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Itnwiif____Claim* Wtf*.	S.Verensported uafkvorabhr of bylbe^bnik«^oaimU*lo««rat fhr want of Inhabitation and cultivation ; and i.Hhoug h the additional testimony which has been adduced in their support does not amount to fljll and satisfactory proof
if JnhsMtadoa and cultiratioo. according 9 the laws, usages, and customs of the Spanish government* they are, therefore, forfeited; yet as the inhabitation and cultivation were prior to 1803, we are of opinion they ought to be confirmed for a reasonable quantity.
Claim No. 4.—This claim is fqpnded on an order of survey, issued by Governor Miro, in favor of Louis Boisdor6, and’conflrmed to his widow, Marguerette Douisson, by the Intendant Morales, April 4, 1808. It does not appear by the title papers that an actual survey was made with geometrical precision, yet a map or conjectural plan, definitely fixing the limits of the claim, was made By the Surveyor General Pintado. May 30, 1810. This claim extends from Pearl river to the Bay of St. Louis* and is supposed to contain about one kwUred thoiuand arret. The additional testimony adduced to us proves incontestably that this claim lias been inhabited, and a part of the land kept under cultivation upwards of forty years; it is also iu testimony before us that the extent of thi* claim was distinctly known to the neighbors, and that the claimant set up his claim to the whole limits contained within the before-mentioned figurative plnn. The above claim is forfeited, under the Spanish laws, usages and customs, for want of inhabitation and cultivation within the time prescribed by those laws and regulations; yet as the iubabitation and-cultivation appear to be very ancient, it is conceived that this claim ought to be confirmed for a reasonable quantity.	,
I	-	 _ 	-	WILLIAM HOWZB, Register.
|	/	G. B. DAMEKON, Receive-.
Attest: Valentin* Dblmas, Clfrk,
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Register of claims to lands east of Pearl river, in the district of Jackson Court-house, lying below the. thirty-first degree of north latitude, in the Stale of Mississippi, (formerly Louisiana,) founded on orders of surveys, requettes, jjermission to settle, or other written evidence of claim, derived either from the French, Jlritish, or Spanish government, which, in the opinions of the former commissioners, ought not to be confirmed, but for which certificates of confirmation has issued to the claimants for a quantity not exceeding six hundred and forty acres as donations. ( Under the third section of the laws of 1819 and 1822.)	’ i
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Former commissioners’ reports.
William Crawford.
No. report.
No. claim
Register and receiver.
By whom claimed.
No. report.
No. claim
Benj. Lanier and wife..
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Samuel A. Tanner.........
Asa HartAeld.............
Reps, of Simon Favre.. .......do................
Original claimant.
Jerrel Byrne...., Thomas Byne.... Sam’! A. Turner Alex. Durant.... Simon Favre...., ......do..........
Nature of claim, and from what authority derived
Spanish concession ..
,......do................
Spanish permit..........
.......do................
Spanish order of survey. Purch. from Spanish gvt.
Date of claim
Nov. 19,1798
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Mar. 21,1799 April 31,1810 Mar. 5,1804 Oct. 19,1803
Quantity claimed.
Front.
90
30
Deep.
Area in arpents.
Area in acres.
By whom issued.
Manuel Lonzas
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Gayoso...
Francisco Havia John V. Morales ... .do ......do...............do
Surveyed.
When.
Mar. 12,1804 1804-’5, dif. No survey.. ....do........
By whoinl
J. Collins., times........
Additional testimony.
Inhabitation and cultivation, 1806 to 1808. Inhabitation and cultivation, 1807 to 181!. Inhabitation and cultivation, 1802.	'
Inhabitation and cultivation, Oct. to Dec., 1810. .Formerly inhabited and cultivated.
Inhabitation and cultivation, 1806.
Rcmarkt —The above claims were considered by the former commissioners forfeited under the Spanish law for the want of inhabitation and cultivation. Certificates of confirmation, however, have been issued by our predecessors to the claimants for the quantity of six hunared and forty acres. Th* claimant claimed their privilege under the act of May 24,1828. of reviving their claims in those cases where additional testimony has been adduced; the proof, in substance, amounts iq the same as that recorded by the former commissioners ; all the claims appear to have been Inhabited aud cultivated prior to April 15, 1813. We are therefore of opiuion that the respective claimants ought to be quieted in their claims.
Attest: Valsktini Dilmas, CUr*.
WILLIAM IIOWZK, Register. G. B. DAMERON, Receiver