United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 126
Chap. CXXVI.—An Act to designate the boundaries of a land district, and for the establishment of a land office, in the state of Indiana.
A district and land office for the sale of unappropriated public lands in Indiana, &c.
Boundaries of the district.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the sale of the unappropriated public lands in the state of Indiana, to which the Indian title is extinguished, the following district shall be formed, and a land office established: All the public lands as aforesaid, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaties concluded at St. Mary’s in the month of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, lying east of the range line separating the first and second ranges east of the second principal meridian, extended north to the present Indian boundary and north of a line to be run separating the tiers of townships numbered twenty and twenty-one, commencing on the old Indian boundary, in range thirteen east of the said principal meridian, in Randolph county, and the said district to be bounded on the east by the line dividing the states of Ohio and Indiana, shall form a district, for whichA land office at Fort Wayne. a land office shall be established at Fort Wayne.
The President to appoint a register and receiver when a sufficient quantity of public land shall have been surveyed, &c.
Register and receiver to give security, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the aforesaid district, a register of the land office and a receiver of public moneys; which appointments shall not be made for the aforesaid land district until a sufficient quantity of public lands shall have been surveyed within the said district as to authorize, in the opinion of the President, a public sale of land within the same; which register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, when appointed, shall each, respectively, give security in the same sums, and in the same manner, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in respect to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be provided by law in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several land offices established for the disposal of the public lands of the United States in the states of Ohio and Indiana.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the public lands within the aforesaid district, to which the Indian title has been extinguished
All the public lands in the district, not granted, or reserved, &c. except section No. 16, &c., to be offered for sale to the highest bidder.
The lands to he sold in tracts, &c. as provided by act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51.and which have not been granted to, or secured for, the use of any individual or individuals, or appropriated and reserved for any other purpose by any existing treaties or laws, and with the exception of section numbered sixteen in each township, which shall be reserved for the support of schools therein, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, at the land office for the said district, under the direction of the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, on such day or days as shall, by proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose: the lands shall be sold in tracts of the same size, on the same terms and conditions, and in every respect, as provided by the act, entitled “An act making further provision for the sale of the public lands,” approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty.
The President may remove the land office to a suitable place whenever he judges it expedient.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States shall have power, and he is hereby authorized, to remove, whenever he shall judge it expedient so to do, the land office aforesaid, to such suitable place, within the said district, as he shall judge most proper.
Five dollars a day to the register and receiver.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the register of the land office and receiver of public moneys shall, each, receive five dollars for each day’s attendance in superintending the public sales in the said district.
Approved, May 8, 1822.