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REPORT No. 2.
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Register of claims to lands within that part of the limits of the land district of Jackson Court-house, in the Slate of Mississippi, lying below the thirty-first degree of north latitude, (formerly Louisiana,) founded on orders of survey, requettes, permission to settle, or other written evidence of claim, derived either from the French, British, or Spanish authorities, which, in the opinion of the undersigned,: ought to be confirmed.
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By whom claimed.
Juan de Cuevas... Valentine Delmas.
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Original claimant.
Nicholas Christian.
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Anthony Blanc ....
Nature of claim, and from what authority derived.
Spanish permit.. ......do............
Date of claim.
Aug. 1,1781 Sept. 10,1795
Quantity claimed.
Front.
Unk’wn 6
Deep.
Unk’wn
40
Area in arpents
Unk’wn
240
Area in acres.
Unk’wn
Where situated.
Cat Island........
Pascagoula bay *
By whom issued.
Manuel de Lonzas.... Baron de Carondelet.
Surveyed.
When.
(No survey).
.....do........
By whom.
Inhabitation and cultivation.
1768
1809
To-
1828
1628
Remark*.______Claim numbered 1, designated as Cat Island, contains 2,078.01 acres, most of which are unfit for cultivation. The permit on which this claim is founded calls for the whole island. From the long and continued Inhabitation and cultivation it would
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seem that the claimant ought to be entitled to Uie' whole island if the laws, usages, and customs of the Spanish government would warrant such an opinion. Attest: Valkktinb Dklmis, Clerk, i
WM. HOWZE, RetUter.
G. B. DAMERON, Receiver.
REPORT No. 3.
Register of claims to lands within that part of the limits of the land district of Jackson Court-house, in the State of Mississijypi, lying below the thirty-first degree of'north latitude, (formerly Louisiana,) founded on orders of survey, requettes, j>ermissmn to settle, or other written evidence of claim, derived either from the French, British, or Spanish authorities, which, in the otrinion of the former commissioners, ouaht not to be confirmed, but which have been revived, and additional testimony adduced in their supj>ort, and which, in the o/rinion of the undersigned, ought to be confirmed for a reasonable quantity.	I	'■
Former commissioners’ repofts. *'
William Crawford.
No. report.
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Register and receiver.
No. report.
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By whom claimed.
Original claimants
Eben Reese.................
Anthony L. Carrall.....
John J. Jourdan............
Reps, of Louis Boisdor*.
Eben Reese.........
A nth. L. Carrall John J. Jourdan. Louis Boisdore .
Nature of claim, and from what authority derived.
Spanish concession ....
Spanish permit............
......do..................
Spanish order of surrey.
Date of claim.
Jan. 26,1795 July 94,1602 April 24,1796 April 96,1763
Quantity claimed.
Front.
25 Unk’wo
Deep.
40 Unk’wn
Area in arpents
1,000
3.000
1.000 Unk’wn
Area in acres.
Unk’wn
By whom issued.
Gayoao.... Grand Pree Gayso de Lemoa Stephen Msro.
Surveyed.
When.
(Nosurvey.
do......
....do.......
....do.......
By whom.
Additional testimony.
Inhabitation and cultivation aver since 1803. Inhabitation and cultivation, 1798,1819, and 1813. Inhabitation and cultivation since 180®. InhaMtatioa and ooJtivmUon, from 1789 to 1H96.
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