The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-03-04
An Act,

Sec. |. BE u enacted 0Y He Legislature " "'
State of Mississippi, That the Secretary OF State u
is hereby constituted and appointed register tor J
the sale of the 100000 acres Of land donated !
bv Congress to this State for purposes of inter-
nal improvement, and he is hereby authorized {
and required to offer the same, By quarter Sec
tons, to the highest bidder, at the minimum
price of six dollars per acre, in front OF Inc
conitol at Jackson; the sale commencing at III
O'Clock. on the first Monday of January, AID
l849. and continuing from day to day, until all
If said lands to which the State shall then
have an undisputed title, shall be offered
Sec. Q. Be it further enacted, That all OF
said land which shall be offered as above
mentioned, and remain unsold, shall thereafter
be subject to private entry, at the minimum
price Of six dollars per acre.
Sec. 8. Be tfrther enacted, That the Secre-
tary of State is hereby authorized and required
to advertise Immediately after the passage oil
This act. the time and place ofsaid sale, togeth-
or with the kind of funds receivable IN pay
ment for said lands, in the Mississipplan ana
southron, newspapers printed in the city OF
jackson. and the Weekly Union and National
Iptelligencer, printed in the city oil Washing
ton and continue said advertisement untlkthe
dov Of sale. and the Auditor of Public Ac-
o,nnts is, hereby authorized and required to
draw his warrants on the treasury Tor a sum
sufficient to dolray the expenses OF SAID ad-
Vertisement.
Sec. a. Be itfurther enacted, That the State
{ Treasurer is hereby authorized and required TO
act as receiver in the above mentioned sale'
o and shall receive in payment for lands sold AT
soid sale, or entered privately thereafter, gold
and silver. the bonds Of this State sold on &C.
q count of the Planters Bank, coupons OF inter-
0 est on the same, Auditors warrants, funded OF
unrunded: and the Secretary Of State is here
bv authorized and required to give to the pur-
chaser at said sale, or at private entry thereat-
ter. a certificate of purchase, specifying the
10 numbers Of said land, together with the num'
IN her Of acres and price of the same, and regis
ter said receipt in a book kept by him Tor una
nurnose: and on presentation Of said certificate
to the Treasurer and payment to HIM oil the
purchase money, he shall give a receipt for the
same, specifying the kind Of funds received D!
him; and on presentation of said last men'Ion
no ed receipt to the Auditor Of public accounts
said Auditor shall register the same in a pool
of kept by him for that purpose, and endorse Of
of said receipt that he has registered the same
~ and on presentation of said receipt SO enaorse'
no to the Secretary of State, he is hereby requlr
ed to issue a patent to the purchaser with IN
sool of the State affixed thereto; Provided, tina
10 M recent or certificate or endorsement there
on above mentioned, shall convey any TILE
ne the purchaser until he shall present the sam
on to the Secretary of State and r%ecei'e'a paten.
= and the Secretary Of State shall keep on nj
if all such receipts so taken up.
Lo Sec, s.. Be il further enacted, That the Al
ditor of Public Accounts is required to keep
III strict and faithful account between the o'a'
The OF Mississippi and the internal improvement
fund. in which he shall charge the State deO'
to ali sums received by the Treasurer on a
count of the sale of the above mentlon'
lands; and the Treasurer is hereby require
annually, to calculate the interest on SO III"
of SAID fund as shall be paid into the treasu
Nth in said bonds, coupons and AUDITORS waTran'
ing Mt the rate of six per centum per annum al
the interest SO accruing, together with SUI
tie sums as shall be paid into the treasury on d
count of said fund in money shall be app
by nriated to purposes Of internal improveme
acre and to no other purpose whatever, Ffor'a
Pro- that nothingin this act contained shall PreV'
e oil the Legislature at any time from making su
able ,nnropriations for internal improvement out
ION the surplus revenue accumuIatlng IN the te
lage urv. as shall be deemed expedient and prop
in anticipation of said a%ccruing Interest," a
said sums received into the treasury IN mon
n to to be set apart and charged to the internal
the movement fund by the Auditor OF Public q
g as counts at the line said appropriations are ma
lator and to be credited in like manner TO sald III
MS said interest a%ccrues, and said sums Of M
ey are received into the treasury
the Sec. 6. Be 10 Gather enacted, That any act
beg settler on the 100000 acres Of land granted
Mr.. this State for the purposes OF in'efnal 'nP,O
very ment, who is now, and was at the time OF
,ous- location thereof, resident thereon VINO d
my not own in any State or territory IN tue o"'
Q the States as much as one quarter section OF Ia
son's mon satisfactory proof whereof, made be-
RIM the Secretary Of State on or before the first
Of January, A, D. 1849, shall be entitled
enter the quarter section on which ne resi-
ire is or resides as aforesaid, at the price OF two
lars and fifty cents per acre, payable IN
hirst, kind Of funds made receivable iof lahus
e, the foregoing provisions of this act.
Sec. I. Be ii further enacted, That the
; but cretary of State shall be entitled to receive
the services required of him by the ProvlS'