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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 28, 30. 1831.
Feb. 19, 1831.
Jurisdiction ofdistrict courtsin New York ,Pennsylvania ,Indiana, Illi-nois, Missouri ,Mississippi ,Louisiana andAlabama , ex-tended.
Persons enti-tled to landsunder, &c.
Act of March3, 1817, ch. 61.
Who appear,&c. to haveemption right.
Other personsto have sameright.
Widows andchildren.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all the lands to which theIndian title is extinguished, lying in that part of the state of Indiana whichis east of the Lake Michigan , bordering upon the northern line of saidstate, and not attached to any land district, shall be, and the same arehereby, attached to the Fort Wayne district.
Approved, February 19,1831.
Chap. XXVIII.— Jin Act respecting the jurisdiction of certain district courts,lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the district courts of theUnited States for the northern district of New York, the western district of Pennsylvania, the district of Indiana, the district of Illinois , the districtof Missouri, the district of Mississippi, the western district of Louisiana ,the eastern district of Louisiana, the northern district of Alabama , andthe southern district of Alabama , in addition to the ordinary jurisdictionand powers of a district court, shall, within the limits of their respectivedistricts, have jurisdiction of all causes, except appeals and writs oferror, which now are, or hereafter may by law be made, cognisable ina circuit court, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a cir-cuit court.
Approved, February 19, 1831.
Chap. XXX .—An Act to alter and amend ‘■'■An act to set apart and dispose ofcertain public lands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine andolive.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That all persons entitled tolands, under a contract entered into, on the eighth of January, eighteenhundred and nineteen, by the Secretary of the Treasury on the part ofthe United States , and Charles Villar, agent of the Tombecbee associa-tion, in pursuance of “ An act to set apart and dispose of certain publiclands for the encouragement of the cultivation of the vine and olive,”approved on the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, theirheirs, devisees or assigns, who appear by the report of William L. Adams,special agent of the treasury, appointed in compliance with a resolutionof the senate, passed the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, to have complied with the conditions of settlement and cultivation, asstipulated for in said contract, or who shall hereafter make it appear to thesatisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, that they have so complied,shall, on paying into the treasury one dollar and twenty-five cents the acreprevious to the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, receivea patent for the same.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons who became enti-tled to an allotment of land under said contract, their heirs, devisees orassigns, who have failed to comply with the conditions of settlement andcultivation within the period required thereby, who at the. time of thepassage of this act shall be in the actual occupancy and cultivation of thesame, shall, on paying into the treasury one dollar and twenty-five[cents] the acre, previous to the third of March, eighteen hundred andthirty-three, receive a patent for the same.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the widow and children of anyperson who became entitled to an allotment of land under said contract,and died without performing the conditions required, shall, on paying intothe treasury one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, previous to the thirdof March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, receive a patent for the same.
Approved, February 19, 1831.