Chapter CXIX. to authorize the Citizens of Ozark County, Missouri, to enter less than a Quarter Section of Land for the Seat of Justice in said County
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Chap. CXIX.— An Act to authorize the Citizens of Ozark County, Missouri, to enter less than a Quarter Section of Land for the Seat of Justice in said County. March 3, 1849. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Citizens of Ozark county authorized to enter a lot of land for seat of justice for said county. That the county of Ozark, in the State of Missouri, may enter by preemption less than a quarter section of land, to be taken by legal subdivision.
Said entry, except as to quantity, shall be made according to the provisions of the act of Congress, approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled “An Act granting to the counties or parishes of 1824, ch. 169.each State and Territory of the United States in which the public lands are situated, the right of preemption to quarter sections of land for seats of justice within the same.” Approved, March 3, 1849.