Plat of lands surveyed agreeably to an Act of Congress passed the 3rd of March 1801 entituled [sic] "An act giving a right of pre-emption to certain persons who have contracted with John C. Symmes or his associates, for lands lying between the Miami Rivers, in the Territory of the United States Nort

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Plat of lands surveyed agreeably to an Act of Congress passed the 3rd of March 1801 entituled [sic] "An act giving a right of pre-emption to certain persons who have contracted with John C. Symmes or his associates, for lands lying between the Miami Rivers, in the Territory of the United States North West of the Ohio." [ca. 1805]

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Federal land surveys in Illinois were authorized by Congressional act (March 26, 1804), when the U. S. Surveyor General was given jurisdiction over all public land north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers. Surveys began in the western Vincennes Tract (1804) and southern Illinois (1806), then proceeded northward; covering all but most northern Illinois by 1831. When the Illinois surveys began, the Surveyor General was an independent officer under the President's direct su...