the said State, for the use of the said State, and the same to be used under such terms, and conditions, and regulations, as Proviso; salt sprigs the Legislature of the said State shall direct: Provided, The more than 10 years Legislature shall never sell nor lease the same for a longer period than ten years at any one time. not to be leased for at one time. nett proceeds of State, reserved. 3. Five per cent. Third. That five per cent. of the nett proceeds of the lands sales of public lying within such State, and which shall be sold by Congress, lands within the from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be reserved for the purposes following, Two fifths for viz: two fifths to be disbursed, under the direction of ConThe residue to en- gress, in making roads leading to the State; the residue to courage learning, be appropriated, by the Legislature of the State, for the enfor a college, etc. couragement of learning, of which one sixth part shall be exclusively bestowed on a college or university. roads. and one sixth of it 4. Thirty-six sections, to be desig dent, for the use of learning. Fourth. That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, nated by the Presi which shall be designated by the President of the United 8 seminary of States, together with the one heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested in the Legislature of the said State, to be appropriated solely to the use of such seminary by the said Proviso; the four Legislature: Provided, always, That the four foregoing tions are on condi. propositions, herein offered, are on the conditions that the tion that lands sold convention of the said State shall provide, by an ordinance shall be free from irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that preceding proposi by the U. States taxes for 5 years. ty lands, whilst every and each tract of land sold by the United States, from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under any authority of the State, whether for State, county, or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale; And, furAnd milit'y boun- ther,(1) That the bounty lands granted, or hereafter to be held by the paten granted, for military services during the late war, shall, while to be free from they continue to be held by the patentees or their heirs, retaxes for three main exempt, as aforesaid, from all taxes, for the term of three years from and after the date of the patents, respectiveNonresident citi ly; and that all the lands belonging to the citizens of the be taxed higher United States, residing without the said State, shall never than those of resi- be taxed higher than lands belonging to persons residing tees or their heirs, years. zens' lands not to Additional territ'y added to Michigan therein. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all that part of the after Illinois is territory of the United States lying north of the State of Insubject to the dis diana, and which was included in the former Indiana Terriposition of Con- tory, together with that part of the Illinois Territory which form'd into a State, gress, etc. is situated north of, and not included within, the boundaries (1) See Part II, No. 13. fifth article of the ordinance aforesaid; and the inhabitants *See chapter 20. therein shall be entitled to the same privileges and immunities, and subject to the same rules and regulations, in all respects, with the other citizens of the Michigan Territory. Approved, April 18, 1818. [See Part II, No. 445.]* CHAP. 218. An act to suspend for a limited time the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon.† +Obsolete. the 6th condition 1819, in favor of lic lands. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- The operation of sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- of the 5th section sembled, That the operation of the sixth condition of the fifth of the act mentioned, suspended section of the act entitled "An act to amend the act enti- till 31st March, tled 'An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United purchasers of pubStates northwest of the Ohio and above the mouth of Kentucky river,' " be, and the same is hereby, suspended until See chap. 54. the thirty-first day of March next, in favor of the purchasers ed. See act of 3d of public lands at any of the land offices of the United States :§ 230, post Provided, That the benefit of this act shall not be extended Proviso; benefit to any one purchaser for a greater quantity than six hundred and forty acres of land. Approved, April 18, 1818. [See Part II, No. 13.] §Further suspend March, 1819, chap. not to extend to one purchaser for more than 640 acres. CHAP. 219.-An act to continue in force an act entitled "An act relating to settlers on lands of the United States. "I Obsolete. See the act, continued, ante, chap. 180. The act relating to SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That an act entitled "An act relating to settlers on settlers on the the lands of the United States," passed the twenty-fifth of lands of the United March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and the until 3d March, same is hereby, continued in force for one year from and after TAnte, chap. 180. the third day of March last. Approved, April 20, 1818. [See Part II, Nos. 1, 16, 106, 119, 205, 206, 207, 208, 213, 229, 267.] States continued 1819. CHAP. 220.-An act authorizing the disposal of certain lots of public ground in the city of New Orleans and town of Mobile. The Presid'nt may abandon the use of the navy arsenal, military hospital, Fort Charlotte, at SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- and barracks, in sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- N. Orleans, and of sembled, That the President of the United States shall have Mobile, and cause power, and he is hereby authorized, whenever, in his opin- on they stand to be ion, it shall be consistent with the public interest to abandon laid off into lots, the ground where etc. the Secretary of the use of the navy arsenal, military hospital, and barracks, in the city of New Orleans, and of Fort Charlotte, at the town of Mobile, to cause the lots of ground whereon the said arsenal, hospital, and barracks, in New Orleans, and Fort Charlotte, at Mobile, now stand, to be surveyed and laid off into lots, with suitable streets and avenues, conforming, as near as may be, to the original plan of the city and town A plat thereof to aforesaid; and, when the surveys are completed, one plat the Treasury, etc. thereof shall be returned to the Secretary of the Treasury, and another to such officer or agent as the President shall have authorized to dispose of the said lots; and the said lots of ground shall be offered at public sale at the city of New Orleans and town of Mobile, respectively, on such day or days as the President shall, by his proclamation, designate for that purpose, in the same manner, and on the same conditions and terms of credit, as is provided by law for the sale of public lands of the United States; and patents shall be granted therefor as for other public lands sold by the United States. The lots to be of fered at public sale, etc. The Presid'nt may cause Fort Saint molished, and na continued. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of Charles to be de- the United States is hereby authorized, as soon as in his vy yard to be dis. opinion the public interest will permit, to cause the Fort St. Charles to be demolished, and the navy yard in said city to be discontinued; and the lot of ground on which the said fort is erected shall be appropriated to the use of a public square, and may be improved for that purpose by order of the corporation of the said city. A public square. Approved, April 20, 1818. [See Part II, No. 9.] ceivers to be paid of 500 dolls, each, CHAP. 221.-An act for changing the compensation of receivers and registers of the land offices. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asInstead of present sembled, That, instead of the compensation now allowed by compensation, re law to the receivers of public moneys for the lands of the an annual salary United States, they shall receive an annual salary of five and commission of hundred dollars each, and a commission of one per centum 1 per cent. etc. on the moneys received, as a compensation for clerk hire, receiving, safe keeping, and transmitting, such moneys to the Proviso; whole Treasury of the United States: Provided, always, That the ceed 3,000 dolls. a whole amount which any receiver of public moneys shall receive, under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed, for any one year, the sum of three thousand dollars. amount not to ex year. Registers to re ceive, each, 500 SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, instead of the dolls per annum compensation now allowed by law to the registers of the land and commission of offices, they shall receive an annual salary of five hundred 1 per cent. etc. dollars each, and a commission of one per centum on all the moneys expressed in the receipts by them filed and entered, whole amount not to ex and of which they shall have transmitted an account to the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, always, That the Proviso; whole amount which any register of the land offices shall re- ceed 3,000 dolls. a ceive, under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed, for year. any one year, the sum of three thousand dollars. Approved, April 20, 1818. [See Part II, Nos. 440, 442.] CHAP. 222.-An act respecting the surveying and sale of the public lands in the Alabama Territory. surveyor of the ed to Alabama. extinguished to be SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the powers and duties of the surveyor for the The powers of the lands in the northern part of the late Mississippi Territory northern part of shall extend to the whole of the Alabama Territory, and that Mississippi limitonly. And it shall be his duty to cause such of the said Lands to which Inlands, to which the Indian title has been or shall hereafter dian title has been be extinguished, as the President of the United States shall surveyed as the direct, to be surveyed and divided in the same manner and under the same regulations as are provided by law in relation to other public lands. And the said surveyor shall re- 2,000 dolls. per anceive for his services, hereafter, an annual compensation of vor, and two two thousand dollars, and shall be allowed not exceeding two clerks at 1,500 clerks, whose whole compensation shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum. President directs. dolls. a year in all. sections, besides as the President be excepted from to be laid off into SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in every public Not exceeding ten sale hereafter to be made of public lands, in the Territory of the school section, Alabama, there shall, in addition to the usual reservation of may designate, to section sixteen, in each township, for the support of schools, sale, on which to be excepted from the sales such sections, not exceeding ten build towns. in any one land district, as the President of the United States shall have designated, for the purpose of laying out and establishing towns thereon; which sections, so designated and The ten sections reserved, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be laid off into lots, lots, offered for and offered for sale, in the manner, and on the terms and sale, etc. conditions, and with the same limitations as to price, as is prescribed for the laying off and sale of lots, by the fifth section of the act entitled "An act to authorize the appointment of a surveyor for the lands in the northern part of the Mississippi Territory, and the sale of certain lands therein described," passed on the third of March, one thousand eight Ante, chap. 204. hundred and seventeen. And there shall be reserved from An entire townsale, in the Alabama Territory, an entire township, which ship to be located shall be located by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the a support of a seminary of learning within the said Territory; section for the seat and, also, any one entire section, which may be located under the direction of the Governor of the said Territory, for the seat of Government therein. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the lands lying for the support of seminary of learning, and a of Government. the district east of Pearl river. ed to the district after having been 16, and other reservations, etc. Lands attached to between the basis meridian and the first standard meridian, in the Alabama district, be attached to the land district east The lands attach- of Pearl river. And the lands so attached to the said diseast of Pearl river, trict east of Pearl river, after having been surveyed accordsurveyed, to be ing to law, shall, with the exception of section number sixsold, except No. teen in each township, which shall be reserved for the support of schools therein, and with the further exception of such reservations as may be made in pursuance of the second section of this act, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land office and the receiver of public moneys, at the place where the land office is kept, and on such day or days as shall, by procThe President to lamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose: the sale shall remain open two weeks, and no longer. The lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre, and shall, in every other respect, be sold in tracts of the same size, and on the same terms and conditions, as have been or may be provided for lands sold in the same Lands offered, and district. All the lands offered for sale, and remaining unsold disposed of at pri at the close of the said public sales, may be disposed of at private sale, by the register of the land office, in the same manner and on the same terms and conditions as are or may be provided for the sale of other lands in the same district: and patents shall be granted in the same manner and on the same terms as for other lands in the said district. designate the time not sold, may be vate sale, etc. Patents, etc. Approved, April 20, 1818. [See Part II, Nos. 13, 41, 398, 611, 815, 816.] The Vincennes author ized Lo CHAP. 223.-An act to adjust the claims to lots in the town of Vincennes, and for the sale of the land appropriated as a common for the use of the inhabitants of the said town. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress astrustees of sembled, That the trustees of the town of Vincennes shall adjust have power, and they are hereby authorized, to examine and that town. adjust all claims to lots in the town of Vincennes; and if, If lots are found upon an accurate survey, it shall be found that there are lots within the precincts to which in Within the precincts of the town to which no individual cannot be substan claims can be substantiated, the same are hereby granted to tiated, they are the inhabitants thereof, to be sold by the trustees, and the habitants, and may money arising from the sale to be applied to such public pur dividual claims granted to the in be sold, etc. poses as may be agreed upon by a majority of the citizens. The trustees may And the said trustees are hereby empowered, in all cases when they shall confirm claims to lots, to give deeds to the claimants for the same. give deeds, etc. The trustees empowered to dispose SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of of a tract of land the town of Vincennes shall have power, and they are here3d March, 1791, by authorized, to dispose of a tract of land containing about was appropriated five thousand four hundred acres, which, by the fifth section which, by act of as a common. |