United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/10th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 26
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.