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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 19. 1831.

Time extend-ed for assistantmarshal’s re-turns 3 &c.

Marshals re-turns.

Proviso.

Proviso.

Certain copiesto be retainedby clerks ofcourts.

Errors to benoted and print-ed.

spective returns to such marshals, under the act hereby amended, to com-plete their enumerations and make their returns under the said act, atany time before the first day of June, and for the marshals of such statesand territories to make their returns to the Secretary of State at any timebefore the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to releasesuch marshals and assistants from the penalties contained in the act afore-said, unless their returns shall be made within the time prescribed inthis act: And provided further, That no persons be included in the re-turns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have beeninhabitants of the districts for which such returns shall be made, on thefirst day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the copies of returns andaggregate amounts directed to be filed by the marshals with the clerks ofthe several district courts, and supreme courts of the territories of theUnited States , shall be preserved by said clerks, and remain in theiroffices respectively; and so much of the act to which this is an amend-ment as requires that they shall be transmitted by said clerks to the De-partment of State , is hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theSecretary of State to note all the clerical errors in the returns of themarshals and assistants, whether in the additions, classification of inhabit-ants, or otherwise, and cause said notes to be printed with the aggre-gate returns of the marshals, for the use of Congress .

Approved, February 3, 1831.

Statute II.

Feb. 12, 1831. Chap. XIX. — An Act to amend the act entitled “ An act to quiet the title of cer-tain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state ofOhio, '” approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred andthirty, (a)

Act of May 26,1824, ch. 188.

Act of May 26,1830, ch. 105.

President ofUnited States topay the claim ofPhilip Dodd-ridge .

Be. it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That in addition to the sumappropriated by the act, entitled “ An act to quiet the titles of certainpurchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in thestate of Ohio, ” approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteenhundred and thirty, the President of the United States be, and he ishereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not other-wise appropriated, to Philip Doddridge, the claimant of the Virginia military survey, numbered six thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight,for seven hundred acres, being one of the Virginia military surveys, inthe said act mentioned, lying between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts,in the state of Ohio , the sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents, with interest at the rate of six percentum per annum, from the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred andtwenty-five, until paid; the said Philip having already conveyed to theUnited States , the title to the said seven hundred acres of land, in themanner directed by the President of the United States , pursuant to theprovisions of. the act of Congress before recited. This act shall com-mence and be in force from the passing thereof.

Approved, February 12, 1831.

(ol The lands north-west of the river Ohio , between the rivers Scioto and Little Miami, lying westof Ludlow’s line, east of Roberts’ line, and south of the Indian boundary, reserved by Virginia , in herdeed of cession to the United States, of March, 1784, for the satisfaction of the military bounties Virginia had promised, were not, prior to 1810, by any legislative acts of the government of the United States ,withdrawn from appropriation under and by virtue of Virginia military land warrants. A patent issuedon the 12th October, 1812, founded upon a military warrant, for land within the reserved lands, is validagainst a claimant of the same land holding under a sale made by the United States. Reynolds, tenant,&c., v . McArthur, 2 Pet. 417.