An Act to waive section 142 of title 28, United States Code, with respect to the holding of court at Decatur, Ala, by the US District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
PL 87-559 (H.R.10016), enacted 07/27/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-558-JULY 27, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
July 27, 1962 
[H. R. 9273] 
Public Law 87-558 
AN ACT 
To repeal obsolete laws relating to military bounty land warrants and to provide 
for cancellation of recorded warrants. 
Military boiinty 
land warrants. 
43 u s e 782-835 
notes. 
Purchase author-
ity. 
43 u s e 274 note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate aind House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 457, 
473, and 2414-2446, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes, as amended, 
and the Act of December 13,1894 (28 Stat. 594), are hereby repealed. 
Repeal of said laws shall not affect the rights of holders of warrants 
described in section 2 of this Act, until such rights are extinguished in 
accordance with said section, to have their warrants receivable in pay-
ment or part payment for lands under the Act of December 13, 1894, 
supra, to assign their warrants pursuant to sections 2414 and 2444 of 
the Revised Statutes, and to secure a new warrant in lieu of a warrant 
lost or destroyed pursuant to section 2441 of the Revised Statutes. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and 
directed to purchase at the rate of $1.25 per acre from the holders 
thereof and to cancel all valid unsatisfied military bounty land war-
rants which were issued pursuant to the laws repealed by section 1 of 
this Act and which are recorded with the Secretary pursuant to, and 
under the terms and conditions of, the Act of August 5, 1955 (69 
Stat. 534), and the regulations issued thereunder. 
The Secretary 
will send his offer to purchase by registered mail to the post office 
address of the holder of record with the Secretary as of the time the 
offer is made and will require the holder to surrender the warrant as 
a condition of payment therefor. If the holder of a warrant, within 
one year from and after receipt of an offer to purchase from the 
Secretary, shall fail to surrender his warrant and accept payment 
therefor as provided for in this section, the warrant shall not there-
after be accepted by the Secretary of the Interior for further recorda-
tion under the Act of 1955, supra, or as a basis for the acquisition of 
lands, or for payment under this section: Provided, 
That if within 
the one year after receipt of an offer to purchase, the warrant is trans-
ferred the transferee shall have the remainder of the one-year period 
or a period of six months, whichever is the longer, within which to 
surrender his warrant and accept payment. 
SEC. 3. Payments under section 2 of this Act shall be made out of 
any appropriated funds available to the Secretary of the Interior for 
expenditure by him. 
Approved July 27, 1962. 
July 27, 1962 
[H. R. 10016] 
Public Law 87-559 
AN ACT 
To waive section 142 of title 28, United States Code, with respect to the holding 
of court at Decatur, Alabama, by the United States District Court for the 
Northern District of Alabama. 
Alabama. 
U. S. District 
eourt. 
62 Stat. 898. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the limitations 
and restrictions contained in section 142 of title 28 of the United 
States Code shall be waived with respect to the holding of court at 
Decatur, Alabama, by the United States District Court for the 
Northern District of Alabama. 
Approved July 27, 1962.