Chapter CCLXVII. to discontinue the Clarksville, Arkansas, Land District and the Establishment of an additional Land District in that State
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CHAP. CCLXVII.— An Act to discontinue the Clarksville, Arkansas, Land District and the Establishment of an additional Land District in that State.July 14, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the district of lands nowClarksville land district, Arkansas, discontinued. subject to disposal at Clarksville, Arkansas, be, and the same is hereby, discontinued from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy, and that thereafter the said land district be divided as follows:
Beginning at the corner common to townships twelve and thirteen north, ranges seventeen and eighteen west, and running thence west between said townships to the corner common to townships twelve and thirteen north, ranges twenty-six and twenty-seven west; thence south with said range line to the corner common of townships nine and ten north; thence west on the line between said townships to the western boundary of theHarrison and Dardanelle land district established in Arkansas.
State, the lands lying north of said division line, and within the limits of the said Clarksville district, to be subject to disposal at Harrison, Arkansas, and those lands lying south of said division line within said district to be subject to disposal at Dardanelle, Arkansas, to be known and designated as the Harrison and Dardanelle land district. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the President of the UnitedRegister and receiver. States is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and con-278FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 267, 268, 269, 270. 1870.sent of the Senate of the United States, or during the recess thereof, and until the end of the next ensuing session, a register and receiver for each of said land districts, who shall be required to reside at the site of theirResidence, duties, and fees. respective offices, who shall be subject to the same laws and responsibilities, and whose compensation and fees shall be respectively the same per annum as are now allowed by law to other land offices in said State.
Approved, July 14, 1870.