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spective returns to such marshals, under the act hereby amended, to complete their enumerations and make their returns under the said act, at any time before the first day of June, and for the marshals of such states and territories to make their returns to the Secretary of State at any time before the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such marshals and assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid, unless their returns shall be made within the time prescribed in this act:Proviso. And provided further, That no persons be included in the returns made under the present act, unless such persons shall have been inhabitants of the districts for which such returns shall be made, on the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.

Certain copies to be retained by clerks of courts.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the copies of returns and aggregate amounts directed to be filed by the marshals with the clerks of the several district courts, and supreme courts of the territories of the United States, shall be preserved by said clerks, and remain in their offices respectively; and so much of the act to which this is an amendment as requires that they shall be transmitted by said clerks to the Department of State, is hereby repealed.

Errors to be noted and printed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to note all the clerical errors in the returns of the marshals and assistants, whether in the additions, classification of inhabitants, or otherwise, and cause said notes to be printed with the aggregate returns of the marshals, for the use of Congress.

Approved, February 3, 1831.

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Feb. 12, 1831.

Chap. XIX.An Act to amend the act entitled “An act to quiet the title of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio,” approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty.[1]

Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 188.
Act of May 26, 1830, ch. 105.
President of United States to pay the claim of Philip Doddridge.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the sum appropriated by the act, entitled “An act to quiet the titles of certain purchasers of lands between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio,” approved the twenty-sixth of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Philip Doddridge, the claimant of the Virginia military survey, numbered six thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, for seven hundred acres, being one of the Virginia military surveys, in the said act mentioned, lying between the lines of Ludlow and Roberts, in the state of Ohio, the sum of one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-eight cents, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, until paid; the said Philip having already conveyed to the United States, the title to the said seven hundred acres of land, in the manner directed by the President of the United States, pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress before recited. This act shall commence and be in force from the passing thereof.

Approved, February 12, 1831.

  1. The lands north-west of the river Ohio, between the rivers Scioto and Little Miami, lying west of Ludlow’s line, east of Roberts’ line, and south of the Indian boundary, reserved by Virginia, in her deed of cession to the United States, of March, 1784, for the satisfaction of the military bounties Virginia had promised, were not, prior to 1810, by any legislative acts of the government of the United States, withdrawn from appropriation under and by virtue of Virginia military land warrants. A patent issued on the 12th October, 1812, founded upon a military warrant, for land within the reserved lands, is valid against a claimant of the same land holding under a sale made by the United States. Reynolds, tenant, &c., v. McArthur, 2 Pet. 417.