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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 36. 1831.

Certain pur-chasers entitled,in certain cases,to patents.

In other casesto pre-emption.

Certain occu-pants to havepre-emption un-til July 4, 1831.

Prices.

Proof of pos-session.

Proviso.

Town property.

Statute II.Feb. 25, 1831.

Commission-ers to meet, &c.

Claims to bedecided on with-in two years.

'or assignees of such of the public lands as were sold on a credit for aless price than fourteen dollars per acre, and on which a further credithas been taken under any of the laws passed for the relief of purchasersof public lands, and which lands have reverted to the United States onaccount of the balance due thereon not having been paid or discharged,agreeably to said relief laws, shall be entitled to patents, without furtherpayment, in all instances where one dollar and twenty-five cents, or agreater sum, per acre, shall have been paid; or where payment to thatamount shall not have been heretofore made, such purchasers, their heirsor assignees, shall have the right of pre-emption until the fourth day ofJuly, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by paying into the pro-per land office such sum in addition to the amount heretofore paid, aswill, together, amount to the minimum price of the lands of the UnitedStates at the time of such payment.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all such occupants of re-linquished land as are contemplated and described in the second sectionof the above recited act, to which this is a supplement, as are in posses-sion of land which was sold on credit for a less sum than fourteen dol-lars per acre, shall have the right of pre-emption of the same lands, ac-cording to the legal subdivisions of sections, not exceeding the quantityof two quarter sections, in contiguous tracts or contiguous to other landsheld by such occupants respectively, until the fourth day of July, onethousand eight hundred and thirty-one, upon their paying into a properoffice for all land originally sold for a price not exceeding five dollars peracre, one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and for all lands whichoriginally sold for more than five dollars, and not exceeding fourteendollars per acre, the amount of the first instalment heretofore paid; suchoccupants first proving their possession, respectively in conformity to theprovisions of the said act, to which this is a supplement, in the mannerwhich has been prescribed by the commissioner of the general land office,pursuant to the provisions thereof: Provided, however, That in all caseswhere proof of possession has been already made under said recited act,proof shall not again be required, unless the applicant choose to takeother land than that to which such proof applies.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shallextend to all town property of which the government has been proprie-tors, and not subsequently sold, when full payment has not been made:Provided, The original purchasers, or their assignees, pay into the properland office, on or before the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundredand thirty-two, one half of the original purchase money without interest.

Approved, February 25, 1831.

Chap. XXXVI. —An Act to provide for the adjustment of claims of persons en-titled to indemnification under the convention between the United States and hismajesty the King of Denmark, of the twenty-eighth March, eighteen hundredand thirty, andfor the distribution among such claimants of the sums to be paidby the Danish government to that of the United States according to the stipula-tion of the said convention.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America, in Congress assembled, That the commissioners whoare or may be appointed by the President of the United States , by andwith the advice and consent of the Senate , in pursuance of the thirdarticle of the convention between the United States of America and hismajesty the King of Denmark, signed at Copenhagen the twenty-eighthday of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, shall meet atWashington city, in the District of Columbia , and, within the space oftwo years from the time of their first meeting, shall receive, examine, and