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3 That the Scioto Salt Springs and
those near the Muskingum, and in
the military tract, &c. be granted
to said state, with condition that
they be never sold or leased for a
longer term than 10 years
4 That one twentieth of the nett
proceeds of all public lands sold in
said state, after the 30th June,
1802, be applied to making public
roads to and through the same 227-8
5 The above three propositions of-
fered on condition that the public
lands sold by Congress in said
state, be exempted from all taxa-
tion for five years after the day of

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sale
6 Certain tracts vested in the legis-
lature of, for the use of schools
7 Three per cent. of the nett pro-
ceeds of all public lands sold in,
to be paid to such person as may
be authorized by said state for
opening and making roads therein 230
8 One complete township granted
for an academy

9 Eighteen quarter townships and
three sections, appropriated for
schools in the tract called the Vir-
ginia military reservation, in lieu
of one thirty-sixth part thereof,
formerly appropriated

10 To be void unless the state of

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231

Ohio shall accept the same in lieu
of the said one thirty-sixth part 232
See Compact.

Ohio Company.

1 The board of treasury authorized,
by resolution of Congress, of 23d
July, 1787, to contract for the sale
of a tract of land on the Ohio, as
therein described

2 The purchasers to lay off the
tract into townships, &c. at their
own expence

236

ib.

3 Lot No. 16 in each township to
be given perpetually for schools,
and No. 29 for religious purposes 237
4 Nos. 8, 11, 26, reserved for the
future disposition of Congress, and
(not more than) two townships for
an university

ib.
5 Price to be not less than $1 per
acre in specie, Loan Office certi-
ficates at specie value, or certifi-
cates of liquidated debt of the
United States

. ib.
6 An allowance not exceeding one-
third of a dollar per acre to be
made for bad land

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1 To purchasers of public lands
2 Fees for, no longer payable after
the first day of April, 1804
3 The register of the treasury direct-
ed to obtain and transmit by mail
to the register of the proper land
office the patents to which pur-
chasers of public lands in his dis-
trict are entitled
4 Not to issue for any lot or lots of
100 acres, located on warrants for
military services, except in the
name of the person originally en-
titled to such warrant, or his heirs 201
5 See the note on this last provision
at the bottom of the page
6 Not to issue to persons claiming
under the rerolutions of Congress,
in favor of refugees from Canada
and Nova Scotia, establishing their
claims after the 24th February,
1810, unless such persons be resi-
dent within the United States at
the time then being

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See Register, 15.

Payment

1 By purchasers of public lands;
terms and conditions of

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212

143-4

2 To be made either to the treasu-
rer of the United States or the re-

ceiver of the public monies at the
place of sale

151
See for the various provisions and al-
terations in regard to the time and
mode of payment, Sales of public
land. Also Register, 5, 7, 8. Pre-
emption, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, 16, 23,
24. Evidences of public debt.

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Pre-emption.

1 Builder of a mill in the North-
West Territory entitled to the pre-
emption of the section including
the mill, on complying with the
laws prescribed for other purcha-

sers

2 Rights of, granted to purchasers
who had, previous to the first of
April, 1797, contracted for land
with John Gleyes Symmes
3 Terms and times of payment
therefor

156

243

243-4

4 Various provisions relating to the
surveying of and payments for such
rights

5 Evidences of public debt receiva-
ble in payment
6 Rights of, extended to purchasers
previous to the 1st January, 1808,
of lands between the Miami rivers
within the limits of a survey made
by Israel Ludlow, and the said
Symmes's patent

7 Specification of price and terms of
payment therefor

8 Notice of claims to, to be given to
the receiver of public monies at
Cincinnati, to be filed and laid be-
fore the commissioners for adjust-
ing such claims

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246

9 Manner in which the aforesaid
tract of country shall be surveyed 248
10 The preceding provisions ex-
tended to purchasers from John
C. Symmes, prior to the 1st Janua-
ry, 1800, out of the limits of Lud-
low's survey

250

. ib.

11 Further provisions relating to
pre-emption certificates, filing of
claims and the powers and duties
of the commissioners, &c.
12 Time given to claimants untilthe
1st January, 1803, to make the
first payment

13 Further extended for that and
the 2d, 3d, aud 4th instalments
14 No certificate of pre-emption to
issue but to purchasers previous
to the 1st January, 1800, who had
made written contracts with, and
paid money to said Symmes
15 Provision in favor of improvers
of tracts other than those purcha-
sed of said Symmes
16 The first instalment being regu
larly paid, the residue of the pur-

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17 Pre-emption rights in the terri-
tory of Michigan, who entitled to,
how to be paid for, and the steps
to be pursued by the claimants in
asserting the same
276
18 In the Mississippi Territory,
granted to every person being the
head of a family, or 21 years of
age, inhabiting and cultivating a
tract of land therein, on the 3d
March, 1803

284
19 Commissioners' certificate of a
right of pre-emption entitles the
claimant to become a purchaser of
the land claimed, on complying
with certain requisitions
20 Proceedings in case of an ad-
verse claim under a British patent,
to the same tract

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21 Pre-emptioner losing his land by
judicial decision in favor of a
claimant under a British patent, to
be refunded the money paid by
him therefor
22 Where only a part of his land is
claimed under a British patent, he
may have a patent for the residue ib.
23 Time for making the first pay-
ment for pre-emption rights ex-
tended to the 1st January, 1807,
on failure of which, the pre-emp-
tion right to cease
24 Further extended to the 1st Ja-
nuary, 1808

25 Pre-emption rights extended to
every person being the head of a
family, or above 21 years of age,
who did on the 3d March, 1807,
actually inhabit and cultivate a
tract of land, and who had obtained
permission to remain on such tract
pursuant to the act of 3d March,
1807

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2 Not exceeding 400 acres to any
one person
3 Claimants under legal grants by
the French government, prior to
the treaty of Paris, of the 10th
February, 1763, or by the Bri-
tish government prior to the treaty
of peace between the United States
and Great Britain, or any resolution
or act of Congress subsequent
thereto, in the several districts of
Vincennes, Kaskaskia and Detroit,
to deliver, on or before the 1st Ja-
nuary, 1805, to the respective re-
gisters of said districts, written no-
tices of their claims.
.266-7

4 Also grants and other written evi-
dences of their titles to be record.
ed

3 Forfeiture of all right derived
from any resolution or act of Con.
gress on failure therein

6 Claims under legal grants derived
from any of the beforementioned
sources to be surveyed at the pub-
lic expence

Time for filing notices of claims,
extended until the 1st November,
1805

267

ib.

269

ib.

8 Confirmation of the decisions of
the commissioners in favor of
claimants in the district of Detroit 271
9 Actual settlers in Michigan ter-
ritory, prior to or on the 1st July,
1796, and in the actual occupancy

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13 Additional tracts to be laid out,
adjoining those formerly laid out,
at Vincennes and Kaskaskia, for
locating therein tracts granted by
legal French or British grants, or
by Congress

14 Unlocated claims under any for-
mer resolution, or act of Congress,
to be located therein
15 Priority of location to be deter-
mined by lot, and the manner of
making the same

275

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277

ib.

ib:

16 Confirmation of claims in the dis-
trict of Vincennes, on which the
the commissioners have decided in
favor of the claimants . . . 277-3
17 Of certain grants by the gover-
nors of the North-West and Indi-
ana Territories, except those actu-
ally rejected by the commissioners
subsequently appointed . . . 278
18 And of certain claims in the tract
near Vincennes, known by the
name of Continuation
ib.

19 Claims thus confirmed, which
have not been actually located, how
to be located, and when and how
patents are to be obtained there-
for
278-9
20 Confirmation of the commission-
ers' decisions in favor of certain
claimants in the District of Kas-
kaskia, &c.

21 Private claims in the Mississippi
Territory; residents therein on the
27th October, 1795, being heads
of families or 21 years of age, and
who had obtained from the British
government of West-Florida, or
Spanish government, any warrant
or order of survey for land, and on
that day actually inhabited and cul-
tivated the same, confirmed in their

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23 Claims barred on failure thereof,
and no written evidence of title
not thus recorded to be admitted
in the courts of the U. States 285
24 Commissioners, certificate of ti-

tle under a British or Spanish
grant valid against the U. States 286-7
25 And of title under the Bourbon
act of Georgia, or of the two first
sections of the act of the 3d
March, 1803, entitles the claim-
ant to a patent for the land claim-
ed

287
26 British grants, not confirmed by
the articles of agreement with
Georgia, to be reported by the
commissioners

27 Specification of claims to which
the 5,000,000 of acres reserved
by the said articles are appropri

ated

288

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28 Under certain conditions and re-
strictions

29 Time for filing and recording
claims west of Pearl River
30 What evidence of title may be
required by the commissioners
there

31 They shall report to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury claims dis-
allowed by them, on suspicion of
being antedated or otherwise frau-
dulent

289

290

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35 Claimants under British grants
legally and fully executed allow-
ed a further time for filing claims
with the Register of the Land
Office west of Pearl river

36 Such grants not filed, &c. to be
no evidence in the courts of the
United States, against certain o-
ther claims

37 Certain settlers on the Mobile
allowed until the first of October,
1808 to file their claims
38 The Registers of the Land Of
fices east and west of Pearl river
to transmit to the Secretary of the
Treasury a report of all claims
under British or Spanish warrants,
&c. granted prior to the 27th of
October, 1795, and not confirmed
by former laws, to be by him laid
before Congress

ib.

295

300

ib.
38 Time given until the 1st Octo-
ber, 1808, to obtain permission to
remain on lands the property of
the United States

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39 The several tracts the titles to
which are derived under Spanish
grants, &c. disallowed by the com-
missioners, on suspicion of their
being ante-dated or otherwise frau-
dulent, to be sold as other public
lands, &c.
40 But the claimants may institute
a suit for the recovery thereof,
which must be brought within a
certain time or the claimants fore-
ver barred
41 If it shall appear to the court
that the land claimed was actually
surveyed prior to the 27th Oct.
1795, the same to be deemed good
and valid

302

ib.

42 But if the claimant shall fail to
make this appear, or the survey
shall be otherwise deemed frau-
dulent or illegal, the grant, &c.
of the Spanish government de-
clared null and void
ib,
43 In the trial of such suit parole
evidence to be admitted and the
judgment of the court therein to
be conclusive
: 303
44 Private claims in the Orleans
and Louisiana territories, all grants
for lands in the territory ceded by
France to the United States since
the date of the treaty of St. Ide

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