TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 149,150,151. 1830.

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Chap. CXLIX .—An Act to authorize the register and receiver of the St. Helenaland district, in Louisiana , to receive evidence, and report upon certain claimsto land mentioned therein.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the register and receiverof the St. Helena land district, in the state of Louisiana , are herebyauthorized and required to receive evidence in support of the claim ofJohn McDonogh to a tract of land on the Mississippi river , boundedabove by the land of John de Bellevire, and below by lands of MadameA. Duplantier, and said to contain about fourteen arpens in front: also,one other tract of land, situated on the river Amite, alleged to have beenoriginally granted to Domingo Assaretto by Governor Miro, on the eigh-teenth February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, containingthirty arpens in front, by forty in depth, under whom the said McDonogh claims title.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said register and receivershall have the same powers, and perform the same duties, in relation tothe said two claims, as was authorized and required of them by the actof the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ; andshall report to the commissioner of the general land office an abstract ofthe evidence furnished in each case, together with their opinion thereon,that the same may be laid before Congress at the commencement of theirnext session.

Appuoved, May 28, 1830.

Chap. CL .—An Act to repeal a part of an act, passed the twenty-sixth day ofMarch, one thousand eight hundred and four, entitled “An act making provisionsfor the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other pur-poses .”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of an act,approved the twenty-sixth day of March, in the year one thousand eighthundred and four, entitled “ An act making provisions for the disposalof the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes,”as makes it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause, at leastonce every year, the books of the offices to be examined, and the balanceof public moneys in the hands of the several receivers of public moneysof the said offices to be ascertained, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.Approved, May 28, 1830.

Chap. CLI .—An Act relative to the plan of Detroit, in Michigan territory.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the governor and judgesof the territory of Michigan , or any three of them, are hereby requiredto make a report of the plan of laying out the town of Detroit , underand by virtue of an act, entitled “ An act to provide for the adjust-ment of titles of land in the town of Detroit, and territory of Mi-chigan , and for other purposes,” passed the twenty-first April, onethousand eight hundred and six; one copy of which shall, on or be-fore the first day of January next, be deposited and recorded in theoffice of the Secretary of the territory of Michigan , and another copytransmitted to the Secretary of State of the United States , to be by himlaid before Congress .

Approved, May 28, 1830.

Statute I.May 28, 1830.

Certain claimsto be examined.

March 3,1819, ch. 92.

Statute I.May 28, 1830.

Act of March26,1804, ch. 35.

Examinationof land-officebooks disconti-nued.

Statute I.May 28, 1830.

Report to bemade.

Act of April 21,1806, ch. 43.

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