Chapter XLIII. *to grant to certain Settlers on the Menomonee Purchase, north of Fox River, in the State of Wisconsin, the Right of Preemption.*May 27, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That every personPreemption rights in Menon
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Chap. XLIII.— An Act *to grant to certain Settlers on the Menomonee Purchase, north of Fox River, in the State of Wisconsin, the Right of Preemption.*May 27, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That every personPreemption rights in Menonee Purchase under trenty of October 13, 1848 vol. ix. p. 952. being the head of a family, widow, or single man over the age of twenty-one years, who, on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, shall be an actual settler and housekeeper, and have made other improvements, on any tract within the body of lands ceded to the United States by the treaty of eighteenth October, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, with the Menomonee tribe of Indians, is hereby entitled to the same right of preemption, and upon the same terms and conditions as is prescribed by the act entitled “An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights,” approved fourth September, eighteen hundred and forty-one: *Provided,* That Proviso. where there shall be more than one su eh settler on any quarter-section, fractional quarter-section, or fraction of a section less than one8THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 44, 45. 1852. hundred and sixty acres, the rights of such settiers, as to the land settled on, shall be the same as those prescribed by the eighth section of the act entitled “An act to authorize the investigation of certain alleged 1843. ch. 86.frauds under the preemption laws, and for other purposes,” approved third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, for settlers therein provided Proviso.for: *And provided further,* That the preemption rights provided for in this act shall attach only to such land as shall become subject to sale at the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre.
Approved, May 27, 1852.