AN ACTfo grant -EmPaon Rights to
settlers on Inc Public Lands.
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settlers on the Public Lands.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives Of the United States OF
America in Congress assembled, That eV-
ery actual settler of the public lands, being
the head Of family, or over twenty-ohe
years of age, who was in possession ana a
housekeeper, by personal residence there,
ON. at the time of the passage Of this act and
for four months next preceding, shall be en-
titled 10 all the benefits and privileges oil AN
act entitled Gan act to grant pre-emp'Ion
RIGHTS to settlers on the public lands" ap-
proyed Nav twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred
and thirty and the said act is hereby revived
and continued in force two years. Propld-
cd That where more than one person may
have settled upon and cultivated any one
quarter section of land, each OF them shail
have an equal share or interest IN the saIo
ouarter section, but shall have no claim, by
yirtne Of this act, to any other land: And
Droriaed al,rdvs, That this act shall not be
70 construed as to give right oil Pre-emP-
tion TO anv person or persons in consequence
ofanv settlement or improvement made be-
fore the oxtinguishment OF the indian tue
IN the land on which such settlement or I'M
rroveuent ives made, or TO TIE lands lately
acouired by treaty with the Miami tribe OF
Jnd;ans in the State Of Indiana, of which
nyoclamation was made by the President OF
,be limited States on the twentv-second day
of December, eighteen hundred and thirty
ecyen or toanv section or fractions OF sec
tions ot land included within the location oi
nDv Incorporated town, or to the alternate
sections TO other alternate sections, granted
n The use Of any canal, rail road Or other
pnhjc ipproyement, or to any portions oil
m,blic lands, surveyed or otherwise, which
have been actually selected as sites ior cI-
,ios or towns lotted into smaller quantities
than eighty acres and settled upon ana oc-
cupied for the purposes OF trade, and not oi
agricultural cultivation and Improvement, or
is anv land specially occupied or reserved
for town lots or other purposes, by authority
ofthe United States. And prouided tmrth-
er. That nothing herein contained shall be
construed 20 affect any Of the selections OF
public lands for the purposes OF education,
the use Of salt springs, or tor any other pur-
nose. which may have beenor may be mace
bv any State, under existing laws OF the
limited States; but this act shall not be 50
construed as to deprive those Of the benefits
of ms act. who have inhabited, according to
4, provisions, certain fractions ofthe public
lands within the land district OF Palmyra IN
,he state Of Missouri, which were reserved
from ale in Z, nsequence of the surveys of
soan,sb and French grants, but are fouAd to
bs without tie lines Of said grants.


SIC. 2. That, before any person claiming
A,eisasli, Of ,b!. law shall have patenlfor


fuuc -. 1878