Chapter CC. *to create an additional Land District in the State of Kansas.*May 23, 1872
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CHAP. CC.— An Act *to create an additional Land District in the State of Kansas.*May 23, 1872. See 1872, ch. 241. *Post*, p. 192. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That all that portion of the Republican land district in the State of Kansas, lying and being situatedNorthwestern land district in Kansas established. west of the first guide-meridian west of the sixth principal meridian be, and hereby is. constituted a new land district, to be called the Northwestern land district.
Sec. 2. That the President, by and with the advice and consent of theRegister and receiver, their duties and pay. Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint a register and a receiver for said district, who shall discharge like and similar duties, and receive the same amount of compensation allowed to other officers discharging like duties in the other land-offices of said State. Approved, May 23, 1872.