# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 193

Chap. CXCIII.—An Act to establish additional land districts in the state of Alabama, and for other purposes.
Two land districts established.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the tract of country in the state of Alabama ceded to the United States by a treaty concluded with the Creek tribe of Indians, at the city of Washington, on the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, shall be divided into, and constitute two land districts, by extending through the same, east and west, the line between township number twenty-two, south of the base line of the Huntsville district, and township number twenty-four, north of the thirty-first degree of latitude.
Land office for Talapoosa district. For the Coosa district. Proviso.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all the land in said ceded territory, south of said dividing line, shall be sold at the town of Montgomery, and said district shall be called the Talapoosa district; and all the land in said ceded territory, north of said dividing line, shall be sold at the town of Montevallo, and said district shall be called the Coosa district: Provided, however, That the President of the United States may, if he shall deem it expedient, remove either, or both, of the said land offices to any other point in the respective districts, for which they are established.
Registers and receivers to be appointed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register and receiver appointed to each of the aforesaid land offices, to superintend the sales of the public lands in their respective districts, who shall reside at the places designated, 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 offices as are, or may be, provided by law in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands.
Plats of surveys to be deposited.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as the same can be done, to cause the ​proper plats of the surveys of said districts to be deposited in the land offices intended for them respectively.
Pay of register and receiver to begin when surveys are completed. Country acquired by Choctaw treaty, attached to separate district.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the registers and receivers, to be appointed for the land districts hereby established, shall not commence till after the surveys shall have been completed.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all that portion of country acquired by the treaty with the Choctaw nation of Indians, within the state of Alabama, south of township nineteen, shall be offered for sale at the Saint Stephen’s land office, and the residue shall be attached to the Tuscaloosa land district, and be offered for sale at that place.
Approved, July 10, 1832.