Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-09-17

patent shall issue to said settler, for such
quarter section.
Sec. 2. And be It further enacted, That
in the case of the settlement of the same |
quarter section by two or more settlers,
the right to the location shall be determn- |
ed by priority of settlement, to be ascer-
tanned under such rules as the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office, with
the approval of the President, may pre-
scribe; and the subsequent settler or set
tiers shall be permitted to locate the guam
tity he, she, or they may be entitled to
elsewhere within the same township, upon
vacant public lands.
Sec. 8. And be 1t further enacted, That
no right or donation shall. be acquired
under this act within two miles of any
permanent military post of the United
States, established and garrisoned at the
time such settlement and residence was
commenced.
Sec. 4. And be IL further enacted, That
all sales, gifts, devises, agreements, bonds,
or powers to sell, transfers, or liens what
soever, private or judicial, of the lands,
or any portion thereof, acquired by this
act, made at any time before patents shall
have issued for the same, shall be utterly
void and without effect, to every intent
and purpose, whether in law or equity;
and the purchaser or obligee, under any
such sale, agreement, bond, or power TO
sell, transfer, or lien, shall not be entitled
10 recover back the price or considera-
ton paid therefor, but shall forfeit the
, same absolutely to such settler or his heirs.
Sec. 5. And be IL further enacted, That
upon the death of any settler before the
end of the five years, or before the issuing
, of the patent, all his rights under this act
shall descend 10 his widow and heirs at
law, if he leaves widow, and to his heirs
at law, if he leaves none, to be held and
diyided by them according to the laws of
|, Florida, any previous sale or transfer of
the same or of any interest, legal or equit-
able, in the same, to the contrary notwith-
standing. And proof of his compliance
with the conditions Of this act, up to the
time of his death, shall be sufficient to en-
', title them TO the patent.
Sec. 6. And be Hfurther enacted That
where any settlement, by the erection of
, a dwelling, or the cultivation of any por-
ton thereof shall be made upon the six
teenth section before the same shall be
surveyed, then and in that case other lands
shaii DC seleCteu Dy tue school COMMISSION
ers Of the township, in lieu of said sec
ton sixteen, or such part thereof as may
be claimed under this act.
Sec. 7. And be 1t further enacted, That
not exceeding two hundred thousand acres
) of land shall be taken for settlement under
this act.
Sec. s. And be Il further enacted, That
the President of the United States may
at any time, by proclamation, suspend all
further permits and settlements under this
act, by giving six months notice thereof
Sec. o. And be Hfurther enacted, That
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office shall, on or before the first day of
February, eighteen hundred and forty-four
report to Congress the names of every
individual who shall have made the actual
! settlement required by the first section of
this act, specifying the heads of families
and the single men, and the location of
each quarter section occupied by each of
said settlers.
Approved, August 4, 1912,