Missouri Private Land Claims 1832

<p>These pages contain House document #1340 from the 24th Congress: Final Reports of the Board of Commissioners on Private Land Claims in Missouri under the Act of July 9 1832. The testimony herein proving ownership of the lands in present day Missouri.</p><p>Office of the Recorder of Land Titles St. Louis Missouri September 30 1835. To Hon. Ethan Allen Brown Commissioner of the General Land Office:</p><p>Sir: The recorder and commissioners appointed under the act of Congress entitled 'An act for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri' approved July 9 1832 and the act supplementary thereto approved March 2 1833 beg leave to lay before you the result of their proceedings since the last report.</p><p>In prosecuting the examination of the claims the commissioners have endeavored to confine themselves strictly to the duties prescribed by the laws under which they acted which require of them 'to examine all the unconfirmed claims to land in that State (Missouri) heretofore filed in the office of the said recorder according to law founded upon any incomplete grant concession warrant or order of survey issued by the authority of France or Spain prior to the tenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and four; and to class the same so as to show first what claims and their opinion would in fact have been confirmed according to the laws usages and customs of the Spanish government and the practice of the Spanish authorities under them at New Orleans if the government under which said claims originated and continued in Missouri; and secondly what claims in their opinion are destitute of merit in law or equity under such laws usages customs and practice of the Spanish authorities aforesaid.'</p><p>A full-name and place index adds to the value of this work.</p><p></p>