Chapter CCXLVI. *supplemental to the act “granting the right of pre-emption to settlers on the public lands,” approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty*.(*a*)(*a*) Pre-emption of public lands
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Chap. CCXLVI.— An Act *supplemental to the act “granting the right of pre-emption to settlers on the public lands,” approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty*.(*a*)(*a*) Pre-emption of public lands. See notes to the act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208. July 14, 1832. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*, Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.Act of Jan. 23, 1832, ch. 9.Occupants and settlers on public lands, entitled to pre-emption, &c.
That all the occupants and settlers upon the public lands of the United States, who are entitled to a pre-emption according to the provisions of the act of Congress, approved the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, and who have not been, or shall not be, enabled to make proof and enter the same within the time limited in said act, in consequence of the public surveys not having been made and returned, or where the land was not attached to any land district, or where the same has been reserved from sale on account of a disputed boundary between any state and territory, the said occupants shall be permitted to enter the said lands on the same conditions, in every respect, as are prescribed in said act, within one year after the surveys are made, or the land attached to a land district, or the boundary line established; and, if the said lands shall be proclaimed for sale before the expiration of one year as aforesaid, then they shall be entered before the sale thereof.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the occupants upon fractionsOccupants upon fractions to be permitted to enter in like manner, &c. shall be permitted, in like manner, to enter the same, so as not to exceed in quantity one quarter section; and, if the fractions exceed a quarter section, the occupant shall be permitted to enter one hundred and sixty acres, to include his or their improvement, at the price aforesaid. Approved, July 14, 1832.