Volume 6
Private Law 27–CXXXVIII
to authorize Chapman Levy to purchase as a pre-emptor a certain quarter section of land now occupied by him, at the minimum price per acre.
Approved August 11, 1842
Statutory text
An Act
to authorize Chapman Levy to purchase as a pre-emptor a certain quarter section of land now occupied by him, at the minimum price per acre.
Be it enacted, &c.,
That Chapman Levy be, and he is hereby, authorized
Authorized to make the purchase within six months.
at any time within six months from the date of this act, to purchase as a pre-einptor at the proper laud office, at the price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the south-east quarter of section twenty-three of township fourteen range five east, in the district of lands subject to sale at Columbus in the state of Mississippi: Provided, Said lands shall not, before the date of this act, have been sold by the United States.
Approved, .