Chapter CXCVI. *amendatory of “An Art to protect the Rights of actual Settlers upon the public Lands of the United States,” approved July 27, 1868, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. CXCVI.— An Act *amendatory of “An Art to protect the Rights of actual Settlers upon the public Lands of the United States,” approved July 27, 1868, and for other Purposes*. July 1, 1870.1868. ch. 256.Vol. xv. p. 227. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Agricultural college scrip to be received from actual settlers in payment of preemption claims, as, &c. That the act entitled “An act to protect the rights of actual settlers upon the public lands of the United States,” approved July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following proviso, viz.: *Provided*, That all such agricultural college scrip shall be received from actual settlers in payment of pre-emption claims in the same manner and to the same extent as is now authorized by lawin case Certain locations of such scrip made valid.of military bounty-land warrants: *And provided further*, That till locations of such scrip made within thirty days after the date of approval of said act of July twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, if otherwise in conformity with law, are hereby legalized and made valid.
Approved, July 1, 1870.