Chapter CCXLIX. to extend the Right of Pre-emption over Unsurveyed Lands in Minnesota, and for other purposes
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Chap. CCXLIX.— An Act to extend the Right of Pre-emption over Unsurveyed Lands in Minnesota, and for other purposes.Aug. 4, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the provisions of the pre-emption act of fourth September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, Preëmption rights in Minnesota. and the acts amendatory thereof, shall be extended to the lands in Minnesota Territory, whether surveyed or not; but in all cases where pre-emption is claimed on unsurveyed lands the settler shall file his declaratory statement within three months after the survey has been made and 1841, ch. 16. returned, and make proof and payment before the day appointed by the President’s proclamation for the commencement of the sale of the lands, including the tract claimed: *Provided, however,* That if, when said lands are surveyed, it is found that two or more persons have settled upon the same quarter section, each shall be permitted to enter his improvement, as near as may be, by legal subdivisions.
Approved, August 4, 1854.