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the principal wherever situated, and which have been sold in pur be punctually suance of the act intituled "An act to amend the paid. act, intituled "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory north-west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," or which may hereafter be sold by virtue of that or of any other act of Congress: Provided, That such instalments shall be paid on the day on which the same shall become due; but the interest shall be charged and demanded in conformity with the provisions heretofore in force, from the date of the purchase on each instalment which shall not be paid on the day on which the same shall become due: Provided however, That on the instalments which are or may become due before the first day of October next, interest shall not be charged, except from the time they be came due until paid, but, in failure to pay the said instalments on the said first day of October, interest shall be charged thereon, in conformity with the provisions heretofore in force, from the date of the purchase.

Proviso.

Certain sections of lands and fractional

sections and other public land north of

the Ohio and above the mouth of

ver to be of

fered for sale:

in

Sec. 12. The sections which have been heretofore reserved and are by this act directed to be sold, also, the fractional sections, classed as is by the ninth section of this act directed, and all the other lands of the United States north of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river, shall be offered for sale quarter sections to the highest bidder, under the Kentucky ri- directions of the register of the land office, and of the receiver of public monies, at the places respectively where the land offices are kept, that is to say: the Under whose lands in the district of Chilicothe, on the first Monday of May; the lands in the district of Marietta, on places of sale. the second Monday of May; the lands in the district of Zanesville, on the third Monday of May; the lands in the district of Steubenville, on the second Monday of June; and the lands in the district of Cincinnati, on the first Monday of September. The sales shall remain open at each place no longer than three weeks; the lands which may be thus sold, shall not be sold for less than two dollars per acre, and shall in every other

direction.

Times and

How long

the sales to remain open. Terms of

sale.

Passed 10th May, 1800.

or south of

respect be sold on the same terms and conditions as is Other public provided for the sale of lands sold at private sale. And lands, north of the Ohio, all the other public lands of the United States either north of the Ohio, or south of the state of Tennessee, Tennessee to which are directed to be sold at public sale, shall be be offered offered for sale to the highest bidder in quarter sections.

to the highest bidder, in quarter sec

compensation

nies

Sec. 14. From and after the first day of April tions. next, each of the registers and receivers of public Additional monies of the several land offices established by law, to the regiseither north of the river Ohio, or south of the state of ters and reTennessee, shall, in addition to the commission here. ceivers of public motofore allowed, receive one half per cent. on all the monies paid for public lands sold in their respective offices, and an annual salary of five hundred dollars, the register and receiver of the land office at Marietta excepted, the annual salary of whom shall be two hundred dollars. And from and after the same day, Certain fees the fees payable by virtue of former laws to the regis heretofore ters of the several land offices, for the entry of lands payable, disand for certificates of monies paid, shall no longer be continued: demandable from nor paid by the purchasers of pub officers of the lic lands. And it shall be the duty of the secretary land offices to of the treasury to cause, at least once every year, the be annually books of the officers of the land offices to be examin- examined, ed, and the balance of public monies, in the hands of lance in their the several receivers of public monies of the said of. hands fices, to be ascertained.

Books of the

and the ba

ascertained. Fees hereto

transmitted

Sec. 15. From and after the first day of April fore demandnext, the fees, heretofore payable for patents for lands, able for pashall no longer be paid by the purchasers. And it tents, no longer payashall be the duty of every register of a land office, ble. on application of the party, to transmit, by mail, to Register's fithe register of the treasury, the final certificate grant- nal certifi ed by such register to the purchaser of any tract of cates to be land sold at his office and it shall be the duty of the to the register register of the treasury, on receiving any such certi- of the treasuficate, to obtain and transmit by mail to the register of ry. the proper land office, the patent to which such pur- Register of chaser is entitled; but in every such instance, the the treasury party shall previously pay to the proper deputy post- to transmit master the postage accruing on the transmission of such certificate and patent.

the patents.

VIII. 102. 3d March, 1805.

Sections reserved for

the future disposition of Congress, to be offered for sale, except No. 16, salt springs, &c.

Proviso.

Not to be

sold for less than $8 per

acre.

X. 26.

29th February, 1808.

*Sec. 7. All the sections heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress, and lying within either of the districts established for the disposal of public lands in the state of Ohio, with the exception of the section No. 16, of the Salt Springs, and lands reserved for the use of the same, and of the other sections or tracts of land otherwise heretofore specially appropriated, shall be offered for sale in that district within which such reserved sections may lie, on the same terms and under the same regulations as other lands in the same district : Provided, That such sections shall previously be offered to the highest bidder at public sales, to be held under the superintendance of the register and receiver of the land offices respectively, to which they are attached, on the same terms as has been provided for the public sales of the other public lands of the United States, and on such day or days as shall, by a public proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose: And provided also, That no such heretofore reserved section shall be sold either at public or private sale for less than eight dollars per acre.

All the sections of land, heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress, not sold or otherwise disposed of, and lying within either of the dis

*The ordinance of 20th May, 1785, had reserved the sections Nos. 8, 11, 26, and 29. This last was granted for religious purposes in the patents to the Ohio company, and to John Cleves Symmes. Three central sections were, by the act of 18th May, 1796, reserved in all tracts to be sold thereafter, in lieu of the four abovementioned sections. No reservations (those of No. 16 for schools, of certain townships for seminaries of learning, and of salt springs or lead mines excepted) were made in any of the public lands not included within the Indian boundary line established in 1795 by the Greenville treaty. The only reservation, in the tract set aside for military bounties, is that of salt springs and lead mines. The reserved sections, the sale of which is authorised by this and the next following act, (passed 29th February, 1808) are Nos. 8, 11, and 26 in the Ohio company's and J. C. Symmes's patents; No. 8, 11, 26 and 29 in those townships of the seven first ranges, which had been sold under the ordinance of 20th May, 1785, and in some portion of the lands between the two Miamis, north of J. C. Symmes's patent, and the three central sections, other than No. 16, in all the other lands (the military tract excepted) contained in the five land districts of Steubenville, Marietta, Zanesville, Chilicothe and Cincinnati.

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Ohio reserv

be offered for

sale, except

tricts established for the disposition of public lands Sections in in the state of Ohio, with the exception of the sec- ed for future tion numbered sixteen, of the salt-springs and lands disposition of reserved for the use of the same, shall be offered for Congress, to sale in that district, within which such reserved sections may respectively lie, on the same terms, and No. 16, and under the same regulations, as other lands in the salt-springs. same district; Provided, That such sections shall Proviso. previously be offered to the highest bidder, at public sales, to be held under the superintendence of the registers and receivers of public monies of the land offices respectively to which they are attached, on the same terms as have been provided by law for the public sales of the other lands of the United States, and on such day or days as shall, by a proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose: And provided also, that no such heretofore For not less reserved section shall be sold, either at public or private sale, at a less price than four dollars per acre.

lars per acre.

than four dol

IX. 50.

such acts as

payment for

1806.

So much of any act or acts as authorise the 18 April, receipt of evidences of the public debt, in for the lands of the United States, shall, from and Repeal of payment 1806. after the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight authorise the hundred and six, be repealed; Provided, That receipt of evithe right of all persons who may have purchased dences of public lands previous to the passage of this act, to public debt in pay for the same in stock, shall in no wise be affected land after the or impaired: And provided further, That there shall 30th April, be allowed on every payment made in money, at or before the same shall fall due, for lands purchased before the thirtieth day of April, one thousand eight chasers preSaving the rights of pur. hundred and six, in addition to the discounts now al. vious to that lowed by law, a deduction equal to the difference at Allowance to the time of such payment, between the market price such purchas of six per cent. stock and the nominal value of its ers making unredeemed amount, which market price shall, from payments in time to time, be stated by the secretary of the treasury to the officers of the several land offices.

time.

money.

IX. 28.

The operation of the sixth condition of the fifth 15 April, section of the act, entitled, “An act to amend the 1806.

21

unpaid for, suspended,

Sales of land act, entitled, An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, north-west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," be, and the same is hereby suspended until the first day of October next, in favor of such purchasers of lands under the said act, who shall exhibit satisfactory proof to the register and receiver of public monies, in the respective districts where they reside, that they were actual settlers on the land so purchased, at the time of passing this act.

in favor of actual set

tlers.

X. 93.
2 March,
1809.

Further time

sed.

Sales under pre-emption rights excep

ted.

Two years allowed.

Every person who hath heretofore purchased any of the public lands of the United States, at any of the land offices established for the disposal of the said allowed for lands, whether such purchase was made at public or completing private sale (sales by virtue of a pre-emption right payments for only excepted) and whose lands have not already been lands purchaactually sold or reverted to the United States, for nonpayment of part of the purchase money, and the time for making the last payment, on account of such purchase, according to former laws, may have expired, or shall expire, on or before the first day of January next, shall be allowed a further term of two years for the payment of the residue of the principal, due on account of such purchase; which further term of two years shall be calculated to commence from the expiration of one year from and after the day on which the last payment on account of such purchase should, according to former laws, have become due, and shall be allowed only on the following conditions; that is to say: First, That all the arrears of interest, on the land purchased, to the end of one year from and af ter the day on which the last payment, on account of such purchase, should, according to former laws, have become due, shall have been paid at or before the end of such year. Second, That the residue of the sum, due on account of the principal of such purchase, shall be paid, with interest thereon, in two equal annual payments, viz. one half of the said residue, with the interest which may then be due thereon, within one year; and the other half of the said residue, with the interest which may then be due thereon, within two years after the expiration of one

Conditions.

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