United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 52
Chap. LII.—An Act to establish an additional land office in the territory of Michigan.[1]
The President to designate a place for an additional land office in the territory of Michigan.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the public lands in the district of Detroit, lying south of the boundary line between the third and fourth townships, south of the base line, except so much thereof as lies north of the river Huron, of Lake Erie, and all the public lands in the territory of Michigan, to which the Indian title was extinguished by the treaty of Chicago, shall be formed into a new land district; and, for the sale of the public lands within the district hereby constituted, there shall be a land office established, at such place within the district as the President of the United States may designate.
President to appoint a register and receiver.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register of the land office, and a receiver of public moneys, appointed by the President of the United States, for the land office hereby created, to superintend the sales of public lands within said district, who shall give security in the same manner, in the same sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their office, 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 public lands.
Provisions of the act of March 3, 1819, made applicable to this office.1819, ch. 92.
Proviso.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the third and fifth sections of the act, entitled “An act to designate the boundaries of districts, and establish land offices, for the disposal of the public lands, not heretofore offered for sale, in the states of Ohio and Indiana,” approved March the third, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the district and office hereby created, so far as they are not changed by subsequent laws of the United States: Provided, That all such public lands, embraced within the district created by this act, which shall have been offered for sale to the highest bidder, at Detroit, pursuant to any proclamation of the President of the United States, and which lands remain unsold at the taking effect of this act, shall be subject to be entered and sold at private sale by the register of the land office hereby created, in the same manner, and subject to the same terms, and upon like conditions, as the sales of said lands would have been subjected to in the land office at Detroit had they remained attached to that office.
Act to take effect 1st May next.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect, and be in force from and after the first day of May next ensuing the passage thereof.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
- ↑ See notes to act of February 21, 1823, ch. 10.