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CHAP. 467.—An act to create additional land districts in the States of Illinois and Missouri, and in the Territory north of the State of Illinois. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that tract of country lying north of the di- Four new land disviding line between township number twelve and thirteen, north of the base line running through the military bounty lands, and that tract of country lying north of the dividing line between townships number thirty and thirty-one, north of the old base line, included in the State of Illinois, and all that tract of country lying north of the State of Illinois, west of Lake Michigan, and south and southeast of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers of Green bay, in the present Territory of Michigan, be laid off into four new land districts, to be divided and designated as follows, to wit: that tract lying within the State of Illinois, as above described, shall be divided by a north and south line, drawn between the range of townships number three and four, east of the third principal meridian, and that on the west side of said line shall be called the Northwest, and that on the east the Northeast land district of the State of Illinois; and all that tract north of the State of Illinois, west of Lake Michigan, south and southeast of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers, included in the present Territory of Michigan, shall be divided by a north and south line, drawn from the northern boundary of Illinois, along the range of township line next west of Fort Winnebago, to the Wisconsin river, and be called, the one on the west side the Wisconsin, and that on the east side the Green Bay land districts of the Territory of Michigan; which two districts shall embrace the country north of said rivers, when the Indian title shall bocome extinguished, and the Green Bay district may be divided so as to form two districts, when the President shall deem it proper.

be designated by

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be es- Place for offices to tablished in each of the said land districts one land office, the President. at such time and place as the President may designate, to be removed whenever he may deem it expedient for the public convenience.

ceivers to be ap pointed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President, Registers and reby and with the consent of the Senate, so soon as a sufficient number of townships are surveyed, and returns thereof made to the General Land Office, to authorize the commencement of the sales in either of said districts, to appoint one register and one receiver for each land office so established, who shall reside at the place designated for the land office, and give security, and discharge all duties pertaining to such office, as prescribed by law.

ed for military

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President Land to be reserv shall be authorized, so soon as the survey shall have been posts. completed, to cause to be offered for sale, in the manner prescribed by law, all the lands lying in said land districts, at the land offices in the respective districts in which the

Land office.

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ceiver.

Lands not disposed

of at public sale

may

sale.

be entered

land so offered is embraced, reserving only section sixteen in each township, the tract reserved for the village of Galena, such other tracts as have been granted to individuals and the State of Illinois, and such reservations as the President shall deem necessary to retain for military posts, any law of Congress heretofore existing to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the public lands of the United States, in the State of Missouri, as lies west of the range line between ranges ten and eleven, west of the fifth principal meridian, and south of the line dividing townships numbers forty and forty-one, north of the base line, shall form a new land district, to be called the Southwestern land district; and, for the sale of the public lands within the district aforesaid, there shall be a land office established at such place within said district as the President of the United States may designate.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register and receiver appointed to said office, to superintend the sale of public land in said district, who shall reside at the place where said office is established, give security in the same manner and sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties, and authorities, shall in every respect be the same, in relation to lands to be disposed of at said office, as are or may be by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public money in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all such public lands embraced within the district created by this act, which and sold at private shall have been offered for sale to the highest bidder at the several land offices, at Jackson, Franklin, Fayette, and Lexington, pursuant to any proclamation of the President of the United States, and which lands remain unsold at the taking effect of this act, shall be subject to be entered and sold at private sale, by the proper officers of the office hereby created, in the same manner, and subject to the same terms, and upon like conditions, as the sale of said land would have been subject to, in the said several land offices hereinbefore mentioned, had they remained attached to the same: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to permit the officers appointed in either of the foregoing land districts to receive compensation out of the Treasury of the United States.

Proviso.

Approved, June 26, 1834.

[See Part II, Nos. 64, 82, 441, 447, 449.]

CHAP. 468.-An act to establish an additional land office in Arkansas.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

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sembled, That so much of the public lands of the United Land office to be States in the Territory of Arkansas as lies east of a line lena. commencing on the southern boundary of the Territory where it is intersected by the dividing line between ranges five and six, west of the meridian; thence, with said range line, to the dividing line between townships ten and eleven south; thence, east, with the said line, to the dividing line. between ranges two and three west; thence, north, with said dividing line, to the base line; thence, east, with said base line, to the dividing line between ranges two and three east; thence, north, with said line, to the dividing line between townships ten and eleven north; thence, east, with said dividing line, to the dividing line between ranges six and seven east; thence, north, with said dividing line, to the northern boundary of the Territory of Arkansas, shall form a new land district, to be called the Mississippi land district; and for the sale of the public lands within the district aforesaid, there shall be a land office established at the twon of Helena, in the county of Phillips, in the Territory aforesaid.

ceiver

to reside

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a Register and reregister and receiver appointed to said office, to superintend there. the sale of the public land in said district, who shall reside at the town of Helena, aforesaid, give security in the same. manner and sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties, and authorities, shall in every respect be the same, in relation to lands to be disposed of at said office, as are or may be by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public money in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all such public lands embraced within the district created by this act, which shall have been offered for sale to the highest bidder at any land office in said Territory, pursuant to any proclamation of the President of the United States, and which lands remain unsold at the taking effect of this act, shall be subject to be entered and sold at private sale by the proper officers of the office hereby created, in the same manner, and subject to the same terms, and upon like conditions, as the sale of said land would have been subject to in the said several land offices hereinbefore mentioned, had they remained attached to the

same.

Approved, June 26, 1834.

[See Part II, Nos. 64, 439.]

and not sold at

public, may be en

tered and sold at

private sale.

CHAP. 469.-An act confirming certain land claims in the district of St. Stephen's, in Alabama.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- Decision of the resembled, That the decision of the register and receiver of 12, confirmed.

gister, of March 7,

*Chap. 380.

the land office for the district of St. Stephen's, in the State of Alabama, as contained in their report bearing date the seventh of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, made in pursuance of the act of Congress approved the second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, entitled "An act confirming the report of the register and receiver of the land office of the district of St. Stephen's, in the State of Alabama, and for other purposes,"* be, and the same are hereby, confirmed.

Approved, June 26, 1834.

CHAP. 470.-An act to authorize the correction of erroneous selections of land granted to the State of Indiana, for the purpose of constructing the Michigan road.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asState of Indiana sembled, That the State of Indiana be, and hereby is, auin lieu of those thorized to select other lands in lieu of sections numbered formerly selected. eighteen and twenty-nine, and fractional section numbered

may select lands

thirty-two, in township thirty-seven north, of range one
east, heretofore selected, to be applied to the purpose of con-
structing the Michigan road in Indiana; the selections au-
thorized by this act to be made on any unsold land within
the district where the above-mentioned lands lie, and shall
be applied to the same object; and the first-named selections
are hereby declared void and of no effect.
Approved, June 28, 1834.

tised not less than three

nor

more

CHAP. 471.-An act limiting the times of advertising the sales of the public lands.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asSales to be adver- sembled, That hereafter the public lands which shall be exposed to public sale, by order of the President of the United States, shall be advertised for a period of not less than three nor more than six months prior to the day of sale, any thing in any law heretofore enacted to the contrary notwithstanding.

than six months.

Approved, June 28, 1834.

CHAP. 472.—An act further to provide for the location of certain land in the

Territory of Arkansas.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as

Jan. 13, 1830, re

sembled, That the proviso to the act entitled "An act to ex- Proviso of act of tend the time for locating certain donations in Arkansas,"* pealed. approved the thirteenth day of January, eighteen hundred *Chap. 384. and thirty, be, and the same is hereby, repealed; and all locations of said claims made, or to be made, shall in no wise be affected by said proviso.

Approved, June 28, 1834.

[See Part II, pages 527, 533.]

CHAP. 473.—An act in reference to pre-emption rights in the Southeastern district of Louisiana.

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acts of Congress of

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pre-emption rights granted by the register Register of land of and receiver of the land office at New Orleans, to certain in conformity with individuals claiming the same, in the Southeastern land dis- 5th April and 15th trict of Louisiana, under the act of Congress approved fifth June, 1832. April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, entitled "An act supplementary to the several laws for the sale of public lands," and the act approved fifteenth June, eighteen hun- +Chap. 424. dred and thirty-two, entitled "An act to authorize the inhabitants of the State of Louisiana to enter the back lands,"‡ ‡Chap. 432. be, and they are hereby, confirmed; and the register of the land office is hereby directed to issue patent certificates accordingly.

And for certain

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the resurvey lands surveyed on made under the supervision of the surveyor general of Lou- bayou St. Vincent. isiana, of certain lands on the bayou St. Vincent, in sections designated as numbers one hundred and ten and one hundred and forty-three, in township thirteen, of range fourteen east, situate in the Southeastern district of Lousiana, and which resurvey purports to include the improvements of the actual settlers within its limits, claiming the right of preemption thereto under the act of fifth April, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed; and payments may be made and patents issued in accordance therewith.

Approved, June 28, 1834.

[See Part II, Nos. 15, 42, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 72, 77, 88, 93.]

CHAP. 474.-An act authorizing the selection of certain Wabash and Erie canal lands, in the State of Ohio.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as- Canal commissionsembled, That in lieu of lands sold or otherwise disposed of tain lands.

ers to select cer

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