Pennsylvania Act 1854-323 — LAND PATENTS - RELATING TO

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LAND PATENTS - RELATING TO
                 Act of Apr. 13, 1854, P.L. 340, No. 323              Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     Relative to Land Patents in this Commonwealth.

        Section 1.  Rights of actual settlers not to be interfered
     with by patentees
        So much of the act of march 11, 1843, being the fourth
     section of said Act, as declares that all patents granted by the
     Commonwealth do pass and vest the entire estate of the
     Commonwealth to and in the patentees, free and clear of all
     liens, incumbrances and claims of the Commonwealth whatsoever,
     prior to the date of the respective patents, except for
     arrearages of purchase money, shall not be taken or construed to
     interfere with the rights of actual settlers, or to extend to
     lands that may have been escheated to the Commonwealth; and it
     is hereby declared, that the pre-emption right of actual
     settlers under existing Laws of this Commonwealth, or under any
     law or laws that may have been repealed by the said fourth
     section herein referred to, shall in no wise be impaired in any
     suit of law now pending or hereafter to be instituted by
     patentees, on patents issued since the passage of the said
     fourth section.  1854, April 13, P.L. 340, sec. 1.