EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. Ch. 175. 1824.
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to be held by the said Indians in the usual manner of Indian reservations,so long as they shall live thereon; and from the time said Indians shallremove on to said reservation, the said annuity shall cease.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
Statute I.
Chap. CLXXV .—Jin Act supplementary to the several acts providing for ascer- £6, 1824.
taining and adjusting the titles and claims to land in the St. Helena and Jack- -
son Courthouse land districts, (a) 1805, ch. 26.
J3e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the claimants of landswithin the limits of the land district of St. Helena , as established by theact of the twenty-fifth of April, one thousand eight hundred and twelve,entitled “An act for ascertaining the titles and claims to lands in thatpart of Louisiana, which lies east of the river Mississippi , and island ofNew Orleans, ” whose claims have been presented to the commissionerappointed to receive and examine claims and titles to lands in said dis-trict, or to the register and receiver, acting as commissioners, under theprovisions of the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundredand nineteen, entitled “ An act for adjusting the claims to lands, andestablishing land offices in the districts east of the island of New Orleans, ”and which have not been reported to Congress , or whose claims have notbeen heretofore presented to the said commissioner; or to the registerand receiver, acting as commissioners, be allowed until the first day ofJanuary next, to present their titles and claims, and the evidence in sup-port of the same, to the register and receiver of the said district, whosepowers and duties, in relation to the same, shall, in all respects, be go-verned by the provisions of the acts before recited, and of the act of theeighth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, entitled“An act supplementary to the several acts for adjusting the claims toland, and establishing land offices in the districts east of the island ofNew Orleans .”
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said register and re-ceiver shall have power to appoint a clerk, who shall be a person capableof translating the French and Spanish languages, and who shall performthe duty of translator, and such other duty as may be required by saidregister and receiver; and the said register and receiver shall each be al-lowed, as a compensation for their services, in relation to the said claims,and for the services to be performed under the provisions of the severalacts to which this is a supplement, at the rate of one thousand dollars ayear; and the clerk at the rate of twelve hundred and fifty dollars a year;and the clerk employed by the said register and receiver, last year, shallbe allowed, for the services then rendered by him, nine months’ salary,at the same rate; which several sums of money shall be paid out of anymoney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, That notmore than two years’ compensation be thus allowed to either the registerand receiver or their clerk; and the payment of the whole, or any portion,of the aforesaid compensation, may be withheld by the Secretary of theTreasury, until a report shall have been made to him,of the performanceof the services for which the same is allowed.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all donation claims whichmay be presented to the said register and receiver under this act, andall claims founded on complete or incomplete titles, which may be sopresented, not heretofore surveyed, shall be surveyed at the expenseof the claimants, (a)
Claimants oflands within thelimits of theland district ofSaint Helena , tobe allowed untilthe 1st Januarynext, to presentthem.
April 25, 1812,ch. 67.
Act of March3, 1819, ch. 100.
Act of May 8,1822,ch.128.
The registerand receiver toappoint a clerk.
Compensationof the registerand receiver.
Compensationof the clerk.
Proviso.
Claims to besurveyed at theexpense of theclaimants.
(a) This section was in the pamphlet laws very different, being a provision for the salary of clerks. Itis right as above.