United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 70
[Obsolete.]
Chap. LXX.—An Act to authorize the issuing of Patents for certain lands in the St. Augustine land district in Florida, the sales of which were not regularly reported.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Where application and payment were made to J. C. Cleland, but he did not make the returns, patents to issue. That in all cases where it shall appear, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, that individuals had applied to Joh C. Cleland, late receiver at St. Augustine, in Florida, while acting as receiver, for the entry of any of the lands in that district, and had made payment to him therefor, as required by law, and where said Cleland failed to furnish the usual evidence of such payments to the register of the land office aforesaid, and to make the usual returns thereof to the General Land Office, such individuals shall be entitled to receive patents for such entries, where the lands applied for by them have not since been sold: but if sold, the money paid by them may be applied to the purchase of any other land in that district subject to entry at private sale:Proviso. Provided, That this act shall only apply to those cases where evidence that such application was made, is now in the General Land Office.
Approved, June 15, 1844.