Chapter XV. providing for the division of certain quarter sections, in future sales of the public lands
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Chap. XV.— An Act providing for the division of certain quarter sections, in future sales of the public lands.Feb. 22, 1817. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the The sections designated to be offered for sale in quarter or half quarter sections, &c. United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That, from and after the first day of September next, the sections designated by number two, five, twenty, twenty-three, thirty, and thirty-three, in each and every township of the public lands, the sale of which is now, or hereafter may be authorized by law, shall be offered for sale either in quarter sections, or half quarter sections, at the option of the purchaser; and in every case of the division of a quarter section, the partition shall be made by a line running due north and south, and in every other respect the Manner of surveying the land. said sections shall be offered, whether at public or private sale, on the same terms and conditions as have been, or maybe, by law, provided for the sale of the other public lands of the United States.
Approved, February 22, 1817.