TIP #156 - CLAIMS BELOW THE TENNESSEE RIVER Be sure to check out the URL in my signature line for KYRESEARCH to find the previous 155 tips! I appreciate all the comments you have been sending and am glad this series is a help to you! I am continuing to improve and regain my strength and want to thank all of you again for all your prayers, cards, gifts and words of encouragement! Sandi For this tip, I shall be quoting Chapter CXI of the Revised Statutes of the State of Kentucky, 1822. Part of an act passed December 22, 1792, in force from its passage. Sec. 1: If any surveyor within this commonwealth, shall enter, or suffer to be entered in his office, any entry for land, or receive or issue any plat or certificate of survey, on any entry made since the first day of May last, he shall forfeit and pay two hundred pounds for every such offence, to the use of the commonwealth; to be recovered, with costs, on motion of the auditor, in any court of record within this state, having cognizance of the same; Provided such survey or have ten days' notice of such motion; and moreover shall be liable to be removed from office. And every surveyor shall certify, on any plat or certificate of survey, the date of the entry on which such survey was made, that may hereafter be taken out of his office, to be returned to the register of the land office. Sec. 2. If the register of the land office shall receive into his office any plat or certificate of survey on which the date of entry is not certified, or shall issue any grant for land on any plat or certificate of survey, where the entry on which survey was made hath been entered since the first day of May last, he shall forfeit and pay two hundred pounds to the use of the commonwealth, for every such offence, to be recovered with costs on motion of the auditor, in any court of record within this state, having cognizance of the same; provided such register hath ten days' previous notice of such motion; and he shall moreover be liable to be removed from office. And the auditor is hereby empowered and required to move against every surveyor or registor so offending accordingly. Sec. 3. Every entry of land made on any military or treasury warrant, or which shall be made until otherwise directed by law, since the first of May last, which is in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety two, and every survey made on any such entry, or grant, that may issue for land by virtue of any survey made on such entry, is hereby declared null and void. An act passed December 24th, 1808, in force from its passage. Sec. 1. The register of the land office shall not receive into his office, nor receipt for any plat or plats, nor certificate or certificates of surveys, made on any treasury warrant or warrants within the boundary set apart by the act of the legislature of the State of Virginia for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state and continental lines, ….. An Act passed December 22, 1818: Sec. 1: No entry or survey shall be made upon any portion of the lands lying within the late Chickasaw Indian boundary … and for the extinguishment of whose title a treaty has been lately negotiated by Isaac Shelby and Andrew Jackson … An act passed February 14, 1820. Sec. 1. There shall be appointed by a joint vote of both houses of the general assembly, some fit person as superintendent in surveying the lands situate west of the Tennessee river in this state. Sec. 4: Said superintendent shall lay off, and divide the last west of said river by north and south lines, running according to the true meridian, and by others crossing them at right angles, so as to form townships of six miles square …. The corners of the townships shall be marked with progressive numbers, from the beginning, making the south east corner of each township the beginning corner … Sec. 5: Said superintendent shall cause four complete plats to be made out, each of which shall exhibit the townships and sections, and portions of townships and sections … a copy to the clerk of Livingston County, one to the clerk of Caldwell county. An Act passed December 26, 1820: Sec. 1: The surveyor of the lands set apart for the satisfaction of the legal bounties of the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on state establishment be …. On warrants for military services .. lands laid off by William T. Henderson, state surveyor … Sec. 6: The lands aforesaid lying west of the Tennessee River shall be subject to taxation as other lands in this commonwealth. An Act passed December 27, 1820: Sec. 1: Whereas the general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia, at their October session 1783, authorised the deputation of officers of the Virginia lines, on state as well as on continental establishment, to lay off four thousand acres of land, in such manner and form as they might judge most beneficial, for a town, on the Mississippi, on the waters of thereof, and vest the same in trustees for the common benefit and interest of the whole. And whereas William Croghan, Major Carrington, John Montgomery and John Rogers were appointed as trustees …. Did locate said 4000 acres 2nd August 1784, including the Iron Banks. William Croghan, and the surviving trustee Joseph Rogers Underwood, Richard Taylor, jun, William Montgomery and David L M'Kee, appointed trustees … Mentions again the Iron Bank and the town of Columbus. This is a long and detailed description of the laying off of lands in this area and it would be beneficial to researchers of this area to investigate all the acts involved. © Copyright 18 June 1998, Sandra K. Gorin, All rights reserved. sgorin@glasgow-ky.com Sandi Gorin - 205 Clements Ave., Glasgow, KY 42141-3409 (502)651-9114 or sgorin@glasgow-ky.com A Proud Kentucky Colonel PUBLISHING: http://members.tripod.com/~GorinS/index.html KYRESEARCH: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Tips KYBIOS: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Bios BARREN CO OBITUARIES: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/BarrenObits PRAYER&PRAISE: http://www.listbot.com/subscribe/prayerandpraise