Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-06-13

An ACT to establish additional Land Offices
in the states of Alabama and Illinois.
Be it enacted By the Senate and House
IF RchresentatiUes QfMe United States
Of .America, in Congress assembled,
That, for the sale of the appropriated
public lands in the state of Alabama, the
following districts shall be formed, and
land offices therefor established: All the
public lands, as aforesaid, bounded on
the north by the line which separates
townships numbered fourteen and fifteen,
in the district of Huntsville; on the
south, by the line which separates town.
ships twenty-five and twenty-three, in
the district of Cahaba, and the district
east of Pearl river; and on the east and
west, by the lines of the state OF Ala
hama, shall form district, for which a
land Office shall be established at Tus-
Caloosa. And all the public lands, as
aforesaid, bounded on the south by the
southern boundary Of the state of Alaba-
ma; on the west, by the line separating
ranges four and five, east of the basis
meridian, to the line separating town
ships five and six north, in the district OF
Cahaba thence, east, with said line, to
the line separating ranges twenty and
twenty-one; thence, north, with said
line, to the line separating townships
eleven and twelve; thence, east, with
said line, to the eastern boundary of the
state of Alabama, and bounded on the
east by the eastern boundary of said
state; shall form a district, for which a
land Office shall be established at Cone
cab courthouse.
Sec. .. ind be it further enacted,
That so much Of the public lands, here
tofore included in the Shawneetown land
district, as lies east Of the third principal
meridian, north of the base line, and west
Of the range line, between ranges num-
bered eight and nine, east of the said
third principal meridian, shall constitute
a separate land district; and, for the sale
of the public lands therein, there shall
be land Office established at Vandalia,
the seat of government for the state Of
Illinois.
Sec. 3. .dnd be il further enacted,
That so much of the public land as lies
north of the base line, east Of the aiore-
said range line, and west of the Big
Wabash river, as lies in the state of
Illinois, shall also constitute separate
land district; and, for the sale of the
public lands, there shall be land Office
established at the town Of Palestine, on
the said Wabash river.
Sec. q. .Aad be it further enacted,
That there shall be a register and re-
ceiver appointed to each of the aforesaid
land offices, to superntend the sales of
the public lands in their respective dis
tricts, who shall reside at the places de-
sienated in their respective districts, at
which the Offices are fixed, 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 ofat their
offices, as are or may be by law pro-
vided in relation to the registers and re-
ceiyers of public moneys in the several
offices established for the sale OF the
public lands.
Sec. S. ind be il further enacted,
That the provisions of the second, 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, eighteen hundred and nineteen,
be, and the same are hereby, made ap-
plicable to the aforesaid districts and
Offices, so far as they are not changed by
subsequent laws of the United States.