5 July 1848 c. 93 9 Stat. 244

CHAP. XCIII.- An Act further to extend the Time for locating Virginia Military Land Warrants, and returning Surveys thereon to the General Land Office.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled “An Act further to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office,” approved August nineteen, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and as to all warrants issued prior to the tenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty, and no others, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the same right and privilege is hereby also extended for the same time to all such warrants as have issued subsequent to said tenth day of August, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty: Provided, That before the location thereof, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that such warrant was issued justly and legally, and that the person who received said warrant was legally entitled to the same.

APPROVED, July 5, 1848.

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