Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-09-13
IPUBLIc-No. $751;

TPUBLIc-NO. $751;
AN ACT for the relief of the bona de settlers under
the acts for the armed occupation and settlement
Of part Of the Territory q Florida.
BE it enacted By the Senate and House of Represen
fdfves Of the United States of America Congress
sen5ied, That in all cases in which proof shall b
made TO the satisfaction Of the Commits sioner of the
General Land Office that any person who obtained a
permit under the act, entitled can act to provide for
the armed occupation and settlement of the unset
tied part oil the peninsula of Floria,, approved Au-
gust fourth, eighteen hundred and forty and who
was occupant under that act, and the act amenda-
tory thereof approved June fifteenth, eighteen hun
dred and forty -four, and who actually occuri ID or
settled under said acts, and did voluntarily relinquish
and abandon the same, but continued to reside on
said frontier south of said line specified ia said act
of eighteen hundred and forty two, thereby aiding to
effect the object of said acts, who has not received
the lands provided by said acts such settler shall be
entitled to grant and patent for the land occupied
Or settled by him, the same if all the conditions
and stpulatons said acts and requirements OF the
General Land Office in relation thereto had been fully
and strictly fulfilled and complied with.
SEC. 2. And be ii further enacted, That in all
where the lands settled occupied by such settler
or any part thereof, were not legally subject
to donation under the said acts any account what
ever, then such settler may locate his right the
parts so interftred with on any vacant public lands
in the same, or any adjacent township.
SEC. 3. And be ii further enacted, That act shall
extend to- and he construed and executed for, the
benefit of the widow and heirs Of any settler, accord
ing to the principles OF the fifth of said first
aboye-reCited act.
SCI. 4. Aad be ii further enacted, That Immediately
after the passage of this act. the Secretry of the
Treasury shall appoint agent to proceed forthwith
to the different county seats OF the counties OF the
State of Florida, where said lands lie, who shall at
terd at least ten successive days at each county seat,
il so long time be necessary to take and proof
by dispositions before him, in such manner US he
may prescribe in relation to such settlement oc-
cupation and Of settlers being entitled under this act
to grant donation Of land as aforesaid and said
agent shal also attend at such other places in said
settlements as the convenience OF such settlers in
furnishing their proofs may demand, under the In
sructions of the General Land Oiice and said agent
shall, within five months after he shall commence his
duties said State, transmit all the proofs he
take, and make report Of his opinion to each case
to said Commissioner of the General Land Office.
who shall pros ead forthwith to examine and decide
said cases. Prorided, That if any settler does not
submit his proof to such agent within four months
after reasonable notice, by advertisement of the
times and places of his attendance to receive such
proof said settler shall not have the benefit of this
act and all the reported aforesaid shall be
definitiyely decided within two months after the re-
port thereof received at his offices and said agent
shall be allowed the same compensation as is allow
ed by law to examining agents Of the Treasury De-
partment.
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