United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 66
Chap. LXVI.—An Act to establish an additional land office in the state of Missouri.
A new land district to be formed, to be called the western district, for which a land office is to be established.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands of the United States, as lies west of the range line dividing the twenty-third and twenty-fourth tiers of townships west of the fifth principal meridian, in the present Howard land district, in the state of Missouri, shall form a land district for the disposal of the said lands, to be called the western district; and a land office shall be established at Lexington, in the county of Lillard, for the disposal thereof.
A register and receiver to be appointed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register and receiver appointed to the said office, to superintend the sales of the public lands in the said district, who shall reside at the place where said office is established, give security in the same manner and sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties, and authorities, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands to be disposed of at their offices, as are, or may be, 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.
From 1st April next there shall be a new township line between the townships No. 37 and 38.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the first day of April next, the division line between the St. Louis and the Jackson land districts, in the state of Missouri, shall be the township line between the townships number thirty-seven and thirty-eight; any thing in the former acts, creating land districts in the state of Missouri, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 3, 1823.