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An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana, An act to revive and continue in force the seventh section of an act, entitled “An act supplementary to the several acts for the adjustment of land claims in the state of Louisiana,” approved the eleventh May, and for other purposes, An act to provide for the examination of titles to land in that part of the state of Louisiana, situate between the river Hondo and the Sabine river, An act supplementary to the several acts providing for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land in the St. Helena, and Jackson Courthouse districts, An act supplementary to an act providing for the examination of titles to land in that part of the state of Louisiana, situated between the Rio Hondo and the Sabine rivers, An act confirming certain claims to lands in the western district of Louisiana, An act to confirm the supplementary report of the commissioners of the western district of Louisiana, An act to confirm certain certain claims to lands in the district of Opelousas in Louisiana, An act granting the right of preference in the purchase of certain lands to certain settlers, in St. Helena land district, in the state of Louisiana, An act to confirm the claims to lands in the district between Rio Hondo and Sabine rivers, founded on habitation and cultivation, An act to authorize the registers of the several land offices in Louisiana to receive entries of land in certain cases, and give to the purchasers thereof, certificates for the same, An act for the final adjustment of claims to lands in the south-eastern land district, of the state of Louisiana, An act in reference to pre-emption rights in the south-eastern land district, of the state of Louisiana, An act supplementary to the act of the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, entitled “An act for the final adjustment to claims in the south-eastern district of Louisiana,” An act confirming claims to lands in the state of Louisiana, An act to authorize the inhabitants of the state of Louisiana to enter the back lands, An act supplementary to the act, entitled “An act to authorize the inhabitants of the state of Louisiana to enter the back lands,” An act for the relief of the inhabitants of Terre aux Bœufs, An act to confirm certain entries of lands, in the state of Louisiana, and to authorize the issuing of patents for the same, An act confirming certain land claims in Louisiana, An act relating to lands sold in the Greensburgh, late St. Helena land district, in the state of Louisiana, and authorizing the resurvey of certain lands in that district, 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, the Secretary of the Treasury, by the commissioners from the districts east and west of Pearl river, appointed under authority of an act, entitled “,” which are contained in the several reports of the commissioners, and which are, in the opinion of the commissioners, valid, agreeably to the laws, usages, and customs, of the said government, be, and the same are hereby, recognised as valid and complete titles against any claim on the part of the United States, or right derived from the United States: And that all claims founded on British grants, contained in the said report, which have been sold and conveyed, according to the provisions of the treaty of peace, between Great Britain and Spain, of the third of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, by which that part of Louisiana, lying east of the island of Orleans, was ceded to Spain, under the denomination of West Florida, or which were settled and cultivated by the person having the legal title therein, at the date of said treaty, are recognised as valid and complete titles, against any claim on the part of the United States, or right derived from the United States.

. And be it further enacted, That all claims reported as aforesaid, and contained in the several reports of the said commissioners, founded on any order of survey, requette, permission to settle, or any written evidence of claim, derived from the Spanish authorities, which ought, in the opinion of the commissioners, to be confirmed, and which by the said reports appear to be derived from the Spanish government,