United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/18th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 23
Chap. XXIII.—An Act to regulate the surveying of public and private lands in the southern part of Alabama.
Lands to be attached to the district of the surveyor, and the deputy surveyor east of the island of New Orleans, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the lands in the state of Alabama shall be attached to the district of the surveyor of the public lands in the state of Alabama, and the surveying of all public and private lands, in the said state, shall hereafter be made under his direction; and it shall be the duty of the deputy surveyor of the district east of the island of New Orleans, and east of Pearl river, to return the plats of all private claims within the state of Alabama, to the office of the said surveyor.
Approved, February 28, 1824.