United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 10
Chap. X.—An Act to direct the manner of issuing patents on confirmed land claims in the territory of Florida.
Patents may be issued to the present owner.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all patents are, or may be, by law, directed to be issued on private land claims confirmed by the commissioners of private land claims, and by the several acts of Congress approving their reports and confirming the titles to lands in the territory of Florida, shall be, and they are hereby, required to be issued to the confirmees, or to the assignee, or present owner, where the land has been sold or transferred since the confirmation of the title; and it shall be the duty of the commissioner of the general land office, upon the production of satisfactory proof of the death of the confirmee, or upon the production of a regular chain of title from the confirmee, to cause the patent to be issued to the heirs, and legal representatives, or to the assignees of the confirmee, as the case may be.
Approved, January 23, 1832.