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PRIVATE ACTS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,

Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventeenth day of November, 1800, and ended on the third day of March, 1801.

John Adams, President; Thomas Jefferson, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Jame Hillhouse, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the second day of March, 1800; Theodore Sedgwick, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

STATUTE II.

Jan. 30, 1801

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Chap. II.—An Act for the relief of Solomon Boston.

Solomon Boston to be discharged from jail.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Solomon Boston, now confined in the public gaol of Kent county in the State of Delaware, be released and discharged, and he hereby is released and discharged from all claim and demand of the United States, to a certain judgment, for a penalty of one thousand dollars, recovered at their suit in the District Court of the District of Delaware; saving and reserving, nevertheless, the right and interest which belongs to any third person, if any such exist.

Approved, January 30, 1801.

Statute II.

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Feb. 18, 1801

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Chap. V.—An Act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia

Survey of lands for the refugees from Canada, &c. to be made.Be it enacted, &c., That the surveyor-general be, and he is hereby directed to cause those fractional townships of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second ranges of townships, which join the southern boundary line of the military lands, to be subdivided into half sections, containing three hundred and twenty acres each; and to return a survey and description of the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, on or before the first Monday of December next; and that the said lands be, and they are hereby set apart and reserved for the purpose of satisfying the claims of persons entitled to lands under the act, entitled,Act of April 7, 1798, ch. 26."An act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia."

How locations shall be madeSec. 2 And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, within thirty days after the survey of lands shall have been returned to him as aforesaid, proceed to determine, by lot, to be drawn in the presence of the secretaries of state and of war, the priority of location of the persons entitled to lands as aforesaid. Patents to be granted.The persons, thus entitled, shall severally make their locations on the second Tuesday of January next, and the patents for the lands thus located shall be granted in the manner directed for military lands, without requiring any fee whatever.

Sec. 3 And be it further enacted, That the following persons, claim-