Chapter LXXIX. for the relief of the legal representatives of Merriwether Lewis
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Chap. LXXIX.— An Act for the relief of the legal representatives of Merriwether Lewis. May 23, 1828. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the act approved the third day of March, Act of March 3, 1807, ch. 32. making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, extended to the heirs of M. Lewis.one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled “An act making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and their companions,” be, and the same is, hereby so extended, as to allow to the legal representatives of Merriwether Lewis, deceased, the right of entering any of the public lands of the United States, subject to entry at private sale, to the amount of the residue of the warrant of sixteen hundred acres, issued to said Lewis by virtue of said act, which has not heretofore been satisfied, or of applying the same in payment for any public lands, in the same manner, and at the same rate prescribed by said act.
Approved, May 23, 1828.