shall be allowed the same rate of compensation, as is provided by law for attending a meeting of the board of commissioners.
Appropriation.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That a sum not exceeding thirteen thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars, and twenty-three cents, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for defraying the further expenses incident to the valuation of houses and lands, and the enumeration of slaves within the United States.
Approved, Feb. 11, 1805.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XIV.—An Act concerning the mode of surveying the Public Lands of the United States.[1]
Act of May 18, 1796, ch. 29.
Mode of surveying public lands north of the Ohio.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the surveyor-general shall cause all those lands north of the river Ohio, which by virtue of the act, intituled “An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States, in the territory northwest of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river,” were subdivided, by running through the townships, parallel lines each way, at the end of every two miles, and by marking a cornerCorners to be marked. on each of the said lines, at the end of every mile; to be subdivided into sections, by running straight lines from the mile corners thus marked, to the opposite corresponding corners, and by marking on each of the said lines, intermediate corners as nearly as possible equidistant from the corners of the sections on the same.Half sections purchased before July 1, 1804, to be surveyed and marked. And the said surveyor-general shall also cause the boundaries of all the half sections, which had been purchased previous to the first day of July last, and on which the surveying fees had been paid, according to law, by the purchaser, to be surveyed and marked, by running straight lines from the half-mile corners, heretofore marked, to the opposite corresponding corners; and intermediate corners shall, at the same time, be marked on each of the said dividing lines, as nearly as possible equidistant from the corners of the half section on the same line:Whole expense of survey not to exceed three dollars per mile.
How the expense of making the surveys is to be paid. Provided, that the whole expense of surveying and marking the lines, shall not exceed three dollars for every mile which has not yet been surveyed, and which shall be actually run, surveyed, and marked by virtue of this section. And the expense of making the subdivisions, directed by this section, shall be defrayed out of the monies appropriated, or which may be hereafter appropriated, for completing the surveys of the public lands of the United States.
Principles upon which the boundaries and contents of the public lands are to be ascertained.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the boundaries and contents of the several sections, half sections, and quarter sections of the public lands of the United States, shall be ascertained in conformity with the following principles, any act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding:
1st. All the corners marked in the surveys, returned by the surveyor-general, or by the surveyor of the land south of the state of Tennessee, respectively, shall be established as the proper corners of sections, or subdivisions of sections, which they were intended to designate; and the corners of half and quarter sections, not marked on the said surveys, shall be placed as nearly as possible equidistant from those two corners which stand on the same line.
Boundary lines run and marked by the surveyor south of the Tennessee river to be the proper boundaries of sections.2d. The boundary lines, actually run and marked in the surveys returned by the surveyor-general, or by the surveyor of the land south of the state of Tennessee, respectively, shall be established as the proper boundary lines of the sections, or subdivisions, for which they were intended, and the length of such lines, as returned by either of the surveyors aforesaid, shall be held and considered as the true length thereof.
- ↑ See notes to the act of May 18, 1796, chap. 29, vol. i. 465.
