An act supplementary to the several laws
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TUT the Saie or IUDtlc Lands.

 Be Il eaacted by the Senate and House ot Representatives ofthe Unted States of .4nae- gica m Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of May next, all the pubic lands of the United States, and when eilered at private sale, may be pur- chased at the option of tho purchaser. ei- ther in entire scctions, halfsections, quar- ter sections, half quarter sections, or quarter quarter sections; and in every case of division of half quarter sec ton, the line for the division thereof shall run cast and west, and the corners and contents ofquartcr quartersections, which may thereafter be sold, shall be ascor- talnca as nearly as may he, in the man uer, and m the principles, directed, and prescribed by the second section an act, entitled sAn act concerning the mode of surveying the public lands of tue United states, passed on the eleventh day of Isebrnary, eighteen hundred sud five; and fractional sections. containing fewer or more than one liundrcd and sixty acres. shall. h like manner as nsariy as y;s |, : practicable, be subdiyiaed, into quarter quarter sections, under such rules and re-

 gnlations as may be prescribed by the Sc crotary of the Treasury: Pyopiisd. Ttat this act shall not be construed to after any special provision made by law for the sale os land in town lots: And, Proeided d!so, That no person shall De permitted to enter more than one quarter section oi land under this act in quarter quarter sec tons, in his own name, or in the name ol .any ether person, and in no case, unless Ae intends 1t for cultivation, or for the use ct AiS improvement; And the person nals- ang application to make an entry under snis act, shall file his and her affidavit, un Ner such regulations IS the Secretary O!