United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 123
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CXXIII.—An Act confirming grants to lands in the Mississippi territory derived from the British government of West Florida, not subsequently re-granted by the government of Spain or of the United States.
Certain claims to land in Mississippi territory confirmed which have been derived from the British government.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the citizens of the United States, claiming lands in the Mississippi territory, by virtue of grants legally and fully executed, derived from the British government of West Florida, whose lands have not been subsequently regranted by the Spanish government or claimed in right of donation or pre-emption certificates granted by the boards of commissioners east and west of Pearl river, and whose claims have been regularly filed according to law, with the proper register of the land-office in the said territory, and are embraced in the report of the commissioners laid before Congress, according to law, be and they are hereby confirmed in their respective claims, according to the said grants:Proviso. Provided, that nothing in any law of the United States shall be construed to prevent a judicial decision of controversies under the respective claims aforesaid.
Approved, July 5, 1812.