Feb. 22, 1849.
(No. 5.)—Joint Resolution for the Relief of John B. Nevitt, of Adams County, Mississippi.
Commissioner of General Land Office to cause a survey to be made of certain lands
in Adams county, Miss.
And when surveyed, to notify John B. Nevitt of the number of acres vacant, and allow
him or his legal representatives to enter the same at the minimum price.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, within six
months after the passage of this joint resolution, to cause an accurate survey
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to be made of certain unsurveyed lands lying in township seven and eight, of range
three west, in Adams county, Mississippi, and more particularly known as a triangular
slip lying between the lands granted to Joseph Bernard, and surveyed for his representatives,
in the year eighteen hundred and six, on the north, and the lands, marked on the maps
of the Surveyor-General’s office, south of Tennessee, as Balser Shillings, and now
occupied and owned by John B. Nevitt on the south; and when so surveyed, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner, as aforesaid, to notify
the said John B. Nevitt of the number of acres ascertained to be vacant, and if the
said Nevitt, or, in case of his death, his legal representatives, shall, within six
months next succeeding such notice, offer to pay to the receiver of the Land Office
of the district within which said lands lie, one dollar and twenty-five cents per
acre for the same, it shall be the duty of the receiver aforesaid to accept such offer,
and, on payment being made, to give a receipt therefor, as in other cases of land
entries, and on the presentation of said receipt to the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, he shall cause a patent to issue, as in all other cases of lands paid
for.
Approved, February 22, 1849.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Private Acts, IX, 30th Cong., 2nd sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 791-92 ,