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General Regulations and Instructions of Morales, for Conceding Lands. No. II, Article X. 1822 LXVIII (1822)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0004 and id is 1 raw text is: LXVLII. the regulation of the police, so necessary in all societies, and inore particularly in new settlements. (Signed) MA.Ur.L GAYOSo DE L cos. Newv-Orleans, 9th Sept. 1797. (NO. I.) General Regulations and Instructions of' Morales, for Conceding' Lands. Don Joln Bonaventure Morales, Principal Comptroller of the Army and finances of the provincee of Louisiana and West Florida, Inten dant (pat interhim) and sub-delegate oft he superintedauce, Gene- ral of the same, Judge of' admiralty and of the lands, &c. of the King, &c, The King, whoW God preserve, having been pleased to declare and order by his decree given at ,Stkt. Lorenzo, the 22d of October of the last year, 1798. That the in- tendancy of these provinces, to the exclusion of all other authority, be put in possession of the privilege, to divide and grant all kind of land belonging to his crown; which right after his order of the 24th of August, 1770, belong- el *to the civil and military governmeut; wishing to per- form this important chargt, not only according to the 81st article of the ordinance otthe intendants of New Spain, of the regulations of the year 1754, cited in the said article, and the laws respecting it, but also with regard to local. circumstances ; and those which may with injury to the interests of the king, contribute to the encourage- ment, and to the greatest good of his subject already established, or who may estublish themselves in this part of his possessions. After having examined with the greatest attention the regulation made by his exceilency Count O'Rielly, the 18th February, 1770, as well as that circulated by his ex- cellency the present governor, Don Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, the first of January, 1t98, and with the counsel which has been given me on this subject by Don Manuel Serrano assessor of the intendency,.and other persons of skill in these matters: that all persons who wish to ob- tain lands may know in what manner they ought to ask for them, and on what conditions lands can be granted or sold ; that those who are in possession without the neces- sary titles, may know the steps they ought to take to come to an adjustmeut; that the commandants as sul?- delegates of the intendancy, may be informed of what they ought to observe : that the surveyor general of' this city, and the particular surveyors who are under him, may be instructed of the formalities with which they ought to make surveys of lands, or lots, which shall be conceded, s6ld or arranged for; that the secretary of the finance may

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