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 392 FEDBBAL BEFOIiiBB. �It also contains this provi^o : �"Provided, that no locations as afoi'esaid witliin the above-mentioned tract shall,after the passing of this act, be made on tracts of land for which patents had previously been issued, or which had previously been surveyed ; and any patent which niay, neyertheless, be obtained for land located contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be considered null and void." �Successive acts were passed from time to time exten ding the time for making locations, and making and retarning surveya, — April 11, 1818, (3 St. at Large, e23;) February 9, 1821, (3 St. at Large, 612 ;) March 1, 1823, (3 St. at Large, 772;) May 20, 1826, (4 St. at Large, 189,) — each of which retains and repeats the proviso first contained in the act of March 2, 1807. The act of May 20, 1826, extended the time for making locations to June 1, 1829, for making surveys to June 1, 1832, and for returning surveys to June 1, 1833. After these times thu8 limited had expired, there was no existing authority for making locations, surveys, and returns for five years, when the act of July 7, 1^38, was passed, which renewed the authority until Au- gust 10, 1840, and provided in respect to the past that — "Ail entries and surveys which may have heretofore been made within the said reservation, in satisfaction of any such warrants on lands not previously entered or surveyed, or ou lands not prohibited from entry and survey, shall be held goocl and valid; any omission heretofore to extend the time for the ■making of locations and surveys to the contrary nottoithstanding." �This act of July 7, 1838, was revived and continued in force by the act of August-19, 1841, (5 St. at Large, 449,) until January 1, 1844; by the act of 1846, (9 St. at Large, 41,) until January 1, 1S48; by the act of July 5, 184S, (9 St. at Large, 245,) until January 1, 1850; by the act of February 20, 1850, (9 St. at Large, 420,) until January 1, 1852. This is all the legislation on the subject except two subse- quent statutes, which remain now to be noted. The first of these is an act passed March 3, 1855, (10 St. at Large, 701,) entitled "An act allowing the further time of two years to those holding lands by entries in Virginia military district of Ohio, which were made prior to the first of January, 1852, to have the same surveyed and patented." It provides that bounty lands which have been entered within the tract reserved by Virginia between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers, for satisfying the legal bounties to her ofificers and soldiers upon con- tinental establishment, shall be allowed the further time of two years from and after the passage of the act to make and return their surveys and warrants, or certified copies of warrants, to the general land- office. The second is the act of May 27, 1880, the second section of which enacts that "all legal surveys returned to the iand-ofifice on or ��� �