Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-04-13
[PUBLIc-No. 31.

AN ACT supplemental act passed on the hiry-frst of March, thousand eight hundred and thirty, entitled
 An act for eelief of purchasers of public lands and
 Tor the suppression or fraudulent practices a the pubc
 sales of lands of the United Sates.'
 Be H enacted 6y the Senate and House ot RehreseHtatipes ofMe United States af Anle- rica in Congress aSsem6ted, That all pur- chasers, their heirs or assignees of such of the public lands as were sold on credit for a less price than fourteen dollars per acre, and on which a further credit has been taken un- der any of the laws passed for the relief of l purchasers of public lands, and which lands have reverted to tho United States on account of the balance due thereon not having been | paid or discharged, agrceably to said relief | laws, shall be entitled to patents, without fur ther payment in all instances where one dol lar and twenty five cents, or a greater sum per acre, shall have been paid: or where pay | ment to that amount shall not have been here toforc made, such purchasers, their heirs or assigners shall have the right of prc-emption until the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty -one, by paying into the proper land office such sum in addition to the amount heretofore paid, as will, together amount to the minimum price of the lands of the United States at the time of such pay mcnt.
 Sec. 9. .A,,d 6e H fursacr enacted, That
  contemplated and described in the second sec 1 tion of the above reCited act, to which this is supplement, as arc in possession of land which was sold on credit for a less sum than fourteen dollars per acre shall have the right | of pre- cmption of the same lands, according | to the legal subdivisions of sections, not ex- ceeding the quantity of two quarter sections, in contiguous tracts, or contiguous to other lands held by such occupants respectively, until the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, upon their pay ing into proper office for all land originally sold for price not exceeding five dollars per acre; one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and for all lands which originally sold for more than five dollars, and not exceeding fourteen dollars per acre, the amount of the first instalment heretofore paid; such occu- pants first proving their possession, respec- lively in conformity to the provisions of the said act, to which this is supplement, in the manner which has been prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, pursuant to the provisions thereof: ProUided ho7vever, That in all cases where proof of possession has been already made under said recitcd act, proof shall not again be required, unless the applicant choose to take ether land than that to which such prsaf applies. !"
 | Sec. 3. .4s9 de t further enacted, That, the provisions of this act shall extend to all town property of which the Government has been proprietors, and not subsequently, sold, when full payment has not been made: Pro- pided, The original purchasers. or their as signees, pay into the proper land office, on or before the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thrty-two, one half of the ori : ginal purchase money without interest
 APPROVED, February 25, 1881.