United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/14th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 123
[Obsolete.]
Chap. CXXIII.—An Act to authorize the sale of lands forfeited to the United States, in the district of Jeffersonville, at the land office in said district.
Sale of lands in the district of Jeffersonville.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the register and receiver of the land office for the district of Jeffersonville be, and they are hereby authorized to expose to public sale, to the highest bidder, at the land office aforesaid, any tract or tracts of land which may hereafter become forfeited to the United States for non-payment, under such terms and conditions as are, or may be, prescribed by law.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of any former act of Congress as requires the register and receiver of the district aforesaid, to expose to public sale, at the courthouse of the county in which the said land office is established, any tract or tracts of land which may become forfeited to the United States for non-payment, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, April 27, 1816.