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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · August 1, 1842 · Chapter CX

Chapter CX. *granting to the county of Johnson, in the territory of Iowa, the right of pre-emption to a trad of land for a seat of justice for said county, and repealing the second section of an act approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act making a donation of land to

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Chap. CX.— An Act *granting to the county of Johnson, in the territory of Iowa, the right of pre-emption to a trad of land for a seat of justice for said county, and repealing the second section of an act approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act making a donation of land to the territory of Iowa, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon.”*August 1, 1842.1839, ch. 77. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the right of pre-emption, at the minimumRight of pre-emption granted to him. price for which the public lands are sold, is hereby granted to the county of Johnson, in the territory of Iowa, for the fractional north-west quarter, east of the river, of section number fifteen, in township seventy- nine, of range six, west of the principal meridian, as reported to the land offices at Dubuque, in said territory, containing one hundred and seventeen acres and sixty-four one hundredths of an acre, more or less, on the same termsAct of May 26, 1824, ch. 169. and conditions expressed in the act of the twenty-sixth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An act granting to the counties and parishes of each state and territory of the United States, in which the public lands are situated, the right of pre-emption to quarter sections of land for seats of justice within the same;” which said right of pre-emption is in lieu of that to the quarter section heretofore located by the commissioners of said county, which is relinquished.
Sec. 2. *And he it further enacted*, That so much of the second sectionPart of act of March 3, 1839, ch.77, repealed. of an act entitled “An act making a donation of land to the territory of Iowa, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon,” approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, as directed the contiguous sections to the section to be selected under said act, for the purpose aforesaid, to be reserved from sale or entry until the further action of Congress thereon, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: *Pro*- TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 111, 112, 113. 1842. 847 *tided*, That the right of pre-emption shall not accrue to any person orProviso. persons who now are or may hereafter settle on said lands under any existing pre-emption law. Approved, August 1, 1842. Chapter CXI: for the benefit of the county of Holt, in the state of Missouri. 6 Stat. 847 1842-08-01 Chapter CXI Charles C. Little and James Brown text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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*granting to the county of Johnson, in the territory of Iowa, the right of pre-emption to a trad of land for a seat of justice for said county, and repealing the second section of an act approved the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, entitled “An act making a donation of land to
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