United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 44
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XLIV.—An Act to regulate the location of land warrants, and the issuing of patents, in certain cases.
Act of March 5, 1816, ch. 25.
Act of March 3, 1817, ch. 106.
Assignees of warrants issued to Canadian volunteers, may locate them, &c.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the holders, by assignment, of warrants issued under the acts of Congress, of the fifth of March, eighteen hundred and sixteen, the third of March eighteen hundred and seventeen, to Canadian volunteers, may be, and hereby are, authorized to locate the said warrants, and to receive patents therefor in their own named, as had been the practice before the twenty-sixth of December, eighteen hundred and nineteen: Provided, however, That in no case shall lands be so located, until, after having been exposed to public sale, shall remain unsold.
Approved, March 3, 1821.