EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Suss. I. Ch. 1ST, 188. 1824.

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Statute I.May 26, 1824.

Provisions ofthe act of May4, 1822, ch. 48,shall extend tothe volunteer,&c. officers en-gaged againstthe SeminoleIndians.

The claimsof all owners ofwagons to besettled.

Proviso.

To be paidout of the trea-sury.

Statute I.

May 26, 1824.[Obsolete.]

The Presidentauthorized toascertain thenumber of acresof land lying be-tween Ludlow’sand Robert’slines, in Ohio .

Chap. CLXXXV1I .—An Act explanatory of an act, entitled “ An act for therelief of the officers, volunteers, and other persons, engaged in the late campaignagainst the Seminole Indians, passed the fourth of May, one thousand eighthundred and twenty-two,"

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled , That the proper accountingofficer of the Treasury Department be, and he is hereby, directed togive such construction to the act of the fourth of May, one thousand eighthundred and twenty-two, as that its provisions shall extend to the claimsof the volunteer, field, and staff officers, engaged in the campaign ofeighteen hundred and eighteen, against the Seminole Indians, who losthorses or the necessary equipage thereof, in the manner mentioned insaid act; and, also, to the claims of all the volunteer officers or soldiersengaged in the campaign aforesaid, who, without any fault or negligenceon their part, respectively, lost horses, or the necessary equipage thereof,in battle.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the proper accounting officerof the Treasury Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directedto audit and settle the claims of all owners of wagons and teams, andothers, for any horse or horses, impressed into the public service duringthe said Seminole campaign ; Provided, That such impressment, and thevalue of said horse, or horses, be satisfactorily proved, and that it shall,also, be satisfactorily proved that such horse or horses were not returnedto their owners, and that any compensation which may have been allowedand paid for the service of said horse or horses, after the time of theirimpressment, be deducted.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the amount of such claims, soaudited and settled, when ascertained, shall be paid out of any moneyin the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, May 26,1824.

Chap. CLXXXVIII .—An Act to authorize the President of the United States to enter into certain negotiations relative to lands located under Virginia mili-tary land warrants lying between Ludlow's and Robert’s lines, in the state ofOhio , (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the President of theUnited States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to ascertain the numberof acres, and, by appraisement or otherwise, the value thereof, exclusive ofimprovements, of all such lands lying between Ludlow’s and Robert’slines, in the state of Ohio , as may, agreeably to the principles of a de-cision of the Supreme Court of the United States , in the case of Dod-dridge’s lessee, against Thompson and Wright, be heldby persons underVirginia military warrants, and on what terms the holders will relinquishthe same to the United States , and that he report the facts at the com-mencement of the next session of Congress .

Approved, May 26, 1824.

(a) Under the reservation contained in the cession act of Virginia, and under the acts of Congress ofAugust 10, 1790, ch. 40, and of June 9, 1794, ch. 62, the whole country between the Scioto and LittleMiami rivers was subjected to the military warrants to satisfy which the reserve was made. Doddridgev. Thompson, 9 Wheaton, 469; 5 Cond. Rep. 645

The territory lying between the two rivers, is the whole country from their sources to their mouths;and if no branch of either of them has acquired the name, exclusive of another, the main branch toits source must be considered as the tru»3 river. Ibid.

The act of June 26, 1812, ch. 109, to ascertain the western boundary of the tract reserved for themilitary warrants, and which provisionally designates Ludlow’s line as the western boundary, did notinvalidate the title to land between that line and Robert’s line, acquired under a Virginia military war-rant, previous to the passage of that act. Ibid.

The land between Ludlow’s and Robert’s line was not withdrawn from the territory liable to be sur-veyed for military warrants, by any act of Congress passed before the act of June *26, 1812, ch. 109.Ibid .