United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 271
Chap. CCLXXI.—An Act to establish an additional land office in Florida.[1]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Alachua land district established. That so much of the public lands of the United States in the Territory of Florida, as lies east of the Suwannee river, and west of the line dividing ranges twenty-four and twenty-five, except that lying east of St. Mary’s river, north of the basis parallel, shall form a new land district, to be called the Alachua land district; and, for the sale of the public lands within the district aforesaidLand office at Newnansville. there shall be a land office established in the town of Newnansville, in the county of Alachua, in the Territory aforesaid.
Register and receiver to be appointed.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be a register and receiver appointed to said office, to superintend the sale of the public land in said district, who shall reside at the town of Newnansville aforesaid, give security in the same manner and sums, and whose compensation, emoluments, duties, and authorities, shall, in every respect, be the same, in relation to lands to be disposed of at said office, as are or may be by law provided in relation to the registers and receivers of public money in the several offices established for the sale of the public lands.
The lands subject to sale.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all such public lands, embraced within the district created by this act, which shall have been offered for sale to the highest bidder at any land office in said Territory, pursuant to any proclamation of the President of the United States, and which lands remain unsold at the taking effect of this act, shall be subject to be entered and sold at private sale by the proper officers of the office hereby created, in the same manner, and subject to the same terms, and upon like conditions, as the sale of said land would have been subject to in the said several land offices hereinbefore mentioned, had they remained attached to the same.
Approved, August 30, 1842.
- ↑ Notes of the acts relating to the territory of Florida, vol. 3, 523, 654.