State of Georgia, or by her proper authorities, during the time and for the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, if said volunteers and militia had been duly called into the service of the United States, and regularly received and mustered by officers of the United States army, according to the laws and regulations which have governed in the payment of the volunteers and militia of other states:Proviso. Provided, That the accounts of the agent or other officer of the State of Georgia, employed or authorized to make payments for the aforesaid services, or any of them, be submitted to the Paymaster General and the accounting officers, for their inspection:Proviso. And provided also, That no reimbursement shall be made on account of the payment of any volunteers or militia who refused to be received and mustered into the service of the United States, or to serve under officers of the United States army, if any may have been ordered to that service by the President of the United States or other proper authority.
Approved, August 11, 1842.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. CXXVIII.—An Act to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Owners of certain Spanish and French land claims authorized to enter the same. That each and every owner of a Spanish or French land claim, in the State of Arkansas, which was submitted for adjudication to the superior court of the late Territory of Arkansas, and by that court confirmed, being subsequent purchasers for a valuable consideration, is hereby authorized, within twelve months from the passage of this act, to enter, respectively, the land covered by the said claim, at the minimum price, under such regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe: Provided,Proviso. That no such entry shall be made, except of lands mentioned and described in the original claim, or of such tracts as have been located in pursuance of the act of the twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled1824, ch. 173. “An act enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,” or any act reviving the same; nor unless the owner of the claim shall make and subscribe an oath, before the register or receiver of the land office of the district in which the lands lie, which oath such register or receiver is hereby authorized to administer, that at the time he became the owner of the claim he had no notice or knowledge that the claim was fraudulent, or that the same rested upon any forged warrant, grant, order of survey, or other evidence of title.Patents to issue. And, for every entry made under the provisions of this act, a patent shall issue, as though no Spanish or French claim had ever been entered upon said land.
Approved, August 11, 1842.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. CXXIX.—An Act regulating the services of the several judges in the Territory of Iowa.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Assignment of the judges to districts. That until otherwise ordered by law of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa, the judges for said Territory lately appointed shall be, and they are hereby, assigned to the same districts to which the same judges respectively, were heretofore assigned by the laws of the said Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Iowa.
Approved, August 11, 1842.- ↑ Notes of the acts relating to Iowa; act of June 12, 1838, chap. 96.
