United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/24th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 3
No. 3. Resolution to suspend the sale of a part of the public lands acquired by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit creek.
Reservations of lands to be withheld from public sale until 1st December, 1836.Be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the public lands, acquired by the treaty concluded with the Choctaw nation of Indians, at Dancing Rabbit creek, on the twenty-eighth day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty, as has been conditionally, or otherwise located by the locating agent of the United States to persons claiming reservations under the fourteenth article of said treaty, be Proviso.withheld from public sale until the first day of December next: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall be taken or construed as indicating any intention on the part of Congress to confirm said claims.
Approved, May 9, 1836.