United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 84

3109505United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Second Congress, Second Session, Chapter 84United States Congress


March 2, 1833.

Chap. LXXXIV.An Act supplemental to the act entitled “An act for the final adjustment of land claims in Missouri.”[1]

1822, ch. 180.
Provisions of act extended.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be extended to and embrace in its operations, every claim to a donation of land in the state of Missouri, held in virtue of settlement and cultivation; and the commissioners appointed under the above-recited act, shall proceed to consider, decide, and report upon the aforesaid claims, under the provisions of the several acts of Congress heretofore passed in relation to said claims, and under such provisions and restrictions of the act to which this is a supplement, as may be applicable thereto.

Testimony to be taken.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the recorder and commissioners aforesaid, to continue to take the testimony of all such claims as heretofore described, for and during the term of two years, from the date of the act to which this is a supplement, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, March 2, 1833.


  1. See notes of the acts passed relative to lands in Missouri, vol. ii. p. 812.
    Notes of decisions of the Supreme Court on Missouri land titles, vol. ii. pp. 748 and 812.