Item 72: “An Act for offering compensation to the Susquehanna claimants of certain Lands within the seventeen Townships in the County of Luzerne and for other purposes therein mentioned”, copied by [Samuel A. Law] (Removed to Black Box #1), [ca. late eighteen-early nineteenth century]
Item — Box: 12, Folder: 112
Dates
- Created: [ca. late eighteen-early nineteenth century]
Creator
- Law, Samuel A., 1771-1845 (Person)
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Legal Act
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Title:
An Act for offering compensation to the Susquehanna claimants of certain Lands within the seventeen Townships in the County of Luzerne and for other purposes therein mentioned
Description:
The following item depicts an act copied by Samuel A. Law, [ca. late eighteenth century-early nineteenth century], titled, “an act for offering compensation to the Susquehanna claimants of certain Lands within the seventeen Townships in the County of Luzerne and for other purposes mentioned therein.” The act is a secondary component or, likely, a later edition of (item 12.100), which established the compromise of the 17 townships and directed for the compensation of Pennsylvania title holders who released those lands.
The act is a legislation that seeks to negotiate a compromise between the Connecticut and Pennsylvania settlers in the state. The act stipulates that previously removed Connecticut title holders are rightfully in possession of claims to tracts of land found in the following seventeen townships: Salem, Newport, Hanover, Wilkes Barre, Pittstown (Pittston), Northmoreland, Putnam, Meshoppen (or Braintrim), Springfield, Clavernack, Ulster, Exeter, Kingston, Plymouth, Huntington, Bedford, and Providence. The act creates means for the Connecticut settlers to bring their titles or evidence to such forward to be reinstated on their lands. The act further acknowledges that Pennsylvania settlers also hold titles to the lands in question and stipulates language for compensating them in the resignation of their lands. As the title of this act suggests, this act provided uprooted Connecticut settlers with a chance to repurchase the land that had been stripped from them. The Act works through purely economical language, measuring the cost of each claimant by placing their land within one of three categories by the Board of Property; first, second, or third class land. Although the act does not mention how this categorization worked, it notes that those who had lost lands found to be classed in the first categorization would pay eight annual installments of five dollars per acre, the second class land claims would pay eight annual installments of three dollars per acre, and third class would pay eight annual installments one dollar and fifty cents per acre.
The act was in response to the three part land conflict between Pennsylvania and Connecituct called the Yankee Pennamite Wars. The Yankee Pennamite Wars were a three part war between Connecticut and Pennsylvania, as they attempted to resolve a dispute over the land in the upper regions of what is now Pennsylvania. King Charles II granted the land twice, once to Connecticut in 1662, and again to William Penn as he founded Pennsylvania in 1681.
This act creates a response to the actions taken by Pennsylvania following the earlier Decree of Trenton decision in 1782, which authorized the right of jurisdiction to Pennsylvania at a hearing of the Continental Congress, but did not extend to the rights of soil at the time. Yet, under the command of the Pennsylvania Assembly and Patterson, Pennsylvania would forcibly remove “one-hundred and fifty” Connecticut families from their homes. They forced the families to “find their way through the wilderness of the Lackawaxen to the Delaware Valley, a distance of about eighty miles,” without supplies or clothing to sustain them (Gnichtel, The Trenton Decree of 1782). The violence and brutality levied by Patterson’s troops was so severe that it drew attention from neighboring states, and condemnation on the governing bodies of Pennsylvania. That critique ultimately led the Pennsylvania Assembly to remove Patterson from his position within the valley around July 1784, replacing him with colonel John Armstrong.
Following the resolution of these conflicts, there were many petitions made by the Connecticut settlers for reinstatement to their previous titles and possessions. There were even cases of those in the Susquehanna Company who continued to issue grants for titles under the Connecticut claim, who were tried in suits of trespass after Pennsylvania passed various acts that protected the Pennsylvania titles. There were eventual acts issued for compromise and reinstatement, early pieces of which can be seen in item (12.108), as well as push back, which highlights measures to protect Connecticut claimants who had been on the lands prior to their forced removal in 1782-4.
The creator has been ascertained as Samuel A. Law by a comparison with another copy of his, item (12.108).
The dates for the copy have been estimated according to the other legislative acts seeking compromise between the two states with similar language.
Transcription:
An Act for offering representation to the Susquehanna claimants of certain Lands within the seventeen Townships in the County of Luzerne and for other purposes therein mentioned
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general assembly in it & it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that Isaac Welhen of Chester County, Thomas Boude of Lancaster County and General William Irvine of Cumberland County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners where duty it shall be carefully to examine and ascertain the quantity, quality and situation of all Lands lying within what have been commonly called and known by the name of the seventeen Townships in the County of Luzerne held or claimed under a Pennsylvania title, under a patent or a location or a Warrant before the decree of Trenton by which the right of jurisdiction was declared to be in Pennsylvania, on which a Survey has been executed and returned agreeably to Law, and to divide the same according to their values into four classes, distinguished by the name of the first second third and fourth class, the first class to contain the Lands of the greatest value and the second third and fourth classes those of inferior value, preserving a due proportion between each and shall adjudge what sum per acre each Pennsylvania claimant shall receive not exceeding the rates hereinafter mentioned Provided always that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said Comm to proceed to the performance of the duties enjoined upon them by this Act until persons claiming Land to the extent of forty thousand acres under grants made by Pennsylv[ani]a: shall have conveyed & released the same to the State by Deeds, duly executed, and filed in the Land Office for the purpose & for the consideration expressed in this Act, and until persons commonly called Connecticut settlers claiming Land to the extent aforesaid, shall have signified in writing under their hands & seals duly executed in the presence of two witnesses and filed in the Land Office that they will submit to and abide by the determination of the said Commissioners And provided that if part of the said Land, but not to the extent aforesaid shall have been released, or if the Connecticut claimants to the extent aforesaid should not make their submissions according to the provisions herein contained then such releases as shall have been made by Pennsylv[ania]: claimants as aforesaid shall be null and void and the property which shall have been so as aforesaid released, shall vest and be held in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed Provided also that the lines of the respective Tracts of Land so aforesaid submitted to the examination of the Commissioners shall be the same as those bounding the original grants, & that the said Comm[issioner]s. shall not examine any Lands, but those which the Pennsylvania claimants shall have agreed as aforesaid to submit to their examination.
Section II. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that to such of the aforesaid Pennsylv’ claimants having title as aforesaid to Lands within either of the said classes, who shall comply with the condition of that Act, such compensation shall be made as the said Comm[issioner]s. shall award not exceeding the rates hereinafter set forth, in Certificate to be issued as hereinafter directed transferable and bearing Interest, receivable as a specie in all payments to be made at the Land Office. That is to say, to those whose lands shall be in the first class, a sum not exceeding five Dollars an Acre, to those whose Lands shall be in the second class a sum not exceeding three Dollars an Acre, to those whose Lands shall be in the third class a sum not exceeding one Dollar and fifty cents & acre, to those whose Lands shall be in the fourth class a sum not exceeding twenty five cents an Acre Provided always that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to direct or empower the said Comm[issioner]s. to include the whole of any one original Survey in any one class, unless in their opinion the quality of the whole Tract will justify it, nor that they shall fix the price of each Tract included in the same class ar one price of Acres, unless in their opinion such Tracts should be of equal value, but that the rate per acre of the several Tracts arranged in the same class shall be according to their relative value.
Section III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that every Pennsylv’ claimant who shall have conveyed and relieved to the Commonwealth a regular title as specified in this Act, shall an application to the Board of property be entitled to receive a Ticket, directed to the Controller General stating the number of Acres so released & conveyed to the Commonwealth, and the class to which the said Land
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Land belongs, and also certifying the amount awarded by the Comm[issioner]s. in favor of such Pennsylvania claimant, and the balance of principal and Interest due from such Pennsylv[ani]a claimants to the Commonwealth on account of the original purchase money of such Tract or Tracts which shall be submitted to the Register-General and the Comptroller General to issue and deliver to such claimant one or more Certificates of the nature herein before specified, for the sum to which his compensation shall amount after having deducted the principal & Interest so due to the Commonwealth, and the said Comptroller General is hereby authorized & directed to issue such Certificate or Certificates accordingly and to alter or renew such Certificates so as to accommodate payments at the Land Office, and all public monies which shall come to the hands of the Receiver General is hereby appropriated to the payment of the said Certificates, and in case of disputes between Pennsylv[ani]’ claimants before the issuing of the Certificates in pursuance of this Act, such dispute shall be decided by the Board of Property according to the general wage provided that their decision shall not prevent the party against whom it was made from prosecuting his claim in the Courts of Law as usual, and in case of an appeal from the decision of the Board of Property the certificate shall not issue until the dispute shall be decided.
Section IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no Pennsylv[ani]a claimant shall be entitled to compensation under this Act, who shall not make application to the Board of Property for that purpose within six months from the passing of this Act provided that if such claimant shall at the time of passing this Act be a feme covert, under the age of twenty one years or out of the United States, one year shall be allowed for making such application from the time such claimant shall cease to be a feme covert, arrive at the age of twenty one years or return part of the United States.
Section V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that it shall be the duty of the said Comm. also to ascertain all the rights or lots within the said seventeen Townships, which were occupied or acquired by Connecticut claimants, who were actually Settlers there at or before the time of the said decree at Trenton, and which rights or lots were particularly assigned to the said Settlers prior to the said decree agreeably to the regulations then in force among them and to divide the said rights or lots into four classes to be distinguished in the manner herein before mentioned according to their respective value, taking into consideration both the quality and situation and make out Certificates therefor with the draft of the Survey thereto annexed, and in case the said original Settler their Heirs or Assigns shall make application to the Land Office of any time before the first day of January one the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & one and agree to pay to the Commonwealth by eight equal amount Installments at the rate of two Dollars per Acre for Lands of the first class, at the rate of one Dollar & twenty cents & acres for Lands of the second class, at the rate of fifty cents & acre for Lands of the third class and at the rate of eight and one third cents & acre for Lands of the fourth class, with Interest upon each installment till the sum is paid, whereupon patents for lands so certified, shall be issued from the proper Office, paying the legal fees for, such patents and also the surveying fees Provided nevertheless & it is hereby expressly ordered that no patents shall issue to affect any Lands, the titles whereof shall be many person or persons claiming under Pennsylvania, until such person or persons have conveyed their title to the Commonwealth And provided also that the lands to be granted to any Connecticut claimants by visitors of this Act shall be Mortgaged by such claimant or claimants for the payment of the principle & interest of the aforesaid installments due to the Commonwealth as aforesaid.
Section VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that in case any Lands shall be convey’d to the Commonwealth by the aforesaid Pennsylv: claimants for which no application shall be made in manner herein before directed by Connecticut claimants, on or before the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred &
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& one, it shall be lawful for the Governor he is hereby required to order such Lands to be sold at public auction in the City of Philadelphia, giving six months notice of such sale in one or more of the Newspapers of the said City provided the same shall not be sold at a less price, than that at which the State hereby this Act directed it to be offered to the Connecticut claimants, and in one day of the Land so exposed to Sale, should not sell for the sum for the sum for which it was offered to the Connecticut claimants, then in such case it should be the duty of the Attorney General immediately thereafter to cause legal process to be issued for dispossessing every such person of the Land so claimed & not sold by the Commonwealth, excepting the case of Minors under twenty one years of age & persons beyond Sea, who shall be allowed a further time of one year from the time the Land claimed by them was exposed to sale as aforesaid, by themselves Guardians or Attorney to make their application and even play with the terms of this Act.
Section VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that each person claiming the provisions of this Act, shall prior to the Commiss[ioner]s. designing & enduring such persons Land by virtue of this Act, make Oath or affirmation which Oath or affirmation either of the said Comm[issioner]s. are hereby authorized to administer” that he or she does not claim title under a joint right of the Pennsylvania claimants & of the aforesaid rights, & that he or she has not directly or indirectly done or caused to be done any act or thing, to destroy or conceal such joint title with a view of coming within the provisions of this Act” And if it shall appear that any person claiming the provisions of this Act, holds by such joint title, & that such joint title has been destroyed or concealed with the view aforesaid then in that case such Lands shall not be without the provisions of this Act.
Section VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that each of the said Comm. before he acts, shall take an Oath or Affirmation before some Judge or Justice of the peace “that he will diligently, faithfully & impartially discharge the duties assigned to him by this Act.” and in case either of the said Comm. shall die or refuse or become incapable to act, the Governor shall appoint a person to supply his place, and all acts by a majority of the said Comm[issioner]s. shall be accorded as if they had all joined therein.
Section IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the said Comm[issioner]s. shall keep a regular account of their proceedings in a Book which shall be deposited by them in the Office of the Secretary of the Land Office, and they may appoint a Clerk who shall be sworn or affirmed before them faithfully to register all their proceedings in pursuance of this Act, and they may appoint a Surveyor or Surveyors, and employ chain-carriers & markers for the purpose of such Surveys, as they shall judge necessary and the said hearing Surveyors chain-carriers & markers shall be sworn before a justice of the peace or one of the Comm[issioner]s. faithfully to perform their respective duties and shall receive a reasonable compensation for their Services to be paid by the said Comm[issioner]s. and paid by the Commonwealth, and all Surveys made by direction of said Comm. shall be by them returned to the Office of the Surveyor-General.
Section X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that there shall be allowed & paid out of the public Treasury to each of the said Comm[issioner]s. three Dollars & fifty cents per day and to their clerk three Dollars per day for each day that they shall be respectively employed in performing the duty required by this Act.
Section XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that in cases of dispute between the Connecticut claimants they may elect to prove the sum decided by the said Comm[issioner]s. or appeal before such decision to the Court of Common Pleas of the proper County and a certificates from the Clerk of such Comm[issioner]s.or from the Prothonotary of such Court of Common Pleas, before which Tribunal such decision may be had, certifying in whose favour the sum is adjudged, shall be good evidence to obtain a patent from the proper office aforesaid.
Compromising Law Penn:[sylvani]a & Con[necticu]t. Claimants 17 Townships~
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general assembly in it & it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that Isaac Welhen of Chester County, Thomas Boude of Lancaster County and General William Irvine of Cumberland County be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners where duty it shall be carefully to examine and ascertain the quantity, quality and situation of all Lands lying within what have been commonly called and known by the name of the seventeen Townships in the County of Luzerne held or claimed under a Pennsylvania title, under a patent or a location or a Warrant before the decree of Trenton by which the right of jurisdiction was declared to be in Pennsylvania, on which a Survey has been executed and returned agreeably to Law, and to divide the same according to their values into four classes, distinguished by the name of the first second third and fourth class, the first class to contain the Lands of the greatest value and the second third and fourth classes those of inferior value, preserving a due proportion between each and shall adjudge what sum per acre each Pennsylvania claimant shall receive not exceeding the rates hereinafter mentioned Provided always that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said Comm to proceed to the performance of the duties enjoined upon them by this Act until persons claiming Land to the extent of forty thousand acres under grants made by Pennsylv[ani]a: shall have conveyed & released the same to the State by Deeds, duly executed, and filed in the Land Office for the purpose & for the consideration expressed in this Act, and until persons commonly called Connecticut settlers claiming Land to the extent aforesaid, shall have signified in writing under their hands & seals duly executed in the presence of two witnesses and filed in the Land Office that they will submit to and abide by the determination of the said Commissioners And provided that if part of the said Land, but not to the extent aforesaid shall have been released, or if the Connecticut claimants to the extent aforesaid should not make their submissions according to the provisions herein contained then such releases as shall have been made by Pennsylv[ania]: claimants as aforesaid shall be null and void and the property which shall have been so as aforesaid released, shall vest and be held in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed Provided also that the lines of the respective Tracts of Land so aforesaid submitted to the examination of the Commissioners shall be the same as those bounding the original grants, & that the said Comm[issioner]s. shall not examine any Lands, but those which the Pennsylvania claimants shall have agreed as aforesaid to submit to their examination.
Section II. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that to such of the aforesaid Pennsylv’ claimants having title as aforesaid to Lands within either of the said classes, who shall comply with the condition of that Act, such compensation shall be made as the said Comm[issioner]s. shall award not exceeding the rates hereinafter set forth, in Certificate to be issued as hereinafter directed transferable and bearing Interest, receivable as a specie in all payments to be made at the Land Office. That is to say, to those whose lands shall be in the first class, a sum not exceeding five Dollars an Acre, to those whose Lands shall be in the second class a sum not exceeding three Dollars an Acre, to those whose Lands shall be in the third class a sum not exceeding one Dollar and fifty cents & acre, to those whose Lands shall be in the fourth class a sum not exceeding twenty five cents an Acre Provided always that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to direct or empower the said Comm[issioner]s. to include the whole of any one original Survey in any one class, unless in their opinion the quality of the whole Tract will justify it, nor that they shall fix the price of each Tract included in the same class ar one price of Acres, unless in their opinion such Tracts should be of equal value, but that the rate per acre of the several Tracts arranged in the same class shall be according to their relative value.
Section III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that every Pennsylv’ claimant who shall have conveyed and relieved to the Commonwealth a regular title as specified in this Act, shall an application to the Board of property be entitled to receive a Ticket, directed to the Controller General stating the number of Acres so released & conveyed to the Commonwealth, and the class to which the said Land
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Land belongs, and also certifying the amount awarded by the Comm[issioner]s. in favor of such Pennsylvania claimant, and the balance of principal and Interest due from such Pennsylv[ani]a claimants to the Commonwealth on account of the original purchase money of such Tract or Tracts which shall be submitted to the Register-General and the Comptroller General to issue and deliver to such claimant one or more Certificates of the nature herein before specified, for the sum to which his compensation shall amount after having deducted the principal & Interest so due to the Commonwealth, and the said Comptroller General is hereby authorized & directed to issue such Certificate or Certificates accordingly and to alter or renew such Certificates so as to accommodate payments at the Land Office, and all public monies which shall come to the hands of the Receiver General is hereby appropriated to the payment of the said Certificates, and in case of disputes between Pennsylv[ani]’ claimants before the issuing of the Certificates in pursuance of this Act, such dispute shall be decided by the Board of Property according to the general wage provided that their decision shall not prevent the party against whom it was made from prosecuting his claim in the Courts of Law as usual, and in case of an appeal from the decision of the Board of Property the certificate shall not issue until the dispute shall be decided.
Section IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no Pennsylv[ani]a claimant shall be entitled to compensation under this Act, who shall not make application to the Board of Property for that purpose within six months from the passing of this Act provided that if such claimant shall at the time of passing this Act be a feme covert, under the age of twenty one years or out of the United States, one year shall be allowed for making such application from the time such claimant shall cease to be a feme covert, arrive at the age of twenty one years or return part of the United States.
Section V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that it shall be the duty of the said Comm. also to ascertain all the rights or lots within the said seventeen Townships, which were occupied or acquired by Connecticut claimants, who were actually Settlers there at or before the time of the said decree at Trenton, and which rights or lots were particularly assigned to the said Settlers prior to the said decree agreeably to the regulations then in force among them and to divide the said rights or lots into four classes to be distinguished in the manner herein before mentioned according to their respective value, taking into consideration both the quality and situation and make out Certificates therefor with the draft of the Survey thereto annexed, and in case the said original Settler their Heirs or Assigns shall make application to the Land Office of any time before the first day of January one the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & one and agree to pay to the Commonwealth by eight equal amount Installments at the rate of two Dollars per Acre for Lands of the first class, at the rate of one Dollar & twenty cents & acres for Lands of the second class, at the rate of fifty cents & acre for Lands of the third class and at the rate of eight and one third cents & acre for Lands of the fourth class, with Interest upon each installment till the sum is paid, whereupon patents for lands so certified, shall be issued from the proper Office, paying the legal fees for, such patents and also the surveying fees Provided nevertheless & it is hereby expressly ordered that no patents shall issue to affect any Lands, the titles whereof shall be many person or persons claiming under Pennsylvania, until such person or persons have conveyed their title to the Commonwealth And provided also that the lands to be granted to any Connecticut claimants by visitors of this Act shall be Mortgaged by such claimant or claimants for the payment of the principle & interest of the aforesaid installments due to the Commonwealth as aforesaid.
Section VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that in case any Lands shall be convey’d to the Commonwealth by the aforesaid Pennsylv: claimants for which no application shall be made in manner herein before directed by Connecticut claimants, on or before the first day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred &
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& one, it shall be lawful for the Governor he is hereby required to order such Lands to be sold at public auction in the City of Philadelphia, giving six months notice of such sale in one or more of the Newspapers of the said City provided the same shall not be sold at a less price, than that at which the State hereby this Act directed it to be offered to the Connecticut claimants, and in one day of the Land so exposed to Sale, should not sell for the sum for the sum for which it was offered to the Connecticut claimants, then in such case it should be the duty of the Attorney General immediately thereafter to cause legal process to be issued for dispossessing every such person of the Land so claimed & not sold by the Commonwealth, excepting the case of Minors under twenty one years of age & persons beyond Sea, who shall be allowed a further time of one year from the time the Land claimed by them was exposed to sale as aforesaid, by themselves Guardians or Attorney to make their application and even play with the terms of this Act.
Section VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that each person claiming the provisions of this Act, shall prior to the Commiss[ioner]s. designing & enduring such persons Land by virtue of this Act, make Oath or affirmation which Oath or affirmation either of the said Comm[issioner]s. are hereby authorized to administer” that he or she does not claim title under a joint right of the Pennsylvania claimants & of the aforesaid rights, & that he or she has not directly or indirectly done or caused to be done any act or thing, to destroy or conceal such joint title with a view of coming within the provisions of this Act” And if it shall appear that any person claiming the provisions of this Act, holds by such joint title, & that such joint title has been destroyed or concealed with the view aforesaid then in that case such Lands shall not be without the provisions of this Act.
Section VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that each of the said Comm. before he acts, shall take an Oath or Affirmation before some Judge or Justice of the peace “that he will diligently, faithfully & impartially discharge the duties assigned to him by this Act.” and in case either of the said Comm. shall die or refuse or become incapable to act, the Governor shall appoint a person to supply his place, and all acts by a majority of the said Comm[issioner]s. shall be accorded as if they had all joined therein.
Section IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the said Comm[issioner]s. shall keep a regular account of their proceedings in a Book which shall be deposited by them in the Office of the Secretary of the Land Office, and they may appoint a Clerk who shall be sworn or affirmed before them faithfully to register all their proceedings in pursuance of this Act, and they may appoint a Surveyor or Surveyors, and employ chain-carriers & markers for the purpose of such Surveys, as they shall judge necessary and the said hearing Surveyors chain-carriers & markers shall be sworn before a justice of the peace or one of the Comm[issioner]s. faithfully to perform their respective duties and shall receive a reasonable compensation for their Services to be paid by the said Comm[issioner]s. and paid by the Commonwealth, and all Surveys made by direction of said Comm. shall be by them returned to the Office of the Surveyor-General.
Section X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that there shall be allowed & paid out of the public Treasury to each of the said Comm[issioner]s. three Dollars & fifty cents per day and to their clerk three Dollars per day for each day that they shall be respectively employed in performing the duty required by this Act.
Section XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that in cases of dispute between the Connecticut claimants they may elect to prove the sum decided by the said Comm[issioner]s. or appeal before such decision to the Court of Common Pleas of the proper County and a certificates from the Clerk of such Comm[issioner]s.or from the Prothonotary of such Court of Common Pleas, before which Tribunal such decision may be had, certifying in whose favour the sum is adjudged, shall be good evidence to obtain a patent from the proper office aforesaid.
Compromising Law Penn:[sylvani]a & Con[necticu]t. Claimants 17 Townships~
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- Law, Samuel A., 1771-1845 (Person)
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