All the land in said dis section No. 16, and sections reserv ed for Dela ware Indians, to be offered for sale on same condi the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. Sec. 2. All the lands of the United States, in the said district, shall, with the exception of the section tricts except number sixteen, and with the exception also of thirteen sections, including the lower town of the Delaware tribe of Indians, and their improvements, which said thirteen sections shall be designated by the secretary of the treasury, and shall be reserved for the use of the said tribe and their descendants, so long as they continue to reside thereon, and cultivate the same, be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land office, and of tions as other the receiver of public monies, at the places respec public lands. tively, where the land offices are kept, and on such day or days as shall, by proclamation of the Presi dent of the United States, be designated for that purpose: the sales shall remain open at each place for six weeks, and no longer: the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre, and shall in every other respect, be sold in tracts of the same size, and on the same terms and conditions, as have been, or may be by law provided for lands sold north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river. All the lands of the United States, in the said districts, with the exceptions abovementioned, remaining unsold at the close of the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale, by the register of the respective land offices, in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, as are or may be provid ed by law, for the sale of the lands of the United States north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river. And patents shall be obtainPatents, how ed for all lands sold in said districts, in the same to be obtain- manner and on the same terms as are provided by law, for other public lands sold in the state of Ohio and the Indiana territory. ed. Compensa Sec. 3. The several superintendents of public sale, tion of super- directed by this act, shall receive six dollars a day Intendents of for each day's attendance on the said sales. sales. X. 67. Sec. 5. The lands to which the Indian title has 25th April, been extinguished, by the treaty made at Detroit, on 1808. treaty of De the seventeenth of November, one thousand eight Lands achundred and seven, shall be attached to and made a quired by part of the district of Detroit, and be offered for sale troit to be at that place, under the same exceptions and regula- attached to tions, at the same price, and on the same terms, as district of other lands lying in that district. Detroit. XI. 52. 30th April, the Fort districts of offered for Sec. 1. All that tract of land, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaty made at Fort 1810. Wayne, on the thirtieth day of September, in the Certain lands year one thousand eight hundred and nine, lying acquired by west, and adjoining to the boundary line established Wayne and by the treaty of Greenville, shall be attached to, and other treaties, made a part of the district of Cincinnati; and the re- added to the sidue of the lands to which the Indian title was extin- Cincinnati guished by the said treaty, and other treaties made and Vinat Vincennes in the same year, shall be attached to, cennes. and made a part of the district of Vincennes: and the said lands, with the exception of section number And except sixteen, which shall be reserved in each township for No. 16 to be the use of schools within the same, shall be offered sale, for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land office, and of the receiver of on same conpublic monies, at the places respectively where the ditions as other public land-offices are kept, and on such day or days as shall, lands, by proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose; the sales shall remain open at Cincinnati one week, and at Vincennes three weeks, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre, and shall in every other respect be sold in tracts of the same size, and on the same terms and conditions, as have been or may be provided for lands sold in the same districts; all the lands in the said tracts, with the exception abovementioned, remaining unsold at the close of the said sales, may be disposed of at private sale by the register of the respective land-offices, in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, as are, or may be provided by law for the sale of lands in the same districts; and patents shall be obtained in the same manner, and on the same terms as for other public lands, sold in the same districts. 180 Compensation of the superintendents of the public sales. tween dis cennes and Jefferson Sec. 2. The several superintendents of public sales directed by this act, shall receive four dollars a day, for each day's attendance on the said sales. Sec. 3. From and after the first day of June next, the second principal meridian established by the surBoundary be- veyor general in the Indiana territory, shall be the tricts of Vin- boundary between the districts of Vincennes and Jeffersonville; and the lands included in the said districts respectively, according to the boundaries above mentioned, shall become a part of the district in which they are included, and shall be sold at the same place, in the same manner, and on the same terms and conditions as the other public lands, lying in the same district. ville. Sales to be regulated accordingly. VII. 80. 3d March, 1803. Two land of fices in the Mississippi territory. Sec. 4. For the disposal of the lands of the United States within the Mississippi territory, two land offices shall be established in the same; one at such place in the county of Adams, as shall be designated by the President of the United States, for the lands lying west of "Pearl river," sometimes called "Halfway river;" and one at such place in the county of Washington, as shall be designated by the President of the United States, for the lands lying east of Pearl Register and river: and for each of the said offices, a register and receiver of a receiver of public monies shall be appointed, who public money shall give security in the same manner, and in the in each. Their duties same sums, and whose 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 by and authori- law provided in relation to the registers and the receivers of public monies in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States, north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river. ty. The lands Sec. 12. All the lands aforesaid, *not otherwise aforesaid un- disposed of, or excepted by virtue of the preceding appropriated sections of this act, shall, with the exception of the section number sixteen, which shall be reserved in to be sold, * For those exceptions, which relate to private claims, see the residue of this act, under the head of "Adjustment of claims in Mis sissippi territory.' certain lots & sections for private sales, each township for the support of schools within the except No. same, with the exception also of thirty-six sections 16, for supto be located in one body by the secretary of the trea- port of sury for the use of Jefferson college, and also with schools, and the exception of such town lots not exceeding two in the town of Natchez, and of such an outlot adjoining Jefferson the same, not exceeding thirty acres,* as may be the college. property of the United States to be located by the governor of the Mississippi territory, for the use of the said college, be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the governor of the Mississippi Under whose territory, of the surveyor of the lands of the United directions. States, abovementioned, and of the register of the land office at the places respectively, where the land offices are kept, and on such day or days as shall, by a public proclamation of the President of the United States, be designated for that purpose. The sales shall re- Sales to remain open at each place for three weeks and no lon⚫ main open ger; and all lands, other than the section number for three sixteen, remaining unsold at the closing of the pub. weeks-then lic sales, may be disposed of at private sale by the re- by whom gisters of the respective land offices, in the same man- and on same ner, under the same regulations, for the same price, terms as and on the same terms and conditions as is provided lands. by law, for the sale of the lands of the United States, north of the river Ohio, by an act, intituled, †" An act to amend the 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:" Provided always, That the lands which may be sold at public sale by virtue of this act, shall not be sold for less than two dollars per acre, and shall in every other respect be sold on the same terms and conditions as was provided for the lands to be obtainsold at public sale, by the last recited act. And pa- ed. tents shall be obtained for all lands granted or sold in Evidences of the Mississippi territory, in the same manner, and on public debt payment of the same fees, as is provided for lands not receivable in paysold north of the river Ohio, by the said last recited ment for said act; Provided however, That evidences of the public lands. For the subsequent disposition of those lots, see the acts of 27th March 1804, of 21st April 1806, and of 31st March 1808, under the head of Adjustment of claims in Mississippi territory." † Act of 10th May, 1800. other public Patents, how Fees and compensa and receivers debt of the United States shall not be received in *payment for the purchase of said lands. Sec. 13. The registers of the land offices, and the tion of the re- receivers of public monies, appointed in pursuance gisters of the of this act, shall receive the same fees and compensaland office, tion as the registers and receivers of the land offices, north of the river Ohio; and the registers shall also be entitled to receive twenty-five cents for entering each certificate granted by the commissioners above Pay of the su- mentioned; and the superintendents of the public sales shall receive six dollars each, for each day's at tendance on the said sales. of public monies. perinten dents. X. 40. Certain lands of Pearl ri ver, and to be offered for sale, except No. Sec. 5. That part of the lands to which the Indian title was extinguished, by the treaty with the Choctaw nation, made on Mount Dexter, in the year one thousand eight hundred and five, lying on the east of land districts Pearl river, shall be attached to the land district east east and west of Pearl river, and that the residue of the lands to which the Indian title was extinguished by said treaty, shall be attached to the land district west of Pearl river; and the said lands shall, with the exception of section number sixteen, which shall be reserved in acres granted each township for the use of schools within the same, and also with the exception of fifteen hundred acres of land, which is hereby confirmed to John M'Grew, in compliance with the fourth article of said treaty, be offered for sale under the same regulations, at the same prices, and on the same terms as other lands lying within the said districts. 16 and 1500 to John McGrew. IX. 40. 3 March, 1807. Surveyor Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the surveyor-general of the public lands, south of Tennessee, to cause to be surveyed and laid out, in the same manner as is general of the provided by law for the other public lands in the Mispublic lands sissippi territory, so much of the lands ceded to the United States by the Cherokees and Chickasaws, as lies within the said territory; and the President of the United States is hereby authorised, whenever he shall think it proper, to establish a land office for the sale of the said lands, and to appoint a register of the south of Ten nessee to cause lands ceded by the Cherokees and Chicka saws to be |