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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 106. 1830.

ConflictingSpanish claimsconfirmed as toUnited States .

Act of May 8,1822, ch. 122,see. 4.

Certain otherclaims confirm-ed.

Remainingclaims to be set-tled.

Act of May23, 1828, ch.70.

Disposition ofpapers relativeto claims.

Operation ofconfirmation.

Act of May 23,1828,ch.70, ex-plained.

Time for re-linquishmentextended.

Title-deeds.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the conflicting Spanish claims, reported in obedience to the fourth section of the act of Con-gress , approved May the eighth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and recommended for confirmation as valid titles, be, and the sameare hereby, confirmed, so far as the United States have any title to thesame.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all claims derived from theformer British government, contained in the reports of the commission-ers of East Florida, or the register and receiver, acting as such, who didnot avail themselves of the provisions of the treaty between Spain andEngland, signed at Versailles on the twentieth of January, one thousandseven hundred and eighty-three, by leaving said province, but who re-mained in the same, and became Spanish subjects, and whose titles wereapproved by the Spanish authorities, and have been recommended forconfirmation by said commissioners, or register and receiver, acting assuch, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the remaining claims whichhave been presented according to law, and not finally acted upon, shallbe adjudicated and finally settled upon the same conditions, restrictions,and limitations, in every respect, as are prescribed by the act of Con-gress , approved twenty-third May, one thousand eight hundred. andtwenty-eight, entitled “ An act supplementary to the several acts provid-ing for the settlement and confirmation of private land claims inFlorida .”

Sec. 5. And be it, further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the re-gister and receiver to deliver over all papers relative to private land claimsin East Florida to the keeper of the public archives.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all confirmations of land titles,under this act, shall only operate as a relinquishment of the right of theUnited States to the said lands respectively, and shall not be construedeither as a guarantee of any such titles, or in any manner affecting therights of other persons to the same lands.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That so much of the act of twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, as directedthat the selection of claimants who availed themselves of the first sectionof said act by accepting a quantity equal to one league square withintheir respective grants, which confined the selection to sectional lines,shall not be held to extend to the selection by the claimants of a greaterquantity than a section, but the said claimants who have, or may here-after select, under the provisions of said law, any quantity equal to theamount granted in bodies larger than a section in the form of any Spa-nish survey, or plat of survey, or where the sections are broken by anyriver, the said land so selected, or which may be so selected, is herebyconfirmed to said claimants; and it shall be the duty of the surveyorgeneral to make a survey and certificate of all such claims, to return thesame to the commissioner of the general land office, and thereupon apatent shall issue to the original grantee, or to his assignee, if the landhas been sold or transferred to any other person, or to the legal owner bypurchase or descent.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the claimants, who are enti-tled to the provisions of that act, or who may avail themselves of theforegoing provisions of this act, by taking a quantity equal to a leaguesquare in lieu of the whole grant, shall be, and they are hereby, allowedthe further time of one year, from the passage of this act, to execute theirrelinquishments, and to file their acceptance of the provisions of said law.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theregisters and receivers to restore to the claimants the title-deeds on whichthey may have finally rejected the claims.

Approved, May 26, 1830.