RC and enclosure (DNA: RG 107, LRRS, W-36:9). Docketed as received in the War Department in February 1816. The enclosed resolutions (2 pp.), plus a one-page certification by Ohio secretary of state Jeremiah McLene, noted that enforcement of JM’s 12 Dec. 1815 proclamation in Ohio would inflict “great losses and distress” on settlers who had “afforded material assistance in the late war” and might “prove injurious to the interests of our Country, particularly in the event of any disturbance with our Indian neighbours.” The legislators therefore requested that Congress pass a law extending to those who had settled on public lands after 1 Jan. 1808, the rights granted to settlers prior to that date by the second section of “An Act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States, until authorized by law,” 3 Mar. 1807 (U.S. Statutes at Large, description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends 2:445–46). The act allowed occupants of public lands to file claims and continue in residence while their cases were being reviewed.