# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 18

Chap. XVIII.—An Act providing for the sale of certain lands in the district of Marietta, and for location of claims and sale of certain lands in the district of Vincennes.
The surveyor general to require Rufus Putman, &c., to make a report of lands conveyed, &c. Act of April 21, 1792, ch. 25.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of ascertaining the quantity, and providing for the sale of the lands belonging to the United States, within the limits of a tract of one hundred thousand acres granted to Rufus Putman, Manassah Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, in trust for the persons composing the Ohio Company of Associates, in pursuance of the third section of an act, entitled “An act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates,” passed on the twenty-first of April, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, it shall be the duty of the surveyor general, and he is hereby authorized, to require of the said Rufus Putman and other surviving patentees, in trust as aforesaid, to make a report to him of the quantity and situation of the lands by them conveyed, as bounties, to actual settlers, according to the conditions of the said third section and grant aforesaid;Copy of field notes, and plat of surveys. Surveyor general to cause the residue of the lands to be surveyed, &c. Return of surveys to the general land office, &c. and also, a duly attested copy of the field notes and plat of surveys of the land by them conveyed to actual settlers as aforesaid. And the surveyor general, on receiving a satisfactory report of the quantity and situation of the lands to conveyed, shall cause the residue of the lands within the said tract to be surveyed in the same manner as the other public lands; or, if he shall deem it more convenient, into tracts of one hundred acres, conforming, as far as practicable, to the plan on which lots granted to actual settlers were laid off; and he shall make return of the surveys to the general land office and the register of the land office at Marietta.
Confirmed claims to land in the district of Vincennes, may be located on the tract set apart, &c. Act of April 21, 1806, ch. 40. Proviso; locations to be made before 1st Sept. 1818. Act of April 16, 1816, ch. 52. Residue of tract to be surveyed. Return of surveys, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person, or their legal representatives, whose claims were confirmed by any of the several acts for confirming claims to land in the district of Vincennes and which claims have not been located, shall be authorized to enter their locations with the register of the land office at Vincennes, on any part of the tract set apart for that purpose in the said district, by virtue of an act, entitled “An act respecting claims to land in the Indiana Territory and state of Ohio,” and in conformity to the provision of that act, and shall be entitled to receive certificates and patents in the same manner as provided by former laws respecting locations in the same tract: Provided, That the locations authorized by this act, and those authorized by an act, entitled “An act for the relief of certain claimants to land in the district of Vincennes,” passed on the sixteenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, shall be made before the first day of September next; and, after the said locations shall have been made and the surveys thereon completed, the surveyor general shall cause the residue of the said tract to be surveyed, conforming, as far as practicable, to the plan for surveying the other public lands, and he shall make a return of the surveys, to the general land office, and to the register of the land office at Vincennes.
Part of one tract to be sold at Marietta; and part of the other at Vincennes—Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That such part of the tract, described by the first section of this act, as shall appear to belong to the United States, shall be offered for sale at Marietta, and such part of the tract described by the second section of this act, as shall not have been located under confirmed claims, shall be offered for sale at Vincennes. The said ​lands, in the said respective tracts, with the exception of the usual proportion for the support of schools, shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the directionto the highest bidder, &c. Days of sale. Sales open six days. Price. Patents. of the register of the land office and the receiver of public moneys for the said districts, on such days, respectively, as shall, by proclamation of the President, be designated for that purpose; the sales at each place shall remain open six days, and no longer; the lands shall not be sold for less than two dollars an acre; and shall, in every other respect, both as to public and private sales, be sold on the same terms and conditions as other public lands in the same districts; and patents shall be obtained in the manner, and on the terms, provided in case of other public lands sold by the United States.
4 dollars a day to superintendents.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of the public sales, directed by this act, shall each receive four dollars a day for each day’s attendance on the said sales.
Approved, March 18, 1818.