United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/13th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 73
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXXIII.—An Act extending relief to certain purchasers of public lands in the Mississippi territory.
Allowance of one year from 1st June, 1814, to purchasers of land of the United States who have been subjected to claimants under Spanish grants for payment of interest.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person or persons having purchased lands of the United States, in the Mississippi Territory, who have been subjected to prosecutions by adverse claimants, who derived their titles from a Spanish grant, warrant, or order of survey, and where such prosecutions have terminated favourably to purchasers from the United States, such paymasters shall have one year from the first day of June next, for the payment of any interest that my be due from them to the United States, on the purchases aforesaid.
Approved, April 18, 1814.