United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/21st Congress/1st Session/Chapter 86
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXXXVI.—An Act to authorize the registers of the several land offices in Louisiana, to receive entries in certain cases, and to give to the purchasers thereof certificates for the same.
Certain purchasers of land in Louisiana authorized to enter them.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where persons have purchased lands of the United States within the state of Louisiana, and have paid in full therefor, and who have failed or omitted to enter the same, the register of the land office of the district in which the land was purchased shall, on presentation of the original receipt of the receiver of said district by the original purchaser or purchasers of the land, his, her, or their heirs, cause an entry thereof to be made, and give to him, her, or them a certificate for the same, specifying the time when the land was purchased, upon which a patent shall be issued as in other cases:Proviso: This privilege restricted to lands which have not been paid for and entered by any other persons, &c. Provided, however, That if, in the intermediate time between the purchase and presentation of the said receipt, any of the said lands shall have been paid for and entered by any other person or persons, ignorant of the former purchase, the said register shall not enter the same lands, but may permit the party to enter other lands in lieu thereof, of equal quantity, within the same district, which may be subject to entry, and shall give him, her, or them a certificate therefor, upon which a patent shall issue as in other cases.
Approved, May 5, 1830.