ers of public monies of the several land offices of the United States; and the residue of the said copies shall be preserved for the future disposition of Congress. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. April 27, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER LI. AN ACT providing for the better accommodation of the general post-office and patent office, and for other purposes. E it enacted by the Senate and House of President au built a house America, in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and hereby thorised to is authorised to erect, or procure by purchase, buy or to a building suitable for the accommodation of cause to be the general post-office, and of the office of the for the ackeeper of the patents, in such situation, and commodation finished in such manner, as the interest of ral post office the United States and the safety and conveni- and the office ence of those offices respectively, and the ar- of the par rangement of the models in the patent office tents. shall, in his opinion, require. of the gene of the keeper Compensation of the superintendents of the public sales. tween dis price, and on the same terms and conditions, as are, or may be provided by law for the sale of lands in the same districts, and patents shall be obtained in the same manner, and on the same terms as for other public lands, sold in the same districts. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several superintendents of public sales directed by this act, shall receive four dollars a day, for each day's attendance on the said sales. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the first day of June next, the second principal meridian established by the surveyor general in the Indiana territory, Boundary be shall be the boundary between the districts tricts of Vin- of Vincennes and Jeffersonville; and the cennes & Jef- lands included in the said districts respectivefersonville. ly, according to the boundaries above men. tioned, shall become a part of the district in Sales to be which they are included, and shall be sold regulated ac- at the same place, in the same manner, and cordingly. on the same terms and conditions as the other public lands, lying in the same district. Certain claims to district of Vincennes. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons entitled to donation land in the lands, in the district of Vincennes by any former resolution or act of Congress, and who were minors, or did not reside within the Indiana territory during the time allowed by law for registering claims to land within the Mode of prosaid district, and whose claims have not hereceeding for tofore been presented to either of the boards having them of commissioners for adjusting claims to land at Vincennes and Kaskaskia, may, until the first day of November next, give notice, in writing, to the register of the land office of recorded. the said district of their claims, and have the evidence of the same recorded in the same manner, and on payment of the fees provided by an act, entitled "An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes;" and the right of any such persons neglecting to give such notice of his claim, and to have the evidence of the same recorded, shall become void, and forever be barred. receiver of cennes, how Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Register of register of the land office and the receiver of the land of public monies at Vincennes shall perform the fice and the same duties and exercise the same powers in public morelation to the claims filed with the register nies at Vinunder this act, which by the last recited act affected by were enjoined on, or vested in the commis- this act. sioners designated by the said act; and it shall also be the duty of the said register and receiver, to make to the secretary of the treasury a report of all the claims thus filed with the register of the land office, together with the substance of the evidence adduced in support thereof, with such remarks thereon as they may think proper; which report, together with a list of the claims, which in the opinion of the register and receiver ought to be confirmed, shall be laid by the secretary of the treasury before Congress at their next session, for their determination thereon; and the said register and receiver shall each be allowed an additional compensation of one hundred dollars, in full for their services in relation to such claims, and one hundred dollars for clerk hire. 1 Sec. 6. And be it further enacted That a tract of land in the Illinois territory, at, and including Shawnectown, on the Ohio river A tract of land in the ritory to be Illinois ter laid off under direction of surveyor gen. eral. Proviso. Proviso. shall, under the direction of the surveyor general, be laid off into town lots, streets and avenues, and into out lots, in such manner and of such dimensions as he may judge proper: Provided, The tract so to be laid off shall not exceed the quantity of land contained in two entire sections, nor the town lots one quarter of an acre each. When the survey of the lots shall be completed, a plat thereof shall be returned to the surveyor general, on which the town lots and out lots shall respectively be designated by progressive numbers, who shall cause two copies to be made, one to be transmitted to the secretary of the treasury, and the other to the register of the land office; and the lots shall be offered to the highest · bidder at public sale, at the same time and place, on the same terms and conditions, (except as to the quantity of land,) as have or may be provided for the sale of the other public lands in the said territory: Provided, That no town lot shall be sold for a less price than eight dollars, nor any out lot for less than at the rate of five dollars an acre. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN GAILLARD, President of the Senate, pro tempore. April 30, 1810. APPROVED, JAMES MADISON. CHAPTER LIII. AN ACT to extend the time for making payment for the public lands of the United States in certain cases. B tions, under United States allowed a further time to make their payments. E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That every Actual setperson who, prior to the first day of January, tlers, with one thousand eight hundred and six, had some exceppurchased any tract or tracts of land of the United purchases States, not exceeding in the whole, six hun- from the dred and forty acres, at any of the land offices established for the disposal of said lands, whether such purchase was made at public or private sale, (sales by virtue of a pre-emption right only excepted) and whose lands have not already been actually sold or reverted to the United States for non-payment of part of the purchase money, and who shall for the term of at least one year previous to the expiration of five years from the date of the purchase of the land, have actually inhabited and cultivated any one tract of land thus purchased, and the time for making the last payment on account of such purchase according to former laws, may have expired or shall expire on or before the first day of January next, shall be allowed a further term of two years, for the payment of the residue of the principal due on account of such purchase; which further term of two years shall be calculated to commence from the expiration of one year from and after the day on which the last payment on account of such purchase should, according to former laws, have become due, and shall be allowed only on the |