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 twenty-five cents, and that all the plats of surveys, and all other papers 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 the 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;His plats and surveys made evidence. 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.
Part of the act of Feb. 28, 1806, ch. 11.
Repealed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That 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-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and six, as provides for the appointment of a principal deputy surveyor, and so much of any act of Congress here[to]fore passed, as is repugnant to, or inconsistent with, any provision of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, April 29, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. CLII.—An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians, concluded at Washington, on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.
Appropriation.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Cherokee nation of Indians, concluded and signed at Washington, on the twenty-second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, the sum of twenty-eight thousand six hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, April 29, 1816.
Statute I.
Chap. CLIII.—An Act providing for the sale of certain lands in the state of Ohio, formerly set apart for refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia.
Act of Feb. 18, 1801, ch. 11.
To be exposed to sale, and sold to the highest bidder.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 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 unlocated 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
