United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 25
Chap. XXV.—An Act to provide for the adjustment of title and final disposition of the four reserved sections in the tract of country allotted to the Tombecbee Association for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive.
Persons entitled to allotments under contract by Sec. Treas. with Chas. Villar, shall receive patents on certain conditions.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 61.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons who became entitled, under the contract entered into on the eighth day of January eighteen hundred and nineteen, by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the part of the United States, and Charles Villar, agent of the Tombecbee Association, in pursuance of “An act to set apart and dispose of certain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive,” approved third March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to an allotment or share of the four sections of land reserved for the small allotments, and designated as sections, seven, eighteen, nineteen, and thirty in township eighteen, range three east, their heirs, devisees, or assigns, who shall have complied with the conditions of settlement and cultivation on such allotment, as required by said contract, or shall have been in the actual settlement and cultivation of his or her allotment within said four sections, or a part thereof, before or on the thirty-first day of October eighteen hundred and thirty-two, as provided by theAct of Feb. 19, 1833, ch. 30. act of the nineteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, shall, on producing to the register and receiver of the land district in which said lands are situated, satisfactory evidence of title to such allotment, and of settlement and cultivation on the same as aforesaid, and paying one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the land, receive a patent for the same:Proviso.
Further proviso. Provided, Such proof shall be filed and payment made within six months from the passage of this act: And provided further, That the expense of surveying any such allotment shall be defrayed by the person or persons claiming the same.
Remainder subject to entry, for use of Demopolis Female Academy.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any remainder of said four sections not disposed of by the first section of this act shall be subject to entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, by the trustees of the Demopolis Female Academy, in trust for the use and benefit of said institution.
Approved, March 2, 1837.