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and improved any Of the. lands in the said
Territory, preserved for the use of schools
and who would have had the right of pre-
emtion thereto by the law. had not the same
been so reserved, shall have the right OF pre-
emption under the same, terms and condi~
tions. and subject to the same restrictions,
nrovided for in other cases of right OF pre-
emtion in said Territory to quarter-section
Of unappropriated lands in the same town
ship. and as Dear adjacent as lands of like
quantity can be obtained.


SEC. S. .and be IL further enacted, That
every person, or hrs or her legal representa-
tive, comprised in tl'e list OF actual settlers,
renorted To the Commissioner Of the Gener-
Il I and Office, by the Register and Receiver
for the District of Jackson Court House, in
,he state of Mississippi, under the authority
af on act of Congress, entitled AN Act for ad--
;nst;n the claims to lands, and, establishing,
and i.fFices in the Districts east Of the ISL
and of New-Orleans," approved the third
dav of March, one thousand eight hundred
and nineteen. not having any written evl-
dence of claim to land, in said district, and
who, ON the thiro day of March, one thon-
sand eight hundred aud nineteen, did actual-
10 inb ablt and cultivate tract ofland in said
district, not claimed by virtue OF any written
evidence of claim, legally derived from ell
ther the French British or panlsh Govern
ments. or granted as donation by virtue OF
any act of Congress heretofore passed, shall
be entitled to right Of preference. on be-
coming the purchaser from the United States
of such tract of land, at the same price for
which other public lands are sold at private
s,Ic. Provided. Tlrat such tract OF land
sh ali not contain more than one hundred and
sixtv acres. to be located by sectional lines,
and that the same shall he duly entered with
the Register Of the oes sshs With .,% the
shall be offered at public sale: .ana hrovid,
cd also, Where any person is settled on and
has improved any school lands in sald !. d1s- is.
,trict, he, she, or they, shall be governed ny
the provisions of the fourth sectiCo OF shIs
act. -


JOHN w. TAYLOR,


Speaker Of the House of Representatives


JOHN C. CALHOUN,


Vice President of the United States, and


President of the Senate.
AprnovRp--April %, 1896


JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.