Chapter 138. Providing for the issuance of patents to transferees of town lots purchased from the United States at public sale in certain cases
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CHAP. 138.— An Act Providing for the issuance of patents to transferees of town lots purchased from the United States at public sale in certain cases. July 9, 1914.[[H. R. 4938](/us/bill/63/hr/4938).][[Public, No. 126](/us/pl/63/120).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Issue of town lot patents to transferees of purchasers. That in all cases where town lots were sold by the United States at public sale, and the purchaser at such sale had transferred his interest in any such lot prior to the eleventh day of October, nineteen hundred and eleven, and patent has not been issued in the name of the original purchaser, the Commissioner of the General Land Office may issue a patent in the name of the transferee where full payment of the purchase price has been made and satisfactory evidence of the transfer has been furnished: *Proviso.*Conditions.*Provided*, That it be shown that the original purchaser is dead, or that after due inquiry his whereabouts can not be ascertained, and that the instrument of transfer given by the original purchaser has been lost or destroyed.
Approved, July 9, 1914.