Chapter LXXVII. *to grant the Right of Preemption to actual Settlers on the Lands acquired by Treaty from the Miami Indians in Indiana.* Aug. 3, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *That every actual Preemption rights on the Miami ce
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Chap. LXXVII.— An Act *to grant the Right of Preemption to actual Settlers on the Lands acquired by Treaty from the Miami Indians in Indiana.* Aug. 3, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *That every actual Preemption rights on the Miami cessions, who entitled to.settler, being the head of a family, or widow or single man over the age of twenty-one years, who is now in possession, by actual residence as a housekeeper, of any tract of public land within the limits of the several cessions by the Miami Indians in Indiana, which have not yet been proclaimed for sale by the President, or any such person who shall hereafter settle, erect a dwelling-house, and become a housekeeper upon any such tract of land, shall be entitled to the same benefits and privileges, with respect to said land, as was granted to settlers TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 78. 1846.51on other lands by the act approved twenty-second of June, eighteen1838, ch. 119. hundred and thirty-eight, entitled “An Act to grant Preemption Rights,” and the several amendatory provisions of said act, effected by the subsequent acts bearing date first June, eighteen hundred and1810, ch. 32.1813, ch. 86.Minimum price. forty, and third Mardi, eighteen hundred and forty-three: *Provided, *That the minimum price per acre of said land shall be two dollars per acre.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That, in every case, the affidavitClaimant to make oath its prescribed by act of 1838, ch. 119. of the claimant under this act shall be like unto that prescribed by the act of twenty-second June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and the same shall be filed, and proof and payment made for the land claimed, at any time before the day fixed by the President’s proclamation for the public sale of the said land: *Provided,* That where a tract of land is now settled upon, a settlement made on such tract subsequent to the date of this law shall confer no right on the last-mentionedPrior settlers to have preference. settler; and where settlements shall hereafter be made, the right shall be in the first settler, who shall otherwise comply with the conditions of this law.
Approved, August 3, 1846.