United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 190
Chap. CXC.—An Act for the relief of certain settlers in the Territory of Wisconsin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Settlers at Mineral Point who have been refused entry under the pre-emption act of June 19, 1834, allowed to enter one quarter section elsewhere.
1834, ch. 54. That every settler in the district of lands subject to sale at Mineral Point, in the Territory of Wisconsin, who shall show, by proof which shall be satisfactory to the register and receiver of the land office at Muscoday, that he, by cultivation and possession, as required by the pre-emption act of the nineteenth of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, was entitled to a right of pre-emption; and that he, the said settler, was refused the privileges granted by said act, in consequence of the mineral character of the tract of land applied for by him, shall be permitted to enter, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, one complete quarter section of land, of any lands in said land district which have not yet been offered at public sale:Proviso. Provided, That no tract shall be entered, by any settler claiming under this act, which contains mines or discoveries of lead ore, or on which there may be an improvement, or on which any person may have a residence, or which may have been reserved from sale:Proviso, that the claimant shall make oath to the facts stated. And provided, further, That the claimant, under this act, and his witnesses, shall make oath, before a person duly qualified to administer oaths, to all the facts stated by them.
Instructions of Sec. Treasury to be complied with.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act be carried into effect, in conformity with the instructions which may be given by the Secretary of the Treasury, to the register and receiver of the land office at Muscoday.
Approved, August 23, 1842.