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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 2 STAT. · March 3, 1807 · Chapter XLIX

Chapter XLIX. *making provision for the disposal of the public lands, situated between the United States military tract and the Connecticut reserve, and for other purposes.* March 3, 1807. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That for th

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Chap. XLIX.— An Act *making provision for the disposal of the public lands, situated between the United States military tract and the Connecticut reserve, and for other purposes.* March 3, 1807. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That for the disposal of the Land of the U. States to be disposed of.lands of the United States, situated between the United States military tract and the Connecticut reserve, a land-office shall be established, which shall be kept at such place as the President of the United States may direct: and that for the disposal of the lands of the United States, lying on the Ohio river, between the Cincinnati and Vincennes districts, a Offices established.land-office shall be established at Jeffersonville: and for each of the said offices a register and receiver of public monies shall be appointed, who shall give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be provided by law, in relation to the registers and receivers of public monies in the several offices established for the disposal of the lands of the United States, north of the liver Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river.
When to be sold. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That all the lands of the United States, in the said districts, shall, with the exception of the section number sixteen, and with the exception also of thirteen sections, including Reservations, &c. Act of Feb. 29, 1808, ch. 26.the lower town of the Delaware tribe of Indians, and their improvements, which said thirteen sections shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall be reserved for the use of the said tribe and their descendants, so long as they continue to reside thereon, and cultivate the same, 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 places, respectively, where the land-offices are kept, and on such day or days as shall, by proclamation of the President of the United States, be The sales to remain open for six weeks.designated for that purpose: the sales shall remain open at each place for six weeks, and no longer: the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre, and shall in every other respect, be sold in tracts of the same size, and on the same terms and conditions, as have been, or 1800, ch. 55.may be by law provided for lands sold north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river.
Ail the lands of the United States, in the said districts, with the exceptions above mentioned, remaining Lands not to be sold for less than two dollars per acre.unsold at the close of the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale, by the register of the respective land-offices, 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 north of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river.
And patents shall be obtained for all lands sold in said districts, in the same manner and on the same terms as are provided 1809, ch. 55.by law, for other public lands sold in the state of Ohio and the Indiana territory. Compensation of superintendents of sales. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the several superintendents of public sales, directed by this act, shall receive six dollars a day for each day’s attendance on the said sales. Registers and receivers may be appointed in the recess of the Senate.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the President of the United States, in the recess of Congress, shall have full power to appoint and commission the registers and receivers of public monies of the land offices established by this act, and their commissions shall continue in 449NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Resolution. 1807.force until the end of the session of Congress next ensuing such appointment. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the several lead mines in the Lead mines to be reserved for the future disposal of Congress, &c.Indiana territory, together with as many sections contiguous to each as shall be deemed necessary by the President of the United States, shall be reserved for the future disposal of the United States; and any grant which may hereafter be made for a tract of land containing a lead mine, which had been discovered previous to the purchase of such tract from the United States, shall be considered fraudulent and null: and the President of the United States shall be, and is hereby authorized to lease President authorized to lease lead mines.any lead mine which has been or may hereafter be discovered in the Indiana territory, for a term not exceeding five years.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That George Ash shall have the George Ash to have the right of preemption.right of preemption to six hundred and forty acres of land including his improvement on the river Ohio, below the former Indian boundary line; the boundaries of the tract shall be designated by the register of the land-office, and the said land shall be granted to him at the same price, and on payment being made in the same manner as for other public land sold at private sale, the respective instalments of the purchase money shall become due at the same time with the payments on the first public lands sold in that district.
Approved, March 3, 1807. Resolution to publish the Report and Chart of the Survey of the coast of North Carolina. Resolution 1807-03-02 2 Stat. 449 Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 9 2 public Resolution *to publish the Report and Chart of the Survey of the coast of North Carolina.* March 2, 1807. Resolved, *by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Chart of the survey of the coast of North Carolina to be published.States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is authorized and directed, to cause to be published the report and chart of a survey of the coast of North Carolina, made by Thomas Coles and Jonathan Price, under the act of Congress passed at the last session for that purpose.
Approved, March 2, 1807. 10 10 1 1807 1808 ACTS OF THE TENTH CONGRESS of the UNITED STATES, *Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of October,* 1807, *and ended on the twenty-fifth day of April,* 1808. Thomas Jefferson, President; George Clinton, Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate; Samuel Smith, President of the Senate pro tempore, from the 18th of April, 1808;
J. B. Varnum, Speaker of the House of Representatives. STATUTE I. Chapter I: making further appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven. 2 Stat. 450 1807-11-24 Chapter I Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 10 1 public Chapter I.— An Act *making further appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.* Nov. 24, 1807. [Obsolete.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That for defraying the expenses Specific appropriations.of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, the following sums, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, be, and the same are hereby respectively appropriated; that is to say:
For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, seventy-four thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-nine cents. For provisions, thirty-one thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifteen cents. For repairs of vessels, one hundred and forty-two thousand eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-one cents. For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For clothing for the same, ten thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-two cents.
For medicines and hospital stores, one thousand two hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty cents. For ordnance and military stores, three hundred and ten thousand five hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty cents. For timber for the navy, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the several sums herein specifically appropriated, shall be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Approved, November 24, 1807.
Chapter II: allowing an additional compensation to the Secretaries of the Mississippi, Indiana, Louisiana and Michigan Territories. 2 Stat. 450 1807-12-05 Chapter II Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 10 1 public
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*making provision for the disposal of the public lands, situated between the United States military tract and the Connecticut reserve, and for other purposes.* March 3, 1807. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That for th
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