Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-08-20
IOFFICIAL PUBLICATION. I
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed at the I'd session of the 27th Congress.
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BE enaeted by the senate and Honfe Of Iprese"tars'
The Uaited States n america IN Congres' dSse"tef
That claims lands within the land district Of Ne"
Orleans. numbers six seYe eight ni"e
,hrteen ourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen, nine
,esn twenty, twentyone, thirty. thfyfonr, thirty i've
foTty-seven, foy-eght hlty-eYen hi,yhne,
sixty, and of tho two reports of the
register of ad land district, dated fourteen
December ghteen hundred aud thrtys&, and second
Novembe eighteen hundred and thirty and ma lie
under provisions of the act of the sixth Of February
hundred thryye, entitled 'An for the
6nnl adjustment claims lands the State Of Ionisa-
nan and tho hereby confirmed Prorided al
Ch,, ,his !. o,tv u, onsr,fa a. o,ftrair n, In.
part Of the United States.
Sec find be it further enqcted, Tina, a
eeedng hundred dollars be, and the is hereby,
propaiei, of any the Treasury other
wise disposed OF. 10 90 useh oy ne u me
General Land Office, ~ paying the expenses OF copy OF
documents record and Offered before register
and receiver o. tho New Orleans land district support OF
tho land claims reported by thsm and which are not
confirmed by this act
Sec 3. lind be 1t FURTHER enacted That claims numbers
FIVE eight nine eeyen twelve. thirteen fourteen,
seventeen, twenty twentysrx hlrty-four
,rysx, thry-eghs forty, and fory-sIx, OF
the report register and receiver of the Ouachta land
district, IN the Louisiana, dated the twenty fourth
july eighteen hundred aud thftyseven. and .de
under of the Of The SIKH day of Febra
eighteen hundred and thyfve, hereby confirmed for
SIX hundred aud forty acres each.
Sec find be IL further enacted, That one,
four fifteen eighteen, twenty, twenty
nine ,hir, biry-one and of sa id
report also confirmed. recommended by the register
receiver number three s confirmed thousand
acres number thousand md num-
net shall amount only to tenqnhment on the part OF the
United States, and shall in affect the rght
third persons; aud the presentation the Comm
of the General Land Once of plat of survey duly
proved by the general of The State of Louisiana,
the claimant shall be entitled to patent.
Sec find be It further enacted, That claims
ten, eighteen nineteen and Of the
register and of the land Office Gteenburg,
Helena, under the provisions of the of Con
gross the sixth day of February eighteen hundred and
thirty five, entitled san for the final adjustment OF
ella inns to ands in louisiana be-
aro hereb
Commissioner the General Land Office of plat appro-
we'd by the surveyor general Louisiana the owner or
Of said claims shall be entitled to patent.
Sec. g. find be 1t further enacted. That claims numbers
and eight of tine list mentioned the preceding
also confirmed, tho the claimants to
locate tho within after ;hc passage Of this
any public lands subject sale private entry
the said claims sitIated which
approved and certified by the survey general OF LOUISIANA
Commissioner of the General Land Office will enI-
tie said claimants patent ROrided, Said clane
shall, pre- making said ton, ronquih
United States their claims to the lands originally claimed
by them.
Sec. 7. find be it further enacted That the claims
land within the district south OF Red being number
thirty three, thirty FIVE, htytwo, sevenyseven, seventy
nne eightyseven three, hundred hundred
and hundred and three und red and eight
hundr ed and hundred and thirty
hundred and foty-two one hundred and one
hundred md eight, hundred and fifty
bred fity-,wo hundred and y-seven, hun
AL ard ftyr,e one hundred md sixy on. b,ode1 and
six opeh and
hundred aud sixty and hundred and
sixy-sx, of the of the register aud receiver OF the
Opelousas, dated the hirteth May aud sixth
June, eighteen hundred and forty, made under the proys
ions OF of eighteen hundred and hittyfve afoo-
said, and the hereby, confirmed: Prorfded,
Tina, the Commissioner of the General Land ohce shall
cause be made and further evil
dence taken in relation to claim numbo hundred
and sxyone of said report and should appear that the
original claimants actually inhabited and cultivated the
lands claimed and prior the tweny-second day of
February, eighteen hundred ana Nineteen eh ana IN that
the shall be confirmed, by and with the appoba-
ton of the Secretary Of the Treasury.
Sec. g. Ind be ii further enacted That the follow ing
the SAID OF
land office Opeouas be, aud the hereby. con
frmed ms follows o-wit Number wenty-nne legal
representatives of Joseph Mautaus; number forysx,
tho contained in league number orty-nne
for hundred and forty the legal
Bernard Bacoix; number fifty -four. the legal
sentatives of j. Baptistc Naley number seventy
six hundred and forty acres, onezne Guedry, as
sguee Nicholas Provost, and six hundred and forty
10 the legal heirs and OF panel deafy Hn
jean Mou,on, senior; number nineyone, for much
WILL with the quantity heretofore confirmed make the guam
y of one league front by the depth of forty apems mum
mine, hundred and forty embta
the residence and improvements of Hugh Nuhoan and
previous day of December. eighteen hun
three number hundred and fourteen, the
legal representatives of Andre Dumas; number hun
dred and htfour to the legal representatives OF AhtNha
Mora: number hundred and ft, eight, the legal
prsentauvrs of Louis Frzzn number one hundred ane
Jacob Walace his legal representatives.
Sec 9 lind be IL further enacted, That the provisions
of preceding sections OF this which confirm do
nations situate in that part said land disuic
the neutral territory, shall be regarded
extending lands which held by by vr
toe of any bona fdn French or Spanish grant warrant
order of made prior the twentieth of December
eighteen hundred and three hsreofors filed, according
law with register nd
said district: Por2e9, That the confirms ton
made virtue preceding sections shall only
elinqushmsnt of The right of the United States
and shall affect the rght Of th persons, preclude
decision between private claimants for the
land and the presentation the Commissioner of IN
General Land Once of plat of survey. duly approved b.
the general of louisiana the shall be
titled 10 patent.
JOHN WHITE,
Speaker Of dte House Of Representatives.
WILLIE 7. MANGUM.
Prcsiaent Of tie Senate pro ienlpors
Animal July e. ls42. John TYLER