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TWENTY-FIF'I`H CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 179,180, 181, 182. 1839. 779 Srirure III. Cmp, CLXXIX.———.»9v .0ct for the relief of certain settlers, living on what is called March 3, 1839. the Salt Lick reservation, in the western district of Tennessee. `_""""`"" Be it enacted, ¢§~c., That the state of Tennessee be, and she is hereby, authorized to issue grants, and perfect titles, to the vacant and un- '1`epnessee¤u· appropriated land in the western district of Tennessee, which lies within °l;z:f:dg;’c’“;?° a tract of land of four miles square upon both sides of Sandy river, $,mm';,,,,fi,, commonly called the Salt Lick reservation, and which is described in the western the fourth article of the treaty of Old Town, concluded on the nineteenth d‘“'"°" day of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, between the United States and the Chickasaw nation of Indians: Provided, nevertheless, proviso_ That in issuing said grants, and perfecting said titles, the same shall be done in conformity to those rules, regulations, and restrictions which were heretofore prescribed by the Tennessee Legislature, for locating, entering, and satisfying land warrants, and extinguishing the North Carolina claims in said western district: And provided, also, That all Proviso. those persons, their heirs, or legal representatives, who were seated down and in the actual possession and cultivation of any piece or parcel of land within said reservation, at or before eighteen hundred and thirty, shall be entitled to all the rights and benefits in entering and obtaining grants for their respective parcels of land, which have been extended from time to time by the laws of Tennessee to occupant settlers in the other parts of said district, without the limits of the reservation aforesaid : And provided, furthermore, That in procuring warrants, locating Proviso. and entering said occupant claims, making their divisional lines, ascertaining their respective quantities, and settling their boundaries, they shall be governed by the laws of Tennessee, in relation to other occupant claims in said district, in all respects whatever. Approved, March 3, 1839. ——-— Srmruere III. CHAP. CLXXX. -.8n det for the relief of Ashbel Mason. March 3, 1839. Be it enacted, {yo., That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and required to cause to be issued to Ashbel Mason, or his legal repre- A bounty land sentatives, a bounty land warrant for one hundred acres of land, to ‘° b° which he is entitled for his services during the revolutionary war. Ammovan, March 3, 1839. -·—·· Srnurs. III. CHAP. CLXXXI.—- An Act for the relief of Lewis B. Willis, formerly acting March 3, ]83Q_ deputy surveyor for the district of llhssissirpi. ·········—— Be it enacted, dce., That the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of the several Charge {onscrsurveyors of the customs for the district of Mississippi, respectively, the :,';°!f:‘;;§:;;”§]r charge for the services of Lewis B. Willis, as acting deputy surveyor, at ,0 be ,,u0w,,,i_ the rate of four hundred dollars per year from the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, to the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, during which period the said Willis performed the duty of acting deputy surveyor. Avvnovno, March 3, 1839. --——-— Snrvrra III. CHAP. CLXXXII.—-An Act for the reliefof William C2 Hazard, of Rhode Bland. Much 3, 1839, Be it enacted, $1-., That it shall and may be lawful for William Hazard, the only child and heir at law of Ezekiel Hazard, a soldier in May minquigh the army of the United States during the late war, who died in ser- gixlimf vice, to relinquish the bounty land to which the said Ezekiel Hazard, the mommy had he survived the war, would have been entitled, and in lieu thereof, pay, sw,