tend to any one dred and twenty, in favor of the purchasers of public lands Proviso; not to ex- at any of the land offices of the United States: Provided, purchaser for more That the benefit of this act shall not be extended to any one purchaser for a greater quantity than six hundred and forty acres of land. ihan 640 acres. tions, &c. any con. tions, fractions, &c. located, under the Approved, March 3, 1819. [See Part II, No. 13.] CHAP. 231.-An act respecting the location of certain sections of lands to be granted for the seat of Government in the State of Indiana. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asInstead of four sec- sembled, That, instead of four sections, provided to be lotiguous quarter sec. cated under the direction of the Legislature of the State of not to exceed four Indiana, and to be granted for the purpose of fixing thereon sections, may be the seat of Government for that State, it shall be lawful to direction of the locate, for that purpose, under the direction of the Legislature aforesaid, any contiguous quarter sections, fractions, or parts of sections, not to exceed, in the whole, the quantity Locations to be contained in four entire sections. Such locations shall be made before pub lic sales. made before the commencement of the public sales of the adjoining and surrounding lands belonging to the United States. Legislature. Approved, March 3, 1819. [See Part II, No. 611.] *Original act, ch. 162. CHAP. 232.-An act explanatory of the act entitled "An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the State of Louisiana and Territory of Missouri.”* SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asThe provisions of sembled, That the provisions of the fifth section of the act the act of 12th of of Congress entitled "An act for the final adjustment of April, 1814, to be land titles in the State of Louisiana and Territory of Mistend to citizens of souri," passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight the 5th section of construed to ex. Howard county. +Chapter 162. The right of preemption given by the 5th section of hundred and fourteen, shall be so construed as to extend to the citizens of the county of Howard, in the Missouri Territory, as established by the act of the Legislature of the Territory, passed the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, any construction to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the right of prethe provisions of emption given by the aforesaid provisions, as explained and the act of 12th of extended by this act, shall not be so construed as to affect April, 1814, not to affect rights deriv. any right derived from the United States, by purchase, at ed from the United public or private sale, of the lands claimed under the aforeStates by purchase. said act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person or have had the right reserv'd for scho'ls, pre-emption, &c. persons, who have settled on and improved any of the lands Persons who would in the said Territory, reserved for the use of schools, before of pre-emption had the survey of such lands were actually made, and who would not the lands been have had the right of pre-emption thereto, by the existing to have the right of laws, had not the same been so reserved, shall have the right of pre-emption thereto, under the same terms and conditions, and subject to the same restrictions, provided for other cases of a right of pre-emption in said Territory; and the register The register and of the land office and receiver of public moneys for the dis-ed to select any trict shall have power to select any other vacant and unap- ated lands, &c. in propriated lands in the same township, and as near adjacent lieu of those enter as lands of equal quantity and like quality can be obtained, in emption. lieu of the section or parts of a section which shall have been entered in right of pre-emption, according to the provision of this section. Approved, March 3, 1819. [See Part II, Nos. 15, 19, 42, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 72, 77, 88, 93, 246.] receiver empower other unappropri ed in right of pre CHAP. 233.-An act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices for the disposal of the public lands not heretofore offered for sale in the States of Ohio and Indiana. ces for the sale of tinguished, in office at Piqua. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the sale of the unappropriated public Districts and offi lands in the State of Ohio, to which the Indian title is ex- lands to which the tinguished, the following districts shall be formed, and land Indian title is exoffices therefor established: all the public lands, as afore- Ohio. said, lying between the western boundary line of the State of Ohio and a north and south line to be drawn at fortyeight miles east of the said boundary line, and bounded on the south by the Indian boundary established by the treaty of Greenville, and on the north by the northern boundary of the State of Ohio, shall form a district, for which a land District and land office shall be established at Piqua: and all the public lands, as aforesaid, lying between the above-described district and the western limits of the Connecticut Reserve and Canton land district as first established, and bounded on the south by the Indian boundary established by the treaty of Greenville, and on the north by the northern boundary of the State of Ohio, shall form a district, for which a land office shall be A district and land established at the town of Delaware. And for the disposal of the unappropriated public lands in the State of Indiana, ces for the sale of to which the Indian title is extinguished, the following dis- Indian title is extricts shall be formed, and land offices established: all the tinguished in Indi public lands, as aforesaid, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaties concluded at St. Mary's, in the month of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, lying east of the range line separating the first and second ranges, east of the second principal meridian extended north to the office at Delaware. Districts and offi. lands to which the ana. office atBrookville. office at Haute. Terre present Indian boundary, and north of a line to be run separating the ninth and tenth tiers of townships north of the A district and land base line, shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at Brookville: and all the public lands, as aforesaid, the Indian title to which was extinguished by the treaties aforesaid, and lying west of the last-described district, A district and land shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at the town of Terre Haute: and all the public lands, as aforesaid, the Indian title to which was extinguished by the treaties aforesaid, lying east of the second principal meridian, and south of a line, to be run, separating the ninth and tenth Lands attached to tiers of townships north of the base line, shall be, and are sonville. hereby, attached to the district of Jeffersonville; and the Lands to be offered said lands shall be offered for sale, with the same exceptions, same terms, &c. and on the terms and conditions, in every respect, both at public and private sales, as is provided for the sale of the Proviso; the Presi- lands in the districts aforesaid: Provided, also, That the the land office at President of the United States shall have power, and he is central place. hereby authorized, to remove, whenever he shall judge it expedient so to do, the land office from Jeffersonville to some central and suitable place within the district. the district of Jef for sale on the dent may remove Jeffersonville to a The President, &c. authorized to ap district surveyed, &c. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President is point a register and hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the consent and receiver for each advice of the Senate, for each of the districts aforesaid, a register of the land office and receiver of public moneys; When a sufficient which appointments shall not be made, for any of the aforelands have been said respective land districts, until a sufficient quantity of public lands shall have been surveyed within such district as to authorize, in the opinion of the President, a public The registers and sale of land within the same; which registers of the land security, and their office and receivers of public moneys, when appointed, shall duties and emolu each, respectively, give security in the same sums and in same as the regis the same manner, and whose compensation, emoluments, and in Ohio and Indi- duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, receivers to give ments to be the ters and receivers ana. All the public lands to which the in respect to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be provided by law in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several land offices established for the disposal of the public lands of the United States in the States of Ohio and Indiana. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the public Indian title has lands within the aforesaid several districts, to which the Inbeen extinguished, dian title has been extinguished, and which have not been served, except No. granted to or reserved for the use of any individual or inship, to be offered dividuals, or appropriated and reserved for any other pur not granted or re 16, in each town for sale pose, by any existing treaties or laws, and, with the exception of section numbered sixteen, in each township, which shall be reserved for the support of schools therein, shall be offered for sale, to the highest bidder, at the land offices for Under the direc- the respective districts, under the direction of the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, on such day or days as shall, by proclamation of the President of the President to desig- United States, be designated for that purpose: the sales shall tion of the register and receiver. nate days of sale. weeks. unsold at public vate sale, as pro remain open at each place for three weeks, and no longer; Sales open for 3 the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre, Not less than two and shall, in every other respect, be sold in tracts of the dollars an acre. same size, on the same terms and conditions, as have been or may be by law provided for the sale of lands of the United States in the States of Ohio and Indiana.* All the pub- See act of 24th lic lands in the said districts, with these exceptions above April, 160; chap. mentioned, remaining unsold at the close of the public sales, Lands remaining may be disposed of at private sale, by the register of the re- may be sold at pri spective land offices, in the same manner, under the same vided by law. regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, in every respect, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of the lands of the United States in the States of Ohio and Indiana; and patents shall be obtained Patents for the lands sold in the said districts, in the same manner as for other public and on the same terms as are or may be by law provided for Indiana. other public lands sold in the States of Ohio and Indiana. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of remove any of the the United States shall have power, and he is hereby au- land offices estabthorized, to remove, whenever he shall judge it expedient as so to do, any and each of the land offices established by this act, to such suitable place, within the district for which it was established, as he shall judge most proper. in the same manner, &c. lands in Ohio and The President may lished by this act, he may judge proper. and receiver for tendence of public sales. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That each of the regis- 85 to each register ters of the land office and receivers of public moneys shall each day's superinreceive five dollars for each day's attendance in superintending the public sales in their respective districts. Approved, March 3, 1819. (Sec Part II, Nos. 13, 64, 416, 418, 798.] CHAP. 234.-An act granting a donation of land to the State of Illinois, for See act of 2d the seat of Government of said State.† March, 1821; ch. 266. contiguous quarter tions, granted to Il SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be granted to the State of Illinois Four sections, of four sections of land, or contiguous quarter sections and frac- sections, &c., not tions, not exceeding the quantity contained in four entire exceeding four sec sections, for the purpose of fixing thereon the seat of Goy- linois for a seat of ernment for the said State; which lands shall be selected in To be selected as the manner provided by the thirtieth section of the schedule provided, &c. to the constitution of the said State: Provided, That such Proviso; selection election shall be made before the public sale of the adjoin- of adjoining lands. ing public lands shall have taken place. Approved, March 3, 1819. [Sce Part II, No. 611.] Government. before public sale Purchasers ing entriesdifferent tended, may make register of the land the receiver, on CHAP. 235.-An act providing for the correction of errors in making entries of land at the land offices. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asmak sembled, That, in every case of a purchaser of public lands, from what they in at private sale, having entered at the land office a tract difapplication to the ferent from that he intended to purchase, and being desirous office, who, with of having the error in his entry corrected, he shall make his being satisfied tha: application for that purpose to the register of the land office; the mistake origin and if it shall appear, from testimony satisfactory to the reous or obliterated gister and receiver of public moneys, that an error in the report to the Sec- entry, has been made, and that the same was occasioned by sury, who may al original incorrect marks made by the surveyor, or by the oblow the entries to literation or change of the original marks and numbers at the moneys paid to corners of the tract of land; or that it has, in any otherwise, er purchases of arisen from mistake or error of the surveyor, or officers of ated from errone. marks, &c. must retary of the Trea be withdrawn, and be applied to oth land. the land office; the said register and receiver of public moneys shall report the case, with the testimony, and their opinion thereon, to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall have power to direct, if in his opinion it shall be proper, that the purchaser shall be at liberty to withdraw the entry so erroneously made, and that the moneys which had been paid shall be applied in the purchase of other lands in the same district, or credited in the payment for other lands which shall have been purchased at the same office. Approved, March 3, 1819. [See Part II, Nos. 40, 275, 302, 334, 368, 416, 420, 423, 455.] *See act of 11th May, 1820, chap. 245. Spanish grants fa the Secretary of from the districts Pearl river, con +Chap. 135. CHAP. 236.-An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices in the districts east of the island of New Orleans." SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asClains founded on sembled, That all the claims to land, founded on complete vorably reported to grants from the Spanish Government, reported to the Secrethe Treasury by tary of the Treasury by the commissioners from the districts the commissioners east and west of Pearl river, appointed under the authority east and west of of an act entitled "An act for ascertaining the titles and firmed, &c. claims to lands in that part of Louisiana which lies east of the river Mississippi and island of New Orleans," which are contained in the several reports of the commissioners, and which are, in the opinion of the commissioners, valid, agreeably to the laws, usages, and customs, of the said Government, be, and the same are hereby, recognised as valid and complete titles against any claim on the part of the United States, or on British right derived from the United States; and that all claims founded on British grants contained in the said reports, which have been sold and conveyed, according to the provisions of the treaty of peace, between Great Britain and And grants. |