United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 76
Chap. LXXVI.—An Act to give effect to patents for public lands issues in the names of deceased persons.
Patents for public lands to issue to heirs, devisees, and assignees.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where patents for public lands have been or may hereafter be issued, in pursuance of any law of the United States, to a person who had died, or who shall hereafter die, before the date of such patent, the title to the land designated therein shall enure to, and become vested in, the heirs, devisees, or assignees of such deceased patentee, as if the patent had issued to the deceased person during life; and the provisions of this act shall be construed to extend to patents for lands within the Virginia Military District in the state of Ohio.
Approved, May 20, 1836.