United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 86
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Chap. LXXXVI.—An Act explanatory of the act entitled “An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana and territory of Missouri.”
Act of April 12, 1814, ch. 52.
The provisions of the 5th section of the act of 12th April, 1814, to be construed to extend to citizens of Howard county.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the fifth section of the act of Congress, entitled “An act for the final adjustment of land titles in the state of Louisiana and territory of Missouri,” passed the twelfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, shall be so construed as to extend to the citizens of the county of Howard, in the Missouri territory, as established by the act of the legislature of the territory, passed the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, any construction to the contrary notwithstanding.
The right of pre-emption.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the right of pre-emption given by the aforesaid provisions, as explained and extended by this act, shall not be so construed as to affect any right derived from the United States, by purchase, at public of private sale, of the lands claimed under the aforesaid act.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons who have settled on, and improved, any of the lands in the said territory, reserved for the use of schools, before the survey of such lands were actually made, and who would have had the rightPersons who would have had the right of pre-emption had not the lands been reserved for schools, to have the right of pre-emption, &c. of pre-emption thereto by the existing laws had not the same been so reserved, shall have the right of pre-emption thereto, under the same terms and conditions, and subject to the same restrictions provided for other cases of a right of pre-emption in said territory and the register of the land office, and receiver of public moneys for the district, shall have power to select any other vacant and unappropriated lands, in the same township, and as near adjacent as lands of equal quantity and like quality can be obtained, in lieu of the section, or parts of a section, which shall have been entered in right of pre-emption, according to the provision of this section.
Approved, March 3, 1819.