Chapter XIV. *to establish a Land District in Wyoming Territory, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. XIV.— An Act *to establish a Land District in Wyoming Territory, and for other Purposes*. Feb. 5, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Wyoming land district established in Wyoming Territory. That the public lands of the United States in the Territory of Wyoming shall constitute a land district, to be called the district of Wyoming, 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 pre-emption laws and all other laws not locally inapplicable are hereby extended to said Territory. 65 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 14, 17. 1870. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the President of the UnitedSurveyor-general authorized, salary, &c. States be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a surveyor-general for Wyoming, with a salary of three thousand dollars per annum, who shall locate his office at such place as the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time direct, and .whose duties, powers, obligations, responsibilities, and allowances for clerk hire, office rent, fuel, and incidental expenses, shall be the same as those of the surveyor-general of Colorado, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and such instructions as he may from time to time deem advisable to give him.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the President be, and herebyRegister and receiver, &c. is, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and receiver for said district, who shall respectively be required to reside at the site of said office, and who shall have the same powers, perform the same duties, and receive the same compensation as are now, and may hereafter be, prescribed by law for other land offices of the United States.
Approved, February 5, 1870.