ary line of the tract reserved for satisfying the military bounties allowed to the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continent- al establishment, ch. CIX s. i. 250, 251; com- missioners of the United States to meet at Xenia, the 5th October 1812, s. ii. 251; to wait six days for those of Virginia, ib.; if the Virginia commissioners have not arrived in the six days, those of the United States to proceed alone, ib.; to note the intersections, ib.; the water courses, ib.; and quality of the land, ib., to make a plat, with notes and references, ib.; to be signed and returned to the commissioner of the general land office, with a written report, before 5th January, 1813, unless the President prolongs the time, ib.; copies of plat to be laid before Congress, ib.; commissioners to engage a skilful sur~ veyor, s. iii. 251, 252; his pay, ib.; commis- sioners of United States allowed $5 per day, ib.; temporary boundary line, s. iv. 252; Se- cretary of State to transmit a copy of the act to the governor of Virginia within 20 days. after its passage, s. v. 252.-Claims to land in the Mississippi territory under British or Spanish warrants or order of survey grant- ed prior to 27th October, 1795, confirmed to actual residents of the territory, ch. CX s. i. - 253; certificates of confirmation to be made out by the register and receiver, ib.; their fees, ib.; certificates to be directed to the commissioner of the general land office, ib.; patents to issue, s. i. 253, 254; no person en- titled to the benefit of the act who has received a donation grant from the United States, ib.; not more than 640 acres to be granted to any one claim, ib.; the act not to affect judicial decisions on conflict- ing claims, s. ii. 254.Sales of public lands in January, 1812, in the western dis- trict of the territory of Orleans, made good and valid, ch. CXVIII 276, 277; purchasers
entitled to patents, ib.; the first instalment of purchase money, when due, ib.-Claims of citizens of the United States to lands in the Mississippi territory under grants derived from the British government of West Florida, confirmed, ch. CXXIII 293, 294; judicial decision of controverted claims not preclud- ed, ib.Provisions of "An act giving further time to purchasers of public lands north-west of the river Ohio to complete their payments," extended to the several purcha- sers of fractional sections, ch. CXXXIV s. i. 307; assignees of original purchasers of land prior to the 1st of April, 1808, entitled to the benefit of the act, s. ii. 307, 308; lands reverted to the United States for default of payment may be re-entered, if application be made on or before the 1st of September, 1812, and the land had not been resold previous to applica- tion, s. iii. 308, 309.-Persons, or their le- gal representatives, who have actually inhabi- ted and cultivated land in the districts for the sale thereof in the Illinois territory, and who still reside there, entitled to preference as purchasers, ch. CLXII s. i. 365, 366; the privilege allows only one quarter section to one individual, ib.; reserved lands, town and out lots excepted, ib.; persons claiming prefe- rence to deliver notice to the register, s. ii. 366; notice to be filed by the register, ib.; his fee therefor, ib.; persons entitled to preference may make entry thereof with the register on producing the receiver's receipt for payment of 1-20th part of the purchase money, ib.; entries to be made two weeks before the commence- ment of the public sales, s. ii. 366, 367; failure to make timely entry forfeits the right, ib.- Decisions of the register and receiver in favor of persons claiming donation lands in the dis- trict of Vincennes, entered in a list reported to the Secretary of the Treasury on the 27th of May, 1812, confirmed, ch. CLXV s. i.
372; claims of persons not embraced by the act of the 30th April, 1810, confirmed, s. ii. 373; names of those persons and the quanti ties of lands to them or their heirs respective- ly, ib.; persons are to enter their claims with the register at Vincennes, s. iii. 373; rights of persons neglecting to locate prior to the 1st of October, 1813, void and barred forever, ib.; register at Vincennes to issue certificates, s. iv. 373; fee therefor, s. iv. 373, 374; patents to be made out, ib.-Claimants of land and actual residents thereon, in the eastern and western districts of the state of Louisiana, al- lowed till the 1st of January, 1814, to file no- tice and evidence of claims with the register at New Orleans and Opelousas, ch. CLXXX s. i. 394, 395; to be recorded, ib.; fees there- for, ib., rights barred forever by negligence, ib.; persons having filed notice without evi- dence allowed till 1st of January, 1814, to furnish testimony to the registers at New Orleans and Opelousas, s. ii. 395; to be re- corded, ib.; fees therefor, s. ii. 395, 396; rights barred by negligence, ib.; powers and duties of the registers and receivers at New Orleans and Opelousas the same as those of the board of commissioners, except that their decisions are subject to the revision of Con- gress, s. iii. 396; registers and receivers to report to the commissioner of the general land office, s. iv. 396, 397; commissioner to lay the report before Congress, ib.; register and receiver to appoint a clerk, s. x. 397; fees by way of compensation, and to defray the expense of translations, ib.- -Purchasers of tracts (of land not exceeding 640 acres) prior to the 1st of April, 1809, whose lands have not been sold or actually reverted to the United States, allowed the further time of three years, after the expiration of the period already given by law, to complete their pay ments, ch. CLXXXV 406, 407; exceptions
to, and conditions of this indulgence, 407, 408; benefit of the act not to extend to per- sons on account of purchases of tracts of land at any of the land offices north-west of the river Ohio prior to the 1st of April, 1808, 408-Persons having filed notice of claim to land within the district of Louisiana (now Missouri) with the recorder, without evi- dence, allowed till the 1st of January, 1814, to furnish testimony, ch. CLXXXVI s. i. 408, 409; evidence to be recorded, ib.; fees therefor, ib. rights barred by negligence, ib.; recorder to have the same powers and per- form the same duties as the board of commis. sioners, except that his decision may be re- vised by Congress, s. ii. 409; recorder to re- port to the commissioner of the general land- office, s. iii. 409, 410; report to be laid before Congress, ib.; persons whose claims to a do- nation of a tract of land in Missouri have been confirmed entitled to a grant for 640 acres, s. iv. 410; but the grant not to exceed the quan- tity stated in notice of claim, nor more than that contained within the acknowledged and ascertained boundaries of the tract claim- ed, ib.; surveys to be made, s. v. 410, 411; regulation of surveys, ib.; certificates to issue on the return of plats, ib.; patents to be grant- ed, ib.; fees, s. vi. 411, 412; further allowance of $500 on making report, ib.
LAPSLEY, SAMUEL, relief of his representatives, ch. CCV 454.
LEE, WASHINGTON, to be allowed compensation
as judge advocate, according to the act of the 11th of Jan- uary, 1812, to raise an ad- ditional military force, ch. CLXXXVIII 414.
LETTERS OF MARQUE, &c. President may revoke
them, ch. CVII s. i. 238, 239; mode of obtaining them, s. ii. 239; bonds and
condition, s. iii. 239, 240; prize money how, dis- tributed, s. iv. 240; pro- perty of citizens to be restored on payment of salvage, s. v. 240; the sal- vage how distributed, s. v. 241; prizes to be brought for adjudication into the ports of the United States, or of a friendly nation be- fore breaking bulk, s. xi. 241; original exclusive ju- risdiction given to district courts of the United States with respect to prizes brought into the United States, ib., regulations con- cerning prisoners found on board prize vessels, s. vii. 242; the President to es- tablish instructions, s. viii. 242; a bounty for destroy- ing enemy vessels, s. ix. 242; journals to be kept by commanding officers, s. x. 242, 243; and reported to the collectors, ib.; com- manding officers of private vessels empowered to ex- amine journals, &c. s. xi. 244; consuls and agents in foreign countries also to examine, &c. ib.; penalties for not keeping journals, or keeping false ones, s. xii. 245; punishment for violating revenue laws, &c. s. xiii. 245; non-importa- tion law not to affect prize goods, s. xiv. 245, 246; mode of punishing offences
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