Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-09-13
LINN DO1D,
Speaker of the House of Representa-

the Cape Fear North Carolina at onear its conun
1870, Sg LINN BOYD,
Speaker of the House of Representatyes.
| President of the Senate pro tenapGre.
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New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska to grant donations
& actual eae ss hs snd for 9Rs
Of the United States Of A,aeica in Congress assened That
shall be and he hereby authorized appoint surveyor
general for New Mexico whose annual salary shall be three
be as those provided by law for the
general of Oregon; he shall have proper allowances for
clerk hire Office rent and fuel exceeding what is
or hereafter may be allowed by law to the said
general OF Oregon and he shall locate his office from time
SEC 2. And be further enacted That to every white
male citizen ofthe United States every white male
the OF wentyone years who his declared his intention
to become citizen and who residing said Territory
prior to the first day of January eighteen hundred and
hfhree and who may be still residing there there shall
bred and sixty acres of land And to every While male
citizen of the United States or every white male above the
become citizen and who shall have removed shall
move TO and settle IN sad between the DAY OF
Of January eighteen hundred and there shall in
and sixty condition of actual settlement and cu
walton for not less than four ro0ded h0a0eoer
ment and improvement of the donee and shall be selected
by legal subdivisions within three months after the survey
of the land where the settlement made before the
and where the settlement made after the survery
then within three months after the % been
of their claims within that time, shall forfeit all right to
Sec. g. And be further enacted That proof of the
settlement and cultivation required by this act to the
satisfaction of the general other officer desg
mated by law that purpose subject to the supervision Of
the Secretary of the Interior certificate shall be issued
the party entitled on of which, by
the Secretary of the INTERIOR patent shall issue thereon
P9r That on 1 the death any such settler
cultivation required this act the right shall descend
patent aforesaid, proof before provided of con-
nIsd and by such settler to the time
CLAIMED under any of the provisions of this by persons
who not citizens of the United States patents shall
issue therefor until they become citizens
visions of this shall extend to mineral school lands
and occupied purposes commerce.
for agriculture and all legal subdivisions settled and
cuped whole in part for purposes of trade and
Visions Of the act CT MAY ehteen hundred
and foryfour in relation sites the public lands
whether settled and occupied before after the survey
of said lands except that said lands shall be donated instead
SEC. 5: 4ad5 fnther enacted, That when the lands
of the Government of the United States preparatory
bringing the into maket sections numbered sixteen
and thrtyx in each township in said Territory shall be-
and the hereby reserved for the purpose of being
applied to schools said Territory and in the States and
SEC. g. Ind be it further enacted That when the lands
of land equal to two townships shall be- and the is
hereby, reserved for the establishment of university in
the same be selected the direction the Leg
aturc in legal subdivisions Of not less than one half
ton.
Sec Z. And5e it fuler enacted That any of the lands
not taken under the provisions of this act shall be sui ect
ber eighteen hundred and ortyone whether settled upon
or T r and p all e s a he @
his declaration within three months after the survey
under this shall be permitted the claimed
b. him at time prior to the four errs occupation and
cultivation required by paving therefor the
pancy and cultivation to the time Of such payment
~ of the surveyor general under may
origin nature, character and extent of all claims lands
under the laws and customs of Spain and Mexico
administer oath and do and perform all other necessary
acts in the premises He shall make full report all
of Eighteen hundred and rtTsbt depotinp tbe var6ns
idy of each of the under the laws usages and
shall also make a report regard all pueblos exist
ing the Territory showing the extent and locality
pective and the nature their titles Such
report to be made according to the form which be
shall be laid before Congress for such action thereon
BE Ip and 5 n b gw to confirm agP
teen hundred and ortyeight between the United States
claims all lands covered thereby shall be reserved from
sale other disposal by the Government and shall not be
subject to the donations granted by the
SEC, O. nd be further enacted That full power
all needful rules and regulations carrying eff
Get the several provisions of this
Sec 10. Ind be 1t further enacted That the President
the United States be- and he is hereby authorized
by the advice and of the Senate
general for the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas who
hall locate his office at such place the President of the
United SaSes shall from time to time direct and
alton shall be the those of the surveyor general
Wisconsin and Iowa. and who shall be allowed the same
mount for office rent fuel incidental expenses and clerk
is allowed to said general of Wisconsin
nd Iowa.
SEC IL. And be further enacted That said surveyor
general shall the necessary surveys TO be made in
aid Territories of standard meridian base and parallel
ines and of township and subdvsiona lines, under
ues and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Com
of the General Land Office. | D.,
SEC. 12 And be 1t further enacted That all the lands to
hch the Indian title has been shall be exngushed
ithn said Territories of Nebraska and Kansas shall be
ember eighteen hundred and fortyone, and under the
ondon restrictions and stipuations therein mentioned:
To06dd hoarece That where unsurveyed lands claim
by presumption notice of the specific tracts claimed shall
filed within three months after the has been
lade in the field, and failure file such notice to-
for the tracts claimed before the day fixed for the
sale of the lands by the proclamation of President
the United States the parties claiming such lands shall
18th the general and to be noted by the
1wnsp pats until other arrangements shall have been
ade by law for that purpose.
Sec 49, Ind be it further enacted That the public lands
the Territory Nebraska the Indian title shall
ave been exngushed, shall constitute land dis
let to be called the Omaha district and the public
the Territory of Kansas, to which the Iniautle shall
ave been extngmshed shall constitute anewsand district
be called the Pawnee district the offices for of =
hch districts shall be established at such points the
resident may deem eXpeden and he hereby authorized
register and receiver of public moneys each of
i'd dist lets, who shall each be required
tie of their respective Offices and they shall same
wers perform the duties and be entitled the
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