...executive authority, to possess themselves of it, are not built on a more substantial basis. The act entitled " An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorised by law," passed the 3d of March, 1807, under which the president is understood to have acted,...

...permission to remain on such tract or tracts of land, according to the provisions of the act, intituled " An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorised by law," and the person or persons obtaining such permission shall be entitled to all the...

...permission to remain on such -- tract or tracts of land, according to the provisions of the act, intituled " An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorised by law," and the person or persons obtaining such permission shall be entitled to all the...

...rights or interests in them prior to the survey and sale? By the act approved March 3, 1807, en. titled "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands...ceded to the United States until authorized by law," all persona who, after the passage of that act, should take possession of or make a settlement on lands...

...opinion that Mr. Headers*' not an intruder, within the meaning of the act of the 3d March, 1 80". * prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorized by law ;" and, consequently, that it is not competent to the Executive to remove him by force under that law....

...examining what Mr. Jefferson calls his " third and conclusive remedy." This is the law of congress entitled " An act to prevent settlements being " made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorised by u law."* Whatever other remedies Mr. J. had, he must justify himself under this, for...

...territory, and who has obtained permission to remain on auch tract or tracts of land, agreeably to an act, entitled " An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorised by law," shall be entitled to a preference' in becoming the purchaser from the United States...

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...on the Public Lands, reported a bill to extend the provisions of the act of the 3d of March, 1807, entitled " An act to prevent settlements being made...ceded to the United States, until authorized by law;" which bill having been twice read, Mr. WICKLIFFE handed to the Chair a letter from the Secretary of...

...port (heir opinion to Congress. 4th. The Act of Congress, passed on the 3d March 1807, (4 vol. 118,) "to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorized by law;" which declares, that if any person shall, after the passage of the law, take possession of, or settle...