United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/3rd Session/Resolution 3
No. 3. A Resolution directing the manner in which certain laws of the District of Columbia shall be executed.
The acts of Maryland for securing land titles to vacant land, shall be executed, &c. by the Secretary of the Treasury, &c.
1801, ch. 15.Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the acts of the State of Maryland for securing titles to vacant land, which were continued in force by the act of Congress of the twenty-seventh of February, eighteen hundred and one, in that part of the District of Columbia, which was ceded to the United States by that State, and which have heretofore been inoperative for the want of appropriate officers or authority in the said District for their due execution, shall hereafter be executed, as regards lands in the county of Washington and without the limits of the city of Washington, by the Secretary of the Treasury through the General Land Office, where applications shall be made for warrants, which warrants shall be directed to the surveyor for the county of Washington; who shall make return to the Commissioner of the General Land Office; and payment for said land, according to the said laws of Maryland, shall be made to the Treasurer of the United States, whose certificate of such payment shall be presented to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, who shall thereupon issue in the usual form of patents for lands by the United States, a patent for such land to the person entitled thereto; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall make such regulations as he may deem necessary, and shall designate the officers who shall carry the said acts into effect:Proviso. Provided, That any land which may have been ceded to, or acquired by the United States for public purposes shall not be affected by such acts.
Approved, February 16, 1839.