TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 181. 1832.

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the claimants; and shall, at the commencement of each session of Con-gress during said term of examination, lay before the commissioner ofthe general land office a report of the claims so classed, stating thereinthe date and quantity of each, whether there be any, and what, conflict-ing claims, and the evidence upon which each claim depends, and theauthority and power under which the said claim was granted by theSpanish or French governor, commandant or sub-delegate, to be laidbefore Congress for their final decision upon the claims contained insuch first class.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,, That from and after the final reportof the recorder and commissioners, the lands contained in the secondclass shall be subject to sale as other public lands; and the lands con-tained in the first class shall continue to be reserved from sale as hereto-fore, until the decision of Congress shall be made thereon; and if thedecision of Congress shall be against the claims, or any of them, thelands so decided against shall be, in like manner, subject to sale as otherpublic lands : Provided, That actual settlers being housekeepers uponsuch lands as are rejected, claiming to hold, under such rejected claim,or such as may waive their grant, shall have the right of pre-emption toenter within the time of the existence of this act not exceeding thequantity of their claim, which in no case shall exceed six hundred andforty acres, to include their improvements, who shall give notice andprove their right of pre-emption, and in all things conform to the regula-tions as have been or may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasuryunder the existing laws relative to pre-emption ; and it shall be the dutyof the Secretary of the Treasury immediately to forward to the severalland offices in said state, the manner in which all those who may wishto waive their several grants or claims, and avail themselves of the rightof pre-emption, shall renounce or release their said grants.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the recorder and commis-sioners shall each receive the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum,to be paid quarter yearly by the United States , in full compensa,tion fortheir services under this act; and may, when necessary, employ an inter-preter of the French or Spanish language, for a reasonable compensa-tion, to be allowed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and paid by theUnited States .

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the heirsof Carlos de Villemont to submit the evidence of their claim to a tractof land in Arkansas territory, to a place called “ Chicot point,” to the saidrecorder and commissioners, and it shall be the duty of said recorderand commissioners to report upon said claim in the manner that otherclaims provided for in this act are to be reported and proceeded upon.

Approved, July 9, 1832.

A report ofclaims to be laidbefore commis-sioner, and pre-sented to Con-gress .

Provisions re-lating to sale ofcertain lands.

Proviso.

Pay of recor-der and commis-sioners.

Interpreter maybe employed.

Heirs ofCarlosde Villemontmay submit evi-dence of claim.

Report there-on.

Chap. CLXXXI .—Jin Act to amend an act entitled “ An act for the relief ofpurchasers of the public lands that have reverted for non-payment of the purchasemoney, passed twenty-third day of May , one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight .

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That in all cases where publiclands have been purchased, on which a further credit has been takenunder the provisions of the act of the second March, one thousand eighthundred and twenty-one, or under any other act of Congress grantingrelief to the purchasers of the public lands, and have reverted to theUnited States for failure to pay the purchase money, or have been soldby the United States by reason of such failure to pay, it shall be the dutyof the register of the land office where the purchase was made, to issue

Statute I.July 9, 1332.

Act of May 23,1828, ch. 71.

Register to is-sue certificatesto purchasers ofpublic lands foramount paid,&c.

1821, ch. 12.