Chapter LIX. *to release from Reservation, and restore to the Mass of Public Lands, certain Lands in the State of Arkansas.*July 12, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Undisposed lands reserved in Arkansas for bounties for war o
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Chap. LIX.— An Act *to release from Reservation, and restore to the Mass of Public Lands, certain Lands in the State of Arkansas.*July 12, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Undisposed lands reserved in Arkansas for bounties for war of 1812 to be sold.That the several tracts of land in the State of Arkansas, heretofore reserved for the satisfaction of military bounties under the war of eighteen hundred twelve, and which now remain undisposed of, be, and they are hereby released from such reservation, and restored to the mass of public lands, to be disposed of in the same manner as any other unoffiered public land: *Provided*, Proviso for actual settlers.That the person who may, at the date of this act, be an actual settler on any one of said tracts, and who, but for the reservation thereof, might have claimed the right of preemption thereto, under act of fourth September, 1841, ch. 16.eighteen hundred forty-one, be, and is hereby authorized to enter the same, or any subdivision thereof, upon making proof of said right, and paying the minimum price per acre, within a year after the passage of this act, or prior to the day fixed for the public sale of the tract.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* Sales and locations of said lands inadvertently made confirmed.That all sales of said land, or location thereof by military warrants, (other than those of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve,) which have been inadvertently permitted to be made, and which are in all other respects fair and regular, except as embracing reserved land not offered at public sale, be, and the same are hereby confirmed, and patents thereon which have been issued shall be as legal and valid os if said lands had been released from reservation, and offered at public sale prior to such sales or locations.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* Unsatisfied warrants may be located elsewhere.That all of said warrants which have not been satisfied, may be located on any of the public lands subject to private entry at the time of the location of the same. Approved, July 12, 1852.