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Chap. CCXLVI.—An Act supplemental to the act “granting the right of pre-emption to settlers on the public lands,” approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty.[1]
Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.
Act of Jan 23, 1832, ch. 9.
Occupants and settlers on public lands, entitled to pre-emption, &c.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all the occupants and settlers upon the public lands of the United States, who are entitled to a pre-emption according to the provisions of the act of Congress, approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, and who have not been, or shall not be, enabled to make proof and enter the same within the time limited in said act, in consequence of the public surveys not having been made and returned, or where the land was not attached to any land district, or where the same has been reserved from sale on account of a disputed boundary between any state and territory, the said occupants shall be permitted to enter the said lands on the same conditions, in every respect, as are prescribed in said act, within one year after the surveys are made, or the land attached to a land district, or the boundary line established; and, if the said lands shall be proclaimed for sale before the expiration of one year as aforesaid, then they shall be entered before the sale thereof.
Occupants upon fractions to be permitted to enter in like manner, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the occupants upon fractions shall be permitted, in like manner, to enter the same, so as not to exceed in quantity one quarter section; and, if the fractions exceed a quarter section, the occupant shall be permitted to enter one hundred and sixty acres, to include his or their improvement, at the price aforesaid.
Approved, July 14, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CCXLVII.—An Act to authorize the sale of lands reserved from sale at fort Jackson, in the state of Alabama.
Sale of land authorized.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 is hereby authorized to offer for sale, the lands heretofore reserved from sale at fort Jackson, in the state of Alabama.
Settlers on said lands, who, prior to 1830, cultivated, &c. allowed to enter, &c.
Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every settler on said lands, who, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty, cultivated any part thereof, and is now in possession of the same, shall be allowed to enter at the proper land office, one quarter section, according to the provisions of the first section of an act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on public lands, approved May twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Approved, July 14, 1832.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. CCXLVIII.—An Act granting certain city lots to the corporation of the Columbian College, for the purposes therein mentioned.
- ↑ Pre-emption of public lands. See notes to the act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.
