United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 25
Chap. XXV.—An Act providing for the removal of the land-office established at Nashville, in the state of Tennessee, and Canton in the state of Ohio; and to authorize the register and receiver of public monies to superintend the public sales of land in the district east of Pearl river.
Act of Feb. 4, 1815, ch. 33.
President authorized to remove certain land-offices from Nashville and from Canton.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to remove the land-office established for the sale of the public lands ceded to the United States by the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians in the Mississippi territory, from Nashville, to such place within the district for which it was established as he may judge most proper; and to remove the land-office from Canton in the state of Ohio, to some suitable place within the district for which it was established.
By whom public sales of public lands in the district west of Pearl river are to be conducted.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the public sales of the public lands, in the district east of Pearl river, in the Mississippi territory, and also in the district of Kaskaskia, in the Illinois territory, be conducted under the superintendence of the register and receiver of public monies for the said districts, who are hereby authorized and empowered to superintend the same, in their respective districts, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; and they shall receive the compensation provided by law for the superintendence of public sales in the districts aforesaid.
Tracts of land not paid for to be again offered for sale at the courts of the county.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any tract of the public lands, which has been sold or may hereafter be sold, in any state or territory, wherein a land-office is or may be established, and on which complete payment has not or may not have been made, within the time prescribed by law for completing the same, and the tract having been advertised for sale agreeably to law, it shall be lawful to offer the same for sale at public vendue, at the time and place of the sitting of the court, for the county in which the land-office is kept for the district to which the tract belongs, whether the court shall be denominated a court of quarter sessions, or by whatever other designation it may be known.
Approved, February 25, 1811.