United States Statutes at Large/Volume 6/2nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 25
Chap. ⅩⅩⅤ.—An Act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates.
Certain tract of land contracted for in 1787.
Act of May 5, 1792, ch. 30.
Act of March 2, 1793, ch. 34.Be it enacted, &c., That a certain contract expressed in an indenture
executed on the twenty-seventh day of October, in the year one thousand
seven hundred and eighty-seven, between the then board of treasury
for the United States of America, of the one part, and Manasseh
Cutler, and Winthrop Sergeant, as agents for the directors of the Ohio
Company of Associates, of the other part, so far as the same respects the
following described tract of land; that is to say: “Beginning at a station where the western boundary line of the seventh range of townships,
laid out by the authority of the United States in Congress assembled,
intersects the River Ohio; thence extending along that river southwesterly to a place where the western boundary line of the fifteenth
range of townships, when laid out agreeably to the land ordinance passed
the twentieth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five,
would touch the said river; thence running northerly on the said western
bounds of the said fifteenth range of townships, till a line drawn due
east to the western boundary line of the said seventh range of townships,
will comprehend, with the other lines of this tract, seven hundred and
fifty thousand acres of land, besides the several lots and parcels of land
in the said contract reserved or appropriated to particular purposes;
thence running east to the western boundary line of the said seventh
range of townships, and thence along the said line to the place of beginning,” be and the same is hereby confirmed: Confirmed, and President U. S. to grant letters patent in the name of Rufus Putnam, &c.And that the President
of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered to
issue letters patent in the name and under the seal of the United States,
thereby granting and conveying to Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler,
Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in fee
simple, the said described tract of land, with the reservations in the said
indenture expressed, in trust for the persons composing the said Ohio
Company of Associates, according to their several rights and interests,
and for their heirs and assigns, as tenants in common.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,To grant one other tract to That the President be, and he hereby is, further authorized and empowered, by letters patent as aforesaid, to grant and convey to the said Rufus Putnam,Rufus Putnam, &c. Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in trust, for the uses above expressed, one other tract of two hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and eighty-five acres of land: Provided, On what conditions.That the said Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, or either of them, shall deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury, within six months, warrants which issued for army bounty-rights sufficient for that purpose, according to the provision of a resolve of Congress of the twenty-third day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,To grant one other tract to Rufus Putnam, &c. That the President be, and he hereby is, further authorized and empowered, by letters patent as aforesaid, to grant and convey to the said Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in fee simple, in trust for the uses above expressed, a farther quantity of one hundred thousand acres of land: Provided always,On an express condition. nevertheless, That the said grant of one hundred thousand acres shall be made on the express condition of becoming void, for such part thereof as the said company shall not have, within five years from the passing of this act, conveyed in fee simple, as a bounty and free of expense, in tracts of one hundred acres, to each male person, not less than eighteen years of age, being an actual settler at the time of such conveyance.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,Where to be located. That the said quantities of two hundred and fourteen thousand, two hundred and eighty-five acres, and of one hundred thousand acres, shall be located within the limits of the tract of one million, five hundred thousand acres of land, described in the indenture aforesaid, and adjoining to the tract of land described in the first section of this act, and in such form as the President in the letters patent shall prescribe for that purpose.
Approved, April 21, 1792.