The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-06-29
1PuBLrc-No. 33.1


PuBLIc-No. 33.
AN ACT to divide the Green Bay land
district in Michigan, and for other purposes.
BE IL enacted 6y the Senate and House OF
Representatives. Of the United States o.:
Ameriea in Congress assembled, That the
country on The western shore of Lake Mich
igan, embraced within the limits of the
Green Bay land district rs established by
the act of Congress, of the twenty-six,h
day of June, eighteen hundred aud thirty
four, shall be, and is hereby, divided by
line commencing on the western boundary
of said district and running thence, east
between townships ten and eleven north,
to the line between ranges seventeen and
eighteen, east thence north, between said
ranges of townships, 10 the line between
townships, twelve and thirteen north; thence
east, between said townships twelve and
thirteen, to Lake Michigan; and all the
country bounded north by the division line
here described, south by the base line, east
by the Lake Michigan, and west by the di-
vision line between ranges eight and nine
east, shall constitute separate district, and
he called the Mllwiky land districk.
SECTION 2. And be ii further enacted,
That two additional districts shall be, and
are hereby established in the peninsula Of
Michigan, one to be called the Grand river,
aud the other the Saginaw, land district,
the former Of which shall be bounded as
follows, to wit: beginning mt the shore of
Lake Michigan, on The tire between town
ships three and four north, and running east
on said line To the line between ranges mum
ber SIX aud seven west of the principal
meridian; thence, on said range line south,
to the base line ofthe public serveys: thence
on said base line east, to the principal meri-
dian line; thence north, on said meridian,
to the north boundary of township ten
north thence west, on the line between
townships ten and eleven north, 10 the
western boundary of range two west; and
thence north, following the line between
ranges two and three west, so as to include
all that portion of the peninsula of Michi-
gan lying west of said line. The Saginaw
district shall embrace all the tract Of coun-
try bounded on the west by the Grand riv-
district aforesaid; on the south, by the di-
vision line, between townships numbere
FIVE and six, north of the base line; on the
east by the division line, between ranges
eleven and twelve, east Of the principal
meridian; and on the north and northeast
by Saginaw bay and Lake Huron.
SEcrIoN 3. iad be ii tmther cRacted,
That for each Of all the aforesaid districts
there shall be appointed a register and re-
celyer, who shall reside and superin,end
the sales Of the public lands at such place,
respective district, as the President of the
United States may designate. They shall
give security in the same manner and in the
same sums, and their compensation, emo
luments, duty, end authority, shall, in every
respect, be the same, i'll relation to the
lands which may be disposed of at their
offices, as are, or may be, provided by law
relative to the register aud receivers of pub
lie money in the several offices established
for the sale of the public lands.
SECTION A. And be 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
the said districts TO be deposited in the land
Offices intended for them, respectively and
he is hereby authorized to allow and pay
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lands the reasonable expenses which may
be incurred in carrying into effect the pro-
visions Of this act. .f.
SECTION 5. And be 1t further enacted,
That the lands which were ceded to the
United States by the treaty made with the
cOnfederated tribes of Sac and Fox Indians
at Fort Armstrong, in the State of Illinois,
on the twenty-6rst day of September, eigh-
tren hundred aud thiry-iow, be, aud the
same are hereby, attached to, and made a
part of, the Wisconsin and district, in the
Territory Of Michigan; and that said lands
shall be liable to be surveyed and sold at
Mineral Point, or wherever the President
NAV direct, in the same manner as other
public lands of the district.
SECTION 6. ARd be htnrther onaeted,
That this act shall take offcct and be in
force from aud after the first day of August
next.