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be allowed, nor fhall any patent be iffued for any lot or lots of one hundred acres, except in the name of the perfon originally entitled to fuch warrant, or the heir or heirs of the perfon fo entitled; nor fhall any land, fo located and patented, to a perfon originally entitled to fuch warrant, be confidered as in trust for any purchaser, or be subject to any contract made before the date of fuch patent, and the title to lands acquired, in confequence of patents iffued as aforefaid, fhall and maybe alienated in purfuance of the laws, which have been, or fhall be paffed in the territory of the United States, north-weft of the river Ohio, for regulating the transfer of real property, and not otherwife.

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Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That in all locations cafes after the fixteenth of March next, where more than one application is made for the fame fame tract, at the fame time, under this act, tract, prior under the act to which this is in addition, ority to be deterthe Secretary of the Treasury shall determine mined by the priority of location by lot.

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Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treafury notice to to advertise the tracts which may be referved be given for location, in lots of one hundred acres, in of the reone newspaper in each of the ftates, and in fervathe territory aforefaid, for and during the tions.

term of three months.

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the The plat actual plat and furvey, returned by the Sur- returned veyor General of quarter townships, and frac- by the tional parts of quarter townfhips, contained Surveyor in the tract mentioned and defcribed in the to be conact to which this is a fupplement, fhall be clufive as confidered as final and conclufive, fo far as to quantirelates to the quantity of land, fuppofed to y

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be contained in the quarter townships, and fractions, fo that no claim fhall hereafter be fet up against the United States, by any proprietor, or holder of warrants for military services, on account of any deficiency in the quantity of land contained in the quarter township or fractional part of a quarter township, which fhall have been located by fuch proprietor or holder, nor fhall any claim be hereafter fet up by the United States, against fuch proprietor or holder, on account of any excefs in the quantity of land contained therein.

TH: JEFFERSON,

Vice-Prefident of the United States, and
Prefident of the Senate.

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. APPROVED-March 1, 18co.

JOHN ADAMS,

Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER XIV.

An ACT providing for falvage in cases of re

Sec. 1.

capture.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That when tured pro- any veffel other than a veffel of war or privateer, or when any goods which fhall hereafter be taken as prize by any veffel, acting under authority from the government of the United States, fhall appear to have before belonged to any person or perfons, refident within or under the protection of the United States, and to have been taken by an enemy of the United States, or under authority, or pretence of authority, from any prince, government or

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ftate, against which the United States have authorized, or fhall authorize defence or reprifals, fuch veffel or goods not having been condemned as prize by competent authority before the re-capture thereof, the fame fhall be restored to the former owner or owners thereof, he or they paying for and in lieu of falvage, if re-taken by a public veffel of the United States, one eighth part, and if re-taken by a private veffel of the United States, one fixth part, of the true value of the veffel or goods fo to be reftored, allowing and excepting all impofts and public duties to which the fame may be liable. And if the veffel fo retaken fhall appear to have been fet forth and armed as a veffel of war, before fuch capture or afterwards, and before the re-taking thereof as aforefaid, the former owner or owners, on the restoration thereof, fhall be adjudged to pay for and in lieu of falvage, one moiety of the true value of such veffel of war, or pri

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any veffel or goods, which fhall hereafter be Compentaken as prize, by any veffel acting under au- fation for thority from the government of the Unitedcaptored properStates, fhall appear to have before belonged ty claimto the United States and to have been taken ed by the by an enemy of the United States, or under United authority, or pretence of authority from any prince, government or ftate, against which the United States have authorized, or fall authorize defence or reprifals, fuch public veffel not having been condemned as prize by competent authority before the re-capture thereof, the fame fhall be restored to the United States. And for and in lieu of falvage, there fhall be paid from the Treafury of the

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United States, purfuant to the final decree which shall be made in fuch cafe by any court of the United States, having competent jurifdiction thereof, to the parties who shall be thereby entitled to receive the fame, for the re-capture as aforefaid, of an unarmed veffel, or any goods therein, one fixth part of the true value thereof, when made by a private veffel of the United States, and one twelfth part of fuch value when the re-capture fhall be made by a public armed veffel of the United States; and for the re-capture as aforefaid of a public armed veffel, or any goods therein, one moiety of the true value thereof, when made by a private veffel of the United States, and one fourth part of fuch value, when fuch re-capture fhall be made by a public armed veffel of the United States.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when Salvage any veffel or goods which shall be taken as prize, as aforefaid, fhall appear to have before belonged to any perfon or perfons perclaimed manently refident within the territory, and by alien under the protection of any foreign prince, government or ftate, in amity with the United States, and to have been taken by an enemy of the United States, or by authority or pretence of authority from any prince, government or state, against which the United States have authorized, or fhall authorize, defence or reprisals, then fuch veffel or goods shall be adjudged to be restored to the former owner, or owners thereof, he or they paying for and in lieu of falvage, fuch proportion of the true value of the veffel or goods fo to be restored, as by the law or ufage of fuch prince, government or state, within whofe territory fuch former owner or

owners fhall be fo refident, fhall be required, on the restoration of any veffel or goods of a citizen of the United States, under like circumftances of re-capture, made by the authority of fuch foreign prince, government or ftate; and where no fuch law or ufage fhall be known, the fame falvage fhall be allowed as is provided by the firft fection of this act : Provided, That no fuch veffel or goods fhall be adjudged to be restored to fuch former. owner or owners, in any cafe where the fame shall have been, before the re-capture thereof, condemned as prize by competent authority, nor in any cafe where by the law or ufage of the prince, government, or flate, within whose territory fuch former owner or owners fhall be refident as aforefaid, the veffel or goods of a citizen of the United States, under like circumstances of re-capture, would not be reftored to fuch citizen of the United States: Provided alfo, that nothing herein fhall be conftrued to contravene or alter the terms of restoration in cafes of re-capture, which are or shall be agreed on in any treaty between the United States, and any foreign prince, government or state,

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all Deftribu fums of money which may be paid for falvage, as aforefaid, when accruing to any public armed veffel, fhall be divided to and among the commanders, officers and crew thereof, in fuch proportions as are or may be provided by law, respecting the diftribution of prize money: And when accruing to any private armed veffel, fhall be diftributed to and among the owners and company concerned in fuch re-capture according to their agreements, any fuch there be; and in cafe there be no

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