(ACT of March 26th, 1804.)

boundaries fixed by the treaty of the thirteenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and three, with the Kaskaskia tribe of Indians, as is not claimed by any other Indian tribe; and, for each of the said offices, a register and a receiver of public moneys, shall be appointed, who shall give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be by law provided, in relation to the registers and the receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States north of the river Ohio and above the mouth of Kentucky river.

29. SEC. 11. Every person claiming lands within any of the three tracts of land described in the preceding section, by virtue of any legal grant made by the French government, prior to the treaty of Paris, of the tenth of February, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three, or of any legal grant made by the British government, subsequent to the said treaty, and prior to the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain, of the third of September one thousand seven hundred and eightythree, or of any resolution, or act of congress, subsequent to the said treaty of peace, shall, on or before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and five, deliver to the register of the land office, within whose district the land may lie, a notice in writing, stating the nature and extent of his claims, together with a plot of the tract or tracts claimed, and may also, on or before that day, deliver to the said register, for the purpose of being recorded, every grant, order of survey, deed, conveyance, or other written evidence, of his claim; and the same shall be recorded by the said register, in books to be kept for that purpose, on receiving from the parties at the rate of twelve and a half cents for every hundred words contained in such written evidence of their claim; and if such person shall neglect to deliver such notice in writing, of his claim, or to cause to be recorded such written evidence of the same, all his right, so far as the same is derived from any resolution or act of congress shall become void, and forever be barred.

30. SEC. IV. [The register and receiver of public moneys of the three abovementioned land offices, constituted commissioners to examine the claims to lands under the preceding section, to meet January 4, 1805, make report, &c. Infia, 39.]

1. SEC. v. All the lands aforesaid, shall, with the exception of the section "number sixteen," which shall be reserved in each township for the support of schools within the same, with the exception also of an entire township, in each of the three above described tracts of country or districts, to be located by the secretary of the treasury, for the use of a seminary of learning, and with the exception also of the salt springs and lands reserved for the use of the same, as hereinafter directed, be offered for

(ACT of March 26th, 1804.)

sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the surveyor general, or governor of the Indiana territory, of the register of the land office, and of the receiver of public moneys, at the pla ces, 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 that purpose. The sales shall remain open, at each place, for three weeks, and no longer: the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre, and shall, in every other respect, be sold in tracts of the same size, and on the same terms and conditions, as have been or may be by law provided for the lands sold north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. All lands, other than the reserved sections, and those excepted as abovementioned, remaining unsold at the closing of 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 or may be provided by law for the sale of the lands of the United States north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. And patents shall be obtained for all lands granted or sold in the Indiana territory, in the same manner, and on the same terms, as is, or may be, provided by law for lands sold in the state of Ohio, and in the Mississippi territory.

32. SEC. VI. All the navigable rivers, creeks, and waters, within the Indiana territory, shall be deemed to be and remain public highways; and the several salt springs in the said territory, together with as many contiguous sections to each as shall be deemed necessary by the president of the United States, shall be reserved for the future disposal of the United States: And any grant which may hereafter be made for a tract of land, containing a salt spring which had been discovered previous to the purchase of such tract from the United States, shall be considered as fraudulent and null.

33. SEC. IX. Fractional sections of the public lands of the United States, either north of the river Ohio, or south of the state of Tennessee, shall, under the directions of the secretary of the treasury, be either sold singly, or by uniting two or more together, any act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That no fractional sections shall be sold in that manner until after they shall have been offered for sale to the highest bidder, in the manner hereinafter directed.

34. SEC. XI. No interest shall be charged on any instalment which may hereafter become due, in payment for any of the public lands of the United States, wherever situated, and which have been sold in pursuance of 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," [Supra, 20.] or which may here. after be sold by virtue of that, or of any other, act of congress:

(ACT of March 26th, 1804.)

Provided, That such instalments shall be paid on the day on which the same shall become due; but the interest shall be charged and demanded in conformity with the provisions heretofore in force, from the date of the purchase on each instalment which shall not be paid on the day on which the same shall become due.

35, SEC. XIII. Whenever any of the public lands shall have been surveyed in the manner directed by law, they shall be divided by the secretary of the treasury into convenient surveying districts; and a deputy surveyor shall, with the approbation of the said secretary, be appointed by the surveyor general for each district, who shall take an oath or affirmation truly and faithfully to perform the duties of his office; and whose duty it shall be to run and mark such lines as may be necessary for subdividing the lands surveyed as aforesaid, into sections, half sections, or quarter sections, as the case may be; to ascertain the true contents of such subdivisions; and to record, in a book to be kept for that purpose, the surveys thus made. The surveyor general shall furnish each deputy surveyor with a copy of the plat of the townships and fractional parts of townships contained in his district, describing the subdivisions thereof and the marks of the corners. Each deputy surveyor shall be entitled to receive from the purchaser of any tract of land, of which a line or lines shall have been run and marked by him, at the rate of three dollars for every mile thus surveyed and marked, before he shall deliver to him a copy of the plat of such tract, stating its contents. The fees payable by virtue of former laws for surveying expenses, shall, after the first day of July next, be no longer demandable from, and paid by, the purchasers. And no final certificate shall thereafter be given by the register of any land office to the purchaser of any tract of land, all the lines of which shall not have been run, and the contents ascertained by the surveyor general or his assistants, unless such purchaser shall lodge with the said register a plat of such tract, certified by the district surveyor.

36. SEC. XIV. From and after the first day of April next, each of the registers and receivers of public moneys of the several land offices established by law, either north of the river Ohio, or south of the state of Tennessee, shall, in addition to the commission heretofore allowed, receive one-half per cent. on all the moneys paid for public lands sold in their respective offices, and an annual salary of five hundred dollars, the register and receiver of the land office at Marietta excepted, the annual salary of whom shall be two hundred dollars. And from and after the same day, the fees payable by virtue of former laws, to the registers of the several land offices, for the entry of lands, and for certificates of moneys paid, shall no longer be demandable from, nor paid by, the purchasers of public lands. And it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to cause, at least once every year, the

(ACT of February 11th, 1805.)

books of the officers of the land offices to be examined, and the balance of public moneys in the hands of the several receivers of public moneys of the said offices, to be ascertained.

SEC. XV. From and after the first day of April next, the fees heretofore payable for patents for lands shall no longer be paid by the purchasers. And it shall be the duty of every register of a land office, on application of the party, to transmit, by mail, to the register of the treasury, the final certificate granted by such register to the purchaser of any tract of land sold at his office: and it shall be the duty of the register of the treasury, on receiving any such certificate, to obtain and transmit, by mail, to the register of the proper land office, the patent to which such purchaser is entitled; but in every such instance, the party shall previously pay to the proper deputy post master, the postage accruing on the transmission of such certificate and patent.

ACT of February 11, 1805. 3 Bioren, 637.

[See Lands. General laws, 4.]

37. SEC. 1. The surveyor general shall cause all those lands, north of the river Ohio, which by virtue of the act, entitled “ An act providing for the sale of the lands, of the United States, in the territory northwest of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river," [ Supra, 10.] were subdivided, by running through the townships parallel lines, each way, at the end of every two miles, and by marking a corner on each of the said lines, at the end of every mile, to be subdivided into sections, by running straight lines, from the mile corners thus marked to the opposite corresponding corners, and by marking, on each of the said lines, intermediate corners, as nearly as possible equidistant from the corners of the sections on the same. And the said surveyor general shall also cause the boundaries of all the half sections, which had been purchased previous to the first day of July last, and on which the surveying fees had been paid according to law by the purchaser, to be surveyed and marked, by running straight lines from the half mile corners heretofore marked, to the opposite corresponding corners; and intermediate corners shall, at the same time, be marked on each of the said dividing lines, as nearly as possible equidistant from the corners of the half section on the same line: Provided, That the whole expense of surveying and marking the lines, shall not exceed three dollars for every mile which has not yet been surveyed, and which shall be actually run, surveyed, and marked, by virtue of this section. And the expense of making the subdivisions directed by this section, shall be defrayed out of the moneys appropriated, or which may be hereafter appropriated, for completing the surveys of the public lands of the United States.

ACT of March 3, 1805. 3 Bioren, 670.

An act supplementary to the act, entitled " An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory; and for other purposes.”

(Supra, 27.),

38. SEC. I. The lands lately purchased from the Indian tribes of the Wabash, and lying between the rivers Wabash and Ohio, and the road leading from the falls of the river Ohio to Vincennes, shall be attached to, and made a part of the district of Vincennes, and be offered for sale at that place, under the same regulations, at the same price, and on the same terms, as other lands lying within the said district.

SEC. II. Such and so many of the tracts of land lying north and west of the Indian boundary established by the treaty of Greenville, which were ceded by that treaty to the United States, as the president of the United States shall direct, shall be surveyed and subdivided in the same manner as the other public lands of the United States, and shall be offered for sale at Detroit, or at such of the other land offices established by law in the state of Ohio, or in the Indiana territory, as the president of the United States shall judge most expedient, under the same regulations, at the same price, and on the same terms, as other lands lying within the same district.

SEC. III. So much of the tract of land lately purchased from the Indian tribes known by the name of Sacs and Foxes, as the president of the United States shall think expedient and shall direct, shall be attached to and made a part of the district of Kaskaskias, and shall be offered for sale at that place, under the same regulations, at the same price, and on the same terms, as other lands lying within the said district.

SEC. IV. The lands lying within the districts of Vincennes, Kaskaskias, and Detroit, which are claimed by virtue of French or British grants, legally and fully executed, or by virtue of grants issued under the authority of any former act of congress, by either of the governors of the Northwest, or Indiana territories, and which had already been surveyed by a person authorized to execute such surveys, shall, whenever it shall be found necessary to resurvey the same for the purpose of ascertaining the adjacent vacant lands, be surveyed at the expense of the United States, any act to the contrary notwithstanding.

39. SEC. v. [Claimants under grants, from the French or British government, &c. allowed until November next, to file their claim. And further duties enjoined on the commissioners appointed under the act of March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and four. Supra, 30.]

SEC. VI. The governor of the Michigan territory shall act as one of the superintendents of the sales of public lands at Detroit, in lieu of the governor of the Indiana territory. [Supra, 31.]