The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-03-10
March ID, l8l3.
lrUsLlc--So. 4O.l

AN ACT providing for the sale Of certain land, iu
tnc States of Ohio and Michigan, ceded by the
"yandot tribe Of Indians, and Tor other purposes
be enacted BY The Senate aud House Of Repressns-
tires Of th United States Of .seyica in Congress assem-
o<d That all that tract Of land in the State of Ohio
70 wn,cn the ind'an lo was extinguished by treaty
win the Wyundot tribe of Indians conc udcd at Up-
Por sandusky, March seventeenth, eighteen hundred
ana iorty-two, shall be attached TO- and made part
OF The consolidated land district in which it is situ-
aled and that the land Office for the said district
shall DC removed from Lima to tho town Of Upper
oan1usky within the tract aforesaid as soon as in
the Judgment Of the President of tue United States
sucn removal shall BE- proper
Soc =. Ind Dc further enacted That portion of
the tract aforesaid including the town of Upper San
dusky snail under the direction Of tie surveyor GO
neral be laid OIL into town lots, Streets and avenues
and into out lots, 10 such and Of such dmeu-
sons ~ n may judge proper Prorided That the
land 30 laid OF shall not exceed in quantity six hun
dred aud forty acres, the town lots quarter Of
an acre EACH nor tho out lots exceed the quantity of
two acres each and the residue OF the lands ia the
tract shall be surveyed as other public lands
nrxion with the adjacent previous surveys.
Sec. = Iind Be further enacted That all the pub
TIC land IN said tract, with the exception of the
ton numbered sixteen, in each township, which shall
remain for the support of common schools, and of
the lots reserved by the provisions of the aforesaid
aly, which shall remain Cor tho purposes therein
expressed, shall the surveys aud piats of
me sane Dc returned to the general and district land
onaces, DO offered ut public sale, at Upper Sandusky
under the supcrintendence OF tho register OF tho land
Office and the receiver Of public moneys for tho dis
rict, at such time shall be designated by procla-
nation OF the President of the United States; the
sales 70 remain open for t~o weeks and no longer,
and the lands not to be sold at public sale nor Il
subject to private entry thereafter for price less
than two dollars and fifty cents per acre
Fec. 4. .dnd be further enacted, That tho town
lots and Out lots directed by this act to DO laid of
SHALL with the exec p0n Of four town lots to be Sc
ccted BY the suPernendents Of the sale Tor the use
of and to DO vested in the town when it shall become
corporate and also of the lots reserved BY the sew
enteenth art Gle Of the aforesaid treaty, to remain
for the uses therein provided for, be offered at public
sale at The time the other Ian in the tract are offer
thereafter p orided hoceper That no town lot shall
be sold Tor less than twenty dollars, any out lot
for less than at the rate of fifteen dollars per acre.
Sec. 5. Ind be farther enacted, That, in cxecu-
ting the surveys Of tho lands in the tract aforesaid
the surveyor general shall cause the inn roved lands
10 be designated on the general plat and the position
extcnt, and quality of each Improvement to b. care
fully noted; and the Commissioner Of the General
Land Office shall cause tho superintendent Of the
sales 10 be furnished with copy Of the schedule Of
the appraised value Of Improvements ascertaired,
pursuant TO the fifth article of the said treaty and
IN any case where the lines for subdivision Of Sec
toDs shall divide and njuriOusy affect the value OF
an improvement the supernendents Of the sale shall
be authorized under instruction Of the Commission
of the General and Office, to offer, at public AMI
at private sale, entire quarter section half quar-
ter section, and 10 attach together halves Of two ad
Jscent quarter sections, 80 a. to preserve far
prac icaOc, the improvements a tract entire and
il, in offering at public sale any tract which i'm
provements exists, the real value Of the same,
cordng 10 the estmate Of the superintendent, shall
not be hidden, it shall be their duty withdraw the
tract from sale, and the tracts thus Withdrawn from
sale shall again be offered at public sale, due public
notice FIRST being given. when directed by the CON-
missioner Of the General Land Office.
Sec 6. .fnd be further enacted, That all the lands
in tho Wyandot reserve, both sides Of the river
Huron, IN The State Of Michigan, ceded to the Uni
ted States by the aforesaid treaty. shall be attached
to and made part of the district Of lands subject to
sale at Detroit, aod shall be offered for sale at the
land Office, in the manner, both as to p~bc and
private is directed Tor the sale Of the lands in the
reserve in the State of Ohio by this act Prorided,
That the land shall be sold for less than two dollars
per acre.
Approved, March Sd, ls43.