United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/6th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 8
[Obsolete.]
Chap. VIII.—An Act giving further time to the holders of Military Warrants, to register, and locate the same.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall, for the space of fourteen days1796, ch. 46. after the expiration of the nine months heretofore allowed for that purpose, by the act, intituled “An act regulating the grants of land, appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen,” register warrants for military services in the form and manner as is prescribed by the said recited act; and the priority of location of said warrants, and the warrants registered under the said recited act shall be determined by lot, immediately after the expiration of the said fourteen days, and a day for the location shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, in a public notice given in one of the gazettes in the city of Philadelphia.
Approved, February 11, 1800.