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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 90. 1830.
Mode of pro-ceeding.
No entries ofland to be madeuntil, &c.
Requisites tothe issuing ofpatents underdecrees of saidcourt: 1st. Ori-ginal warrant,&c. to be pro-duced, &c.
2d. Genuine-ness of this war-rant, &c. to beestablished tosatisfaction ofcommissionerof general landoffice, or of saidcourt upon re-view.
Entries, pa-tents, &c. not tobe made, ex-cept, &c.
In case of re-versal, &c.lands to be sub-ject to sale, &c.
twenty-sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four,entitled “ An act to enable claimants to lands within the limits of thestate of Missouri and territory of Arkansas , to institute proceedings totry the validity of their claims,” shall be, and hereby is, continued inforce, so far as the said act relates to the claims within the territory ofArkansas , until the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred andthirty-one, for the purpose of enabling the court in Arkansas , havingcognisance of claims under the said act, to proceed by bills of review,filed, or to be filed, in the, said court, on the part of the United States ,for the purpose of revising all or any of the decrees of the said court incases wherein it shall appear to the said court, or be alleged in suchbills of review, that the jurisdiction of the same was assumed, in any case,on any forged warrant, concession, grant, order of survey, or other evi-dence of title; and, in every case wherein it shall appear to the saidcourt, on the prosecution of any such bill of review, that such warrant,concession, grant, order of survey, or other evidence of title, is a forgery,it shall be lawful, and the said court is hereby authorized to proceed,by farther order and decree, to reverse and annul any prior decree oradjudication upon such claim; and thereupon such prior decree or adju-dication shall be deemed, and held in all places whatever, to be null andvoid to all intents and purposes. And the said court shall proceed onsuch bills of review, by such rules of practice and regulations as theymay adopt, for the execution of the powers vested or confirmed in themby this act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no entries of land in any ofthe land offices in Arkansas , under any of the provisions of the said act,shall be made, until the further direction of Congress.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no patent shall be issued forlands under any decree of the said court, in any case in which the ori-ginal warrant, concession, grant, or order of survey, has been withdrawnfrom the files of the said court, unless the person or persons claiming suchpatent shall first produce and deposit, in the office of the commissionerof the general land office, the original warrant, concession, grant, or orderof survey, on which such decree was founded, and on which the saidcourt took jurisdiction under the said act; and no patent shall be issueduntil the further order of Congress, in any case, under the said act, untilit shall satisfactorily appear to the commissioner of the general land officethat the warrant, concession, grant, or order of survey, on which anylands are claimed, under any decree of the said court, was, in fact, madeor issued by or under the authority of the person or persons purportingto have made or issued the same, or unless the said warrant, concession,grant, or order of survey shall have been determined by the said court,on the hearing of a bill of review, to be genuine.
Sec. 4. And be it further[enactcd,]That no entry, survey, or patent,shall, at any time hereafter, be made or issued under the said act, exceptin the name of the original party to any such decree, and on proof to thesatisfaction of the officers, respectively, that the party applying is suchoriginal party, or is duly authorized by such original party, or his heirs,to make, receive, or require such entry, patent, or survey.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in all cases in which the saidcourt shall, by decree or adjudication, under this act, review and annulany prior decree or adjudication therein, any lands which may have beenheretofore entered, under any such prior decree or adjudication, shall,thereafter, be subject to sale or entry as other public lands of the UnitedStates may be.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the President of the UnitedStates is hereby authorized to employ, on behalf of the United States ,such counsel on their part, in the territory of Arkansas , or elsewhere, tobe associated for that purpose with the district attorney of the same