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TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 101,110. 1838.

ter and receiverfor each district.

Powers, du-ties, and com-pensation.

Public lands insaid districts,except, &e. tobe exposed tosale.

President au-thorized to re-move the saidland offices.

Statute II.June 12, 1838.

The boundaryline betweenMichigan andWisconsin , asestablished byact 15 June1836, ch. 99, tobe surveyed,marked, anddesignated.

A plat to bemade, &,c.

Appropriation.

Proviso.

Statute II.June 12, 1838.

Sec. Treas. toset apart not ex-ceeding twotownships ofland for the useof a university.

the Senate , a register and receiver of public moneys for each of thesaid districts, and who shall, respectively, be required to reside at thesite of their offices, and have powers, perform the same duties, and beentitled to the same compensation, as are or may be prescribed by lawin relation to the other land officers of the United States .

Sec. 3. And be it f urther enacted, That the President is authorizedto cause the public lands in the said districts with the exception of sec-tion numbered sixteen in each township, reserved for the use of schools,or such other lands as may by law be selected in lieu thereof, and ofsuch other tracts as he may select for military or other purposes, to beexposed to sale in the same manner, and upon the same terms and con-ditions, as the other public lands of the United States .

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That whenever the President maydeem it expedient, he is hereby authorized to remove the said landoffices to such other places within those districts as he may judgeproper.

Approved, June 12, 1838.

Chap. Cl.— Jin Act to ascertain and designate the boundary line between the Stateof Michigan and the Territory of Wisconsin, (a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the Surveyor Generalof the Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin land districts, under thedirection of the President of the United States , be, and he is hereby,authorized and required to cause to be surveyed, marked, and desig-nated, the boundary line between the State of Michigan and the Terri-tory of Wisconsin, agreeably to the boundary as established by the actentitled “ An act to establish the northern boundary line of the Stateof Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan intothe Union, upon the conditions, therein expressed,” approved June fif-teenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-six; and to cause to be made a plator plan of the boundary between the said State of Michigan and thesaid Territory of Wisconsin, and return the same to Congress at itsnext annual session, and that the sum of three thousand dollars be, andthe same is hereby appropriated to carry into effect this act: Provided,That the whole expense of surveying, marking and designating the saidboundary line shall not exceed that sum.

Approved, June 12, 1838.

Chap. CX.— An Act concerning a seminary of learning in the Territory of

Wisconsin.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretaryof the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to set apart andreserve from sale, out of any of the public lands within the Territoryof Wisconsin, to which the Indian title has been, or may be, extin-guished, and not otherwise appropriated, a quantity of land not exceed-ing two entire townships, for the use and support of a university withinthe said Territory, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever; to belocated in tracts of land of not less than an entire section, correspond-ing with any of the legal divisions into which the public lands areauthorized to be surveyed.

Approved, June 12, 1838.

(a) See notes to the act of June 12, 1838, chap. 96.