United States Statutes at Large/Volume 29/54th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 94
Chap. 94.—An Act To confirm certain cash entries of offered lands.
Public lands.
Cash entries validated.
Vol. 25, pp. 622, 854.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all private cash entries of public land subject to sale in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas as offered lands, made between the dates of the approval of the joint resolution of May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and its promulgation, May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in cases in which all requirements of law have been complied with, be, and the same are hereby, confirmed, and all such entries made between said dates which have been canceled for which the purchase money has not been refunded shall be reinstated by the Commissioner of the General Land Office upon the application of the purchaser or purchasers or their legal representatives or assigns: Proviso.
Adverse claims.Provided, That no adverse claim has attached or shall attach prior to such application for reinstatement.
Approved, April 7. 1896.