Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXVI.—An Act making further provision for the disposal of the sections of land heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress.
Reserved lands in Ohio with certain exceptions, to be offered for sale.
1807, ch. 49.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the sections of land heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress, not sold or otherwise disposed of, and lying within either of the districts established for the disposition of public lands in the state of Ohio, with the exception of the section numbered sixteen of the salt springs and lands reserved for the use of the same, shall be offered for sale in that district, within which such reserved sections may respectively lie, on the same terms, and under the same regulations, as other lands in the same district:Such sections to be previously offered at public sale. Provided, that such sections shall previously be offered to the highest bidder, at public sales, to be held under the superintendence of the registers and receivers of public monies of the land-offices respectively to which they are attached, on the same terms as have been provided by law for the public sales of the other lands of the United States, and on such day or days as shall, by proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose:No reserved sections to be sold at less than four dollars per acre. And provided also, that no such heretofore reserved section shall be sold either at public or private sale, at a less price than four dollars per acre.
Approved, February 29, 1808.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XXVII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eight.
Specific appropriations.
[Obsolete.]Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eight; for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States, three hundred and two thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars.
For forage, four thousand six hundred and eight dollars.
For the subsistence of the army and corps of engineers, two hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents.
For clothing, eighty-five thousand dollars.
For bounties and premiums, fifteen thousand dollars.
For the medical and hospital departments, fifteen thousand dollars.
For camp equipage, fuel, tools and transportation, ninety thousand dollars.
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, two hundred and eighteen thousand six hundred and forty-two dollars, and five cents.
For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments, fifteen thousand dollars.
For contingencies, eighteen thousand dollars.
For ordnance, forty-five thousand dollars.
For tents, twenty thousand dollars.
For extra transportation of military stores, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For the Indian department, one hundred and forty thousand six hundred dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several sums herein specifically appropriated, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 3, 1808.