Chapter XXII. *to revive and continue in force the several acts making provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of the public lands.*(*a*)(*a*) *Acts which have been passed for the relief of purchasers of public lands:* An act to extend the time for making payment fo
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Chap. XXII.— An Act *to revive and continue in force the several acts making provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of the public lands.*(*a*)(*a*) *Acts which have been passed for the relief of purchasers of public lands:* An act to extend the time for making payment for the public lands of the United States, March 2, 1809, ch. 26. An act to extend the time for making payment for the public lands of the United States in certain cases, April 30, 1810, ch. 36.
An act allowing further time for completing the payments on certain lands held by right of pre-emption in the Mississippi territory, December 12, 1811, ch. 6. An act directing the terms on which lands sold at public sale, and that revert for failure in payment, shall be again sold, January 14, 1812, ch. 15. An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands north-west of the river Ohio, to complete their payments, April 23, 1812, ch. 64. An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands north-west of the river Ohio, to complete their payments,” July 6, 1812, ch. 134.
An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands to complete their payments, March 3, 1813, An act giving further time to the purchasers of public lands, to complete their payments, February 19, 1814, ch. 14. An act giving further time to purchasers of public lands, to complete their payments, February 4, 1815, ch. 34. An act for the relief of certain purchasers of public lands in the Mississippi territory, April 24, 1816, ch. 75. An act to suspend for a limited time the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon, April 18, 1818, ch. 75.
An act to suspend for a limited time the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon, March 3, 1819, ch. 74. An act further to suspend, for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon, March 30, 1820, ch. 28. An act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands prior to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty, March 2, 1821, ch. 12. An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act for the relief of the purchasers of public lands prior to the 1st day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty,” April 20, 1822, ch. 30.
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 public lands prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty,’” March 3, 1823, ch. 57. An act to provide for the extinguishment of the debt due the United States by the purchasers of public lands, May 18, 1824, ch. 88. An act explanatory of an act entitled “An act to provide for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands,” approved on the eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, May 26, 1824, ch. 176.
An act making further provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States, by the purchasers of public lands, May 4, 1826, ch. 34. An act for the relief of purchasers of the public lands, that have reverted for non-payment of the purchase money, May 23, 1828, ch. 71. An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of purchasers of the public lands that have reverted for non-payment of the purchase money,” passed the twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, July 9, 1832, ch. 181.
March 21, 1828. [Expired.] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, * Act of May 18, 1824, ch. 88, and expla- That the act, entitled “An act 260 TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 23, 28. 1828. natory act of May 26, 1824, ch. 176, an act making further provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands, continued until July 4, 1829. 1826, ch. 34.to provide for the extinguishment ofthe debt dueto the United States by the purchasers of public lands,” approved May the eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and the act, entitled “An act explanatory of an act to provide for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands,” approved May the twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four; and also the act, entitled “An act making further provision for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of public lands,” approved May the fourth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same are hereby, revived and continued in force until the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
Sec. 2. The provisions of this act extended to all lands. *And be it further enacted, *That the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, extended to all lands on which a further credit has not been taken, and which, having become forfeited to the United States since the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, remain unsold. Approved, March 21, 1828.