Chapter CXXIX. *to establish a Land District in the Territory of Nevada, and for other Purposes.* July 2, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Land district of Nevada established
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Chap. CXXIX.— An Act *to establish a Land District in the Territory of Nevada, and for other Purposes.* July 2, 1862. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Land district of Nevada established. That the public lands of the United States in the Territory of Nevada shall constitute a land district, to be called the District of Nevada, the office for which shall be established at such place within said district as the President of the United States may from time to time direct, and the preemption laws are hereby extended to said Territory.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the President be, and he isRegister and receiver to be appointed. hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and receiver for said district, who shall be required to reside at the site of said office, and who shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law for other land officers, and whose compensation shall be the same as allowed to such officers by the act approved April twenty, eighteen hundred1818, ch 123.Vol. iii. p. 466 and eighteen, entitled “An act for changing the compensation of receivers and registers of the land offices.
” Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That when the settlers in any townshipSettlers in townships not mineral or reserved may have surveys made, &c. or townships, not mineral or reserved by government, shall desire a survey made of the same under the authority of the Surveyor-General of the United States, and shall file an application therefor in writing, and deposit in a proper United States depository to the credit of the United States a sum sufficient to pay for such survey, together with ail expenses incident thereto, without cost or claim for indemnity on the United States, it shall and may be lawful for said Surveyor-General, under such instructions as may be given him by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and in accordance with existing laws and instructions, to survey such township or townships, and make return thereof to the general and proper local kind office: *Provided*, That the townships so proposed to beProviso. surveyed are within the range of the regular progress of the public surveys embraced by existing standard lines or bases for the township and sub-divisional surveys.
Approved, July 2, 1862.