Chapter CXXVIII. *to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas.* Aug. 11, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That each and every Owners of certain Spanish and French land claims authorized to enter the same
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Chap. CXXVIII.— An Act *to settle the title to certain tracts of land in the State of Arkansas.* Aug. 11, 1842. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That each and every Owners of certain Spanish and French land claims authorized to enter the same.owner of a Spanish or French land claim, in the State of Arkansas, which was submitted for adjudication to the superior court of the late Territory of Arkansas, and by that court confirmed, being subsequent purchasers for a valuable consideration, is hereby authorized, within twelve months from the passage of this act, to enter, respectively, the land covered by the said claim, at the minimum price, under such regulations as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall prescribe: *Provided,* That no such entry shall be made, except of lands mentioned Proviso.and described in the original claim, or of such tracts as have been located in pursuance of the act of the twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act enabling the claimants to lands within 1824, ch. 173.the limits of the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,” or any act reviving the same; nor unless the owner of the claim shall make and subscribe an oath, before the register or receiver of the land office of the district in which the lands lie, which oath such register or receiver is hereby authorized to administer, that at the time he became the owner of the claim he had no notice or knowledge that the claim was fraudulent, or that the same rested upon any forged warrant, grant, order of survey, or other evidence of title.
And, for every entry made under the provisions Patents to issue.of this act, a patent shall issue, as though no Spanish or French claim had ever been entered upon said land. Approved, August 11, 1842.