United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 38
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XXXVIII.—An Act giving further time for registering claims to land in the western district of the territory of Orleans.
Act of Feb. 27, 1813, ch. 38.
Further time given for registering claims in the land-office at Opelousas.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every person or persons claiming lands in the wester district of the territory of Orleans, who are actual settlers on the land which they claim, and whose claims have not been heretofore filed with the register of the land-office, for the said district, shall be allowed until the first day of November next, to deliver notices in writing, and the written evidences of their claims to the register of the land-office at Opelousas; and the notices and evidences so delivered within the time limited by this act, shall be recorded in the same manner, and on payment of the same fees, as if the same had been delivered before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight; but the rights of such persons as shall neglect so doing within the time limited by this act, shall, so far as they are derived from, or founded on any act of Congress, ever after be barred and become void, and the evidences of their claims never after admitted as evidence in any court of the United States against any grant derived from the United States.
Duties of the register and receiver of public monies of the land-office at Opelousas.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the register and receiver of public monies of the said land-office at Opelousas, shall have the same powers and perform the same duties in relation to the claims thus filed before the first day of November next, as if notice of the same had been given before the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight, except that their decisions shall be subject to the revision of Congress. And it shall be the duty of the said register and receiver to make to the Secretary of the Treasury, a report of all the claims thus filed with the register of the land-office, together with the substance of the evidence in support thereof, with their opinion, and such remarks thereon as they may think proper;The reports of the register and receiver to be laid before Congress.
Allowance on claims filed. which report, together with a list of the claims, which, in the opinion of the register and receiver, ought to be confirmed, shall be laid by the Secretary of the Treasury before Congress at their next session, for their determination thereon. The said register and receiver shall have power to appoint a clerk, whose duty shall be the same, in relation to the claims filed as aforesaid, as was required of the clerk to the board of commissioners for adjusting claims to land in the said district; and the said register, receiver and clerk, shall each be allowed fifty cents for each claim filed according to this act, and on which a decision shall be made, whether such decision be in favour of, or against the claim; which allowance, of fifty cents, shall be in full compensation for their services under this act.
Approved, March 10, 1812.