United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/20th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 2
Chap. II.—An Act restricting the location of certain land claims in the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Persons entitled to a donation of land in Arkansas, by virtue of an act entitled, &c., not allowed to enter the improvement of actual settlers, &c.
Act of May 24, 1828, ch. 108.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person entitled to a donation of land by the eighth section of an act, entitled “An act to aid the state of Ohio in extending the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said state to aid in the construction of the canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to certain persons in the Arkansas territory,” shall be permitted to enter the improvement of any actual settler in the territory of Arkansas, before the same shall have been offered for sale, unless it be with the consent of such actual settler; and all entries which may be so made shall be considered null and void.
Residents south of Arkansas river, &c. west of territorial line, not entitled to donation given by said act, unless, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person residing south of the Arkansas river, and west of the present territorial line, shall be entitled to the donation of land given by the eighth section aforesaid, unless said persons shall move east of said line; and, in that case, they shall be entitled to the donations specified in the said eighth section of said act, under the restrictions aforesaid.
Approved, January 6, 1829.