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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 3 STAT. · March 3, 1817 · Chapter CV

Chapter CV. to continue in force an act, entitled “An act relating to settlers on lands of the United States.”March 3, 1817. [Expired.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of March 25, 1816, ch. 35

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Chap. CV.— An Act to continue in force an act, entitled “An act relating to settlers on lands of the United States.”March 3, 1817. [Expired.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Act of March 25, 1816, ch. 35. The act mentioned continued by act of April 20, 1818, ch. 90. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That an act, entitled “An act relating to settlers on the lands of the United States,” passed the twenty-fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for one year from and after the passage of this act. Approved, March 3, 1817.
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