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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 116. 1831.
Settlement ofconflictingclaims.
Proviso.
Survey of cer-tain lands.
Salt springs.
man and recording clerk whose aggregate compensation shall not exceedone thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and that the fees hereto-fore authorized by law for examining and recording surveys be, andthe same are hereby, abolished; and any copy of a plat of survey, ortranscript from the records of the office of the said surveyor general,shall be admitted as evidence in any of the courts of the United States or territories thereof; and for every copy of a plat of survey, there shallbe paid twenty-five cents, and for any transcript from the records of saidoffice, there shall be paid at the rate of twenty-five cents for every hun-dred words by the individuals requiring the same.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That in relation to all such con-firmed claims as may conflict, or in any manner interfere with eachother, the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys forthe proper land district, are hereby authorized to decide between theparties, and shall in their decision be governed by such conditional linesor boundaries as have been or may be agreed upon between the partiesinterested, either verbally or in writing ; and in case no lines or boun-daries be agreed upon between the parties interested, then the said regis-ter and receiver are hereby authorized to decide between the parties insuch manner as may be consistent with the principles of justice; and itshall be the duty of the surveyor general of the said state to have thoseclaims surveyed and platted in accordance with the decisions of the regis-ter and receiver :■ Provided, That the said decisions and surveys, and thepatents which may be issued in conformity thereto, shall not in any wisebe considered as precluding a legal investigation and decision by theproper judicial tribunal between the parties to any such interfering claims,but shall only operate as a relinquishment on the part of the UnitedStates of all title to the land in question.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all the lands to which the Indiantitle has been extinguished lying north of the northern boundary of thestate of Illinois, west of Lake Michigan, and east of the Mississippi river,shall be surveyed in the same manner and under the same regulations,provisions, restrictions and reservations as the other public lands are sur-veyed.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the legislature of the state ofMissouri be, and is hereby authorized to sell and convey in fee simple allor any part of the lands heretofore reserved and appropriated by Con-gress for the use of a seminary of learning in said state, and to investthe money arising from the sale thereof in some productive fund, theproceeds of which shall be for ever applied by the legislature of saidstate, solely to the use of such seminary, and for no other use or purposewhatsoever. And that the legislature of said state of Missouri shall be,and is hereby authorized to sell and convey in fee simple all or any partof the salt springs not exceeding twelve in number, and six sections ofland adjoining to each, granted to said state by the United States forthe use thereof, and selected by the legislature of said state, on or beforethe first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five,and to invest the money arising from the sale thereof in some produc-tive fund, the proceeds of which shall be for ever applied under the direc-tion of said legislature, for the purpose of education in said state, andfor no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Approved, March 3, 1831.