fPCBLIc--No. 49,
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AN ACT authorizing certain soldiers in the late |
war to surrender the bounty lands drawn by !
them, and to locate others in lieu thereof.
Be it enacted BY the Senate and House ofI
Representatives ofthe United States of H.
nerica in Congress assembled, That it
shall and may be lawful for any soldiers in
the late war, or their heirs, to whom bounty
lands have been patented, OF may hereafter
be patented, in the Territory of Arkansas,
and which land is unfit for cultivation, and
who have removed, or shall hereafter re-
move, to the said Territory, with view to
actual settlement on the lands by them drawn
lin all such cases where it shall be made to
appear, in such manner as the Commission
er of the General Land Office shall direct,
to the satisfaction Of the Register and Re
ceiyer OF the proper district. that the land
patented to them is unfit for cultivation, and
on the surrender ofthe patent to them grant
ed, accompanied with such release of their
interest as the Commissioner of the General
Land office shall prescribe, such soldier or
his heirs, may locate and enter with the Re-
gister of the Land Office for the proper dis.
trict, in the Territory Of Arkansas, accord
ing to the sectional and divisional lines, the
like quantity on any Of the inappropriate
public lands in the military district in SAID
Territory; and upon each entry and location
being made, it shah be the duty of the Re-
gister to issue to the person SO locating, a
certificate specifying the quarter or half sec
ton of land so located aud entered; and it
shall be the duty of the Commissioner Of
the General Land Office, if he is satisfied
such certificate was fairly obtained, to issue
patent for the lands so located, whenever
the certificate aforesaid shall be presented
to him for that purpose: ProUided, That be-
fore such certificate of location shall be
granted, the applicant shall satisfy the Re-
gister and Receiver that his interest in the
land originally patented by him, has not been
divested, either by his own acts, or by the
operation of law, for taxes or otherwise.


.dnd hrovided also. That such surrender
and relocation shall be made on or before
the first day OF January, eighteen hundred
and thirty. But, if said interest shall have
been divested in either mode above mention
ed, no title shall be acquired to the land sub
sequently patented.


JOHN w. TAYLOR,


Speaker of the House Of Representative


]. C. CALHOUN,


Yice-President of the United States, AM


President of the Senate.


ArrnovED-AIay %, 1896.


JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.