United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 124
Chap. CXXIV.—An Act to establish an additional land office in the state of Illinois.
A land office as the President may designate.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands of the United States as lies east of the Mississippi river, north of the line separating the thirteenth and fourteenth tiers of townships north of the base line, and west of the third principal meridian, in the state of Illinois, shall form a land district, for the disposal of the said lands, and for which purpose a land office shall be established at such place therein as the President of the United States shall designate, until the same shall be permanently fixed by law.
A register and receiver for the land office, &c. to reside at the place established, give security, &c.
Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register and receiver appointed to the said land office, to superintend the sales of the public lands in the said district, who shall reside at the place where the said office shall be established as aforesaid, give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be by law, provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands: Provided, That the said appointments shall not be made until a sufficient quantity of public lands shall have been surveyed within the said district to authorize, in the opinion of the President, a public sale of lands within the same.
The provisions of the 2d, 3d, and 5th sections of the act of March 3, 1819, and of April 24,
1820, made applicable, &c.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 92.
Act of April 24, 1821, ch. 51.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the second, third, and fifth, sections of the act, entitled “An act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices, for the disposal of the public lands not heretofore offered for sale in the states of Ohio and Indiana,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and the act, entitled “An act making further provision for the sale of the public lands,” approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty, be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the said district and office, so far as they are not changed by subsequent laws of the United States.
Approved, May 8, 1822.