Chapter XV. to authorize certain purchasers of public land to withdraw their entries and transfer the moneys paid thereon
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Chap. XV.— An Act to authorize certain purchasers of public land to withdraw their entries and transfer the moneys paid thereon. March 9, 1818. *Be it enacted, &c., * Persons permitted to withdraw their entries from the land office for Jeffersonville. That the following persons shall be permitted to withdraw their respective entries, made with the register of the land office for the district of Jeffersonville, for the purchase of land in said district, viz : Abraham Wiseman, for the northeast and northwest quarters of section four, township four south, range one east;
John Bones, for the northwest quarter of section thirty-four, township three south, range one east; Gory Jones, for the southeast quarter of section four, township four south, range one east; Abraham Van Winkell, for the northwest quarter of section three, township four south, range one east; and Joseph Tibbs, for the northeast quarter of section twenty-eight, Receiver to allow credit for other lands, &c.township three south, range one east. And the receiver of public moneys for the said district shall be authorized to allow to any of the said persons, who shall withdraw his entry as aforesaid, a credit, on any purchase he shall or may have made of other public lands in the same district, Proviso.for the moneys paid on the entry by him withdrawn: *Provided,* That the said entries shall not be withdrawn until it shall be made appear, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of public moneys for the said district, that the said entries, or either of them, were made in mistake, in consequence of the erroneous marks of the surveyor; and in case of patents having been granted, the same shall be returned to the register, and, by him, to the general land office, and shall be there cancelled.
Approved, March 9, 1818.