Not navigable, to be common to
the owners of the opposite banks
thereof..
Superintendants of Sales.
1 For lands remaining unsold of the
seven ranges, and directed to be
sold by the act of 18th May, 1796,
the Secretary of the Treasury ap
pointed a superintendant at Phila-
delphia, and the governor or secre-
tary of the Western territory, and
such person as the President shall
appoint at Pittsburg
2 The register of the land office,
and either the said governor or
secretary at Cincinnati and Chili-
cothe, of sales directed there, un-
der the act of 10th May, 1800
3 The said governor, or secretary
or surveyor general at Marietta. ib.
4 Compensation to the aforesaid su-
perintendants
155-6
5 The registers and receivers at
Chilicothe, Marietta, Zanesville,
Steubenville, and Cincinnati, for
the sale of the reserved sections, &c.
under the act of 26th March, 1804,
and 3d March, 1805
6 The same superintendants for re-
served sections remaining unsold,
under the act of 29th February,
1808
directed under the act of 30th
April, 1810, of lands acquired by
the treaty of Fort Wayne, of the
30th September, 1809, and their
compensation
179-80
14 The governor of the Mississippi
territory, the surveyor of the Unit-
ed States, and the registers of the
land offices in said territory, of
sales directed therein under the
act of 3d March, 1803 . . . 181
15 Compensation to said superin-
tendants
16 The registers and receivers, of
sales of lands ceded by the Chero-
kees and Chickasaws, under the
act of 15th June, 1809
17 Their compensation as superin-
tendants
4 Mines, salt springs and other na-
tural objects, together with the
quality of the lands, to be noted on
the plat
. 130, 141
5 Plats of townships to be marked
by subdivisions into lots of one
mile square and numbered from
1 to 36; the lots in fractional
townships to bear the same num-
bers as if they were entire . 130-1
6 Corners of subdivisions to be
marked on the external lines of
townships
131
7 The lands north-west of the Ohio
and above the mouth of Kentucky
River remaining undivided under
23 The boundaries of all half sec-
tions purchased previous to the
1st July, 1804, to be surveyed
and marked, by running straight
lines from the half mile corners
heretofore marked to the opposite
corresponding corners, on which
lines intermediate corners are to
be marked
24 Public lands in the Mississippi
territory and private claims for
which certificates have been gi-
ven by the commissioners to be
surveyed.
25 The public lands to be divided
into townships and subdivided in-
to half sections in the mannner
directed for the lands north-west
of the Ohio and above the mouth
of Kentucky river
ib.
26 Plots to be transmitted to the
Registers and the Secretary of
the Treasury
27 Expence not to exceed four dol-
lars per mile, and that of private
claims to be paid by the claimants ib.
28 Tracts claimed under complete
Spanish grants to be surveyed at
public expence
172.
29 Such of the public lands in the
Orleans territory as the President
small expressly direct, to be sur-
veyed in the manner directed for
the lands of the United States
north-west of the river Ohio and
above the mouth of Kentucky
River
172-3
30 All the unappropriated lands in
the military tract to be surveyed
into half sections
31 Lands around Vincennes to be
surveyed pursuant to the direction
of the act of the 10th May,
1800
32 Two plats to be returned, one
to the Secretary of the Treasury
and the other to the Secretary of
the Indiana territory
33 Private claims to be designated
thereon
34 Tract for satisfying military
bounties to be laid off north-west
of the Ohio and west of the seven
ranges
35 To be divided into townships 5
mile square, by running, marking
and numbering the exterior lines,
and marking corners at the dis-
tance of two and an half miles
from each other
36 Principles on which the corners,
boundaries and contents of the
townships and quarter townships
in the military tract, as they have
been surveyed, shall be ascertain-
ed and established
37 The actual plat and survey re-
turned by the Surveyor-General
of the quarter townships, &c. in
said tract, to be conclusive as to
quantity
See Commissioners, 18, 19, 20, 33.
Private Claims, 58.
2 To perform all such acts as are
directed to be done by the surveyor
general in relation to the lands
north-west of the Ohio, &c. . . ib.
3 His powers extended over all the
public lands in the Orleans terri-
tory
. . 172
4 To cause them to be surveyed ac-
A certain section within the grant
made to John C. Symmes granted
to, on paying the purchase money,
agreeably with the provisions
made by law, for lands sold at
private sale
1 President authorised at his re-
quest to alter the contract with, so
far as respects boundaries; and
the specification thereof. 240-1
2 Lands at and near Fort Washing-
ton to be reserved for a fort
3 Patent to issue to Symmes and
his associates, for so much land
as is paid for at two-thirds of a
dollar per acre, and making such
reservations as are specified in the
contract of 15th October, 1788. ib.
4 Also for one other tract of
106,857 acres, or for so much as
he shall within 6 months deliver
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