United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 94
Chap. XCIV.—An Act to annex certain lands within the territory of Michigan to the district of Detroit.
Public lands, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaty of Saguina, attached to the district of Detroit.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the public lands of the United States within the territory of Michigan, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaty held and concluded at Saguina, in the said territory, on the twenty-fourth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, shall be, and hereby are, attached to, and made part of, the district of Detroit, in the said territory.
The lands not reserved or appropriated, to be surveyed and offered for sale, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lands aforesaid, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and which have not been reserved or appropriated by existing laws or treaties, shall be surveyed, and offered for sale, under the direction of the President of the United States, in the same terms and conditions in every respect, both at public and private sale, as are or may be provided by law, for the disposal of the other public lands within the said district.
Approved, May 11, 1820.