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Every personclaiming a pre-ference in be-coming a pur-chaser of a tractof land, in vir-tue of this act,shall deliver anotice in wri-ting to the re-gister of theland office forsaid district.
The registerto file such no-tice.
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EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 155. 1824.
tional and divisional lines run, or to be run, under the direction of thesurveyor of the United States’ lands for the states of Missouri and Illi-nois, and territory of Arkansas .
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person claiming apreference in becoming the purchaser of a tract of land, in virtue ofthis act, shall deliver a notice in writing to the register of the landoffice for said district, stating therein that he was entitled to a pre-emptionright, under the aforesaid act of Congress , in that part of the territoryof Arkansas ceded as aforesaid, and also particularly designating there-in the quarter section he is desirous to enter, which notice the re-gister shall file in his office; and, in every case where it shall beproved, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of public moneysof the land office aforesaid, that any person who has delivered suchnotice was entitled to a pre-emption right under said act of Congress ,in that part of the territory of Arkansas ceded as aforesaid, shall havea right to enter with the register of said land office, at the minimumprice for which United States ’ lands are sold, the tract of land designatedin said notice, on producing his receipt from the receiver of publicmoneys for the purchase money of said tract, as in case of other publiclands sold at private sale; and, as a compensation for their services, theregister and receiver shall, each, be entitled to one dollar in every suchcase, to be paid by the claimant of such pre-emption right: Provided,That every such eiitry and payment shall be made at least two weeksprevious to the time of offering the adjacent lands at public sale, unlessthe same be entered in such part of said district as shall have beenoffered at public sale at the time of the passage of this act; in whichcase, such entry shall be made within two years from the passagethereof.
Approved, May 26, 1824.
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2,000 dollarsappropriated.
The unex-pended appro-priation of 65,-000 dollars, ofMarch 3, 1821,ch. 35, to be ex-pended agreea-bly to said act.
10,000 dollarsappropriated.
Chap. CLV. —Jin Act to fix the western boundary line of the territory ofArkansas , and for other purposes. ( a )
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the western boundaryline of the territory of Arkansas shall begin at a point forty miles westof the south-west corner of the state of Missouri , and run south to theright bank of the Red River , and thence, down the river, and with theMexican boundary, to the line of the state of Louisiana , any law here-tofore made, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of two thousanddollars, to defray the expense of running and marking said boundaryline, to be expended under the directions of the President of the UnitedStates , be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, to be paid out of anymoney in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the appropria-tion of sixty-five thousand dollars, made by the act of the 3d of March,eighteen hundred and twenty-one, for carrying into effect the treaty ofthe eighteenth of October, eighteen hundred and twenty, with the Chac-taw [Choctaw] Indians, as remains unexpended, shall, under the directionof the President of the United States , be employed for the purposesmentioned in the said act of 3d of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ten thousand dollarsto be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated,be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to defray the expenses of treat-
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(a) See notes to act of March 2, 1819, ch. 49.