# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 21

Chap. XXI.—An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia military [land] warrants, for returning surveys thereon to the office of the Secretary of the department of War, and appropriating lands for the use of schools, in the Virginia military reservation, in lieu of those heretofore appropriated.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers and soldiers ​Act of Aug. 10, 1790, ch. 40. Act of June 9, 1794, ch. 62. Act of June 26, 1812, ch. 109. A further time allowed for completing locations.of the Virginia line on continental establishment, their heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty lands within the tract reserved by Virginia, between the little Miami and Scioto rivers, for satisfying the legal bounties to her officers and soldiers upon the continental establishment, shall be allowed a further time of three years, from the twenty-third of March next, to complete their locations, and a further time of five years from the said twenty-third of March next, to return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants, to the office of the Secretary of the War department, any thing in the act intituled1804, ch. 33. “An act to ascertain the boundary of the lands reserved by the state of Virginia, northwest of the river Ohio, for the satisfaction of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment, and to limit the period for locating the said lands,” to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided,Proviso. that no locations, as aforesaid, within the above mentioned tract, shall, after the passing of this act, be made on tracts of land for which patents had previously been issued, or which had been previously surveyed, and any patent which may nevertheless be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be considered as null and void.
Secretary of the Treasury to cause a general and connected plat to be made. Copies thereof, how to be disposed of. Expense—how defrayed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized to obtain copies of all the locations and surveys, which have been, or may be made within the above mentioned tract, and to cause to be run or surveyed, as many straight lines across the same, as he may deem necessary, not exceeding three: and from these and such other documents as may be obtained, to cause to be made a general connected plat of all the lands located and surveyed within the same; a copy of which shall be deposited in the war department, and another copy shall be laid before Congress, together with an estimate of the surplus which may remain, after satisfying the bounties above mentioned. And the expenses incurred in surveying the lines, and obtaining the copies aforesaid, and in preparing the general plat above mentioned, shall be defrayed out of the monies appropriated for completing the surveys of the public lands northwest of the river Ohio.
A portion of the “Virginia military reservation,” to be vested in the state of Ohio, for the use of schools.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That eighteen quarter townships and three sections, to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury, by lot, in that tract of land in the state of Ohio, lately purchased from the Indians, and lying between the tract commonly called the United States military tract, and the tract commonly called the Connecticut reserve, be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the use of schools, in that tract of land in the state aforesaid, commonly called “Virginia military reservation,”Limitation. which by a former act had been appropriated and vested as aforesaid, for the use of schools within the same: Provided however, that no quarter townships, including the section number sixteen of such township, shall be selected as aforesaid for the purpose above mentioned. And provided also, and it is hereby understood and declared, that the said eighteen quarter ​townships and three sections, shall be appropriated and vested, for the purposes aforesaid, only on condition that the legislature of the state of Ohio shall, within one year after the passing of this act, pass a law accepting the said eighteen quarter townships and three sections,Legislature of Ohio to accept this grant in lieu of the part of the Virginia military reservation. for the purpose aforesaid, in lieu of the thirty-sixth part of the tract commonly called “the Virginia military reservation,” heretofore appropriated and vested by law for the use of schools within the same; and releasing to the United States, all their claim, right, title, and interest, and all the right, title and interest of the inhabitants of the tract of land last mentioned, to the thirty-sixth part1803, ch. 21. of the said tract heretofore appropriated and vested by law for the use of schools within the same. And if the legislature of the said state shall not pass a law as aforesaid, within one year after the passing of this act, the said eighteen quarter townships and three sections shall not be considered and held as appropriated and vested for the purposes aforesaid, but shall be disposed of in the same manner as is or may be provided by law, for the disposal of other public lands in the same tract.
Approved, March 2, 1807.