tion whatever, shall have been granted by the commissioners in pursuance of the provisions of this act, shall, as soon as may be, be surveyed under the direction of the surveyor of the lands of the United States above mentioned, in conformity to the true tenor and intent of such certificates; and the said surveyor shall also cause all the other lands of the United States, in the Missisippi territory, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, to be surveyed as far as practicable, into townships, and subdivided into half sections, in the manner provided for the surveying of the lands of the United States situate north west of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river, and shall transmit to the registers of the land offices respectively, general and particular plots of all the lands surveyed as aforesaid, and shall also forward copies of the said plots to the Secretary of the Treasury; and he shall also, with the approbation of the said Secretary, fix the compensation of the deputy surveyors, chain carriers, and axe men: Provided, That the whole expense of surveying and marking the lines. shall not exceed four dollars for every mile Expenses of that shall be actually run, surveyed and marksurveying. ed: And provided, that the expense of surveying those tracts of land, to which the title of the claimants is confirmed by the articles of agreement, or by the two first sections of this act, and those tracts claimed under British grants, a return of which is to be made to Congress, shall not be advanced by the United States, but shall be paid to the deputy surveyor by the parties claiming the same; and that in relation to all the land sold by the United States, the purchaser shall make the same payment for surveying expenses, which is directed by law to be made for lands sold north of the river Ohio. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That The lands all the lands aforesaid, not otherwise dispos- aforesaid unappropriated of, or excepted by virtue of the preceding ed to be sold. sections of this act, shall, with the exception of the section number sixteen, which shall be reserved in each township for the support of schools within the same, with the exception also of thirty-six sections to be located in one body by the Secretary of the Treasury for the use of Jefferson college, and also with the exception of such town lots not exceeding two in the town of Natchez, and of such an outlot adjoining the same, not exceeding thirty acres, as may be the property of the United States, to be located by the governor of the Missisippi territory, for the use of the said college, be offered for sale to the highest bidder, under the direction of the governor Under of the Missisippi territory, of the surveyor tions. of the lands of the United States, above mentioned, and of the register of the land office at the places respectively, where the land offices are kept, and on such day or Sales to redays as shall, by a public proclamation of the main open President of the United States, be designated for three for that purpose. The sales shall remain open then private at each place for three weeks and no longer; sales, by and all lands, other than the section number whom sixteen, remaining unsold at the closing of the public sales, may be disposed of at private sale by the registers of the respective land offices in the same manner, under the same regulations, for the same price, and on the same and on what terms and conditions as is provided by law, for the sale of the lands of the United States, north of the river Ohio, by an act, intituled, whose diree weeks terms. Proviso. ( 286 ) "An act to amend the act intituled, an act pro-viding for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory north west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river:" Provided always, That the lands which may be sold at public sale by virtue of this act, shall not be sold for less than two dollars per acre, and shall in every other respect be sold on the same terms and conditions as was provided for the lands sold at public sale, by Patent fees. the last recited act. And patents shall be ob Proviso. Fees of the the land-of fice, and receivers of nies. tained for all lands granted or sold in the Missisipi territory in the same manner and on payment of the same fees as is provided for lands sold north of the river Ohio, by the said last recited act; Provided however, That evidences of the public debt of the United States shall not be received in payment for the purchase of said lands. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the registers of registers of the land offices, and the receivers of public monies, appointed in pursuance of this act shall receive the same fees and compublic mo- pensation as the registers and receivers of the land offices north of the river Ohio, and the registers shall also be entitled to receive twenty-five cents for entering each certificate grant ed by the commissioners above mentioned. Salary of the The surveyor of the lands of the United States, appointed in pursuance of this act, shall receive an annual compensation of fifteen hundred dollars, and shall be allowed not extwo clerks. ceeding two clerks, whose whole compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars per annum. The commissioners appointed to asCompensa- certain the rights of persons claiming the benefit of the articles of agreement above men tioned, and of this act shall receive each a Surveyor and of his tion of the commissioners, compensation of two thousand dollars for the whole of their services, the registers of the land offices excepted, who shall receive only five hundred dollars each, for their services as and of their clerks. commissioners; the clerks of the boards of commissioners a compensation not exceeding seven hundred and fifty dollars each; and the superintendants of the public sales shall re- dants. ceive six dollars each, for each day's attendance on the said sales. Pay of the superinten surveyor, Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That Commisthe President of the United States shall have sions of the full power to appoint and commission the surregister of veyor, registers of the land offices, and receiv- the land-ofers of public monies above mentioned, in the fices, and recess of Congress, and their commissions receiver of shall continue in force until the end of the public mosession of Congress next ensuing such ap pointment. nies. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That Appropriaa sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, tion for this be, and the same is hereby appropriated for actthe purpose of carrying this act into effect; which sum shall be paid out of any unappropriated monies in the treasury. Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That tion of the Appropriathe nett proceeds of the lands which may be monies arissold by virtue of this act, after deducting the ing from the surveying expenses and other expenses inci- above sales. dent to the sale thereof, shall, and the same are hereby appropriated in the first place, to wards paying to the state of Georgia a sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in pursuance of the articles of agreement and cession entered into between the United States and that state; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay accordingly, and from time to Navigable time, as the same shall be received in the treasury of the United States, so much of the said nett proceeds as will amount to the said sum of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That rivers south all navigable rivers within the territory of the of Tennes- United States, south of the state of Tennesmain public. see, shall be deemed to be and remain public see to re highways. NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tempore. APPROVED, MARCH 3, 1803. TH: JEFFERSON. CHAPTER LXXXI. An ACT concerning the Salt Springs on the waters of the Wabash river. BE E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of procuring articles necessary to the establishment of salt works, at the springs near the Wabash river, which have been ceded to the United States, by certain Indian tribes, the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, and under the direction of the President of the United States, who is hereby authorized to cause the said springs to be worked at the expense of the United States; or, if he shall deem it more proper, to lease the same |