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four hundred and fifty arpens; Matthew Saucier, one thousand twohundred arpens; Charles Tayon, one thousand six hundred arpens;sons of Joseph M. Pepin, five thousand six hundred arpens; LouisLorimiere, thirty thousand arpens ; Bartholomew Cousin, ten thousandarpens; Manuel Gonzales Moro, eight hundred arpens; Seneca Rollins,four hundred arpens; William Long, four hundred arpens; JamesJourney, four hundred'arpens; Joachim Lisa, six thousand arpens;Francois Lacomb, four hundred arpens; Israel Dodge, seven thousand[and] fifty six arpens; Andrew Chevalier, four hundred arpens; JosephSilvain, two hundred and fifty arpens; John P. Cabanis, two thousandarpens; William Hartly, six hundred and fifty arpens; William Morri-son, seven hundred and fifty arpens; Solomon Bellew, three hundredand fifty arpens; Paschal Detchemendez, seven thousand [and] fifty-sixarpens; Baptiste Aunure, two hundred and forty arpens; AlexanderMaurice, four hundred arpens; Jean Baptiste Valle, twenty thousandarpens; Israel Dodge, one thousand arpens; Walter Fenwick, tenthousand arpens; John Smith T., ten thousand arpens; and MackeyWherry, sixteen hundred arpens.
Sec. 2. And be it f urther enacted , That if it shall be found that anytract or tracts confirmed as aforesaid, or any part thereof, had been pre-viously located by any other person or persons under any law of theUnited States, or had been surveyed and sold by the United States , thisact shall confer no title to such lands in opposition to the rights acquiredby such location or purchase; but the individual, or individuals, whoseclaims are hereby confirmed, shall be permitted to locate so muchthereof as interferes with such location or purchase, on any unappro-priated land of the United States within the State of Missouri , or Ter-ritory of Arkansas , in whichever the original claim may be, that maybe subject to entry at private sale: Provided, That such location shallconform to legal divisions and subdivisions, and shall not interfere withthe rights of other persons.
Sec. 3. And be it farther enacted, That the locations authorized bythis act, shall be entered with the register of the proper land office,who shall, on application for that purpose, make out for such claimanta certificate of location, which, with the certificate of confirmation,shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of the General Land Office;and if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said Commissioner thatsuch certificate shall have been fairly obtained, according to the trueintent and meaning of this act and the laws of the United States , then, andin that case, patents shall be granted in like manner as is provided bylaw for the other lands of the United States . And for each certificateof location to be issued as aforesaid, the register shall be entitled toreceive from the person applying therefor, the sum of one dollar.
Approved, July 4th, 1836.
Chap. CCCLXII .—An Act granting half pay to widows or orphans, where theirhusbands and fathers have died of wounds received in the military service of theUnited States , in certain cases, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That when any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician or private of the militia, includingrangers, sea fencibles, and volunteers, shall have died while in the ser-vice of the United States , since the twentieth of April, eighteen hun-dred and eighteen, or who shall have died in consequence of a woundreceived whilst in the service, since the day aforesaid, and shall haveleft a widow, or, if no widow, a child or children under sixteen yearsof age, such widow, or if no widow, such child or children, shall beentitled to receive half the monthly pay to which the deceased was
Other landmay be located,should any ofthat be occu-pied, the title towhich is con-firmed.
Proviso.
Locations tobe entered withthe Register,&c.
Statute I.July 4, 1836.