TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 116. 1831.

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Tennessee , or the principal deputy surveyors in the said state; and thatfrom and after the first day of May next, the office of principal deputysurveyors, as created by the ninth section of the act of Congress of thetwenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and six, entitled “ An actsupplementary to an act, entitled ‘ An act for ascertaining and adjust-ing the titles and claims to lands within the territory of Orleans anddistrict of Louisiana, ’” be, and the same are hereby, abolished; and itshall be the duty of said principal deputy surveyors to surrender to thesurveyor general of Louisiana , or to such person or persons as he mayappoint to receive the same, all the maps, books, records, field notes, docu-ments and articles of every description, appertaining orin anywise belong-ing to their offices respectively.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the principal deputy surveyorfor the district east of the island of New Orleans be, and he hereby is,required to separate and arrange the papers in his office; and all the maps,records, papers and documents of every description which refer to landsin the state of Louisiana , shall be delivered to the order of the surveyorgeneral for that state; and such of them as refer to lands in the state ofAlabama shall be delivered to the surveyor for the state of Alabama ; andsuch of them as refer to lands in the state of Mississippi , together withsuch maps, papers, records and documents in the office of said principaldeputy surveyor, as are not hereby required to be delivered to the surveyorgeneral of the state of Louisiana, or to the surveyor for the state of Ala-bama , shall be delivered to the order of the surveyor of the lands of theUnited States south of the state of Tennessee ; and the office of saidprincipal deputy shall be, and the same is hereby, abolished from and afterthe first day of May next; and the powers and duties now exercised andperformed by the said principal deputy surveyor shall be vested in andperformed by the aforesaid surveyors, within their respective states.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of thesurveyor south of the state of Tennessee to deliver to the surveyor gene-ral of the state of Louisiana all the map3, papers, records, and documentsrelating to the public lands, and private claims in Louisiana , which maybe in his office; and in every case where it shall be impracticable tomake a separation of such maps, papers, records and documents, with-out injury to the portion of them relating to lands in Mississippi , it shallbe his duty to cause copies thereof certified by him to be furnished tothe surveyor general of Louisiana , and which copies shall be of the samevalidity as the originals.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor general of Loui-siana shall appoint a sufficient number of skilful and experienced sur-veyors as his deputies, who, with one or more good and sufficient sure-ties to be approved by said surveyor general, shall enter into bond for thefaithful performance of all surveying contracts confided to them in thepenalty of double the amount of money accruing under the said con-tracts at the rate per mile stipulated to be paid therein, and who, beforeentering on the performance of their duties, shall take an oath, or makeaffirmation, truly, faithfully, and impartially, to the utmost of their skilland ability, to execute the trust confided to them; and in the event of thefailure of a deputy to comply with the terms of his contract, unless suchfailure shall be satisfactorily shown by him to have arisen from causesbeyond his control, he shall forfeit the penalty of his bond on due pro-cess of law, and ever afterwards be debarred from receiving a contractfor surveying public lands in Louisiana or elsewhere.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor general to be ap-pointed in pursuance of this act shall establish his office at such placeas the President of the United States may deem most expedient for thepublic service; and that he shall be allowed an annual salary of twothousand dollars, and that he be authorized to employ one skilful draughts-

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April 21, 1806,ch. 39.

Disposition ofcertain docu-ments.

Other docu-ments.

Deputy sur-veyors to be ap-pointed.

Location ofoffice of sur-veyor general.

Salary, &c.