The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-06-20

all cases where q settler on tho public
lands may reside, or have his dwelling
house upon one quarter section, and ,eul'
tivate land on another and different quar-
ter section, such settler may make his
selection under the act to which this is a
supplement, to enter either of said quarter
section, or legal subdivisions Of each, SO
as not to exceed one quarter section in
all.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
in all cases where an individual may have
made an improvement on the public land,
ard had afterward leased or rented such
to another person, who was
in possession of the same on the twenty
second Of June, eig hteen hundred and
thirty.eight, and for the period Of four
months next preceding, or when the lessor
and lessee, together, occupied such i'm:
provement during said four months, the
|person who made sucn improvement, and
ESQ rented or leased tho same, shall be
PeHtitled to the right of pre-emptien, not
Fwithstanding he may have been out Of
possession OF his Improvement during said
four months or any part thereof, =.
, Sec. 3. And be 1t further enacted, That
every settler ON the'pobIic lands, which
were not surveyed at the passage of the
fact to which this is a supplement, and
iwho, since the survey Of such public lands
has been ascertained to hare resided at the
date Of said act, and Cor four months pre-
ceding, on sixteenth section, set apart
for the suppoftof schools in any town.
ship, shall be entitTed'to enter at the mi.
airy other quarter section. OF
The public lands lying in the same land
district, 10 which no other person has the
rightof pre-emption, on making satisfac-
tory proof of his or her residence as afore-
said on such sixteenth section, before The
register and receiver Of the land Office OF
said district.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That
every person who may have been settler,
within the meaning of the act to which
this is a supplement, on anypubhc land
before its selection by any State for the
purposes Of seminary Of learning, under
any act,of Congress authorizing such selec-
ton, on satisfactory proof of the facts be.
fore the register and receiver Of the dis
trict in which his Improvements were
situated, shall be permitted to enter at the
minimum price, any other quarter section
lying in the same land district, to which
no other person has the right Of pre-cmp.
tion, -
Sec. 5. And be 1t further enacted. That
the +'Act to grant pre-emption rights to
settlers. ON the public lands," approved
June, twentg-sccond, eighteen, hundred
and thirty. eli Sht, be, and the same is here
BIZ, continued in full force till the twenty
serond day of June, eighteen hundred and
forty-two; and the, right Of pre-emption,
underits provisions, shall be, and hereby
is; extended: to all settlers. on the public
lands at the date of this act, with the same
exceptions, whether general, or special,
and subject to all the limitations and con-
ditions contained in the above recited act,
and with the explanatory provisions OF the
preceding. sections Of this act. and moth
ing in the last pruyiso of the act. of the,
lweniy-second Of June, eighteen hundred
and thirty.eight, shall be so construed as
10 defeat any right Of pre-emplion accru.
ing under said act, or under this act, or
under any preceding act Of Congress, nor
shall said pre.emption claims 'be defeated
BY any contingent Choctaw location.
APPROVED, June Ist, 1910.