Chapter XVII. for the Extension of the Preemption Privilege in the State of California
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Chap. XVII.— An Act for the Extension of the Preemption Privilege in the State of California. March 1, 1854. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Part of act of 1853, ch. 145, respecting preemption claims in California extended. That the provisions of the act of the fourth of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, granting preemption rights to settlers on the public lands, as modified and made applicable to the State of California by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, shall be further modified by extending the provisions of the third proviso in the sixth section of the aforesaid act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to settlements made prior to and within two years after the passage of this act.
Approved, March 1, 1854.