Chapter XLVIII. giving further time to complete the surveys and obtain the patents for lands located under Virginia resolution warrants
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Chap. XLVIII.— An Act giving further time to complete the surveys and obtain the patents for lands located under Virginia resolution warrants. Feb. 22, 1815. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31.Act of April 11, 1818, ch. 43.Act of Feb. 9, 1821, ch. 11.Act of March 1, 1823, ch. 38.Further time allowed to complete surveys, &c. That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, or their legal representatives, to whom land warrants have issued by virtue of any resolution of the legislature of Virginia, as a bounty for services, which by the laws of Virginia, passed prior to the cession of the north-western territory to the United States, entitled such officers or soldiers to bounty lands, and whose location of such warrants shall have been made prior to the twenty-third day of March, one thousand eight [hundred] and eleven, shall be allowed the further time of two years from the passing of this act to complete their surveys and obtain their patents for the land located as aforesaid: *Provided,* That surveys shall be made and patents granted on the aforesaid locations, under the same regulations, restrictions and provisions, in every respect, as were prescribed for the making of surveys Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 31.and granting of patents by the act, entitled “An act authorizing patents to issue for lands located and surveyed by virtue of certain ‘Virginia resolution warrants,’” passed on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
Approved, February 22, 1815.