The hot springs of Arkansas, as they are : a history and guide / by Charles Cutter.

  • Cutter, Charles, 1837-1912.
Date:
1875
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Credit: The hot springs of Arkansas, as they are : a history and guide / by Charles Cutter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    through him, the said Perciful, and all other claims, except those of the United States, and other individual claims. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the 4th day of October, 1824. JOHN PERCIFUL. [Seal.] In presence of Witnesses: Allen M. Oakley. James S. Craig. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE HOT SPRINGS RESERVATION IN ARKANSAS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled : Section i. That any person claiming title, either legal or equitable, to the whole or any part of the four sections of land constituting what is known as the Hot Springs Reservation, in Hot Springs county, in the State of Arkansas, may institute against the United States in the Court of Claims, and prosecute to final decision, any suit that may be neces- sary to settle the same: Provided, That no such suits shall be brought at any time after the expiration of ninety days from the passage of this Act, and all claims to any part of said reservation upon which suit shall not be brought under the provisions of this Act, within that time, shall be forever barred. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all such suits shall be by petition in the nature of a bill in equity, and shall be conducted and determined in all respects, except as herein otherwise provided, accord- ing to the rules and principles of equity practice and jurisprudence in the other Courts of the United States; and for the purposes of this Act, the Court of Claims is hereby invested with the jurisdiction and powers exercised by courts of equity, so far as may be necessary to give full relief in any suit which may be instituted under the provisions of this Act. Sec. 3. And be it further enajted, That notice of every suit author- ized by this Act shall be executed by the delivery of a true copy thereof, with a copy of the petition to the Attorney-General, whose duty it shall be for and in behalf of the United States, to demur or to answer the petition therein within thirty days after the service of such process upon him, unless the court shall, for good cause shown, grant further time for filing the same.