United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 60
Chap. LX.—An Act supplementary to 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.”
1819, ch. 92.
Lands ceded by the Wea Indians to the attached to the Terre Haute district.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the lands ceded and relinquished to the United States, by the Wea tribe of Indians, under the first article of the treaty held at Vincennes, on the elventh [eleventh] day of August, eighteen hundred and twenty, and which is specified and designated by the second article of the treaty between the United States and the said tribe, concluded at St. Mary’s, on the second day of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, be, and the same is hereby, attached to the Terre Haute district for the sale of public lands in the state of Indiana.
Lands to be sold at the land office of the Terre Haute district, on such day or days as shall be designated by the President.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the public lands specified, designated, and embraced, within the first and second article of the treaties aforesaid, 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 in the Terre Haute 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, every respect, as provided by the act, entitledAct of April 24, 1820, ch. 51. “An act making further provision for the sale of the public lands,” approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty.
Register and receiver to receive five dollars a day each.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the register of the land office and the receiver of public moneys shall, each, receive five dollars for each day’s attendance in superintending the public sales of the land before described, according to the President’s proclamation.
Approved, March 3, 1823.