Chapter CLIV. *to amend the Act of Congress making Donations to the Settlers on the Public Lands in Oregon, approved September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the Acts amendatory thereto.* June 25, 1864.1850, ch 76
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Chap. CLIV.— An Act *to amend the Act of Congress making Donations to the Settlers on the Public Lands in Oregon, approved September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty, and the Acts amendatory thereto.* June 25, 1864.1850, ch 76.Vol. ix. p. 496. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Failing to file notice in time, not to work forfeiture in certain cases. That in all cases under the act of congress approved September twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled “An act to create the office of surveyor-general of the public lands in Oregon, and to provide for the survey, and to make donations to settlers of the said public lands,” and the several acts amendatory and supplemental thereto, in which the actual settlement may be shown to be bona fide, and the claim in all respects to he fully within the requirements of existing laws, except as to the failure of the party to file notice within the time fixed by statute, such failure shall not work forfeiture when no adverse rights intervene before the filing of the required notification by the claimant.
Approved, June 25, 1864.