Chapter L. to create an additional Land District in Washington Territory. May 16, 1860. Post, p. 96. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, when in the opinion of Columbia River District established.the President it may be exp

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Chap. L.— An Act *to create an additional Land District in Washington Territory.* May 16, 1860. *Post,* p. 96. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That, when in the opinion of Columbia River District established.the President it may be expedient, all the public lands in the Territory of Washington to which the Indian title shall have been extinguished or may hereafter be extinguished, lying east and south of the following Boundaries.boundaries, shall constitute a new land district to be called the “Columbia River District,” viz.:

Beginning on the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions and on the summit of the Cascade Mountains at the nearest range line to the East line of range twelve, thence South on the nearest range lines on the summit of said mountains to the line dividing townships ten and eleven North, thence West to the THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 50, 51, 56. 1860. 17line dividing ranges six and seven west, thence north on said line to the third standard parallel, thence west to “Shoal Water Bay,” thence with the Shoal Water Bay, including any islands therein, to the Pacific—the western boundary of said district above the line dividing ranges ten and eleven and on the summit of the Cascade Mountains, to be adjusted by the Department of the Interior as near the points before given as is consistent with the lines of the public surveys—and the President shall be authorized hereafter from time to time, as circumstances may require, to adjust the boundaries of the land districts in said Territory and remove the offices when the same shall be expedient.

Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the President be and he Register and receiver to be appointed.is hereby authorized 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 after such appointment, a register and receiver for said district who shall be required to reside at the site of the land office, be subject to the same laws, and entitled to the same compensation as is or may here after be prescribed by law in relation to the existing land office and officers in said Territory.

Approved, May 16, 1860.