Chapter CLXXIX. *to establish an additional Land District in the Territory of Dakota.*May 21, 1872
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CHAP. CLXXIX.— An Act *to establish an additional Land District in the Territory of Dakota.*May 21, 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*, Dakota land district established in Dakota;That there lie, and hereby is, established in the Territory of Dakota, an additional land district, to be bounded and described as follows, and known as the Dakota land district, boundaries;viz. : beginning at a point on the north bank of the Missouri river, at the intersection of the line between ranges fifty-two and fifty-three; thence north, along said range-line, to the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude; thence west, along said parallel, to the line between ranges fifty-seven and fifty-eight; thence south, along said range-line, to the Missouri river; thence easterly, along the north hank of said stream, to the place of beginning.
Sec. 2. location of land office;That the land-office for said district shall be located at Yankton, the capital of said Territory; and the President of the United States register and receiver, their pay, &c.is hereby authorized to appoint a register and a receiver for said land-office, who shall receive the same salary and be governed by the same regulations as are provided by law for the registers and the receivers of the other land-offices in said Territory. Approved, May 21, 1872.