall be made and transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury in the same manner; and the certificates granted by the commissioners shall be entered with the register of the land office, and certificates of the register be granted to the party or parties on payment of the same fees, and patents granted, in every respect, in the same manner as is directed by the third section of an act, entitled "An An regulating the grants of land in the Territory of Michigan," passed the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven.

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See. 3. And be it further enacted, That Heirs of Jothe heirs of Joseph Harrison, late of Detroit, seph Harn deceased, be permitted to enter with the permitted to Register of the Land Office, for the district make an enof Detroit, their claim to any tract or tracts land office of land in the said district; and such entry trict of Deshall have the same effect, and the commis- troit. sioners shall have the same powers, and act thereon in the same manner, as if the entry had been made before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nine; and in case of a decision in favor of their claim or claims, a patent or patents shall be granted for the lands so claimed and confirmed to them, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
WM. H. CRAWFORD,

President of the Senate, pro-tempore.

April 22, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

Specific grants.

CHAPTER LXIII.

AN ACT making provision for certain persons claiming lands under the several acts for the relief of the Refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following persons, claiming lands under the act, entitled "An act to revive and continue in force an act, entitled 'An act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia," passed on the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, shall, respectively, be entitled to the following quantities of land, that is to say: Charlotte Hazen, widow of Moses Hazen; Chloe Shannon, wife of James Noble Shannon and relict of Obadiah Ayer, deceased; the heirs of Elijah Ayer and the heirs of Israel Ruland, respectively, nine hundred and sixty acres; Elijah Ayer, jun. and the heirs of Anthony Burk, respective ly, three hundred and twenty acres: And that the following persons, claiming lands under the act, entitled "An act further to provide for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia, and for other purposes," passed on the twentyfourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten, shall, respectively, be en titled to the following quantities of land, that is to say: The heirs of James Boyd, two thousand two hundred and forty acres; the heirs of Nathaniel Reynolds, the heirs of Edward Antill and Joshua Sprague, respec⚫

tively, nine hundred and sixty acres: Robert Sharp, John Fulton and John Morrison, each, six hundred and forty acres; James Sprague, David Dickey, John Taylor, and the heirs of Gilberts Seamans, deceased, respectively, three hundred and twenty acres; which several tracts of land shall be located within the boundaries of the fractional townships, reserved and set apart for the purpose of satisfying the claims of the refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia; and the locations shall be made, and patents granted, in the manner and on the conditions prescribed by former laws, except as to the time for making the locations; which locations shall be made on the day or days that the Secretary of the Treasury shall judge most convenient for the claimants, and shall designate for the purpose.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives
of the United States.

WM H. CRAWFORD,

President of the Senate pro-tempore.

April 23, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

CHAPTER LXIV.

AN ACT giving further time to the purchasers of Public Lands, North West of the river Ohio, to complete their payments.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Ame rica in Congress assembled, That every person, who, prior to the first day of April,

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one thousand eight hundred and eight, had purchased any tract or tracts of land of the United States, not exceeding in the whole six hundred and forty acres, at any of the land offices established for the disposal of the public lands north west of the river Ohio, and whose lands have not already been actually sold or reverted to the United States for non-payment of part of the purchase money, shall be allowed the further from 1st Jan- term of three years from the first day of Ja nuary, one thousand eight hundred and thir teen, for the payment of the residue of the principal and interest due on account of such purchase, to be paid in four equal annual payments, the first whereof to be on the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen: and in case of failure in paying any of the said annual pay. ments at the time when the same shall become due, the tract of land shall be forthwith advertised and offered for sale in the manner and on the terms and conditions heretofore prescribed for the sale of lands purchased of the United States, and not paid for within the limited time.

Land to be sold on failure to pay.

H. CLAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

WM. H. CRAWFORD,

President of the Senate pro-tempore

April 23, 1812.

APPROVED,

JAMES MADISON.

CHAPTER LXV.

AN ACT for the relief of Aaron Greeley.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

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accounting officers of the Treasury, be, and Claim to be they are hereby authorised and required to settle the claim of Aaron Greely and allow Allowance. him at the rate of three dollars per mile for each boundary line, common to any two private surveys he may have made in the district of Detroit; and that they also allow him at the same rate for each line run by him in the said district, not the boundary of any survey, but run in order to connect the surveys into a general plat: Provided, That the aforesaid allowance shall be in full for In full. his services as assistant surveyor in the district aforesaid.

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AN ACT to continue in force for a limited time, an act, entitled" An act continuing for a limited time the salaries of the officers of government therein mentioned."

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act passed on the twentieth day of February

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