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 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 109, 110. 1865. 531 Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That patents issued according to this Patents to vest uct shall vest in the patentee title to the land described in such patent, in *hi.??.S“l’l°°" ‘° fee simple, subject to any valid lien or incumbrance thereon created by val ms` said patentee or those under whom he claims. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the lots of land in said town Lands in of Stockbridge belonging to the United States, not hereinbefore directed Sl<*°l*i*l%¤ ml to be patented, shall be attached to and form a part of the Menasha land g;;€%?(i,,;°Nf;f,°j] district, and if, in the opinion of the commissioner of the general land- ashalund dis gfiice, it shall be for the public interest, the same may be sold at the min- “"'°‘· imum price of three dollars per acre for lots fronting on Lake Winnebago, May be S01d' five dollars per acre for the two tiers of lots fronting on the military road, one tier of lots on each side thereof, and two dollars and fifty cents per acre for the residue of said,land to actual settlers thereon possessing the qualifications requisite to acquire preemption rights, who shall prove to the satisfaction of the register of the land—ofIi~ce at Menasha, Wisconsin, that he or she has made improvements to the value of not less than fifty Time of pay- dollars, and is actually residing upon the land; the time of paying the ******1* ‘{>$F°“d°d purchase price may be extended for a period not exceeding one year from Ziggigm pm" the passage of this act: Provided, That no such actual settler shall be N0, mm-., than permitted to preempt more than two contiguous lots on which he or she two ¤0¤fie¤<>¤S has made improvements of the value of not less than one hundred dollars.  be P"` The lands not sold within orie year as hereinbeforc provided, shall be Lands whe,, to brought into market and sold at not less than the minimum prices fixed be brought into by this act. ‘““’k“°‘ Approved, March 3, 1865. CHAP. CX. —An Act to quiet Titles in Favor of Parties in actual Possession of Lands March 3, 1865. situated in the District of Columbia. '”*t"‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and [base of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all deeds heretofore re- Quieting of corded in the land records of the District of Columbia, which have been gr*d;*i*l<=j,g the executed and acknowledged by femmes covert (their husbands having  O 0- signed and sealed the same) for conveying any real estate, or interest therein, situated in said district; and all acknowledgements of deeds hereto- Defective acfore recorded, as aforesaid, which have been made by femmes covert k¤<>Wl€dSm€**l¤ (whether they have executed the deed or not) for the purpose of releas- cured' ing theirclaims to dower in the lands described therein, situated as aforesaid, in which acknowledgements the form prescribed bylaw has not been followed; and all deeds heretofore recorded, as aforesaid, which have been executed and acknowledged by an attorney—in-fact, duly appointed for conveying real estate situated in said district; and all deeds heretofore recorded, as aforesaid, executed and acknowledged, or only acknowledged by such attorney—in-fact, for conveying real estate situated in said district, as to which the acknowledgement was made before officers different from those before whom proof of the power of attorney was made, and as to which the power of attorney was proved before only one justice of the peace; and all deeds heretofore executed and recorded as aforesaid for the purpose of conveying land situated in said district, acknowledged out of the District of Columbia, before a judge of a United States court, or before two aldermen of a city, or the chief magistrate of a city, or before a notary public; and all deeds heretofore executed and recorded as aforesaid for the purpose of conveying land situated in said district, acknowledged by an attorney-in-fact, duly appointed, or by an officer of a corporation, duly authorized, who has acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, instead of the act and deed of the grantor or of the corporation; and all deeds heretofore executed and recorded as aforesaid for the purpose of conveying land situated in said district to which there is not annexed a legal certificate as to the official character of the officer or officers taking the acknowledgment, shall be, and the same are hereby, declared to be of