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offered for fale in fections and half fections, fub- Certain divided as before directed at the following places and times, that is to fay; those below the Little Miami fhall be offered at public vendue, in the town of Cincinnati, on the first Monday of April one thoufand eight hundred and one, under the direction of the Register of the land-office there established, and of either the Governor or Secretary of the north-western territory: The lands east of Sciota, south of the military lands, and west of the fifteenth range of townships, fhall be offered in like manner for sale at Chilicothe, on the first Monday of May, one thoufand eight hundred and one, under the direction of the Regis ter of the land-office there established, and of either the Governor or Secretary of the faid territory: The lands eaft of the fixteenth range of townships, fouth of the military lands and weft of the Muskingum, including all the townfhips interfected by that river, fhall be offered for fale in like manner at Marietta, on the last Monday of May, one thoufand eight hundred and one, under the direction of the Governor or Secretary, or Surveyor-General of the faid territory. The fales fhall remain open at each place for three weeks and no longer. The fuperintendants fhall obferve the rules and regulations of the above-mentioned act, in claffing and felling fractional with entire fections, and in keeping and transmitting accounts of the fales. All lands, remaining unfold, at the clofing of either of the public fales, may be disposed of at private fale by the Registers of these respective land-offices, in the manner herein after prefcribed; and the Register of the land-office at Steubenville, after the first day of July next, may proceed to fell at private fale, the lands fituate within the diftrict affigned to his direction as herein before defcribed, difpofing of the fame in fections, and

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claffing fractional with entire fections, according to the provifions and regulations of the above-mentioned act and of this act: And the Register of the land-office at Marietta, after the faid first day of July next, may proceed to fell at private fale, any of the lands within the diftrict affigned to his direction as aforesaid, which are eaft of the river Mufkingum, excluding the townships interfected by that river, difpofing of the fame in sections, and claffing fractional with entire fections as aforefaid.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That no lands Limita- fhall be fold by virtue of this act, at either public tion of the or private fale, for less than two dollars per acre, mode of and payment may be made for the fame by all purchate purchafers, either in fpecie, or in evidences of and pay- the public debt of the United States, at the rates prescribed by the act, intituled, "An act to authorize the receipt of evidences of the public debt in payment for the lands of the United States;" and fhall be made in the following manner, and under the following conditions, to wit:

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1. At the time of purchase, every purchaser fhall, exclufively of the fees hereafter-mentioned, pay fix dollars for every section, and three dollars for every half fection, he may have purchafed, for furveying expenfes, and depofit onetwentieth part of the amount of the purchase money, to be forfeited, if within forty days onefourth part of the purchase money, including the faid twentieth part, is not paid.

2. One-fourth part of the purchase money fhall be paid within forty days after the day of fale as aforefaid; another fourth part shall be paid within two years; another fourth part within three years; and another fourth part within four years after the day of sale.

3. Intereft, at the rate of fix per cent. a year,

from the day of fale, fhall be charged upon each of the three last payments, payable as they respectively become due.

4. A discount, at the rate of eight per cent. a year, shall be allowed on any of the three last payments, which fhall be paid before the same fhall become due, reckoning this discount always upon the fum, which would have been demandable by the United States, on the day appointed for fuch payment.

5. If the first payment of one-fourth part of the purchase money fhall not be made within forty days after the fale, the depofit, payment and fees, paid and made by the purchafer, fhall be forfeited, and the lands fhall and may, from and after the day, when the payment of onefourth part of the purchase money fhould have been made, be difpofed of at private fale, on the fame terms and conditions, and in the fame. manner as the other lands directed by this act to be difpofed of at private fale: Provided, That the lands which fhall have been fold at pulic fale, and which fhall, on account of fuch failure. of payment, revert to the United States, fhall not be fold at private fale, for a price lefs than the price that fhall have been offered for the fame at public fale.

6. If any tract fhall not be completely paid for within one year after the date of the last payment, the tract fhall be advertised for fale by the Register of the land office within whose district it may lie, in at leaft five of the moft public places in the faid district, for at least thirty days before the time of fale: And he fhall fell the fame at public vendue, during the fitting of the court of quarter feffions of the county in which the land-office is kept, for a price not lefs than the whole arrears due thereon, with the expenses of fale; the furplus, if any, thall be

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returned to the original purchafer, or to his legal reprefentative; but if the fum due, with intereft, be not bidden and paid, then the land shall revert to the United States. All monies paid therefor fhall be forfeited, and the Register of the land-office may proceed to dispose of the fame to any purchafer, as in cafe of other lands at private fale.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all and every the payments, to be made by virtue of the made to preceding fection, fhall be made either to the the Trea- Treasurer of the United States, or to fuch perfon or officer as fhall be appointed by the Preof public fident of the United States, with the advice and monies. confent of the Senate, Receiver of public monies Duty of for lands of the United States, at each of the receivers places respectively where the public and private of public fales of the faid lands are to be made; and the monies. faid Receiver of public monies fhall, before he

enters upon the duties of his office, give bond, with approved fecurity, in the fum of ten thoufand dollars, for the faithful difcharge of his trust; and it shall be the duty of the faid Treafurer and Receiver of public monies to give receipts for the monies by them received, to the perfons respectively paying the fame; to transmit within thirty days in cafe of public fale, and quarterly in cafe of private fale, an account of all the public monies by them received, specifying the amount received from each perfon, and diftinguishing the fums received for furveying expenfes, and thofe received for purchase money, to the Secretary of the Treafury, and to the Registers of the land-office, as the cafe may be. The faid Receivers of public monies fhall, within three months after receiving the fame, transmit the monies by them received to the Treasurer of the United States; and the Receivers of public monies for the said sales, and

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also the Receivers of public monies for the fales Their which have taken place at Pittsburg under the compen act, intituled, “An act providing for the fale of the lands of the United States in the territory north-west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," fhall receive one per cent. on the money received, as a compenfation for clerk hire, receiving, fafe-keeping, and tranfmitting it to the Treafury of the United States.

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Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be the duty of the Registers of the land-offices Duty of the Regifrespectively, to receive and enter on books kept for that purpose only, and on which no blank the landleaves or space fhall be left between the differ- offices. ent entries, the applications of any perfon or perfons who may apply for the purchase of any fection or half fection, and who fhall pay him the fee hereafter-mentioned, and produce a receipt from the Treasurer of the United States, or from the Receiver of public monies appointed for that purpose, for three dollars for each half section such person or perfons may apply for, and for at least one-twentieth part of the purchase money, ftating carefully in each entry the date of the application, the date of the receipt to him produced, the amount of monies specified in the faid receipt, and the number of the section or half fection, township and range applied for. If two or more perfons fhall apply at the fame time for the faid tract, the Register fhall immediately determine by lot, in presence of the parties, which of them fhall have preference. He fhall file the receipt for monies produced by the party, and give him a copy of his entry, and if required, a copy of the defcription of the tract, and a copy of the plat of the fame, or either of them; and it shall be his duty to inform the party applying for any one tract,