Public Law 32–CLII

That the several provisions of the act approved third August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled “An act providing for the adjustment of all suspended preemption land claims in the several States and Territories,” be and the same are hereby revived and continued in force for the term of ten years from the date hereof; and those provisions are hereby declared applicable as well to cases which were inadvertently omitted to be acted on under said act, as to those of a like character and description which have arisen between the date of said act and the present time, and shall be regarded as applying to locations by bounty land warrants, as well as to ordinary entries or sales.

Sec. 2.

Patents may be surrendered and new ones issued.

And be it further enacted, That in all cases where patents have been issued on entries which were entitled to be confirmed under said act, such patents may be surrendered, and the officers at the time of such surrender, who by said act are constituted the board of adjudication, are hereby authorized and empowered to confirm such entries; and upon the cancelling of the outstanding patent, the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized to issue a new patent, on such confirmation, to the persons who made such entries, to their heirs or to their assigns.