(Act of April 29th, 1816.)

the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties and authority shall in every respect be the same in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their office, as are or may be by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices, established for the disposal of the lands of the United States northwest of the river Ohio.

SEC. II. The said lands shall be disposed of in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions, as are or may be provided by law for the sale of public lands, in the district of Kaskaskia, provided that no tract of land, excepted from the sale by virtue of any former act, shall be sold, by virtue of this act.

ACT of April 29, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 123.

An act to provide for the appointment of a surveyor of the public lands in the territories of Illinois and Missouri.

83. SEC. I. A surveyor of the lands of the United States in the territories of Illinois and Missouri shall be appointed, whose duty it shall be to engage a sufficient number of skilful surveyors as his deputies, and to cause so much of the land above mentioned, as the president of the United States shall direct, and to which the titles of the Indian tribes have been extinguished, to be surveyed and divided in the manner, and to do and perform all such other acts in relation to such lands, as the surveyor general is authorized and directed to do, in relation to the same, or the lands lying northwest of the river Ohio: and it shall also be the duty of the surveyor to cause to be surveyed the lands in the said territories, the claims to which have been or hereafter may be confirmed by any act of congress, which have not already been surveyed according to law: and generally to do and perform all and singular the duties required by law to be performed by the principal deputy surveyor for the territory of Missouri; and shall transmit to the registers of the land offices within the said territories, respectively, general and particular plats of all the lands surveyed, or to be surveyed, and shall also forward copies of said plats to the commissioner of the general land office; fix the compensation of the deputy surveyors, chain carriers, and axemen. Provided, That the whole expense of surveying and marking the lines shall not exceed three dollars for every mile that shall be run, surveyed and marked.

SEC. II. The surveyor of the lands of the United States, appointed in pursuance of this act, shall be allowed an annual compensation of one thousand dollars, and shall be entitled to receive from individuals the following fees: that is to say, for recording the surveys executed by any of the deputies, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the boundary line of such survey, and for a certified copy of a plat of a survey in his office twentyfive cents, and that all the plats of surveys, and all other papers

(ACT of April 29th, 1816.)

and documents pertaining, or which did pertain to the office of the surveyor general under the Spanish government within the limits of the territory of Missouri, or to the office of principal deputy surveyor for said territory, or pertaining to the office of surveyor general, or to any office heretofore established or authorized for the purpose of executing or recording surveys of lands within the limits of the territories of Missouri and Illinois, shall be delivered to the surveyors of the lands of the United States, authorized to be appointed by this act; and any plat of survey duly certified by the said surveyor shall be admitted as evidence in any of the courts of the United States or territories thereof.

SEC. III. So much of the act entitled "An act extending the powers of the surveyor general to the territory of Louisiana, and for other purposes," passed February twenty-eight, one thousand eight hundred and six, as provides for the appointment of a principal deputy surveyor, and so much of any act of congress [heretofore] passed, as is repugnant to, or inconsistent with, any provi sion of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

ACT of April 29, 1816.

Pamphlet edit. 125.

84. SEC. 1. Such part of the tract of land which was set apart for refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, by the act of congress, passed the eighteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one, entitled, "An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for the refugees from the British provinces of Canada, and Nova Scotia," which has not been located by the said refugees, shall be attached to, and made a part of the land district of Chillicothe; and the said uncolated land shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land office and of the receiver of public moneys for the said district, at Chillicothe, on such day as shall, by proclamation of the president of the United States, be designated for that purpose; the sale shall remain open six days, 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 provided for lands in the said district. All the said unlocated land, remaining unsold at the close of the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale by the register of the said land office, in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms as are or may be provided by law for the sale of lands in the said district; and patents shall be obtained in the same manner, and on the same terms, as for other public lands in the said district.

SEC. 1. The superintendents of the public sales directed by this act shall each receive four dollars a day for each day's attendance on the said sales.

ACT of April 29, 1816. Pamphlet edit. 132.

85. SEC. 1. Any person, and the legal representatives of any person entitled to a preference in becoming the purchaser, from the United States, of a tract of land, at private sale in the state of Louisiana, and in the territories of Missouri and Illinois, according to the provisions of the act, entitled "An act giving the right of preemption, in the purchase of lands, to certain settlers in the Illinois territory," passed February fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and the fifth section of the "Act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana, and territory of Missouri," passed April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, who is settled on a fraction of a section or fractional quarter section, containing less than one hundred and sixty acres, shall have the privilege of purchasing one or more adjoining frac tional quarter sections, or the adjoining quarter section, including their improvements, or the fraction improved by them, at their option; and the provisions of the said recited acts are hereby made applicable to them, so far as they are consistent with the provisions of this act. [Supra, 64.]

SEC. II. In cases where two or more persons entitled to the right of preemption, shall be settled upon one quarter or fractional quarter section of land, each person shall be authorized to purchase one or more quarter sections, or fractional quarter sections, of the section or fractional section of land upon which they are so settled; and the section or fractional section upon which such persons are settled shall be equally divided between them, in such manner as the register and receiver, within whose district the land lies shall direct so as to secure as far as may be practicable to every such person their improvements respectively, and when the improvements of such person shall be upon two or more quarter sections, such person shall be entitled to purchase the quarter sections upon which his improvements shall be.

ACT of March 18, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 33.

86. SEC. I. For the purpose of ascertaining the quantity, and providing for the sale, of the lands belonging to the United States, within the limits of a tract of one hundred thousand acres, granted to Rufus Putman, Manassah Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Greene, in trust for the persons composing the Ohio Company of Associates, in pursuance of the third section of an act, entitled "An act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates," passed on the twenty-first of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, it shall be the duty of the surveyor general, and he is hereby authorized, to require of the said Rufus Putman, and other surviving patentees, in trust as aforesaid, to make a report to him of the quantity and situation of the lands by them conveyed as bounties to actual settlers, according to the conditions of the said third section and grant afore

(ACT of March 18th, 1818.)

said; and also a duly attested copy of the field notes and plat of the surveys of the lands, by them conveyed to actual settlers, as aforesaid. And the surveyor general, on receiving a satisfactory report of the quantity and situation of the lands so conveyed, shall cause the residue of the lands within the said tract to be surveyed in the same manner as the other public lands; or, if he shall deem it more convenient, into tracts of one hundred acres, conforming as far as practicable to the plan on which lots granted to actual settlers were laid off; and he shall make return of the surveys to the general land office, and the register of the land office, at Marietta.

87. SEC. 11. Every person, or their legal representatives, whose claims were confirmed by any of the several acts for confirming claims to land in the district of Vincennes, and which claims have not been located, shall be authorized to enter their locations with the register of the land office at Vincennes, on any part of the tract set apart for that purpose in the said district, by virtue of an act, entitled "An act respecting claims to land in the Indiana Territory, and state of Ohio," and in conformity to the provision of that act, and shall be entitled to receive certificates and patents in the same manner as provided by former laws, respecting locations in the same tract: Provided, That the locations authorized by this act, and those authorized by an act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain claimants to land in the district of Vincennes,” passed on the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall be made before the first day of September next; and, after the surveys thereon completed, the surveyor general shall cause the residue of the said tract to be surveyed, conforming, as far as practicable, to the plan for surveying the other public lands, and he shall make a return of the surveys to the general land of fice, and to the register of the land office at Vincennes.

88. SEC. III. Such part of the tract, described by the first section of this act, as shall appear to belong to the United States, shall be offered for sale at Marietta, and such part of the tract described by the second section of this act, as shall not have been located under confirmed claims, shall be offered for sale at Vincennes. The said lands, in the said respective tracts, with the exception of the usual proportion for the support of schools, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land office, and the receiver of public monies for the said districts, on such days respectively as shall, by proclamation of the president, be designated for that purpose; the sales at each place shall remain open six days, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre; and shall, in every other respect, both as to public and private sale, be sold on the same terms and conditions, as other public lands in the same districts, and patents shall be obtained in the same manner

(ACT of March 3d, 1819.)

and on the same terms provided in case of other public lands of the United States.

SEC. IV. The superintendants of the public sales directed by this act, shall each receive four dollars a day for each days attendance on the said sales.

ACT of April 3, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 41.

89. SEC. 1. The surveyor of the lands of the United States, in the territories of Illinois and Missouri, shall hereafter be allowed an annual compensation of two thousand dollars, in lieu of the . compensation now fixed by law, and shall also be allowed three clerks, whose whole compensation shall not exceed two thousand dollars per annum.

ACT of April 11, 1818. Pamphlet edit. 76.

SEC. 1. The secretary of the treasury shall from time to time, and whenever the quarterly accounts of public moneys of the several land offices shall be settled, pay three per cent. of the nett proceeds of the lands of the United States, lying within the state of Indiana, which since the first day of December one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, have been or hereafter may be sold by the United States, after deducting all expenses incidental to the same, to such person or persons as may be authorized by the legislature of the said state to receive the same; which sums, thus paid, shall be applied to making public roads and canals within the said state, in conformity to the provision on this subject, contained in the act, entitled "An act to enable the people of the Indiana territory to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the union, on an equal footing with the original states," and to no other purpose whatever; and an annual account of the application of the same, shall be transmitted to the secretary of the treasury, by such officer of the state as the legislature thereof shall direct; and in de, fault of such return being made, the secretary of the treasury is hereby required to withhold the payment of any sum that may then be due, or which may thereafter become due, until a return shall be made, as herein required.

ACT of March 3, 1819. Pamphlet edit. 58.

An act in behalf of the Connecticut Asylum for teaching the Deaf and Dumb. 90. SEC. I. There shall be granted to the Connecticut Asylum for the education and instruction of deaf and dumb persons, a township of land, or a tract of land equal thereto, to be located, under the direction of the secretary of the treasury, in tracts of not less than four entire sections each, in any of the unlocated