Chapter CCIX. *to establish an additional Land District in the State of Kansas*
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CHAP. CCIX.— An Act *to establish an additional Land District in the State of Kansas*. July 7, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Republican land district established in Kansas.1857, ch. 94. Vol. xi. p. 187. That all that portion of the “western district” land district, created by the act approved March three, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, entitled An act to establish three additional land districts in the Territory of Kansas,” which is situated north of the township line dividing townships ten and eleven, south, in said State, shall constitute a new land district to be called the Republican land district.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the President be, and he isRegister and receiver. 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 for the district 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 in said State.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the public lands in said districtPublic lands subject to sale and disposal.Proviso. shall be subject to sale and disposal upon the same terms and conditions as other public lands of the United States : *Provided*, That all sales and locations made at the office of the old district of lands situated within the limits of the new district, which shall be valid and right in other respects, up to the day on which the new office shall go into operation, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed.
Approved, July 7, 1870.