Chapter CXLIV. *establishing land districts in the territory of Arkansas*.(*a*)(*a*) For notes of acts relating to the territory, afterwards the state of Arkansas, vol. iii. p. 493
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Chap. CXLIV.— An Act *establishing land districts in the territory of Arkansas*.(*a*)(*a*) For notes of acts relating to the territory, afterwards the state of Arkansas, vol. iii. p. 493. June 25, 1832. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Four land districts established in the terriritory of Arkansas. That there shall be four land districts in tire territory of Arkansas, to be called as follows, viz: the Arkansas land district, the White river land district, the Red river land district, and the Fayetteville land district; and each of the aforesaid land districts shall be bounded as follows, to wit: the Arkansas land districtName and boundaries. shall include all the country embraced within the following boundaries: beginning on the west bank of the Mississippi river, at the mouth of the St.
Francis river, and running thence due west with the base line to the north-east corner of range six, township one north and south of said base line; thence, due north with the dividing line between ranges five and six, to the north-east corner of township seven, north of said base line; thence, due west with the dividing line between townships seven and eight, to the north-west corner of range seventeen; and thence, due south with the dividing line between ranges seventeen and eighteen, to the Mississippi river.
The White river district shall include all the country south of Missouri, which is not included in the Arkansas land district above described, and east of the dividing line between ranges seventeen and eighteen, as extended from the northwest corner of the said Arkansas land district, to the state of Missouri. The Red river land district shall include all the country in Arkansas lying west of the Arkansas land district, and south of the base line. The Fayetteville land district shall include the residue of the territory of Arkansas, being all the country lying north of the Red river district, and west of the Arkansas and White river districts.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the land office for the ArkansasLand-offices for the respective districts. land district shall be at Little Rock; the land office for the White river district shall be at Batesville; the land office for the Red river district shall be at the town of Washington: and the land office for the Fayetteville district shall be at Fayetteville. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That it shall be the duty of the SecretaryPlats of surveys to be deposited, &c. of the Treasury, as soon as the same can be done, to cause the proper plats of the surveys to be deposited in the proper land offices.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That for each of the said districtsRegisters and receivers to be appointed. created by this act, a register and receiver of public moneys shall be appointed, who shall give security in the same manner, and whose duties and authorities shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands.
Approved, June 25, 1832.