# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/12th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 134

Chap. CXXXIV.—An Act supplementary to the act entitled “An [act] giving further time to purchasers of public lands northwest of the river Ohio, to complete their payments.”
Act of April 23, 1812, ch. 64. Provisions of the act to which this is a supplement extended to purchasers of certain fractional townships, without reservation. Act of March 26, 1804, ch. 35.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement shall be, and they are hereby extended to the several purchasers of the fractional sections, which were by the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, classed together for sale, according to the ninth section of an act, entitled “An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes,” passed on the twentieth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, notwithstanding the quantity of land contained in any one tract, composed of such fractional sections, so classed, together, and purchased by a single contract, shall exceed six hundred and forty acres.
Assignee or assignees of original purchasers of land from the United States entitled to the benefits of this act.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the assignee or assignees of any original purchaser of land from the United States, the lands being purchased prior to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, shall be entitled to the benefit of the provisions of the act, to which this act is a supplement, and the last preceding section, in every case where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of public monies of the district within which the land may lie, that the assignment by which he or they so claim was bona fide made prior to the passing of the aforesaid act, that the whole lands claimed by virtue of such assignment does not exceed six hundred and forty acres, unless it comes within the provision of the preceding section, and that the lands or some one tract thereof is inhabited and cultivated by or for the use of the assignee or assignees.
Original purchasers or their assignees may in certain cases where their lands have reverted to the United States re-enter upon the same.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in every case where any tract or tracts of land purchased prior to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eight, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres, unless such tract shall come within the provision of the first section of this act, has since the first day of April last, reverted, or that may before the first day of August next, revert to the United States, for default of ​payment: the person or persons claiming such tract or tracts, whether as an assignee or an original purchaser, may again re-enter the same: and all monies which such assignee or original purchaser may have paid shall be replaced to his credit, by the register and receiver of public monies of the district in which the lands may lie, and such repurchaser or repurchasers shall be allowed the same benefit of the extension of the time of payment, provided by the act to which this is a supplement, as though no such reversion had occurred; provided such assignee or assignees, original purchaser or purchasers shall make to the proper land-officer application for such re-entry on or before the first day of September next, and that the lands so re-entered shall not have been re-sold previous to such application.
Approved, July 6, 1812.