United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 144
Chap. CXLIV.—An Act establishing land districts in the territory of Arkansas.[1]
Four land districts established in the territory of Arkansas.
Name and boundaries.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be four land districts in the territory of Arkansas, to be called as follows, viz: the Arkansas land district, the White river land district, the Red river land district, and the Fayetteville land district; and each of the aforesaid land districts shall be founded as follows, to wit: the Arkansas land district shall include all the county embraced within the following boundaries: beginning on the west bank of the Mississippi river, at the mouth of St. Francis river, and running thence due west with the base line to the north-east corner of range six, township one north and south of said base line; thence, due north with the dividing line between ranges five and six, to the north-east corner of township seven, north of said base line; thence, due west with the dividing line between townships seven and eight, to the north-west corner of range seventeen; and thence, due south with the dividing line between ranges and seventeen and eighteen, to the Mississippi river. The White river district shall include all the country south of Missouri, which is not included in the Arkansas land district above described, and east of the dividing line between ranges seventeen and eighteen, as extended from the northwest corner of the said Arkansas land district, to the state of Missouri. The Red river land district shall include all the country in Arkansas lying west of the Arkansas land district, and south of the base line. The Fayetteville land district shall include the residue of the territory of Arkansas, being all the country lying north of the Red river district, and west of the Arkansas and White river districts.
Land-offices for the respective districts.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the land office for the Arkansas land district shall be at Little Rock; the land office for the White river district shall be at Batesville; the land office for the Red river district shall be at the town of Washington: and the land office for the Fayetteville district shall be at Fayetteville.
Plats of surveys to be deposited, &c.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as the same can be done, to cause the proper plats of the surveys to be deposited in the proper land offices.
Registers and receivers to be appointed.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That for each of the said districts created by this act, a register and receiver of public moneys shall be appointed, who shall give security in the same manner, and whose duties and authorities shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands.
Approved, June 25, 1832.
- ↑ For notes of acts relating to the territory, afterwards the state of Arkansas, vol. iii. p. 493.