United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 63
Chap. 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.
Specific grants to sundry persons.
Act of March 16, 1804, ch. 23.
Act of February 24, 1810, ch. 12.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, entituled “An act to revive and continue in force an act, entituled 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, respectively, three hundred and twenty acres: And that the following persons, claiming lands under the act, entituled “An act further to provide for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia, and for other purposes,” passed on the twenty-fourth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten, shall, respectively, be entitled 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, respectively, 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;Reservations. 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.
Approved, April 23, 1812.