Volume 21
Public Law 46–8
to establish a land-district in the Territory of Dakota, and locating the office at Grand Forks.
Approved January 21, 1880
Statutory text
An Act
to establish a land-district in the Territory of Dakota, and locating the office at Grand Forks.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That all that portion of the Territory of Dakota lying and being north of the twelfth standard parallel and east of the tenth guide meridian shall constitute a new land- district, to be known as the Grand Forks district.
Sec. 2.
The President is hereby authorized to appoint, in the manner provided by law, a register and a receiver for said district, who shall be required to reside in Grand Forks, in the county of Grand Forks, until such time as the President may, in his discretion, remove the site of said land-office from said Grand Forks; and said register and said receiver shall be subject to the same laws and entitled to the same compensation as is or may be provided by law in relation to existing land offices and officers in said Territory.
Approved, January 21, 1880.