the Senate, a register and receiver of public moneys for each of the said districts, and who shall, respectively, be required to reside at the site of their offices, and have powers, perform the same duties, and be entitled to the same compensation, as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to the other land officers of the United States.
Public lands in said districts, except, &c. to be exposed to sale.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the President is authorized to cause the public lands in the said districts with the exception of section numbered sixteen in each township, reserved for the use of schools, or such other lands as may by law be selected in lieu thereof, and of such other tracts as he may select for military or other purposes, to be exposed to sale in the same manner, and upon the same terms and conditions, as the other public lands of the United States.
President authorized to remove the said land offices.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President may deem it expedient, he is hereby authorized to remove the said land offices to such other places within those districts as he may judge proper.
Approved, June 12, 1838.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. CI.—An Act to ascertain and designate the boundary line between the State of Michigan and Territory of Wisconsin.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,The boundary line between Michigan and Wisconsin, as established by act 15 June 1836, ch. 99, to be surveyed, marked, and designated. That the Surveyor General of the Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin land districts, under the direction of the President of the United States, be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to cause to be surveyed, marked, and designated, the boundary line between the State of Michigan and the Territory of Wisconsin, agreeably to the boundary as established by the act entitled “An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union, upon the conditions, therein expressed,” approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and to cause to be made a plat or plan of the boundary between the said State of Michigan and the said Territory of Wisconsin, and return the same to Congress at its next annual session, and that the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to carry into effect this act: Provided, That the whole expense of surveying, marking and designating the said boundary line shall not exceed that sum.
Approved, June 12, 1838.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. CX.—An Act concerning a seminary of learning in the Territory of Wisconsin.
1846, ch. 89. § 7.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to set apart and reserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the Territory of Wisconsin, to which the Indian title has been, or may be, extinguished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceeding two entire townships, for the use and support of a university within the said Territory, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever; to be located in tracts of land not less than an entire section, corresponding with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands are authorized to be surveyed.
Approved, June 12, 1838.- ↑ See notes to the act of June 12, 1838, chap. 96.
