EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS, Sess. I. Ch. 164,165. 1834.

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Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act, of whichthis is an amendment, as requires that the governor of Florida shall notleave the territory without the permission of the President of the UnitedStates , be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Approved, May 36, 1824.

Chap. CLXIV.— An Act granting donations of landio certain actual settlers inthe territory of Florida fa)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the commissioners for as-certaining titles and claims to lands in Florida , be, and they are hereby,authorized and required, within their respective districts, and in additionto their former duties, to receive and examine all claims that may bepresented to them, and the evidence in support of each of such claims,founded on habitation and cultivation of any tract of land, town, or citylot, or out-lot, by any person, being the head of a family, and twenty-oneyears of age, who, on the twenty-second day of February, one thousandeight hundred and nineteen, actually inhabited and cultivated such tractof land, or actually cultivated and improved such lot, or who, on that day,cultivated any tract of land in the vicinity of any town or city, having apermanent residence in such town or city, in said territory; and to grantcertificates of confirmation for any tract of land thus inhabited and culti-vated, or cultivated by any person of the above description, residing inany town or city in the vicinity of the tract so cultivated; which landshall be located in an entire body, as nearly as possible, in conformity tothe surveys of the contiguous public lands, and so as to embrace theprincipal improvements then made on any tract so claimed, and shall notexceed in quantity six hundred and forty acres: And it shall also bethe duty of said commissioners to receive claims to land founded on habi-tation and cultivation, commenced between the twenty-second of Feb-ruary, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and the seventeenth ofJuly, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, when Florida wassurrendered to the United States , and evidence in support of the same;and to report an abstract of all such claims to Congress , and of theclaims by them confirmed, to the Secretary of the Treasury; and theclaims merely reported on, shall be laid before Congress at their nextsession, with the evidence of the time, nature, and extent, of suchinhabitation and cultivation, in each case, and the extent of the claim:Provided, That no claim shall be received, confirmed, or reported,to Congress , by the said commissioners, for confirmation, in favourof any person, or the legal representatives of any person, who claims anytract of land in said territory, by virtue of any written evidence of titlederived from either the British or Spanish government.

Approved, May 26,1824.

Chap. CLXV.— Jin Act to authorize the state of Indiana to open a canal throughthe public lands, to connect the navigation of the rivers Wabash and the Miami of Lake Erie .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That, the state of Indiana be,and is hereby, authorized to survey and mark, through the public landsof the United States , the route of a canal, by which to connect the navi-gation of the rivers Wabash and Miami of Lake Erie ; and ninety feet

Part of the for-mer act repeal-ed.

1823, ch. 28.

STATUTE I.

May 26, 1824.

The commis-sioners for as-certaining titlesto lands in Flo-rida authorizedand required toreceive and ex-amine all claimspresented tothem withintheir respectivedistricts.

Duty of saidcommissioners.

Proviso.

Statute I.May 26, 1824.

A route for acanal to be sur-veyed andmarked, bywhich the navi-gation of theWahash and

(a) See notes to act of May 26, 1824, ch. 154.