Diftrict of ed from New bern, North Carolina. CHAPTER LXXIX. An ACT to make Beaufort and Passamaquoddy, ports of entry and delivery; to make Easton, and Tiverton, ports of delivery; and to authorise the establishment of a new collection District on lake Ontario. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from Beaulert form and after the last day of June next, a district shall be formed from the district of Newbern, in North Carolina, to be called the district of Beaufort, which shall include the town of Beaufort, and all the water and shore north and east of the said town, to Harbor Island, and all the water and shore south and west of the said town, to Dog Island, inclusive. And the town of Beaufort shall be the sole port of entry and delivery for the said district; and a collector for the said port shall be appointed, to reside and keep his office at the said town of Beaufort, who shall be intitled to receive, in addition to the fees and other emoluments established by law, the annual salary of two hundred dollars. Beaufort port of entry Collector appointed. Salary. Eafton, Mary land, and Tiverton, Rhode Surveyor to each. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said thirtieth day of June, Iland, ports of Easton, in the district of Oxford, in the state delivery. of Maryland, and Tiverton, in the district of Newport, and state of Rhode-Island, shall be ports of delivery, and a surveyor shall be appointed to each; each of whom shall be intitled to receive, in addition to the fees and emoluments already allowed by law, a salary of two hundred dollars per annum. Salaries. Additional port of entry and delivery, on Lake Onta. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to establish when it shall appear to him to be proper, in addition to the port of rio. entry and delivery already established on lake Ontario, one other port of entry and delivery on the said lake, or on the waters or rivers emptying therein, and to appoint a collector With a collec of the customs, to reside and keep an office thereat. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said thirtieth day of June next, such place within the district of Passa-maquoddy, in the state of Massachusetts, as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, shall be a port of entry and delivery, (at which place the collector shall reside) as well for foreign as for vessels of the United States. NATH. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tempore. March 3, 1803. APPROVED. TH: JEFFERSON. tor. Port of entry and delivery in Faffamaquoddy, Maffachu fetts. CHAPTER LXXX. An ACT regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States, south of the state of Tennessee. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Refidents in the Miffiffippi territory confirmed in ther ciauns. Provifo Grant to nonclaimants. Frovifions. tives of any person or persons, who were resident in the Mississippi territory on the twenty-seventh day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and who had prior to that day obtained either from the British government of West Florida, or from the Spanish government, any warrant or order of survey for lands lying within the said territory, to which the Indian title had been extinguished, and which were on that day actually inhabited and cultivated by such person or persons, or for his or their use, shall be confirmed in their claims to such lands in the same manner as if their titles had been completed: Provided however, That no such incomplete title shall be confirmed, unless the person in whose name such warrant or order of survey had been granted, was at the time of its date either the head of a family, or above the age of twenty-one years. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That to every person, or to the legal representative or representatives of every person who, being ei. ther the head of a family, or of twenty one years of age, did on that day of the year seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, when the Mississippi territory was finally evacuated by the Spanish troops, actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land in the said territory, not claimed by virtue either of the preceding section, or of any British grant, or of the articles of agreement and cession between the United States and the state of Georgia, the said tract of land thus inhabited and cultivated, shall be granted: Provided however, That not more than one tract shall be thus granted to any one person, and the same shall not contain more than six hundred and forty acres: And provided also, That this donation shall not be made to any person who claims any other tract of land in the said territory by virtue of any British or Spanish grant, or order of survey. Refidents entis ference as purchasers. tled to a pre Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every person, and the legal representatives of every person, who being the head of a family, or above the age of twenty-one years, doth at the time of passing this act, inhabit and cultivate a tract of land in the said territory, not claimed by virtue of the preceding sections of this act, or of any British grant, or of the articles of agreement and cession above men. tioned, shall be entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser from the United States, of such tract of land, at the price at which the other lands of the United States in the said territory, are by this act directed to be sold; and payment may be made therefor in the same manner, and under the same conditions as directed by this act for such other lands: Provided however, That no interest shall be without inte charged upon any of the instalments until they respectively become payable. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the disposal of the lands of the United States within the Mississippi territory, two land offices shall be established in the same, one at such place in the county of Adams, as shall be designated by the President of the United States, for the lands lying west of "Pearl river," some times called "half way river;" and one at such place in the county of Washington, as shall be designated by the President of the United States, for the lands lying east of Pearl river: and for each of the said offices, a register and a receiver of public reft. Twoland offices in the Miffiffippi Territory. Regifter and receiver of public money in each. Security. Claimants and refidents to monies shall be appointed, who shall give security in the same manner, and in the same sums, and whose duties and authority shall in every respect be the same in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are by law provided in relation to the registers and the receivers of public monies in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States, north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That every person claiming lands by virtue of any British grant, or of the three first sections of the thirty-firft this act, or of the articles of agreement and ftate their claims before March, one thoufand eight hundred and four. cession between the United States and the state of Georgia, shall before the last day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four deliver to the register of the land office, within whose district the land may be, a notice in writing, stating the nature and extent of his claims, together with a plot of the tract or tracts claimed, and shall also on or before that day, deliver to the said register, for the purpose of being recorded, every grant, order of survey, deed, conveyance, or other written evidence of his claim, and the same shall be recorded by the said register, in books to be kept for that purpose, on receiving from the parties at the rate of twelve and a half cents, for every hundred words contained in such written evidence of their claim; Neglect thereof and if such person shall neglect to deliver to bar their claims. such notice in writing, of his claim, together with a plot as aforesaid, or cause to be recorded such written evidence of the same, all his right, so far as the same is derived from the above mentioned articles of agreement, or |