Chapter 146.
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CHAP. 146.— An act to establish an additional land district in the State of Kansas.March 3, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Southwestern land dial riot, Kansas, established. That the following described territory in the State of Kansas, to wit : commencing at the southeast corner of township thirty-five, south range thirty-one west of the sixth principal meridian on the south boundary of the State of Kansas ; thence west on said southern boundary to the western boundary of said State; thence north on said western boundary to the fourth standard parallel south; thence east along said parallel to the northeast corner of township twenty-one south, range thirty-one west, and thence south to the place of beginning, in the State of Kansas, shall constitute an additional land district, to be called the southwestern land district, the location for the office of which shall be designated by the President of the United States, and shall by him from time to time be changed, as the public interest may seem to require.
Sec. 2. That the President be, and he hereby is, authorized, wheneverRegister and receiver. the public interest shall require, to appoint, in accordance with existing laws authorizing appointment to office, a register and a receiver for the district hereby created, who shall each be required to reside at the site of the office for said district, have the same powers, responsibilities, and emoluments, and be subject to the same acts and penalties which are, or may be, prescribed by law in relation to other land-offices of the United States. 509 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 146–149. 1881. Sec. 3. That all sales and locations made at the offices of the districts in which the lands embraced in this district have hitherto been included, situated wholly within the limits of this district, which shall be valid and right in other respects up to the day on which the new office shall go into operation, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed. Approved, March 3, 1881.