THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 26. 1851. 597 use: Provided, That the deduction of twenty-five cents per month Proviso. from the pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, artificers, and privates of regiments of volunteers, or other corps or regiments, raised for a limited period, or for a temporary purpose or purposes, shall only be made with their consent. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners of this Site or sites institution, by and with the approval of the President, be, and the same f" ‘l‘° “Yl“"°· are hereby authorized and required to procure for immediate use, at a suitable place or places, a site or sites for the Military Asylum, and if the necessary buildings cannot be procured with the site or sites, to Buildings. have the same erected, having due regard to the health of the locations, facility of access, to economy, and giving preference tosuch places as, with the most convenience and least cost, will accommodate the persons provided for in this act. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners, with Rules and regthe approval of the Secretary of War, prepare the necessary rules and *° b° regulations for the government of said institution, and cause the same izgyilums to bo to be fitted and furnished for the immediate reception of those persons iith dud f“" provided for in this act, and that the Secretary of War report upon the u13p,,,,, to be execution of this duty at the next session of Congress. made bywgecreg Approved, March 3, 1851. S‘;ss,°;’ Q,. 0l1g1`€SS. Can. XXVI. -.9n Act for the Settlement of certain Classes of “Private Land March 3, 1851. Claims " within the Limits of the “Baron De Bastrop Grant," and for allow- ·—;———- ing Preemptions to certain actual Settlers, in the Event of the jinal Adjudimtion of the Title of the said De Bastrop in Favor of the United Stale:. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the event In the event of a final adjudication by the court in favor of the United States, on °!` *9 ’?,dJ}*di°? the “Baron De Bastrop " claim in Louisiana, under the act of Con- m 3Q2Q2d grass, approved on the seventeenth June, one thousand eight hundred $t¤tes respectand forty-four, entitled "A.n Act to provide for the adjustment of land Bf th°B:S]?;;’B claims within the States of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and in enum, notice to those parts of the States of Mississippi and Alabama south of the bf, Si*€¤» egd thirty-first degree of north latitude, and between the Mississippi and fc32Q3Q13H1e ,,0: Perdido Rivers," the register and receiver for the Ouachita Land Dis- tices. trict, Louisiana, shall give public notice of the fact in some newspaper circulating in the vicinity of the land, and within twelve months from 1844, ch. 95- and after the date of the first publication of such notice, it shall and may be lawful for any original claimants of the classes hereinafter mentioned in this section of the present act, their heirs or legal representatives, to file with the aforesaid register and receiver notices descriptive of their claims, and specifying their precise localities and area, with the testimony in support of the same. first: All bona fide claimants by purchase from De Bastrop, or (glasses of those holding under him, where the land has been occupied and culti- °1“m‘*“*'· vated for twenty years. Second: All bona fide claimants of " head rights," for not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, their heirs or legal representatives, where the original claimant came over and settled the land under the contract between the Spanish government and De Bastrop, even though the land was not actually sold or conveyed to such original claimants by the said De Bastrop. Third: All bona tide claimants for not exceeding six hundred and forty acre , as actual settlers prior to the twentieth December, eighteen hundred and three, where they have held such continued possession as to show that they identified themselves with the ownership of the land.
