Chapter XLV. for the Relief of Isaac Drew and other Settlers upon the Public Lands in the State of Wisconsin
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Chap. XLV.— An Act for the Relief of Isaac Drew and other Settlers upon the Public Lands in the State of Wisconsin.May 24, 1858. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That Isaac Drew, and such other persons as may have settled, in good faith, in the State of Wisconsin,Settlers, &c. since July 1, 1850, on lands wrongly selected by State, entitled to preemption. since the first day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty, upon any portion of the lands that were erroneously selected by said State as a part of five hundred thousand acre grant, which selections were not confirmed, and who were at that date, or since that time have become, an actual settler and housekeeper, and made improvements on any tract embraced among said erroneous selections, are hereby entitled to the same right of preemption, and upon the same terms and conditions, as are prescribed by an act entitled, “An Act to appropriate the Proceeds of the Sales of the1841, ch. 16.Vol. v. p. 453.Proviso.
Public Lands and grant Preëmption Rights,” approved September *fourteenth*, [fourth,] eighteen hundred and forty-one: *Provided,* such lands shall be paid for by such settlers at the minimum price. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That where persons have erroneouslyPersons who have wrongly entered, &c. and actual settlers, to have patents. entered any of the lands named in the first section of this act, and shall satisfactorily show to the register and receiver that, prior to, or within three months after, the passage of this act, they have made an actual settlement on the lands mentioned in the first section, the Commissioner of the General Land-Office is hereby authorized to issue patents therefor: *Provided,* That it shall be satisfactorily made to appear to him that theProviso. entry of the tract or tracts sought to be patented does not interfere with the rights or occupancy of any actual settler.
Approved, May 24, 1858.