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and if demanded give a certificate or certificates thereof, under their hands and seals, which shall secure to such purchaser or purchasers, a valid title to the same.

, February 22, 1811.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioners appointed by an act of the legislature of the state of Tennessee, passed on the fourteenth of November, one thousand eight hundred and nine, to fix on a site for the town of Pulaski, in the county of Giles, and state aforesaid, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby authorized, on producing a receipt from the receiver of public monies, for at least one twentieth part of the purchase money, to enter with the register of the land-office, established for the lands ceded to the United States by the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians, in the Mississippi territory, a tract of land lying in a regular square, and containing six hundred and forty acres, which has or may be fixed on as a site for the town of Pulaski, as aforesaid, at the same price and on the same terms and conditions of payment as are provided with respect to other public lands sold at private sale at the said office; and on completing the payment of the purchase money, a patent shall be granted therefor to the said commissioners and their successors in office, in trust, for the use of the said county of Giles, for the purpose aforesaid.

. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed by an act of the legislature of the Indiana territory, to fix on a proper site for the permanent seat of government for the said territory, be, and they are hereby authorized, and their successors in office, so soon as the surveys under the authority of the United States shall have been made of the lands which they shall select, and on producing a receipt from the receiver of public monies, for at least one twentieth part of the purchase money, to enter with the register of the land-office for the district in which the land lies, any four quarter sections of land adjoining to each other, which have not been reserved by any former act of Congress, and which the said commissioners may select and fix on as a site for the permanent seat of government for the said territory, and payment shall be made therefor at the same price, and on the same terms and conditions, as are provided in respect to the other public lands sold at private sale in the same district; and on completing the payment of the purchase money, a patent shall be granted therefor, to the said commissioners and their successors in office, in trust for the use of said territory, for the purpose aforesaid.

, February 25, 1811.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is authorized to remove the land-office established for the sale of the public lands ceded to the United States by the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians in the Mississippi territory, from Nashville, to such place within the district for which it was established as he may judge most proper; and to remove the land-office