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Invalid pensioners.For the invalid pensioners, under various laws, in addition to an unexpended balance of sixty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars, the sum of two hundred and forty-one thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars.

Widows and orphans.For pensions to widows and orphans, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars and forty-nine cents, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.

Approved, January 27, 1835.

Statute Ⅰ.

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Jan. 27, 1835.

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Chap. VI.—An Act to allow further time to complete the issuing and locating of military land warrants during the late war.

Acts of May 26, 1824, ch. 177, and of February 24, 1819, ch. 41, revived.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled “An act to allow further time to complete the issuing and locating of military land warrants,” approved the twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and also the operations of the act approved the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, which, by said act of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, is revived, be, and the said acts are hereby, extended and continued in force for the term of five years from and after the twenty-sixth day of May last.

Approved, January 27, 1835.

Statute Ⅰ.

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Jan. 27, 1835.

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Chap. VII.—An Act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army.

Time extended to January 1, 1840.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the time allowed for issuing military land warrants to the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army shall be extended to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty.

Approved, January 27, 1835.

Statute Ⅰ.

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Feb. 6, 1835.

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Chap. XVII.—An Act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the state of Louisiana.^[1]

Valid claims to be presented to register and receiver within two years.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or persons having claims to lands in the state of Louisiana, whose claims have been recognised by former laws as valid, but which have not heretofore been confirmed to the grantees or their legal representatives, be, and they are hereby, authorized to present their claims to the register and receiver of the land office in which the land may lie, within two years from the passage of this act, together with the written and other testimony in support of the same, and it shall be the duty of the register and receiver to record in a book to be kept by them for that purpose, the notice of every claim so preferred, together with the evidence in support of the same; and the said register and receiver are hereby further authorized to receive any evidence for and on behalf of other individuals who may resist the confirmation of any such claim either on their own behalf, or that of the United States, and cause to be taken any evidence which shall be deemed necessary and proper by them to have such claim properly and justly settled, and to have the same likewise recorded in said book, for

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1. Notes of the acts relating to the adjustment of land claims in Louisiana, vol. iii. 528.