...to said land vested in him by virtue of an act of Congress, approved on the 22d June of that year, entitled an act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands. That he fully proved all the foregoing facts before the Register and Receiver at Opelousas, but that...

...of William Watson. Also An Act prescribing the condition of injunction bonds. Also An Act to amend an act entitled an act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the State lands, approved Dec. 27, 1848. MA LONG, Chairman Committee on Enrolled Bills. Which was read....

...the contrary notwithstanding." On the 22d of June, 1838, an act was passed, the title of which was " An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands." It enacted that every actual settler of the public lands, being the head of a family^ or over twenty-one...

...Committee. Mr. Aldrich, from a select committee, reported a bill to be entitled, An act supplemental to an act entitled an act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on State lands, passed at the present session. Which was read the first time, and ordero 1 to a second...

...lands," gives to settlers on the public lands, under certain limitations not necessary to be noticed, " all the benefits and privileges of an act, entitled...rights to settlers on the public lands, approved May 9, 1830," with a proviso, that when more than one person had settled on, and cultivated any one quarter...

...act supplementary to the 663 f» Pre-emption* la Settler* en At Public Land*. An act to rerive the act entitled "An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands," approved May twenty-nine, one thou«and eight hundred and thirty. June 19, 1834 Vol. IV. 678 Pre-fmplion Rights...

...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 the public lands," approved the twenty-ninth of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, may assign and transfer their certificates...

...other land offices in said State. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of the act entitled " An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands," approved June twenty-second, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, the register and receiver of the...

...allowed where the plats were not in the Land Office, but all cases allowed under the act of Congress entitled " An act to grant pre-emption rights to settlers, on the public lands," which act, by the joint letter of the Register and Receiver, transmitting the report to the General...

...and on the trial of which " the judge charged the jury that the act of Congress of May 29th, 1830, entitled ' An act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the public lands,' was not applicable to the case before the court and jury ; that the said act had no binding force as...