Chapter CXII. for the Relief of certain actual Settlers and Cultivators who purchased Lands subject to Graduation, within the Limits of the Choctaw Cession of eighteen hundred and thirty, at a less Rate than the true graduated Price, under the “Act to graduate and reduce the Price of the Public Lands to actual Se
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Chap. CXII.— An Act for the Relief of certain actual Settlers and Cultivators who purchased Lands subject to Graduation, within the Limits of the Choctaw Cession of eighteen hundred and thirty, at a less Rate than the true graduated Price, under the “Act to graduate and reduce the Price of the Public Lands to actual Settlers and Cultivators,” approved the fourth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty four, and for other Purposes. March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, 1854, ch. 244.Vol. x. p. 574.
That any person or persons who may have entered, in good faith, lands subject to graduation within Relief of bonâ, fide settlers on the Chowtaw cession.the limits of the Choctaw cession of eighteen hundred and thirty, before the correct graduation lists had been received at the local land-offices, at a less rate than the true graduation price, and who settled upon and improved the lands entered, or who entered the same for the benefit of an adjoining farm, and who continue to occupy the same, shall be entitled (provided the entries are regular in all other respects) to receive patents for the lands so entered, settled upon, and occupied, without any additional payment being required of them, upon their making the proof required by the circulars from the General Land-Office, dated the twenty-third of January and the seventh of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, any law to the contrary notwithstanding: *Provided*, That no proof shall be required which is not necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the act of May nineteen, one Act of 1852, ch. 35, respecting school lands in Mississippi, to apply to those heretofore reserved.Vol. x. p. 6.thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled “An act to authorize the legislature of the State of Mississippi to sell the lands heretofore appropriated for the use of schools in that State, and to ratify and approve the sales already made,” be so construed as to apply to lands heretofore reserved tor school purposes in the State of Mississippi.
Approved, March 3, 1857.