Chapter CXXXI. *to extend the Benefits of the Donation Law of September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty, to certain Persons*
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CHAP. CXXXI.— An Act *to extend the Benefits of the Donation Law of September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty, to certain Persons*. March 3, 1871.1860, 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*, Bona fide settlers upon the lands of Puget Sound Agricultural Company entitled to benefit of act. That all persons who, at the time of settlement, possessed the qualifications prescribed in the fourth and fifth sections of “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,” approved September twenty-seven, eighteen hundred and fifty, and who made bona fide settlement upon the lands claimed by the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, in Washington Territory, within the time limited for settlement by said act and the amendments thereto, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, entitled to all the privileges and benefits of said act and amendments.
Sec. 2. Privileges extended to their heirs and assigns.That the rights and privileges of heirs and assigns under the said donation law, and the amendments thereto, shall be, and are hereby, extended to the heirs and assigns of the settlers named in the first section of this act. Approved, March 3, 1871.