Volume 6
Private Law 19–CLVII
for the relief of Phinehas Underwood, andfor other purposes.
Approved May 22, 1826
Statutory text
An Act
for the relief of Phinehas Underwood, andfor other purposes.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That Phinehas Underwood be, and he is hereby, authorized to enter with the proper register, any unlocated quarter section
May enter an unlocated quarter section in Illinois.
Proviso.
Proviso.
of land in the state of Illinois, within one year after the passage of this act, and shall be entitled to a patent therefor, as in other cases: Provided, That such quarter section shall have been previously offered at public sale: And provided, also, He shall, prior to making such location, surrender to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, a patent which issued to Eli B. Mott, on the thirty-first of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, for the north-west quarter of section twenty-two, of township six north, in range eight west, of the Illinois Bounty Lands.
Sec. 2.
And be it further enacted, That the time for filing petitions
Time of filing petitions extended to 26th May 1828.
Act of May 26, 1824, ch. 173.
under the provisions of an act, entitled “An act enabling the claimants to lands within the limits of the state of Missouri, and territory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,” shall be, and the same is hereby, extended to the twenty-sixth day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
Approved, .