United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 93
Chap. XCIII.—An Act supplementary to the several acts providing for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Mississippi.
Claimants of lands within that part of the limits of the land district of Jackson Courthouse lying below the 31st degree of north lat. whose claims have been presented by the commissioners under act of March 3, 1819, ch. 100, whose claims have not been acted upon, allowed until Jan. 1st, 1829, to present their titled, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the claimants of lands within that part of the limits of the land district of Jackson Courthouse, in the state of Mississippi, lying below the thirty-first degree of north latitude, whose claims have been presented to the commissioners appointed to receive and examine claims and titles to lands in said district of Jackson courthouse, or to the register and receiver of the land office at Jackson Courthouse, acting as commissioners under the provisions of the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, entitled “An act for adjusting the claims to lands, and establishing land offices in the district east of the Island of New Orleans,” and which have not been reported to Congress, or whose claims have not been heretofore presented to said commissioners, or to the register and receiver acting as commissioners, or whose claims have been acted upon, but additional evidence adduced, be allowed until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to present their titles and claims, and the evidence in support of the same, to the register and receiver of the land office at Jackson Courthouse, in the state of Mississippi, whose powers and duties in relation to the same, shall, in all respects, be governed by the provisions of the acts before recited, and of the act of the eighth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, entitledAct of May 8, 1822, ch. 128. “An act supplementary to the several acts for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the district east of the island of New Orleans.”
Register and receiver to hold their sessions at Jackson Courthouse, and the town of Shieldsborough, &c.
Register and receiver to appoint a clerk.
Their compensation each.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said register and receiver shall have power to receive and examine such titles and claims, and for that purpose shall hold their sessions at Jackson Courthouse, and the town of Shieldsborough. They shall give immediate notice after the passage of this act of the time and place of their meeting, but may adjourn from time to time as may best suit the convenience of claimants, upon giving due notice thereof. And the said register and receiver shall have power to appoint a clerk, who shall be a person capable of translating the French and Spanish languages, and who shall perform the duty of translator and such other duty as may be required by the said register and receiver; and the said register and receiver shall each be allowed, as a compensation for their services in relation to said claims, and, for the services to be performed under the provisions of the several acts to which this is a supplement, the sum of eight hundred dollars each, and the clerk the sum of eight hundred dollars: which several sums of money shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:Payment of the whole of the aforesaid compensation to be withheld by the Secretary of the Treasury, until, &c. Provided, That the payment of the whole of the aforesaid compensation shall be withheld by the Secretary of the Treasury, until a report, approved by him, shall have been made to him by said register and receiver, of the performance of the services herein required.
Approved, May 24, 1828.