United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 95
Chap. XCV.—An Act to provide for the adjustment of land claims within the States of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and in those parts of the States of Mississippi and Alabama south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and between the Mississippi and Perdido rivers.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Provisions of act of May 26, 1824, so far as they related to the State of Missouri, revived and extended.
1824, ch. 173. That so much of the expired act of the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act to enable the claimants to land within the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,” as related to the State of Missouri (excluding all such portions of said act as referred to the territory of Arkansas) be, and is hereby, revived and re-enacted, and continued in force for the term of five years, and no longer; and the provisions of that part of the aforesaid act hereby revived and re-enacted shall be, and hereby are, extended to the States of Louisiana and Arkansas, and to so much of the States of Mississippi and Alabama as is included in the district of country south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude, and between the Mississippi and Perdido rivers, in the same way and with the same rights, powers, and jurisdictions, to every extent they can be rendered applicable, as if these States had been enumerated in the original act hereby revived, and the enactments expressly applied to them as to the State of Missouri;District Court to have jurisdiction of French, Spanish and British claims. and the district court, and the judges thereof, in each of these States, shall have and exercise the like jurisdiction over the land claims, in their respective States and districts, originating with either the Spanish, French, or British authorities, as by said act was given to the court, and the judge thereof, in the State of Missouri.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
- ↑ Notes of the acts which have been passed relative to land claims in Missouri, vol. 2, 812.
Notes of the decisions of the Supreme Court on land titles in Missouri, vol. 2, 748, 812.
Notes of the decisions of the Supreme court on land titles in Louisiana, vol. 2, 288.
Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to land and land titles in Louisiana, vol. 2, 324.
Notes of the acts relating to the Territory, afterwards the State, of Arkansas; vol. 3, 493.