Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-03-12

bar their obtaining the benefits Of this act and all
Of said lands that shall remain unsod after having
proclaimed and offered shall be subject to entry at pr
waite sale other public land and at the same minimum
price per acre. and the register and shall not be
entitled TO any per centage fees except for deciding
pre-empon cases. when each of them shall be allowed the
same fees paid other like officers; but the re-
eelyer shall be entitled to his actual necessary expenses
going and returning in making his dcposites Procided
That nothing IN this act shall be construed authorize
any settlement to be made any public lands not
veyed unless the be made within year from the
passage OF this act shall any of such settlers be
Recognised by virtue OF any settlement improvement
made OF such lands subsequent thatday And
9osded further That this act shall be construed to
authorize any settlement 70 be made any tract of land
IN the occupation or possession OF any Indian tribe
grant any pre- emption right to the same
See q And BET further enacted That where any settle
ment by the erection of dwelling house or the cutya-
tion ofany portion Of the land shall be made upon the
sixteenth and thrtysixth sections before the shall
be surveyed where such sections may be reserved for
public uses or taken by private claims other land shall be
selected by the proper authorities OF the State in lieu
thereof agreeaby TO the provisions OF the Congress
approved on the twentieth of May eighteen hundred and
twenys entitled An act appropriate lands for the
support Of schools in certain townships and fractional
townships not before provided for and which shall be
subject approval by the Secretary of the Interior And
no person shall make settlement location upon any
tract parcel of land selected for military post or
within mile of such post any other lands re-
served by competent authority shall any person OBJ
tain the benefits Of this act by settlement location on
mineral lands
ana DC fther enacted, That the public lands,
not being mineral lands, occupied towns villages,
shall not be subdiyided, subject sale, be APP
proprated by settlers under the provisions this act
but the whole of such lands whether settled upon before
after survey Of the same shall be subject to the pro-
visions of the act entitled An act for the relief of the
citizens of towns upon the lands of the United States
der certain circumstances approved May twenty third
eighteen hundred and forty four except such
on mineral lands the inhabitants of which
shall have the right of occupation and cultivation only
until such time Congress shall dispose of the
forp NH ha
| appropriately under the provisions of this act.
Sec. O. AndbeH rtier enacted, That whenever the pub
nc surveys or any portion Of them authorized by this
act orby the act approved September twenty seventh
eigeen hundred and fifty, entitled An act to the
office Of surveyor general of the public lands in Oregon,
and to provide for the survey and to make donations
settlers of the said public lands required to be
made as to render it expedent to make for
the surveying thereof by the day. instead of by the mile
1t shall be lawful for the Commissioner of the General
Land Office under the direction of the Secretary of the
Interior make such fair and reasonable allowance as
IN his Judgment shall be necessary to insure the
frate and faithful execution of the work.
Sec. 10. And belt further enacted That except where the
of the United States shall otherwise
to determine each officer to be appointed in virtue of this
act and also every other like officer Of the United States
may continue in the uninterrupted discharge of his
gular official duties and is hereby authorized accordingly
so to act after the day of expiration of his official
mission, and until commission shall be issued to
him for the same office otherwise until the day when
successor shall enter upon the duties of such Office and
the existing official bond OF any such officer so acting
shall be deemed and held be good and sufficient and in
force until the date of the approval of bond be
given by him If reconnaissance otherwise, for the
additional time wherein he may continue officially
act pursuant to authority hereof And the provision as
to bonds to be given BY deputy surveyors for the faithful
execution of their duties in penalty of double the est
mated amount of money accrung them under their
veyRg contracts required by the Of March third
eighteen hundred and thrtyone, entitled % An to
create the Office of surveyor general Of the public lands
for the State of Louisiana referred to in the third
ton Of this act shall be and the same is hereby made APP
pcable public surveys in the State Of California and
the sucency of the suretes to all such bonds shall be
approved and certified by the proper surveyor general
and the provision is hereby extended to all other
branches Of the public surveying service elsewhere and
all such bonds heretofore required of deputy surveyors
according to usage in the surveying service shall be
deemed and held to be Of the validity the
had been required by law. And it is hereby made the
duty of each Of the respective surveyors general of the
United States far is compatible with
the desk duties of his office, occasionally TO inspect the
surveying operations while in progress in the field suf-
ceny satisfy himself from actual inspection of the
fidelity of the execution Of the work according CONTRACTS
and the actual and necessary expenses incurred by him
while engaged shall be allowed and where il is in
compatible with his other duties for surveyor general
to devote the time necessary TO make personal nspec
ton OF the work IN progress then he shall be and hereby
is authorized TO depue confidential agent to make such
examination and the actual and necessary expenses of
such person shall be allowed and paid for that service
and five dollars per day during the examination in the
ied Porided That such examination shall be pro-
aced beyond thirty days. and in longer than is
actually necessary and when surveyor general any
person employed in his Office at a regular salary shall be
engaged in such special service he they shall only
ceye his necessary expenses in addition to his regular
salary.
Sec H. And belt further enacted That the Secretary of
the Interior be and he is hereby authorized and required
be provided for the Office Of the surveyor
general of Oregon q seal, with such device shall be
deemed suitable and copies Of any papers file in his
Office which may be authenticated by him under said seal
shall be evidence in all cnsesn which the originals would
be evidence and from and after the passage Of this act
the salary Of said surveyor shall be three thousand FIVE
hundred dollars per annum.
Sec. II. And be further enacted That the quantity of
two entiretownships, seventytwo sections, shall be
and the is hereby granted the State Of California
for the Of seminary Of learning said lands be
ected by the Governor Of the State any he
may designate for that purpose, in legal subdivisions Of
not less than quarter Of any Of the unsold
occupied and unappropriated public lands therein SUBJ
ect the approval Of the Secretary Of the Interior and
to be disposed Of the legislature shall direct Prordd
horeUe That mineral lands lands reserved for any
public purpose whatever lands 70 which any settler
may be entitled under the provisions Of this act shall be
subject to such selection.
Sec 10. and Be further enacted, That there shall be
and hereby granted the State of California the guam
tty Of ten entire sections Of land for the purpose Of
erecting the public buildings Of that State said lands to
be selected by the Governor any persons he may de-
sgnste in legal subdivisions Of not less than quarter
section Of any Of the unsod unoccuped and unappro-
priated public lands in that State and subject to the APP
prova of the Secretary 81 the Interiors ProVded how
That none Of said selections shall be made Of mineral
lands lands reserved for public purpose whatever
lands which any settler may be entitled under the
visions Of this act Approved, March ., 1898.
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