Secretary of State to give instructions for carrying this act into effect, &c.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State shall be, and hereby is authorized and required to transmit to the marshals of the several states and to the secretaries aforesaid, regulations and instructions pursuant to this act, for carrying the same into effect, and also the forms contained therein of schedule to be returned, and proper interrogatories to be administered by the several persons who shall be employed therein.
Approved, February 27, 1800.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XIII.—An Act in addition to an act intituled “An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for Military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen.”[1]
Points of intersection of the lines actually run are to be considered as the corners of the townships.
Vol. i. 490.Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the respective points of intersection of the lines actually run, as the boundaries of the several townships surveyed by virtue of the act intituled “An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen,” accordingly as the said lines have been marked and ascertained at the time when the same were run, notwithstanding the same are not in conformity to the act aforesaid, or shall not appear to correspond with the plat of the survey which has been returned by the Surveyor General, shall be considered, and they are hereby declared to be the corners of the said townships: That in regard to every such township as by the plat and survey returned by the Surveyor General is stated to contain four thousand acres inBoundaries of quarter townships, where they are stated to contain four thousand acres.
Boundaries of quarter townships, where they are stated to contain more or less than four thousand acres.
Method of running lines. each quarter thereof, the points on each of the boundary lines of such township, which are at an equal distance from those two corners of the same township, which stand on the same boundary line, shall be considered and they are hereby declared to be corners of the respective quarters of such township; that the other boundary lines of the said quarter townships shall be straight lines run from each of the last mentioned corners of quarter townships to the corner of quarter townships on the opposite boundary line of the same township; and that in regard to every such township as by the said return is stated to contain in any of the quarters thereof more or less than the quantity of four thousand acres, the corners marked in the boundary lines of such township to designate the quarters thereof, shall be considered and they are hereby declared to be the corners of the quarter townships thereof, although the same may be found at unequal distances from the respective corners of such townships: And such townships shall be divided by running lines through the same from the corners of the quarter townships actually marked, whether the interior lines thus extended shall be parallel to the exterior lines of the said township or not; and that each of the said quarter townships thus bounded, shall, in every proceeding to be had under the above-mentioned or this act, be considered as containing the exact quantity expressed in the plat and survey thereof returned by the Surveyor General.
