United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 28
Chap. XXVIII.—An Act authorizing the President of the United States to purchase the lands reserved by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to certain chiefs, warriors, and other Indians, of the Creek nation.
The President may purchase any tract of land reserved, by act of March, 1817, to the Creeks.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 88.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to purchase for, and on behalf of, the United states any tract or tracts of land, reserved by the act of the third day of March, eighteen hundred and seventeen, to the chiefs, warriors, or other Indians, of the Creek nation, which they, or either of them, may be disposed to sell; and the amount of such purchase shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Lands acquired by virtue of this act to be offered for sale upon such days as the President may designate.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any tract or tracts of land, the title to which may be acquired by the United States, by virtue of this act, shall be offered at public sale, at the land offices of the district in which they may be situate, upon such day or days as the President shall, by proclamation, designate for that purpose, in the same manner, and on the same conditions and terms of credit, as is provided by law for the sale of public lands of the United States; and patents shall be granted therefor, as for other public lands and town lots sold by the United States.
Approved, February 20, 1819.