Chapter XL. to perfect certain locations and sales of public lands in Missouri
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Chap. XL.— An Act to perfect certain locations and sales of public lands in Missouri. April 26, 1822. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, [Obsolete.] Locations of warrants made under the act of Feb. 15, 1815, if made in pursuance of that act in other respects, shall be perfected into grants, &c.Act of Feb. 17, 1815, ch. 45.The sales of fractions from such locations, valid, &c.That the locations heretofore made of warrants issued under the act of the fifteenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, entitled “An act for the relief of the inhabitants of the late county of New Madrid, in the Missouri territory, who suffered by earthquakes,” if made in pursuance of the provisions of that act, in other respects, shall be perfected into grants, in like manner as if they had conformed to the sectional or quarter sectional lines of the public surveys; and the sales of fractions of the public lands, heretofore created by such locations, shall be as valid and binding on the United States as if such fractions had been made by rivers, or other natural obstructions.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, Hereafter holders, &c., of such warrants, are to conform, &c., and such warrants to be located within a year, or they will be null.That hereafter the holders and locators of such warrants shall be bound, in locating them, to conform to the sectional or quarter sectional lines of the public surveys, as nearly as the respective quantities of the warrants will admit ; and all such warrants shall be located within one year after the passage of this act ; in default whereof the same shall be null and void.
Approved, April 26, 1822.