Chapter CCC. for the relief of Mary Daws, Robert Bond, James Patridge, and John G
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Chap. CCC.— An Act for the relief of Mary Daws, Robert Bond, James Patridge, and John G. Smith.July 14, 1832. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the said Mary Daws, Robert Bond, James Patridge and John G. Smith, who respectively, did cultivate and inhabit Certain persons, upon surrender of improvements, to be entitled to pre-emption rights, &c. Act of April 22, 1826, ch. 28. lands within the Territory of Florida, previous to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and would have been entitled to pre-emption rights therefor, under the provisions of an act of Congress of the twenty-second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, entitled “An act giving the right of pre-emption, in the purchase of lands, to certain settlers in the states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Territory of Florida;” had not the lands by them so cultivated and inhabited, in manner aforesaid, fallen within the reservations made by the treaty with the Florida Indians on the eighteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, shall be and each of them, upon surrendering their respective improvements, are hereby entitled to a pre-emption right for a quarter section of land, in the district for the sale of lands, including the improvement, upon paying therefor, at the time of entry, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, to the Receiver of Public Moneys at the land office in said district, which pre-emption rights shall be located in the manner pointed out in the above recited act, and the act therein referred to.
Approved, July 14, 1832.