Public Law 20–XIX

That every person, his or her TWENTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 21. 1828. legal representatives, comprised in the list of actual settlers reported

in the list of actual settlers, reported to the commissioner of the general land office, under act of March 3d, 1819, ch. 99, shall be entitled to the right of preference, on becoming the purchaser from the United States, of such tract of land.

to the commissioner of the general land office, by the register for the district of St. Helena, in the state of Louisiana, under the authority of the act of Congress, entitled “An act for adjusting the claims to land, and establishing land offices, in the district east of the island of New Orleans,” approved the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, or who did actually inhabit and cultivate a tract of land in said district on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, not rightfully claimed by any other person, by virtue of any written evidence of claim, legally derived from either the French, British, or Spanish government, or granted as a donation by virtue of any act of Congress heretofore passed, shall be entitled to a right of preference, on becoming the purchaser, from the United States, of such tract of land, at the same price for which other public lands are sold at private sale: Provided, That such tract of land shall not contain more

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than one quarter section, to be located by sectional lines; and that the same shall be entered with the register of the land office in said district, within two years, or before, if the same shall be offered at public sale.