Year: 1867




An Act to provide for the Disposal of certain


Lands therein named.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America, in
Congress assembled, That the commissioner of
the general land Office shall, as soon as may be-
cause that portion Of the public domain known as
the Fort Howard Military Reserve, including the
site of the fort, containing three 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-fifth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, entitled GA resolution
explanatory Of and in addition to, the act OF June
third, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, granting
public lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in
the construction of railroads in said Statc'' as
heretofore surveyed under the direction of the
surveyor general of Wisconsin 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, dedicating such portions of the
same to the use of the public for streets and high
ways as he may think the public interest and con-
veniencc may require and shall cause a plat
thereof to be duly and properly certified by such
surveyorgeneral, and recorded in the office of the
register 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 ad-
vertising 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 twcnty-four
hours from the time of purchase, it shall be liza
BILE to be resold under the order of the commits
sioner of the general land-offfce aforesaid, but
sale shall be binding until approved by the Sec
retary of the Interior


Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the President to cause patents to
be issued in due form Of law for each and every
such lot as soon as may be after the purchase of
and payment for the


Sec 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall
also be the duty of the commits ioner OF the land
office to cause so much of the public domain ad-
jacent to said reserve as lies between said Beaver
Dam Run and Duck Greek to be re-surveyed 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
case of other surveys of the public domain and
he shall thereupon proceed to dispose of the same
as other public lands disposed of, saving to
every person who upon the passage of this act
may be in possession of any part of said lands,
provided under the pre-emption laws of the Uni
ted States, the right to purchase any lots SO i'm
proved, lying contiguous to each other, and not
exceeding in the aggregate eighty acres, upon
making proof OF such possession and improve
ments, 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 making such proof and pay
mcnt.


Sec 4. And be it further enscted, That the COM
missioner of the general land-office shall cause
the military of Fort Crawford, in the coun-
ty of Crawford, i'll the same State, to be surveyed
and disposed OF in the manner prescribed in the


first and second sections of this act for the dispo
sition of the Fort Howard Reserve.


Approved, March 3, 1868.