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EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 174. 1824.

tained, and theschool landsdesignated, theagent shall givenotice throughcertain newspa-pers.

Sale of thelands.

Said agent totake an oath andgive security.

To receive600 dollars perannum.

Proviso.

Any land orlots remainingunsold at pub-lic auction,shall be subjectto entry andsale, at the landoffice in Zanes-ville .

Duty of theaccounting offi-cers of the trea-sury.

Course to bepursued by thePresident incase the Chris-tian Indians feela disposition to

lands designated, the said agent shall give notice, by advertisement inone newspaper in Washington city, and one in Steubenville , one inZanesville, and one in New Philadelphia, Ohio , of the time, not less thansixty days from the first publication, when he will offer the said landsand lots for sale, at public vendue, at the courthouse in New Philadel-phia aforesaid ; and shall, at such time and place, proceed to offer for sale,to the highest bidder, any of said lands or lots, remaining undisposed of,in the manner hereinbefore provided for : and none of said lots, or land,shall be put up at a less sum than the actual cash value ascertained asaforesaid ; and in case any of said lessees shall have failed, or refused tosurrender their leases, the sale shall be made subject to those leases; andeach purchaser who may purchase at such sale, shall immediately pay tothe said agent the amount of his purchase, and take his receipt for theamount, specifying the lot or land purchased ; upon which the purchasershall be entitled to a patent as other purchasers of public lands are: butin case any purchaser shall fail to make his payment as aforesaid, at orbefore the close of the sale, he shall be considered as having forfeitedhis purchase, and the land struck off to him shall be again offered forsale, in the same manner as if it had never been struck off: andthe said agent, immediately after the close of such sale, shall pay overthe money received at such sale, and for rent, to the United States , andreport all his proceedings to the general land office; and the Presidentshall be, and he is hereby, authorized, whenever the boundaries ofthe several lots stipulated to be conveyed to the said society shall beascertained, to issue patents therefor to said society.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the agent herein providedfor, shall take an oath of office, and give bond and security, in such sumand form as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, and be allowedand paid for his services a salary at the rate of six hundred dollars perannum: Provided, That said office shall not continue longer than is ne-cessary to perform the duties herein required, and not longer than oneyear; and said salary, together with the incidental expenses attending thesaid survey and sale, shall be charged to the fund to be raised by thesale of said lots and land. The said appraisers shall be allowed the sumof two dollars for each day actually employed in the appraisement afore-said, and neither the said agent nor appraisers shall be at liberty to pur-chase any of the said lands or lots.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That, if any of such land or lots re-main unsold at public auction, as aforesaid, the same shall be subject toentry and sale at the land office in Zanesville, in Ohio , at the actual cashprice, ascertained as aforesaid, in the same manner that other lands ofthe United States are authorized to be entered ; and it shall be the dutyof the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to keep a separateaccount of the proceeds of the lots and lands aforesaid, and of all moneysreceived and disbursed on account thereof; and, after the expenses ofsurvey and sale of said lots and land shall be reimbursed, it shall be theduty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the said society the sumsstipulated to be paid them, and for which they shall not have takenlands and lots as hereinbefore provided for: to pay to the said Simners,Hill, and Waltons, the sums awarded to them; and then to credit theresidue of the proceeds of said lots and lands, as they shall be received,to the fund for raising the annuity for the Christian Indians, so calledin the manner stipulated in the agreement entered into with them on theeighth of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That, whenever the said Chris-tian Indians shall .notify the President of the United States , that theywish to remove from their present residence on the river Thames , intothe territory of the United States , it shall be lawfal for the President to de-signate a reservation of not less than twenty-four thousand acres of land,