United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 9

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United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
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3081039United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4 — Public Acts of the Twenty-Second Congress, First Session, Chapter 9United States Congress


Jan. 23, 1832.

Chap. IX.An Act supplementary to an act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on public lands.[1]

Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.
Purchasers under the act may assign their certificates of purchase, &c.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, all persons who have purchased under an act, entitled “An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on public lands,” approved the twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may assign and transfer their certificates of purchase, or final receipts, and patents may issue in the name of such assignee, any thing in the act aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, January 23, 1832.


  1. Notes of the acts which have been passed relating to pre-emption rights of public lands. Act of May 29, 1830, ch. 208.