lots. them as the President may reserve for fortifications, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register and receiver of the proper land office, at such times and places as the President shall by public proclamation Private entry of designate for that purpose; and all lots remaining unsold at the closing of the public sales shall be subject to entry at private sale at the proper land office: Provided, That no town lot shall be sold for less than twenty-five dollars, nor any out-lot for less than at the rate of twenty-five dollars per acre; and they shall, in every other respect, be sold on the same terms and conditions as are provided for the disposal of the other public lands of the United States. Prices limited. Improvements to be valued and paid for. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, previous to of fering the aforesaid town and out-lots at public sale, the President of the United States shall cause the value of any improvements which may have been made thereon to be ascertained in such manner as he may prescribe for that purpose; and the purchaser at public sale of any lot upon which there are such improvements, other than the owner thereof, shall, in addition to the sum to be paid to the United States, be, and hereby is, required to pay to the owner of the improvements the value of them, as thus ascertained; and if payment therefor shall not be made upon the day on which the same was purchased, the lot shall be again offered at public sale on the next day of sale, and such person shall not be capable of becoming the purchaser of that or of any other lot offered at Provision for resale that public sale: Provided, That if any lot so offered and not complied with. bid off on the last day of the public sale shall not be thus paid for, the same may be entered at private sale, upon paying to the United States the sum at which it was bid off, and to the owner of the improvements the previously ascertained value Title to land to be thereof: And provided, further, That the President be not authorized to offer any part of said town lots for sale, till he shall be satisfied that the site proposed for said town is not included within the limits of any conflicting Spanish title, which may not be released or decided to be invalid. Approved, March 2, 1833. where terms be Investigated. *See chapter 482. land to satisfy Vir ginia warrants. CHAP. 461.-An act granting an additional quantity of land for the location of revolutionary bounty land warrants. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asAdditional grant of sembled, That the further quantity of two hundred thousand acres of land be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, in addition to the quantity heretofore appropriated by the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Virginia line and navy, and of the continental army, during the revolutionary war," approved the thirtieth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and the act entitled So chapter 102. "An act to extend the time of issuing military land warrants to officers and soldiers of the revolutionary war," approved the thirteenth July, one thousand eight hundred and thirtytwo,* which said appropriations shall be applied, in the man- *See chapter 442. ner provided by the said acts, to the unsatisfied warrants, whether original or duplicate, which have been or may be issued, as therein directed, to the officers and soldiers, and payment for any others, as described in said acts: Provided, That the said Scrip receivable in certificates of scrip shall be receivable in payment of any of land. the public lands liable to sale at private entry. Approved, March 2, 1833. [See Part II, Nos. 370, 414, 450, 455, 457, 458, 535, 543.] CHAP. 462.-An act to extend the provisions of the act of the third March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded to the United States until authorized by law.Ӡ +See chapter 92. settle ments on public limits of States or SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all offences prescribed in the act entitled Unlawful "An act to prevent settlements being made on lands ceded lands without the to the United States until authorized by law," approved the Territories--where third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, when to be tried, &c. committed upon public lands not situated within any State or organized Territorial Government, shall be cognizable in the district court of the United States, held in the State nearest where the said offence may have been committed, and the offenders, upon conviction, shall be punished accordingly. And the said court shall also have jurisdiction to hear and determine all suits or prosecutions instituted for the recovery of all fines and penalties imposed by the said act. Fox Indians. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful Offences committed on lands acquifor the President of the United States to direct the Indian red from Sac and agents at Prairie du Chien and Rock Island, or either of them, when offences against the said act shall be committed on lands recently acquired by treaty from the Sac and Fox Indians, to execute and perform all the duties required by the said act to be performed by the marshals, in such mode as to give full effect to the said act in and over the lands acquired as aforesaid. Approved, March 2, 1833. CHAP. 463.--An act to authorize the Governor of the Territory of Arkansas to sell the land granted to said Territory by an act of Congress approved the fifteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and for other purposes. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as land granted for *See chapter 431. Patent to issue for sembled, That whenever the Governor of the Territory of court-house and Arkansas shall furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury a sufjail at Little Rock. ficient description of the boundaries of the thousand acres of land granted by an act of Congress of the fifteenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, to the Territory of Arkansas, for the erection of a court-house and jail in the town of Little Rock, in the Territory aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause a patent to be issued, for said thousand acres of land, to the Governor of Arkansas, and his successors in office, in trust, for the benefit of the Territory of Arkansas, for the purpose of erecting a court-house and jail at Little Rock. Land to be laid off into town lots and sold. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Governor of the said Territory of Arkansas be, and he is hereby, fully empowered and authorized to lay off into town lots, conforming as near as practicable to the present plan of the town of Little Rock, so much of said grant of a thousand acres of land as he may deem advisable so to be appropriated; and that he be further authorized to sell the same, from time to time, as the public interest may require; and the residue of said grant, which may not be laid off into town lots corresponding with the plan of the said town of Little, Rock, he shall be authorized to dispose of, in such lots or parcels as he may deem advisable; but in no case shall he be authorized to sell, unless he shall give public notice of such sale by an advertisement in one or more newspapers printed in the Territory of ArkanPublic notice of sas; and said sale shall be public at the court-house in the town of Little Rock. sale. Squares to be re house, court-house, and jail. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case suitable served for State- situations cannot be had, free of cost to the Territory, for the location of the State-house, as well as for the court-house and jail, in the town of Little Rock, the Governor aforesaid shali be, and he is hereby, fully authorized to select and lay off suitable squares for each of those buildings, within the addition hereunto authorized to be added to the town of Little Rock; and that the squares so selected and laid off shall be appropriated to the use of the respective buildings for which they may be designated, and for no other purpose whatsoever, forever. Governor to make SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Governor deeds for lots sold. shall execute deeds for the lots he may sell, under the provisions of this act, to purchasers, so soon as the purchasers shall pay off entirely the amount they may have bid for any lot or lots, and all sales shall be for cash." Proceeds to build court-house jail. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the and Governor aforesaid shall dispose of lots, he shall apply the proceeds of said sales to the erection of a good and substantial court-house and jail, and after these shall have been completed, should there be any funds remaining, it shall be the duty of said Governor to apply the surplus thus remaining to the erection of a suitable and permanent house for the res idence of the present and future Governors of Arkansas, during their continuance in office. Approved March 2, 1833. [See Part II, Nos. 528, 530, 533, 534.] CHAP. 464.-An act to revive the act entitled "An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands," approved May twenty-nine, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. 1830, revived, and SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every settler or occupant of the public lands, Act of May 29, prior to the passage of this act, who is now in possession, extended to those and cultivated any part thereof in the year one thousand cultivated land in eight hundred and thirty-three, shall be entitled to all the 1833. benefits and privileges provided by the act entitled "An act who settled on aud to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,"* *Chapter 401. approved May twenty-nine, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and the said act is hereby revived and shall continue in force two years from the passage of this act, and no longer. sections allowed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That where a person Choice of quarter inhabits one quarter section and cultivates another, he shall be permitted to enter the one or the other, at his discretion: Provided, Such occupant shall designate, within six months from the passage of this act, the quarter section of which he claims the pre-emption under the same. public lands prior the minimum SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all persons re- Persons settled on siding on the public lands, and cultivating the same, prior to to 1829, may enter the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and who were a quarter section at deprived of the advantages of the law passed on the twenty- price. ninth May, eighteen hundred and thirty, by the construc- +Chap 401. tions placed on said law by the Secretary of the Treasury, be, and they are hereby, authorized to enter, at the minimum price of the Government, one quarter section of the public lands within said land district. Approved, June 19, 1834. [See Part II, Nos. 15, 42, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 65, 72, 74, 77, 83, 85, 88, 93, 129, 146, 152, 438, 444, 447, 449, 451, 463, 475, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558, page 606, Nos. 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596, 597, 598, 599, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 892, 990, 1,007, 1,011, 1,014, 1,015.] Land equal to Reserve, includ granted, to be re and to vest in the State. CHAP. 465.-An act to grant to the State of Ohio certain lands for the support of schools in the Connecticut Western Reserve. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and 1-36th of Western he is hereby, authorized and required to reserve from sale, ing that heretofore out of any public lands that have been heretofore offered at served from sale, public sale, and that remain unsold, in the State of Ohio, a quantity of land, which, together with the lands heretofore granted for the support of schools in the Connecticut Western Reserve, in said State, shall be equal to one thirty-sixth part of said western reserve; which said quantity of land may be reserved in sections, or half sections, or quarter sections; and, when so reserved, the same shall vest in the said State of Ohio, for the support of schools in said Western Reserve, and be holden hy the same tenure, and upon the same terms and conditions, in all respects, as the said State now holds, or may hold, the lands heretofore granted for the support of schools in said Western Reserve. Approved, June 19, 1834. [See Part II, Nos. 130, 131, 437, 561.] Certain lands shall Western, and oth eastern land dis trict. CHAP. 466.-An act to change the boundary between the Southeastern and SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the public lands of the United States withform part of the in the limits of the counties of Calhoun and Branch, in the ers of the South Territory of Michigan, which are now subject to sale at the land office at Monroe, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be set off to and form a part of the Western land district in said Territory; and all that part of said Territory lying east of the aforesaid counties, and south of the base line, and west of the principal meridian, and also all the country east of the principal meridian, and south of the line between townships numbered three and four south, except so much thereof as lies north of the river Huron of Lake Erie, shall continue to belong to and form a part of the Southeastern land district in said Territory, the land office for which is now located at Monroe, but shall be subject to be removed, from time to time, to such place as the President of the United States may order and direct. Approved, June 25, 1834. |