An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of
the public lands and to grant pre-emption rights Approved September 4th
[AD?] 1841
Sec 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled That the Tenth and Fifteenth sections of the act
to which this is an amendment be, and they are hereby repealed
Sec 2 And be it further enacted That from and after the passage of this act every
person being the head of a family, or widow, or single man over Twenty-One years of
age, who since the First day of January [AD?] Eighteen hundred and Forty seven has made or hereafter shall make a settlement in
person on the public lands to which the Indian ^title^ had been at the time of such settlement extinguished and who shall inhabit and improve
the same, and who has or shall erect a dwelling thereon, shall be, and is hereby authorized
to enter with the register of the land office for the district in which such land
may lie, by legal subdivisions, any number of acres not exceeding one hundred and
sixty, or
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a quarter section of land to include the residence of such claimant, upon paying
to the United States the minimum price of such land, subject, however, to the following
limitations and exceptions: No person shall be entitled to more than one preemptive
right by virtue of this act; no person who shall quit or abandon his residence on
his own land to reside on the public land in the same State or Territory, shall acquire
any right of pre-emption under this act; no lands included in any reservation, by
any treaty, law or proclamation of the President of the United States, or reserved
for salines or for other purposes; no lands reserved for the support of schools; no
sections of land reserved to the United States alternate to other sections granted
to any State for the construction of any canal Railroad, or other public improvement,
no sections of fractions of sections included within the limits of any incorporated
town; no portion of the public lands which have been selected as the site for a city
or town, and no parcel or lot of land actually settled and ocupied for the purpose of trade and not agriculture shall be liable to entry under and by
virtue of the provisions of this act
Sec 3 And be it further enacted That whenever any person has settled or shall settle
and improve a tract of land subject at the time of settlement to private entry, and
shall intend to purchase the same under the provisions of this act and the act to
which this is an amendment such person shall in the first case within Three months
after the passage of this act and in the last within sixty days next after the date
of such settlement, make the affidavit and proof required by the act to which this
an amendment, and shall within Twelve months from the date of such settlement make
the payment herein required, and if he or she shall fail to make the affidavit and
proof within the time aforesaid or fail to make the payment within the Twelve months
aforesaid the tract of land so settled and improved shall be subject to the entry
of any other purchaser
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No 88.
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A Bill to
An act to amend an act entitled an act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public
lands and to grant pre-emption rights ^Approved Sept 4th 1841^
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Turner (On [pre Intro?])
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HR, Pub Lands
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HR, Pub Lands
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Thos J. Turner
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January 17, 1848
Mr Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill, which was read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public lands.
Mr Turner, on leave, introduced the following bill, which was read twice, and referred to the Committee on Public lands.
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June 23 1848.
Mr Collamer from Sd Committee made adverse report, & the said bill laid upon the table.
Mr Collamer from Sd Committee made adverse report, & the said bill laid upon the table.
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A Bill to amend an act entitled “An Act to amend an act to appropriate the proceeds
of the sales of public lands and to grant pre-emption rights” Approved September 4th 1841.
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Handwritten Document, 3 page(s), RG 233, Entry 362: Records of the United States House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB ,