ACTS OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS
of the
UNITED STATES,
Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday the fifth day of December, 1831, and ended July sixteenth, 1832.
Andrew Jackson, President; J. C. Calhoun, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate; Andrew Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
STATUTE Ⅰ.
Chapter I.—An Act to authorize the state of Illinois, to sell twenty thousand acres of the saline lands in said state.
State authorized to sell.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the state of Illinois be, and is authorized and empowered to sell and dispose of, twenty thousand acres (in addition to the thirty thousand acres heretofore authorized to be sold) of the lands granted to said state for the use and support of the salt works, known by the name of the “Ohio Saline,” in the county of Gallatin, in said state; the said twenty thousand acres of land to be selected and sold, and the proceeds thereof appliedProceeds, how to be applied. in such manner as the general assembly of Illinois have directed, or hereafter may direct.
Approved, January 19, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. IX.—An Act supplementary to an act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on public lands.[1]
Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.
Purchasers under the act may assign their certificates of purchase, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, all persons who have purchased under an act, entitled “An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on public lands,” approved the twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may assign and transfer their certificates of purchase, or final receipts, and patents may issue in the name of such assignee, any thing in the act aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, January 23, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. X.—An Act to direct the manner of issuing patents on confirmed land claims in the territory of Florida.
- ↑ Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to pre-emption rights of public lands. Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.
