Chapter CXVII. for the relief of persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for lands in the state of Illinois
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Chap. CXVII.— An Act for the relief of persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for lands in the state of Illinois.May 15, 1820. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That all persons lawfully Persons holding confirmed unlocated claims for land within the tract reserved by 3d section of act of 16th April, 1814, &c. Act of 1814, ch. 120. Claims to be receivable, &c. Act of 1816, ch. 101. holding confirmed unlocated claims for land within the tract reserved by the third section of the act, entitled “An act confirming certain claims to land in the Illinois territory and providing for their location,” passed the sixteenth day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, be allowed until the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, to register the same: and the said claims shall be receivable in payment for public lands within the said reserved tract, conformably with the provisions of the said act, and of the act, entitled “An act making further provision for settling claims to land in the territory of Illinois,” passed the twenty-sixth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, at any time before the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Approved, May 15, 1820.