United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 63
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Chap. LXIII.—An Act further supplementary to the act, entitled “An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory.”
Act of March 31, 1814, ch. 39.
Further time allowed to claimants.
1814, ch. 39.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 public lands in the Mississippi territory, under the act or pretended act of the state of Georgia, passed January the seventh, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, who have not duly released their claims to the United States, so as to entitle them to the indemnification provided by the act of Congress, passed the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled “An act providing for the indemnification of certain claimants of public lands in the Mississippi territory,” and the acts supplementary thereto, shall be allowed further time to execute and file with the commissioners appointed to decide on such claims, good and sufficient legal releases of their claim, as by said acts are required, until the first Monday of March next.1815, ch. 24, 96. And the commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized and empowered to decide on such claims, and to adjudge to every such claimant or claimants the proportion of indemnification to which he or they may be respectively entitled.
Commissioners authorized to send to the counsel employed by them original papers and documents.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid shall be, and they are hereby authorized, in all cases where they shall direct suits to be commenced for the recovery of money fraudulently withdrawn from the treasury of Georgia, to transmit to the counsel or attorney appointed to institute and conduct such suits or prosecutions, all original papers or documents in their possession, that may furnish evidence to sustain the same.
Additional compensation to commissioners and their secretary.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed and paid, out of the treasury of the United States, to each of the said commissioners and their secretary, the further sum of one thousand dollars, as a compensation for the additional services required by this act.
Approved, April 20, 1816.