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Aaron Stafford, at the rate of ten dollars per month, to commence on the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Officers, soldiers, &c. who served in the revolutionary war, on availing themselves of the act of 1818, ch. 19. not entitled to pensions under this, or other future acts.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person by this act, or any other act hereafter to be passed, to any officer, soldier, or marine, who served in the revolutionary war, shall cease and be discontinued, in case the individual to whom the same may be granted, hath availed himself, or shall hereafter avail himself of the provisions of an act, passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war.”

Persons entitled may be placed on the pension list without report.
1806, ch. 25.
1808, ch. 58.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all persons entitled to pensions, in conformity with the provision of the act, entitled “An act to provide for persons disabled by known wounds during the revolutionary war,” passed April the eighteenth, eighteen hundred and six, and also the fourth section of an act, entitled “An act concerning invalid pensioners,” passed the twenty-fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, may be placed on the pension list by the Secretary of War, without reporting the same to Congress.

Approved, March 3, 1819.


Statute II.


March 3, 1819.

Chap. C.An Act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices, in the districts east of the island of New Orleans.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the claims to land, founded on complete grants from the Spanish government, reported to

  1. Acts relating to the adjustment of land claims in Louisiana:
    An act erecting Louisiana into two territories, and providing for the temporary government thereof, March 26, 1804, ch. 38.
    An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the territory of Orleans, and the district of Louisiana, March 2, 1805, ch. 26.
    An act supplementary to an act, entitled “An act for ascertaining and adjusting titles and claims to lands within the territory of Orleans, and the district of Louisiana,” April 21, 1806, ch. 39.
    An act respecting claims to lands, in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, March 3, 1807, ch. 36.
    An act for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, [repealed,] February 15, 1811, ch. 14.
    An act providing for the final adjustment of claims to lands, and for the sale of the public lands in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, and to repeal the act passed for the same purposes, approved Feb. 16, 1811, March 3, 1811, ch. 46.
    An act giving further time for registering claims to lands in the western district of the territory of Orleans, March 10, 1812, ch. 38.
    An act for ascertaining the titles and claims to lands in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the river Mississippi, and the island of New Orleans, April 25, 1812, ch. 67.
    An act giving validity to the sale of certain tracts of public land, sold in the western district of the territory of Orleans, now state of Louisiana, July 1, 1812, ch. 118.
    An act giving further time for registering claims to lands in the eastern and western districts of the territory of Orleans, now state of Louisiana, Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 38.
    An act for the final adjustment of land titles, in the state of Louisiana, and territory of Missouri, April 12, 1814, ch. 52.
    An act supplemental to an act, entitled “An act for ascertaining the titles and claims to lands in that part of Louisiana, which lies east of the Mississippi and island of New Orleans,[”] April 18, 1814, ch. 85.
    An act concerning certificates of confirmation of claims to lands in the state of Louisiana, April 18, 1814, ch. 93.
    An act to provide for the appointment of a surveyor of public lands, in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, April 29, 1816, ch. 151. sec. 3.
    An act for the confirmation of certain claims to land in the western district of the state of Louisiana, and in the territory of Missouri, April 29, 1816, ch. 159.
    An act explanatory of the act, entitled “An act for the final adjustment of land titles, in the state of Louisiana, and territory of Missouri,” act of March 3, 1819, ch. 85.
    An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans, March 3, 1819, ch. 99.
    An act confirming claims to lots in the town of Mobile, and to land in the former province of west Florida, which claims have been reported favourably on by the commissioners appointed by the United States, May 8, 1822, ch. 122.
    An act supplementary to the several acts for adjusting claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans, May 8, 1822, ch. 128.