Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforefaid tax including all cofts and charges as aforefaid, fhall be and remain a

lien upon all lands and other real estate on which the fame has been affeffed, until the tax due upon the fame, including all costs and charges, fhall have been collected, or until a fale fhall have been effected, according to the provifion of this act, or of the act to which this is a fupplement.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That Tracts parcelin all cafes wherein any tract of land may led may pay in have been affeffed in one affeffment, which proportion. at the time when fuch affeffment was made, was actually divided into two, or more distinct parcels, each parcel having one or more diftinct proprietor or proprietors, it fhall be. the duty of the collector, to receive in manner aforefaid, from any proprietor or proprietors thus fituated, his or their proportion of the tax due upon fuch tract; and thereupon, the land of the proprietor or proprietors upon which the tax fhall have been thus paid, fhall be forever difcharged from any part of the tax due under the original affeffment.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That Provifion for in any cafe in which it may have happened. fale of lands that lands actually belonging to one perfon, named correctof perfons not may have been, or hereafter fhall be affeff- ly. ed in the name of another, and no fale of the fame fhall yet have been made, the fame proceedings thall be had for the fale of the aforefaid lands, in order to raise the tax affeffed in relation to the fame, as is pro vided by the eleventh fection of the act to which this is a fupplement, in the cafe of

Right of re

lands affeffed, the owner whereof is unknown; and fuch fale fhall transfer and pass to the purchafer, a good and effectual title.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the right of redemption referved to the owners of lands and tenements fold under this act, or the act to which this is a fuppledemption fecured under ment, fhall, in no wife, be affected or imregulations. paired: Provided always, that the owners of lands which fhall thus be fold after the 'paffing of this act in order to avail themfelves of that right, fhall make payment or tender of payment within two years from the time of fale, for the ufe of the purcha-' fer, his heirs or affigns of the amount of the faid tax, cofts and charges, with intereft for the fame, at the rate of twenty-five per cent. per annum.

Secretary of treafurs authorized to

augment com

officers.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the fecretary of the treasury, fhall be and hereby is authorized and empowered under penfation of the direction of the Prefident of the United States, to augment the compenfation fixed by law, for the commiffioner or for the principal and affiftant affeffors or either of them, in any divifion where it fhall be found neceffary for carrying into effect the act intituled, “An act to provide for the valua tion of lands and dwelling houfes, and the enumeration of flaves within the United States," fo however, as that the commiffioner fhall in no cafe receive more than five dollars per day, nor the principal or affiftant affeffor in any cafe receive more than three dollars per day, which additional compenfation fhall be fubject to the fame rules of

fettlement as are established by the act laft

aforefaid.

NATHL. MACON,

Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives.

A. BURR,

Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefi dent of the Senate.

APPROVED MARCH 16, 1802. "

J

TH: JEFFERSON.

CHAPTER XIII.

AN ACT to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers.

Boundaries to

E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That be establishe.. the following boundary line, eftablished by treaty between the United States and various Indian tribes, fhall be clearly ascertained, and diftinctly marked in all fuch places as the Prefident of the United States fhall deem neceffary, and in fuch manner as he Beginning fhall direct, to wit: Beginning at the mouth thereof. of the Cayahoga river on Lake Erie, and running thence up the fame to the portage between that and the Tufcaroras branch of the Muskingum; thence, down that branch,

Indian boundary cutisued,

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to the croffing place above fort Laurence; thence weftwardly to a fork of that branch of the Great Miami river running into the Ohio, at or near which fork flood Laromie's ftore, and where commences the portage, between the Miami of the Ohio and St. Mary's river, which is a branch of the Miami, which runs into Lake Erie; thence a westwardly courfe to-Fort Recovery, which ftands on a branch of the Wabash; thence fouih-weftwardly, in a direct line to the Ohio, fo as to interfect that river, opposite the mouth of Kentucky or Cuttawa river; thence down the faid river Ohio to the tract of one hundred and fifty thousand acres, near the rapids of the Ohio, which has been affigned to general Clarke, for the use of hinifelf and his warriors; thence around the faid tract, on the line of the faid tract, till it fhall again interfect the faid river Ohio; thence down the fame to a point oppofite the high lands or ridge between the mouth of the Cumberland and Teneeffee rivers; thence fouth-eastwardly on the faid ridge, to a point, from whence a fouth-west line will ftrike the mouth of Duck river; thence, still eaftwardly on the said ridge, to a point forty miles above Nashville; thence north-east to Cumberland river; thence up the faid river to where the Kentucky road croffes the fame; thence to the Cumberland mountain, at the point of Campbell's line; thence in a fouth-weftwardly direction along the foot of the Cumberland mountain to Emory's river; thence down the fame to its junction with the river Clinch; thence down the river Clinch to Hawkins's line; thence along the

boundary

fame to a white oak, marked one mile tree Indian thence fouth fifty-one degrees weft, three defcribed hundred and twenty-eight chains, to a large afh tree on the bank of the river Tenneffee, one mile below fouth-west point; thence up the north-eaft margin of the river Tennessee (not including iflands) to the Wild Cat Rock, below Tellico block-houfe; thence in a direct line to the Militia fpring, near the Maryville road leading from Tellico; thence from the faid fpring to the Chilhowee mountain by a line fo to be run as will leave all the farms on Nine-mile creek to the northward and eastward of it, and to be continued along the Chilhowee mountain until it ftrikes Hawkins's line; thence along the said line to the great Iron mountains; and from the top of which a line to be continued in a foutheaftwardly courfe to where the most southern branch of Little river croffes the divifional line to Tugaloo river; thence along the South Carolina Indian boundary to and over the Ocunna mountain, in a fouth-west courfe to Tugaloo river; thence in a direct line to the top of Currahee mountain, where the Creek line paffes it; thence to the head or fource of the main fouth branch of the Oconee riwer, called the Appalachee; thence down the middle of the faid main fouth branch and river Oconee, to its confluence with Oakmulgee, which forms the river Altamaha; thence down the middle of the faid Altamaha, to the old line on the faid Boundary river; and thence along the faid old line to the river St. Mary's: Provided always, That if the boundary line between the faid Indian tribes and the United States fhall, at

terminates