The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-06-18
PUBLIC-NO. 40. |

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to pro-
vid tor the armed occupation and settlement of the
unsettled part of the peninsula of Florida"
BE il enacted by the Senate and House Of Representa-
tires Of the United STATES Of america in Congress
blsd That any which IL shall appear to he
Commissio OF the General Land Office that the
location made by settler under the act approved Au
gust fourth, eighteen hundred and forty two, entitled
AN act provide for the armed occupation and set
element of the unsettled part Of me peninsula of F,o
rida located upon lands wh.ch were discovered,
after the issue Of the permit To be liable to overflow,
it shall be lawful for tue said Commissioner to autho
rize a change OF the location to any other vacant
quarter ST C ION within The same land district Pro-
rided, Application for permission TO change the loca
ton shall have been made at the pr per land office
before the fourth day OF August, eighteen hundred
and forty-three.
Section 2. find be IL further enacisd That in all
ca in which settlements have been made under the
provisions % said act upon lands not surveyed before
the issue permit, the settler may, after survey To-
cate his quarter section in any legal subdivisions of
continuous contiguous sections, fractional
IONS as TO make up the quantity Of one hundred
and sixty acres, as may be, and TO include his i'm
pros ements aud much of the lands described in his
permit as is consistent with the system of the public
surveys.
Section g. find be II further enacted That the set
tiers under sand may their ceilings, and
upon other than the quarter section described in
their perm Propided, The land upon which they
by them, lin xe; or, if not In market, shall be
50 entered within three months after IL shall have
been offered a, public sale ind prorided also That
the condition OF cultivation the land described
the permit shall be faithfully complied with accord
ing 10 the terms Of the act TO which this amend
ment.
Section 4. find be II further enacted That in any
which the title OF the United States To the
land, or any part of H. not les than forty de-
scnbed in the permit issued by the land office TO any
settler, or contained in the quarter section upon
which he shall have been located shall prove be
defective tract of land equal in quantity to that of
which the title shall have proved defective aior,-
said, may be located elsewhere upon vacant surveyed
lands within the same township, within the near
est townshpin which there shall be sufficient quant-
~ of vacant arabic land.
Section D. lind BE- IL further enacted That ii shall
be competent Tor any settler under the said act 10 per-
feet his title &c the quarter section located and de-
scnbed in the permit by paying The receiver of the
land office in the appropriate district the of
dollar and twenty-five cents per tor the said
qusr,er section Propided, That such settler shall
prove TO the satisfaction OF the reg and o
the proper land district that up the date OF his APP
plication TO make payment, he has fully complied
with the requirements of the act TO which This Is an
amendment.
Approved, June 10, 1874.