Chapter LXX. for the relief of Moses Plumer
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Chap. LXX.— An Act for the relief of Moses Plumer. March 3, 1825. *Be it enacted, &c., * That it shall and may be lawful for Moses Plumer, a soldier in the late war, to locate and enter, with the Register of theAny unappropriated military quarter section of land in Arkansas to be entered by him. Land Office for the proper district in the territory of Arkansas, according to the sectional and divisional lines, any unappropriated quarter section of land within the military district in said territory; and, upon such location and entry being made, it shall be the duty of the register to issue to the said Moses Plumer, a certificate, specifying therein the 330 EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 71, 72, 73. 1825. quarter section so located and entered. And it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a patent for the land so located and entered, whenever the certificate aforesaid shall be presented Proviso.to him for that purpose: *Provided,* That, before such location and entry shall be made, the said Moses Plumer shall surrender to the register the patent which he now holds from the United States, for the south-east quarter of section four, of township ten, in range five, west of the tract appropriated for military bounties, in the territory of Arkansas, accompanied by such a release of his interest to the land therein specified, as the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall direct.
Approved, March 3, 1825.