LAWS OF rxIE UMIrlI.

BY AUTHORITY.

PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE


NINETEENTH CONGRESS-.
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PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE


NINETEENTH CONGRESS.


[PunI1c-No. 90.


AN ACT supplementary to the several acts for
ascertaining titles and claims to lands in the
ct. Helena and Jackson Court House Land
Districts.


Sec. /. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Rehresentafiues Of the UnHed
9fates Of America in Congress assembled.
That all the claims to land contained in ab-
stracts A. B. and E. of the reports ofthe Re-
gister and Receiver Of the Land Districts Of
St. Helena Court House, reported to the
Secretary of the Treasury, under date of
the nineteenth January, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-five, in obedience to an
act of Congress of the twenty-sixth of May,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty -four,
and the claims embraced in the supplement-
al report of the register and receiver, under
date of the fifth December, one Thousand
eight hundred and twenty five, and which
are recommended for confirmation, be, and
the same are hereby confirmed, SO far as
they may come within the provisions OF, and
be confermable to the principles. limitations,
and restrictions of the act of the third of
March, one thousand eight hundred and
nineteen entitled, IAN act for adjusting the
claims to land, and establishing Land Offices
in the Districts east of the Island of New
Orleans"


SEC. 2. find be it further enacted, That
the register and receiver of said district shall
possess the same powers and perform the
said duties in relation to the claims confirmed
by this act, as are given to and required of
them by the act of Congress of the eighth of
May one thousand eight hundred and TWEEN
ty-two, entitled, "An act supplementary to
the several acts for adjusting the claims and
titles to lands, and establishing land Offices
in the district east of the island of New Or
leans" ProOided, That nothing contained
in this act shall be so construed as to extend
further than a REIMBURSEMENT of all right
and title to said lands, on the part of the u
States, without prejudice to the interests of
third powers.


SEC g. And be it further enacted, That
the register and receiver, and clerk of said
Land Office at St. Helena, shall continue to
have and receive, for the term Of twelve
months from the passing of this act, the same
salary for the performance of the duties re-
quired of them by this act, and the acts
to which this is supplement, as is now al
lowed by law, which shall be paid out of any
money in the Treasury, not otherwise ap.
propriated


JOHN w. TAYLOR,


Speaker of the House of Representatives


JOHN C. CALHOUN,


Vice-President of the United States, and


President of the Senate.


ArpnoyEp-MAY 4, 1926.


JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.