Thirtieth Congress
Second Session
Congress of the United States
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 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 Generals 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

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as in all other cases of lands paid for.