# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 181

Chap. CLXXXI.—An Act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of purchasers of the public lands that have reverted for non-payment of the purchase money”, passed twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 71. Register to issue certificates to purchasers of public lands for amount paid, &c. 1821, ch. 12.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where public lands have been purchased, on which a further credit has been taken under the provisions of the act of the second March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, or under any other act of Congress granting relief to the purchasers of the public lands, and have reverted to the United States for failure to pay the purchase money, or have been sold by the United States by reason of such failure to pay, it shall be the duty of the register of the land office where the purchase was made, to issue ​upon application, to the person or persons legally entitled to the benefit of payments made previous to such reversion or sale, his, her or their legal representatives or assigns, a certificate for the amount so paid and not refunded,Certificates to be as cash in payment of public lands. which shall be received and credited as cash in payment of any public lands that may hereafter be sold by the United States, in the state or territory in which such original purchase was made.
Commissioner and registers to be governed by provisions of act of May 23, 1828, ch. 71.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general land office and of the registers as aforesaid, to conform to, and be governed by, the provisions of the act aforesaid, to which this is an amendment, passed the twenty-third day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight as aforesaid.
Excess paid on lands relinquished, when it exceeds $10, to be certified, and received in payment for public lands.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That where the lands have been relinquished to the United States under the provisions of the act of second March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, as aforesaid, or other acts of Congress, and the money paid thereon has, in part, been applied in the payment of other lands, if the payment so made on lands retained be less than the amount paid on the relinquished lands, when such excess exceeds the sum of ten dollars, it shall be the duty of the register of the land office where the transfer of payment was made, to issue a certificate for such excess to the person or persons entitled thereto and in the manner pointed out in the first section of this act; which certificate shall be received in payment of the purchase of the public lands as pointed out in said section.
Duplicate of lost or destroyed certificate. 1828, ch. 71.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That on proof being made, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, that any certificate issued under this act, or that has been, or may be, issued under the said act of the twenty-third May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, has been lost or destroyed by accident, he is hereby authorized to issue to the legal owner thereof, a duplicate of such original certificate, which shall be, in all respects, as available to the owner as the original certificate would have been.
Approved, July 9, 1832.