United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/15th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 74
Chap. LXXIV.—An Act further to suspend, for a limited time, the sale or forfeiture of lands for failure in completing the payment thereon.
The operation of the 6th condition of the 5th section of the act for the sale of lands, &c., suspended until March 31, 1820, in favour of purchasers.
Act of May 10, 1800, ch. 55.
See act of March 30, 1820, ch. 26.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, 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 of land.
Approved, March 3, 1819.