Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the county of Ozark, in the State of Missouri, may enter by preëmption less than a quarter section of land, to be taken by legal subdivision. Said entry, except as to quantity, shall be made according to the provisions of the act of Congress, approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled "An Act granting to the counties or parishes of each State and Territory of the United States in which the public lands are situated, the right of preëmption to quarter sections of land for seats of justice within the same."

Approved, March 3, 1849.