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346 FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 15, 18. 1817. 0f18th A-Pm: of an act, entitled “A1'! 301. G011C6TH10g d10 pay of the officerg 1814, eh. 84, re- · · · rr ’ Pm1w_ seamen, and marines, m the navy of the Umlcd States, passed the eighteenth of Apr1l, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be, and the same is hereby repealed. A1=1>110vE1>, February 22, 1817. Srnurm II. ___- Feb. 2:2, 1817. CHAP. XV.—An Jef providing for the division of ceriain quarlcr aeciicmnin """"""" future sales of tlw public lands. degiggafggfgg Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rrprescntatives of the ptfered for me United States of Amcri¢·a, in Congress assembled, That, from and after };1<}}¤¤::;t;>;‘ the first day of September next, the sections designated by number two, Smiglns, &c_ tive, twenty, twenty-three, thirty, and thxrty-three, in each and cvery 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 Manner or by a line running due north and south, and in every other respect the f;:g¤Yi¤8 the said sections shn]1 be .oi'l`ered, whether at public or private sale, on the ' same terms and conditions as have been, or may be, by law, provided for the sale of the other public lands of the United States. Approved, February 22, 1817. STATUTE II. ""' fj} 24, 1817- CHAP. XVIII.-An Act auzlwrizing the sak of certain grounds belonging to the [Obsolete_] United States in the city of Washington. m:;‘:m°':g°f;';' Be it enacted by the Senate and }House of Representatives of the United Orr Lliutpgrt of States of America, in Congress assembled, That the commissioner for me public ro- the superintendence of the public buildings in the city of Washington
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- l°_§‘G‘;;`rib_ bc, and ho hereby is, authorized to lay olf into building lots all that part
,,d_ of the public reservation of ground in the said city, numbered ten, lying on the north side of the Pennsylvania avenue, between Third and Four To ml hm. and an ·Half streets west, embraced by the whole of the from of said {hg ms, &,,_ reservauon on said avenue, and extending back, or northwardly, not cxcccding two hundred feet; and, under the direction of the President of the United States, to sell any number of such lots, not exceeding one half of the whole number, and the avails thereof to pay into the treasury of the United States; and in such sales the commissioner is hereby directed to reserve to the United States every other lot, except in parti- Commgon of cular cases it may be expedient to sell two or more contiguous lots; but sale. all sales made in virtue of this act shall be under and upon the express condition, that the purchaser shall build und finish, or cause to be built and finished, within three years from the day of sale, a good and substantial brick or stone house of not less than three stories high, exclusive of the basement story, nor less than twenty-five feet front, and in failure of a compliance with the said conditions, or any of them, the lots so sold shall revert to the United States, and the party failing shall incur a lbrfciture of any and all moneys which may have been paid for the same. fN;lP'°P*'i¤*l°¤ Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the moneys arising from the Elgin; §°0°;°5; sales aforesaid bc, and they hereby are, appropriated to the payment sales. of any moneys which may herealicr be expended fur the public buildings and public improvements in the city of Washington. Armzovmn, February 24, 1817.
