Chapter IV. *supplementary to an act, entituled “An act making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians; and to establish a land-office in the Mississippi Territory.”* June 15, 1809. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
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Chap. IV.— An Act *supplementary to an act, entituled “An act making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians; and to establish a land-office in the Mississippi Territory.”* June 15, 1809. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 35.Lands ceded by the Cherokees, &c. &c. to be offered for sale.Reservations, &c. &c.
That so much of the lands ceded to the United States by the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians, as lies within the Mississippi territory, and for which a land-office was directed to be established, by the second section of the act to which this act is a supplement, shall, with the exception of section number sixteen in each township, which shall be reserved for the use of schools within the same, and with the exception of the salt springs and lands contiguous thereto, which, by the direction of the President of the United States, may be reserved for the future disposal of the said United States, be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the register of the land-office and of the receiver of public monies, at the place where the land-office is established; and on the day or days which shall have been designated by proclamation of the President of the United States for that purpose, the sales shall remain open for six weeks, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre, and shall be sold in tracts of the same size, and in all respects on the same terms and conditions as have been or may he by law provided for The sales to remain open for six weeks, after which the lands may be sold at private sale.Act of March 3, 1803.the sale of the other public lands in the Mississippi territory.
All the lands of the United States in the said district, with the exceptions above mentioned, remaining unsold at the close of the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale, by the register of the land-office, in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same terms and conditions as are or may be provided by law, for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Mississippi territory; and patents shall be obtained for lands sold in said district, in the same manner, and on the same terms as are provided by law for other public lands sold in the Mississippi territory.
Sec. 2. Compensation to superintendents of sales. *And be it further enacted,* That the superintendents of the public sales, directed by this act, shall each receive six dollars a day, for every day’s attendance on the said sales. Approved, June 15, 1809.