Any person or persons claiming and by virtue of their actual settlement and residence, agreeable to the provisions of the act of April 3, 1792, for the sale of lands lying and being in the triangle on Lake Erie, and who now have or hereafter may have suits pending in any of the courts of the United States, shall be entitled to receive from the officers of the land department, certified copies of such records as may be necessary in maintaining their rights as actual settlers under the laws of this commonwealth, free of expense.
71 P.S. § 926