Chapter XCII. to confirm certain Entries of Land therein named
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Chap. XCII.— An Act to confirm certain Entries of Land therein named. March 3, 1857. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Entries under graduation law, confirmed. That all entries of the public land[s] under the act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands subject to entry, to actual settlers and cultivators, approved fourth of 1854, ch. 244.August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, made prior to the passage of this act, in which the purchaser has made the affidavit and paid the purchase Vol. x. p. 574.money as required by said act and the instructions issued and in force, and in the hands of the Register at the time of making said entry, are Exceptions and provisos.hereby legalized, and patents shall issue to the parties respectively, excepting those entries under said act, which the commissioner of the General Land-Office may ascertain to have been fraudulently or evasively made; *Provided*, That this act shall not be so construed as to confirm any of said entries which have heretofore been annulled and vacated by said commissioner on account of fraud, evasion of law, or other special cause; and *provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to deprive any actual settler and cultivator of his right to any land on which he resided at the time of an entry by another person under the act to which this act is an amendment.
Approved, March 3, 1857.