of the act entitled "An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois country, in the Territory northwest of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their possessions,"* passed on the third day of March, one *Chapter 34. thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, was appropriated as

vided into lots, and

ed to convey, etc.

a common, to the use of the inhabitants of the said town: The tract to be di the said tract shall be divided into lots, as the trustees shall sold, etc. direct, of not more than fifty nor less than the quantity of five acres, and shall be sold in the manner and on the terms which may by them be deemed most expedient and advantageous. They shall also have power to convey, by complete Trustees empowertitle, the lots sold to the purchasers; and the proceeds of the Proceeds to be ap lands so disposed of, or so much thereof as may be necessary plied to the drainfor the purpose, shall be applied, under the direction of the said trustees, to the draining of a pond in the vicinity of the town; and the residue of the money arising from the said Residue, if any, to sales, if any there be, shall be paid over to the trustees of the sity Vincennes University, and shall, by them, be applied to the benefit of the said university.

ing of a pond.

VincennesUniver

to Congress.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, Trustees to report when they shall have performed the duties assigned to them under this act, shall make a report thereof to Congress. Approved, April 20, 1818.

CHAP. 224.-An act authorizing the President of the United States to purchase the lands reserved by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to certain chiefs, warriors, or other Indians, of the Creek nation.

March, 1817, to the

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the The President may United States to purchase, for and on behalf of the United of land reserved, purchase any tract States, any tract or tracts of land reserved, by the act of the by act of 3d of third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to the Creeks. chiefs, warriors, or other Indians, of the Creek nation, which Ante, chap. 205. they, or either of them, may be disposed to sell; and the amount of such purchase shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

virtue of this act to

the President may designate.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any tract or tracts Lands acquired by of land, the title of which may be acquired by the United be offered for sale States by virtue of this act, shall be offered at public sale, at upon such days as the land offices of the district in which they may be situate, upon such day or days as the President shall, by 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 and town lots sold by the United States.

Approved, February 20, 1819.

[See Part II, No. 13.]

land for a seat of

CHAP. 225.-An act providing for a grant of land for the seat of Government in the State of Mississippi, and for the support of a seminary of learning within the said State.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asTwo sections of sembled, That there shall be granted to the State of MissisGovernment. sippi two entire sections of land, or fractional sections, or quarter sections, not exceeding the quantity contained in two entire sections, for a seat of Government in the said State; To be located in which land shall be located in one entire tract, at such place as, under the authority of the said State, shall be designated for the seat of Government therein, whenever the Indian title shall have been extinguished thereto, and before the commencement of the public sales of the adjoining and surrounding lands belonging to the United States.

one entire tract etc.

Another township

for the support of a ing, etc.

the Secretary of

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the seminary of learn township of land granted for the support of Jefferson College, there shall be granted, in the said State, another township, or a quantity of land equal thereto, to be located in tracts of not less than four entire sections each, which shall be vested in the Legislature of the said State, in trust, for the support To be located by of a seminary of learning therein; which lands shall be lothe Treasury, cated by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, whenever, etc. whenever an extinguishment of Indian title shall be made for lands suitable, in his opinion, for that purpose, in the said This grant in lieu State which grant, hereby provided to be made, shall be served by the act considered as made in lieu of a township directed to be reserved by the fifth section of an act entitled "An act to provide for the ascertaining and surveying of the boundary lines fixed by the treaty with the Creek Indians, and for other purposes," passed March three, one thousand eight hundred The township re and fifteen; and which reserve of one township, provided to 31 March, 1815, to be made by the aforesaid fifth section of said act, shall be offered for sale in the same manner as the other public lands in the same district.

of a township re

of the 3d of March, 1815.

*Chapter 177.

served by act of

be sold.

Approved, February 20, 1819.

[See Part II, No. 611.]

+See chapter 254, post.

granted to the Sec

the acts of 6th May,

CHAP. 226.-An act allowing further time to complete the issuing and locating of military land warrants.†

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe authority sembled, That the authority granted to the Secretary for the retary of War, by Departinent of War, by the second section of the act to pro1812, and 10th Dec. Vide for designating, surveying, and granting, the military tary bounty land bounty lands, approved the sixth day of May, one thousand warrants, contin- eight hundred and twelve, and by the fourth section of the act making further provision for filling the ranks of the army of the United States, approved December tenth, one thou

1814, to issue mili.

ued until 4th March, 1824.

Chapter 138.

*

sand eight hundred and fourteen, to issue warrants for the Chapter 168. military land bounties to persons entitled thereto, shall be revived and continued in force for the term of five years from and after the fourth day of March next.

for issuing and lo

land warrants, by

1818, extended to

Oct. 1821.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the time limited The time limited by the act supplementary to the act further extending the cating military time for issuing and locating military land warrants, and for act of 9th March, other purposes, approved March ninth, one thousand eight 4th March and 1st hundred and eighteen,† for issuing military land warrants, shall be extended to the fourth day of March, one thousand Ante, chap. 211. eight hundred and twenty-one, and the time limited by the ended said act for the location of unlocated military land warrants act of 2d March, shall be extended to the first day of October thereafter.§ Approved, February 24, 1819.

[See Part II, Nos. 2, 43, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 236, 237.]

Time further ex

to 4th

March, 1823, by

1821; chapter 254. §Extended to 1st Oct. 1823; see chap.

251.

CHAP. 227.-An act to enable the people of the Alabama Territory to form a constitution and State Government, and for the admission of such State into the Union, on an equal footing with the original States.

Sections 1, 2, 3,

evant.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the following 4,5,8, and 9, irrelpropositions be, and the same are hereby, offered to the con- Propositions offervention of the said Territory of Alabama, when formed, for ed to the conventheir free acceptance or rejection, which, if accepted by the tion, to be obligaconvention, shall be obligatory upon the United States:

tory if accepted.

in every township,

First. That the section numbered sixteen, in every town- 1. Section No. 16, ship, and when such section has been sold, granted, or dis- for the use of posed of, other lands equivalent thereto, and most contigu- schools. ous to the same, shall be granted to the inhabitants of such townships, for the use of schools.

Salt springs

working them

to the State, for the use of

Second. That all salt springs within the said Territory, 2. and the lands reserved for the use of the same, together with and lands for such other lands as may, by the President of the United granted States, be deemed necessary and proper for working the the people. said salt springs, not exceeding, in the whole, the quantity contained in thirty-six entire sections, shall be granted to the said State, for the use of the people of the said State, the same to be used under such terms, conditions, and regulations, as the Legislature of the said State shall direct: Provided, The said Legislature shall never sell nor lease the same for a longer term than ten years at any one time.

Proviso; the Legis

lature not to sell,

nor lease for more than ten years.

of nett proceeds of

September, 1819,

making public

roads, canals, &c.

Third. That five per cent. of the nett proceeds of the 3. Five per cent. lands lying within the said Territory, and which shall be land sold after 1st sold by Congress from and after the first day of September, to be reserved for in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be reserved for making public roads, canals, and improving the navigation of rivers; of which three fifths shall be applied to those objects within the said State, under the direction of the

4. An entire town. ship for a semina

one heretofore reserved.

the Treasury may

reserve

small tracts.

Legislature thereof, and two fifths to the making of a road or roads leading to the said State, under the direction of Congress.

Fourth. That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, ry of learning, to to be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, under gether with the the direction of the President of the United 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 Legislature. And The Secretary of the Secretary of the Treasury, under the direction as aforethem in said, may reserve the seventy-two sections, or two townships, hereby set apart for the support of a seminary of Proviso; no tract learning, in small tracts: Provided, That no tract shall conIsist of less than two sections: And provided, always, That Proviso; irrevoca the said convention shall provide, by an ordinance irrevoeaclaiming right to ble without the consent of the United States, that the people inhabiting the said Territory do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the waste or unapproWaste lands at the priated lands lying within the said Territory, and that the United States. same shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition Tracts of land sold of the United States; and, moreover, that each and every be exempt from tract of land sold by the United States, after the first day of taxes for five y'rs. September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and

less than two sec

tions.

ble ordinance, dis

waste lands.

sole disposal of the

by the U. States to

dent citizens not

&c.

nineteen, shall be and remain exempt from any tax laid by the order or under the authority of the State, whether for State, county, township, parish, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the reLands of nonresi- spective days of the sales thereof: and that the lands beto be taxed higher, longing to citizens of the United States, residing without the said State, shall never be taxed higher than the lands beNo tax on United longing to persons residing therein; and that no tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and that all navigable waters within the said State shall forever remain public highways, free to the citizens of said State and of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll, therefor, imposed by the said State.(1)

States lands.

1,620 acres of land

for a seat of Gov

&c.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That, in lieu of a secernment, in lieu, tion of land, provided to be reserved for the seat of Government of the said Territory, by an act entitled "An act respecting the surveying and sale of the public lands in the *Ante, chap. 222. Alabama Territory,"* there be granted to the said State, for the seat of the Government thereof, a tract of land containing sixteen hundred and twenty acres, and consisting of sundry fractions and a quarter section, in sections thirty-one and thirty-two, in township sixteen, and range ten, and in sections five and six, in township fifteen, and range ten, and in sections twenty-nine and thirty, in the same township and range, lying on both sides of the Alabama and Cahawba rivers, and including the mouth of the river Cahawba, and

(1) See Part II, No. 13.

which heretofore has been reserved from public sale by order of the President of the United States.

Approved, March 2, 1819.

[See Part II, Nos. 54, 411, 793.]

CHAP. 228.-An act establishing a separate Territorial Government in the southern part of the Territory of Missouri.

*The other sec

bounty lands exempt from taxes for three

SEC. 11.* And be it further enacted, That the bounty lands tions irrelevant. granted, or hereafter to be granted, for military services du- Military ring the late war, shall, while they continue to be held by the patentees or their heirs, remain exempt from all taxes years from date of for the term of three years from and after the date of the patents, respectively.

Approved March 2, 1819.

patents, while, &c.

CHAP. 229.-An act in behalf of the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the deaf and dumb.

granted to the Con

for the deaf and

rection of the Sec

ury, &c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- A township of land sembled, That there be granted to the Connecticut Asylum necticut Asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons, dumb, to be locaa township of land, or a tract of land equal thereto, to be lo- ted under the dicated, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, retary of the Treas in tracts of not less than four entire sections each, in any of the unlocated lands of the United States to which the Indian title has been extinguished; which land shall be and forever remain to the use of said asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons; or, if said asylum shall sell said land, which they are authorized to do, the money arising from such sale shall be and remain forever to the

same use.

Approved, March 3, 1819.

[See Part II, Nos. 276, 802.j

CHAP. 230.-An act further to suspend for a limited time the sale or forfeiture of +Further suspendlands for failure in completing the payment thereon.†

ed, by act of 30th March, 1820, chap.

239.

the 6th condition

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of the sixth condition of the The operation of fifth section of the act entitled "An act to amend the act en- of the 5th section titled 'An act providing for the sale of the lands of the Uni- of the act for the ted States northwest of the Ohio and above the mouth of suspended until 31st March, 1820, Kentucky river,'" be, and the same is hereby, suspended in favor of puruntil the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hun- Chapter 54.

sale of lands, &c.

chasers.