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**See sect. 6, chap.

first sections of this act, and those tracts claimed under British grants, a return of which is to be made to Congress, shall not be advanced by the United States, but shall be paid to the deputy surveyor by the parties claiming the same; sec and that, in relation to all the land sold by the United States, Expenses of sur the purchaser shall make the same payment for surveying eving land sold, expenses which is directed by law to be made for lands sold north of the river Ohio.

&c.

+See ante, chapter

51.

with the excep

be offered for sale

ces where the land

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That all the lands All the lands, &c., aforesaid not otherwise disposed of, or excepted by virtue tions mentioned, to of the preceding sections of this act, shall, with the excep- to the highest bidtion of the section number sixteen, which shall be reserved der, &c., at the pla in each township for the support of schools within the same, offices are kept,&c. with the exception also of thirty-six sections, to be located in one body, by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the use of Jefferson college, and also with the exception of such town lots, not exceeding two, in the town of Natchez, and of such an out-lot, adjoining the same, not exceeding thirty acres, as may be the property of the United States, to be located by the Governor of the Mississippi Territory, for the use of the said college, be offered for sale to the highest see sect. 11, chap. bidder, under the direction of the Governor of the Missis- 71, post. sippi Territory, of the surveyor of the lands of the United States above mentioned, and of the register of the land of fice at the places, respectively, where the land offices are kept, and on such day or days as shall, by a public proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for

place, for thres

remaining unsold,

&c, may be dis sale, &c.

posed of at private

Ante, chap. 54.

that purpose. The sales shall remain open at each place for The sales to rethree weeks, and no longer; and all lands, other than the main open, at each section number sixteen, remaining unsold at the closing of weeks; and lands the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale, by the registers of the respective land offices, in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, as is provided by law for the sale of the lands of the United States north of the river Ohio, by an act entitled "An act to amend the act entitled 'An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States. in the Territory northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river:" Provided, always, That the lands which may be sold at public sale by virtue of this act shall at not be sold for less than two dollars per acre; and shall, in every other respect, be sold on the same terms and conditions as was provided for the lands sold at public sale by the last-recited act. And patents shall be obtained for all lands granted or sold in the Mississippi Territory, in the same manner, and on payment of the same fees, as is provided for lands sold north of the river Ohio, by the said last-recited act; Provided, however, That evidences of the public debt of the United States shall not be received in payment for the purchase of said lands. (1)

(1) See Part II, No. 54.

Proviso; the lands

public sale not than 82 per acre,

to be sold for less

&c.

Proviso; evidences not to be received

of the public debt

in payment.

The registers and receivers appoint

this act, to receive

as the registers and

registers 25 cents,

&c.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the registers of ed in pursuance of the land offices, and the receivers of public moneys, apthe same fees, &c. pointed in pursuance of this act, shall receive the same fees receivers north of and compensation as the registers and receivers of the land the Ohio; and the offices north of the river Ohio, and the registers shall also be entitled to receive twenty-five cents for entering each certificate granted by the commissioners above mentioned. The surveyor to re- The surveyor of the lands of the United States, appointed annum, and allow in pursuance of this act, shall receive an annual compen*See sect. 6, chap. sation of fifteen hundred dollars,* and shall be allowed not exceeding two clerks, whose whole compensation shall not The commission- exceed one thousand dollars per annum. The commissionthousand dollars ers appointed to ascertain the rights of persons claiming the each for the whole benefit of the articles of agreement above mentioned, and of &c., except, &c. this act, shall receive, each, a compensation of two thousand

ceive per

ed two clerks, &c.

71, post.

ers to receive two

of their services,

dollars, for the whole of their services, the registers of the land offices excepted, who shall receive only five hundred dollars, each, for their services as commissioners;† the clerks +See sect. 5, chap. of the boards of commissioners, a compensation not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars each; and the superinClerks of boards tendents of the public sales shall receive six dollars each, for each day's attendance on the said sales.

71, post.

to receive 8750 each.

the surveyor, re

ers, in the recess,

&c.

The President em- SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the President of powered to appoint the United States shall have full power to appoint and comgisters, and receiv mission the surveyor, registers of the land offices, and receivers of public moneys, above mentioned, in the recess of Congress, and their commissions shall continue in force until the end of the session of Congress next ensuing such appointment.

Not exceeding

$20,000 appropri

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That a sum, not exated for carrying ceeding twenty thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, this act into effect, appropriated for the purpose of carrying this act into effect; which sum shall be paid out of any unappropriated moneys in the Treasury.

&c.

The nett proceeds

of the lands, after

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the nett proceeds deducting expens- of the lands which may be sold by virtue of this act, after es, appropriated, in the first place, to deducting the surveying expenses and other expenses inciwards paying Geor dent to the sale thereof, shall be, and the same are hereby, ap

gia, &c.

3.

The Secretary of

propriated, in the first place, towards paying to the State of Georgia a sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in pursuance of the articles of agreement and cession See appendix No. entered into between the United States and that State;‡ and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and dithe Treasury directed to pay, accordingly, and from time to time, as the same shall be received in the Treasury of the United States, so much of the said nett proceeds as will amount to the said sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That all navigable ritory &c. south of rivers within the territory of the United States south of the main public high- State of Tennessee shall be deemed to be and remain public

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CHAP. 63.—An act concerning the salt springs on the waters of the Wabash

river.

$3,000 appropria

to establish

at the springs near

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- ted for procuring sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- articles necessary sembled, That for the purpose of procuring articles necessary ment of salt works to the establishment of salt works at the springs near the the Wabash, &c. Wabash river, which have been ceded to the United States by certain Indian tribes, the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, and under the direction of the President of the United States, who is hereby authorized to cause the said springs to be worked at the expense of the United States; or, if he shall deem it more proper, to lease the same for a term not exceeding three years, on such conditions as will insure the working the same most extensively, and to the most advantage to the United States.*

Approved, March 3, 1803.

[See Part II, No. 96.]

The President may

cause the springs lease them for a

to be worked, or

term not exceeding three years, &c.

*See act 3d March, 1807, sect. 2, chap. 92.

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CHAP. 64.-An act to revive and continue in force "An act in addition to an act entitled An act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen,'" and for other purposes.

+See ante, chapter 58.

The 1st sect. of the act mentioned re

vived and continu

ed until the 1st of

April, 1803.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first section of "An act in addition to an act entitled' An act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen,'" approved the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen tante, chap. 58. hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force until the first day of April next.§ SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary 67, post. of War be, and he hereby is, authorized, from and after the The Secretary of War authorized, first day of April next, to issue warrants for military bounty after the 1st of lands to the two hundred and fifty-four persons who have warrants for mili exhibited their claims, and produced satisfactory evidence to the 254 persons substantiate the same to the Secretary of War, in pursuance ced satisfactory ovof the act of the twenty-sixth of April, eighteen hundred idence, &c. in pur. and two, entitled "An act in addition to an act entitled 'An mentioned.

See act of 19th of March. 1804; chap.

April, 1803, to issue

to

who have prodų.

suance of the act

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*Ante, chap. 58.

The holders or pro-
prietors of military

the preceding sec

only on the unl

50 quarter town-
ships, &c.

tAnte, chap. 51.

War authorized to

to Gen. Lafayette

&c., which may be

act in addition to an act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen.' "* SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the holders or and warrants is proprietors of the land warrants issued by virtue of the presued by virtue of ceding sections shall and may locate their respective wartion to locate them rants only on any unlocated parts of the fifty quarter towncated parts of the ships and the fractional quarter townships which had been reserved for original holders, by virtue of the fifth section of an act entitled "An act in addition to an act entitled An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen.'"+ The Secretary of SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of issue land warrants War be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue land warrants for 11,520 acres, to Major General Lafayette, for eleven thousand five hunlocated in confor dred and twenty acres, which shall, at his option, be located, visions of the act surveyed, and patented, in conformity with the provisions of received, acre for an act entitled "An act regulating the grants of land approacre, in payment priated for military services, and for the Society of the Uninorth of the Ohio, ted Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Hea then," or which may be received, acre for acre, in paysect. 14, chap. 71, tent for any of the lands of the United States north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. All the unappro SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That al! the unapprothe military priated lands within the military tract shall be surveyed tract to be survey into half sections, in the manner directed by the act entitled "An act to amend the act entitled An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," and that so much of the said lands as lie west of Part of the lands the eleventh range, within the said tract, shall be attached 11th range, &c., to to and make a part of the district of Chilicothe, and be district of Chilico offered for sale at that place, under the same regulations that other lands are within the said district.

mity with the pro

mentioned, or be

&c.

any

See chap. 43, and

post.

priated lands with

in

ed into half sec-
tions, &c.

§Chap. 54, ante.

lying west of the

make a part of the

the, &c.

The lands within

of it, &c., to be of

Zanesville, &c.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the lands within the 11th range, east the said eleventh range, and east of it, within the said milifered for sale at tary tract, and all the lands north of the Ohio Company's purchase, west of the seven first ranges, and east of the district of Chilicothe, shall be offered for sale at Zanesville, under the direction of a register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, to be appointed for that purpose, who shall reside at that place, and shall perform the same duties and be allowed the same emoluments as are prescribed for and allowed to registers and receivers of the land offices by law.

A register and re

ceiver to be ap
at Zanesville, &c.

pointed, to reside

Persons who have
obtained certiti.

the acts mention

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all persons who cates of the right have obtained certificates for the right of pre-emption to of pre-emption to lands by virtue of lands, by virtue of two acts, the one entitled "An act gived, and who have ing a right of pre-emption to certain persons who have conpayment, &c., al- tracted with John Cleves Symmes, or his associates, for lands 10th April, 1803, to lying between the Miami rivers, in the Territory of the Uni

not made the first

Towed until the

complete the same,

&.c.

ted States northwest of the Ohio,' ," and the other "An act *Ante, chap. 57. to extend and continue the provisions" of the said act, passed on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and two, and tAnte, chap. 60. who have not made the first payment therefor before the first day of January last, shall be allowed until the tenth day of April next to complete the same; and that all persons who have become purchasers of land by virtue of the afore- Purchasers of lands said acts be, and they are hereby, allowed until the first acts mentioned, alday of January, eighteen hundred and five, to make the stated to make the second instalment; until the first day of January, eighteen instalments, &c. hundred and six, to make their third instalment; and until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seven, to make their fourth and last instalment; any thing in the acts aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding.(1)

by virtue of the

lowed the time

by the State of Vir

services, surveyed

&c., and which, or

ficates of survey

been lost, &c., the

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That where any war- Warrants granted rants, granted by the State of Virginia for military services, ginia for military have been surveyed on the northwest side of the river Ohio, on the northwest between the Sciota and the Little Miami rivers, and the said side of the Ohio, warrants, or the plats and certificates of survey made thereon, the plats and certi have been lost or destroyed, the persons entitled to the said made thereon have land may obtain a patent therefor by producing a certified persons entitled duplicate of the warrant from the land office of Virginia, or ent, by producing of the plat and certificate of survey from the office of the a certified dupli surveyor in which the same was recorded, and giving satis- ing satisfactory factory proof to the Secretary of War, by his affidavit, or otherwise, of the loss or destruction of said warrant, or plat and certificate of survey. Approved, March 3, 1803.

(1) See Part II, Nos. 15, 42, 56, 57, 58, 60, 64, 72, 77, 88, 169. [See Part II, Nos. 2, 35, 43, 64, 108, 113, 114, 115, 116, 121, 172, 176, 189, 236, 237, 741, 743, 746, 747, 748.]

may obtain a pat

cate, &c., and giv

proof, &c.

CHAP. 65.—An act in addition to the act entitled "An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia."+

See original act of February 18, 1801; ante, chap. 56.

claimant under the

of land, &c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- Samuel Rogers, a sentatives of the United States of America in Congress as- act mentioned, ensembled, That Samuel Rogers, one of the claimants under titled to 2,240 acres the act entitled "An act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia," shall be entitled to two thousand two hundred and forty acres of land, to be located in the manner and within the boundaries of the tract designated by the act to which this act is a supplement, and shall receive a patent for the same, in the manner directed by the said last-mentioned act.

Approved, March 3, 1803.

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