return of surveys on other warrants; and that the surveys shall be returned to the general land office: Provided,Proviso. That no locations, as aforesaid, in virtue of this or the preceding section of this act, shall be made on tracts of land for which patents had previously been issued, or which had been previously surveyed; and any patent, which may nevertheless be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be considered null and void.
Holders of warrants not permitted to remove location.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no holder of any warrant which has been, or may be, located, shall be permitted to withdraw or remove the same, and locate it on any other land, except in cases of eviction, in consequence of legal judgment first obtained, or unless it be found to interfere with a prior location and survey; nor shall any lands heretofore sold by the United States, within the boundaries of said reservation, be subject to location by the holder of any such unlocated warrant.
Approved, March 1, 1823.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XL.—An Act granting to the state of Alabama the right of pre-emption to certain quarter sections of land.
Alabama allowed the right of pre-emption of lands for seats of justice.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the state of Alabama, at the minimum price for which public lands of the United States are sold, the right of pre-emption to one quarter section of land in, or near, the centre of each of the counties of Marengo, Perry, and Decatur, of the state aforesaid, in trust for said counties, respectively, for the establishment of seats of justice therein: Provided, That the proceeds of the sale of each of said quarter sections shall be appropriated for the purpose of erecting public buildings in the county for which it is located, after deducting therefrom the amount originally paid for the same: And provided further, That the seatProviso. of justice for said counties, respectively, shall be fixed and continued on the lands so located and selected.
Approved, March 3, 1823.
Statute ⅠⅠ.
Chap. XLI.—An Act altering the time of holding the circuit court in the district of Maine[1] and New Hampshire.[2]
- ↑ Circuit courts in Maine: An act for altering the times and places of holding the circuit courts therein mentioned, and for other purposes, Act of March 3, 1801, ch. 32, sec. 1. An act to repeal certain acts respecting the organization of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes, March 8, 1802, ch. 8. An act establishing a circuit court within and for the district of Maine, March 30, 1820, ch. 25
- ↑ Circuit courts in New Hampshire: An act providing compensation for the officers of the judicial courts of the United States, and for jurors and witnesses, and for other purposes, March 3, 1791, ch. 22, sec. 2. An act altering the time of holding the circuit courts in certain districts of the United States, and for other purposes, April 3, 1792, ch. 21, sec. 2. An act to alter the times and places of holding the circuit courts in the eastern district and in North Carolina, and for other purposes, March 2, 1793, ch. 23. An act concerning the circuit courts of the United States, March 3, 1797, ch. 27. An act for altering the times and places of holding the circuit courts therein mentioned, and for other purposes, March 3, 1801, ch. 32, sec. 1. An act to repeal certain acts respecting the organization of the courts of the United States, and for other purposes, March 8, 1802, ch. 8. An act to alter the times of holding the circuit court in the first district, March 26, 1812, ch. 45.
