United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/11th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 31
Chap. XXXI.—An Act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and for returning the surveys thereon to the Secretary of the department of War.
Act of June 9, 1794, ch. 62.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 30.
Act of March 19, 1804, ch. 33.
Act of 1807.
Act of March 21, 1808, ch. 37.
Act of 1810.
Act of July 5, 1813, ch. 7.
Act of 1814.
Act of 1818.
Act of 1821.
Act of 1823.
Five years allowed to obtain warrants and complete locations, and seven years to return the surveys.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on continental establishment, their heirs or assigns, entitled to bounty lands within the tract reserved by Virginia, between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, for satisfying the legal bounties to her officers and soldiers upon continental establishment, shall be allowed a further term of five years, from and after the passage of this act, to obtain warrants and complete their locations, and a further term of seven years, from and after the passage of this act as aforesaid, to return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants to the office of the secretary of the war department, any thing in any former act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, that no locations as aforesaid, within the above mentioned tract, shall, after the passing of this act, be made on tracts of land for which patents had previously been issued, or which had been previously surveyed; and any patent which may nevertheless be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be considered as null and void.
Approved, March 16, 1810.