From and after the time assigned for opening the said Land-Office,¹ as aforesaid, until the end of the tenth day thereafter, being the eleventh day of the month, the secretary of the land office, upon the whole of the purchase money being deposited in the hands of the Receiver-General² of the Land-Office, and not otherwise, and upon acquittance for the same being shown to the said Secretary, he shall receive and file all applications made to him for lands within the said late purchase, not exceeding one thousand acres in one application, numbering them, respectively, from number one, after the common progression, to the last which shall be received within the same ten days; and every such application shall set forth, in words at length, and not in figures only, the number of acres asked by each applicant respectively; after which the said secretary shall proceed to enter all such applications, and to make a fair and accurate list thereof, and upon each application so entered, shall issue a warrant for such quantity as is contained in the application respectively, provided the same does not exceed one thousand acres, to the person entitled to the same, giving preference and priority of number to him to whom such preference and priority shall fall upon a fair lottery, to be made by the said secretary as hereinafter directed; and so to the next in order, until a warrant be issued upon every of the said applications, according to their preference and order, to be adjusted as aforesaid. * * * The warrants to be issued on the said applications shall severally be numbered according to the decision of the said lottery, and shall bear date on the day in which the drawing thereof shall be finished. And all applications to the said Land-Office, which shall be made after the expiration of the said ten days, for lands within the said late purchase, being made as above directed, shall have priority according to the order in which they shall severally come to the hands of the said Secretary, and shall be numbered accordingly, and not otherwise; and all warrants for land within the said late purchase, as well those, the priority of which shall depend upon the said lottery, as others, shall be made out in their proper order, as aforesaid, upon payment of the legal fees, by the person who shall produce the acquittance of the said Receiver-General for the purchase money, as soon as conveniently may be, without any needless delay, and without partiality.