Chapter LVII. further to extend the provisions of the act, entitled “An act supplementary to an act, entitled ‘An act for the relief of the purchasers of the public lands prior to the first July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.’” March 3, 1823. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of t
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Chap. LVII.— An Act further to extend the provisions of the act, entitled “An act supplementary to an act, entitled ‘An act for the relief of the purchasers of the public lands prior to the first July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.’” March 3, 1823. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * That all persons who shallThe act of April 20, 1822, ch. 30, for the relief of the purchasers of public lands, extended to 30th Sept. next. produce satisfactory evidence to the register and receiver of the proper land office, that they were actually entitled to, and would have availed themselves of, the provisions of the act, entitled “An act supplementary to the act, entitled ‘An act for the relief of the purchasers of the public lands prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty,’ ” approved April twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and their failure to do so was owing to such cause or circumstance as he [they] could not control or prevent, shall be allowed until the thirtieth day of September next, to avail themselves of all the privileges, advantages and provisions, of the said act, in the same manner they could have done prior to the thirtieth day of September last.
Approved, March 3, 1823.