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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · Feb. 24, 1843 · Chapter XLIII

Chapter XLIII. *to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of George Mayfield” approved July twenty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.*Feb. 24, 1843. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the time within which George Mayfield is required to select and enter six hundred and forty acres of land, grantedAllow

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Chap. XLIII.— An Act *to amend an act entitled “An act for the relief of George Mayfield” approved July twenty-seven, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.*Feb. 24, 1843. *Be it enacted, &c*., That the time within which George Mayfield is required to select and enter six hundred and forty acres of land, grantedAllowed further time to enter land. to him by the provisions of an act of the twenty-seventh of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, be, and the same is hereby, extendedAct of July 27, 1842, ch. 78. one year; and the said Mayfield shall be permitted to enter said land in one entire section, or in quarter sections, subject to private entry and not in the occupancy of any actual settler, as he in his discretion may determine.
Approved, February 24, 1843.
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