United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 7

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Feb. 21, 1806.
Chap. VII.—An Act to repeal in part, the fourth section of an act, intituled “An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned.”

Act of March 3, 1795, ch. 49.
Repeal of the 4th sec. of a former act, which imposes the condition of actual settlement.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the fourth section of an act, intituled “An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” as imposes the condition of an actual settlement on the said inhabitants, or any of them, their heirs or assigns, be, and the same is hereby repealed. And in every case where a patent has issued, in conformity with the said fourth section, to any of the inhabitants aforesaid, their heirs or assigns, the conditions aforesaid, inserted in any such patent, shall be considered null and void; and the fee simple be vested to all intents and purposes, in the person to whom such patent has been issued, his or her heirs or assigns.

Approved, February 21, 1806.