United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 78
Chap. LXXVIII.—An act authorizing the sale of lands, with the improvements thereon erected by the United States, for the use of their agents, teachers, farmers, mechanics, and other persons employed amongst the Indians.
Sale of buildings erected by U. S. for their agents, &c. among Indians, authorized.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be sold all such dwelling-houses, churches, school-houses, workshops, and other buildings belonging to the United States, as have been, or hereafter shall be, erected for the use of their agents, teachers, farmers, mechanics, and other persons employed amongst the Indians, when the lands on which the same are erected shall have become the property of the United States, and are no longer necessary for the purposes aforesaid.
Sale of land authorized with each building.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be sold, at his discretion, with each of such buildings mentioned in the preceding section of this act, a quantity of land not exceeding one section; and on the payment of the consideration agreed for, into the treasury of the United States by the purchaser, the said Secretary shall make, execute, and deliver, to the said purchaser, a title in fee simple for such lands and tenements.
Approved, March 3, 1843.