United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 19

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
United States Congress
Public Acts of the Twenty-First Congress, Second Session, Chapter 19
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Feb. 12, 1831.

Chap. XIX.An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to quiet the title of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio,” approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty.[1]

Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 188.
Act of May 26, 1830, ch. 105.
President of United States to pay the claim of Philip Doddridge.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the sum appropriated by the act, entitled “An act to quiet the titles of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio,” approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Philip Doddridge, the claimant of the Virginia military survey, numbered six thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, for seven hundred acres, being one of the Virginia military surveys, in the said act mentioned, lying between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, until paid; the said Philip having already conveyed to the United States, the title to the said seven hundred acres of land, in the manner directed by the President of the United States, pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress before recited. This act shall commence and be in force from the passing thereof.

Approved, February 12, 1831.


  1. The lands north-west of the river Ohio, between the rivers Scioto and Little Miami, lying west of Ludlow’s line, east of Roberts’ line, and south of the Indian boundary, reserved by Virginia, in her deed of cession to the United States, of March, 1784, for the satisfaction of the military bounties Virginia had promised, were not, prior to 1810, by any legislative acts of the government of the United States, withdrawn from appropriation under and by virtue of Virginia military land warrants. A patent issued on the 12th October, 1812, founded upon a military warrant, for land within the reserved lands, is valid against a claimant of the same land holding under a sale made by the United States. Reynolds, tenant, &c., v. McArthur, 2 Pet. 417.