ble, &c.

Vol. iii. p. 1743, 1774.

of Sd March, lands not heretofore offered for sale in the states of Ohio and In1819, &c. made applica. diana," approved March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of the public lands," approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty, be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the said district and office, so far as they are not changed by subsequent laws of the United States. [Approved, May 8, 1822.]

A district and land office for the sale of un

the district.

CHAP. 126. An act to designate the boundaries of a land district, and for the establishment of a land office, in the state of Indiana.

§ 1. Be it enacted, &c. That, for the sale of the unappropriated public lands in the state of Indiana, to which the Indian title appropriated is extinguished, the following district shall be formed, and a land public lands in Indiana, &c. office established: All the public lands as aforesaid, to which the Boundaries of Indian title was extinguished by the treaties concluded at St. Mary's in the month of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen, lying east of the range line separating the first and second ranges east of the second principal meridian, extended north to the present Indian boundary and north of a line to be run separating the tiers of townships numbered twenty and twenty-one, commencing on the old Indian boundary, in range thirteen east of the said principal meridian, in Randolph county, and the said district to be bounded on the east by the line dividing the states of A land office Ohio and Indiana, shall form a district, for which a land office shall be established at Fort Wayne.

at Fort

Wayne.

The president to appoint a register and

receiver when a sufficient quantity of public land shall have

been survey

ed, &c. Register and

receiver to

give security,

&c.

All the public lands in the

district, not

to be offered

2. That the president is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, for the aforesaid district, a register of the land office and a receiver of public moneys; which appointments shall not be made for the aforesaid land district until a sufficient quantity of public lands shall have been surveyed within the said district as to authorize, in the opinion of the president, a public sale of land within the same; which register of the land office and receiver of public moneys, when appointed, shall each, respectively, give security in the same sums, and in the same manner, and whose compensation, emoluments, and duties, and authority, shall, in every respect, be the same, in respect to the lands which shall be disposed of at their offices, as are or may be provided by law in relation to the registers and receivers of public moneys in the several land offices established for the disposal of the public lands of the United States in the states of Ohio and Indiana.

3. That all the public lands within the aforesaid district, to which the Indian title has been extinguished, and which have granted or re- not been granted to, or secured for, the use of any individual or served, &c. except section individuals, or appropriated and reserved for any other purpose No. 16, &c. by any existing treaties or laws, and with the exception of secfor sale to the tion numbered sixteen in each township, which shall be reserved highest bidder, for the support of schools therein, shall be offered for sale to tion of the reg. the highest bidder, at the land office for the said district, under ister and re- the direction of the register of the land office and receiver of ceiver, on such days, &c. public moneys, on such day or days as shall, by proclamation of the president of the United States, be designated for that pur

under direc

be sold in tracts, &c. as

pose: the lands shall be sold in tracts of the same size, on the The lands to same terms and conditions, and in every respect, as provided by the act, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale provided by of the public lands," approved April twenty-fourth, eighteen hun- April, 1820. dred and twenty.

act of 24th Vol. iii. p.

1774.

the land office

$ 4. That the president of the United States shall have pow- The president er, and he is hereby authorized, to remove, whenever he shall may remove judge it expedient so to do, the land office aforesaid, to such to a suitable suitable place, within the said district, as he shall judge most place, &c. proper.

and receiver to

5. That the register of the land office and receiver of pub- The register lic moneys shall, each, receive five dollars for each day's attend- receive 5 dolls. ance in superintending the public sales in the said district. proved, May 8, 1822.]

[Ap- for each day's

CHAP. 127. An act to establish certain post roads, and to discontinue others, and for other

purposes.

attendance, &c.

discontinued.

sey.

nia.

1. Be it enacted, &c. That the following mail routes be dis- Mail routes From Lynden to In Vermont. continued; that is to say: In Vermont. Wheelock, in the county of Caledonia. In New York. From In New York. Utica, by Clinton, Chandler's store, Augusta, and Madison, to Hamilton village. From Chitteningo, alias Sullivan, to Madison; and that part of the route from Leicester to Olean, which is situated between Oil creek and Olean. In New Jersey. From In New JerLiberty Corner to Somerville. In Maryland. From Annapolis Maryland. to Kent Island, and from thence, through Queenstown, to Centreville. In Pennsylvania. From Uniontown, by Middletown, In Pennsylvato Perryopolis. From Londontown to Messenburg. In Virgi- In Virginia. nia. From Brown's store to Dickenson's store, in Franklin county. In North Carolina. From Haysville to Williamsborough. In North CarFrom Winton, by Gales Court House, to Sunbury. From Waynesville, in North Carolina, to Houstonville, in South Carolina. In Kentucky. From Ross's post office, Whitby county, to In Kentucky. Monticello, in Wayne county. From Manchester to the Hazelpatch, and from thence to Columbia. In Ohio. From the mouth In Ohio. of Little Scioto to Piketon. In Arkansas. From Clark Court In Arkansas. House to Hempstead Court House, and to the post of Washita.

olina.

tablished.

2. That the following post roads be established; to wit: Post roads esIn Maine. From Hallowell, by Silas Piper's, in Harlem, Jona- In Maine. than Greely's, at the Four Corners in Palermo, to Montville. In Vermont. From Poultney, through Middletown, Tinmouth, and In Vermont. Willingford, to Mount Holly, in the county of Rutland. From Montpelier, through Barre, Orange, and Topsham, to Newbury. From Lynden, through Sutton, to Barton, in the county of Orleans. In Massachusetts. From Plymouth to Carver and In MassachuRochester. From Holmes's Hole, in Tisbury, to Chilmark, in sells. the island called Martha's Vineyard. From Mendon, through Milford, Holliston, Sherburne, Natick, Needham, Newton, and Brighton, over the Milldam, to Boston. From Millbury in Worcester county, to the town of Providence, in Rhode Island, to pass through the towns of Sutton and Douglass, in Massachusetts, and the town of Burrelville in the village of Chepackett, in Rhode Island. From Belchertown, by Enfield, to Greenwich.

cut.

shire.

From Worcester to Providence, in Rhode Island, passing through Grafton, Upton, Mendon, Billingham, Cumberland, and Pawtucket. From Amesbury to Southampton, in New Hampshire, In Connecti and thence to Kingston. In Connecticut. That the post road from Hartford to New London, shall be by the presbyterian meeting house, in the first society in the town of Hebron. From New London, along the new turnpike road, to the town of ProviLa New Hampdence, in Rhode Island. In New Hampshire. The post road from Walpole to Newport shall be through the town of LangIn New York. don. In New York. From Deposite to Stockport, in Pennsylvania. From Jay to Danville, thence, down the Ausable river, by Bullen's mills, to Keesville, in the town of Chesterfield. From Schenectady, by Charlton, Galway, Providence, and Northampton, to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh, back by Northampton, West Galway church, and Glenville, to Schenectady. From the post office in Luzerne, on the west side of the Hudson river, to the post office in Chester. From Green, in the county of Chenango, to Ithaca, in Tompkins county. From Cherry Valley, in the county of Otsego, to the village of Canajoharie, in the county of Montgomery. From Champion, in the county of Jefferson, to Alexandria, by Felt's mills, Le Raysville, Evans's mills, Theresa, and Plessis. From the village of Canandaigua to the Village of Penn Yan, in the county of Ontario. From Batavia, by the village of Lockport, to intersect the ridge road at William Molyneaux's, in the town of Cambia. From Howard, in the county of Steuben, by Rathbun's settlement and Loon Lake settlement, to Conhocton. From Bath to Catherine's, by Mount Washington and Bartle's mills, and, returning, by Mead's creek, to the mouth of Mud creek. From South Dansville to Goff's mills. From Champlain to the town of Moores, thence, by Lawrence's mills, and Beekmantown, to Plattsburg. From Ithaca to Burdett, near the head of Seneca lake. From Poughkeepsie, by Pleasant valley, Salt Point, James Thorn's in Clinton, Friends' meeting house in Stanford, the Federal Store, and from thence to the Pine Plains' post office, in the town of North East. From Moscow, in Livingston county, to the village of Fredonia, in Chatauque county. From Cincinnatus, through Willet and Freetown, to Harrison. From Canastota, at Perkins's Basin, on the Great Erie canal, through Lenox, Clarkville, Perryville, Petersborough, and Morrisville, to Eaton. The mail route from Bath, by Angelica, Hamilton, Cerestown, Pennsylvania, Coudersport, and Jersey shore, to Williamsport, shall pass by Smithport, in M'Kean county, Pennsylvania, either in going or returning. From Esperance to Middleburg, by the way of Schoharie, In New Jer- in Schoharie county. In New Jersey. From Liberty Corner, by Pluckemin, to Somerville. From Somerville, by New German- town, through Paipack Valley, to Mandham and Morristown. From Hackensack, in the county of Bergen, by Patterson's Landing and Belleville, to Newark, in Essex county. Beasley's, at the mouth of Great Egg Harbor river, by Etna Furnace, on Tuckahoe river, Cumberland Furnace, Malligo, Glasborough, and Woodbury, to Philadelphia. From Princeton, by In Maryland. Harlingen, to Flagtown. In Maryland. From Hagerstown, by

sey.

From

Mercersburg, to M'Connelsburg, in Pennsylvania. From Annapolis, by Baltimore, to Queenstown, and from thence to Centreville and Kent Island. In Pennsylvania. From Philadelphia, In Pennsylvaby the Falls of Schuylkill, to Norristown. From Swamp Church- nia. es, in Montgomery county, by Boyerstown, to Reading. From Doylestown, by Sorrel Horse, Bustleton and Byberry, to Andalusia, and to return by the Buck tavern and Hartville, to Doylestown. From Easton, Northampton county, to Hellerstown, Quakertown, and Bursonsville, Bucks county. From Emaus, by Millerstown, to Trexlerstown, in Lehigh county. From Chambersburg to Waynesburg, by Samuel Fisher's store, in Franklin county. From M'Call's ferry, in Lancaster, to the Borough of Westchester, in Chester county. From Meadville to Salem, at the mouth of Big Conneatt, Ohio. From the village of Blearsville, by Youngstown, to Mount Pleasant. From Newville, in Cumberland county, to Roxbury and Strasburg, in Franklin county. From Landisburg, in Perry county, to Waterford, in Mifflin county. From Selinsgrove to New Berlin. From Ebensburg to Indiana. From Uniontown, by Connellsville, to Perryopolis. From the city of Lancaster, through Millerstown, Washington, and Charlestown, to the borough of Columbia. In Virginia. From Winchester to the Berkeley Springs, in Mor- In Virginia. gan county. From Lewisburg, by Huttonsville, Beverly, Leadesville, Meigsville, Swamp, and Kingwood, to Morgantown. From Salem to Botetourt, through the Bent Mountain, by Simpson's and Thomas Goodson's, to Boon's, on the west fork of Little river, in Montgomery county. From the city of Richmond, by Piping Tree, in King William county, to King and Queen Court House, Gloucester, Middlesex, and Matthews. From Halifax Court House to Person Court House, North Carolina. From Franklin Court House to Henry Court House, to go by Dickerson's store, in Franklin county. From Lynchburg, by Pittsylvania Court House, to Danville, and from Danville to Halifax Court House. From Parkersburg to Kanawha Court House. From Richmond to Chesterfield Court House, to go by Mechanick's Inn, instead of the route now established. That the route from Stanton, by Greenbrier Court House, and Charleston, to Catletsburg, in Kentucky, be changed, so as to go by the Sulphur Springs, on Muddy creek, in Greenbrier. From Bath Court House to Alleghany Court House. In North Carolina. olina. From Haysville, in Franklin county, by Glasgow's store and Health Seat, to Oxford, in Granville. From Ashe Court House to Jordan Councils, in same county. From Stokesville, by Gates' Court House, to Sunbury. That the route from Fayetteville to Salisbury be changed, so as to go by Carthage, M'Neil's, Hill's, and Skean's Ferry, and to return by Forrest's, Blakely, Lawrenceville, Allentown, and M'Auley's store. From Fayetteville, by Graham's bridge, Rockingham, to Wadesborough. From Tyson's store to Waddle's ferry, Brower's mill, Hugh Moffitt's mill, then to Richard Kennon's and to Haywood. From Waynesville, Haywood Court House, by Lovesville, on Scott's creek, to Franklin, in the Cherokee Purchase, and from thence to Rabun Court House, in Georgia. In South Carolina. From Carolina.

In North Car

In South

pi.

Rocky Mount to Pine Hill post office, to pass by Ebenezer Academy. From Fayetteville, in North Carolina, leaving the road to Camden at or near Laurel Hill, by Cheraw, to Camden. From Cheraw, by Society Hill and Darlington Court House, to intersect the great southern route at Godfrey's ferry, on the Pedee river. From Cheraw, by Chesterfield Court House, to LanIn Georgia. caster Court House. In Georgia. From Lawrenceville, in Guinett county, to the Standing Peach Tree, (Fayette Court House.) From Jefferson, by Coleraine, by Crawford in Florida, and to St. Augustine, and the route at present used discontinued. From In Alabama. Elberton to Ruckersville, in Elbert county. In Alabama. From Huntsville, by Triana, Mooresville, Athens, Eastport, and Bainbridge, to the Big Spring. From Cahawba, by Portland, Prairie Bluff, the Standing Peach Tree, through the populous settlement on Bassett's creek, and by Clarke Court House, to St. Stephen's, so as to reinstate the old route from Cabawba to St. Stephen's, and the present route from Cahawba to St. Stephen's to be discontinued. From Ashville to Huntsville, by the way of Robertsville and Bennett's store. From Augusta, on the Tallapoosa, by Coosanda, passing through the settlement in the upper end of Autago county, and the settlement of Mulberry creek, in Bibb county, by the falls of Cahawba, to the town of Tuscaloosa. In Mississip In Mississippi. From Winchester, by Perry Court House, and Columbia, to Holmesville. From Picken's Court House, in Alabama, by Monroe Court House, the Cotton Gin Port, and the Chickasaw Agency, in the state of Mississippi, to the Chickasaw Bluffs, in the state of Tennessee. From the Choctaw Agency, In Tennessee, by Jackson, to Monticello. In Tennessee. From Campbell's Station, by Blair's Ferry, to Pumpkintown. From Sparta, in White county, to Pikeville, in Bledsoe county. The post road from Morgantown to Mount Pleasant, alias Pumpkintown, to go by Monroe Court House. From Greenville to the Warm Springs, In Kentucky. in North Carolina. In Kentucky. From Manchester, by Perry Court House, to Patrick Salt Works. From Morganfield, crossing the Ohio at Francisburg, to Harmony, in Indiana. Monticello, by Beatty's Salt Works, and Ross' post office, to Jacksonborough, in Tennessee. From Williamsburg, in Whitby county, by Ross' post office, to Somerset, in Pulaski county. From Richmond to the Hazel Patch, hereafter to go by Manchester, to Barbourville. In Ohio. From Belle Fontaine, in Logan county, by forts M'Arthur and Findlay, to the foot of the Rapids of the Miami of the Lake. From Columbus, by Maysville, the seat of justice of Union county, thence, through Zanesfield, to Belle Fontaine, in the county of Logan. From Norton, in the county of Delaware, by Claredon Buayners, to the city of Sanduski. From the mouth of Little Scioto to Portsmouth. From Cleveland, through Newburg, Hudson, Ravenna, Palmyra, Elsworth, Canfield, Boardman, Poland, Petersburg, and Greensburg, to Beavertown, in Pennsylvania. From Columbus to Sunbury, through Harrison and Ravenna townships. From Columbus, by Springfield, Dayton, and Eaton; then to Indianapolis, in the state of Indiana; thence by Vandalia, in Illinois; thence to St. Louis, in Missouri. From West Union to Cincinnati, to pass through

In Ohio.

From