ocr: 18th CONGRESS, 2d SESSION. H. R. 246. DECEMBER 28, 1824. Read twice, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. A BILL Giring the right of pre-emption in the purchase of Lands, to certain settlers in the Territory of Florida. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of Ameriça in Congrese assembled, That 3 every person, and the legal representatives of any person, 4 who, on the firsiday ofJanuary, eighteen hundred and twenty- 5 - six, actually inhabited and cultivated a tract of land situated 6 - in the Territory of Florida, which tract ...
