Chapter XCIV. to establish three Additional Land Districts in the Territory of Kansas
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Chap. XCIV.— An Act to establish three Additional Land Districts in the Territory of Kansas. March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all that portion of the “Pawnee land district,” in the Territory of Kansas, created by the thirteenth section of the act approved twenty-second July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled “An act to establish the offices of surveyor1854, ch. 103. general of New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska, to grant donations to actual settlers therein, and for other purposes,” which is situated northVol. x. p. 308. of the north or left bank of the Kansas River, and east of the line which divides ranges eight and nine east, shall constitute a separate district, to be called the “Delaware land district,” all that portion of said PawneeDelaware land district constituted. district which is situated south of the nearest township line to the parallel of thirty-eight degrees of north latitude, to be hereafter determined by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, shall constitute an additional district, to be called the “Osage land district,” and all that portionOsage district constituted. of said Pawnee district which lies west of the line dividing ranges eight and nine east and north of the nearest township line to the parallel of thirty-eight degrees of north latitude, shall constitute a district to be called the “’ Western District,‘ land district,” the location of the offices forWestern district constituted. which shall be designated by the President of the United States, and shall by him, from time to time, be changed as the public interests may seem to require.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the President be, and he isOfficers for said districts. hereby, authorized, whenever the public interests shall require, to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or during the recess thereof, and until the end of the next session of Congress after such appointment, a register and a receiver tor each or either of the districts hereby created, who shall respectively be required to reside at the site of their offices, have the same powers, responsibilities, and emoluments, and be subject to the same acts and penalties, which are or may be prescribed by law in relation to other land officers of the United States.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the President is hereby authorizedSales authorized at said districts. to cause the public lands in the districts created by this act, with the exception of such as may have been or may be reserved for other purposes, to be exposed to sale in the same manner, and upon the same terms and conditions as other public lands of the United States: *Provided*,Former sales and locations confirmed. That all sales and locations made at the office of the old district of lands situated within the limits of the new districts, which shall be valid and right in other respects, up to the day on which the new offices shall go into operation, be and the same are hereby confirmed.
Approved, March 3, 1857.