Chapter CCIX. *to amend an Act approved the fourth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled “An Act to graduate and reduce the Price of the Public Lands to actual Settlers and Cultivators.* March 3, 1855. 1854, ch. 244. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
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Chap. CCIX.— An Act *to amend an Act approved the fourth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, entitled “An Act to graduate and reduce the Price of the Public Lands to actual Settlers and Cultivators.* March 3, 1855. 1854, ch. 244. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the act approved fourth Affidavits under graduation act of 1854, ch. 244, § 8, before whom to be made.August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, “To graduate and reduce the price of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators,” shall be so construed that the affidavits required by the third section of that act may be made before any officer duly authorized by law to administer oaths, according to such forms, and pursuant to such regulations, as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Approved, March 3, 1855.