Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1810-07-10
JAMES MADISON:

JAMES MADISON:
AN ACT
Providing for the sale of certsih lands
in the Indiana territory, and for
other purposes.
DE it enacted by the Senate and
- House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in C congress
assembled, That all that tract cf land.
TO which the Indian title was extin,
gnished by the treaty made at Fort
Wayne, on the thirtieth day Of Septem
Der, in the year one thousand eipbt
hundred and nine, lying west, and add
joining to the boundary line es,ablished
by the treaty OF Greenville, shall be
attached to-, and made part of the dis
trict OF Cincinnati and the residue of
the lands TO which the Indian title was
extinguished by the said treaty, and o.
Their treaties made at Vincennes in the
same year, shall be attached to: and
made apart of the district of Vicen.
mes and the said lands, with the ex-
iception of section number sixteen
u Z
which shall be reserved in each town
ship for the use of schools within the
same, shall be offered for sale TO the
highest bidder, under the direction of
the register of the land Office, and of
the receiyer of public monies, at the
places respectively where the land of
hoes are kept, and on suoh day or da, $
as shall by proclamation of the Presi.
dent of the United States. be desicna
ted for that purpose the SAILS shall
remain open at CINCINNATI one weak
and at Vincennes three weeks. and mo
longer the lands shall not be sold TO,
less than two dollars an acre, and shall
IN every other respect be sold in tracts
OF the same size, and on the same
terms and conditions, as have been or
may be provided for lands sold in III.
same districts all the lands in the
said tracts, with the exception above
mentioned, remaining unsold at the
close OF the said sales, may be dispo.
sed OF at private sale by the register OF
1.-THE respective land Offices, in the same
manner, under the same regulations,
tor the same price and on the
same terms and conditions, as are
or may be provided by law for the sale
lot lands in the same districts, and
lpatcDts shall be obtained in the same
manner and on the same terms as 70,
lother public lands, sold in the same
4 districts.
| Sec. 2. And be it further enacted
That the several superintendent of
lPublic sales directed by this act, shall
receive four dollars asday, for each
days attendance on. the said sales.
| Sec. 8. And be it further enacted
That from.and after the 6rst day Of
June next, the second principal me.
lridian established by the surveyor gen.
eraI in the Indiana territory, shall be
lfhe boundary between the districts Of
VinoeDnes and Jacksonville and tn,
lands included in the said districts re-
lsPectively, according to the bounda
ries above mentioned, shall become
part of the district in which they are
included, and shall be sold at the same
place, In the same manner, and on the
terms and conditions as the other rub.
lie lands, lying in the same district.
Sec. a. Aud be it further enacted
That any person or persons entitled &c
donation lands, in the district of Win.
cennes by any former resolution OF
act of Congress, and WHO were minor,
or did not reside within the Indian.
territory daring the time allowed b,
: law tor registering claims to land with
in the. said district, and whose claim,
have not heretofore been presented tc
either OF the boards of Commission
Tor adjusting claims to land at Vim
cennes and Kaskaskia, may, until III,
: hrst day of November next, give no
tiee, in writing. to the register. of H.,
land Office of the said district of thei