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AN ACI


To extend the time for locating Virginia military
land warrants and for returning the surveys there


the Secretary of the Department of War.
D E it enacted By the Senate and House q
ID Representatives Of the United STATES q
America, in Congress- assembled, That the
/, officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on
continental establishment, their heirs or as
signs entitled to bounty lands within the
tract reserved by Virginia, between the lit
tie Miami and Scota rivers, for satisfying
the legal bountes to her officers and sodi-
er, upon continental establishment, shall be
allowed further term Of five years, from
and after the passage of this act, to obtain
warrants and complete their locations, and
a further term of seven years, from and af.
ter the passage of this act as aforesaid, to
return their surveys and warrants to the IF
fee of the Secretary of the War Depart
ment, any thing in any former act to the
contrary Notwithstanding. Provided, That
no locations as aforesaid within the above
mentioned tract shall after the passing of
this act be made on tracts of land for which
patents had previously been issued or which
had been previously surveyed, and any pa
tent which may nevertheless be obtained
for land located contrary to the provisions
of this section, shall be considered as null
and void.


]. B. Varnum.


Speaker of the House of Representatives
George Clinton,
Vice President Of the United States. and
President Of the Senate.
March 10 1870


Approved.


JAMES MADISON.