Volume 4
Public Law 21–II
restricting the location of certain land claims in the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Approved January 6, 1829
Statutory text
An Act
restricting the location of certain land claims in the territory of Arkansas, and for other purposes.
Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That no person entitled to a donation of land by the eighth section of an act, entitled “An act to aid the state of Ohio in extending the Miami canal from Dayton to Lake Erie, and to grant a quantity of land to said state to aid in the construction of the canals authorized by law, and for making donations of land to certain persons in Arkansas territory,” shall be permitted to enter the improvement of any actual settler in the territory of Arkansas, before the same shall have been offered for sale, unless it be with the consent of such actual settler ; and all entries which may be so made shall be considered null and void.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That no person residing south of
Residents south of Arkansas river, &c. west of territorial line, not entitled to donation given by said act, unless, &c.
the Arkansas river, and west of the present territorial line, shall be entitled to the donation of land given by the eighth section aforesaid, unless said persons shall move east of said line; and, in that case, they shall be entitled to the donations specified in said eighth section of said act, under the restrictions aforesaid.
Approved, .