United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/16th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 28
Chap. XXVIII.—An Act further to suspend, for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands, for failure in completing the payment thereon.
Act of March 3, 1819, ch. 74.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
Forfeiture of lands for non-payment suspended till 31st March, 1821.
Forfeiture of lands for non-payment suspended till 31st March, 1821.
Proviso; benefit limited to purchasers within 640 acres.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the operation of the sixth condition of the fifth section of the act entitled “An act to amend the act entitled ‘An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States north-west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river,’” be, and the same is hereby suspended until the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, in favour of the purchasers of public lands, at any of the land offices of the United States: Provided, That the benefit of this act shall not be extended to any one purchaser for a greater quantity than six hundred and forty acres.
Approved, March 30, 1820.