EAWS Or T3IE UNION.

PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE


NINETEENTH CONGRESS.
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fPuBLIc-No. "a.


AN ACT giving the right of pre-emtion, in the


purchase of Lands, to certain settlers III the


States Of Alabama, Mississippi, and Territory


Of Florida


BE i, enacted By the Senate and House Of
Rehrrsen,atipes of the United States Of H.
mcrica in Congress assembled, That every
person, or the legal representatives OF any
person, who being either the head of fami-
" or twenty-one years Of age. did on or be-
fore the first day of January, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, ac-
tually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land
situated in the Territory of Florida, which
tract is not rightfullv claimed by any other
person, and who shall not have removed
from the said Territory, shall be entitled to
the act of pre-emption in the purchase there
of under the same terms, restrictions, con-
ditions. provisions, and regulations, in every
respect, as are directed by the act entitled
"An act giving the right of pre-emption, IN
the purchase of lands, to certain settlers IN
the illinois Territory" passed February the
fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thir-
teen. Provided, That no person shall be
entitled to the provisions OF TINS section,
who claims any tract of land in said Terri
tory. by virtue of confirmation OF the Com
missoners, or by virtue OF any act OF Con-


SEC. Q. .And be ii further enacted, That
any person, or the legal representatives of
anv person, entitled to preference in be-
coming the purchaser of a tract OF land at
private sale, according to the provisions of
this act. who is settled on fractional quar-
ter section, shall have the privilege OF pur-
chasing an adjoining quarter section, or the
fractional quarter section, improved by them,
at their option.


SEC. 5. .And be it farther enacted. That
| in cases where two or more persons entitled
| to the right of presumption shall be settle.
ON one quarter or fractional quartcr-sectior
of land, they shall be authorized to purc.nass
one or more quarter sections, waieh, will
the quarter section, or fractional quarter
upon which such persons are seteled. shall
be equally divided betwer :, them in such {
manner as the Register and Receiver shal
direct so as to secure, as far as may be prac.
ticable, to each such person, their improve
ments, respectively: Provided. That in nt
instance shah any person be entitled to
! preference in the purchase for more THAI
one quarter section OF land, in addition t.
his portion of the fractional quafter-sectioI
on which he is settled.


SEC. 4. .d1d be il further enacted, Ila
, any nesson, ~ p4-rgt'as, WIG have s"t-'cr -