Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-24
Approved, March 8, 1868.
PTRJJC-NO. 76.1
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AN ACT to provide for the disposal of certain
lands therein named.

AN ACT to provide for the disposal of certain
lands therein named.
Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that the commits
sioner of the general land office shall, as soon
as may be, cause that portion of the public do
iaain known as the Fort Howard Military Re-
serve, including the site of the fort, containing
thu e acres and four hundredths of an acre,
which is situated in the county of Brown and
state of Wisconsin, between Fox river and
Beaver Dam Run, and which is not included
in the combinations to Talbot G.. Dousman
and Daniel Whitney, nor in the grant to the
state of Wisconsin under the resolution of
congress approved April twenty-fitth, eight
cen hundred and sixty two, entitled "a reso-
luton explanatory OF, and in addition to, the
act of June third, eighteen hundred and fifty
six, granting public lands to the state of Wis
consin to aid in the construction of railroads
in said state" as heretofore surveyed under
the direction of the surveyor general of Wis
consin and Iowa, to be surveyed and subdivided
into lots of such form and of such size, not less
than one fourth of an acre, and not more than
forty acres, as he may deem expedient, dedcat-
ing such portions of the same to the use of
the public for streets and highways as he may
require and shall cause plat thereof to be
duly and properly certified by such surveyor
general, and recorded in the Office of the reg
lister of deeds for said county of Brown; and
when so surveyed, plated and recorded, he
shall cause each and all said lots to be sold
separately at public auction, giving not less
than two months notice of the time and place
of such sale by advertising the same in such
newspapers and for such period of time as he
may deem best. Every such lot shall be sold
to the highest bidder for cash, and when not
paid for within twenty -four hours from the
time of purchase, it shall be liable to be re-
sold under the order of the commissioner of
the general land office aforesaid, but no sale
shall be binding until approved by the secre-
tary of the interior.
Sect 2. And be it farther enacted, that
it shall be the duty of the president to cause
patents to be issued in due form OF law tor
each and every such lot as soon as may be
after the purchase of and payment for the
same.
Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that
it shall also be the duty of the commissioner
of the land office to cause so much OF the pub
lie domain adjacent to said reserve as lies be-
tween said Beaver Dam Run and Duck Creek
to be resurveyed into lots the lines of which
shall conform as near as may be to the lines
of the survey formerly made by Albert G.
Ellis, and shall cause certified plats thereof to
be returned as is provided by law in the case of
other surveys of the public domain; and he
shall thereupon proceed to disposeof the same
as other public lands are disposed of, saving to
every person who upon the passage of this act
may be in possession of any part of said lands,
and shall have made improvements thereon,
as provided under the presumption laws of the
United States, the right to purchase any lots
SO improved, lying contiguous to each other,
and not exceeding in the aggregate eighty
acres, upon making proof of such possession
and improvements, and paying for such lots
the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents
per acre, within six months after public notice
shall be given of the time and place for max
ing such proof and payment.
Sect. 4. And be it further enacted, that
the commissioner of the general land office
shall cause the military reserve of fort Craw-
ford, in the county of Crawford, in the same
state, to be surveyed and disposed ofin the man.
ner prescribed in the first and second sections
# this act for the disposition Of the fort How
ard reserve.