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Public Law 37–XCIV

to establish a Land Office in Colorado Territory, and for other Purposes.

Approved June 2, 1862

Statutory text

An Act

to establish a Land Office in Colorado Territory, and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That all the lands belonging

Public lands to which the Indian title has been extinguished to be subject to the preemption act.

to the United States to which the Indian title has been or shall be extinguished shall be subject to the operations of the preemption act of the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and under the conditions, restrictions, and stipulations therein mentioned: Provided, however,

1841, ch. 16.

Vol. v. p. 453.

That when unsurveyed lands are claimed by preemption, notice of the specific tracts claimed shall be filed within six months after the survey has been made in the field; and on failure to file such notice, or to pay

Notice, when to be filed.

Effect of failure to file notice.

for the tract claimed within twelve months from the filing of such notice, the parties claiming such lands shall forfeit all right thereto, provided said notices may be filed with the Surveyor General, and to be noted by him on the township plats, until other arrangements have been made by law for that purpose.

Sec. 2.

And be it further enacted, That the public lands within the

Colorado district established.

Territory of Colorado to which the Indian title is or shall be extinguished shall constitute a new land district, to be called the Colorado district; and the President is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and receiver of public moneys for said

district, who shall be required to reside at the place at which said office shall be located, and they shall have the same powers, perform the same

Powers, duties, and salaries.

duties, and be entitled to the same compensation as are or may be prescribed by law in relation to land offices of the United States in the State of Kansas.

Sec. 3.

And be it further enacted, That an act entitled “An act to

Graduation act repealed.

1854, ch. 244.

Vol. x. p. 574.

graduate [and reduce] the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators,” be and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved, June 2, 1862.