United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Resolution 10
No. 10. A Resolution respecting receipts issued by the Treasurer of the United States, in payment for public lands.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Treasurer’s certificates of deposites for the purchase of lands under act of April 24, 1820, ch. 51, when assigned, to be received in payment for public lands. That any certificates which have been issued by the Treasurer of the United States, in favor of individuals who have deposited moneys at the Treasury in payment for lands intended by them to be purchased under the act of Congress, approved April the twenty-fourth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, entitled “An act making further provision for the sale of public lands,” and which certificates have been assigned, may be received in payment for public lands purchased at public sale or by private entry; and any receiver of public moneys who may have received such certificates in payment, as aforesaid, may be credited with the amount thereof, upon delivering them duly transferred to the Treasury.
Approved, June 12, 1844.