United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 74
Chap. LXXIV.—An Act to confirm certain entries of land in the St. Augustine land district, in the Territory of Florida, made under the pre-emption law of 22d June 1838.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Patents to issue on all entries made at St. Augustine under act of June 22, 1838, ch. 119, notwithstanding defect in proof. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue patents on all entries made in the St. Augustine land office in the Territory of Florida, under the act entitled “An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands,” approved twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, where the land so entered was public land and liable to the operations of said act, any informality in the proof, or other existing defect therein, or in the mode of entry, to the contrary notwithstanding:Proviso. Provided, That this act shall apply only to the cases where the settlers were forced from their homes by reason of Indian hostilities, and consequently were unable to make out the continuous residence required by the law.
Approved, June 15, 1844.