Chapter CXLIX. *to confirm certain Entries of Lands therein named*
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CHAP. CXLIX.— An Act *to confirm certain Entries of Lands therein named*. Feb. 17, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Certain entries of public lands legalized.1854, ch. 244.Vol. x. p. 574. That all entries of public lands under the act to graduate and reduce the price of the public lands subject to entry to actual settlers and cultivators, approved the fourth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-four; made prior to the passage of this act, in which the purchaser has made the affidavit and paid, or tendered, the purchase-money as required by said act, and the instructions issued and in force, and in the hands of the register at the time of Patents.Tender.making said entry, are hereby legalized, and patents shall issue to the parties, respectively, provided that in case of tender the money shall he paid, excepting those entries under said act which the commissioner of the general land office may ascertain to have been fraudulently or evasively Entries heretofore annulled not confirmed.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 Rights of actual settlers.other special cause: *And provided further*, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to deprive any actual settler and cultivator ofFORTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 150, 159, 160. 1873.465 his right to any land on which he resided at the time of an entry by another person under the act to which this is an amendment. Approved, February 17, 1873.