Section 1

Section 1. WHEREAS the time for opening the Land-Office of this state, for the lands contained within the purchase lately made by the commonwealth of the Indian natives, of all the residue of waste lands, within the charter bounds of Pennsylvania, as the same have been adjusted between this state and the state of Virginia, is fixed to be from and after the first day of May next, when it is probable that numerous applications will be made to the said Land-Office at the same time, for lands within the bounds of the said late purchase, and the officers of the Land-Office must necessarily be obligated to give preference to some persons, before others whose applications may be made equally early, and thereby great dissatisfaction must arise unless some provision be made by law to regulate the same: For remedy whereof,